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Lingo said:

Good luck with your mission!

Thank you for opening this thread, otherwise I probably wouldn't have heard about MOVITS! ;)

Another Swedish artist I got to listen to thanks to a recommendation here at the forums is Dungen.

It seems like Swedish music is really worth discovering – hope you'll find some more artists as good as MOVITS! (see "similar artists") at last.fm

Movits! are pretty swank I'm also listening to Kent and Paus. Swedish music is definitely worth discovering. I've got a new love :P

contz said:

fluorescence said:

I've also made great use out of children's radio shows – downloaded loads from Barnradion at SverigesRadio and put them onto my new mp3 player. I'm totally ready now for my Swedish version of All Japanese All The Time

I'm glad that you're enjoying the language learning so much. This is the way everyone should feel about learning a language :)

I think  you will pick it up very quickly, after all, there is a reason that Swedes, Dutch, Norwegians, Germans, etc.. speaks good English, it's very similar.
It works both ways. 

Tack Yeah, it's not proving very difficult yet so far. It's much closer to English than French or Irish. I definitely think my goal to attain fluency before next year is possible.

Today's task: Learn the ordinal numbers. Shouldn't be too hard since I already have the cardinal ones down

fluorescence said:

Fun fact: when I was a young'un, I was obsessed with the Lion King. I wasn't big into Disney movies, but I adored the Lion King. I watched it every day for years. I got a little overexcited when it was shown in cinemas (på bio?) late last year. It's a great movie

 

Turns out, the Swedish version is beast. So I'll be ordering it online once my bank account recovers a little bit Along with The Little Mermaid and The Jungle Book (which I liked to a lesser extent) if I like them!

 

Can't blame you mate, the Lion King is awesome!

You know that pretty much all Disney films have been dubbed into Swedish so you should be able to find them somewhere. I guess it could be quite useful since you would already be familiar with the story.

Otherwise you can go to Sweden and watch them (probably only recent films) på bio. 

Edit: I saw the last bit in your post to late hence the stupid reply :) 

 

fluorescence said:

= Ö

 

Once seen cannot be unseen.

Haha, that's an excellent way to remember Ö .. :)
As a side note, that's  the sound a lot of Swedes make while they are thinking "Öhhhh"..

Also, watching Minecraft commentaries in Swedish definitely counts as studying, right? :P I'm actually pretty surprised by the amount of words I can understand in this

Well I went through the first bit of the book a lot of times yesterday evening, and I already feel my swedish has improved a lot just by knowing HOW to stress words and how to know which ones to stress. It also make it slightly easier to understand native-speed audio as I can finally distinguish where words start and end (whereas before it was just continuous babble with a word or 2 I knew peppered in there somewhere). Onwards and upwards

But my really exciting news for today:

Look what just arrived in the post from (land of efficient international delivery) Sweden! They both have Dubs and Subs in Swedish, Finnish, English and Icelandic, and Mulan has the extra Estonian (*shrug*). I think I'll watch Lejonkungen first when I get home from college this evening with Swedish audio and subs (I know the storyline inside out so I don't even want the english subs ).

I am actually ridiculously excited about these

Sandra said:

Good luck with learning Swedish!

If you ever feel like you need some help you can ask me.

Tack! 

I miss these movies so much! Mulan was actually one of my favorite movies while I was in elementary school. If you would like to see a movie that was popular with the teens last year (At least from my school), I can really recommend "Jag saknar dig" (I miss you). The story is about two identical twins. One morning when they are running to the school bus, on their mothers' birthday, one of them get hit by a car and dies. It is a very sad movie and I (who don't generally like Swedish movies) even liked it!

Yeah Disney movies are pretty fun! I'm a little annoyed though that the subtitles are literally translated from the English version, and don't actually match the Swedish script  It's been pretty fun watching them again though.

I must look up Jag Saknar Dig, it seems very interesting Thanks for the recommendation.

Anywho, I haven't been up to a whole lot of interesting stuff lately. I'm going through my Colloquial book a lot (and it really is excellent) while listening to the CDs, and it's solidified a lot of the stuff I already know. I'm also picking up lots of new words, which is great.

I'm also still making my way chapter by chapter through Waylander/Vandraren which, while slow going, is really engaging and fun. Seeing a lot of the same words over and over means that I'm absorbing them without actually learning them too (BONUS ). I even recognised the word rustning when it was said in Mulan from my fantasy novels – I'll admit that felt pretty damn cool

Myself and my friend who is also learning Swedish finally had our first conversation this week. We didn't get very far with it at all but it was fun to use the few words we have

Tack Adriano! I'm trying only to listen to music sung in Swedish at the moment, however I'll definitely check out those bands at some point though :)

I've started to find it difficult to form coherent thoughts in my brain lately, as there's just so much Swedish floating around in there. Not enough, alas, to actually be of any use right now. Who knows if this is a good thing or a bad thing? :P

I went to IKEA today and got bedlinen with the Swedish alphabet on it

That is all!

Hi there!

Sorry, I don't mean to hijack the thread but it looks like we're in the same boat: I've also started learning Swedish and I'm going to attempt B2 the lowest at it by the end of the summer. I'll also be spending the summer in Sweden..

I'm also going to be blogging about this at my old language blog:

http://ikindalikelanguages.com/blog/my-new-language-swedish-in-6-months/

I know you said you were probably not coming to Stockholm for the summer but if you did, it would be interesting to compare our results.

Well, this should be fun!