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Hey! I'm Bryan. I was born in LA but grew up all over. As my parents were globe-trotting immigrants, I grew up speaking three languages, English, Portuguese, and German. I suppose that is why I fell in love with language learning! Now I am living in Brazil, where I teach English as a Foreign Language. However, I have plans to move to Sweden next year, so I am learning Swedish!
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Christian
Swedish
May 28, 2020
Great fun to talk to you and you come with great questions! So cool to see you starting to incorporate some of the grammar we talked about right away in your speaking. Snyggt jobbat! ;)
Christian
Swedish
May 25, 2020
Bryan is an enthusiastic guy and it was easy and fun to talk to him from the get go. He is able to communicate well in Swedish and it's obvious he knows how to learn a language. Ser fram emot att snacka med dig igen! :)
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  • Answered
    The word "therein" is still very common in legal English, for example in contracts or laws. However, outside of this specific context the word is never used. There is no word that means exactly the same but you can substitute therein for "in this document."
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    August 24, 2020
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  • Corrected
    The section for the letter 'k' in my Portuguese Dictionary has only one page. And generally, the words in that section are of English and Japanese origin.
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    August 24, 2020
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  • Answered
    Está chovendo, in Brazilian Portuguese.
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    August 7, 2020
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  • Answered
    Hej Amanda! I've been learning Swedish for 18 months and would definitely recommend listening to as much Swedish as possible. In my opinion, listening is the most difficult aspect of Swedish, because people don't always pronounce things the way they're written (e.g. "Hur mår du" is actually pronounced "Hu må ru"). When I travelled to Sweden last summer, I found out that I could read, write and speak really well, to the point where I didn't need English at all... but I was incapable of understanding spoken Swedish. Today I'm much better but I'm afraid that my listening is still much worse than other skills. I would definitely recommend listening to Swedish as much as possible to get your ears used to the sounds of the language. Look for a podcast called "Radio Sweden på lätt svenska." It's the news in easy Swedish. You can find transcriptions in their website if you don't understand something. It's great for practicing listening and after a month or two studying Swedish you should be able to understand what the podcasts say. As for music, I'd really recommend Melissa Horn and Nordman. Their lyrics are not very difficult and their pronunciation is clear. Good luck! :-)
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    May 25, 2020
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  • Commented
    Hejsan!
    I'm also new at iTalki, but have loved the experience so far. I had studied Swedish for about 18 months before deciding to try out iTalki. By far the most rewarding experience has been to have entire conversations in Swedish language, without having to speak English—that made all that study feel worthwhile (and make me ask why didn't I try this earlier?).
    I enjoy simple conversation lessons the most. Unplanned and improvised. In my opinion, the best lessons are when the student speaks for 80% of the time (to get more practice) and the teacher speaks for 20%. I love being corrected but I don't like being interrupted. There is a great teacher who created a shared Google Doc in which he writes down my mistakes while I'm speaking and corrects them with me when I finish my sentence. He uses the same Doc for all lessons so it's easy to see how much you've progressed in a month. I really like that idea.
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    May 25, 2020
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    May 22, 2020
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