r/learnswedish

I live in india and I have been learning swedish for about 8 months now. grammar is coming along, reading is decent, I can follow slow swedish youtube without subtitles most of the time. on paper things are going okay.

But the speaking side is completely dead and the reason is simple. there is nobody around me who speaks swedish. not one person. my city has a thriving english speaking community, decent french learners, tons of people learning japanese and korean. swedish is just not a thing here so I went looking online and that's where it gets lonely.

hellotalk has maybe 8 swedish speakers on it and half of them haven't been active since 2023. tandem is worse. I joined three different language learning discord servers and every single one has a swedish channel that is basically a graveyard. the last message in one of them was seven months ago. I posted anyway and heard nothing back. The timezone thing makes it even harder. norway is about 4 and a half hours behind me which sounds manageable until you realize that by the time I'm done with work and have time to practice it's already late evening in sweden and the window where we're both free is tiny.

I spent a few months just accepting that speaking practice wasn't going to happen until I could somehow get to norway. that was a pretty depressing conclusion.

I posted about this frustration on r/languagelearning a while back and someone in the comments mentioned Issen. said they were in a similar situation learning a niche language with no community nearby and it was the only thing that actually solved the practice partner problem. I was skeptical honestly because I'd tried a couple of AI tools before and they felt gimmicky. but I was desperate enough to try anything. been using it for about 6 weeks now. you just open it and have a real voice conversation in swedish. it corrects you mid conversation, adjusts to your level, and it doesn't matter what time it is in sweden because nobody in sweden is involved. the timezone problem just stopped existing. my speaking has moved more in these 6 weeks than the previous 8 months combined. not magic, just the fact that I'm finally actually speaking out loud every day instead of doing everything except that.

im currently incapacitated from work and looking to do something productive with my free time, I've been living here for 14 years and completed a full time two semesters course of Swedish in the university upon arrival, my vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation isn't as good as a native speakers but i understand them and they understand me. If you can teach me a little of a language that's not English or Spanish that would be cool but it's not a requirement. i got a lot of help when i moved here so im just looking to pass it forward now that i have the chance, feel free to dm me, hej hej

Hello, I'm a 24 old spanish woman living in the south of Sweden.

I've been living in Sweden for two years now, I'm studying svenska som andra språk grund, but i really need to get better at conversations.

I have a relationship and a baby, so obviously I don't want to flirt. So I would prefer to talk with other women, but if you actually just want to learn and help anyone is welcome.

I like videogames, music (skate punk, black metal) history and much more :)

Thanks!

Salut ! Je suis débutante en suédois, et je souhaiterais le parler couramment et connaître la culture de la Suède afin de pouvoir peut-être organiser un voyage l'année prochaine ! Je parle couramment le français, c'est ma langue maternelle ! Si quelqu'un est intéressé, qu'il n'hésite pas !

Merci !

And Also I want to be able to learn swidsh to a extint to converse and just understand not fluent ,Just upto the point where I can understand and talk with others