Phil Holmes - Colloquial Swedish

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title	:	Colloquial Swedish : The Complete Course for Beginners Colloquial Series; 3rd Ed.
author	:	Ahlgren, Jennie.; Holmes, Philip; Serin, Gunilla.
publisher	:	Taylor & Francis Routledge
isbn10 | asin	:	041536275X
print isbn13	:	9780415362757
ebook isbn13	:	9780203012741
language	:	English
subject	Swedish language--Grammar, Swedish language--Spoken Swedish, Swedish language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.
publication date	:	2007
lcc	:	PD5112.A45 2007eb
ddc	:	439.78/2421
subject	:	Swedish language--Grammar, Swedish language--Spoken Swedish, Swedish language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.

Page i Colloquial Swedish Page ii 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 and Saudi Arabia *Basque Breton Bulgarian Cambodian Cantonese Catalan Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek *Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Malay Mongolian Norwegian *Panjabi Persian Polish Portuguese Portuguese of Brazil Romanian Russian Scottish Gaelic Serbian Slovak Slovene *Somali Spanish Spanish of Latin America Swahili Swedish Tamil Thai Turkish Ukrainian *Urdu Vietnamese Welsh COLLOQUIAL CD-ROMsMultimedia Language Courses Chinese Spanish French Portuguese Accompanying cassette(s) and CDs are available for all the above titles (cassettes only for the titles marked with *). They can be ordered through your bookseller, or send payment with order to Routledge Ltd, ITPS, Cheriton House, North Way, Andover, Hants SP10 5BE, or to Routledge Inc, 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016, USA. COLLOQUIAL 2s SeriesThe Next Step in Language Learning Dutch Russian Chinese French Spanish Italian Spanish of Latin America Page iii The Complete Course for Beginners Jennie Ahlgren, Philip Holmes and Gunilla Serin LONDONANDNEW YORK Page iv First published 1990
by Routledge Revised edition published 1996 This edition first published 2007
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To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledges collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk. 2007 Jennie Ahlgren, Philip Holmes and Gunilla Serin All rights reserved. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
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British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ahlgren, Jennie.
Colloquial Swedish: a complete language course/Jennie Ahlgren,
Philip Holmes & Gunilla Serin. 3rd ed.
p. cm. (Colloquial series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
(pbk. : alk. paper) 1. paper) 1.

Swedish language Grammar.
2. Swedish language Spoken Swedish. 3. Swedish language
Textbooks for foreign speakers English. I. Holmes, Philip,
1944 II.

Serin, Gunilla. III. Title. IV. Series.
PD5112.A45 2006
439.782421 dc22 2006003028 ISBN 0-203-01274-7 Master e-book ISBN ISBN13: 978-0415-36275-7 (pbk) ISBN13: 978-0415-36272-6 (Print Edition) (audio cassettes) ISBN13: 978-0415-36273-3 (Print Edition) (audio CDs) ISBN13: 978-0415-36274-0 (Print Edition) (pack) Page v

Acknowledgements	vii
Preface: using this book
Note on some grammatical terms used
Note on forms used in the vocabulary lists
Pronunciation, stress and accents
	Hej! Hi!
	Rebecca, en student Rebecca, a student
	Att resa Travelling
	P semester On holiday
	Matlagning Cooking
	Att bli sambo Moving in together
	P stan In town
	P universitetet At the university

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	Fre och efter festen Before and after the party
	En svensk familj A Swedish family
	Johanna och hennes vnner Johanna and her friends
	Bills bilresa Bills car journey
	Skogsvandring A walk in the forest
	En recension A review
	Kra mormor! Dear Grandma
	Aj, min t! Ouch, my toe!
	En speciell dag A special day
Grammar summary
Key to exercises
SwedishEnglish glossary
EnglishSwedish glossary
Grammatical index

Page vii We extend our grateful thanks to Olle Kjellin for advice on the presentation of stress, Gunnel Clarke for many valuable suggestions notably in the section on accent, and to Ian Hinchliffe for allowing us to use ideas and examples from Swedish: An Essential Grammar. Phil would also like to thank Elly Johansson without whom he would not have been able to write this book. We thank all our students over the years for teaching us so much, and particularly first-year students who have taken such a positive interest in improving this book.

Special thanks go to Wendy Davies for the users insight. Page viii This page intentionally left blank. Page 1

Using this book We have designed this book for anyone wishing to acquire basic conversational Swedish, that is the grammar, pronunciation and intonation as well as basic vocabulary and a range of phrases necessary for communicating different needs. We also provide you with some background information about Sweden, its regions, history, traditions and way of life. Each of the seventeen units contains three passages aNext page