JennW's Swedish log
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 7:03 pm
I've been reading the boards here for a while and thought maybe it was a good time to start a log here for my own language learning. I have learned various languages in the past but for now I am mainly focused on Swedish for one reason: in October last year, my husband and I relocated to Sweden! This obviously gives me a very strong incentive to focus all my efforts on achieving a reasonable level in Swedish for now.
Obviously living in Sweden offers many advantages for my language learning, not least the easy access to native materials. At the moment, I am making a lot of use of Anki (I really like flashcards and studying them on my phone on the way to and from work seems to work for me). I attend SFI classes one evening a week and have just taken the reading/listening/writing tests to complete the C course - in case that means anything to anyone - so hopefully I'll find out soon if I've passed them, in which case I sit the speaking test too, or not, in which case I'll stay in the C class a bit longer. I read everything I can get my hands on - current favourites are the news from SVT's website and science textbooks from the school I work at. I'm trying to improve my listening skills so I've just graduated from Klartext's news podcast to "real" news podcasts (which I understand varying amounts of but usually not too much yet!) and I'm getting into TV4's online player and watching things like Sveriges Mästerkock.
I'll try to post here to say what I'm up to and how it's going. If anyone has any tips they would be warmly welcomed!
Obviously living in Sweden offers many advantages for my language learning, not least the easy access to native materials. At the moment, I am making a lot of use of Anki (I really like flashcards and studying them on my phone on the way to and from work seems to work for me). I attend SFI classes one evening a week and have just taken the reading/listening/writing tests to complete the C course - in case that means anything to anyone - so hopefully I'll find out soon if I've passed them, in which case I sit the speaking test too, or not, in which case I'll stay in the C class a bit longer. I read everything I can get my hands on - current favourites are the news from SVT's website and science textbooks from the school I work at. I'm trying to improve my listening skills so I've just graduated from Klartext's news podcast to "real" news podcasts (which I understand varying amounts of but usually not too much yet!) and I'm getting into TV4's online player and watching things like Sveriges Mästerkock.
I'll try to post here to say what I'm up to and how it's going. If anyone has any tips they would be warmly welcomed!