Berlitz Swedish (Berlitz Cassette Pack) (Audio Cassette)

by Berlitz Publishing (Author) "This section is designed to familiarize you with the sounds of Swedish using our simplified phonetic transcription..." (more)
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Product Description
This completely revised and updated audio/book pack gives you a practical, quick and convenient way to communicate in Swedish. The 90-minute audio cassette and latest edition of our best-selling Phrase Book & Dictionary provide the conversational skills you'll need to handle a variety of situation while traveling abroad—from ordering a meal and reserving a hotel room to asking for directions and finding emergency help. Dialogues featuring native speakers present over 400 essential expressions. The flexible format allows listening and repeating in your car, at home or on the go. The quick-reference, color-coded phrase book includes more than 1,200 useful words and phrases, travel tips, dictionary, and pronunciation guide.

About the Author
In January 2003, the renowned Berlitz Publishing became part of the Langenscheidt Group. The Langenscheidt Publishing Group, the premier group of map and travel companies, offers over 4,000 North American and international street maps, road maps, atlases, language-learning, bilingual dictionaries, and travel-related products covering countries, cities, and languages in every continent. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette: 224 pages
• Publisher: Berlitz Guides; Book and Cassette edition (August 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 2831572010
• ISBN-13: 978-2831572017
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,843,593 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for vocabulary but not speaking, October 18, 1999

By	Shane Taylor ([e-mail]) "linux@orio... (Elberton, Georgia) - See all my reviews

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!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Usable Pronunciation Guide in Book, May 31, 2001

By	Henry Reike "Son of Herman" (East Texas USA) - See all my reviews

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.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A bit out of date but helpful, October 20, 2000

By A Customer

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!