Engelska brudar 2

Mrs. 170307:
Thanks!
Sounds good! He is practising and trying now, but he is unsure how he will cope working over there without understanding Swedish - but your husband says its fine then? Which area does he work in? Do you live in Stockholm as well?
I keep telling him that it will be fine, that Swedes love speaking English...which we do :)

saragran: Depending on what your h2b is working with, mine might be in an easier situation. He runs his own online marketing company from home and only work with English customers so...

A lot of times we have encouraged people to speak Swdedish to him (the dentist, the postman, the butcher,...) - they all refuse, they probably have so much more fun speaking English.

Ah, and no, I am probably the only one in Sweden in this thread that is not living in Stockholm. Grums, near Karlstad.

im not in Stockholm either...im in Nice at the moment although live in Ornskoldsvik most of the time....should have seen the look on my h2bs face when he stepped of the plane for his first visit in Sweden and it was -28C that day...hihihi..he was ready to turn around and go back into the plane:) Maybe i should say that he is English but has been brought up in the carabean until he went off to boardingschool.

saragran
i moved to sweden 2 years ago. i did a 10 week evening class at UCL (10 lessons) before i came and i've doen a few more since i've been here.. doing the highest level now in fact but not sure i'll apss it...we'll see at the end of may! i think it was absolutely fine in the beginning. it was fun to learn and everybody appreciated me trying. it was fine. then when i was at an intermediate level people thought i understood more than i did and that was a tough time. i found it so frustrating... but that onyl lasted a few months and now i can keep up mostly. but itäs worth it. the standard of living ehre is so much higher than england i could never consider going back to the uk even if i do miss the english sometimes! hehe

Hanban
how r your moving plans coming along? have u found any jobs?

Hanban
Sorry, I didnt see your msg until now! Bad forum behaviour... ;) We're looking to move centrally first, for my h2b to get to know the city and to more easily be out and about before we decide where to get a house -Im from south Stockholm originally (or south of south :) Haninge more exactly) so it will be around that area we'll move eventually. What about you guys? Where in uk are you living now?

Mrs. 170307
He's working in media/sales/advertising over here but trying to set up his own web designer business as well... Holy cow, -28?! Thats very cold...!

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Sounds good! I know there will be times when he will be frustrated - I mean I was the same moving here, even though of course I knew English but mostly just social speaking English, I was so frustrated that I couldnt participate in intelligent conversations or worse - have arguments with my h2b!! As soon as my emotions is involved, my brain stops working and goes back to Swedish...or even worse these days, just stops working full stop! I cant find the words in either language. Very frustrating. So I do know it will be 10 times worse for him... I got him some more learning through practising books today. He better get cracking on it - not long left now! I agree though, I could never see myself raising children here or having as good quality of life as I could at home... Its just sooo different!! But I will miss uk too...like the Sunday papers...! Is there any where youll be able to get them around lunch time in Stockholm btw?? A bit off topic though... :)

i also miss the sunday papers... i think u can buy htem at t-centralen actually... but htey might be a day old... been a hile since i checked... since i moved here 2 years ago the selection of food and magazines u can buy that i missed from home has increased enourmously... so i woldnät be surprised if we could get an english paper.. recently they started selling Robinsons squash (saft)!... yummy!

when r u moving? it sounds like u have a countdown going alreay!

Pressbyrån normally have English papers. Everytime we go into town J gets the Sun or Daily Sun (please don't judge him by the quality of this - in my opinion - crap ). They are usually one day old. When he has the papers we 'have to' go to either the English or the Irish pub and we 'have to' have one (or more) pints....

Is a bit like our Emmerdale routine.

saragran: Here media/sales/advertising is Swenglish anyway! I just had a marketing translation on the desk in which I had to leave English words like 'crazy' and 'happy hour' in between the Swedish text.

He will be fine!

he Nattson!

saw u were in another thread just now! howäs everything oging for u guys... r u suit shopping for your m2b this weekend?

i bought yet another paif of shoes! hahaha... love shoes... just canät find a pair i am satisfied with...that is until now! i bought a pair of light gold shoes from Billli Bi. found them in Nillson of all places! they r so comfortable, 2 cm heel... and really cool! love them... i think they'll look great with ym dress too but i'll hvae to check one day when m2b is out!