Diskussion: Participant presentation

Ingen författare
2022-10-28T07:28:27+02:00

First of all, it is nice to get to know each other. For most of you, this is something you did for AF111 so you might want to save time and copy+paste+adapt if necessary.

Click on "Write a reply" immediately below my teacher posting and write your name + your place of residence + your country of origin as a heading. Following this, write a short presentation about your general background and your interests (if you wish) and please include

which languages you speak and/or have grammatical knowledge of

what you expect to learn in this course

which languages and language groups you are especially interested in

When you have published your presentation, it would be great if you would also upload some kind of picture. In order to do so you need to click on the circle at the top of the outer left hand menu. Click on Profile, and finally click on the large circle that appears. Then you are ready to choose your picture. To be able to associate your name with a picture makes it a lot easier, at least for me, to remember who is who.

Eva-Marie Bloom Ström, Skärhamn (Tjörn), Sweden

I'm from the middle of Sweden (Dalarna) but ended up on the west coast of Sweden, after many years abroad (The Netherlands, South Africa, UK). My family is big, with 3 children, my husband, and his 4 daughters. Three of our children still live at home and the other four are already independent grown-ups! Since Tjörn is kind of countryside I spend a lot of time outdoors; foraging, vegetable cultivation, hiking, sailing and horse-riding are some of my interests.

When not outside, I spend my time teaching Swahili, language typology, Master's courses in African languages, phonetics/phonology and more. I currently work at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science as a senior lecturer in linguistics. My research focuses on the grammar of Bantu languages, specifically Xhosa, Ndengeleko and Swahili.

I speak Swedish, Dutch, English and Swahili fluently and in that order. Furthermore I have a reasonable proficiency in French and Xhosa. I have grammatical knowledge (and in some cases some basic speaking knowledge) of many other African and European languages.