Learning Swedish language

[flyi...@my-dejanews.com]

My oldest daughter and I are learning Swedish.
We cant have an outside antenna but do listen
to Radio Sweden english broadcast on the internet.
We would love to listen and understand the regular
Swedish segment. I think it would be nice if Radio
Sweden had a 5 minute per week program on learning
the basic Swedish language. Also is there a forum
on learning the Swedish language. Thanks

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[gwo...@my-dejanews.com]

Hi,

Sorry about taking so long to get back to you...it's been that kind of
week here at Radio Sweden!

We used to have a series called "Swedish by Radio", but that was about
20 years ago. Right now we have nothing. From time to time we do get
letters like yours, but we just don't have the resources to do a proper
new program.

But if you've mastered a little Swedish, may I suggest listening to
Radio Sweden's programs in Swedish, which are also available over the
Internet. It's my experience that our Swedish section speaks slower and
more clearly than the people making programs for the domestic service.
It may be an old habit so people listening on shortwave through fading
and interference could still understand.

At least you can get a feel for the language, and the pronounciation
(which I think is the hardest part about learning Swedish--the grammar
is pretty easy).

I'm sorry we can't help more.

George Wood
Radio Sweden

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[flyi...@my-dejanews.com]

>Thanks George for the reply.Took your advice. We are now listening
to both the English and the Swedish section of Radio Sweden. Im only
understanding every fifth word in Swedish but at least Im hearing the
pronouncation. It still is fast though.Enjoying listening to Radio
Sweden more and more.

I did get a nice Email from another Radio Sweden listener living in
Sweden that saw my post on Radio Sweden TalkBack.She is going to send
me the address of the author and publisher of a Swedish/English grammer
book,and CDRM that she is using to learn the language.

By using both methods, my oldest daughter and I hope to learn
conversational Swedish, so on our next family vacation to Sweden at
least the two of us will be able to speak the native language.( Last
time almost everyone we talked to,except a few older people, spoke
English and I had no problem getting around.I had a great vacation).

I think its great that Sweden has a mandatory bilingual system. I wish
the United States public schools had such a mandatory system.

Keep well all. Tack sa mycket

[gwo...@my-dejanews.com]

Hi,

Like most of the foreign-born Radio Sweden staffers, I have billingual
children. In our case we were lucky that we could be part of the
founding of an English language daycare center when the first one was
still small. So both kids got a solid background in English, even though
their mother is Swedish.

One of the public schools in Stockholm has a program for English native
speakers, but we chose to put our kids in the local Swedish school,
partly so they would have local friends, but mostly because while their
English was good, they needed help with their Swedish. Now both are
billingual. There's something called "hemspråk" or "home language" in
the schools, which means kids who speak another language at home get
some class time every week in that language. Some Swedes object to it,
parents often complain that it isn't enough, and some parents cheat
their kids out of a second language by not sending them. But on the
whole, it's a very good thing.

We spent two months in California earlier this year. The kids went to an
ordinary school there, and did just fine.

Take care,

George Wood
Radio Sweden

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