Holmes - Colloquial Swedish

Colloquial

Swedish

Colloquial Swedish provides a step-by-step course in Swedish as it is written and spoken today.

Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Swedish in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

This thoroughly revised new edition features:

progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills and an increased focus on functional language

structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar

an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises

realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios

useful vocabulary lists throughout the text

additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary and bilingual glossaries

Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Swedish is an indispensable resource both for independent learners and for students taking courses in Swedish.

Colloquials are now supported by FREE AUDIO available online. All audio tracks referenced within the text are free to stream or download from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio complements the book and will help enhance learners listening and speaking skills.

By the end of this course, you will have reached Level B1 of the Common European Framework for Languages and at least the Intermediate level on the ACTFL proficiency scales.

THE COLLOQUIAL SERIES

Series Adviser: Gary King

The following languages are available in the Colloquial series:

Afrikaans

Albanian

Amharic

Arabic (Levantine)

Arabic of Egypt

Arabic of the Gulf

Basque

Bengali

Breton

Bulgarian

Burmese

Cambodian

Cantonese

Catalan

Chinese (Mandarin)

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dutch

English

Estonian

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Gujarati

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Icelandic

Indonesian

Irish

Italian

Japanese

Kazakh

Korean

Latvian

Lithuanian

Malay

Mongolian

Norwegian

Punjabi

Persian

Polish

Portuguese

Portuguese of Brazil

Romanian

Russian

Scottish Gaelic

Serbian

Slovak

Slovene

Somali

Spanish

Spanish of Latin America

Swahili

Swedish

Tamil

Thai

Tibetan

Turkish

Ukrainian

Urdu

Vietnamese

Welsh

Yiddish

Yoruba

Zulu (forthcoming)

COLLOQUIAL 2s series: The Next Step in Language Learning

Chinese

Dutch

French

German

Italian

Portuguese of Brazil

Russian

Spanish

Spanish of Latin America

Colloquials are now supported by FREE AUDIO available online.
All audio tracks referenced within the text are free to stream or download from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. If you experience any difficulties accessing the audio on the companion website, or still require to purchase a CD, please contact our customer services team through www.routledge.com/info/contact.

Colloquial

Swedish

The Complete Course for Beginners

Philip Holmes, Jennie Svenberg and Gunilla Serin

Fourth edition published 2016

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2016 Philip Holmes, Jennie Svenberg and The Estate of Gunilla Serin

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First edition published by Routledge 1990

Second edition published by Routledge 1996

Third edition published by Routledge 2007

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Holmes, Philip, 1944 author.

Colloquial Swedish : the complete course for beginners / Philip Holmes, Jennie Svenberg and Gunilla Serin. Fourth Edition.

pages cm

Includes index.

1. Swedish languageGrammar. 2. Swedish languageSpoken Swedish. 3. Swedish languageTextbooks for foreign speakersEnglish. I. Svenberg, Jennie, author. II. Serin, Gunilla. III. Title.

PD5112.H65 2016

439.782421dc23

2015031151

ISBN: 978-1-138-90716-4 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-69514-3 (ebk)

Typeset in Helvetica and Avant Garde

by Florence Production Ltd, Stoodleigh, Devon, UK

Additional materials are available on the companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials

Contents

1 Hej!
Hi!

In this unit you will learn about:

How to introduce yourself

Verbs in the present tense

Personal pronouns

Gender of nouns

Two types of question

How to give short answers

Pronunciation of vowel sounds

How to ask for things and say thanks

How rarely Swedes use capital letters

2 Rebecca, en student
Rebecca, a student

In this unit you will learn about:

How to say where you live and where you come from

Verbs in the infinitive and present tense

The gender of nouns and the articles

Time expressions

Straight and inverted word order

Numerals from 1 to 12

The pronunciation of g-, k-, sk-

How to say yes and no

How to greet people

Word order in questions

Patterns in statements and questions

What kind of country Sweden is

3 Att resa
Travelling

In this unit you will learn about:

Asking questions

Adverbs and their position in the sentence

The s-genitive

Days of the week and parts of the day

Numerals from 13 to 1,000

How to pronounce sj-, stj-, skj-, sch-, -si-, -ti-, tj-, kj-

The negatives inte, ej, icke

Time by the clock

Verbs for motion and travel

Two-verb constructions

Travel to and within Sweden

4 P semester
On holiday

In this unit you will learn about:

How to book a hotel room on the internet

Two-verb constructions with adverbs

Objects, MPT-expressions and the sentence pattern

Possessive pronouns

The plural forms of nouns

The indefinite declension of adjectives

How to pronounce s, j, r and other consonants

How to translate the verb to be

Points of the compass

Ordinal numbers

Words for months and dates

The town of Lund

How to express centuries and decades