what are your tips for learning swedish if any?? (specifically for someone who is a beginning learner if it changes your answer)
A beginner should first learn grammar, and luckily Swedish grammar isn’t so hard, so it won’t take you long to learn it all, especially if you already know at least one germanic language. Choose one book which is going to be your main source for grammar lessons (you can find some here and here)
Obviously, with grammar come words, so after every grammar lesson you should make a list of new words and then write several sentences for each word. Try making sentences weird, like the duolingo does, because it will be easier to remember, trust me. Now, for new words I also strongly recommend using any flashcards app, because this way you can study while riding a buss or waiting at the doctor’s for example. At the beginning, write the definition of the words in your native language, but once you’re at A1 level start writing them in Swedish (en far, fäder = manlig förälder, pappa). Here’s the example of different parts of speech and how you should write them on your flashcards:
Nouns | write the prepositive article (if it’s utrum (en) or neutrum (ett)) and then the noun, and then its plural form: en hund, hundar. So why only these two when there are 4 forms of nouns? Because if you know these two forms, you will know the remaining two. Just turn you prepositive article to postpositive (it means to transfer en/ett from left of the noun to the right, like this: en hund, hunden | ett hus, huset,) and boom, you have a definite singular noun. To build a definite plural noun you just have to add a suffix to the end of indefinite plural form (hundar, hundarna). There are rules in every grammar book, so learn them and you’ll know how to build any form of a noun
Verbs | if it’s irregular, sorry you have to write all forms and learn them by heart, but if it’s regular, you only need to write its present and preterite form (talar, talade | läser, läste). Learn the rules and only based on these two forms you will be able to build imperative, present and past perfect forms, participles
Adjectives | there are rules for the way regular adjectives build their comparative and superlative forms, but irregular are tricky, so write those down and learn them, because they are used very often (gammal, äldre, äldst). Adjectives also change depending on the noun, so if it’s neutrum you gotta add -t and if it’s plural form add -a to the utrum form (gammal, gammalt, gamla)
Other | other parts of speech are usually only have one form, but if you come across one that doesn’t, be sure to write it down
I know all of this could seem complicated to an absolute beginner, but with the good grammar book everything will seem easy, so choose the one that you understand the best
This, this and this are the online dictionaries that I use
Once you’ve been studying for some time, try to expose yourself to the language as much as possible, so listen to music and watch literally anything with Swedish subtitles (movies, tv series, documentaries, kid shows, youtube videos) and of course read books. On the links I left earlier in the post you can find online books, so check those out. Hope this was helpful
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