{"id":9685,"date":"2022-03-25T21:12:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T21:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=9685"},"modified":"2022-03-25T21:12:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T21:12:35","slug":"swedish-learning-resource-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/swedish-learning-resource-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Learning Resource Round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Are you looking for Swedish learning resources outside of your regular textbook? Or just looking for a refresh of resources you already use? This blog will highlight several great resources for Swedish learners broken out\u00a0 by language level.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A Resource for Beginning Learners\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

After covering the basics of Swedish, a great way to increase your vocabulary is through reading. <\/span>8sidor<\/span><\/a> is a <\/span>fantasisk <\/span><\/i>resource for learners as it presents Swedish and world news in a <\/span>l\u00e4ttl\u00e4st <\/span><\/i>(easy to read) format. Readers can also listen to each article. There are topics to interest anyone with the sections <\/span>Sverige <\/span><\/i>(Sweden), <\/span>V\u00e4rlden <\/span><\/i>(the world), <\/span>Sport <\/span><\/i>(sports), <\/span>Kultur, <\/span><\/i>(culture), <\/span>Vardags <\/span><\/i>(everyday life), <\/span>Kr\u00f6nika <\/span><\/i>(opinion), and <\/span>Alla v\u00e4ljare <\/span><\/i>(all voters, summarizes important societal issues).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

8sidor is a great way to get a quick rundown of the most important news from Sweden, <\/span>p\u00e5 svenska.<\/span><\/i> Another way to use the site is to read world news which you may already be familiar with in English in order to build your Swedish vocabulary around important current events. Recently, the site also started featuring <\/span>\u00c5tta fr\u00e5gor <\/span><\/i>(eight questions) which is a trivia quiz about the past week\u2019s news. It\u2019s a fun way to test yourself on both current events AND your Swedish vocabulary, win-win!<\/span><\/p>\n

I use the site regularly with my Swedish students, and recently featured an 8sidor article in <\/span>this blog post<\/span><\/a> about Sweden\u2019s response to the war in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Resource for Intermediate Learners\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

To continue building your listening skills as an intermediate learner, it\u2019s important to\u2026.listen! <\/span>Nyheter p\u00e5 l\u00e4tt svenska<\/span><\/i><\/a> (News in easy Swedish) is a great resource. In just five minutes, the program recaps the most important news stories every weekday – a perfect bite-size language exercise to build your Swedish learning habit. There are also subtitles so you can read along for some extra support while listening.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To test yourself, try watching without subtitles first and see how much you can follow along with. Then, turn on the Swedish subtitles while listening and see how much more you can understand. Working on learning how to talk about the weather? Each episode ends with the <\/span>v\u00e4derrapport <\/span><\/i>(weather report) – perfect for practicing weather-related vocab!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Advanced<\/b><\/p>\n

Here comes another plug for reading as a great way to keep growing your vocabulary, especially after reaching an advanced level of Swedish. Reading from diverse genres and authors will expose you to lots of new categories of vocabulary. For example, reading\u00a0 <\/span>deckare<\/span><\/i><\/a> (detective novels) will present you with lots of words related to crime and investigations while reading a nonfiction book about <\/span>eels<\/span><\/a> will expose you to lots of vocabulary related to the ocean, science, and well, eels.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re still gaining confidence in your Swedish reading, you can try a <\/span>l\u00e4ttl\u00e4st <\/span><\/i>(easy to read\/abridged) book. Here\u2019s a list of titles available from <\/span>LL-f\u00f6rlaget<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a seasoned Swedish reader looking for <\/span>boktips <\/span><\/i>(book tips), I recommend checking out the SVT program <\/span>Babel<\/span><\/a>, one of my all-time favorite shows. The show explores all things literary with host Jessica Gedin interviewing a handful of Swedish and international authors each week. Each episode also includes a discussion by the <\/span>f\u00f6rfattarpanel <\/span><\/i>(author panel) of a different literary topic as well as a visiting musical guest or poet who performs their work at the end. Babel is a fantastic way to keep up with what\u2019s going on in the literary world of Sweden, and increase your vocabulary, perfect for all book and language nerds!<\/span><\/p>\n

Tips! <\/span><\/i>If you live in the US, it\u2019s impossible to have books shipped here from any of the big book companies in Sweden. If you don\u2019t have a kind Swedish friend to send you books, you can purchase <\/span>e-b\u00f6cker <\/span><\/i>(e-books) widely such as at the website <\/span>Bokon<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Grammatik \/ Uttal<\/b><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking to expand your knowledge of <\/span>svensk grammatik <\/span><\/i>(Swedish grammar) or perhaps work on your <\/span>uttal <\/span><\/i>(pronunciation), there are a ton of great resources on YouTube. Many <\/span>Svenska f\u00f6r invandrare (Sfi) <\/span><\/i>(Swedish for immigrants) teachers in Sweden have created videos explaining grammatical concepts and pronunciation features of Swedish.\u00a0<\/span>Simply search for <\/span>Sfi <\/span><\/i>plus any grammar or pronunciation topic and you\u2019ll find lots of videos.<\/span><\/p>\n

One example is<\/span> Peter SFI<\/span><\/a> who has covered a wealth of topics on his channel. A couple of recent videos include <\/span>Stavning och uttal (uttalsproblem) <\/span><\/i>(Spelling and pronunciation (pronunciation problems) and <\/span>T\u00e4nker, funderar, undrar <\/span><\/i>(Think, ponder, wonder).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What are your favorite Swedish learning resources? Let us know in the comments!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lycka till <\/span><\/i>(good luck)!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Are you looking for Swedish learning resources outside of your regular textbook? Or just looking for a refresh of resources you already use? This blog will highlight several great resources for Swedish learners broken out\u00a0 by language level.\u00a0 A Resource for Beginning Learners\u00a0 After covering the basics of Swedish, a great way to increase your…<\/p>\n

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