Wikibooks: Swedish/Introduction

• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Subjects: Northern Finland
• Online Access: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Swedish/Introduction

Swedish = Welcome to the course = Welcome to a course in Swedish. When you have completed this course you should have enough knowledge to speak read and write the language rather well. In order to learn a language properly you must take action you must do something. So I suggest after you ve learnt the basics that you look up some simple easy Swedish literature and start reading. Knowing what is easy is not easy if you don t know any Swedish at all though. If you know somebody who is Swedish they might be able to help you to some nice reading. I will also try to put up some links to nice easy articles here later. = General remarks about Swedish = While Swedish is like most European languages not very closely related in how it is written and how it is pronounced it is more so than English or French. Swedish like English also counts a fair number of dialects including the southern scanian (which resembles Danish) finlandssvenska (the Finnish Swedish dialect of Swedish speaking Finns mostly spoken in northern Finland) and several dialects different enough to be considered separate languages although not recognized as such legally or in administration. There are nine vowels in Swedish and 19 consonants The consonants c q w x and z appear mostly in words of foreign origin. à é and ü are considered variants of a e and y respectively. The combination kk is always written as ck in Swedish words. = Syllable division = Syllable division marks the natural break in a word. When you know where the syllables divide you can divide a word into its natural sections. This makes speaking correctly easier. You also get a correct speech rhythm. The general rule for syllable division is that each syllable contains one vowel each. = Information about the language = First of all Swedish is a North Germanic language which is a subgroup of the Germanic Languages containing languages as Norwegian Danish Icelandic and Faroese as well as Norn which is extinct. Swedish is considered mutually intelligible to a great extent with Norwegian ...