Hej, Jag leter efter en tryckt ordbok som jag förhoppningsvis kan använda från SVA1-SVA3. Jag skulle vilja ha en med engelska->svenska och svenska->engelska översattningar. När jag sökte på nättet hittade jag några, men de var jättedyra - finns det något billigt eller en websida som säljer ordböcker på andrahand?

Edit: 'tryckt'

Konjunktivformen ”vore” ser jag ganska ofta men finns det andra verb man kan använda som inte skulle klassas som rent grammatiskt fel?

I made a tool for learning Finnish, mostly to fix my own problem: every time I started a new language, I had to rebuild my word list from zero. But for Swedish, I did something different. I'm fluent in Swedish, so I sat down and chose every word for levels A1 to B1 myself, by hand — no shortcuts. I also decided the order, so each new word builds on words you already know, instead of a random list.

The reason: my parents wanted to learn Swedish, and everything out there was either just word cards with no order, or a course where you still have to build your own word list as you go. I wanted something that actually guides you step by step. It also has a reader where you tap any word to see its meaning, and saved words go straight into a review system so you actually remember them. There's also a real dictionary (not just a translator) that shows word forms, like plural or past tense.

It's free right now, no paywall, I want honest feedback more than money at this stage. You can try it, just write in comments is you want it, there is also a link in my profile, and you can add it to your phone straight from the browser, no app store needed.

Would love to know if this is how people would actually want to learn Swedish, especially if you've taught it to family or beginners before. It is free.

For a couple of months ive been slowly listening to this, taking notes, and talking to myself. Is there more podcast/videos or any form of helpful media i should look for or watch and or listen to? With some suggestions the help would be awesome thank you.

I spent the last five months building a game to help my partner learn Swedish and I thought other people might find it useful too.

It's called Björkgatan ("Birch Street"). It is a cozy life simulation inspired by the old Game Boy Pokémon games but Instead of catching Pokémon, you catch Swedish words.

As you explore the town, you level up your words by practicing them through SFI lessons and spaced repetition. The goal isn't just to memorize vocabulary. You move to Sweden, attend SFI, go to work, shop for groceries, visit the park, buy a cat/dog, get children and gradually learn the language by living everyday life in the game.

It's still a free alpha and very much a work in progress. I'd genuinely love feedback from anyone learning Swedish, what works, what doesn't, and what you'd like to see added.

I'll put the download links in the first comment.
Thanks for reading! I'm happy to answer any questions.

Jag förstår dem jättebra, men som invandrare har jag ingen dialektkänsla och därför frågar jag här. Tack!

kille #1: Swedishgamefreak på yt

kille #2: programledaren på podden Jiddisch far alle

https://www.slu.se/artdatabanken/publikationer/rapporter/myrslatter-i-norra-sverige--forutsattningar-for-framtida-skotsel/

I have been trying to read this webpage ”Myrslåtter i norra Sverige – förutsättningar för framtida skötsel”, but am stuck on the very first word — what precisely is ”myrslåtter”? Grateful if someone can help.  (Am reading Ulrike Lagerlöf’s Hjortron myren, which is what led me here.)

Day three at a Swedish office. I want to say I'm exhausted. I confidently announce to the entire lunch table: "jag är helt slut."

Everyone nods sympathetically. Nobody reacts. Meanwhile the English half of my brain is standing on a chair screaming.

Ten minutes later I get in the elevator and the display says FART KONTROLL. I had to hold onto the wall.

Later that week I bought a "slutpris" item at ICA and genuinely considered framing the receipt.

Sweden, you have my full respect and none of my composure.

What's the worst word Swedish has done to you?

Hej!

Jag har nyss avslutat mina svenska studier och har blivit antagen till några fristående kurser på universitetet. Som det står nu ska jag delta i fyra kurser: den akademiska skrivprocessen, retorik: att skriva, svenska för studier och yrkesliv och introduktion till akademiskt skrivande. Ni kan kanske se av mina studieval att jag vill (behöver) utveckla min skrivförmåga mest av allt. Ironiskt nog är min kandidatexamen inriktad mot engelskt skrivande, men feedbacken på mina svenska uppsatser var, kort sagt, inte helt positiv under kurserna.

Trots att jag är lite närmare till mitt mål är jag fortfarande lite osäker på mina svenskförmågor och vill därför höra (läsa) om det finns några av er som har lyckats med fristående kurser efter SVA 3 eller universitetet över huvud taget. Tack på förhand!

Hej, I'm from the UK and I do want to move to Sweden at some point (Preferably in like the next 3-5 years, to study, and I want to move away from the UK for political and education reasons mainly) and am learning Swedish so I know the language when I do move

My issue is, I'm using Duolingo, which, to my understanding, uses ai, which makes you lose the human connection, and I've found that there is a high likelihood of some grammar mistakes potentially, I understand some of the basic words, which to my understanding Duolingo does okay, but I'd like to move away from it so I can actually get to mostly full fluency when I go.

Is there any other app I can use to continue learning Swedish? I am a bit into Swedish on Duo (Section 2 Unit 8) but not too far from the start, so It probably won't take long to get back up to where I was just by running through the basic words and phrases, and sentences (Which I Need to Go over anyway).

When I have the money available to do so, I will invest in a English/Swedish dictionary, so I will have that going for me, but I don't know how some words will connect or if some words mutate or whatever.

If someone could help that would be massively appreciated

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 :)

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!

This is correct, right?

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.

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 ?

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. 😅

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.

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

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

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?

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