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| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4888 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 17 of 22 26 November 2011 at 11:27am | IP Logged | ||
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Ooh yes yes psy88 please do have at least a dabble at Swedish!! I'm thoroughly enjoying the language :o) altho it's much easier (for me at least) to read it, it's very satisfying when I actually understand it when being spoken, especially when watching Wallander with English subs and realising that what is being said is different from what has been translated lol. Plus it's a great excuse to re-watch episodes of True Blood to hear Swedish occasionally being spoken lol :p
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 18 of 22 03 December 2011 at 5:36am | IP Logged | ||
Thanks for the encouragement. You motivated me to explore it further and I am becoming more certain that it will be the next language I attempt when I am done with the French materials I am using. In high school I had studied Latin and French (two years each); in university I did three years of Italian; and on my own Spanish and now French. Yes, all Romance languages. I have been considering a non-Romance language and Swedish is appealing to me more and more. Although it will be a while yet, what materials would you recommend? What resources have you found useful? Thank you in advance for any advice you have for me. PS What is Wallander? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6659 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 19 of 22 03 December 2011 at 1:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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Wallander is a «deckare».
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| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4888 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 20 of 22 03 December 2011 at 2:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Psy88, great to have a possible convert ;o) lol. I started off with watching a few youtube "how to" videos and learnt to count etc whilst waiting for a book to arrive. I love the Hugo "In 3 Months" books as I feel they give a great basic knowledge from which to build on so I used that one plus I bought the 301 (?) verbs book. It's a white cover and you should spot it easily on an Amazon search. You might be able to watch some Swedish tv on the SVT website. It's kinds hit and miss tho lol, at least in the UK, as quite a lot of the shows can't be viewed outside of Sweden; but there are some which are ok to watch :o) The Essential Grammar book is also pretty good too - by McGraw and Hill I think... It's a light blue colour.
Wallander is a Swedish crime drama based on a series of books by Henning Menkel. There are quite a few of them now and are I think mostly between 90 mins and 120 mins. A book (novel) I found pretty easy to read was a teen fiction by Johanna Thydel so you might want to start with one of her books. I was reading it after about 2 months of study and altho I didn't understand a lot of individual words, I found it pretty easy to get the gist of it and also to learn quiet a few words and phrases by their context. Let me know how it goes!! :o) Good luck if you do decide to take it on :o) x 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 21 of 22 06 December 2011 at 2:05am | IP Logged | ||
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WentsworthsGal
Thanks for sharing. I appreciate your help. I think the Hugo is out of print in the US. I am not ready to start now but when I do I will let you know what resources I am using. There does not seem to be too many, as compared to my other target languages.re:Wallander- I am very intrigued and may even look into the novels,but in English :-( 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4888 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 22 of 22 06 December 2011 at 7:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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No probs Psy88 :o)
You can probably get the Hugo books via Amazon in the US. That's where I found one or two of my Hugo books, well, the UK store of Amazon... If you do have trouble getting it in the future, feel free to message me and we can sort something out... Ooh yes, please let me know which resources you decide to use and what they're like :o) Wallander books would probably be quite a good resource as you *might* be able to compare page to page or chapter to chapter of the English version against the Swedish version. Plus the tv series is done in both the original Swedish plus the BBC version in English (which I *think* follows the same storylines). I think I might hit my local library in the new year (or Amazon if cheap enough lol) and get the same book in both languages to give it a try :o) I expect they'll have to order them in for me so fingers crossed lol!! Take care x 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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