P0nd3r Bilingual Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5205 days ago 30 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English*, Persian* Studies: Swedish, Japanese
| Message 1 of 15 06 March 2011 at 10:22pm | IP Logged |
Started picking up Swedish on high priority because I was busy with school, but Swedish really is one of those languages that sound "foreign" if you know what I mean. I love the words. Words, words, words, words, some have consonants bunched up together and makes it so damn cool and then you have the calmer words that have vowels between them.
Love this language, anyone else studying it?
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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 15 06 March 2011 at 11:14pm | IP Logged |
According to the forum software, 827 forum members speak or study Swedish. Here's an abbreviated list of us:
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/languages.asp?lan guage=11
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elin Newbie Poland Joined 5010 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: Polish* Studies: Swedish
| Message 3 of 15 09 March 2011 at 10:55pm | IP Logged |
I learn swedish for six months. It is very beautiful language and simple to learn.
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WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4889 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish
| Message 4 of 15 08 July 2011 at 9:21pm | IP Logged |
I've been teaching myself Swedish for a couple of months now :o) it's slow going but I'll get there eventually :o) I'm currently reading a Swedish Teenage Novel and although I don't understand all the words, I get the gist of most of it which I'm really pleased about :o) and it's definitely helping me learn :o)
Good luck with your learning x
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arturs Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 5272 days ago 278 posts - 408 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian, English
| Message 5 of 15 09 July 2011 at 7:36am | IP Logged |
I have been learning Swedish for couple of years myself. I really don't know, why I chose it - I just liked it somehow. Maybe because of the Swedish influence of my country - majority of foreign banks and other companies are Scandinavian (that includes Swedish). But I don't really get how is the Swedish language "foreign" to you, since it's a Germanic language, it has tons of words that are the same as in English or similar to them! Anyway, good luck on studying this language. :)
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WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4889 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish
| Message 6 of 15 09 July 2011 at 10:31am | IP Logged |
arturs wrote:
I have been learning Swedish for couple of years myself. I really don't know, why I chose it - I just liked it somehow. Maybe because of the Swedish influence of my country - majority of foreign banks and other companies are Scandinavian (that includes Swedish). But I don't really get how is the Swedish language "foreign" to you, since it's a Germanic language, it has tons of words that are the same as in English or similar to them! Anyway, good luck on studying this language. :) |
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Swedish is a tonal language whereas English is not. Just because two languages stem from the same group - Germanic - doesn't mean you can automatically understand or speak the other languages. It's like saying Italian isn't a foreign language to Spaniards - just crazy! There are many many differences between Swedish and English; the pronounciation, the form, the tone etc. Yes there is an advantage if you know English or German when you learn Swedish, but it is definitely 100% a foreign language.
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arturs Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 5272 days ago 278 posts - 408 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian, English
| Message 7 of 15 09 July 2011 at 11:29am | IP Logged |
WentworthsGal wrote:
arturs wrote:
I have been learning Swedish for couple of years myself. I really don't know, why I chose it - I just liked it somehow. Maybe because of the Swedish influence of my country - majority of foreign banks and other companies are Scandinavian (that includes Swedish). But I don't really get how is the Swedish language "foreign" to you, since it's a Germanic language, it has tons of words that are the same as in English or similar to them! Anyway, good luck on studying this language. :) |
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Just because two languages stem from the same group - Germanic - doesn't mean you can automatically understand or speak the other languages. Yes there is an advantage if you know English or German when you learn Swedish, but it is definitely 100% a foreign language. |
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As you can see in my previous statement I didn't even mention that it is possible to perfectly understand or speak. Practically the whole idea of what I said previously, is in Your last sentence, that English and German are advantages in learning Swedish.
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Himmel Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 5327 days ago 19 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Norwegian, German, Dutch
| Message 8 of 15 11 July 2011 at 1:29am | IP Logged |
I studied Swedish for about year and a half and loved every minute of it! I find it to be one of the most beautiful sounding languages in the world. I prefer the sound of Swedish over Italian by a long shot.
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