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vänner = friends "Tillvaro" = existence, life Kan du tala lite långsammare. "Långsammare" means "slower". "Slowly" would be "långsamt". Generally, Swedish adverbs have an additional -t like English adverbs have -ly. Nurv, will you be celebrating Christmas in Sweden or in Canada?
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11-24-2004, 05:26 PM | #1622 |
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should have read the other posts before replying or should I say:
Jag borde verkligen läsa igenom de andra posterna innan jag svarar. Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 11-24-2004 at 05:35 PM. |
11-25-2004, 01:32 AM | #1623 | |
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The thing about swedish that seems so difficult is the sing-songness too it - even though most books I have looked at said not to concentrate or worry about that. I don't know why - but Swedish seems harder and more intimidating to me than Russian. I think because Swedish basically uses the same alphabet - but the sounds are so different than English. If I do go to Sweden sometime - I would like to at least understand some of the language.
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You're right Lin. Swedish is probably one of the more easier languages to learn because, as you mentioned, it's similar to English and French. Plus, I'm surrounded by English speaking Swedes, so it really couldn't get any easier!
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Erm, yes, anyway it is nice to know some Swedish over here. When I pay for my food in the grocery store, and say "I have three kronor" or something, and the cashier does not respond in English, I know I've learned something.
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I'm hoping to advance to the level where I actually understand.
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[Edit] Oh, I forgot to answer you Nurv. I speak two dialects of Chinese that are similar to each other, but are basically a different language to Mandarin. Last edited by Linaewen : 11-25-2004 at 09:03 AM. |
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Btw, Nurv. What do you think of the Swedish keyboards?
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Swedish keyboards are awesome! They make typing ö å ä way easier, obviously. It's a bit of a pain on my Canadian keyboard.
å = alt + 0229 ä = alt + 0228 ö = alt + 0246 and I forget the codes fo Ö Å and Ä because I hardly ever use them. >_< Å is such a pretty letter. Sometime we should have a Swedish chat Jonathan. Are you on MSN?
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11-25-2004, 10:34 AM | #1632 |
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hei alle sammen! dette var en artig tråd!
i would say that Norwegian is as simple as swedish. but it isn't that much differences
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Nowegian has this spiffy o - ø while Swedish does not (contrary to the subtitles of Monty Python )
How do you pronounce it? It's alt + 0248 on your numberpad for those of you without a Norwegian keyboard.
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11-25-2004, 11:27 AM | #1635 |
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but in swedish you don't have the æ letter...?
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No, and you don't have the ä letter, but æ and ä are still the same.
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å = [ ö = ; ä = ' Å = { Ö = : Ä = " I have my computer set so I can type in english, swedish, french, spanish and russian. BTW - it's the pronunciation that I find difficult with Swedish. Grammar to me isn't all that difficult - in most respects Swedish is easier than any other language I have attempted to study. I always feel it's extremely important to get the pronunciation down though when first learning a language because it avoids picking up bad habits. I'm sure I can learn swedish in no time if I just pronunced everything with an american pronuciation. The vowels sound so similar to each other in Swedish - I have to listen over and over to the cd on how those sound so I can pick up the differences.
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JD, I change my keyboard settings too but it drives me nuts, with the keys in different places! Especially when you use the Swedish one with one person and English with other people --> frustrating stuff. |
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11-28-2004, 02:16 AM | #1640 |
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I was wondering if there are any rules for determining if a vowel should be long or short. In english there are mostly some rules - like a vowel followed by "e" - like safe. Or is this just a matter of actually hearing the words and memorizing them?
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