I recently highlighted the benefit of watching Swedish TV programs with English subtitiles as a great way to practice understanding Swedish conversation, however I may have found an even better way. Swedish radio offers a daily radio show called “Klartext” that provides world news in easy in understand [...]
Many people know of the website Google Translate, where you are able to translate Swedish to English with ease. Google Translate Swedish is more than just a dictionary because you can translate whole sentences at a time. When I first moved to Sweden, this was an invaluable tool for just trying to operate [...]
I began learning Swedish by checking out audio lessons from my local library. However, I soon realized that if I wanted any chance of learning the language I needed to be able to recognize it in writing and understand the basic grammar rules. I searched through many grammar-readers and eventually found Swedish: An [...]
Livemocha.com is often described as a free alternative to Rosetta Stone. Of course, this is only partially correct. LiveMocha is at the same time more than Rosetta Stone and also less than it. Let me explain. LiveMocha is an online social community targeted only at language learners. Here you can connect [...]
For those who are in Sweden or are planning on moving there, the Swedish government will provide you with free Swedish classes from the beginner to advanced level. The program is called SFI and is coordinated differently depending on what city you live in. Getting involved with this is quite straightforward, however it’s not always [...]
One of the hardest tasks in learning Swedish is being able to follow and participate in conversations. If you live in Sweden then you obviously have many more opportunities for this. For those outside of Sweden, a great exercise is simply watching TV. The Swedish television programs are well produced and often times identical to shows in [...]
I think many of us are very comfortable learning from textbooks from all the years of schooling we received. I have experience with one textbook in particular and have found it to be a good resource. It is actually a series of books called “Rivstart.” These are the books that are used in [...]
Folkets Lexicon – The People’s Dictionary
This dictionary is used by Swedes and non-Swedes equally. In fact, on my first day of Swedish class our teacher told us this should be our primary dictionary. I guess times have changed since I last studied languages in high school. It’s great because it is very [...]
By now, most language learners are aware of the Rosetta Stone software. Their pitch is based on a total immersion system that utilizes pictures to infer the meaning of Swedish words. There is no translations to English, no vocab lists or grammar rules. Of course you learn vocabulary and are exposed to grammar rules but [...]
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