Sweden and Japan
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Good evening!
Now it's 02:10 AM.
Today, I wanna write about some topics of Sweden and Japan as title suggests...
I'm from Japan, and now I'm studying in Sweden.
I've been here for 6 month and more 4 month left now.
I'm 20 years old now.
Since when I was a junior high school student, I really wanted to
go abroad, especially Western country, because I loved studying English very much.
When I enrolled University in Japan,
I'd decided to study abroad.
My home University has some exchange Universities, And I wanted to go
Canada or Hawaii or Sweden.
And finally I decided to apply Swedish University, since I thought
there would be a host of Japanese in Canada and the U.S.
Also,when I was a high school student, Swedish student came
to our school and studied 1 year there.
He could speak English very well, so I wanted to know why Swedish
people can speak English fluency.
Japanese also learn English in junior high and high school,
but our English is not good or..very bad compared with other countries.
That's the reason why I am in here Sweden, and I love Sweden!=D
Here is so calm, I mean, both nature and people.
And Swedish and Japanese are said to be similar,
in terms of shyness XD
I think Swedish people are generally not loud and they are kind of shy
like Japanese^^
But the two countries are very different at the same time.
Because maybe you know, in Japan,
normally we have to work very hard after graduate the University.
Even when we are students, we work much as a part time job.
I think because there is the atmosphere that we should work hard.
And working hard is regarded as a virtue.
But in Sweden, it's totally different.
Shops and restaurants are closed very early and opening hour of office is
very short compared to Japan.
Also, classes in Swedish University is less than Japanese.
I think it's the biggest difference.
Next, Swedish people can speak English very well.
Even they are not students, they can.
I think because the grammar is similar to English,
and there is a TV channel dealing with American TV shows with
Swedish subtitle.
And they start learning English maybe 9 years old...
Sorry, I don't remember clearly, but I guess my friend said so..
We learn English the age of 12.
But it'll be changed earlier.
I love both two countries...
So I hope Sweden and Japan have a good connection and be more close
countries! :)
Now it's 02:10 AM.
Today, I wanna write about some topics of Sweden and Japan as title suggests...
I'm from Japan, and now I'm studying in Sweden.
I've been here for 6 month and more 4 month left now.
I'm 20 years old now.
Since when I was a junior high school student, I really wanted to
go abroad, especially Western country, because I loved studying English very much.
When I enrolled University in Japan,
I'd decided to study abroad.
My home University has some exchange Universities, And I wanted to go
Canada or Hawaii or Sweden.
And finally I decided to apply Swedish University, since I thought
there would be a host of Japanese in Canada and the U.S.
Also,when I was a high school student, Swedish student came
to our school and studied 1 year there.
He could speak English very well, so I wanted to know why Swedish
people can speak English fluency.
Japanese also learn English in junior high and high school,
but our English is not good or..very bad compared with other countries.
That's the reason why I am in here Sweden, and I love Sweden!=D
Here is so calm, I mean, both nature and people.
And Swedish and Japanese are said to be similar,
in terms of shyness XD
I think Swedish people are generally not loud and they are kind of shy
like Japanese^^
But the two countries are very different at the same time.
Because maybe you know, in Japan,
normally we have to work very hard after graduate the University.
Even when we are students, we work much as a part time job.
I think because there is the atmosphere that we should work hard.
And working hard is regarded as a virtue.
But in Sweden, it's totally different.
Shops and restaurants are closed very early and opening hour of office is
very short compared to Japan.
Also, classes in Swedish University is less than Japanese.
I think it's the biggest difference.
Next, Swedish people can speak English very well.
Even they are not students, they can.
I think because the grammar is similar to English,
and there is a TV channel dealing with American TV shows with
Swedish subtitle.
And they start learning English maybe 9 years old...
Sorry, I don't remember clearly, but I guess my friend said so..
We learn English the age of 12.
But it'll be changed earlier.
I love both two countries...
So I hope Sweden and Japan have a good connection and be more close
countries! :)
It is now 02:10 AM.
Today, I wanna write about some topics on Sweden and Japan as the title suggests...
I'm from Japan, and studying in Sweden now.
I've been here for 6 months with 4 more months left to go.
go abroad, especially to Western countries, because I loved studying English so much.
When I enrolled at the University of Japan,
I decided to study abroad.
to Canada, Hawaii, or Sweden.
I finally decided to apply at the Swedish University, since I thought
Also,when I was a high school student, a Swedish student came
to our school and studied for 1 year there.
people can speak English so fluently.
That's the reason why I am here in Sweden, and I love Sweden!=D
Here it is so calm, I mean, both nature and people.
normally we have to work very hard after graduating from a University.
Even when we are students, we work at part time jobs.
I think it's because there is an atmosphere that we should work hard.
Also, classes in Swedish University are less than Japanese.
I think that's the biggest difference.
Even though some are not students, they still can.
Swedish subtitles.
We learn English at the age of 12.
So I hope Sweden and Japan have a good connection and will become closer to each other!
countries! *please see prior sentence*
I don't know why Swedish people are good at english. I remember that in 6th grade I had no problem with english. Almost all of my friends are good at it too. Then of course there are some that aren't as good. I think english is a big part of our daily life, and like you said, our grammar similar and alot of words sounds like eachothers words. For example, i've seen that lot of other countries dub their movies, while we just add subtitles. And on alot of products sold here in Sweden, there are no "Swedish pages" in the manual so we often have to rely on our english skills.
Skulle det vara något du undrar så är det bara att maila. ;)
Jag hjälper gärna till så gott jag kan.
I'm learning Swedish, just because I like Sweden.
I can spend in Sweden without Swedish. and to be honestly, the demand of Swedish skill is less in Japan. Because Swedish can speak English.
So there are few people learning Swedish in Japan.
But your culture and design are very very popular among Japanese! ;D
Difficulty is pronunciation.
Grammar is not so complicated, but pronunciation is quite different from Japanese, you know.
Spanish is rather easy to pronounce for Japanese:D
Swedish can speak English well...some people have like an accent, but at least students English is too good...:D
And songs sung by Swedish is like native English..
I envy you-------!!!!!!!!!!! hahaha:D