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| ericdyn Newbie United States Joined 4061 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 6 19 October 2013 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm trying to learn Swedish and, being a university student, I don't really have the money to spend on language
learning materials so I'm going the way of FSI courses. Unfortunately, I have to idea what an effective way to use the course would be. If someone could attempt to explain it to me I'd be incredibly grateful. Edited by ericdyn on 20 October 2013 at 2:05am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kaptengröt Tetraglot Groupie Sweden Joined 4338 days ago 92 posts - 163 votes  Speaks: English*, Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic Studies: Japanese | Message 2 of 6 20 October 2013 at 10:16am | IP Logged | ||
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Really sorry about that, I clicked "create new thread" but for some reason it made me post in your thread instead.
The way I learnt Swedish (not to say that i am fluent, but i'm conversationally fluent in listening and reading so that's something) was to use the book "A Concise Swedish Grammar" (hint: PM me) and tyda.se and just start reading random stuff. However I also had Swedes I could ask for help. If you want to do conversation practice and ask for help and so on, you can add me to Skype (I'm almost always online) and if I don't know something I can ask a native or look it up. I can also translate stuff and so on if you ever need it. I live in Sweden so I can also give you photos with Swedish text etc. I'm also completely willing to write lessons just for you, so don't worry about that. I also make vocabulary lists on Memrise sometimes, like I have one for the Neon Genesis Evangelion manga in Swedish. If you use tumblr you can contact/follow me at: http://magipojken.tumblr.com/ (my "whatever" blog which turns out to be nordic language stuff mostly) http://plumbroth.tumblr.com/ (my blog for living in sweden) http://hvitumavar.tumblr.com/ (my blog for old nordic stuff, sometimes swedish, sometimes with swedish-english translations) http://tipsforlanguagelearning.tumblr.com/ (not swedish-specific but my tips for ex. how to study or which firefox add-ons are useful) http://read-listen-study.tumblr.com/ (my blog for "text and audio in foreign language, translation in English" which needs encouragement or i'll think no one cares and never update it) Then, my memrise profile: http://www.memrise.com/user/Risgrynsgroet/ My lists don't have audio but I could easily get a friend to record all the words, so if there is some swedish list you are interested in learning from of mine (except I don't have genders written because i don't need them/don't care and just mess up and learn by being corrected, but i could add them in), just ask and i can get someone to record then insert the audio Edited by kaptengröt on 20 October 2013 at 10:19am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kaptengröt Tetraglot Groupie Sweden Joined 4338 days ago 92 posts - 163 votes Speaks: English*, Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic Studies: Japanese | Message 3 of 6 20 October 2013 at 10:21am | IP Logged | ||
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Edit: Jeeze, it did it again. I guess I can't post new threads for now or it will always go into your thread. Edited by kaptengröt on 20 October 2013 at 10:22am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4707 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 4 of 6 20 October 2013 at 12:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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To answer your question: I am a (more or less) fluent speaker of Swedish and I used FSI.
What I did was to repeat the audio texts and drills out loud. OUT LOUD! I also made wordlists (Iversen-style) of the new vocabulary in each chapter. I did one unit a week. In 4 months I was more or less conversational. After two more months I was more or less fluent (by basic fluency standards). I've improved a bit on that. FSI works. It's just boring, but it will automatise your responses very well. One thing I loved about using it for Swedish is that I can automatically answer anything in Swedish using a more-or-less correct grammatical structure without having to think twice. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4144 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 5 of 6 20 October 2013 at 1:08pm | IP Logged | ||
When you say that you did one unit a week, did you repeat the same lesson every day for a week? I'm currently using FSI for Spanish, but it's a cheat, since I'm already an intermediate speaker. I just like using it for automaticity. But I've been wondering how people use it when they're completely new to the language. Thanks! For what it's worth, this is how I use FSI: - listen to the first dialogue while reading along with the text - run through the entire lesson (conversation, audio drills, etc) - repeating/answering out loud - read through the lesson in the book, noting any new vocab or grammatical structures (adding stuff to anki when appropriate) - repeat as necessary 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4707 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 6 of 6 20 October 2013 at 1:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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I did what you did, except substitute wordlists for Anki. If I noted problems with a
particular construction (I often had it with participles or remembering irregular verbs in Swedish) then I'd do them more often. The Swedish lessons are huge though. I never repeated whole lessons, only particular subdrills if I felt my responses were not automatic enough. It works cos I speak Swedish. Edited by tarvos on 20 October 2013 at 1:22pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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