We
have arrived at the day that most participants have been dreading.
Q. You think Q is hard in English? Check this out:
So
I'm calling today Q is for quality. As in quality
friend. You know how they say that only a true friend will tell you
when you have spinach between your teeth or that you have spaghetti
on your tie? It also takes a true friend to tell you that you have,
in front of the entire blogging community, while trying to teach a
foreign language, made TWO blunderous mistakes. Anna, you rock.
Let's
go to the oldest mistake first. Mispronunciation. Our lesson on
ovanligt. Here's what I used:
Pronounciation:
owe-vaughn-lit
as in “I need to repay Vince for the lighter he just let me
borrow.”
Here's
Anna's much better one:
Om
jag skulle beskriva hur man uttalar "ovanligt", så skulle
jag inte välja det engelska ordet "owe" utan snarare
"pool" minus "p" och "l"="oo-vaughn-lit"
("vaughn-lit" går bra).
Oh,
maybe you want that in English. Ok. I can do that.
Pool
– p- l + vaghn + lit.
She's
absolutely right. It's a much better oo.
Now
for the more embarrassing one. In teaching you a word, I misspelled
it. Sigh. This is from our lesson on namsdagar. Only I should have
said namnsdagar. I swear I know how to spell the word, but when open
office objects to every single Swedish word I write, it didn't occur
to me that I'd actually gotten it wrong. You know how if you look at
something 20 times, you can't see the glaring error because your
brain skips things since it's so familiar? Or at least that's my
excuse.
So
there you have it. Confession over. I think you should pay Anna
another visit. She makes beautiful jewelry and writes a delightful
blog. In English!
To
Anna, thanks for being a true friend and telling me about the
spinach...
20 comments:
I know exactly what you mean about those glaring errors. When I edit my writing I read it until it looks perfect, then my Quality Friend will point all those whoppers I missed. :)
That's what friends are for.
Ok I'm struggling now. lol but I'm loving the struggle
I'm so glad I didn't A-Z in Swedish! I've loved your word posts, and have a few words to play with now...should I ever go there (it's just past Scotland, on the right, I believe, from where I live!)
those kind of friends are the best kind
Wow! That's the smallest Q list ever.
That is a great friend. Anna contacted me about Swedish stuff via your site. She's sweet!
Quality friends are in high demand and hard to come by. Like life, quality friends are good!
smiles...it is def good to have friends watching your back like that and helping us gently....my tongue is enjoying the acrobatic tricks...haha
What a great friend to gently point that out.
Great Q post!
Uh oh... teehee--I think you've done great with your teaching. I think every blog I post has a couple errors. I'm just not compulsive enough and my single proofing of it doesn't catch them.
I try to proof everything I write, but sometimes it just doesn't happen. Hopefully I have learned enough that there are very few mistakes though.
Great post!
I like the word quisling--it sounds "swarmy," great word for traitor. Oh no, I'm off the subject again. Good friends are treasures.
Quality is a good word...I'm glad I didn't A to Z in Welsh...we don't even have some of the letters (j, K, q, z..but we have others such as dd, rh, ch, etc).
Rhia from Five Minute Piece for Inspiration (about #776 on A to Z list).
I thought it was going to be hard to find a good Q word in ENGLISH. Only two options in Swedish? You did a great job with that!
Hey, two mistakes isn't bad!
Wow, only TWO WORDS!!?? That's crazy!!
So nice to meet you, by the way!!
http://writeskatedream-jmckendry.blogspot.com
I'm glad you found something to write about for Q - go on, admit it, you made the mistakes on purpose so you'd have something to write about today, no?
I am so anal about grammatical errors, conventions, etc...and when I see that' I've made one I want to melt; UGH! good you have someone to point those out and Hurray for quality friendships!
Ah Tina,
Yay and right on "Q", you are receiving another much loved, highly cherished, eagerly anticipated comment from me. Yes me, shy and humble me.
That's good someone would point out your mistakes, yet nobody points out when I get my metters lixed.
Good to have Quality friends and even though we are but electric friends, your Quality friendship is greatly appreciated.
And now my Quest to delight folks with my Quotidian articles will soon resume after my selfless and altruistic continuance to be of support and encouragement to you A to Zedders, had reached its conclusion.
Gosh, what a guy!
I don't think many, if any, of us would have caught your errors unless you pointed them out. You do have quality friends, but we forgive you :) Your posts have been extremely educational and fun!
Dear Tina,
(I'll write this in English so that everyone will understand.) You are truly a quality friend. It is not easy to admit making a mistake. I make spelling mistakes in both Swedish and English, ALL THE TIME! So I know how it feels.
Best wishes & hugs,
Anna
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Kära Tina!
Det var storsint av dig att erkänna detta så öppet.
Stora kramar,
Anna
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