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| snoogles Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 5817 days ago 24 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English, French*, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 17 of 29 31 July 2008 at 6:21am | IP Logged |
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LanguageGeek, Darobat, let me know how you guys are doing as you go through TYS. It'd be interesting to compare our progress.
Do you have any specific recommendations for Swedish podcasts that I could listen to on my iPod, and streaming radio that I could just start and listen to indefinitely? So far I'm doing okay, but not wonderfully. I've been doing at least some Swedish everyday. My SRS gets reviewed punctually, and I generally get in a lesson of Rosetta Stone everty day. My study of Assimil, on the other hand, is a lot less consistent. I'm up to lesson 18 and I'm enjoying it, but what I really need is someone to give me a good kick in the pants and make sure that I do it daily instead of watching old episodes of One Tree Hill on my laptop. Anybody interested in being my kick-in-the-pants Swedish study buddy? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| snoogles Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 5817 days ago 24 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English, French*, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 18 of 29 08 August 2008 at 10:28pm | IP Logged |
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Joy and happiness! I have finished Rosetta Stone! It gives a nice sense of achievement, even though I really enjoyed working through it, and wish there levels 2 and 3 were available in Swedish.
I've started downloading Swedish movies and watching them at night. I'm able to pick some words and simple phrase. I've heard "Jag vet inte", for example, enough times in the movie f**king Åmål to never forget it. I've also given up on watching One Tree Hill, mostly because I found out the couple I was rooting for doesn't get together. So... now I have a lot more free time to devote to language study! Maybe I'll take another at FSI again. The dialogue is still way to fast for me to understand without reading it at the same time. However, I do love the drills. I think that if I can get past the feeling that I need to know the dialogue before moving on to the next lesson, I'll really be able to get the most benefit from that course. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Eduard Decaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5836 days ago 166 posts - 170 votes  2 sounds Speaks: Dutch*, NorwegianC1, Swedish, Danish, English, German, ItalianB1, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, French Studies: Portuguese | Message 19 of 29 09 August 2008 at 8:36am | IP Logged |
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With regard to watching DVDs, try to buy some Swedish films on the Swedish market (for example www.cdon.com). Check if they have both Swedish and English subtitles so you can choose which to use.
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| snoogles Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 5817 days ago 24 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English, French*, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 20 of 29 24 August 2008 at 10:54am | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the advice Eduard!
I'm extremely busy right now, preparing to move to France where I'll be studying on an exchange program for a year. My Swedish progress is slow, but very steady. I'm far from studying as much as I need to to achieve my goal, but I'm hoping that as I start school again, I'll get in the rythm of studying regularly, and that my language learning will follow suit. I've started looking at FSI again, and it seems a lot more approachable now that I have some foundations. Rosetta Stone was tremendously helpful at painlessly teaching me some basic vocabulary and sentence structure. I highly recommend it to anyone who is amenable to being taken by the hand and gently led through the basics of their target language. There have been lots of criticisms of RS in this forum, some of which are right. Nobody is going to become fluent just by using RS. However, it, along with a dozen lessons of Pimsleur, have allowed the language to seem a lot less daunting. I will definitely be using these methods again, with my next language, and I think it's a shame that they are not available at a higher level for Swedish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| snoogles Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 5817 days ago 24 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English, French*, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 21 of 29 18 December 2008 at 8:18am | IP Logged |
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So... It's been a while. The good news is, while I've been slacking to an extent that can only be described as "hardcore", I've managed to keep the little Swedish I have alive, and even improve!
It's been a busy 4 months as I've moved to France and started studying at one of the more intense science schools in the country. The even better news is that this school has an exchange program with Uppsala in Sweden, which means that they offer a language class. I jumped in halfway through, and had no trouble catching up to the class. I have a lot on my plate with studying for my biology exams, but I'm hoping that I can manage to motivate myself a little more as the New Year rolls around. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| snoogles Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 5817 days ago 24 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English, French*, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 22 of 29 16 July 2010 at 7:10pm | IP Logged |
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I'm back, and this time I have real motivation: I'm moving to Stockholm from September
to April/May! Although I'll be working in a lab where English and Italian are the main languages, I'll be staying with a Swedish family and already have some Swedish friends, whose social circle I'm planning on stealing. My "progress" since two summers ago: - I've finished the new version of Rosetta Stone which has three levels - I've worked my way through the first tome of Assimil - I've taken a beginner class at my school, which unfortunately didn't teach me anything new - I've L&R part of my favourite book "Parfymen", and part of "Flickan som lekte med elden". - I'm currently feeding the entire lexicon of Assimil into Anki (Swedish -> English) and learning about 100 words per day - I've become addicted to Veronica Maggio and can sing along to a couple of songs - I took the Utbildningar/Sprakkurser/Svenska-Swedish/">Swedish placement test and was told that I'm at a B1 threshold stage. The plan: - Continue with the learning 100 new words a day - Work as quickly as possible through FSI, with most of the emphasis on drills - Move to Sweden and spend as much time as possible with Swedish speakers (NO English!) It's been a busy two years, but not language-learning busy. I hope to hope back on the band-wagon and get some real work done. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| snoogles Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 5817 days ago 24 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English, French*, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 23 of 29 22 July 2010 at 1:08am | IP Logged |
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Countdown to Stockholm: 35 days
My progress over the past 7 days: - 500 new words learned on Anki - FSI lessons 4, 5, 6, and 7 done to completion. My vocabulary learning is going quite well, although I've now burned through all the cards that I'd been adding but not studying during the beginning of my vacation. I have an 8 hour drive (as a passenger) tomorrow, so I'll try to spend as much time as I can adding new vocabulary. I'm also going to relax about adding every single word: the compulsive part of my brain is made very happy by it, but being reminded at regular intervals that akademisk means academic is probably not the best use of my time. FSI is also coming along well. The lessons that I've done so far are familiar, and I find that I can follow along with just the audio. The drills are great (if sometimes a bit boring), in that I practice both speaking and grammar points that I may have noticed, but never spelled out before. Goals for the next 7 days: - Forsätta lära mig hundra nya ord i Anki varje dag (100 new words a day in Anki) - Kompletera 2 lektioner i FSI boken (2 FSI lessons) - Skriva lite i svenska varje dag (Write a little every day) - Läsa 2 artiklar i Svenska Dagbladet (Read 2 articles in the Svenska Dagblad(et)) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| snoogles Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 5817 days ago 24 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English, French*, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 24 of 29 29 July 2010 at 5:55pm | IP Logged |
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Countdown to Stockholm: 27 days
My progress: - Added 600 new flashcars in Anki (mostly Sv->En, with some irregular conjugations thrown in for fun) - Did FSI lessons 7 and 8 - Read an article about asexuality and another on fees that businesses charges to customers paying by credit card FSI is slowly getting harder. Swedish, for all its lack of conjugation, has some really weird rules for adjectives. Almost weirder than French's rules for the passé composé. Almost... I've also found a lovely blog which patiently explains grammar and vocabulary at the reader's request. Goals for the next 7 days: - Complete 2 FSI lessons - Listen to Radio Klartext every weekday - Only add vocabulary to Anki that I naturally would from using the resources above Edited by snoogles on 29 July 2010 at 5:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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