User:Peter Isotalo

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sv Den här användaren talar svenska som modersmål.
en-4 This user speaks English at a near-native level.
no-2 Denne brukeren har god kjennskap til norsk.
da-2 Denne brugers kendskab til dansk er på mellemniveau.
de-2 Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse.
ru-1 Этот участник владеет русским языком на начальном уровне.
nl-1 Deze gebruiker bezit beginnende kennis van het Nederlands.
ipa-3
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This user has an advanced understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Cyrl-3
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This user has an advanced understanding of the Cyrillic alphabet.
Swedish

english
I translate from Swedish to English on Wikipedia:Translation


My name is Peter Isotalo. I was born in Moscow in 1980 and I grew up in both Sweden and the Soviet Union. My family settled in Sweden in 1990 and I consider myself to be culturally and linguistically a Swede. I used to speak Russian as a second language, but it fell into disuse after moving from Moscow, so it's rather rusty now.

I live in Jakobsberg, a suburb of Stockholm in the municipality of Järfälla. I've completed two terms of linguistics at Stockholm University (SU). I have also taken two semesters of Mandarin at SU and a minor, unfinished, course in Dutch. Before my university studies I took several high school courses in Japanese, German, Spanish, Latin and Russian. I have done some work as a freelance translator and subtitler. I currently working part time in the souvenir shop at the Vasa Museum and studying history at SU.

I previously went under the handle user:karmosin, so any edit history prior to October 17 2005 can be found here. You can also find me at Wikimedia Commons and English Wiktionary.

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My work

Did you know...

  • ...that Valrhona, a company based in the small town of Tain l'Hermitage in the Rhône Valley in France, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of high-quality chocolate?
Peasants pressing green grapes
A burning cigarette
  • ...that smoking has a history that dates back at least 5,000 years and is one of the most widely practiced recreational activities in the world?

Major contributions

articles which I have written mostly or entirely on my own

Minor contributions

substantial, though not dominant, amounts of new info added

Copyediting and reviewing

touch-ups and providing general advice

Articles started

Awards

Quotes

It is the nature of man to build the most complicated cage of rules and regulations in which to trap himself, and then, with equal ingenuity and zest, to bend his brain to the problem of wriggling triumphantly out again.

Barbara Henisch, Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society

What the... That's like asking a flock of gulls about where to find something to eat!

Swedish satirist Jan Berglin about the fact that Wikipedia is written by its own readers

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