Swedish Teacher Tries Duolingo
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ส.ค. 2022
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Today I am -- as a Swedish teacher -- trying the Swedish Duolingo course! Let's see how accurate it is!
- Kevin
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I've been doing Swedish on duolingo for awhile so I appreciate the perspective of a native speaker and teacher. Thank you!
Hi! I'm a young royals' fan and bcs of it, I became more interested in this language and Sweden so I decided to start learning Swedish. And now I'm learning with Duolingo app, so your video was so helpful for me to understand what is correct and what is not! TACK! I wish I could have a native teacher like you so I could learn more faster and in a correct way. also I tried to watch new season of young royals with Swedish subtitle and I realized that native speakers talk really fast! and I was just looking at the sub and was like "that was really this sentence that he said?? bcs that was too fast!" that's why I'm asking if it's okay to learn Swedish with faster pronunciation in order to understand native speakers better? anyway, hope u could upload more teaching things, thank you again.
I relate to this comment so much haha. I try to learn Swedish by watching Young Royals with Swedish subtitles and it feels like they are skipping half of what is written. I put the scenes in slow motion to hear what they say better
hahaha, yeah, I learn Swedish because of Young Royals as well
It could very well be that the subtitles are different to what they are actually saying. This is common when it comes to subtitles. English to Swedish subtitles for movies and tv-series are changed a lot. They will change words, re-arrange words and sometimes they will skip a sentence completely because there isn't enough time to squeeze them all in in a certain scene or not enough time for the viewer to read them all.
But yeah, it can also be that the way they speak is very "compressed" so it will be very different compared to the subtitles. Compressed speech is natural for native speakers of any language though - not just Swedish :)
lmao im learning swedish because of young royals too 😭
Ngl I started learning Swedish on Duolingo thanks to Young Royals; I've watched it with the Swedish audio and subtitles as well with the Swedish audio and Italian subtitles (Italian is my first language). It was so though the first few times but I'm getting better hahah, love your channel and lessons btw ❤️
I hope I can learn more abt this fabulous language ☺️✨
That's amazing! :D
This helped so much! I enjoyed your commentary and learned quite a bit from your explanations that I didn't learn from strictly Duolingo. I wish I had you to explain every lesson to me in this manner 🙂
Omg, this is awesome! I started to learn Swedish on Duolingo for about a month now. This video is incredibly helpful for me. Tack!
Thank you!
I would love a part 2. This was very informative!
Thank you!
I've been doing Duolingo for 395 days.
A great video! Thank you very much for sharing the knowledge!
This is great. You helped me with some important insights on Swedish that are hard to come by otherwise. Thanks!
I loved your explanation. It is so helpful.
Thank you for this video! It was really helpfull! More lessons please!!!! :D
I've been learning Swedish on duolingo for a few weeks now, and this helped a lot with knowing what is right and what is wrong, and when to use the things I learn
Please if you can, a part 2 to this would be really helpful. Studying Swedish this helped immensely
Yes please more like this! Great companion video to the Duolingo lessons
You've helped me a lot. Thanks. 😍
Thank you so much for this video which I found only now. I've got interested in learning the Swedish language as well through YR as many others here and am using Duolingo now for 60+ days for it. I love it so much, but it's also tricky sometimes, as you have to learn the grammar just by doing and figuring it out. No detailed explanations.
So I'm soooo happy having found yr channel and collecting important info to understand some grammar details.
I'm like a sponge soaking it all up! 😅 So, thank you again!!
Thank you for the video!
I am studing Swedish on Duolingo now so it was especially interesting for me to hear comments on the course from a native speaker and a teacher)
About the articles. It seems like the difficulty levels up with every new language I learn 😅
In my language (Russian) there's no articles at all. My first foreign language was English and it was quite hard to remember to use articles. Then Spanish - two different gendered articles to remember, ok. And now Swedish and this thing with an article moving to the end of the word😲
Thank you for this information. I have been using Duolingo to learn Swedish for a little while now and it was good to find out if there was anything to watch out for as I have heard mixed reviews about certain languages on Duolingo.
I'm a decent way through and they do mention words such as tjej, but they don't exactly explain when to use it instead of flicka. Same thing with ni; I had to figure it out when there were sentences such as 'ar ni tvillingar?' (translates to 'are you twins?') to understand when to use each one. I'd also recognised the differences in the plurals of words with the different articles, but had never thought of the link between the suffixes.
Tack så mycket 😁.
Hej, gillar ditt sätt att förklara 🤩 som skåning är det kul att höra skillnader även i svenskan, by the way nice english dialect 🤩
Tack! :D
I don't learn swedish but I'm really interested in many languages so I absolutely loved this video!. I noticed that the informal swedish is similar to informal german eg. "Och" is similar pronounced to "oder" the same way it is in german or the word "yerr" is also pronounced like the German word for "yes" I thought that was so interesting!
This was so much fun, thank you for sharing! It's clear how enthusiastic you are about teaching languages and it makes the lesson so engaging!
Some things I found especially interesting:
Swedish likes to take out consonants, especially the last consonant. Yet also, an easy mistake is to speak too quickly when learning Swedish. It's more expected to drag out pronunciation and that sounds better. (a curious contradiction?)
”If you want to learn Swedish (pronunciation) do it to the point that you feel stupid for how long you make the words”. [ mission accomplished 🙂]
It's interesting that "tjej" = older than "flicka", and yet "flickavän" = "girlfriend"?
Also, for accented letters, I think writing for the audience with two dots vs one line is totally fine. As I want to learn Swedish, I'm happy to learn how people write in Swedish.
”There are words that look the same but mean different things depending on the article (en/ett), do you want me to go through those in a later video?”
Hi Kevin, Tack!! I would really love to learn Svenska, but I find it very difficult. I love your video's so I can learn a little bit at the time.
Please do a video about words that look the same, but have a different meaning. And please keep on explaining, because that's what I find so interesting!!
I use Google translate for Swedish video's and articles. And that also works, but I wonder if the translation is good.
Thanks so much for this video! I am a big fan ❤🍀
Thank you! I'm happy you enjoyed it and are learning Swedish! I will definitely make more videos teaching Swedish :D
I'm starting to study and learning Swedish language and as I'm not looking for a course yet, Duolingo's kinda working well (pretty exciting, by the way). As a native speaker, do you have any other tips of what else I could work on to get even better? Thank you, and Happy New Year from Brazil 😃
I've been learning Swedish ever since I got bored of the internet and the US election at the end of 2020. I'm glad you've done this video because the transition from Duolingo to other platforms and the differences in pronunciation confused me a bit. I'm over that now, but it took extra time.
Whenever I see a thumbnail with you in a hat I instantly think "it's teacher Kevin time"
I hadn't even thought of that! 😂✨🌸
Hej! I’m a Swedish learner, I’ve tried duolingo before and they do eventually mention tjej and kille but it doesn’t come until much later so it’s not very useful ):
They do actually bring up tjej and kille later in the course, but didn’t explain the difference in when to use them very well.
With the verbs, it does let you use drinks/am drinking interchangeably (…sometimes).
I will say also that as the course gets on, it feels like the recordings of the speaker get more informal - or at least for me it takes much more careful listening! 😂
And duo definitely comes up with some… fascinating phrases to learn. XD
And I will add that as far as I’ve gotten in it, it hasn’t mentioned hen at all, which is a bummer for this nb person.
I loved this, thank you so much! I’m not very good at languages (esp memorizing vocabulary), but I’ve really been enjoying learning (some) Swedish.
Ah, okay! Now I'm curious to see what those phrases will be :D
And I think with "hen" that i's a shame honestly that it's not included at all (as far as we know), it's a useful and important pronoun to know
Good luck with your Swedish!
@@muchadoaboutbooks9590 Looking at some of my screen caps, we've got "Why is there a Norwegian architect lying in my bed?" "my boyfriend is not so handsome," "she is the queen of the night," "There is a man with a knife behind the curtain!" and "My parents do not like that you eat ants," for a few. There's a lot of death in there, too - "Now she is resting in peace," and "the priest died during the night."
All very useful phrases, obviously. XD
I am learning Swedish for 2024. I appreciate the insight.
Like many others here, I started learning Swedish because of Young Royals in August 2021 and now, I’m nearly on a 900 day streak on duolingo.
I know that duolingo is a „learning by doing“ app but especially in the beginning, I found it very hard to get an overview of the Swedish grammar (even though it is similar to my native language German).
Something that I also don’t like about duolingo is the fact that there are listening exercises but always spoken by a computer/AI voice (I guess) which means never hearing an actual Swedish native speaker.
In order to improve my Swedish, I watched Young Royals in Swedish with Swedish subtitles and I understood nearly everything - because I was reading the subtitles. When I tried just listening to what they said, I suddenly got a lot harder because of dialect words or mumbling or simply because of the speed they were talking in.
All in all, I think that duolingo is a great way to get a first impression of another language (in this case: Swedish), however, I now know words like „kräftskiva“ or „gran“ but not words that I would use in a daily conversation like „accommodation“ or „handkerchief”.
I have to finish this video but i need to offer my sincere thanks. In 3 videos (i watched your YR vids), you have taught me more than Duo has in 3 months. I finally understand plurals and the words.
Do you have any recommendations for learning swedish?? Besides duo?
Tack!
I can make a video using some, unfortunately a lot of good ones aren't free.
@@muchadoaboutbooks9590 i would very much appreciate it. I am also willing to spend some money to learn. My dream is to be trilingual eventually and actually learning a language isn't going to be free as much as we would like because people such as yourself have to put their time and effort into it. I am so greatful for you sharing here what you do!
That was so interesting! Thank you so much for the video. I enjoy the melody of Swedish language so much and I really would like to learn the language, but it seems so complicated and confusing sometimes. Maybe you have some other online resources to advise for learning Swedish?
Thank you :)
I made a second channel where I'll focus more on all things Swedish, I'll review more language learning services there :) th-cam.com/channels/xrmaj3aD75CKkFA-Z2UMnQ.html
@@muchadoaboutbooks9590 omg that’s so amazing! Gonna go subscribe.
Thank you!!
You are learning Thai! Wow. Young royals is responsible for swedish uptick I am sure. English is my first language. Versagod sent me over the edge so I'm tapping out or swedish. Did you do ep 5-6 of young royals?
That's great! :D You can (hopefully) expect the third part of my Young Royals reaction some time next week!
It really fun to me! Because I'm super beginner in Swedish 😢💙💛
What platform would you recommend to learn swedish?
haha i've been binging these '(language speaker) tries duolingo' videos recently and since i'm learning swedish, i thought i'd give a swedish edition a go. super interesting - more informative and educational than the others which are usually more comical but i actually found this video to be super insightful - like the kalle and tjej part. out of interest, does anyone know what a male friend would be? (if tjejkompis is a female friend, what is a male?)
Thank you! Male friend is "killkompis" (kille + kompis)
Idk if this was mentioned in the video, but swedish is a language with many different accents. In my southwestern accent, I would for example pronounce "Jag är en pojke" like "Jaäen pojke"
Also, for me, I very rarely pronounce the G in jag. Great video!
would you ever consider using ling? i’m currently using it to learn swedish and i would love your opinion on the accuracy of the app :D
Absolutely!
@@muchadoaboutbooks9590 thank you so much! looking forward to it
Hej, svensk person här! 🙋🏻♀️ Mycket bra och användbar video, har skickat den till en spansk vän som precis börjat lära sig svenska på DL.
Men, en grej, att säga "pojk" istället för pojke är väl ändå dialektalt? Jag skulle tro att den absoluta majoriteten säger pojke även i talspråk.
I’m very late to this but wanted to say how much I appreciated this video. I found your points easy to follow and very clear - you must be an excellent teacher. And as a non-binary person myself, thank you for the last part about the pronouns.
De har 'kille' och 'tjej' lite senare i kursen
If you use the slower version it will pronounce that g in jag
Hii, I was wondering if Duolingo isn't that accurate, how can I learn Swedish?
This doesn't make much sense. I mean like what is a better way to get more accurate and slang you say in Sweden. I really enjoy the language and really want to learn it!
@@simonsfishies I'd say Duolingo is still good, I only brought up the things that weren't accurate. Mondly is another app that is good. I will review more apps and sites in the future on my second channel Much Ado About Swedish
@@muchadoaboutbooks9590 thank you so muchh!
Never call anyone over about 12 a girl in English. Many see it as very rude.
The Duo course teaches more informal terminology as it progresses, though.
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Hello. I see a lot of praise down there so I hope you don't just discard negative comments; or at least that you will read mine through the end. I appreciate your good energy and will, but from start to end, what you say to be advice is frighteningly wrong. Many of your explanations are correct, but the examples or situations you provide are out of this world and do not reflect Swedish life; this also, and especially, applies to your critic of the pronunciation. I am very much afraid for your students' prosperity in learning Swedish. I would be happy to discuss it with you, though.