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- "Jag tror på sommaren."
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Come to Almería (Spain) and discover it! We are the european city with the highest amount of hours of sunlight per year
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Agreed, I am from the Netherlands and I personally do not like our own summers, way too hot and sunny (while that is in a "lucky" case). Studerar svenska för less sunny or hot summers (sorry for not complete svenska)
I like that song. It makes me happy. And, I picked up a few lines from it! (Besides the title, obviously), so, thanks Arnauti!
Oh, and I have a question for you Arnauti, is it just coincidence that you and Anrui's usernames are so close in sound?
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I'm glad to hear that! I think it's very useful to listen to songs in the language you're learning.
The names are actually a total coincidence Isn't that odd? His is his Chinese name I think, but mine is an Albanian name I picked from a character in a novel. I think however that it reflects what sounds nice to a Swedish ear.
Historically there was some small Albanian presence in Odessa, Ukraine, and we have a street named Малая Арнаутская after them ;)
Funny! "Arnaut" is a word in Romanian for a kind of a 18-19th century soldier, word probably borrowed from Greek or Albanian..
Yeah, I agree. Funny how that happened. Are you and him friends through duolingo? Like, because of duolingo have you two become friends, with the whole Swedish journey through making a course? (That's a feat)
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Yes, I didn't know him at all before the course. He's a great guy, I've been very lucky to have him as a co-mod.
Come on! I was gonna write i believe in summer until i saw the hint that tror also means think and wrote think about the summer because it makes more sense!
Ha, me too :D My first thought was "I believe the summer", then "I believe in summer" but neither of those seemed plausible so I went for the hint.
Having endured a Swedish winter and experienced the utter joy/bliss/ecstasy of finally seeing spring/summer returning, I completely understand this song now!
There certainly is a point in late winter where the days are dark and long and you really do need to have a faith of sorts that the winter is not never ending... hence “I believe in the summer”. It captures that feeling very well!
BTW Swedish summer is all that is good in the world!!!
Is this stating that I believe that summer exists, or that during the summer, I believe?
C'mon! Really? where is the logic in here? and why "I think about summer" is incorrect? :(
For me it's a weirdest sentence in this course (till now). It wins against horses eating your hats and cats drinking your milk :)
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I think about summer would be Jag tänker på sommaren. There's an excellent explanation by Lundgren8 about 'tro', 'tycka' and 'tänka' here: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/5577824
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Yes. Both jag tror på dig and jag tror dig are just fine. (If you mean 'believe in' like in, say, thinking somebody could have a great career, only the first one works, but usually either one is fine).
Thanks. I struggled to understand why 'I think of the summer' wasn't acceptable.
I thought it was "I think in the summer" (I suppose implying that my brain lies dormant all winter...a safe bet!). Could this be a possibility?
I would probably go for the preposition "om" in this case, but it's an extremely weird sentence.
