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I much prefer English over broken Swedish, like you said almost everyone in Sweden is fluent in English so it's really no need for you to bother with Swedish unless you really really want to.

It's the way I spell it no one besides English teachers care if you spell it the British vs American way.





Thanks for the input, I'll keep studying it a bit just encase i need to converse with someone older who may not have learned English in school.

That and being able to read signs could be very handy

This post was edited by kclla on Oct 25 2014 04:57am

Elr så lär man killen sjuka grejer
Tänker mest på killen som säger "jag är pök"

I don't care, just curious.

You love Sweden because of our CS-players eh? ;d

Anyway, it's always fun when people tries to speak swedish, I wouldn't mind taking the conversation in English though

aj präför änglish åver svidish

Well... You need to learn swedish to become a part of the swedish society in reality. If that is your wish.
If you simply want to hang around, spend a vacation, meet some swedes, see our culture, english is fine. As a secondary language, swedes are ridiculously good in english, so we will prefer speaking english with you if we can, to communicate and have overall rewarding conversations. But this will not help you towards speaking swedish, which is a problem if that is what you really want.

having an accent is fine in most cases, those who said it's not in this thread I believe are mistaking 'accent' for 'broken'. Because it's almost impossible not to have an accent as a foreigner. And that's usually fine. But i think it's fairly accurate to tell you that we will prefer english if we can't go into deeper convo than ones along the lines of "en kaffe, tack" or "vart ligger tunnelbannan?" or "var är jag" or "vart kommer du ifrån?".
This doesn't mean you shouldn't do it anyway, because this is how you will progress. But in our selfishness we would be more comfortable with just speaking your native languague with you is my guess^^

Some people might be really picky about "en/ett" or other grammatics, and will maybe even be offended by accent or whatever. These people you should ignore... Most will encourage you to develop your swedish.


I actually have a good friend who is engaged to an egyptian, who came along when she moved back home to sweden. He took the available free (govt. funded) swedish courses (SFI, Svenska För Invandrare) And did as hard work he could learning swedish every day speaking etc.
As I recall it, the first few months and a bit more we had to talk english during more personal events, like a private company of friends having a glass (or two) of wine at home, going out to eat or whatever.
then we mixed it up, english and swedish. Then when we noticed he got a bit better hold of it, we started to exclusively speak swedish. This was probably hard for him, and a period where he "didn't speak as much". He listened and observed. But this part is where he took the real "jump" to become fluent in swedish.
Now he's as part in our conversations as anyone, but ofcourse his grammar and vocabulary is far from perfect. I would say he's got an accent now, but that his swedish isn't "broken."

This took him around two years, and he had _PERFECT_ conditions. His girlfriend was swedish, he had to get new swedish friends, get to know his girlfriends swedish family and swedish friends, etc.
If you bring your culture and family and friends along, it will be even harder to learn the language.

This post was edited by SpAz. on Oct 25 2014 07:45am

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To answer your question. Atleast in work situations i prefer that you talk english so there wont be any mix ups of what you actually want. (I work in the subway) unless its a simple phrase like wanting to buy a ticket. Then it doesnt matter.

Have a friend who moved here from greece and she learned fluently swedish within a year through swedish for immigrants. So there is hope

Jag menade accent, inte dålig svenska.
Sist jag åkte tåg envisades konduktören att tala lågstadieengelska med en invandrare från mellanöstern - trots att denna hade perfekt svenska bortsett från lite brytning.
Inga fel på grammatiken eller någonting.