Swedish (Compact) [CD]

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Summary: leaves one dangling
Review: Adult language learning being at times inevitably frustrating (for most of us), it seems a bit strange why this course - which is quite good - simply stops; the repetition is wonderful and I can say ya talla svenska and vile du dreka vin eler el until the cows come home, but what's the point of the repetition if it leads to such an incredibly limited vocabulary? Pimsleur shouldn't bother starting their programs unless they can finish them,- especially considering THE CONTEXT they purport to employ!

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Summary: Wanting more
Review: I agree very much with the sentiments expressed by others. The limited information conveyed in the course is superb. However, it is just too limited to be useful. I hope that Pimsleur produces a more comprehensive set of Swedish tapes in the near future.

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Summary: Good beginning
Review: I have been studying Swedish for about a year and found this program (I had the CD's) very useful, even though much of the vocabulary was familiar. The repetition is great but the best part is hearing the language as it is actually spoken (i.e. dropping the "t" out of "det", the "g" from "jag" and "och" is prounounced "Oh".) The CD's are also quite good about drilling you in the hard-to-get double-falling tone of certain two syllable Swedish words.

I wish I had had this before I went to Sweden last summer.
It is disappointingly short, but definitely worth buying.

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Summary: great for starters.
Review: Pimsleur will slam this language into your memory. It is very short though. I wish it was a complete program like some of the more popular languages.

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Summary: The lazy man's road to Swedish...
Review: The course is brilliant. Easy. Way easy. Amazingly easy. Far, far easier than you ever thought a Swedish course could be. It's so easy, if you just play the damn tapes and talk back at them you'd have to be maliciously ill-intentioned not to learn the material. It's far and away the best Swedish course out there for very lazy people, which makes it perfect for me. Of course one wishes it had more than just 10 lessons (and that price!) But what tuition you do get is basically perfect.

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Summary: great for starters.
Review: This course is great at teaching you to speak and understand totally from memory about a dozen or so phrases in Swedish without the use of a textbook. But the lack of phrases is its major limitation. You will need other Swedish courses to build up a useful vocabulary. However, it is truely a course that can be used while driving to work. I hope that Pimsleur will produce the longer course for Swedish.

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Summary: Only an introduction to Swedish.
Review: This course is great at teaching you to speak and understand totally from memory about a dozen or so phrases in Swedish without the use of a textbook. But the lack of phrases is its major limitation. You will need other Swedish courses to build up a useful vocabulary. However, it is truely a course that can be used while driving to work. I hope that Pimsleur will produce the longer course for Swedish.

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Summary: Good, but basic
Review: This program is very good at repeating and coaching on the limited vocabulary. Do not expect to know much Swedish at the end of the program. You will, however, know the words that are presented.