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Tuesday, November 22, 2022

A travel diary - for my 15 Swedish Words Which Sound Similar To English Or Have Relatable Spelling


I now have a new way of recording languages. A list of new words in a travel diary. I can look back and recall early words.

On the train yesterday I completed another Swedish lesson whilst travelling.  The time on the boring journey flew by.

Swedish - English

Adverbs And Vocabulary

1 äntligen - at last/finally

2 hela - whole

3 helt - completely (like up to the hilt)

4 kort - short

5 langa - long or tall

6 nära - near - notice the a and the a with two dots pronounced like e

7 ny - new

8 ofta - often

9 personalen - personnel/staff

10 röd (with two dots over the o) - red

11 salt - salt

12 studerar - studies 

13 senare - later (like seniors, in their later years, arrive later) 

14 snart - soon, (it starts soon, it starts with s. be quick about it, he snarled. s -rt)

15 vegetarianer - vegetarian


English - Swedish

1 at last/finally -  äntligen

2 completely - helt

3 later - senare

4 long/tall - langa

5 near - nära 

6 new - ny

7 often - ofta

8 personnel/staff - personalen

9 red - röd

10 salt - salt

11 short - kort

12 soon - snart

13 studies - studerar

14 vegetarian - vegetarianer

15 whole - hela

Useful Websites

An overview of grammar and spelling and a few foreign words adopted from French and German

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_language

A free course of 51 sections, each of 6-9 short multiple choice questions with some pronunciation tests where you speak what you hear. 

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