{"id":370,"date":"2013-02-24T17:15:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T17:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/KOSMOS2013\/?p=370"},"modified":"2013-09-05T13:36:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T13:36:22","slug":"how-to-tell-you-like-the-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/KOSMOS2013\/2013\/02\/24\/how-to-tell-you-like-the-food\/","title":{"rendered":"How to tell you like the food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sven Lov\u00e9n Centre &#8211; also a venue for tandem language learning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After days \u2013 in fact weeks \u2013 the Swedish-German class has finally formed at Kristineberg thanks to Dana&#8217;s and Madde&#8217;s effort. Chocolate, cookies and Gummib\u00e4rchen were offered, tea (Yes, tea! In the most cases at least) was prepared and a whiteboard borrowed from the Sommarlab. The latter was meant to point out we take things seriously \u2013 what else would you expect from a group that starts with learning the similar sounding words &#8220;Streber&#8221; and &#8220;str\u00e4ber&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the ten of us had more than one good laugh about our own attempts to explain grammatical basics and pronunciation to each other. Sibilants turned out to be quite a challenge: &#8220;ich&#8221; and &#8220;ach&#8221; might be easy to pronounce for Germans \u2013 but not for Swedes. In turn, they made us aspirate &#8220;sk\u00e4mt&#8221;. Quite a range of variations is accepted between G\u00f6teborg and Finland, but the rather rude Kiel version did not seem to be included&#8230; Sjutton ocks\u00e5! (not to use another sk-word here).<\/p>\n<p>Jan was especially interested in telling people in Swedish that he was tired and would like to be left alone and\/or go to bed. Not even my suggestion to learn how to order Semlor and Kanelbullar (med vaniljkrem och bl\u00e5b\u00e4r, sj\u00e4lvklart) at a bakery could make him think of anything different. Must have been a hard day. Dana was keen on telling the station\u2019s cook that she liked the food a lot. Nu kan vi alla allts\u00e5 tackar f\u00f6r maten och f\u00f6rklara hur bra det var (came in very handy for today\u2019s Sunday lunch). To spice things up, Madde added some finnish words. Thanks for that, partaniekka, det forts\u00e4tter vi med!<\/p>\n<div>By Maike Nicolai<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sven Lov\u00e9n Centre &#8211; also a venue for tandem language learning. After days \u2013 in fact weeks \u2013 the Swedish-German class has finally formed at Kristineberg thanks to Dana&#8217;s and Madde&#8217;s effort. Chocolate, cookies and Gummib\u00e4rchen were offered, tea (Yes, tea! In the most cases at least) was prepared and a whiteboard borrowed from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/KOSMOS2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/KOSMOS2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/KOSMOS2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/KOSMOS2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/KOSMOS2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/KOSMOS2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/KOSMOS2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/KOSMOS2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/KOSMOS2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/KOSMOS2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/KOSMOS2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}