In Sweden there is English everywhere. On TV, posters, bus stops, in shops, on the back of food packaging and basically any other imaginable place.<\/p>\n
It is really only children\u2019s videos that get dubbed to Swedish. Most other media is just played in English with Swedish subtitles. This makes Swedes\u2019 ears very accustomed to English. When you hear English everyday you gradually get so used to it that the pronunciation becomes less difficult. And when people don\u2019t have to ask you to repeat yourself when speaking your self-confidence grows,\u00a0 turning English-learning into a good experience.<\/p>\n
Young people (and a growing number of older people as well) use a huge amount of English in their everyday life. While chatting, Facebooking, searching online, playing online games etc. and that is only the computer aspect.<\/p>\n
A rapidly increasing interest among Swedes is reading books in English. There are a lot of people who don\u2019t want to wait for international best sellers to be translated to Swedish and therefore read the books in English instead, immensely improving their English while doing so.<\/p>\n
As especially young people are growing more and more confident in their English skills, English classes become easier and easier for students. Though on the contrary for English teachers, it becomes more and more difficult. Teachers can often not speak as fluent English as many of their students, though grammar and rules however can be a completely different story. Countless teachers religiously cling to the lessons they have used for years, mainly grammar lessons.<\/p>\n
(At this point I would just like to give all these teachers a slight thought. Who wouldn\u2019t be scared if all of a sudden your students were much more fluent than you at your own subject…? Whether the reaction is a rational and best reaction is a matter of opinion.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In Sweden there is English everywhere. On TV, posters, bus stops, in shops, on the back of food packaging and basically any other imaginable place. It is really only children\u2019s videos that get dubbed to Swedish. Most other media is just played in English with Swedish subtitles. This makes Swedes\u2019 ears very accustomed to English…<\/p>\n