If only Swedish was more widely spoken (approx. 10 million speakers worldwide). Between knowing English and fairly good German, I feel like Swedish would be, comparatively on the overall language learning scale, merely a skip away for me. I'm no expert yet, but I get the feeling that if you have at least English and German, Swedish doesn't have an overly difficult pronunciation system nor grammatical structure, and there are close cognates all over the place.
Alas. I don't think I've ever even met a Swedish person.
Not to mention the fact that most of them have smashing good English already. But at least if it were more widely spoken, it would be fun to learn!
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Also, Swedish women are really pretty. Or so I've been told. I think that's a good reason for a guy to learn to speak in their native tongue?
Tall and blond :) . There's a blog I follow that's written by a Swedish girl living in China. She's 175cm/5'7". She talks about being an absolute flagpole in China, and then coming back to Sweden and practically reveling in the fact that she's actually at normal height for Swedish girls.
See I kind of had the opposite experience. Without even noticing, I got really used to being on par with everyone in Mexico. And then, coming back through customs, I felt like I'd entered Giant World. A friend had to remind me that this was normal for the U.S.
Hahahahahaha.
... Shorty.
<3 ;)
Actually, Swedish would be pretty difficult for you, pronunciation-wise.
Even native speakers of Germanic languages have problems with it (and the English use of phonology is wholly uninteresting anyway!).
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