colloquial swedish 2007

[...]... learn to speak Swedish and make oneself understood without paying any great attention to word order and different ways of constructing sentences But if you wish to continue beyond a very basic level, and perhaps even ultimately to learn to write Swedish, then it is necessary to devote some time to the problems of word order right from the start to avoid real difficulties later The teaching of Swedish word... that have stress (you can hear it in English as spoken in Wales) Listen for this rise when you hear Swedes speak gammal old flicka girl svenska Swedish tala speak stolar chairs The rise on the unstressed syllable makes the words sound Swedish, but often learners of Swedish make the mistake of thinking that every stressed word should have this melody Many words of two syllables do, it is true, but as many... ‘no’ (Swedish ja/nej) The other type also changes the order of subject and verb, but begins with an interrogative pronoun, a v-word (most – but not all – of them begin with a v in Swedish) These are called v-questions: Vad heter What are V-WORD VERB du? you called? Vem är Who is V-WORD VERB det? it? SUBJECT Var studerar han? Where does he study? V-WORD VERB SUBJECT SUBJECT Exercise 1 Translate into Swedish: ... 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 4222 Third edition, 2007 In this new edition the number of units has been reduced to seventeen All of the Texts and Dialogues and many of the Factual texts are new, as well as some of the Exercises Internet URLs have been added for those wanting to know more about Swedish landscape, history, society and culture The grammar progression remains... Pronunciation, stress and accents The alphabet (CD 1; 1) The Swedish alphabet has twenty-nine letters, three more than the English alphabet, and these different letters all come at the end Notice the order: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z å ä ö Words beginning with w are sometimes found under v in dictionaries Pronunciation (CD 1; 2) Vowels Swedish has a large number of different vowel sounds... ‘they sat’) Swedish verbs are, incidentally, much simpler than those in most European languages in that they have the same form throughout each tense: jag/du/han/hon/vi/ni/de simmar (I/you/he/she/we/you/they swim) Preface 1111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1111 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 4222 Some of the apparent problems in learning Swedish are:...2 Preface to be found in the Swedish English glossary at the end of the book A relatively large vocabulary is used in the book, and by the time you reach the end you should have learned some 2,000 words in all For these reasons it is a good idea to learn new words as they appear About 1,000 words appear in the concise English Swedish glossary The Factual text is primarily for... är musiker Exercise 3 Translate into Swedish: 1 They are playing the violin 2 We are studying 3 She comes from the USA 4 Are you (sing.) studying? 5 Are they coming? Short answers If someone asks you ‘Is it a violin?’, you may, of course, answer ‘Yes, it’s a violin’ or you may give a short answer ‘Yes, it is’, or ‘No, it isn’t.’ Notice how these are constructed in Swedish: Yes, it is No, it isn’t Ja,... question is not the verb ‘to be’ (vara), ‘to have’ (ha) or a modal verb (e.g ska, vill), then the short answer uses a form of göra (do): Talar du svenska? Do you speak Swedish? Ja, det gör jag Yes, I do 26 Unit 1: Hej! Exercise 4 Translate into Swedish: 1 2 3 4 Yes, you are No, they’re not Yes, I have No, she hasn’t 5 6 7 8 Pronunciation Yes, it is No, we haven’t Yes, he is No, I’m not (CD 1; 9) Long and... Roland When long the pronunciation o is more common (e.g Mora), when short the pronunciation å is more common (e.g Oskar) Vowel length Rules for determining the length of stressed vowels from written Swedish: • Vowels followed by a single consonant letter are long: går • Vowels followed by a double consonant or two consonant letters (denoting a voiceless cluster) are short and the consonant(s) long: . bibliographical references and index. (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Swedish language – Grammar. 2. Swedish language – Spoken Swedish. 3. Swedish language – Textbooks for foreign speakers – English Ave, New York, NY 10016, USA. COLLOQUIAL 2s Series The Next Step in Language Learning Dutch French Italian Russian Spanish Spanish of Latin Chinese America Colloquial Swedish The Complete Course. Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ahlgren, Jennie. Colloquial Swedish: a complete language course/Jennie Ahlgren, Philip Holmes & Gunilla Serin. – 3rd ed. p. cm. – (Colloquial series) Includes bibliographical