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| DNB Bilingual Triglot Groupie Finland Joined 4891 days ago 47 posts - 80 votes  Speaks: Finnish*, Estonian*, English | Message 1 of 5 14 October 2011 at 10:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello,
As some of you might now, Swedish is a compulsory school subject in my home country. I have now 'studied' it for 5 years yet I can barely tell about my basic activities and thoughts. The schoolbooks are absolutely mindblowingly terrible and obnoxious — Everything is so disorganized, memorizing of countless meaningless phrases is encouraged instead of actual understanding et cetera, so that's why I'm making this thread. What I'm looking for is a book in English that contains all the basics of the Swedish grammar from beginner to at least an intermediate level. I don't want flashy pictures, irrelevant fill-in exercises or audio dialogues, just what I'll summarize below: 1) Detailed grammar points divided into different categories in the book 2) Relevant example sentences for each point That's all. I have tried Googling and searching from Amazon, but so far I'm not convinced with the results, so I hope to get some inquiry by writing this thread, Thank you Edit: Looks like I input wrong keywords last time, since now I found this ( http://www.amazon.com/Swedish-Essential-Grammar-Grammars/dp/ 0415458005/ref=sr_1_2? ie=UTF8&qid=1318624901&sr=8-2 ), which looks pretty solid. Other suggestions are still welcome. Edited by DNB on 14 October 2011 at 10:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6664 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 2 of 5 14 October 2011 at 11:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Have you looked at what grammars are used in Finish Universities when teaching Swedish?
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| DNB Bilingual Triglot Groupie Finland Joined 4891 days ago 47 posts - 80 votes Speaks: Finnish*, Estonian*, English | Message 3 of 5 14 October 2011 at 11:21pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm sure they vary depending on the university, but even so I would rather learn from an English book since the languages are much more similar, allowing me to relate into it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6914 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 5 15 October 2011 at 9:04am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't have it in front of me, but I remember that this is very detailed (and one of the titles our library carries):
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| DNB Bilingual Triglot Groupie Finland Joined 4891 days ago 47 posts - 80 votes Speaks: Finnish*, Estonian*, English | Message 5 of 5 15 October 2011 at 8:14pm | IP Logged | ||
Alright, thanks — Although expensive, that one looks promising as well. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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