April 16th
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yannisSo, today I ran out of food, so I went to replenish my supplies, and I bought enough food to last till the end of April.
So if the curfew will be over by then, it's my last journey to supermarkets during this madness. I really hope it is so.
Once again I decided to go as early as possible, hence at 7AM. Everything was open, lack of customers and abundance of food everywhere, even my favourite chocolate. The only problem was with soap, everybody was stockpiling toilet paper, but instead they ran out of soap, I could hardly find any.
In MyMarket they replaced pieces of duct tape on the floor with rose circles with "Please stand here" written on them.
But that's it, I don't want to talk about supermarkets anymore, and there isn't much to tell, anyway.
As for Swedish language, I made a huge progress using my usual method - combining listening to videos on Youtube, memorizing words and reading articles on Wikipedia through Googletranslate.
I've learned a few hundred words already, although it is not really learning, of course, most of these words I already knew through English or German - "brand", "luft", "jorden", "yxa", "hål", "sår", "kung", "hund", "dörr" etc.
Other words I knew through other sources - "kvarn", "varg", "dimma", "mörker" etc.
Other words are very simple to learn even if you never new them - "ren", "räv", "nyckel", "tvål", "sill", "ful", "försök", "blev", "rent", "stöd", "hiss", "golv", "ost" etc.
Right now I'm focused on nouns, of course, and on simple words like "om", "och" etc.
So I hope in one month I will be able to speak Swedish.
Of course, the fact that Swedish words are so short and are written in Latin helps a lot.
In Greek we have too many words with three, four or even more syllables, and these are simple everyday words.
While in Swedish most everyday words have one syllable, or sometimes two. Which means you can learn Swedish language three times as fast as Greek, and when it comes to grammar and structure, you can learn it ten times faster, I believe.
So if the curfew will be over by then, it's my last journey to supermarkets during this madness. I really hope it is so.
Once again I decided to go as early as possible, hence at 7AM. Everything was open, lack of customers and abundance of food everywhere, even my favourite chocolate. The only problem was with soap, everybody was stockpiling toilet paper, but instead they ran out of soap, I could hardly find any.
In MyMarket they replaced pieces of duct tape on the floor with rose circles with "Please stand here" written on them.
But that's it, I don't want to talk about supermarkets anymore, and there isn't much to tell, anyway.
As for Swedish language, I made a huge progress using my usual method - combining listening to videos on Youtube, memorizing words and reading articles on Wikipedia through Googletranslate.
I've learned a few hundred words already, although it is not really learning, of course, most of these words I already knew through English or German - "brand", "luft", "jorden", "yxa", "hål", "sår", "kung", "hund", "dörr" etc.
Other words I knew through other sources - "kvarn", "varg", "dimma", "mörker" etc.
Other words are very simple to learn even if you never new them - "ren", "räv", "nyckel", "tvål", "sill", "ful", "försök", "blev", "rent", "stöd", "hiss", "golv", "ost" etc.
Right now I'm focused on nouns, of course, and on simple words like "om", "och" etc.
So I hope in one month I will be able to speak Swedish.
Of course, the fact that Swedish words are so short and are written in Latin helps a lot.
In Greek we have too many words with three, four or even more syllables, and these are simple everyday words.
While in Swedish most everyday words have one syllable, or sometimes two. Which means you can learn Swedish language three times as fast as Greek, and when it comes to grammar and structure, you can learn it ten times faster, I believe.
