Ian Hinchliffe - Basic Swedish

p.i BASIC SWEDISH Basic Swedish: A Grammar and Workbook combines an accessible basic reference grammar and related exercises in one volume, and covers most of the topics that students might expect to deal with in their first year of learning Swedish. Each of the 25 units discusses one or more grammar topics, with examples that are subsequently practised in the exercises that follow. The book introduces the contemporary language against a backdrop of Swedish culture, society, geography, customs and history. Each unit ends with a cultural text that outlines an aspect of Swedish culture and exemplifies and consolidates the grammar topic examined in the unit. Features include: clear grammatical explanations with examples in Swedish and English vocabulary based on a major corpus of written Swedish in order to guarantee authenticity and relevance cross-references to other units over 100 exercises with a key to all the correct answers full vocabulary list at the end of the book. The book is suitable both for independent study and for class use.

It can be used by absolute beginners and those who have advanced a little further. Dr Ian Hinchliffe is a translator based in Sweden and has previously taught Swedish at universities in the UK, as well as in Norway. Dr Philip Holmes is Reader Emeritus in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Hull, UK, and is now a translator and language editor. p.ii Other titles available in the Grammar Workbooks series are: Basic Arabic Basic Cantonese Intermediate Cantonese Basic Chinese Intermediate Chinese Basic Dutch Intermediate Dutch Basic German Intermediate German Basic Irish Intermediate Irish Basic Italian Basic Japanese Intermediate Japanese Basic Korean Intermediate Korean Intensive Basic Latin Intensive Intermediate Latin Basic Persian Intermediate Persian Basic Polish Intermediate Polish Basic Portuguese Basic Russian Intermediate Russian Basic Spanish Intermediate Spanish Basic Swedish Basic Welsh Intermediate Welsh Basic Yiddish For more information on the series, please visit: www.routledge.com/languages/series/SE0519 p.iii BASIC SWEDISH:
A GRAMMAR AND
WORKBOOK Ian Hinchliffe and Philip Holmes p.iv First published 2018
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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Hinchliffe, Ian author. | Holmes, Philip, 1944- author. Title: Basic Swedish : a grammar and workbook / Ian Hinchliffe and Philip Holmes. Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2017. paper) | ISBN 9781138779570 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781351169684 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Swedish languageTextbooks for foreign speakersEnglish. | Swedish languageGrammar. | Swedish languageGrammar.

Classification: LCC PD5112 .H46 2017 | DDC 439.78/2421dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017046177 ISBN: 978-1-138-77956-3 (hbk)
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by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon, UK p.vii We thank Wendy Davies for her illustrations and Inga-Beth Hinchliffe and Sofia Malmgrd for proofing the manuscript, and checking the authenticity of the examples, exercises and texts in Swedish. We also wish to thank our many students over the years for teaching us so much. Last but not least, we thank you for buying this book. One day, maybe the royalties from sales will pay for all the coffee we drank and the late-night candles we burned to produce it. p.viii Basic Swedish is aimed at beginners and learners seeking to improve their skills in Swedish. Each of the 25 units discusses one or more grammar topics, contrasted with English where appropriate.

After working systematically through the book, the user should be able to read, write and understand Swedish, and, with a little practice and confidence, hold a simple conversation in Swedish. For simplicitys sake, grammatical explanations are deliberately kept brief; for a more exhaustive treatment of exceptions and idiosyncrasies, readers are advised to consult one of the other reference works on Swedish published by Routledge: Colloquial Swedish by Philip Holmes, Jennie Svenberg and Gunilla Serin Swedish: An Essential Grammar by Philip Holmes and Ian Hinchliffe Swedish: A Comprehensive Grammar by Philip Holmes and Ian Hinchliffe Structure of the book The order of the grammar topics follows what the experience of the authors as teachers has led them to consider to be the natural requirements of the learner, with a logical progression from the simple building bricks of the language to more complex applications of grammar. The importance of learning word order and sentence structure at an early stage is emphasised throughout the book, which is why no fewer than five units deal with this. There are also units introducing pronunciation and word formation. The vocabulary has been carefully selected to include the thousand most common words in Swedish, and is introduced on a cumulative basis. There is a full vocabulary list at the end of the book.

The exercises that accompany each unit allow the user to practise and consolidate the respective topic. A key to the exercises follows . To aid understanding, grammatical terms that are italicised in the text are briefly explained in the glossary of grammatical terms at the end of the book. p.ix Cultural texts Swedish is a living language reflecting a vibrant and distinctive culture and history, one that is often relatively unfamiliar to many English-speakers. The cultural texts that accompany the units offer brief insights into relevant aspects of contemporary life and society, language, customs and some key periods in Swedish history. They are written in such a way as to include a number of examples of the specific grammar topic dealt with in the respective unit.

These cultural texts often include more advanced vocabulary than that used in the exercises. However, with the help of the workbooks vocabulary list, learners should be able to read and understand these texts, which are usually introduced with a Swedish flag. p.1 Introduction Swedish is spoken by around 10 million people, which means that it is not a major world language. Nevertheless, it is still a language spoken by a relatively large number of people, coming 85th out of about 6,000 languages spoken in the world. Swedish is spoken in a geographically clearly distinct and restricted area; it is the language of more than 90% of people living in Sweden and about 5% of those living in Finland, where it is also an official language. It is also a language that has been cultivated and studied assiduously over the centuries, possessing standardised spelling conventions and reliable reference books in the form of dictionaries and grammars.