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Colloquial Swedish
The Complete Course for Beginners
- 358 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Colloquial Swedish provides a step-by-step course in Swedish as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Swedish in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.
This thoroughly revised new edition features:
- progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills and an increased focus on functional language
- structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar
- an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises
- realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios
- useful vocabulary lists throughout the text
- additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary and bilingual glossaries
Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Swedish is an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Swedish.
Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.
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Unit One
Hej!
Hi!
In this unit you will learn about:
• How to introduce yourself
• Verbs in the present tense
• Personal pronouns
• Gender of nouns
• Two types of question
• How to give short answers
• Pronunciation of vowel sounds
• How to ask for things and say thanks
• How rarely Swedes use capital letters
Text 1 (Audio 1.8)
Hi!
Hej. Jag heter Rebecca.
Jag är nitton år.
Jag kommer från USA.
Jag studerar svenska
i Stockholm. Min pojkvän heter Kalle.
Hej. Jag heter Karl.
Jag kallas för Kalle.
Jag är svensk.
Jag studerar datavetenskap
på universitetet.
Det här är min
mamma, pappa
och syster.
Min pappa heter
Jan och min syster
heter Johanna.
Hej. Det är jag som är
Bill. Jag kommer från
Skottland. Jag är musiker.
Jag spelar fiol. Jag är
barndomsvän med Jan.
Vocabulary
hej | hi, hello |
jag | I |
heta heter | be called, am called |
nitton | nineteen |
år -et - | year |
komma kommer | come |
från | from |
studera studerar | study, studies |
svenska -n | Swedish |
pojkvän -nen -ner | boyfriend |
kallas för | be called, am called |
svensk -en -ar | Swede |
datavetenskap -en | computer science |
på | at |
universitet -et - | university |
det här | this |
min mitt mina | my, mine |
mamma -n -or | mum |
och | and |
pappa -n -or | dad |
syster -n systrar | sister |
det | it |
v... |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Preface: using this book
- Grammatical terms and forms used in the vocabulary lists
- Pronunciation, stress and accents
- 1 Hej! Hi!
- 2 Rebecca, en student Rebecca, a student
- 3 Att resa Travelling
- 4 På semester On holiday
- 5 Matlagning Cooking
- 6 Att bli sambo Moving in together
- 7 På stan In town
- 8 På universitetet At the university
- 9 Före och efter festen Before and after the party
- 10 En svensk familj A Swedish family
- 11 Johanna och hennes vänner Johanna and her friends
- 12 Bills bilresa Bill’s car journey
- 13 Skogsvandring A walk in the forest
- 14 En recension A review
- 15 Kära mormor! Dear Grandma
- 16 Aj, min tå! Ouch, my toe!
- 17 En speciell dag A special day
- Grammar summary
- Key to exercises
- Swedish–English glossary
- English–Swedish glossary
- Grammatical index
- Audio track listing