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Summary: Excellent book
Review: I would describe it as "skit bra" infact. My need for learning Swedish is based on my living and working here. It's a big book but well worth the effort. Very well written and all the linguistic terms that you may be unfamiliar with are explained in a glossary. I needed a good thorough text on the subject and I think I made a good choice. I would like to see more of the style guidelines/diktats such as those found in "Riktig Svenska" by Wallenberg (I think). That would make it a one stop shop for using Swedish.
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Summary: Very well written and comprehensive grammar
Review: There are people who like nothing more than to pick up a book on the grammar of a foreign language and read it, to find out what that language is like and how it works, and I have to admit I'm one of them. We are the nerds of the linguistic universe (although technically, I would say the universal generative and mathematical grammar guys outrank us). But a book like this is enough to transport us to that big linguistic Valhalla in the sky.This is a very detailed, well written, and comprehensive Swedish grammar that should serve the needs of the student and instructor of Swedish and of Germanic languages in general. In addition to the treatment of the grammar, it includes a glossary of linguistic and grammatical terms for those who are a little rusty on the details of their grammar, and who can't recall what a case declension, a subjective complement, or the subjunctive mood is anymore (although that modal construction, as in English, has almost disappeared). I'd previously read Holmes's Swedish: An Essential Grammar, which is also excellent, but this one is even more detailed and comprehensive. As another reviewer observed, there is a dearth of basic resources for people interested in learning Swedish, and this book fills a major gap in the coverage that should be a boon to the most demanding student of the language.
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