Laika:

Please see your earlier thread,  here  in which I have apologised for what must have seemed to be an unfriendly reaction.  We do get a lot of requests, you see, from people who want us to send information to them and who don't seem willing to do anything to help themselves, or to return here to see if their question has been answered.  Like a lot of people here, I am more than happy to spend (sometimes) hours finding the answer to a question if it is one that a person cannot easily find for themself.  Clearly I was wrong to suppose that you were one of those lazy people; I had only your first, brief message to tell by.  I do hope that you will feel able to return here whenever you have questions about folk music; I, for one, will always be glad to help where I am able.  As to using languages other than English; as has been said, it does reduce the likelihood that many people will understand what you say, though we certainly do have regular visitors here who are fluent in a great many languages.  As a rule, as I'm sure you know, English is the lingua franca of the Internet purely for reasons of convenience; no value-judgements are implied.  I regret that I have no Swedish; though I did learn Icelandic for a while, long ago, I have forgotten the little that I once knew!

Malcolm