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i know this guy who is gonna teach me how to speak Swedish(:
hes really cute too. <3 4 months ago
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Carlaina
It made me 
How I did it: I was born. I started to live a life in Sweden and WOILA I can talk - and write Swedish. Hejdå och om du kan läsa dethär är du pro :) PS. I you want help to learn Swedish just ask. Don't be shy :) Read how I did it… 2 months ago
helgigud
It made me
Happy and involved
How I did it: My journey to this was both usual and unusual. We moved to sweden in august 2011 and for the first 5 months I was home with our son till we got him into kindergarden.
I started listening to audio language course - a Pimsleur one - and it helped, I began to at least understand a little bit. I signed up for a swedish course in night school - 1x per week - which didnt really help.
Finally I went to a full time swedish course 5 days a week and made fast progress... except in speaking the language. Lots of grammar, writing and reading going on... very little actual, normal conversational speaking. Eventually found a summer job and started speaking to locals and then everything fell into place quickly.
So one of those things where at the end of the journey you find yourself at the beginning. There was nothing to stop me from beginning to speak in conversations right at the start except maybe the barrier of not knowing many people and not having freedom to hang out more.
Doing the course was good, especially since I live here its good to get started reading, writing etc... but in over 20 hours per week of school, only 45min 1x per week did they practise normal speaking. Less than 1 hour in 22.
Language is a tool for communicating, though speaking primarily. The rest comes a lot more naturally when you can speak and make yourself understood. So that is the natural order of things, not the other way around.
I would guess that what took me 12 months in actuality could have more or less happened in less than 6 months by focusing 50-80% on speaking to people and then adding the formalities later.
Read how I did it… 5 months ago
PerdyshaBasics
I learnt some basics on livemocha and I got a language book & CD. When I went to Stockholm in May I was able to ask for menus and simple things okay. 6 months ago
Alyssa is a singular girlA day at the ASI
I got a couple of free passes, and yesterday S and I went to the American Swedish Institute. It was incredible, in this big old castle with Rococo interiors. It was built by a Swedish immigrant family about 100 years ago, and I did think it was pretty ostentatious for your typical Swede, but if I could build myself a castle I might just do it too, Nordic-ness be damned. The place made me more smug about my heritage than I usually am, and I kept asking S, “Aren’t you jealous you’re not Scandinavian?” Very kindly, he humored me
Before we left in the morning, I realized, DUH, they probably have Swedish classes. And they do. And they’re kind of expensive and I’ve got some pricey things to save for coming up, but I’d definitely like to take classes in a castle, so this is really just something to jog my memory if it ever comes to pass that I have extra money. 9 months ago
