#although actually I’d love to get some more textbooks that are… more linguistically inclined

[pansy-out-of-the-wardrobe]

I am trying to pick up Swedish again after taking four German classes in Uni…. At this rate I am creating some unholy matrimony of Germanic languages. Who next will be added to the soup

#mind you my German is also shit #put all the little conjunctions and prepositions are now sprinkled into Swedish #I’m trying to think and I just go: UND #what the fuck is UND the word I’m looking for is OCH #I am the epitome of linguist meaning NO I CANNOT SPEAK THESE LANGUAGES BUT I CAN TELL YOU FUN FACTS ABOUT THEM THAT I THINK ARE NEAT #for example I like Swedish noun paradigms #Swedish is what got me into linguistics in the first place so I am trying to reignite that live because I remember how it used to fill me #with so much love hope and purpose #maybe maybe maybe I’ll actually use all those grammar books I have #given that I can ACTUALLY read the IPA transcription #although actually I’d love to get some more textbooks that are… more linguistically inclined #I’ve been using this book: German Phonetics and Phonology; Theory and Practice by O’Brien and Fagan #for a phonetics project and … honestly I need something like that but for Swedish #it pains me how much I used to know about Swedish that I’ve just…… lost #but I’m coming back into it with more knowledge about language #and also more knowledge about Swedish typologically… so that’s useful #Irving rambles #language learning