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  • 14-06-2010 02:26PM
    #1
    anna.fun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 96 ✭✭


    I started a swedish course in college recently. Eventhough my pronounciation is still rather bad, it's not too hard to learn the grammar and vocabulary as it's quite similar to English and/or German.

    I really would like to go to Sweden. Unfortunately will not be able to go there any time soon...
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  • #2
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    You can probably meet Swedes locally. According the last census there was about 2000 living in the republic.


  • #3
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,529 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    I did a couple of Swedish evening courses back when I lived in Holland, and got on quite well. Actually I found the sentence structure being more similar to English than German a bit off-putting, but that was probably down to me having spent 20+ years in Germany and Holland at that point. I find now that I can read Swedish pretty well, can just about manage to speak it and make myself understood, but when a real Swedish person speaks at a normal speed I'm completely and utterly lost!

    In my second year of learning, I spent 2 weeks in Uppsala doing this ...

    http://www.uiss.org/

    I had a fantastic time and I found my Swedish improved a lot .. I wish now I'd been able to spend a whole summer (8 weeks) there, and I reckon I'd be a lot better than I am now.


  • #4
    furis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭furis


    Alun wrote: »
    I did a couple of Swedish evening courses back when I lived in Holland, and got on quite well. Actually I found the sentence structure being more similar to English than German a bit off-putting, but that was probably down to me having spent 20+ years in Germany and Holland at that point. I find now that I can read Swedish pretty well, can just about manage to speak it and make myself understood, but when a real Swedish person speaks at a normal speed I'm completely and utterly lost!

    In my second year of learning, I spent 2 weeks in Uppsala doing this ...

    http://www.uiss.org/

    I had a fantastic time and I found my Swedish improved a lot .. I wish now I'd been able to spend a whole summer (8 weeks) there, and I reckon I'd be a lot better than I am now.

    Do not know where you are in Ireland, But there are a lot of swedes here in Cork, and in Dublin i know a few. I'm a Swede myself.

    If you are interested in getting some personal coaching just send me a pm :D


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