Customer Reviews

Colloquial Swedish (Colloquial Series)

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The way the book is presented on amazon is very misleading. First it is offered with Colloquial Swedish (Colloquial Series (Book Only)) (Paperback) at the price of 68 $ and by being so you might thing it is workbook to the first ,offered with the cassettes and the Cd-s. This fact is reinforces when you read the product description: first 344pages, this one 288 pages. YOU are wrong. It is the same book in both cases the difference is that on the second package you receive the cd-s and cassettes, so if you fell for the trick and buy both for 68 $(thinking there are two different products from the same learning package) you would end like me: buying two,identical books. The reason I am not returning the first one is that shipping from Romania to USA is expensive and takes a lot of time so I will have to keep it or try to sell it.

Anyway this particular package priced ad 42$ is quite good and really helps you with your first steps in Swedish. There are 17 chapters focusing on the vocabulary you would need in various situations from day-to-day life: from introducing yourself to cooking, going on holiday, learning.In every chapter basic grammar issues or rules are discussed.

I am giving this product only 4 stars because I a feel cheated by amazon.

I purchased this book as it was required for a "Beginners 2" class at the Swedish American Museum in Chicago. It's very informative as far as grammar goes; however, some of the vocabulary is a bit extreme. I'm not sure when I'll use many of the words that I'm being exposed to. There is a CD that's available; however, I was not offered it when I purchased the book. I think that it should be "suggested" to get the CD as well, which helps a lot for pronunciation. Love the class and looking forward to surprising some relatives with my improved Swedish!

I have bought this book based on the review of the users. It appeared to be a really nice book, although I didnt know that it also has audio cds that I had to buy separately, this is a really good book. All the explanations are detailed with examples and pronunciations.I would recommend you to buy this book if you are a beginner who wanted to learn swedish.

The book arrived in perfect condition. Originally the expected arrival date was about three weeks, but it arrived in about one week.

It came in a very reasonable amount of time, & I have been very pleased with it, I feel I have learned more in a shorter amount of time that with the other much older language program I was using.