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Caspar Rundegren
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By:
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Olly Richards
About this listen
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Swedish.
Short Stories in Swedish for Beginners has been written especially for students from high-beginner to low-intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to A2-B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories are designed to give you a sense of achievement and a feeling of progress when reading.
What does this book give you?
- Eight stories in a variety of exciting genres, from science fiction and crime to history and thriller - making reading fun, while you learn a wide range of new vocabulary
- Controlled language at your level, including the 1000 most frequent words, to help you progress confidently
- Authentic spoken dialogues, to help you learn conversational expressions and improve your speaking ability
- Accessible grammar so you learn new structures naturally, in a stress-free way
- Pleasure! It's much easier to learn a new language when you're having fun, and research shows that if you're enjoying reading in a foreign language, you won't experience the usual feelings of frustration - 'It's too hard!' 'I don't understand!'
Carefully curated to make learning a new language easy, these stories include key features that will support and consolidate your progress, including
- A glossary for bolded words in each text
- Full plot summary
- A bilingual word list
- Comprehension questions after each chapter.
As a result, you will be able to focus on enjoying reading, delighting in your improved range of vocabulary and grasp of the language, without ever feeling overwhelmed or frustrated. From science fiction to fantasy, to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in Swedish for Beginners will make learning Swedish easy and enjoyable.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- Louis
- 08-06-22
Update: format fixed!
Below the line is the original review which no longer applies—which is why I’m updating this.
I don’t know what happened. Whether it was an app update or they updated the audio file, but now the book has chapter breakdowns and it is now usable as it was intended.
The only reason I found this out was that I redownloaded the book with the intention of just listening to it straight through while doing something else (instead of studying it). When I opened it I immediately realized that it now had chapters!
I leave the original below for record only. It’s no longer relevant.
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Unfortunately, this isn’t broken into chapters. The stories are all in one 4+ hour blob, so trying to navigate around is a hellish experience. They should have split the chapters as they are in the printed book.
Good luck trying to listen to a single chapter repeatedly (as instructed to do!). You’ll spend a lot of time and energy trying to use your finger to scrub to the right location.
It’s probably better on teach your own’s app. I hope for those users, anyway.
Hth.
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- DerekRR
- 12-15-24
Helpful and fun. Definitely would recommend for Swedish learners!
Great and helpful book. Nice progression into more difficult vocabulary as you make it through each chapter. The summary and questions sections after each chapter are super helpful as well. Not to mention the stories are a fun read. However, the narrator is difficult to understand, at least for a Swedish beginner, because his annunciation is slurred and unclear. His tone is kind of bland as well. I still highly recommend this book for Swedish learners though, but it’s a good idea to have a hard copy or e-book to follow along with and read on your own with no narration.
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- Cathy Thwing
- 11-14-21
Missing the Chapter Markers
Of course Olly's books & mp3 s are top quality. But, and I have several of them, this Swedish version mp3 does not have the Chapter Markers. When I start the mp3 from the beginning, it just goes through the Intro and then directly into the closing chapter. But if I manually move the "Position Button" (my term here) I can find the chapters. The quality of the book and the recording is just great, but this is a little inconvenient so I'm going 4 stars. If it's fixed I'll change it to 5.
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- Miguel Roman
- 01-26-22
Good content, badly organized
Good audio quality and performance. No chapter divisions, difficult to navigate chapters and content in general.
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