World Famous Comics: Colloquial Swedish: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series)
Colloquial Swedish: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series)
By: Philip Holmes Publisher: Routledge Average Rating: Binding: Audio Cassette Label: Routledge Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 320 Publication Date: November 05, 1996
Product Description: Colloquial Swedish is easy to use and completely up-to-date. Specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Swedish. No prior knowledge of the language is required.
What makes Colloquial Swedish your best choice in personal language learning? * interactive - lots of exercises for regular practice * clear - concise grammar notes * practical - useful vocabulary and pronunciation guide * complete - including answer key and special reference section.
Cassettes accompany the course to help you with listening and pronunciation skills. By the end of this rewarding course you will be able to communicate confidently and effectively in a broad range of situations.
It's not a CD-ROM!! Great CDs with a rich content and very usefull. However, I bought the CDs because in the description it was written "AUDIOBOOK CD-ROM", so I thought it was the electronical version of the paperback, but when I got the CDs I was really surprised that, in fact, they ARE audio CDs and not CD-ROM as mentioned.
Now, I had to buy separately the book.
So, in all, interesting but only audio CDs, not CD-ROMs. Don't get wrong.
this book is great great way to learn swedish, great resource even for a teenager/kid
Good course Good quality both in lectures and exercises. Also the choice of subjects in lectures is well-aimed and helps you learn many facts and informations about Sweden.
Not for beginners I tried to start learning Swedish straight off with this text, and was soon overwhelmed by the sheer mass of vocabulary (often not beginner-level at all, such as "manufacture", "plastic handle", "red-checkered") and the very quick pace with which it explains the grammar. I did however appreciate the variety of the readings, and the realism of the dialogs. You learn what real Swedish sounds and looks like, not textbook or toddler Swedish. Perhaps its for this reason that the vocabulary is so wide in subject and level.
Regardless, I would have much preferred a more gradual set of readings rather than in the second chapter diving into the adventures of a businessman who travels abroad to negotiate with Swedish firms.
The exercises work well, though suffer from being too fragmented. The majority of exercises I've done so far have been only parts of sentences or a few words at a time instead of using them in complete sentences to help cement other parts of what you've learned as well, such as the Teach Yourself Swedish book does.
I would only recommend this book to those people who have studied Swedish for a while and want to expand their vocabulary while reviewing the grammar at the same time. For beginners, I recommend looking at other books, or only using this book if you're working with a tutor who can help you with the parts this book glosses over.
Not so helpful The material gets across, but it is rather haphazardly organized; you learn how to say "plastic handle" long before learning any object pronouns. There seems to be an effort to translate new vocabulary as it is introduced, but this is not entirely successful; I found myself repeatedly having to look up words in the reading sections that were not included in the vocabulary lists following the readings. Also, the book makes the unwritten assumption that the reader is British, which produces surprisingly many inconveniences for an American reader. All things considered, one can certainly learn beginning Swedish from this book, but not in a particularly efficient or utile manner.
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