learning swedish language...

[khatrineluz]

Hello! Next year my sister would like to do something completely different. She have to go abroad for a studies for at least 5 month’s. She was thinking about a destination and now she know where to go: Sweden! Maybe you wonder why she want to go there but the fact is that she love cold weather and apparently Sweden is beautiful. The course she will be following there is in English, but she hope to learn some Swedish as well. She already learned something: ‘studera utomlands (www.blueberrysprak.nu/college/)’! This means something like ‘studying abroad’. Can anyone tell if it is a difficult language to learn? Thanks guys!

[ЅUX2BÜ]

For English speakers, Swedish is very easy to learn because its syntax and grammar are very similar to English (If you know German, then Swedish will be much easier). You will also recognize a lot of “English-looking” words, so vocabulary is not going to be an issue. The only difficult part, in my opinion, is the vowel pronunciation and some unusual sounds (tj, sj, et cetera).

There are 2 types of Swedish words, the en and the ett words, which signify the gender of the word. But almost all the words are en words (en student = a student; en man = a man; ett äpple = an apple, etc.)

En and ett are also the indefinite articles in Swedish, which is the “a” or “an” in English (en bok = a book; ett äpple = an apple, en pojke = a boy, etc.)

The Swedish definite articles, also en and ett (“the” in English), on the other hand, are attached/suffixed to the ending of the word, thus en words takes the en suffix, so “the book” becomes boken or “the apple” becomes äpplet.

Forms of the Swedish verbs are not even changed/conjugated. Examples: är = is, are and har = has, have.

I am here.
Jag är här.

She is here.
Hon är här.

SUX2BU has an apple.
SUX2BU har ett äpple.

SUX2BU and KuyaDanny have an apple.
SUX2BU och KuyaDanny har ett äpple.

Have you noticed the structures common to both languages?

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