Swedish learning plan
Section 1:
Learn:
- Alphabet
- Hard and soft vowels
- Pronunciation
- Numbers
- Colors
- A few animals
Outcome: I thought this was our easiest section. I still find the vowel rhyme to be helpful because it shows me how to pronounce certain words. Something challenging about this section though was that I learned that in Swedish the way you write a word doesn't always correlate with the way you colloquially say it. For instance, the word for monday is måndag but you say it moooondahhh. I got a 65/60 on this quiz because knew extra credit words.
Section 2:
Learn:
- Basic greetings
- Pronouns
- En vs ett
- Family words
- Description of ourselves
- Basic question to start a conversation
Outcome: I found this section to be really practical because they are the words and phrases I am going to need to know when I spend time with the Andersson family. I think a bulk of the information I will be sharing for the final will come from this section because I know a lot of words and sentences to talk about myself and my family. I got a 40.5/40 on this quiz because I missed some points for grammar related issues like pronouns and word order.
Section 3:
Learn:
- Weather
- Transportation
- Directions
- Time
Outcome: This part of the semester got challenging because we started learning very long lists of vocabulary. I probably know a few hundred words combined in terms of weather, transportation, directions and time. The most challenging is time because Swedish people use military time which we don't and they have a very precise and complicated way of telling the time to one another that isn't very similar to here in the U.S. at all. I got a 41.5/40 and the issues I had were with prepositions, per always!
Section 4:
Learn:
- Food
- Silverware and utensils
- Cultural differences with dining
- Clothing
- Parts of the body
Outcome: This section was fun because we were able to learn these words and concepts while making our Swedish dinner. This was also the first time we really talked about Swedish culture! Towards the end of this section I found that it was harder to learn all of the words because the semester had gotten pretty crazy. Before the final I want to go over clothing and parts of the body so I will know those words too! I got a 75/80 on this quiz, again related to the prepositions I used incorrectly in the essay portion of the quiz.
Final: The best part about this final and also the most challenging was that Louise didn't want it to be just a review of vocabulary so we spent the bulk of the final writing our own sentences about the categories of words. I got a 161.5/200.
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