Swedish is a northern Germanic language that has English's standard alphabet with the addition of three vowels: å, ä, och ö, creating a 29 letter alphabet. Swedish grammar is similar to English in that verbs only have one conjugation in the present tense and only change to indicate past and future tenses. This makes Swedish easier to learn than language such as Spanish and French that require several conjugations for each verb in the present tense. Swedish is spoken by approximately 10 million people in Sweden and by the Swedish minority in Finland. Swedish is recognized as the official language of Sweden, but also protects the status of five minority languages: Finnish, all Sami dialects, Torne Valley Finnish (Meänkieli), Romani and Yiddish.
Based on this knowledge about the origins of Swedish, and the similarities it has with French and English, it focuses my attention on acquiring vocabulary because the structure is similar to English and there are many relationships to be drawn allowing for easier acquisition of the language. Since the grammar is also rather simple and does not require many conjugations like French or Spanish, I will not be focusing much attention of grammar in my studies.
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