(January 26, 2012 at 3:00 pm)aleialoura Wrote: I was actually considering the same thing. My family is from Sweden, and I just found out that my father has dual citizenship as an American and a Swede. To be a citizen there you have to learn to speak Swedish. It's a requirement. My father's last name is Lundborg, which I just found out is spelled something like "Ljundbjorg" in Sweden. All I really know is it had a lot of J's in it. lol
Sounds like a good plan, dude. I would seriously start learning the language now. It's quite difficult!
Never can be as difficult than the neighboring country's language, finnish.
However, that does not constitute a big problem in Finland, since it's mandatory to learn both swedish and finnish in Finland, but not Russian, even though Finland's own blood brethren primarily live in the ex-soviet countries, like Estonia, and in small pockets of indigenous people in Russia, although the True Finns party aims to change that, and abolish mandatory swedish in schools.
Finland is also in belongings of , a primarily swedish speaking island, which one could also tell by it's name Å-land with an "Å" which is a letter in swedish but not finnish.
But rest easy, at least they do not have weird surnames like with -dottir suffixes, like in Iceland.
Üze Tengri basmasar, asra Yir telinmeser, Türük bodun ilingin törüngin kim artatı udaçı erti?