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| hradska Diglot Newbie Sweden Joined 6058 days ago 16 posts - 17 votes Speaks: Czech*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 1 of 3 27 February 2008 at 4:15pm | IP Logged |
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Hi I am new to this forum. :)
I am currently studying Swedish, I have good basics, but still a long way to go. I have heard of a man who learned a language every 6 months by reading newspapers in the target language every day. (I am not sure how he practiced his speaking, but he got the understanding of the language structure from reading the papers). So I started doing this, but since newspapers contain a lot of articles that I am not interested in in my native language either (Czech), I get bored and dont really focus on what I am reading. Yesterday I started reading about lucid dreams in Swedish (a subject that I know a lot about) and even though I didnt understand most of the words in the articles, I knew what the writer is saying (because I know the subject). So I was wonderring, does anyone have any experience from learning a language by reading about subjects he/she knows well, over and over? Say if I read every day about lucid dreams, politics and society (subjects I know) and I read them over and over, will I get the understanding of the grammar structure of the language (without studying the grammar in details) and how long do you think would such learning take? Any opinions? :) Hugs 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| taKen Tetraglot Senior Member Norway mindofthelinguist.woRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6060 days ago 176 posts - 210 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Dutch, French Studies: German, Icelandic | Message 2 of 3 04 March 2008 at 1:04pm | IP Logged |
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Some things you simply can't learn just by reading. I'm a Norwegian and understand about 95 % of all my Swedish input (whenever I buy a magazine/talk with a Swede). It is possible to get the grammar after extensive reading, I've done the same with my studies of Dutch. If you'd be interested in some help with your Swedish, or some explanation of the culture, just PM me. :-)
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| hradska Diglot Newbie Sweden Joined 6058 days ago 16 posts - 17 votes Speaks: Czech*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 3 of 3 05 March 2008 at 3:27am | IP Logged |
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Thank you! :) I will ad you to my Skype contacts!:) I am gonna give it an intense try now, I have to learn the language in some intense way... And this sounds intense enough :)
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