Swedish Lessons

[Sandra]

There's a Dutch one, but it's in the Dutch forum.
Further I don't know any..

[Nevon]

Det här var en mycket intressant tråd. Jag har hittat en kort liten novell, men jag är rädd att den kan vara lite för svår. Vill ni så kan ni ju prova att översätta stycken så kan vi svenskar rätta eftersom. Glasögon-Fias upplevelser

Vocabulary
pryda = to be decorative (sorta)
bilfärd = Drive (not as in the verb, think "a drive")
Ängar = fields
svischa = to swoosh
dock = though
ideala = ideal
förhållandet = relationship, condition
sängbordet = the table by the bed
pga. (på grund av) = because of
slarva = neglect
hemsk = terrible
tvål = soap
torrputsa = polish without any liquid
följd = result
skina = shine
glänsa = shine

Enough for now, if there's a word you don't understand just check in a dictionary. This one is pretty good


//Translation:
This was a very interesting thread. I've found a short novel, but I'm afraid it might be a little too hard. If you want to you can try translating parts of it, and then we Swedes can correct it. Fia-Glasses experiences

[Larry Boy]

The Swedish word order is very strange.

I went to school = Jag gick till skolan

So far, everything fine...

BUT

Then I went to school = Sen gick jag till skolan

If you translate word by word into English: "Then went I to school"

I can't think of more examples right now, but I can assure you that as you start to write more complex sentences, more and more words will have to be thrown around like this. This is one of the biggest problems non-native speakers have with Swedish, and I understand that it's confusing to them. I think I've heard somewhere that some linguists regard the Swedish word order as one of the most confusing there is.

On a sidenote, there is a Swedish novel called "Ett öga rött" where the author uses grammatically wrong Swedish (with what most foreigners would regard a more "natural" word order) throughout all of the book, since the main character is a non-native speaker of Swedish. It's kinda cool, and this "incorrect" Swedish has become almost a language on its own since about 10% of our population is foreign in origin.

[garebear]

i love sweden. how bout i just move there, ill learn it quicker. anyone willing to let me live with them till i pick up the language and become a freelance translator/guide and spend my days at the airport picking up american customers. or just get a normal job. what is there to do for fun in sweden.

[Nevon]

That depends on where in Sweden you'd like to live. If you liv up north, there's not much of a nightlife. Instead you do "manly" stuff, like kiling polarbears etc. (j/k) But if you live in the middle/southern part you can do more or less the same things that you can do wherever it is you live now.

[Hradska]

[Hallstrom]

It changes in questions too:

Jag gick till skolan - I went to school.
Gick du till skolan? - Went you to school?

[Lanina]

I've also heard linguists say that the swedish "sj"-sound is very unique.

[Aikho]

the way norwegians say æ (ä in swedish) is not anything close to the swedish ä the swedish ä is more like a norwegian e

Swedish "älvorna"
Norwedish "elvorna"
English "the elves"

[Lanina]

Yes, ä is sometimes pronounced as "e" (like in äpple, älva etc) and sometimes as "ä"/"ae" (like in ärta, nära).
The swedish word for is is written "är", but in spoken language it is sometimes pronounced as "e".

[Nevon]

[Dark Sider]

[Olesia]

[Lanina]

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[Nevon]

I actually borrowed a microphone from a friend, but it turns out that my sound card sucks, so I can't use it. It shouldn't be that hard to find a recording of someone saying "tjuv" or "sjuk" etc... I would have looked for one now, but right now I'm on this 3G-card, so my connection is super-slow. Unless someone else finds one, I'll look for one when I get back to my mom's, that'll be around monday or tuesday (I think).