January 2012
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Pippi Inspires Minneapolis Third Graders
What makes a good reader and writer? Why should a writer read a lot of books? How can learning about Pippi Longstocking help us have fun inventing our own characters? These are just a couple of questions we have tackled in the first couple of days of ASI’s 2012 Pippi Project with the 3rd graders at Andersen Elementary. This writer-in-residency opportunity serves approximately 150...
New Spaces: A Virtual Tour
Since Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011, visitors have been experiencing ASI and the Turnblad Mansion in a whole new way! Come along with a group and see the newly renovated areas of the American Swedish Institute’s campus…
These visitors have just entered through the new link, and after checking in at the reception desk, they are ready to start their tour by heading down to the Mansion’s...
Swedish words of the year →
syntactician:
Why Swedish? Well, why not. They’re so much better than our boring old candidates for this honour, anyway. One I like is åsiktstaliban. It means ‘opinion taliban’. Perhaps related is attitydinkontinens, which if you read it carefully says ‘attitude incontinence’, or an inability to keep your opinions to yourself.
As proof (if we needed it) that knowing the etymology doesn’t...
