Swedish/ Language 30

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Resource for the Traveler
Review: For those planning a trip to Sweden this course includes the bare basics for a vacation or business trip. If you're looking for deep language instruction go for something different. One of the nice things about this course is the nice clear pronunciation. One of the drawbacks is that the language and phrases they teach you are extremely formal, which is just what you want if you are dealing with a new business associate but not perhaps for new casual friends you meet enroute.

Rating:
Summary: Not a bad value, but a bit tedious
Review: This set is a decent value. For your money, you get a fairly broad range of phrases and vocabulary. However, the organization of information assumes that you can keep interest listening to a bunch of discrete phrases repeated one after the other with no conversations or anything remotely natural. If you can, in fact, maintain interest while listening to these tapes repeatedly, then you'll do well with this set. If, on the other hand, you need something more dynamic, you might do well to look elsewhere.