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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