Oral Transmission and “Rida Rida Ranka”

I would like to use an example. I am a 3rd generation American of Swedish ancestry. When I was young, my father would say a Swedish nursery rhyme to me. He could not speak Swedish, although he knew more Swedish than myself. He learned it from his father who knew Swedish somewhat but not fluently, …

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