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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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difficult and tedious
Although the two CDs cover a lot of material and the price is low, this course consists of nothing but vocabulary words and phrases to memorize, with no explanations of grammar or usage.For me at least, this has got to be one of the most difficult, boring and uninspiring ways to attempt to learn a language.

This type of course might be useful if you were a tourist on a short visit to a country where no one spoke English and you only needed to memorize some survival phrases.But it's not so useful for Sweden. ... Read more

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This best-selling Swedish Travelers Guide has been Revised for easier navigation for Kindle 2. This book has been maximized for easy Navigation. Quickly find the words you need while traveling.

About this Swedish Book:
Swedish Book of Phrases and Translations for Traveler's and Anyone needing Swedish Translations Quickly.

If you want to learn quick, concise, Swedish phrases, then this is the book guide for you!
This Swedish Dictionary Type Book has all the phrases you will ever need while traveling.
Whether you're going on a vacation, or just living in an area of the country with a high Swedish speaking population, this little 'MiniBook' can help you to understand some things you couldn't before and actually have small conversations with other Swedish-speakers. Here's a short and simple list of what you will find inside this little gem:

Learn Basic Conversational Phrases Like: 'How Are You?', 'My Name Is', 'What Is Your Name?', 'Do You Speak English?', 'Hello', 'Goodbye', 'Please', 'Thank You', 'I Don't Understand', and Many Other common English to Swedish Transalations.
Pronunciation Tables For Vowels, Consonants, and Diphthongs In The Swedish Language
Learn How To Say Specific Words in Swedish Such As: Colors, Telling Time, Days of the Week, Months, Plus Numbers and Counting
Learn Helpful Traveling Phrases in Swedish Like How To Hail A Taxi Cab, How To Ask Questions Regarding Bus and Train Travel, And Great Phrases To Help You Ask For Directions
Learn How To Ask About Hotel Accommodations in Swedish, How To Order Specific Food And Drink In A Restaurant, And Even Questions About What Types of Payments Are Accepted!

While this Swedish book is referred to as a 'MiniBook', it isn't because its 'LITE' on any information, I assure you! The real reason it's termed a 'MiniBook' is because everything is found on just one page (it's a pretty l-o-n-g page though). But don't let that throw you off! This is a real handy Swedish Book and Guide to have and refer to whenever you need to.
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Beginner's guide to speaking swedish
Great for basic translations from english to swedish. Easy to read and navigate. Would be a great to bring if traveling to Sweden to help bridge the language barrier.

Useless on the kindle
We took this to Sweden but were unable to use it as a phrase book or translator.Search didn't work.Luckily most people in Sweden speak English. Complete waste of money.

A Swedish Travel Book Must Have...
If you are looking for something quick to be able to get by while traveling in Sweden, this book will do the trick.It's got a live table of contents to navigate straight to words you need, such as hello, etc. It gives you things to say at a restaurant, hotel, airport, etc.No fluff though.It's going to give you the Swedish words to get by, but not teach you the entire Swedish language. Short but very useful. For that purpose I give it 5 stars. ... Read more

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The purpose of this study is to give a thorough and detailed account and analysis of the semantics of twelve Swedish dimensional adjectives: hog 'high/tall,' lag 'low,' bred 'broad/wide,' smal 'narrow/thin,' vid 'broad,' trang 'narrow,' tjock 'thick,' tunn 'thin,' djup 'deep,' grund 'narrow,' lang 'long,' and kort 'short.' Focus has been placed on their spatial, non-metaphorical sense.

The study was written within the framework of cognitive linguistics, where lexical definitions may be given in terms of prototypical and peripheral uses. Four sources of data have been considered: a corpus, consisting of contemporary fiction, an elicitation test, designed for the purpose, dictionary articles on the pertinent adjectives, and the author's own linguistic intuition as a native speaker. The methodology has involved categorization of combinations of adjective and noun, based upon three major themes: orientation, function, and shape.

In order to determine prototypical uses, precedence has been given to the outcome of the elicitation test over the corpus search. For both sources, frequency has played an important part. The ranking of senses as stated in the dictionary articles has also been considered. The results indicate that the dimensional adjectives differ quite markedly from each other, as opposed to a structural view where the adjectives traditionally have been regarded as forming a neat patchwork. ... Read more

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Now learning a foreign language can be enjoyable as well as challenging, and not require a trip back to the classroom. Available in both book-only or book-and-cassette format, these Three-Month Language Courses are outstanding self-study programs designed for the individual seeking to acquire a good working knowledge of a language in a short amount of time. Devoting just over an hour daily to the course, the program provides grammar lessons, contextual conversion drills, relevant word lists, and graded exercises, giving you an immediate and practical grasp of the language. In addition, pronunciation is made easy with Hugo's unique "imitated pronunciation" system, which represents foreign sounds with English syllables. Whether you are a businessman tackling an international account, a student preparing for an adventurous holiday, or simply a lover of new languages, the Three-Month Language Course makes learning easy, satisfying, and more fun than ever before. ... Read more

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Great instruction for Swedish study
This is a great set of lessons for learning Swedish.The lessons are well done and do not go too fast. I recommend this book and the cassettes for anyone who wants to learn Swedish. ... Read more

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This book examines in some detail two issues associated with Swedish noun phrases. Firstly, it considers the issue of the headedness of these phrases in the light of a general discussion of criteria for head status. Secondly, the status of the definite ending is discussed from a typological perspective. Based on the findings of this examination of the data, a theoretical account of Swedish noun phrases is provided in terms of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. ... Read more

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Basic Swedish Grammar
This is an adequate guide to Swedish grammar.

It is organised into parts of speech. Each grammatical point is clearly numbered and cross-references are given. But I find the page layout to be a bit busy and cluttered. I would have liked the examples to be more clearly tabulated (this is probably mostly personal taste however).

As a text, it does not go into very much detail, and it is not a book of interesting explanations, but the main points seem to have been covered (albeit in a rather dry and dull way).

Some of the language examples do show their age (understandably), so a beginner might want to beware of this. For example, in Sweden, the pronoun "ni" is mostly used as the plural "you" and, it seems, very rarely as a polite singular "you" (a suggested usage in this book). I found this out when I went to Sweden and followed the advice of the phrase books I had to use "ni" when wanting to show respect. (My attempt was met with giggles and the comment "so *very* polite!)

As a guide for modern usage, I would go for something a bit more current. But, it is perfectly adequate for what it is.
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The aims of this doctoral dissertation were to examine the utilization of various linguistic levels in the oral reading of running texts among Swedish beginning readers, and specifically to question the supposedly predominant role of lower (i.e. sub-lexical) linguistic levels by also examining possible evidence of the utilization of information at the syntactic or semantic levels, as well as textual context. The investigation is based on a corpus constructed from the oral reading of running texts and includes a number of studies using both quantitative and qualitative error analyses. The analyses confirm that other linguistic levels than the sub-lexical have an impact on reading. This was shown both in the linguistic acceptability of errors and the extent to which errors were corrected depending on linguistic acceptability.

Although the natural point of departure seemed to be the graphic level, analyses revealed that graphemic complexity or word transparency alone could not explain error frequencies. In quite a few cases, qualitative analyses revealed, for instance, that higher linguistic levels or knowledge of the world could explain both why words did and did not result in reading errors. However, phonological quantity appeared to be a major difficulty throughout the study, which is clearly related to the graphemic or phonological effect.

Some differences regarding the developmental perspective were observed. One study indicated that the readers might develop stepwise regarding their utilization of various linguistic levels, in the sense that they appeared to rely mainly on lower linguistic levels early in reading development. Later, they seemed to be dependent on higher linguistic levels, and ultimately they seemed sensitive to, rather than dependent on, higher linguistic levels. An interesting result was that the readers seemed to use different strategies for different kinds of words throughout the investigation, using a direct decoding strategy for frequent words, but using a letter-by-letter strategy for less frequent or graphemically complex words. ... Read more

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This Ph.D. thesis explores the use of English in the spoken Swedish of two discourse domains: the conversations of business meetings in an international shipping company, and the casual conversation of young adults. ... Read more