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Learning swedish so I can talk to my gf | ||
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| David_Schmavid Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5693 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes | Message 1 of 3 17 September 2010 at 11:18am | IP Logged |
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my girlfriend is English but has swedish family and has lived and worked there for a year. she has a good grasp of the language. I want to learn the language so that we can
hold conversations on literature, art, politics, and mostly, to say shitty things about people we don't like at parties in front of them. my main problems come from structuring my learning so that I have incremental goals other than 'spend this amount of time studying every day', which I already do. What would be better would be to benchmark myself against someone that is good at learning, so that they can say 'after four months i knew most adjective declensions, xxx vocabulary' and such, and to have an idea in which order i ought to learn things. The latter of these is because i am an extremely impulsive person and often abandon one thing for somethign else on a whim, for instance, I have a very difficult time making sure I go through Anki on a regular basis.I need to be able to tell myself 'no, you need to do this first'. here's what I do and have done so far: at present I commute four hours a day on the bus, in that time i spend between 1 and 3 hours reading 'Swedish in Three Months' - though this has only been for 2 weeks. Im reading paul auster at teh minute and its hard to put down. I try to put some of the words from this into anki but I am slacking on supplementing my knowledge of words with flashcard type learning. I visited the country with my girlfriend, but barely learnt anything as I had just started. I had done the first 11 lessons of a Swedish Pimsleur course i torrented. Ive not returned to the pimsleur course. I've also finished unit one (each unit is divided into four) of Swedish on Rosetta Stone, which I have lessons 1-3 of. I want to get this on a laptop so that when I work I can put in another half hour at lunch as I definitely find rosetta stone most useful, but my current working conditions mean im generally too tired when I get home at seven thirty (i leave at 6.30am) to want to sit in front of a pc another hour. I would like more audio courses, but I haven't the money to pay a premium for them. any suggestions as to how I can approach that problem are much appreciated, if not I would appreciate any advice on which are the best audio courses to pay for. My girlfriend also records sentences from things we've done together. I see her about 4 days a month as we live in different parts of the country. When we're apart I ask her to make me vocabulary tapes with sentences covering things we have done 'we drove to london in my mother's car' etc. - vi kor till london i min mohr's bil' (im guessing at till here as i have forgotten) It would be useful If i coudl get her to send me other things as we dont see much of one another. I had thought she could send me key words and phrases from the Swedish in THree Months book, so i have supplemented the words with audio - the L-R method. I'd also like to find simple reading material that is in swedish on one side and English on another, that she could read for me and i could listen to at work. The trouble is how best to do this, for instance, should she read it in English then read it in swedish, or just in swedish so I can listen whilst i read both the English and swedish translation. also - i had meant to cut the audio she sends me up in Audacity, so that it resembles the pimsleur learning style more, but it is difficult to find the time to do that, so i would like to know how necessary that is. To use my previous example I would cut her vocabulary up so that the mp3 played like this; 'we drove 'vi kor' 'we drove to london' 'vi drove till london' 'drove' 'kor' 'car' 'bil' 'how do you say " a car' 'en bil' how do you say 'a black car' 'en svarta bil' (again a guess) how do you say 'black' 'svart' and 'car' 'bil' etc. etc. Any suggestions from the more experienced as to how I can tie up these threads into a coherent learning structure is very much appreciated. Edited by David_Schmavid on 17 September 2010 at 1:59pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5860 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes  Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 2 of 3 17 September 2010 at 1:50pm | IP Logged |
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You'll probably find the program GradInt very useful.
This will take the sentences your girlfriend records and automatically make a series of Pimsleur style lessons out of them. I've found it very useful for revising phrases for an exam that I have coming up. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| David_Schmavid Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5693 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes | Message 3 of 3 17 September 2010 at 1:56pm | IP Logged |
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thanks so much for that it looks brilliant.
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