Quote: (06-19-2014 07:38 AM)Chaos Wrote:
I find it very hard to believe that people on Åland speak so bad English so you have to switch over to Swedish.
I had to switch four times to be understood, which I found to be odd for a Nordic country. The only other place which I came across this was outside of Jyväskylä in Finland with Finnish which I didn't know. Worse that my Swedish sucks and they speak Stockholmska rather than Finlandssvensk (the "hu" through the teeth rather than "sh" for the "sj" sound for example). Some lady spoke absolutely NO English, which is almost impossible to find in the Nordic countries.
The girls my age in Mariehamn were alright at English, but they MUCH preferred to speak Swedish and I had to oblige as they would continuously revert back.