#organizedstudy

Hej!

So it seems like I’m back. My name is Ida and I used to have the blog @organizedstudy but now I’m here @linguenuvolose (cloudy languages). I felt like I needed a fresh start (and my langblr to be my main blog lmao) so here’s my introduction post I guess?

Some facts about me 🌻

I’m turning 22 at the end of the summer

She/her pronouns 

I live in Sweden but I’m debating moving back to Italy soon

I speak Swedish, English, Italian, French and some Dutch

I would really like to learn German, Maltese and Old Norse

I have bachelor’s degree in Italian and wrote my thesis on Italian loanwords in Swedish

I love linguistics, specifically historical and contact linguistics

I really like plants, art history, excel, cross-stitching and going on walks

This blog 🌺

I’ll do my best to make this blog a fun mix of languages, culture and linguistics! I’ll throw it back to some 2016 langblr shit with vocab lists and sharing my progress and I really hope this new start will make me start studying languages some more again. If you have any questions, post suggestions or requests please feel free to send an ask!

I also have an Instagram and a YouTube channel

I was talking to @kindofapolyglot about iconic Swedish music and I thought I might as well share some playlists with some Swedish songs most Swedes will recognize at least the chorus of.

Svenska favoriter - A mix of icons from c. the 60′s until the early 10′s.

Det svenska Sjuttiotalet/Åttiotalet/Nittiotalet/Nollnolltalet - Swedish songs from specific decades. I don’t recognize all of these songs but that might also be because I wasn’t alive for most of it.

Melodifestivalen: bidragen från 50 & 60-talet/70-talet/80-talet/90-talet/00-talet/10-talet - Every song that participated in the Swedish Melodifestivalen (Swedish Eurovision), there are a lot of songs on these though. 

Iconic Melodifestivalen winners - A post I made with hand picked bangers from Melodifestivalen, has some extra info about the songs and links to the music videos/performances. 

Svenska sommarklassiker - We love dedicating songs to summer, here are some iconic ones.

Dans runt stången - For the midsummer dance (but no one would play this actual playlist. You gotta have some old person screaming in a microphone and everyone singing along)

Svenska klassiker - Modern classics from mainly 90′s-10′s. 

the goal: starting a new language on the 1st of january (or at least in early january), and sticking with it and working with it consistently for the rest of the year to see how far it gets you

why: personally, i think it will make it easier to track my progress, which is a good motivator for me. also ! it will be fun 

who: i’m making this challenge for with my own goals in mind, but anyone who wants to join is encouraged to do so! i’ll be using the tag #nynlchallenge to track my progress, if anyone wants to do the same!

now, finally... the rules (more like ~guidelines~ but whatever) 

choose an entirely new language (or one you know very little of)

learning methods can be whatever but (at least for me) the goal is to get a daily average of 15 minutes (but ofc, the more, the better) 

by that i mean: life happens, so if there is a day or two a week with no learning/revision, that’s cool. however, try to compensate for this lost time, so that it averages out 

before starting the challenge, create a (tentative) list of goals. these can be weekly and/or monthly, and should be as specific as possible – mine is here, if anyone wants some inspiration

keep track of your progress! i recommend using the app mastery (only available for android, i think) or something similar to log every session so you can easily see how much time you have amassed!

write updates when you can! preferably at least once a month! 

most importantly (cliché but very true): have fun!!!!! 💖💕💞

@organizedstudy re: this post

"Paninazzo” is a bit difficult to explain because it’s a colloquial term.

Panino: 

regular sandwich, usually with ham or salame and little else (usually cheese), simple, light

Paninazzo:

extra full, super rich, usually has meat, vegetables, requires at least 5 and ½   hours to digest, the kind of sandwich your parents warned you about.

Some Swedish nouns change the stem vowel in its’ plural form, this is a left over from Old Norse and is common in many (all?) Germanic languages (in the list I’ve put the English equivalent when applicable to illustrate this/help you remember). This means the words affected are mostly really old words mostly related to family, the human body or nature. 

a --> ä

en and - änder (wild duck) en bokstav - bokstäver (letter of the alphabet)  en brand - bränder (uncontrollable fire)  en hand - händer (hand)  en far - fäder* (father)  ett land - länder (country)  en man - män (man - men) en rand - ränder (stripe)  en stad - städer (city)  en strand - stränder (beach)  en tand - tänder (tooth - teeth)

o --> ö

en bok - böcker (book) en bonde - bönder (farmer) en bror - bröder (brother)  en dotter - döttrar (daughter) en fot - fötter (foot - feet) en ledamot - ledamöter (member of a board/committee)  en mor - mödrar* (mother) en rot - rötter (root) en son - söner (son)

u --> ö

en mus - möss (mouse - mice) en lus - löss (louse - lice)

å --> ä

en gås - gäss (goose -geese) en stång - stänger (pole) en tång - tänger (pliers)

I filmed this video last year, didn’t upload it because it got cut off at the end and I was too lazy to refilm it, decided to upload it this year anyway, accidentally scheduled it to 12 am and not 12 pm, realized too late so here you go!

Svenska med Idz is a series I do where I try to speak Swedish a little slower about a specific topic. This video is about “mathögtider” which doesn’t really have a good English translation but basically refers to a “holiday” dedicated to a special food/pastry. The video has Swedish and English subtitles. I’ll leave you some questions so you can practice some Swedish writing (or speaking) too.

Finns den här sortens “högtid” där du bor? 

Om ja, för vilken maträtt/vilket bakverk? 

Om nej, om du skulle introducera en sådan högtid, vilken maträtt/vilket bakverk skulle det vara för? 

Har du någonsin smakat en (svensk) semla, våffla eller kanelbulle? 

Vad tyckte du? 

Om du har smakat alla, vilken tyckte du var godast?

The questions in English:

[Does this kind of “holiday” exist where you live? If yes, for what food/pastry? If no, if you were to introduce one, for what food/pastry would it be?]

[Have you ever tasted a (Swedish) semla, waffle or cinnamon bun? What did you think? If you have tasted all of them, which one was your favorite?] 

If you answer them please tag me! I’d love to hear your thoughts. :)

It’s time to talk about Valborg (Walpurgis)! 

A few things I forgot to mention in the video though:

Saying Walpurgis started as a Christian tradition isn’t entirely true: there was a pagan tradition earlier and Walpurgis is to this day just a big celebration of spring finally returning and a lot of the material used for the fire is old bushes/trees/whatever from people’s gardens etc.

Walpurgis (or usually the Friday closest to Walpurgis) is the day the last year high school students put on their student cap for the first time in what is called mösspåtagningen. A song connected to this ceremony is Studentsången.

Sure, Sköna maj is iconic but I don’t know how I could forget Vintern rasat!! It’s also a very iconic song!

I’m also adding this Walpurgis vocabulary list by @fennoscandiclinguist

I’d love to know:

Is Walpurgis a thing where you live?/Är Valborg en grej där du bor?

Have you ever heard about this celebration before?/Har du hört talas om det här högtiden förut?