This is correct, right?

Hej everyone,

Started Swedish a few days ago, goal is C1 in 5 years for uni stuff. Right now my setup is just Duolingo (the max version, I get it free through a family plan, that's the only reason I was using it) + Clozemaster. Been lurking other subreddits and it's pretty obvious Duolingo alone isn't gonna get me anywhere near real fluency.

Bit of context on me: native Romanian speaker, B2 to almost C1 in English. From doing Duolingo so far the Swedish vocab and grammar have felt surprisingly easy and intuitive, guessing the Romance/Germanic overlap plus my English is doing some heavy lifting there. Pronunciation is a whole different story though, I'm struggling hard with that part specifically.

One thing though, moving to Sweden or doing an exchange just isn't in the cards for me right now. Maybe a short vacation at someee point but that's kinda it, so pretty much everything has to happen from self-study at home.

I'm starting from zero and don't wanna build bad habits early that I have to unlearn later, so trying to sort my approach out now while it's easy to change.

If any of y'all have any recommendations for what to actually use instead of (or alongside) Duolingo, how well it worked for you, and what a realistic self-study path to C1 actually looks like, I'm all ears. Books, apps, decks, routines, whatever worked for you, especially anything that'll help with pronunciation since that's my weak spot right now.

Tack!

basically i have a normal 625 word deck but thats gonna run out really quickly so im trying to do another deck alongside it (i have plenty of time so that's not an issue). is zero to hero, specifically pts 1 and 2, good? ill link it here:

part 1: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1658586181

part 2: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1992299061

thxx :)

Hello,

I have a basic question about the possessive pronoun in this example sentence: 'the ducks are following their mother'.

My limited understanding of Swedish reflexive possessive pronouns suggests that this would be translated as 'ankorna följer sina mor', because 'their' refers to several duckings.

However the example I am looking at translates the sentence as 'ankorna följer sin mor', and Google Translate (I know, not always the greatest) agrees with this.

Is the example translation correct, and if so could someone please help me understand why? Perhaps it is because 'the ducklings' is considered to be a mass noun and therefore singular?

Thanks!

Edit: thanks for the replies, it was a simple misunderstanding on my part! All clear now.

Have just come across the expression “ligga på sofflocket”, and I can’t help wondering how it came about, as on the face of it, this seems like a very uncomfortable place to lie.

We have moved/immigrated (hopefully permanently) from the USA to Sweden almost 7 months ago and our three children are in Swedish public schools. Our home language is English but I try to speak some Swedish (which I am also currently learning) at home as much as I can. Dad is a monolingual English speaker.

Our oldest is 10 years old, thriving socially here, but speaking very little Swedish. Kids at school and in the neighborhood love to speak English with him, and he gladly sticks with it for the familiarity, understandably. Obviously, I am an adult and will politely ask that Swedes stick to Swedish with me, and they so kindly and often encouragingly do! That said, my 10 year old does not insist on that. :-)

The public school support for immigrant children learning Swedish is essentially "they will pick it up eventually." That said, he had an incredible teacher this year that used to work for Swedish language integration education for children prior to that program being cut :-/ so she was able to devote a little extra language time to him. He will not have that same teacher next year unfortunately.

This is what we are currently doing to address it. Please give me kind and gentle feedback. :-)

- He gets a 30 minute online Swedish tutor once a week.

- We have him listen to Swedish podcasts on topics he is interested in most days.

- He has to read in Swedish at least 30 minutes a day on a school app called Polylino, which often has audio and sometimes a word/sentence highlighter for following along.

- He gets screen time in Swedish (although we tend to be fairly low-screen in our home).

(edited to add) - I have asked his fritidsledare and other native Swedish adults in his life to speak Swedish only to him and prompt/expect/encourage him to reply in Swedish.

It seems like this is a lot of input and his comprehension appears decent, but it doesn't really force him much with production. When we do ask him for how to say such-and-such thing, he actually does it fairly well! But he won't take the iniative independently.

Of note: In the U.S., my he and my middle child went to a half-assed Spanish bilingual public school where the administration really did not prioritize Spanish (I'm not resentful at all -- haha!!), and even there my oldest was resistant to learning Spanish despite his exposure to it since toddlerhood.

***Cross posting to a multilingual parenting subreddit.

Something changed and we can only watch Nyheter på lätt Svenska if we are in Sweden 😭😭

I hope they didn't get rid of my Pippi Långstrump.

I don't know what to do now. 😅

Swedish isn't hard. The grammar is easy. It's just those SEVENTEEN vowel sounds trying to end you. Agree or disagree? 🔥

Hi, I'm starting a Swedish course next September in uni and I have started learning a bit of Swedish on my own. And while I (for now) find it fairly easy, the pronunciation is absolutely killing me, the guy in videos I'm watching doesn't show the words spelled with the phonetical alphabet so I'm just stuck trying to pronounce the words the same way as him.

Does anyone know of a website where I can search the words and see their phonetical spellings ?

Beginner Guide

Hey guys i want to ask non Swedish people who learnt Swedish by themselves, from your own experience ,which book do you recommend the best for a beginner who knows ABSOLUTE NOTHING in Swedish and want to start from ZERO I did a bit of research but i ended up being stuck with these choices (Rivstart A1+A2, Colloquial Swedish by <Jennie Ahlgren, Philip Holmes and Gunilla Serin>, Basic Swedish A Grammar and Workbook by <Ian Hinchliffe and Phillip Holmes>, Complete Swedish by Anneli Haake) please recommend me the best.

thank you for your time

Three years later and I still don't know the difference...

(I hope this is an appropriate subreddit for this question, pointers to other subreddits are also welcome!)

On the Wikipedia page for Åland, I found this old map, made some time before 1667 by Hans Hansson.

For best resolution see the original from Kungliga biblioteket: https://libris.kb.se/g0s1rzds1h3r26l

The map is very interesting, and as someone who's only learning Swedish I am pleasantly surprised about how much I was able to understand! One phrase, though, seems completely alien to me, and it's this:

"*Stips och *stütüleden emillan Suerige och finlandh" = "...leden mellan Sverige och Finland" in modern Swedish, with unknown words marked as *.

The same phrase, with the two words appears multiple times here, indicating ship/ferry routes:

And it also appears in the legend of the map:

I have googled what could be the meanings of these words pretty extensively and out of desperation even asked AI, but all to no avail. I am not even sure if the second letter is "t" in those words, since on some you can faintly see a small stroke to the right side of the t. Another hypothesis was that it's actually "k", similar to the shape in Tÿskland, and that would explain *skips (~skepps) better but the second word *skütü still remains elusive. Unfortunately svenska.se seems to be down so I was unable to check it on SAOB.

If someone could give pointers on this (quite niche) question and help me understand what that phrase could be that would be very helpful! Thanks in advance :D

Jag kan komma på fyra olika betydelser för ordet "Fil". Hur blev det så, varför valde man inte ett annat ord för engelskans "File" när "Fil" redan hade 3 betydelser?

Hejsan!

Jag lyssnar på många svenska poddar just nu för att jag vill träna lite min hörförståelse. Jag blir ganska nyfiken om dialekter medan jag lyssnar, och lade in (uploaded/posted?) en fråga för några dagar sedan med en fråga om det.

Jag har en fråga till nu - jag lyssnar på podden ”bokbikten” och (jag tror att) de två talare har märkbart olika dialekter. Jag undrar om någon har tid för att lyssna på en minut av podden och hjälpa mig identifiera vilka dialekter de har. Bara för att jag tycker de olika svenska dialekter är jättekul.

Kan linka Spotify här: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KXPK9ePKFWr673MST8aQD?si=pAVj5ALySt-PUepJ5vfomA&utm_source=copy-link

Tack I förväg för hjälpen!

Can anyone help me figure out what this word means, in particular the ending -nasendet? ChatGPT is perplexed and says it’s not a word, but this word is used several times in one of the Kurt Wallander books so I don’t think it’s a typo.

Here’s one of the examples:
“Vem är han?” ”En man som lyfte upp konstnasandet till en högre nivå.” I wonder if it has something to do with art theft or forgery or fraud maybe?

Thanks!

Hej Reddit. 

På grund av olika anledningar så gjorde jag aldrig svenskan på grundläggande nivå och försöker nu jobba upp den, jag hade tydligen tillräcklig uppfattning att hamna på svenska delkurs 3 och får nu en massa ordklasser som jag har svårt att förstå mig på, mitt minne är skit så jag glömmer lätt saker lite hela tiden. 

Min fråga: Kan man få lägsta möjliga betyg utan att kunna alla ordklasser och regler utantill? 

Just nu studerar jag på distans 50% 

Många tack! 

-LiquidSoil 

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Hej,

I run Lyssna på svenska, a free podcast for people learning Swedish.

The episodes are spoken in slow and clear Swedish and include full transcripts. They are aimed mainly at learners around A2–B2 level and cover Swedish everyday life, culture and society — for example fika, lagom, Midsummer, Jantelagen and BankID.

You can listen and read the transcripts here:

https://lyssnapasvenska.se/

The podcast is also available on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Amazon Music and other podcast platforms.

I have also created a separate page for teachers who would like to use the episodes in their lessons:

https://lyssnapasvenska.se/for-teachers/

I hope it can be a useful listening resource for some of you. Feedback from both learners and teachers is welcome.

Hi guys, I would really like to learn Swedish, I don’t currently live in Sweden and in my country there is no Swedish course. Do you have any recommendations? How to learn it now?

hej alla!

jag har lärt mig svenska i runt fyra år nu, och har nyligen träffat en till svensktalande person med samma ålder som jag (jag bor i usa och är tonåring så det här är händer väldigt sällan) men vi har olika dialekter och det har gjort mig bara undra om några saker.
min vän har en svensktalande mor och därför lärde sig svenska som barn och med en specifik dialekt. däremot jag lärde mig svenska senare på min barndom och använde flera metoder och därför har ibland fel uttal och sånt, och jag har ingen specifik dialekt (men jag har hört att min svenska låter bara som stockholmsk).
min stora fråga är det här - jag skulle säga ordet skicka t.ex (men det här gäller många ord med ”sk”) med sj-ljudet, däremot min vän säger såna ord med tj-ljudet; vilka dialekter uttalar det här ordet på varje sätt? och har jag fel?
förlåt, det här är ganska långt skrivit… hoppsan! snälla fråga eller berätta för mig om nånting är oklart eller om jag har gjort misstag och tack på förhand

From Det Sjunde Inseglet.

The Black Death plagues the land and the character says -

De säger att det går nån

elak sjukdom i landet

och nu spekulerar

prästerna i ond bråd död

och moraliska magknip

Hoping that someone can give me a super LITERAL translation of the bolded section.

I understand that ond bråd död is sudden death (with a sinister/evil aspect) but I am not so confident in my understanding of moralisla magknip. Also a bit unsure of the use of spekulerar, as in are they speculating or perhaps preaching....

Would like to hear peoples take on this.

I've noticed that, in Swedish, many long vowels are realized as diphthongs. Would it be incorrect to pronounce them as monophthongs, considering that many Swedish teachers describe them this way? As I understand it, monophthongal pronunciation can be found in both standard Swedish (Rikssvenska) and Finland Swedish. I'd like to sound as neutral as possible so that speakers of different varieties of Swedish can understand me easily.

In this video, the teacher explains that long vowels undergo slight diphthongization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzYArZVTD4s&t=589s

how would i go abut writing this , like what style text what body and about what exactly.

(Förmåga att tala, lyssna, läsa och skriva – i olika genrer och för olika syften. Du ska kunna uttrycka sig i både tal och skrift i olika sammanhang.

Kunskaper om det svenska språket – till exempel grammatik, ordförråd, språkriktighet och variationer i språkanvändning beroende på sammanhang, mottagare och syfte.

Kunskaper om skönlitteratur och sakprosatexter – du ska kunna läsa, analysera och samtala om texter ur olika genrer samt förstå deras innehåll, struktur och syfte.

Tilltro till den egna språkliga förmågan – undervisningen ska stärka ditt självförtroende i att använda svenska språket i vardag, studier och samhällsliv.

Strategier för språk- och kunskapsutveckling – du ska utveckla metoder för att förstå texter, producera egna texter, föra samtal och lösa språkliga problem.

Förmåga att påverka, argumentera och uttrycka åsikter – undervisningen ska ge verktyg för att delta aktivt i demokratiska samtal och fatta välgrundade beslut.

Kritisk förmåga i informationssökning och källvärdering – du ska kunna söka, värdera och använda information från olika källor på ett medvetet sätt.

Insikt i språkets roll för identitet, makt och tillhörighet – undervisningen ska visa hur språk kan skapa och uttrycka relationer, roller och samhällsstrukturer.

Förmåga att använda digitala verktyg för kommunikation och lärande – du ska kunna använda teknik för att skapa texter, samarbeta och utveckla sin språkförmåga.

Vad är dina tankar och erfarenheter om dessa punkter? Skriv en kort reflektion och berätta hur du tänker om Svenska som andraspråk 1.)

When a stressed vowel is short in Swedish, is the following consonant always long, even if it is not geminated? For example: häs:t, fis:k, han:d, mjöl:k.

I'm using a simplified phonetic transcription from the Lexin dictionary because what interests me here is whether the consonant is long.