P0nd3r Bilingual Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5205 days ago 30 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English*, Persian* Studies: Swedish, Japanese
| Message 1 of 6 14 December 2010 at 3:16am | IP Logged |
Hey guys, I just want to say to all the Swedish speakers out there, you're language is THE shit. As in, so awesome I just might save up money to go on vacation to Sweden for 2 months.
Excuse me for my language, I just wanted to get that off my chest on the internet.
Ok, so, I was curious to know if there is any kind of .pdf files with Swedish vocabulary or words that I can start learning and starting pronouncing etc. Thought I'd get a head start at speaking.
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JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5398 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech
| Message 2 of 6 14 December 2010 at 5:23am | IP Logged |
I don't know about PDF's or the like, but I just bought Hugo's Swedish in 3 months on half.com for under 5 dollars. There's quite a bit of stuff on there that is relatively inexpensive, you might check it out.
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Gosiak Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5127 days ago 241 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Norwegian, Welsh
| Message 3 of 6 14 December 2010 at 9:57am | IP Logged |
Check this list of podcasts:
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=24101&PN=1
Good luck!
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FrostBlast Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5100 days ago 168 posts - 254 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Icelandic
| Message 4 of 6 14 December 2010 at 2:15pm | IP Logged |
Here's an online dictionary I've been using for years.
http://lexin2.nada.kth.se/swe-eng.html
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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 5 of 6 14 December 2010 at 7:48pm | IP Logged |
You'll find a lot of information in these threads:
Are there any good Swedish courses?
Scandinavian/Nordic language resources
FSI Swedish
Where to start with Swedish
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doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5987 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese
| Message 6 of 6 15 December 2010 at 7:27pm | IP Logged |
There's some stuff that I didn't see in the mentioned links that might be useful. Firstly if you want an easy audiobook, I can recommend two: Paulo Coelho's "The Alchemist" ("Alkemisten" in swedish) is easy to read and has a great swedish audiobook. John Boyne's "The boy in the striped pyjamas" ("Pojken i randig pyjamas") is also very easy to read and has an excellent swedish audiobook. All available on bokus.com.
Since you specifically asked about PDFs of vocabulary, I must recommend http://www.swedex.info/dok/flik4/swe_alf_feb21.pdf, which is an extensive list of basic swedish words, and each one has one or more easy example sentences. I found it very helpful when I started.
My favourite dictionary site is here: http://www.ord.se/oversattning/engelska/, which also has tons of examples.
You may wish to also look around for "Avatar: the last airbender", an animated series with a good swedish dub available. 3 seasons x 20 half-hour episodes.
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