We met our Swedish-Finnish friend again for our monthly coffee date, this time at the park by the lake (we thought we'd reserve Ikea for rainy days!).
It's funny how you remember words you haven't thuoght of for years when you hear them - like the word 'gunga' - swing (noun and verb, just like in English), and 'rutschkana' - slide.
When we lived in Sweden and Dragon-tamer was little, the 'rutschkana' was his absolute favourite thing in the playground. I can hardly believe it was 10 years ago now.
I asked him if he still had any memories of Dagis (short for 'daghem' - day-home; in other words 'nursery'). He hardly remembers it really, apart from a favourite toy - a water track toy thing. I I wondered whether the dagis teachers were still there. It would be nice to go back and visit. I thought we'd do it last year, but we still don't even have passports, so it's looking less and less likely that we'll even manage it this year, but you never know.
Homeschool is being drowned out a bit by 'life' at the moment, but I keep thinking that I would like to try and teach the children some Swedish so they'd be able to speak a little if and when we do visit. They do recognise the sound of it, which is good, I think - they can tell it apart from French or German or Hebrew.
Well, we'll see how we go. I'm looking out for any good teaching materials for Swedish as a second language for children. If I find any, I'll let you know.
