Today, I learned about:

Exactly 10 years ago today, I gave my first lesson as a teacher of the Swedish language, although I already had had a temporary assignment during my first ex-patriate year (1986) in Brazil, teaching English and German to Brazilian students.

My first student of Swedish was Dina Giltinan, and ever since that moment, she is still my dearest friend. More about Dina can be found in my post 243’2025 (2025-08-31). Dina was living in Ireland at the time, but now you can find her mostly in Portugal.

And from that point on, here are my other 47 students of Swedish, in alphabetical order: Adriana, Amanda, Ana, Andressa, Andrew, Anne, Arthur, Brenda, Brianne, Cecilia, Davi, Debora, Edgar, Elena, Elias, Gabriel, Geancarlo, Giovana, Giulia, Graziela, Guilherme, Gustavo F, Gustavo R, Gustavo W, Helen, Isa, Jhessyca, John, Joice, Juliane, Karina, Katherine, Kieran, Lacey, Laura, Luciana, Luisa, Patricia, Paula, Paulo, Raphael, Rodrigo, Seth, Sheila, Slavica, Victoria, and Yohannes. They represent Australia, Brazil, Croatia, England, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, and USA.

Some of them can be seen and/or mentioned in my posts 255’2016 (2016-09-11), 107’2017 (2017-04-21), 181’2022 (2022-06-30), 151’2023 (2023-05-31), 366’2024 (2024-12-31), 58’2025 (2025-02-27), 151’2025 (2025-05-31), and 304’2025 (2025-10-31).

Thank you very much, all my 48 students of Swedish! You have been like an oasis to me in the occasional dull desert of translations!

That’s what I learned in school today! 

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*: English translation: Language of honor and heroes! (Esaias Tegnér, 1817)

**: What did you learn in school today?