Svenska Utifran

by Roger Nyborg & Nils-Owe Petersson & Britta Holm, Roger Nyborg, Britta Holm, et al.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9152006735
• ISBN13: 9789152006733
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Svenska Institutet
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not for autodidacts, but a popular textbook for Swedish courses

I encountered SVENSKA UTIFRAAN in the Swedish for Foreigns courses at Helsingfors Universitet. Published under the auspices of the Svenska Institutet, this textbook by Roger Nyborg, Nils-Owe Petterson, and Britta Holm is one of the most popular. Its 150 brief chapters are each based around one situation, with grammatical points snuck it quite subtly, so that students comfortably grow towards a grasp of the language without the horror of endless declensional and conjugation paradigms. SVENSKA UTIFRAAN is emphatically not meant for self-study. The textbook is only in Swedish, from the dialogues to the instructions for exercises. If you want to learn Swedish on your own, I'd heartily recommend searching on the used market for SWEDISH: An Elementary Grammar-Reader by Gladys Hird (Cambridge University Press, 1977), ISBN 0-521-21374-6. This, coupled with plenty of chatting with Swedish speakers, perhaps in Internet langauge-practise fora, will swiftly bring you to proficiency in Swedish conversation and prepare you for Swedish literature. If you are in a Swedish course where SVENSKA UTIFRAAN is the assigned text, you must immediately get a SWEDISH-ENGLISH dictionary to make up for the lack of a glossary. The COLLINS GEM SWEDISH DICTIONARY, ISBN 0004720474, is an imperfect one, but one of the few pocket options. Finally, while my class was assigned the 2001 edition, I discovered that there are few differences between that and prior editions, really just a changed word here and there, and some more modern typesetting. The exercises and readings remain the same. If you want to save money by buying an older edition, perhaps on the used market, the 1996 printing works fine.

Not for autodidacts, but a popular textbook for Swedish courses

I encountered SVENSKA UTIFRAAN in the Swedish for Foreigns courses at Helsingfors Universitet. Published under the auspices of the Svenska Institutet, this textbook by Roger Nyborg, Nils-Owe Petterson, and Britta Holm is one of the most popular. Its 150 brief chapters are each based around one situation, with grammatical points snuck it quite subtly, so that students comfortably grow towards a grasp of the language without the horror of endless declensional and conjugation paradigms. SVENSKA UTIFRAAN is emphatically not meant for self-study. The textbook is only in Swedish, from the dialogues to the instructions for exercises. If you want to learn Swedish on your own, I'd heartily recommend searching on the used market for SWEDISH: An Elementary Grammar-Reader by Gladys Hird (Cambridge University Press, 1977), ISBN 0-521-21374-6. This, coupled with plenty of chatting with Swedish speakers, perhaps in Internet langauge-practise fora, will swiftly bring you to proficiency in Swedish conversation and prepare you for Swedish literature. If you are in a Swedish course where SVENSKA UTIFRAAN is the assigned text, you must immediately get a SWEDISH-ENGLISH dictionary to make up for the lack of a glossary. The COLLINS GEM SWEDISH DICTIONARY, ISBN 0004720474, is an imperfect one, but one of the few pocket options. Finally, while my class was assigned the 2001 edition, I discovered that there are few differences between that and prior editions, really just a changed word here and there, and some more modern typesetting. The exercises and readings remain the same. If you want to save money by buying an older edition, perhaps on the used market, the 1996 printing works fine.