And I meant to also say, I've (finally!!) got your birthday present in the post, so hopefully it won't be too long before it arrives :D I think they say 2 weeks as a delivery aim (I do have a tracking code, which I'll send you, once I get the receipt with it written on from Dad!)

Sorry that's taken such a ridiculously long time to send! 😊

I couldn't use the wardrobe most of the time anyway, as I can't stand for long enough to take something off the rail - most of my clothes were in the drawers in the main room instead ;) I did keep my coat in the wardrobe as that was a bit bulky to fold :P

I'm exactly the same with American accents - a southern accent is quite identifiable, but the rest is just 'American' to me laughs If you look online, Liverpudlian is also listed as Scouse (just to confuse everyone) ;) I found a few youtube videos but nothing that really just had people talking naturally :K

That makes sense with the languages being similar enough to make sense to each other :D

Yeah, I can't imagine many people thinking you would mean 3 in the early hours of the morning!

I think it was previously in the main room (going on where the dents in the carpet were), but I guess that the previous resident using that room didn't use the wardrobe, or needed more space in the room itself.

Reading the first book again after reading the last couple, it's really noticeable how she seemed to write for an older audience - almost like she started with the audience being Harry's age, then each book the audience got older (if that makes sense??)

Cockney isn't too terrible for me, but Liverpudlian is really challenging to follow (as it's not something I hear that often).

That's bizarre having to speak English in Stockholm! I guess maybe they learn Norwegian with no accent (like when we learnt German, it was a kind of default accent), and all the differences just make it too challenging to follow? .... either that, or they didn't learn the language at a natural speed - when we heard a recording of native German speakers chatting, the words flew past before any of us could identify what they were talking about!

I didn't realise you used the 24-hour clock (military time) and not am/pm there! If I'm honest, I just say "9 in the morning" rather than am or pm anyway laughs

The layout of the room was weird too, as the wardrobe was in the shower room! It was a really amazing view from the window though :D

Yay for getting some diamond painting done! :D Which one are you working on at the moment?

Even with Harry Potter, JK Rowling added in words like "conversationally" to describe how a character was talking.... it just felt unnatural, or like she was desperately trying to reach a word count total (like when I was writing essays for exams at school and it was meant to be however many words long!)

Now that would definitely be confusing with the different dialects having different words o.O I found it challenging enough when I was little, I read a book with the phrase "pass me something, there's a duck" - I spent the entire time looking back through the book for the duck.... I didn't realise it was northern slang for "pass me something, you're a good lad" (or similar)!

I have a feeling the Swedish was accidental - it was before the internet, but the teacher seemed surprised the text she was handing out wasn't actually German o.O It helps when they have sounds that you can figure out from the languages you already know, even if you can't speak or write it.

And if you listen to some English speakers, sometimes they say "f" instead of "th" so you end up with thought sounding like fought, and three sounding like free.... which would confuse things even more!

Ironically the bigger room was mostly because it had a larger shower room (which was quite a waste of space really) - if the actual bedroom was bigger, then it would've felt like more value for money! Sometimes it's nice to take a break from hobbies though, as otherwise you can just get bored / stuck on particular bits!

Young adult books are usually what I go for - they're not full of bad language (which always seems like poor writing.... can authors not think of anything else for their characters to say?!), and they aren't as gritty as a lot of adult books can be :D

That seems rather complicated having two different versions of Norwegian - is Bokmål more formal than nynorsk?

In German lessons we had a bit of Swedish (I think) to read, and it was quite surprising how much we could figure out, as it was so similar to German. I will admit that I pronounced most of the French words with an English accent, so they didn't ever end up sounding 'right'! A lot of English words aren't pronounced the way you'd expect them to be when you see them written down.... it must be quite challenging to learn English as a second language!