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Learning to speak Swedish language

Posted On : Sep-20-2011 | seen (428) times | Article Word Count : 511 |

Learning Swedish language has its own challenges for the people of English background. However, the grammar part of Swedish language is more or less similar to English.
Learning to speak the Swedish language poses different challenges before an English speaker . Though there is lot of similarity between Swedish and English language. The only difficulty a learner finds while learning Swedish language is the accent or pronunciation. This lanugage has lots of subtle sounds and vowels which poses troubles to the English speaker . Swedish language therefore is called as a tone language, where you see words being pronounced in a rising or falling pitch. You will find this language to be radical as how Chinese language goes, though they have many variations as per the word order or placement in any sentence and stress part. The only a better way to learn Swedish is to listen to any native speaker . When you hear this language try to imitate the pronunciation the way it comes from the native speaker's mouth. Why this is recommended is since you know how this language goes up and down in their pitch while you speak it. Moreover, you won't find any punctuation to indicate this, it just comes from observation. There are common words in Swedish of English like, 'bank', 'man' and 'hand'.

People who want to learn to speak Swedish, they have various options like opting any commercial packages or software. They can find many tools for you to learn Swedish online too. Plus you can get many resources over the internet which helps you learn Swedish for free. Make sure whichever way you chose to learn this language, go any resource which is comprehensive, which includes proper lessons, have the facility to switch on to the audios as well.

Apart from trying any software, you can go for audio books having text based stuff, wherein you can listen to the book for long and thus get a right combination of book and audio files . Either you walk in to any leading book store or find any retail website which offers these packages. You will get them into a form of CD's which you need to put on your computer or laptop, listen to them carefully and do as directed. In this way, you will start the process of learning the language. And if you want both the book and audio stuffs, you have the option to get a book which carries a daily exercises while the audio CD would enable you to work upon your accent part.

Last is the option of books. You can find hundreds of books compiled on this issue which you can find in any bookstore . Go for the editions which suits you and your level . If you a raw person go for the one which is for the novice, while if you have idea about the basics of this language, you can better opt for some advance level editions. They teach yourself books series are great, they put you into the practice of daily exercises and enable you to learn on daily basis. They take care of your language and grammar aspect.


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You come across many online resources which comes for free downloads. You may find thing out-date there, however, still it will help you to have a fair idea about speaking thing in this language of daily chores. You would be able to speak common things like Sweden food, daily activities and so on.

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