r/Svenska

Med första provet 15 augusti 2026 (och fler tillfällen efter det) börjar många plugga nu. Jag är nyfiken på hur ni gör.

• Läser ni bara UHR:s Sverige i fokus-PDF, eller använder ni något mer?
• Har ni hittat bra appar, webbsidor eller övningsfrågor som faktiskt hjälper?
• Böcker eller kurser (SFI, studiecirklar) ni rekommenderar?
• Vad är svårast — språket, att memorera fakta, eller att hitta bra övningsmaterial?

Tar gärna emot tips, både gratis och betalda. Tänkte det kunde vara användbart för fler som är i samma situation.

I’m attempting to bypass SFI C/D and get straight into SVA Grund as I was told my Swedish may already be too advanced for SFI.

I’m taking the test remotely in a couple of days, what can I expect?

My listening and reading are fantastic, I’ve been studying Swedish passively since I was 12 years old and I’m now 26. But I struggle with speaking and writing due to ADHD, I deal with poor word memory recollection without having the words in front of me or being prompted.

I’m worried about not getting into SVA due to those struggles and I do really need to get into that course to secure study support over the summer. I’m also worried I’ll be placed in SFI C or D where I’ll feel too advanced for the majority of the course areas.

Is it likely I’ll be placed in SVA Grund regardless if my speaking and writing aren’t so good just based on the grounds that people likely learn faster when thrown into the “deep” end?

I built a web extension that you can highlight some Swedish on any webpage and it'll give you grammar information and dictionary definitions. I’m sure there’s alternatives but thought I'd share if you want to give it a spin. It’s free and can be added to desktop Chrome or Firefox.

Personally I found it helps me to read on something i'm doing day to day like wikipedia or a meal recipe and want to quickly get some context without having to jump around to other sites when there was a sentence I didn’t understand. Also I find I learn new words and remember them more easily when I've worked out the meaning without slapping the whole lot into a translator.

https://preview.redd.it/4640bcepj22h1.png?width=2356&format=png&auto=webp&s=c5430ca41d6f96d1d2e6113be366af2c84296286

I’ve been thinking about learning Swedish, but I have a problem: I can’t really roll/trill my R’s properly (like in Spanish, for example). Even in my native language I struggle with certain R sounds.

I see that many words are pronounced that way like “bra” or “fraga”.

Would this make Swedish very difficult to learn or speak naturally? Does Swedish rely heavily on rolled R sounds depending on the accent/dialect?

I’m still really interested in the language and culture, so I’m wondering if it’s still worth learning despite that.

Hei alle sammen :)

Jeg håper at dette innlegget er ikke off-topic. Jeg lærer meg norsk men er også veldig glad i det svenske språket, og planlegger til å lære meg svensk når jeg vil oppnå B2 nivå på norsk i det minste.

Så greia er at jeg elsker svenske musikk og har blitt veldig glad i «Världen» av Sofja Jannok i det siste, det er derfor jeg vil gjerne forstå hele låta. Problemet er at jeg ikke klarer å finne sangtekster, jeg sverger at jeg prøvde å søke etter det overalt men uten resultat.

Jeg ville bli veldig takknemlig hvis noen av dere kan være så snill å transkribere låta så jeg kan endelig forstå alt 🙏🏻

Disse er de eneste setningene som jeg kan egentlig forstå (forhåpentligvis):

«Du har sagt at du vil»
«Den tanken holder»
«Du er ikke perfekt, jeg er også perfekt»
«Du veit ikke hvem…»
«Kanskje er det så at du skal forstå»
«Kanskje ikke… eh-là-eh-eh-ah» (denne delen e veldig forvirrende ahahah)
«Du behøver space, jeg skal pakke»??

Beklager hvis det finnes noen feil her og der og tusen takk til dere alle på forhånd:)

Hello, I’m currently trying to learn Swedish online to at some point be able to speak it with my partner and also because we’ve planned for me to move over to Sweden in the future so it will definitely be something I need to know to help get through life there especially when it comes to employment and I was wondering what recommendations I could get as to learn the language in an effective and engaging way as I can sometimes struggle with motivation if I feel like I’m at a stalemate with what am trying to learn or achieve, my native language is English and this is my first time learning a language other than my own, any recommendations for a beginner would be highly appreciated. :)

Det rimmar med buss, tuss, puss, sluss - inte med hus, blus, mus, grus.

Hey everyone, I’m fascinated by the Swedish culture and I want to learn the language but I don’t know what’s the best way to do it online for free. Is there a YouTube channel, an app or anything that could help me? Also, is Duolingo as bad as people say it is? I heard it only teaches vocabulary and not much grammar.

I love swedish sm and even when i started learning german two years ago i was having a hard time cz i wanted to learn swedish but was busy doing german i was trying to reliefe my self by saying naja after learnign german swedish will be easy . is that true ? how easy could it be ? cz unlike dutch and yedish , when i hear swedish i barely recognize words !

for an english speaker i think learning swedish is estimated to take 600 hours .

u think that will greatly shrink with german ?

Not sure if this fits with the flair, so sorry about that.

For context: I am making a comic set in Sweden. Therefore I wanna add some slag to it. The context i wanna add this to is someone asking someone to come to work early.

If you know of any other slang that is commonly used I would love to hear them aswell!

Thanks to anyone who respond, or even just read this ✨️

Update: the person typing this lives in Halmstad,(and a skater) and is texting his boss who is like a friend to him. So it doesnt need to be formal ^^

I believe linguists and Swedes are too influenced by the way g behaves in other settings (a consonant usually, pronounced/g/, /j/, or silent). The fact is, the g at the beginning of Göteborg is simply not the pronounced same way as the g at the end of the word! Transcribing both as /j/ is simply a mistake, when the g is clearly behaving as a semivowel, and in this case, its nature is more vowel than consonant. The sound that comes out is /i/

arg, farg are pronounced ar/i/ and far/i/. If it were ar/j/ and far/j/ we would not hear the vowel at the end! Just because it is quick, and there’s no accent on the vowel doesn’t erase the reality that it’s there.

Edit: To illustrate, think of the semi-vowel y in English.

in “yes” it is /j/, acting as a semi-vowel

in ”lovely” it is /i/, acting as a vowel.

What is the difference between “fågla­låt” and “fågel­läte”? . :

A month ago I posted here asking if anyone else wanted a Swedish learning app, happy to report it's now live on the App Store.

I've been using it myself and genuinely like it. I'm catching more words on the street, and when there's something I want to say but can't, I can capture it with audio and drill it into my head over the next few days.

Search "Lis'n'go" on the App Store. I'll also drop the direct link in the comments.

Details on the landing page, but the gist:

• No ads, no IAP, no paywalls
• Listening-first phrase player
• Shuffle play, background play, randomized playback speed
• Add your own phrases
• 3000 pre-loaded phrases organized by grammar and situation

If there's demand, planning to expand to other languages.

Big thanks to everyone who sent encouragement, bug reports, feature requests, and advice. It really helped. Tack!

Hello all, I'm having some serious trouble understanding the verb groups.

My main issue is knowing in which group a verb belongs to in the first place, without knowing all the other tense forms yet. For example, let's say I have a task to use the correct verb tense in a series of sentences that require different verb forms. A new verb appears: "Bedriv!" meaning run, operate, carry on, etc.

Personally, I'd form it like so: Bedriv! ends in a consonant, so the infinitive would be bedriva. Now, because it ends in a consonant, the present tense would be bedriver. Naturally, preteritum would be bedrivde, because the imperative form ends in V and that consonant is among the group of which you have to end in -de. The supinum, therefore, shall be bedrivt, because the verb belongs to the second group of verbs (present tense ends in -er, preteritum ends in -de and the imperative tense ends in a consonant).

That would be nice if that were the case. Turns out, bedriv is a group 4 "starka" verb, with a vowel change formula of I-E-I. And also, that would mean that every verb I come across would become a verb in one of the first two groups, so clearly, my logic is wrong.

Now, I have come across a sort of guide for the group 4 verb vowel formula changes, as in: for I-E-I formula, the verbs which have a long "i" in imperative, present tense and infinitive take a long "e" in the preteritum and a long "i" in supinum, explaining the I-E-I. That would make total sense, if the verbs "Ring!-ringa-ringer" and "Drick!-dricka-dricker" didn't have their "i" sound exactly the same. Problem is that one of them is a group 2 verb and the other is the group 4 "starka" verb with the I-A-U formula.

Not only are there more vowel change formulas than the 4 main ones (11 afaik), I also have no idea how to know a verb is in the fourth group or not, and on top of that, if its the "starka" verb or the irregular one. From my understanding, not only do I have to learn what each verb means, but also the verbs that are irregular and the ones that belong to the "starka" category and memorise every single form of them.

What the hell? I thought I can at least know what group a verb belongs to, by doing some chain reaction of conjugating and not knowing the five forms of tenses. I have spent six hours trying to understand this, and feel more lost compared to the beginning. It feels like I'm in some sort of a loophole where the deeper I go, the more confusion I get. Perhaps I started learning from the bad end of things? I feel a bit hopeless, to be honest.

Yet, I hope my problem is at least understandable, and if not, ask anything.

I’ve been trying to learn Swedish for a while now and one thing I noticed is that “traditional” studying gets exhausting really fast. After like 20–30 minutes of vocab lists or grammar exercises my brain just shuts off.

What worked way better for me was learning more passively through content I actually enjoy. I started watching Swedish YouTube videos and shows with double subtitles (Swedish + German) and it suddenly became much easier to understand patterns, common phrases, pronunciation etc. without constantly translating everything in my head.

I’ve tried a few tools for this and currently use Sublo, but there are good tools for this.

Honestly feels way less like studying and more like just consuming content normally, which makes it much easier to stay consistent.

Curious if anyone else here learns this way or if you’ve found better methods for improving listening comprehension?

Hi everyone,

I’m currently doing SVA nivå 1, but we only have classes once a week. I don’t feel like I’m progressing much. I understand Swedish quite well, but I need to improve my grammar and vocabulary.

Which books would you recommend for studying at home? Right now I’m considering Form i Fokus del C as a grammar book, and maybe later Text i Fokus 2, Språkporten 123, or Avancera Ord.

Form i Fokus del B and Rivstart B1+B2 feel a bit too easy sometimes. I also find Rivstart a bit disorganized… Should I go for Rivstart B2+C1 instead, even though a new edition is coming next year?

I’m not really sure how to study efficiently or what to buy, so I’d really appreciate any advice. My goal is to be able to talk svenska flytande and be able to work.
What helped you the most when you were studying Swedish?