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| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4291 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 1 of 9 24 May 2013 at 9:16am | IP Logged | ||
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What would be rigourous Swedish grammar books for self-learning, and if possible
standardised with the European Language Framework (A1, A2, B1, etc.)? Grammar books meaning with technical grammatical terminology and usage with exercises. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6910 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 9 24 May 2013 at 4:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I remember these two titles from the library:
Swedish: A Comprehensive Grammar Swedish: An Essential Grammar I'm sure either one covers a lot more than you need for the lower CEFR levels. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| caam_imt Triglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4863 days ago 232 posts - 357 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, Finnish Studies: German, Swedish | Message 3 of 9 24 May 2013 at 6:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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"Essential Swedish Grammar" by Julian Granberry seems to be quite basic, enough for
the lower levels.I haven't seen any grammar book out there that is specially tailored at a specific CEFR level. By the way Jeff, I was thinking of buying an all-encompassing grammar for Swedish. Since I don't want many grammar books in my shelf, do you think this one might be enough for intermediate and upper levels? Note: I tried to link to an Amazon website, but the button that makes the hyperlink clickable doesn't seem to work if the link is too long. Am I doing smth wrong? Edited by caam_imt on 24 May 2013 at 7:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6660 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 4 of 9 24 May 2013 at 7:39pm | IP Logged | ||
That book is written for native speakers so it might be hard to grasp unless you have a fairly good understanding of how Swedish works. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| caam_imt Triglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4863 days ago 232 posts - 357 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, Finnish Studies: German, Swedish | Message 5 of 9 24 May 2013 at 7:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, I know. I don't intend to use it as a stand alone grammar for self study, but as a
reference only. I have done the same with German (Duden - Die Grammatik) and I like it when all info is contained in one neat book. I was wondering if the book I mentioned is similar in scope, I don't necessarily need extremely simple explanations. In that way it could also be useful when I'm at an advanced stage. But yeah, the OP asked for self-learning grammar books, so I get your comment. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4291 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 6 of 9 24 May 2013 at 10:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I do not mind such advanced books, but only for later. I cannot afford an intensive class
due to time and cost, so I have to teach myself. But if I do, I usually try to compare to the European Framework 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4291 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 7 of 9 26 May 2013 at 4:21am | IP Logged | ||
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Would those books also be good for foundation for the TISUS?
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| kaptengröt Tetraglot Groupie Sweden Joined 4339 days ago 92 posts - 163 votes Speaks: English*, Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic Studies: Japanese | Message 8 of 9 27 May 2013 at 7:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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"A Concise Swedish Grammar" is the best I've ever seen in English. It quite literally is a very concise grammar book, that covers tricky points for English speakers as well. It's also offered in other languages, but I don't know how good those ones are.
Edit: err, oj. I would ignore all grammar exercises and simply talk to real Swedes in Swedish, trust me, they can understand insane grammar and vocabulary mistakes. I learned Swedish quite decently through learning very basic grammar and then playing various videogames and watching Pokemon and Sailor Moon in Swedish, and talking with Swedes... By the time I felt like I needed to know very detailed grammar, I could read it all in Swedish - but that Concise Swedish Grammar book does cover detailed grammar as far as I remember. To be honest, there is not much grammar in the Swedish language (to me anyway). Once you're in B or C level, you're actually just learning phrases and not grammar. Edited by kaptengröt on 27 May 2013 at 7:29pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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