Customer Reviews

Swedish (Compact) [CD]

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I have been studying Swedish for about a year and found this program (I had the CD's) very useful, even though much of the vocabulary was familiar. The repetition is great but the best part is hearing the language as it is actually spoken (i.e. dropping the "t" out of "det", the "g" from "jag" and "och" is prounounced "Oh".) The CD's are also quite good about drilling you in the hard-to-get double-falling tone of certain two syllable Swedish words.

I wish I had had this before I went to Sweden last summer.
It is disappointingly short, but definitely worth buying.

10 disc set is good for getting your toes wet but is incredibly short and a little too repetitive for my tastes. For example, I didn't need to be told that "klockan nio" was nine o'clock at least fifteen times, I had that mastered after two times. One realizes after completing the discs that not much material has really been covered. On the other hand, it is great for getting to know the flavor of the language and helps with pronounciation. I used it as complement to the Rosetta Stone software and various grammar books I purchased in attempting to teach myself the language. I considered it a good purchase but it is a bit pricey for what you are getting.

i'm decent at picking up a new language, so this might be biased: i found this series to be quite useful, in large part because you hear someone speaking the language so frequently during the lesson... i'm on lesson 6 and can at least understand responses when i speak swedish with other swedes... where this fails is the "reading accompaniment" - it is only for getting to know how words sound, and really should also define the word and perhaps even give the user homework to do: i.e., verbs to study, conjugations to practice... overall, for a beginners series, this was very useful and i use it on the plane, in the car... much better than the Rosetta Stone series, where i'd be parked in front of the computer... at least for listening comprehension, Pimsleur's got Rosetta beat.

This is a great study guide to buy. Each lession is 30 minutes long so i just play them in the morning when im getting ready for school. This is coming from a A-D-D 21 year old that has trouble with memorizing and picking up things quickly. i was so surprised with how easy they break it down. This product is for anyone that thinks they cant do it!

I got Pimsleur Swedish from our local library, not here.

The language material is well presented, but extremely limited due to the high level of repetition. The repetition is great for learning, but when you're done with the 5 CDs, you've learned about 50 words. The effect is sort of like Dr Seuss, without the humor.

I appreciate the good timing, which gives the student plenty of time to repeat every sentence. It's also good for practicing intonation. But you need about 5x as many CDs to learn a useful piece of Swedish.

Let me first say that I am a huge fan of Pimsleur Spanish... It's by far the greatest language product I've ever come across. Russian is also amazing and the best. I highly recommend Pimsleur to people but the Swedish product is not up to the standard of the others.

It's of course the great Pimsleur method but it is too short and doesn't nearly cover the amount of material that would be covered in 10 lessons of the Spanish course... The middle 4-5 lessons have you saying "I want something to eat" or drink non-stop over and over and over again... It's ridiculous how little you learn in the middle 50% of this product.

There were so many more useful verbs and things to be covered and half the product is wasted on saying you want something to eat. It gets incredibly annoying and then picks up the learning pace towards the end in a way that should have been maintained throughout. Overall not terribly useful or well planned.