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Hello! I'm Öz.

I started to study linguistics many years ago at Stockholm University. Then I had to move from Sweden due to my job. After living in Paris and Athens, now I am back in Turkey where I was born and I live in Istanbul currently. I am a dancer and fire manipulator. I am 37. I also studied Dance Movement Therapy, but I am not a therapist. I teach interdisciplinary creative movement.

Apart from studying here with you, I teach English and Turkish, I teach dance, and I perform fire-breathing mostly with Heavy Metal bands.

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Hi! I'm Mehkar, 37 years old and a mom of 3 Lovely boys 16, 15 and 10. I was born and raised in Pakistan where I did my Master's in Communication studies, majoring in advertising and public relations; Worked as a teacher for 3 years and then vice principal for Another 3.
Finally decided that teaching English was my thing so did Cambridge CELTA certification and worked at the British Council for a bit. Moved to Sweden with my family, some 3 years ago and did Another Master's in Peace and Development work from Linneaus University.

Am now a full-time English teacher at a grundskola in Växjö kommun, teaching grades7-9.

The ultimate plan is a PhD. Atleast that's the plan today, can't say about tomorrow :)

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http://socioling-sla.weebly.com

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Hello!
I live in Österlisa (Norrtälje municipality) and teach German and English for grades 6-9. My goal is to become an authorised English teacher for upper secondary schools. I was born in Poland, my husband is Swedish and we have two sons (14 & 18). I quite often  travel to Germany (love German language), listen to audio books and work. Now it´s time for my English to get better and I´m happy because of the content of this sociolinguistics course, seems very interesting to me, and unhappy because I´m still waiting for the books to be delivered!

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Hi! I'm Martina i'm 24 years old and i Live 30 minutes outside of Uppsala on a small farm with a bunch of sheep and horses. This is my last two terms at HIG before i graduate (hopefully) and become a teacher. When i'm not studying you can usually find me petting animals or playing different videogames. I started out wanting to become a historian at Uppsala University but then changed my mind after two years.

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Hello, om Joakim! Bit people call me Jocke. I'm 32 and a father of two daughters.
I live in Storvreta outside of Uppsala.
This will be my 4th year at HIG.
Besides my studies and my family my spare time is spent watching movies, NFL or working.

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Hi, I'm Malin, 28 years old. I live in Bollnäs and I'm working at Torsbergsgymnasiet. This is my last year of studies to become an English and Swedish as a second language teacher.

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Hello!

My name is Jonas and I'm 24 years old.
This will be my fourth year of studying English and Swedish at HiG.

Besides studying I am the lead singer and guitarist of a local band (Gävle) called Burn Bright.

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Hi! I’m Malin I’m gay and love cats, but am also allergic to cats. I'm 23 years old and live in Gävle. This will be my fourth year at the uni, besides English i have studied religion. I also work as a mentor for a student who needs extra help with their studies. This summer I started practicing a type historical European martial arts, and one day I may want to start competing in that.

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Hello everyone!

I was born and raised in New York. I moved to Gävle five years ago after high school to study at a university and to move closer to my mom's family. When i moved here i focused on learning Swedish for two years before i started at the university here in Gävle.

I have now completed three years of the teaching program. I am looking forward to studying English again since religion was a challenge for me since most of it was in Swedish.

Currently i am also working as a part-time teacher at Komvux here in Gävle. I have worked there, teaching English, for almost a year and i truly love it!

I am looking forward to meeting all of you!

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Hi all!
I'm Johanna and as my surname might suggest I have English roots and grew up bilingual in Norrtälje. I moved to the UK myself at 20 years of age, where I worked and eventually studied French, Linguistics and Language studies at the University of Southampton. After completing my bachelor I spent several years backpacking in Asia and working as an English TEFL teacher in Thailand. These days I am more grounded as the proud mother of six year old triplet boys, living in Götene, Skaraborg.

My goal is to become a teacher of French and English, and after hopefully gaining these 90 points in English I will carry on studying for my teacher's license. The online course is working very well for me part time since I still love to spend as much time as possible with my boys. I absolutely love learning and I'm very much enjoying the course, although I tear my hair out for every deadline, always doing everything last minute!!

Very much looking forward to Sociolinguistics and meeting you all!

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Hi,

Recognize two of my fellow course students. I am an Englishman from Yorkshire. I have lived in Sweden since 1998. Before this I lived in Germany 1990-1994. I once boasted a good control of the German language which has unfortunately been lost. Before language learning became important my big interest was art and design, which I studied directly after school. I have worked for most of my life with 3D design. My focus shifted most dramatically with the birth of my children, when people and building good relationships has become a dominant theme. I have two daughters, soon to be 16 and 14. Through their schooling, I landed helping out in modersmål engelska. This has been the main source of my income for the last 6 years, in Södertälje where I live. My goal is to become a legitimerad Engelska grundskolelärare. After collecting all 90HP in Engelska, my target is to collect 90HP in pedagogi, most probably through VAL. Looking forward to this years studies. The courses eng 0-30, 31-60 have given me a great deal that I hope now to build on. Looking forward to all your support and contact.

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My name is Niklas and I'm 26 years old. This will be the start of my final year at Gävle University before I graduate and become an upper secondary school teacher in English and History. I love in Sandviken just outside Gävle with my girlfriend and our lovely dog. When I'm not studying I love to travel and explore as well as working out.

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Hello!
I'm Andriette, and I'm 32 years old. I live in Köping with my husband and two cats.
It's my 4th year at HiG, and when it's all said and done I'm going to be a teacher in Swedish and English.

In my spare time I love spending time with genealogy (writing a book at the moment), grow herbs, pickle stuff, etc. The complete old lady, here!

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I have always been a language enthusiast, as I am sure many of you are as well. However, my interest always originated more in the practical applications of language rather than its intricacies; the ability to communicate with people from other parts of the world and acquire more information from different viewpoints fascinates me. Without dwelling needlessly on that subject, I have in the taken great joy in studying both English and Japanese and now seek to complete my language studies here in Gävle in order to become an upper secondary school teacher in the aforementioned subjects.

P.S. Although I do not presently possess a picture of myself on my computer, I hope the below approximate image will suffice.

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Hello!

My name is Ellen and I am 24 years old. I live in Stockholm but I was born and raised in a small town in Hälsingland called Ljusdal. This is my sixth year at HiG, I took a break from school last fall and got a bit behind my class but this is hopefully my last semester before becoming a teacher!

Besides studying I teach Swedish and English four days a week and I love it!

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Hello everyone!

My name is Joyce and I’m 25 years old. This will be the fourth year of studying at Gävle University in order to become an upper secondary school teacher in the subjects English and Swedish. I was born in the Netherlands but moved to Sweden with my family at the age of 14 and have lived most of the time in Gävle since.

Besides studying and working as a teacher, I like to spend my free time trying out new DIYs from Pinterest. So far almost all of them have turned out pretty terrible, but I still haven’t lost hope at making something awesome! Haha.
I look forward to the course and learning more about the English language.

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This is my fourth year and I besides English I study Swedish as the subjects I'll teach once I'm done with my studies.

Besides studies I work part time as a substitute Swedish teacher in Boragarskolan in Gävle.

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I'm your course tutor. My home is in Umeå. And, I am a soon-to-be father of my fourth child: a daughter on the way. I have been a tutor of linguistics since 2002, and before that a teacher for the 14-19 age group. Although born in India, I grew up in Leicester, UK but have spent most of my adult life (since 23) in Sweden - which is now my home. Here is my online CV: https://www.visualcv.com/satishpatel

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I am 25 years old and I live in a small town in Dalarna called Hedemora. This is my fourth year studying to become an upper secondary school teacher. Besides English I also study Swedish and Swedish as a second language. When I don't study or work I spend my time listening to audio books or binge watching Netflix series whilst cuddling with my two cats.

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I grew up in a small town in Småland, but eventually moved to Gothenburg after a high school year in Chicago. Then I worked as a voluntary worker  with indigenous tribes in Argentina. My husband is English and we lived a couple of years in London before moving back to Småland again. We have four children, two of them are moving out this week in order to go to university. Now I work as a teacher in year 9, and I really love my job. What I also love is to travel and meet people. I am flexible and impulsive and quite proud of myself for taking an online course, because computers are my big fear! Technology can stress me out big time!

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Hello! Where to start? I live with my family in Skövde, currently working as a teacher of Swedish for foreigners. I came to Sweden from Czech republic in 1990s and have been working as a second-language teacher since then, giving courses in English, Italian, German, Spanish and now, Swedish. I am taking this course in order to get the my upper secondary teacher certification. Looking forward to our Monday meetings and learning more about the English language.