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Swedish - here we go now
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Tomboy
Diglot
Newbie
Finland
Joined 5577 days ago
17 posts - 17 votes
Speaks: Finnish*, English
Studies: Swedish

Message 17 of 19

01 September 2009 at 9:18pm | IP Logged

Lingua wrote:

Since you are learning Swedish, I thought you might be interested in learning how my "sambo" is going about it. He decided to learn Swedish a few months ago. I suggested he start by reading an easy book. The book was Pappa Polis by Laura Trenter. We sat down together and he read through the book, reading each sentence aloud and trying to understand it. He would translate each sentence to show understanding, and I would help with the translation when needed. After reading the book he started listening to Swedish radio at work and watching Swedish tv online at home. He is currently reading another book in Swedish, this time alone using a dictionary. His comprehension of spoken Swedish is very good and he is able to carry on basic conversation in Swedish after only a few months of reading and listening to Swedish.

I have thought of starting to read comics in swedish at some point, but first I need to make sure that I understand thoroughly the fundamentals of swedish pronunciation - because I do believe that reading without first understanding those fundamentals, is not the most optimal situation.

But after I've had enough of listening practice under my belt, maybe I'll try start reading. Or then I could try the listen-read method, buy the textbook for which I have the audiobook and read it while I listen to the audiobook. Yeah, there are many option, but at the moment I'm sticking with my textbooks until my active and passive vocabulary has increased dramatically, and also my ears have been somewhat trained to the sound of Swedish.

So today was a lazy day for me, I studied only a little bit and didn't learn more than about 10 new words. But to my defence, I had schoolworks to do and stuff...

Well, tomorrow's gonna be different - I bet.
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Lingua
Decaglot
Senior Member
United States
Joined 5574 days ago
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Speaks: English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish, French, Norwegian, Portuguese, Dutch

Message 18 of 19

02 September 2009 at 1:42am | IP Logged

Tomboy wrote:

... at the moment I'm sticking with my textbooks until my active and passive vocabulary has increased dramatically, and also my ears have been somewhat trained to the sound of Swedish.

That sounds good. It's good that you have all those textbooks available.

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Tomboy
Diglot
Newbie
Finland
Joined 5577 days ago
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Speaks: Finnish*, English
Studies: Swedish

Message 19 of 19

03 September 2009 at 7:39pm | IP Logged

I actually like the swedish classes alot. The teacher speaks alot of swedish and I like that. She also seems really nice, and that is always good. Helps me keep up my motivation to study swedish! What else... Well the second week of school has almost come to an end. So far everything's been good - not too much homework to do so I have time to spend on studying swedish every day.

And yeah, things are looking good generally. Nothing else to say really.

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