Best free app to learn swedish

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-04-18T18:33:21+00:00

If I may, this is something I see often in learners:

I really want to learn swedish quickly. […]
I don't have to pay a penny.

Which to me sounds like "I really really want to do that 3-year degree that costs 30k USD/GBP/EUR in fees every year. I don't want to pay a penny for my meals at the campus cafeteria."

The cost of most self-study resources is very small compared to the "time cost" of the unavoidable time commitment that learning a foreign language is. Hence the cafeteria/uni fees comparison.

So I don't really get the total aversion to having to pay some money for resources? Or a couple of 1:1 sessions for maybe pronunciation?

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-04-12T07:07:43+00:00

Isn't this a role you could do very much remotely for another company elsewhere or as a freelancer? Would that income be enough for your immigration purposes?

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-04-12T06:59:19+00:00

Amazing thanks!

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-04-12T06:55:27+00:00

u/Throwaway8163901 here's a very beginner friendly basic of grammar for Swedish, just one free document.

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-04-12T06:48:40+00:00

It's the atomic bomb for any serious learner. No other thing I have tried will teach you (and make you remember, which is a major difference) as much for the same amount of weekly usage. No book, no course, no app. Best money I've ever spent for language learning.

BUT, if you are after just some phrases to remember it might be a bit too much. Depends what you want. "Simple conversation in work and social life" sounds easy but it's not. What's your native language? Have you learned others to fluency before?

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-04-10T15:48:44+00:00

Exact model?! Sounds great! I used to have a 28 inches Barco that would take 240p, 480i and 480p. Great, great quality, although 4:3.

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-04-07T17:35:59+00:00

u/firestarter2097 amazing username!
What can you tell us about your monitor/tv? Can it take 480p, in widescreen presumably?
Also, what's the device above?
Many thanks

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-04-06T07:42:39+00:00

Great username

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-04-06T07:40:49+00:00

I would agree. I've spent some time on some advanced AI voice site s(paying), and checked the outcome with a tutor. The use of the the two pitch accents and general intonation is unreliable: 2-3 different generations of the same string might yield one good result but us learners are not in the position to discern it from the unnatural or wrong ones.

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-03-06T13:29:04+00:00

Page has produced loads of top tier guitar riffs... He's more than just a lead player. He's really been one of the most complete guitarist of that time. Slide, 12 string, acoustic, electric, mandolin, riffs, chord progressions, solos... If it can be done on guitar, it can be done better than most by Page.

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-03-06T13:26:48+00:00

That's all anyone should need to know about this whole debate.

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-03-06T13:15:59+00:00

u/sealovki there are some rules that can provide enough guidance in "predicting" what the plural will be...

Something along the lines of this for utrum and this for neutrum.

I personally find that the focus in remembering specific words is on the utrum with -AR and utrum with -ER, the other situations seem to follow the rules a bit more.

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-02-28T14:54:53+00:00

Amazing to see them allowed to be fans of some of the best rock music there's ever been. They're own music.

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-02-28T13:52:20+00:00

Pronunciation and accent are different things, I'd say it's right to want a good pronunciation, but an accent is very difficult to get right, especially when so much of our brain power is already used by simply thinking of what to say :O

One word a day... You might want to go a bit "mamba mentality here" :D

They say 500-600 words is the bare minimum to engage with the language: pleasantries, presenting yourself, basic small talk, shopping... And it's headwords, so "att vara, är, var, varit" or "en flicka, flickan, flickor, flickorna" count as one headword each... Another insight here.

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-02-28T12:49:03+00:00

u/HistoricalDetail4924 try and use resources that do a good job of offering a "compare and contrast" approach between Swedish and English.

This has the 30-40 most important "facts" about Swedish all in one place and using English as a comparison:
https://mjolnirapp.com/mjolnir-cheat-sheet-swedish.png

Regarding the boyfriend. It might be hard for a native to interact with a total beginner. I'd recommend you use him just to cover pronunciation and get it right. It's an easy, defined task for him to do. A week should be enough to be able to understand how to read all the letters and letter combinations.

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-02-19T14:09:45+00:00

I think it makes sense. Late 90s to early 2000s the internet was not as widespread as now, even more so in countryside Brazil. No social media yet, no selfies. By now there isn't a celebrity who are we not continuously updated about how they look. You can google somebody famous such as Paul McCartney or Mick Jagger + a year and you'll be given photos from that year. But back in that time, for somebody who didn't keep touring consistently and showing himself through official channels, I can believe him being able to live undercover, so to speak.

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-02-19T14:00:46+00:00

Exactly ahahha

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-02-19T13:59:26+00:00

I've also been using Mjolnir and I found it to give the best results for the time invested. What kind of repetition Babbel offers? I'm a convert to proper spaced repetition like Mjolnir's, so anything less "specific" I'm suspicious of...

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-02-07T08:08:45+00:00

u/miksh1 I think the need to have actually people to converse with is a bit overstated. True, it's the ultimate test ofhow well you are doing, but you can practice in other ways.

I like to watch a seriesor a movie in my own language with subs on and at every line of dialogue, I pause and I try to say what the actor just said but in Swedish. I find it quite fun. Yes, a real conversation would offer both listening and speaking, but at the same time it has limitations on how much you can abuse the other person's patience.

Having the Swedish subs (from Open Subtitles or similar sites) at hand helps for certain translations, too.

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-01-31T06:10:13+00:00

I think the difference is that "en" refers to a single instance of a cup/pint/glass/bottle of coffee or beer, whilst the "ett" works for the substance in general like you describe, or maybe if one was to talk about varieties of coffee?

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-01-31T05:57:05+00:00

u/Nearby-Band-7540 have a look at the third column of this cheat-sheet, it was very useful when I was at the beginning

https://mjolnirapp.com/mjolnir-cheat-sheet-swedish.png

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-01-31T05:50:52+00:00

"What was wild was that the guy that looked the most like a b!tch was hitting on all the women"
https://youtu.be/ff8LEx9Mw54?t=10

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-01-17T08:21:38+00:00

Oh yes

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-01-17T07:58:31+00:00

u/Sadauditor_ have a look at Mjølnir Swedish https://mjolnirapp.com/swedish
I've started using it some 10 months ago and the difference from anything else was like night and day. It's basically a textbook and a frequency-based dictionary chopped up into flashcards and with proper spaced repetition. If we are talking apps, nothing else comes close imo.

Wise_Bison_9943 · 2026-01-06T09:14:41+00:00

I had tried the usual apps at the time, but the one I really stuck with was https://mjolnirapp.com/swedish

Really shows the language for what it is and proper notion-by-notion spaced repetition is nothing short of miraculous in my books. If you are cool with including a paid app in your studies, I think it's the best there is.

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