Stop in for a cup of coffee

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If it needs that hard to find plastic piece that goes over the inside of the taillights I know where one is.
 
halifaxhops said:
Do most of the people there have a understanding of American English the way you do?
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I'm flattered. Swedes in general speak English pretty well. We all learn it in school from grade 3 up to 11 or 12 or 13, depending on how long you choose to attend high school ('gymnasium', not mandatory). Only nine years of school are technically mandatory but if you only do nine years nowadays, you'll have a pretty hard time finding a job.

When I grew up we lived in Canada for one year. I was 14 and already spoke English to some extent but being there, going to ordinary Canadian school, I got a thorough understanding of the language.

It's been thirty years now, though, so I'm rusty. My vocabulary is significantly smaller and I'm hesitant to use some expressions. Prepositions are more difficult, too.
 

you've got nothing to hang your head about - LOTS of people stateside can't hold a candle to your grasp on "our" language - you do very well.
360DartGT66 said:
I'm flattered. Swedes in general speak English pretty well. We all learn it in school from grade 3 up to 11 or 12 or 13, depending on how long you choose to attend high school ('gymnasium', not mandatory). Only nine years of school are technically mandatory but if you only do nine years nowadays, you'll have a pretty hard time finding a job.

When I grew up we lived in Canada for one year. I was 14 and already spoke English to some extent but being there, going to ordinary Canadian school, I got a thorough understanding of the language.

It's been thirty years now, though, so I'm rusty. My vocabulary is significantly smaller and I'm hesitant to use some expressions. Prepositions are more difficult, too.
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ScampMike said:
you've got nothing to hang your head about - LOTS of people stateside can't hold a candle to your grasp on "our" language - you do very well.
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guess that means we can't help him out like I do the other foreigners:

Please=shut up and thank you= you suck, etc. lol
 
Good morning, late one last night, the event was so easy...too good to be true because they had poker games in the lounge afterwards till 1 a.m....
 
wife called in sick from work, so her day off is my day of work! she has a list for me.
 
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