Didl
Master Of Alchemy
@Blitzkrieg Pajo: Having german as a mother toungue and decend english as a second language are indeed good prerequisites to learn swedish. many words are similar or almost the same to german. But: The grammar is different (but not that difficult) , and also the word-order. But the most difficult part is the pronunciation. It not that easy at all, and when native swedes talk to each other u wont have a clue what they are talking about. Especially gothenburg-swedish is quite fast and "slangish" and it is hard to practice it in daily life since swedes are good at english and like to speak english. if they notice that u are a foreigner they switch immediately onto english if u want or not.(swedes are very polite in that respect). If you want to have an interresting and meaningful conversation with a swede u switch onto english as well since it gets boring talking about weather and your breakfast all the time.
As a bottom line - for germans/austrians it should be possible to reach a satisfactory level after approx. three month, especially reading and writing, but only if swedish is priority number one. If u are occupied with other things, work, studies, drinking, then u wont come that far. If u are intersted in hearing swedish, check out this link:
"http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=7968" There u can listen to news in swedish and get an idea what proper swedish sounds like.
@others: sorry for this long off-topic post.
As a bottom line - for germans/austrians it should be possible to reach a satisfactory level after approx. three month, especially reading and writing, but only if swedish is priority number one. If u are occupied with other things, work, studies, drinking, then u wont come that far. If u are intersted in hearing swedish, check out this link:
"http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=7968" There u can listen to news in swedish and get an idea what proper swedish sounds like.
@others: sorry for this long off-topic post.