I Do Not Like To Wear Shoes In The House

Haha yeah we have a lot of complex traditions when it comes to how to be polite, which often is a bit strange to foreigners I think because we are very informal. We never for example wear a suit and tie to work.

Also if you would try to help a woman out of a car or into her seat she would think you were super weird. But the last time I was at a meeting - earlier today - I think I said thank you six times before I could leave the room, to the same person :P

I think cultural differences are fun. I remember a social experiment I saw once where japanese and american businessmen were mingling and the japanese liked to stand really close which made the americans back away because they wanted more space so when you sped it up it looked like the japanese were chasing the americans around the room XD

Hehe another thing that was very puzzling for me growing up - I learned swedish and english in parallel and at home I learned "shit" and "f-word" are very bad words but in Sweden they are treated as acceptable. Swedish has very few swearwords so people drop the f-bomb and s*** all the time and don't think it's bad language at all. Very shocking for my american relatives when they were visiting.

Haha I have the same problem with Dutch and German, I learned Dutch first at home and then I took german classes in school and they are similar enough that I could just guess my way through it using dutch and they would just think I was spelling badly :P I don't think I would be able to tell the difference between portuguese and spanish if I heard them :X

I did a quiz one time about what culture I would fit in best and got Japan which is a bit strange since I am scandinavian and have never left Europe. I think what got rated that way was probably that I try to be very respectful and I like to stand close to people I talk to.

Haha! Well I only really know english, swedish and dutch and they are all very similar. My german is pretty poor, I could have a very simple conversation but I would make a lot of grammar mistakes and my spanish basically ends with "Hola, me no comprende" :P

Those are very diverse languages, I think it's good for kids to grow up multilingual. It gives perspective and helps with conceptualization when learning new things. I speak some German and I tried studying spanish but never made it very far :)

for me its just a comfort thing. I'm often the only one in bare feet in my house. Not entirely sure why everyone else stays in shoes and or socks

Indeed!

Yeah the verbs were killing me and felt alien, still I think spanish is a lovely language, it sounds so passionate.

Haha and of course you are also a teacher! Looking forward to hearing more from you! Cheers!

haha wtf that smiley was a bit off the mark there

What language is your first?