As one of my friends say: "People is the thing."

As I was looking at my Swedish corner in my room, I found the inspiration to write this post. And, the truth is that my corner is not an ordinary one: there, I have photos of the cities I've visited in Sweden, a small flag of those from Ikea, photos of the Swedish nature that so much gets me crazy, stamps and, to me, the most important thing: photos of those people who help and have helped me with Swedish and gets me the motivation and inspiration to go on everyday. However, there are much more than just these.

Stockholm. Winter. By Ana Ramírez

The first person who started helping me was Martin, who you may know as The Swedish Lad, if you follow him on Youtube. When I first thought of learning Swedish, I went to Youtube and found his vocabulary and culture videos there. I've known him for three years or so and earlier this year was the first time that I got to meet him. Martin is one of the persons who inspires me the most everyday with all his positive energy and his projects ideas.

The second person is my super friend Tommy. Not only did he help me with my first linguistic project on Swedish, and that's how I met him, by the way, but he has helped me practicing speaking in Swedish, he has shown me hundreds of cultural things, he brought me Swedish folk music closer and cooked the most delicious Swedish meals ever! But this relationship is very very enriching. We have grown together the time that we have spent together. 

In the third place I've got my Brasilian engineering friend, Bianor, whom my sister and I are secretly training in linguistics. I told him I never read "The Little Prince" before, so he had the awesome idea of giving it to me as a gift and in Swedish! But what I appreciate the most is the note that he wrote to me. Whenever I feel doubtful of what I am doing, I read it and get the energy and determination to go on  with it.

Then I have Maria and Martin. Maria is a very sweet girl with whom I write e-mails with in Swedish and she does it in Spanish. And that I like a lot because I really enjoy writing e-mails and she has helped me to improve my writing skills and also my speaking ones.

Martin is a guy that I've gotten to meet through a very good language app at the beginning of the summer, approximately. In him I've found myself, in the sense that we have a lot of things in common that I've never had with anyone before. Also, not only he helps me with my Swedish, I help him with his Spanish, as well. I found it very enriching, to be honest. He is the first swede I meet who wants to learn Spanish. So, sometimes I get the terrible feeling of wanting to meet him just to listen to him speaking Spanish with his melodic Swedish accent. Because, who doesn't want to listen to an adorable Swedish double-accent? Moreover, I've got the feeling that we are gonna be very good friends and  I admire him because he has been learning Spanish for very few months and is so good at it!

Malmö. Winter. By Ana Ramírez

But this is no the whole list of all the people who have helped me. There are much more with whom I've just shared small talks or e-mails or anything. And most probably, it is that I've been nothing without them! Tack så mycket. 

~ Love, Ana ~