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| hazylynx Newbie England Joined 5747 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 1 of 24 02 March 2009 at 5:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Greetings people this is my first post..
I've decided to honour my heritage and learn the language of my great grand father.. i'm going to be using Rosetta stone to learn swedish and i'm wondering if anyone has used rosetta before and can recommend it as it costs a fair bit.. look forward to hearing from somone.. Thomas 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6143 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 2 of 24 03 March 2009 at 12:52am | IP Logged | ||
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For a language that it that similar to English, I would not recommend Rosetta Stone. In my opinion, it is good, but I think that it is overpriced. How soon do you want to know Swedish? Is it for a specific event (a trip to Sweden, for example), or just for fun? If you need to know it quickly, then I suppose RS might be alright. However, I do believe that self-study would be less expensive and potentially just as efficient. LiveMocha (www.LiveMocha.com) should be releasing a Swedish course in the near future. Their courses are free and are very good. There is also a bounty of books to learn Swedish--try the "Teach Yourself Series;" it's generally very good. I hope this helps!
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| joha87 Newbie United States Joined 5747 days ago 14 posts - 21 votes Studies: Korean, English* Studies: German | Message 3 of 24 03 March 2009 at 6:04am | IP Logged | ||
Rosetta stone is good as a vocab builder, but that's about it. It's not worth buying and you can probably use it for free at the library.
Not to take away from the helpfulness of your advice in any way, but I would put a counter-recommendation on Teach yourself Swedish. Usually the TY series is pretty good, but I've got only bad reviews on the Swedish one. The Colloquial Swedish colloquial swedish is better and is the one I'm using right now. There's also the FSI Swedishfsi swedish that you can download for free, but it's a little hard for a beginner so it might be better to run through after finishing colloquial, if you want a review. If you need more help with grammar or want a more comprehensive look at the language, I heard this book Essentials of swedish grammar is nice. When you're done, just read swedish news articles and listen to swedish radio, to get used to reading and hearing swedish. Livemocha.com is a good place to look for language exchange partners to start practicing speaking it and their courses are a lot like rosetta stone,I've heard, so if they release a swedish one, you can use that a vocab builder. Edit: huh, I guess linking to Amazon and the digitized fsi project site is considered spam. Edited by joha87 on 03 March 2009 at 6:09am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Frost Newbie United States Joined 5804 days ago 27 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Norwegian, Faroese, Greek | Message 4 of 24 03 March 2009 at 6:19am | IP Logged | ||
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It's okay, joha. That frightened me the first time too. Since that is your first post, you can still post relevant URLs but you cannot directly link to another site using BBCode.
Personally, I'm a big fan of the Linguaphone series and there is a course on Swedish. It is a tad pricey but I believe it's worth it. Good luck with Swedish. :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tyr Senior Member Sweden Joined 5783 days ago 316 posts - 384 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish | Message 5 of 24 03 March 2009 at 9:38am | IP Logged | ||
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Pimsleur is good for basics, easily available too. The only trouble is its very short and just gives you some bare basics.
I'm still looking for a better method to try and cram Swedish into my head. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jimbo baby! Senior Member United States Joined 5978 days ago 202 posts - 208 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* | Message 6 of 24 03 March 2009 at 2:29pm | IP Logged | ||
AHAHAHAHA! ;-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6004 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German | Message 7 of 24 09 March 2009 at 2:34am | IP Logged | ||
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So... Since this thread is already about learning Swedish...
Anyone mind making it a Swedish resources dump? By this I mean where one can get texts and audio and all sorts of goodies in and about Swedish. I'd be especially interested in Swedish music that's actually in Swedish, as all of the Swedish music I've found yet (before I started studying it) is in English. Anyways, that would help me greatly, I've got Pimsleur and FSI, but I'd like to find some texts (maybe parallel?) that would be good for a learner, or a good source of audio (like a streaming radio broadcast, maybe?). If it's convenient for you to drop that stuff off here, I'm a student and thus should be doing other things when I'm studying Swedish instead :( Boo School! Thanks in advance! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| severian Diglot Newbie Sweden Joined 5780 days ago 20 posts - 20 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, French | Message 8 of 24 09 March 2009 at 8:59am | IP Logged | ||
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Are you talking about piratebay.org :p
Well I figure you haven't missed on www.svtplay.se Swedish TV programs in internet. anytime.tv4.se another online TV, more entertaining, some are not free. Look for the tab "Gratis" for free stuff. playrapport.se for News http://www.sr.se/ for Radio Easy Swedish for the learning pupil: http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/p4/klartext/artikel.asp?nyheter=1&P rogramID=493&artikel=184871 http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/p4/klartext/laddaner.asp?ProgramID= 493 Edited by severian on 09 March 2009 at 9:41am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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