Comments on: You Will Be Assimilated

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:56:41 +0000

I agree that the Local is a bit biased, but they do have some interesting articles. Have you noticed you can use a new Tyda.se feature which translates words, gives definitions and has an audio sound clip for “uttal”. Another website to check out is 8sidor.se this is a web-based Swedish news with “read speaker” feature that reads the articles in Swedish so you can listen and learn. I like this to become familar with pronunciation and grammatics. Another saying is “When in Rome…Do as the Romans Do”, so immersing oneself in Swedish language and embracing the Swedish way will help one adjust to living there as a new immigrant. I have yet to move to Sweden, but it will happen in the future and I plan to be ready! Thanks Anna for your wonderful blog! and Thanks Ceci for introduding me to it! Hej då! Linda c”,)

By: Lizbeth

Lizbeth — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:46:32 +0000

My husband and I visited Swedish friends June 2008. We are from Mississippi and have lived here all of our lives.
After being there a few days, shopping, having parties and sightseeing, I was shocked to realize how similar most aspects of our lives are. From banking to restaurants, transportation to grocery stores, I felt very comfortable. Now, I want to learn Swedish so I can read those headlines next time we’re there. Thanks!

By: timan

timan — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:02:32 +0000

As usual , the topic is seminal.based on subjective judgement as well as objective one.when i was child i used to travel across the country ,later i’ve got a lesson , one must not tilt at windmill..the world is just the Big pic of any country , everywhere humankind are quite similar…u’ll hear this and that..Londoner are Conservatives (introvert),Mancunian”Manchesterian” are Liberals(extrovert),check out.. a cheeky person owns half of the world!Dutch proverb.A mountain doesn’t reach out to mountain,But a man Is reaching out to a man..Afghanistan prov..

By: nick

nick — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:56:21 +0000

Hej Anna!
I have never read the ‘Local’ but a similar example of a great-publication-idea-ruined-by-editorial-slant, which you might remember, was an ‘easy swedish’ newspaper called ’8 sidor.’ It had a website for a while but for years published an actual newsletter which we subscribed to in the UK. But the content! From reading some articles in it you would think that Sweden was the most depressing, intolerant, racist, weird nation on earth. All my experiences in Sweden have been 100% different so I just could not take this seriously. At the time, it was the only thing we had of this sort available in the UK so we put up with it for a while just to practice the Swedish. Don’t get me wrong, 90% of the articles were fine, about sport, general news, travel etc. but because of the slant of the rest of it, we gave up after a while So, moving on from the article about The Local and 8 Sidor… can you recommend another alternative printed easy-swedish newspaper?

Or better still..! Taking French as an example, I know of some fantastic resources, the likes of which I would really really really like to see for Swedish, but never have. The idea is to provide ‘transliterations.’ The printed audiomagazine I get is called ‘Champs Elysées’ and another great website resource is called ‘Yabla:’ http://french.yabla.com/home.php . Basically the idea is that you get listen to lots of articles spoken by native speakers and at the same time you see a word-for-word exact transliteration in text. Any idea if such things are available for swedish learners? Thanks

By: ceci

ceci — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:17:30 +0000

hej!!! i realized that swedes are courious, but in a good sense! and as someone said: the problem of sswedish, is english…(or something like that heheh) and i think it is totally true
hej da anna!
ceci