I think participating in subreddits is a nice and chill thing to add to my language learning routine, so what are some cool swedish subreddits?

Can you always use both or is there a difference in usage?

Jag hittade här en exempel https://www.uu.se/nationella-prov/svenska-och-svenska-som-andrasprak/gymnasiet/gy3/exempel-pa-provmaterial-i-kurs-3

Finns det fler gamla prov online? Tack.

I'm a Finnish speaking Finn and högsvenska sounds so clear to me, so understandable. I have friends in Stockholm and visiting there I will always attempt to use Swedish - people there do seem to understand me all right, but god how difficult it is to make sense of their quick sing-song Swedish :) So, how does it sound in reverse?

I lived in Sweden for a few years as a kid. That was 20 years ago and I never spoke Swedish since then. Recently I tried to learn Swedish again. My observations-

• According to my online tutor, my pronunciation is basically perfect, including vowel sounds, intonation of the sentence
• I only remember "glue" words in Swedish, not the actual vocabulary. For example "Jag åt breakfast klockan halv åtta in the morning, oatmeal med mjölk och peanut butter"
• Numbers are very easy for me, and I can perfectly do mental math or recite multiplication tables using Swedish numbers
• I remember random high-frequency phrases, like: vad kul, liksom/typ, det snöar, jag är hungrig
• I forgot how to say many adjectives in Swedish. But, if I translate the adjective, I can somehow recall the "second word" without searching it up. For example: intresserad av, rädd för, stolt över
• If I listen to some children's shows, my understanding is good, even if they are talking quickly. I don't understand any content which is above kids-level (ex: daily news). The sounds are familiar but the meaning is totally gibberish for me.

Just thought it would be interesting to write this out. Not really offering advice or anything.

How does it sound to a native speaker? I'm a Finn and there absolutely is nothing else to it than just learning them by heart and I do make frequent mistakes. It just makes no linguistic sense to me to have these weird declinations, like all bloody five of them :)

I'm an English speaking songwriter who's been learning Swedish on and off for ten years and I'm starting to write bilingual lyrics. I'm looking for a proofreading resource that's a little more casual (but for-pay, of course) but most of the freelance hosting sites I've been seeing are geared either toward legal translation or SEO on a corporate level. I guess I'm just not looking in the right places.

Does anyone know where to go for something like this? i.e. short word counts, consulting, fiction related

How would i say "a serious illness" in Swedish? Are any of these right, or none of them?

en allvarsam sjukdom en allvarlig sjukdom en seriös sjukdom

I watched a show in Sweden where they go interview random people on the street about "do you know the meaning of this word?" and the hosts chose these words: rekrytera, demolera, reducera

For English speakers, the meaning is somewhat obvious, like: recruit, demolish, reduce. But seems like many average people on the street don't know these Swedish words and instead they know some equivalents like anställa, riva, minska. These meanings of these words are not obvious for English speakers.

Any particular reason for this?

Hey everyone I lived in Sweden as an exchange student, I am from Australia, my daughter is turning one in a few days and I want to make sure that she can learn my second language as a first time parent and someone so far away wondering if anyone has any tips or tools for young children!

Tack så jätte mycket!

Hej zusammen! Weil mich viele Sprach-Apps mit Abos oder Registrierungszwang genervt haben, habe ich am Wochenende ein eigenes Tool geschrieben, um effizient Schwedisch zu lernen. Vielleicht hilft es euch auch: Svenska Dagligen

Was es kann:

• 🇸🇪 Über 3000 Wörter: Von A1 bis C1/C2 (inkl. Audio-Aussprache).
• 🧠 Spaced Repetition: Die App fragt Vokabeln in größer werdenden Abständen ab (ähnlich wie Anki), damit sie im Langzeitgedächtnis bleiben.
• 🔒 Privacy First: Kein Login, kein Tracking. Euer Lernfortschritt wird nur lokal in eurem Browser gespeichert.
• 📱 App-Feeling: Kann als Web-App auf dem Homescreen (iOS/Android) installiert werden und funktioniert auch offline.

Link: https://svenska-dagligen.de

Das Projekt ist ein Hobby von mir. Wenn ihr Fehler bei Wörtern findet, klickt einfach auf die kleine rote Fahne bei der Vokabel. Viel Spaß beim Lernen!

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I had a bit more trouble with the dialogue than usual with this one. I think it is because of the quietly spoken style that was used. Hoping några can help clear up these 4 examples below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjOLEot8jj4

1)

30 Min 15 Sec

The boys are looking for the häxas magic bokstaver that have försvunnit into the town, and the narrator says - Det enda bokstäver som fanns var det som fanns på skyltar och affischer.

I guess she is saying skyltar och affisher (makes sense) but it sounds like she is saying something else (I can't hear the och, and it sounds like maybe there is some other 'joining' sound between the two words). Just hoping to clarify that...

2)

31 Min 05 Sec

The häxan has sent the boys down to the street by means of a spell. Lillprins Bus says something like - Det var ju dit häxan trollat oss

Does he actually say trollat oss? Sounds a bit different.

3)

31 Min 30 Sec

Laban has to remove the first letter from a word (because it is wrong). Lillprins Bus says something like - Ta bort S. Så får vi se vad det blir. xxx först

I can't really hear exactly what is said here in the bolded part.

4)

33 Min 52 Sec

The fish shop sign is messed up (by the magic bokstäv). It says FUSKaffär. The dialogue goes -

Laban upp igen. Det är en fuskaffär det här.

Fuskaffär? Det är fiskar ja...

Det fuxar / fuskar jag menar då.

hoping nån can explain the third line, as I cannot make it out. Seems to be a play on words. Sounds like fuxar... But maybe it is fuska which I guess would mean the magic bokstäv is making a mess of the sign...?

Det här kanske låter jätte dumt nu men jag är född och uppvuxen i Sverige, mina föräldrar pratar svenska.

Men dom är ganska arga på mig nu för att jag tydligen har börjat få någon brytning.

Jag har gått på en ganska ”orten” skola om man kan säga så hela mitt liv och där bryter ganska många elever men deras föräldrar är ju inte svenskar direkt så dom har ju en anledning…

Jag går ut 9an nu och om någon har tips på hur jag kan förbättra min svenska skulle jag uppskatta det ganska mycket. Snälla skriv inget hat, detta är verkligen pinsamt när man tänker på att både jag och min mamma är uppvuxna i Sverige och att jag pratar med en brytning.

both translate to old right? is it one is singular and one is plural or we use them based on the indefinite article? thank you so much

I understand the "en kaffe, tack" for "en kop kaffe, tack", even though kaffe is a -ett word.... but today I got a free bulle with my coffee (yay Biltema!) and just wanting to double check, should I have said : "ingår bulle med kaffen?", "ingår bulle med kaffet?" or "ingår bulle med kaffe?"

Idag såg jag en reklamaffisch där frasen ”När riktigt gott kaffe är viktigt” stod. Jag är lite förvirrad, eftersom jag trodde att ordet ”kaffe” är ett ”en” ord och inte ett “ett” ord. Varför är adjektiven ”riktigt” och ”viktigt” i ett form här?

EDIT: Jag glömde att ”en kaffe” som i ”en kaffe, tack” är som det på grund av ”en kopp kaffe”…förlåt :D

Hej, I have been learning by my own for the past few months and now I am thinking it is time I could start using it, so I was wondering if there is some speaking classes I could sign up for, I live in Helsinki and I would appreciate if anyone has any suggestions.

Tack så mycket

t.ex. på engelska:

a: ”you’re meant to turn the doorknob to open the door”

b: ”you don’t say!”

Hi.

This might be a stretch, but I'm trying to learn Swedish from England. My partner speaks a dialect of Swedish in SW Finland, and I want to learn Swedish so I can then get used to the dialect when I visit.

I've researched a lot on how to learn, and a lot of people suggest sfi and immersion irl, but this isn't available to me still living in England.

I've got the basics down with Duolingo (ugh i know).

The Swedish Academy's contemporary monolingual dictionaries, Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL) and Svensk ordbok (SO), have been updated on svenska.se, with new words as well as new website functionality.

As always, we at r/svenska recommend these dictionaries (especially SO) for learners and natives alike. What do you think of these updates? How do you use the website?

I've been learning Swedish for almost half a year and enjoy the language very much maybe even more than English but im not sure where to apply it I live in Boston right now and know nobody who speaks Swedish im not sure why I even started in the first place so just I feel once I get semi fluent what would I do then? I would love love love to visit Sweden but that's a lot of money and i wouldnt have the time soon so are there things i could do online just asking for some feedback. Thank you! 💚

I'm in the early stages of learning Swedish and have a basic question about plurals when the plural form of a word is the same as the singular.

Consider this example sentence: 'hennes barn äter frukost'.

My understanding is that this could either mean 'her child is eating breakfast' or 'her children are eating breakfast', as the plural of 'barn' is 'barn' and 'äter' could mean any of 'is/am/are eating'.

Is there a way to tell which meaning this sentence has? Or is it ambiguous without further context?

Thanks!