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Learning Swedish in Sweden
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roxgirl_germany said on January 26, 2003 14:11:
Hej alla!
I was wondering if some of you out there have already travelled to Sweden to go to a summer course there to learn Swedish.
I’d like to do that this summer and I am not quite sure where to register.
My previous knowledge of Swedish is not good enough to meet www.si.se ’s requirements, I’m afraid.
- www.uiss.org sounds good.
- www.glossa-sweden.com could be nice as well.
www.folkuniversitetet.se only has 5 lessons a day, that could be more.
I would be really grateful if any of you out there could tell me about other possibilities or report about their experiences. Maybe someone has already been to one of these places?
Thank you in advance. Tack så mycket för er hjälp!
Santi said on January 27, 2003 20:49:
I studied Swedish in Sweden during my stay in Södertörns Högskola in Huddinge, and it was by Folkuniversitetet. In fact the University had an agreement with this insitution to teach Swedish to the exchange students.
Anyway I have to say that it was wonderful, I’ve never had so much fun in a lesson :D
My teacher, Mattias Nilsson, is one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met :D Could speak Swedish (all the lessons were in Swedish), English, French, German and even Spanish. Was an ex-amateur singer and someone who really knew how to teach.
The courses in Sweden are all pretty expensive, but I think it’s worthwhile. And being there you don’t really need to be in a classroom the whole day. You can learn Swedish in the country, if you have time you’ll realise is such a wonderful country, you’ll want more Sweden after you leave it.
Santi said on January 28, 2003 14:23:
Because if they also know English... German + English + strange accent = Swedish...
Also it’s a pretty easy language to learn, more than any romanic or slavonic language at least.
roxgirl_germany said on January 28, 2003 20:20:
@Santi: Thanks. ;-)
@Stormkeeper: I like the language and would like to improve my knowledge of it.
Anarem said on January 29, 2003 03:10:
Swedish is a relatively easy language to learn, it’s easier than German, but harder than Spanish, I find. The only difficult things are the intonations and the articles (en? ett? Gahhh!!!!).
Santi said on January 29, 2003 09:10:
Do you find Spanish easy? :o I guess pronunciation is pretty plain and simple (they copied it from basque back in the middle ages :D) but with all the verb endings, all the synonims that you can say the same thing in 10 different ways and so on... I dunno, I find it’s pretty hard... not for me anyway, since I’ve always spoken it :D
Anarem said on January 30, 2003 04:41:
I guess I find Spanish relatively easy because I speak French fluently... once you’ve got a Romance language under your belt, it’s easier to acquire another one. :-) I know this Portuguese woman at work who can speak Spanish, Italian and of course, Portuguese. :-)
Santi said on January 30, 2003 08:28:
I also speak Italian and Catalan (that is another romance language), and I don’t have problems understanding Portuguese (reading it and listening with Brazilian accent) nor french. But with Romanian I have real problems :D (and with some italian dialects)
Jud (moderator) said on January 30, 2003 09:01:
hihi it is true with the Romanian languages. I also speak Spanish and Catalan and I can perfectly speak with an Italian (not knowing a lot of it, just some words) and be understood/understand :P
French is a bit more difficult because of the accent when speaking, as well as Portuguese, but reading is also easy.
And Swedish is easy, yeah, mmm this with the ett, en.. you just have to learn the words :P
German, which I am studying right now, is soo difficult.. i got the trick already with the way they make sentences (verb in position 2 or in the end) but what kills me are the genres :(
It is difficult for me to learn what is femenin, masculin or neutrum when in Spanish we also have femenin and masculin, and they don’t match with German :/ Like chair, in Spanish/Catalan it is LA silla (fem) and in German DER Stuhl (mask).... so i have to learn all the genres of aaall the words..except for the few rulez that apply...sigh.
Our teacher was joking the other day, she said that you can speak English in 3 months, French in 3 years, and German in 30!! and then she added “but the person who wrote this theory didn’t think of studying a Slovakisch” :D
I would love to have learnt more languages when I was younger, now it is a bit more difficult to get them in my head, since I luv it!!
Santi said on January 30, 2003 09:52:
@Judith: All Germanic languages with the exception of English are considered to be V2 (verb second position) languages :D Even Swedish :p
Just see this:
- Han blev kung
- Sedan hans fader omkom blev han kung.
:p I also had to learn the trick for Swedish, but I won’t learn German, never :DDD (too difficult :p)
roxgirl_germany said on January 30, 2003 22:21:
I learned Spanish as well and the trickiest part for me was to make sure not to mix in French or confuse things with French. ;)
The 3 difficult things about Spanish are (IMHO):
- difference between ser/estar
- imperfecto/indefinido
- bloody subjuntivo
I wish I had more opportunity to study or practice - my Spanish went quite downhill...
Starrox said on January 30, 2003 22:56:
@roxgirl_germany: Yeah, I know what you mean! I always had problems with mixing both languages when I had to write a test... I simply couldn’t come up with the word I needed in the language I wrote the test in, only the other...
I had six years of Spanish in school, but after I left school I didn’t have enough practice, so unfortunately I forgot a lot! French is even worse...
Anarem said on February 1, 2003 07:02:
for me, another hard part about Spanish was the “por” y “para”. I know on paper, it’s straightforward, but in practice...
roxgirl_germany said on February 1, 2003 07:15:
@Starrox: Hm, yes, in tests, etc., you always come up with the correct word - just in the wrong language... ;-)))
Schmetterling said on February 1, 2003 13:03:
I learned Swedish at folkuniversitetet when I first came here and I think it was pretty good....
roxmyworld said on February 5, 2003 20:10:
i went to sweden last year for the summer.my cousin lives there and she tried to teach me some swedish but i really couldn‘t get anything.i bought
pearls of passion(because here you can‘t find rox
cds)and i tried to buy a guitar but the guy couldn‘t
understand me and my cousin had to translate everything i said...it was really embarrasing!
then,at her house,she was talking with her boyfriend in swedish and i thought it was really
romantic,until they fought...the worst thing happened when we had dinner in a restaurant.the
menu was in swedish,and i asked for the first thing
i saw and it was really horrible.i went to the bathroom and a woman talked to me,but i couldn‘t understand her so i went away without saying a word,and i told mi cousin i wanted to go home.we went to buy fast food (something i could eat ,by the way)and the shop assistant didn‘t understand me so i started insulting him in spanish,saying things like you re a son of...)and he understood what i was saying and he laughed.i stared at him and he said :que va a ordenar señorita?i looked at my cousin and she said:dos ordenes de hamburguesa y papas fritas,con dos gaseosas.and
she laughed.
i didn‘t have a great time there that monthbut this year i hope i‘ll have it
roxmyworld said on February 5, 2003 20:23:
yo hablo español y que?me gusta mucho pero tampoco soy fan de mi idioma...yo tengo problemas con lo que nos enseñan en las
clases de lenguaje y gramatica asi que ya me los imagino a ustedes (jiji):-)
Jud (moderator) said on January 26, 2003 14:32:
hej
I asked my friend but she found all the info thru the Swedish institute, she had already learnt swedish for a while in Spain :/