My recent hobby is to learn Swedish by playing Duolingo. It has passed about 10 days since I started to learn Swedish. To learn Swedish in Duolingo is not so much study as game for me. There is no reason why I would like to learn Swedish. When we want to learn foreign languages in Duolingo, we can play English, Chinese,Korean and French in Japanese. But the other languages don’t have Japanese version. So when we want to play the other languages, we must play in English. I thought that I would be able to learn both of two languages. And I chose Swedish casually. I might be fascinated with the Northern Europes at that time, maybe.
I write down words and grammar which I learned to the loose reaf papers.
Hej, god morgon! (Hi, good morning!)
Jag är Erina. Hur mår du?( I'm Erina.)
Jag tycker om katt.(I like cats)
tack så mycket!( thank you so much.)
Since I’ve learned Swedish, I got interested in Sweden. So I went to the Swedish coffee shop in Tokyo.
FIKAFABRIKEN 📍Setagaya in Tokyo
Välkommen means welcome in Swedish. When I found this word, I was happy because I studied the word in Duolingo. The interior of the store was very beautiful, and it’s a room makes me happy. I felt as if I were in picture books.
And I ordered iced caffe latte and a piece of cake called Princess cake. I’d never seen the cake which has vivid color. It’s Swedish traditional cake. It reminded me of Princess Aurora who was the princess of Sleeping Beauty. I love Princess Aurora best of Disney Princesses. So I decided to order the cake as soon as I saw the cake display. And there were carrot cake, banana cake and more. Honestly, I wanted to eat all! When I carried the cake to my mouth, I was surprised at the taste. It was very delicious. Perhaps it may be the most delicious cake than I’d ever eaten. I’d expected that the cake was very sweet and heavy for me, but it was easy to eat. The cake included raspberry and whipped cream. I want to eat the cake again, but I will try to eat another cake because I’m interested in carrot cake.
And I bought these pretty cookies. The right side of the cookies is dalarana hoursse, which is carved wooden horses of Swedish traditional artifacts. It’s said that dalarana horses carries happiness to us. The left side of the cookies is hallongrotter. Hallongrotter is made up of two words which are hallong and rotter. Hallong means raspberry and routers means cave in Swedish. Especially raspberry is an important food for Swedish. In fact, I also love rapsberry, so I’m glad to know the fact. Both of two cookies were delicious. I spent a nice time in the coffee shop. I’ll visit there again.
※I really want to try speaking, but I have an ulcer in my tonsils. So I can’t speak well now. When my throat becomes to get well, I’ll try to upload speaking video on YouTube.
Vi ses! (Good bye!)
