Colloquial Swedish: The Complete Course for Beginners

✍ Scribed by Jennie Ahlgren, Philip Holmes and Gunilla Serin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is surprisingly unhelpful. For those taking Danish as their first foreign language the book will be confusing; it will be frustrating for those who have several languages under their belt and are familiar with grammar. For example, the genitive case is introduced without a good explanation of what the genitive case is, or even explaining what a "case" is. The phonetics section is hopelessly confused; they use the same symbols for completely different sounds ([e] for the vowels in English 'sin' and French 'les'), and symbols that don't correspond at all to how my native Danish-speaking professor pronounces things. I'm going to check out the Comprehensive version from the library and hope that this book, as a pared-down version, merely suffers from bad editing.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series Title......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Preface: Using this book......Page 10
Note on some grammatical terms used......Page 13
Note on forms used in the vocabulary lists......Page 14
Pronunciation, stress and accents......Page 17
1 Hej!: Hi!......Page 29
2 Rebecca, en student: Rebecca, a student......Page 41
3 Att resa: Travelling......Page 54
4 På semester: On holiday......Page 70
5 Matlagning: Cooking......Page 87
6 Att bli sambo: Moving in together......Page 105
7 På stan: In town......Page 120
8 På universitetet: At the university......Page 136
9 Före och efter festen: Before and after the party......Page 153
10 En svensk familj: A Swedish family......Page 170
11 Johanna och hennes vänner: Johanna and her friends......Page 184
12 Bills bilresa: Bill’s car journey......Page 197
13 Skogsvandring: A walk in the forest......Page 211
14 En recension: A review......Page 225
15 Kära mormor!: Dear Grandma......Page 240
16 Aj, min tå!: Ouch, my toe!......Page 253
17 En speciell dag: A special day......Page 269
Grammar summary......Page 283
Key to exercises......Page 293
Swedish–English glossary......Page 312
English–Swedish glossary......Page 336
Grammatical index......Page 350

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Шведский язык;