Customer Reviews

Swedish

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I started learning Swedish phrases through reading this book but come to find out when I had a real Swede tutor me later on that the pronunciation of the words and phrases in the book were mostly wrong. It is a good book to learn quick vocabulary and phrases but be sure to learn the correct pronunciation first!

Swedish is a very difficult language for Americans to pronounce. It's a double tone language. In other words, you often stress more than one syllable in the same word. This sounds kinda silly to English speakers. You simply cannot look at this book (or any book) and try to speak Swedish. What is good about this book is the pronuniation guide that appears beside each word. This makes it possible that you won't sound silly every time you try to speak Swedish. Once you have been in Sweden and listened to the way they speak, you can use this book's pronunication guides and try to immitate the Swedes.

But, this book is really only for travelers, and travelers don't need to speak Swedish. Most Swedes speak English very well.

This book/cassette is a bit dated, with too much use of the polite form and of more formal phrases. Nonetheless, a booklet plus a cassette is the best way to become familiar with a language on your own. The booklet covers most situations quite well. The cassette is difficult to follow without the book, so drivers beware!

I've read reviews of this and other Swedish introductions that say the pronounciation is wrong. The truth is that pronouciation varies, depending where in Sweden you are. The Swedes don't volunteer this information, so it's easy to get confused. The good news is that it's difficult to pronouce something so horribly that you won't be understood, so just give it a try and learn!

IT'S GOT ALL THE THINGS YOU NEED TO SAY OR UNDERSTAND ON YOUR TRIP, THE PICTURES AND THE LAYOUT AND THE PAGES ARE VERY NICE, I RECOMMEND IT!

It is a really useful book for people with no time to learn swedish using the long way. Practical words, phrases, idioms, and expresions. If you only want to communicate accurate in many situations without any idea what the swedish is, This is the right book, the cassete is very interactive. Don't forget you Swedish dicctionary Berlitz also, is really good despite its size. Both, are easy to carry on with you all time.

My husband wanted to have this book and actually he likes it because he wanted to reconnect with his roots. He is learning fast sentences and unusual words. It's easy understanding book for this difficult language.

received in great shape book was in great shape like the updates to the language also liked the print and the pronunciation guide was very helpful very pleased with the book

It's a good book for english speaking person, because the phrases are written how a Swed would have said it. Now, if a swedish person are reading it, it all looks all messed up, but it looks very logic for en English speaking person.

This was the first book of "svenska" I got to help me "talar" it, and once I had the little berlitz dictionary and this book combined to witness a bit of grammar, they both make a wonderful combination. It depends on the person to who finds one method useful and who finds it useless to their capability to learn. THis is just one method out of several to learn a language. :)

I purchased this tape and book package to acquaint myself with Swedish for a trip we are taking. I wanted to listen to it during my work commute. The tape is hard to follow without the book, is not consistent with information in the book and moves ahead much too quickly for a beginner. Don't bother.