I don't know how many of you are still with me, but I am still enjoying Swedish.
If enough of you have given up, I can start a language learning general rather than these daily Swedish threads. I understand that something like a new Sup Forums lingua franca is a bit ambitious. It is nice learning with a bunch of other people though.
Anyway, if you are still with me, this thread is for discussion in/about the Swedish language. Fluent speakers, correct learners, answer questions, learners, ask questions and practice Swedish.
Share your favorite learning tools.
I'll start it off with a question, what kind of Swedish music do you listen to, if any?
All I can find is old as fuck music or heavy metal, and neither is my favorite kind of music. I'm looking for some alternative rock type of music.
Should be "Jag lär mig svenska" (I'm learning Swedish) or "Jag lär ut svenska" (I'm teaching Swedish).
If you like Vapnet, Check out Laakso, Hästpojken and Kristian Anttila
Feel free to ask a native speaker anything.
Zachary Phillips
It would be great if you could create a Skype group for learning purposes.
Jonathan Murphy
That makes sense, that translates directlz to something like "I learn myself swedish" right?
Thanks for the advice.
Also thanks for the music suggestions, I was hoping to get some native Swedes in here to point me in the right direction.
Henry Perez
'sk' followed by a vowel makes a "hw" sound, right?
James Rogers
>learning swedish voluntarily
Cameron Gomez
What have you guys been using to learn Swedish? Has anyone tried the Duolingo Course?
Justin Wright
>being forced to learn swedish
Anthony Jenkins
Yeah, I'll get on that. I just finished up my duolingo shit for the day. I wanted to make sure people were still on board before I went to far into it.
Far better than some mongol meme language like Finnish.
The duolingo courses are alright, the biggest problem I've run into is they don't really explain any grammar, it's basically all vocab, and vocab being used in example sentences, which might let you sort of absorb the grammar eventually, but I feel duolingo needs to be suplemented with other things.
Brayden Miller
Memrise, Duolingo and sverigetråden
Christopher Davis
Swedish is pretty easy desu, even more so than English. Here's my favorite song in Swedish:
>Swedish is pretty easy desu It really is. Honestly it might be the easiest language to learn as a native English speaker, or for anyone who speaks a Germanic language really. Pronunciation is difficult but other than that it's pretty straight forward.
Ian King
Duolingo is good to start, and they do explain some grammar, in the comments though.
I'm also part of a facebook group where a Swede teacher gives us some grammar and vocabulary notes. Also some website or movies recommendations.
Xavier Martin
Nice, be sure to share any movies you like here.
Thanks for the encouragement finnbro.
hej,
Grayson Thompson
Exactly, "mig"/"mej"(informal) means me or myself.
Could you give me some examples?
The word "Skola" (school) is pronounced /skuːla/ "skita" (to shit) is pronounced "skeytah" "Skuta" (schooner) is pronounced "skjutah"
Easton Walker
off the top of my head: skiner, kanske
Jeremiah Diaz
I haven't seen any yet (I'm far from capable of understanding anything but maybe a few loose words) but we've been recommended Ingmar Bergman's movies, you may have heard of "Fanny och Alexander", and there's also "Bildmakarna" which looks interesting too. Then the Millenium movies, Låt den rätte komma in and I can't think of any others right now.
Not in Swedish, but in Danish in case someone could be interested, "Jagten" by Thomas Vinterberg
Easton Reyes
How come sometimes you're supposed to use "mig" and other times you use "jag", both meaning "me". "Jag" means "I" but it's often used in place of "mig" I've noticed...
For example: "Please help me" would be "snälla hjälp mig" but "me in the picture" would be "Jag på bilden".
John Sullivan
"Skiner" (shines) is pronounced like /ˈɧiːˌner/ (Knowing some basic IPA really helps here). The "ɧ" is known as the sj-sound and is one of the trickiest parts of the Swedish language, you'll find an exaple of the sound here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sj-sound
"Kanske" (maybe/perhaps) again kontains the tricky sj-sound, but I found a nice soud clip of it here: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kanske
Note that some verbs have special senses when used reflexively. For example, do not confuse "jag lär mig att..." ("I learn to...") [reflexive] with "du lär mig att..." ("you teach me to...") and "jag lär mig själv att..." ("I teach myself to..."). Here, "lär" means teach(es) if it is not reflexive, but learn(s) if it is reflexive. Hence the need for the separate pronoun "mig själv" to be used when object and subject agree, but the verb nevertheless should not be used in the reflexive case.
Nathan Sanders
Pretty similar to Spanish then. Awesome
Jonathan Cook
Yeah, that's how i remember it from my (very) basic Spanish-class in high school.
Luke Brooks
That makes me so happy, I'm learning Swedish from English, because it's obviously easier, because of roots and vocabulary and all, but when I see that Spanish becomes useful I feel so delighted
I really recommdent Kent if you want to listen to some Swedish music. Pretty clear sounding vocals and a great band.
Henry White
hej jag heter homo peter :DDDDD
Brayden Davis
Hinga dinga durgen
Liam Nelson
Leif Erkisson was Icelandic you fucking dingus
Chase Fisher
why would anyone learn swedish literally everyone in scandinavia speaks english
John Ross
الدَّيُّوْث كما ورد في «الصحاح في اللغة» هو «القُنْذُعُ، وهو الذي لا غَيرةَ له».[1] وبالمعنى العصري هو الزوج الذي تمارس زوجته الجنس مع رجل آخر - أو مع عدة رجال أو مع امرأة أو مع عدة نساء أو مع مجموعة مختلطة من الجنسين - سواء بعلمه أو بدون علمه، وفى الغالب يكون الديوث موضع سخرية واستهزاء من المجتمع
Alexander Ramirez
>why would anyone learn ???????? literally everyone in ????? speaks english
My favorite Swedish word I've learned so far is sköldpadda. That's so fun to say.
Nej! Du äter min sköldpadda!
Blake Lewis
finland BTFO
Aiden Turner
That's very true but learning a language can be fun, some people do it to get bitches and besides once you learn Swedish all those northern languages become easier to learn so it's not completely useless if you are going for "most efficient use of my time" route.
Jacob Campbell
Du kan vara min sköldpadda :3
Evan Torres
My favourite Swedish group only makes instrumental songs
Dunno if there were more in Swedish, I didn't follow the program
Owen Kelly
sk can also be pronounced "sh". So as the former example "Skita" can be said like "Shita". It's a northern/dalsland thing but if it's easier for you sure do it.
