Uncategorized – Polyglot in Progress

Let’s Have our Cake and Eat it too!

26 Nov 202527 Nov 2025

It's National Cake Day, so why not? Todqy's featured lists illustrate four popular types of cakes for the three Scandinavian countries: Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. These lists are intentionally simple…

Hello fellow language learners,

10 Sep 202410 Sep 2024

Hi, so much has happened over the past few years to take my focus away from this blog. However, my love for languages has never gone away. Now, at a…

Book review – Swedish Tutor (Teach Yourself Series)

I am totally addicted to this latest style of Teach Yourself books. This series is aimed at those of us who have some knowledge of the language, but at the…

Ten Interesting Welsh Expressions

Here's a few expressions to use when talking to someone in Welsh: Beth ar y ddaear - what on earth Bod yn feddw gaib, bod yn feddw gorn - to…

A few fun Danish words and expressions

Læsehest - bookworm Natteravn - night owl Se gennem fingrene - look past something Sejt, fedt - cool Hyggelig - this word is often regarded as untranslatable, but the best way…

The five most difficult languages I have tried to learn

1. Korean - been studying since 2011 and yet progress is still hard to come by. In order to teach the good news of the bible to others, I still persist…

Book review – Enjoy Norwegian

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is definitely one of my all time favorites. This book is perfect for anyone with an intermediate level of Norwegian. The first half covers…

Learn Manx – and become part of a language revival

Interested in helping bringing a language back to life? Then Manx may be the language for you. Manx was a language facing extinction when its last native speaker, Ned Maddrell,…

Colloquial Welsh – book review

This here is the 1995 edition of Colloquial Welsh. I bought this edition because it was all I could afford at the time. However, after getting I was pleasantly surprised…

Book review – Getting Started in Swedish

12 May 201612 May 2016

This is another book from the popular Teach Yourself series. It is aimed at those with no knowledge of Swedish. Even though I had already started learning Swedish through my…