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10 Best Podcasts For Learning Swedish In 2021

Whatever your reason for wanting to learn Swedish — maybe you want to visit Sweden in the near future, or you have a business trip or you just want to impress a Swedish friend — you may have started looking at Swedish language-learning courses and felt a bit in over your head.

Well, don’t worry. There are plenty of resources out there that can help you learn Swedish with a little hard work and dedication. The first thing to do is to get yourself enrolled in a Swedish language course, whether online or in person. Then, you can start taking advantage of all the extra educational resources available online — such as podcasts.

Podcasts can be a great complement to any Swedish language course. They’re easy to use, often free and can be listened to any time, any place. Whether you’re driving to work, working out at the gym or cleaning the house, you can practice your Swedish while you’re at it.

Ready to get started? Then consider listening to some of these 10 Swedish language-learning podcasts. (more…)

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Mondly Review – Far From My First Choice For Learning A Language

Quality

Both the interface and the course itself could be designed better.

Thoroughness

It’s decent for learning vocabulary, but I thought a lot of the material wasn’t explained very well.

Value

It’s fairly inexpensive.

I Like…

Daily lessons, weekly quizzes, and monthly challenges – these functionalities encourage you to practice every day.

The vocabulary included is useful and drilled in an effective way.

It’s fairly inexpensive.

I DON’T LIKE…

The content and exercises are the same for all levels and languages.

The exercises are mostly passive.

I don’t think the order of lessons and topics is very well thought out.

For me, the interface is not user friendly and the platform is visually unappealing.

Price

There are three plans…
$9.99 per month for one language
$47.99 per year ($4/mo) for one language
$47.99 per year ($4/mo) for all languages

Strangely, I was able to access multiple languages even though I only signed up for one month at $9.99.

Visit Mondly

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LingQ Review – Extensive Reading Made Easy

Quality

The LingQ reading app is enjoyable in most languages, easy to use, and can expand your vocabulary. However, I found the user content frustrating to navigate.

Thoroughness

With the import function, users can choose to study almost anything they want.

Value

Now that other apps provide similar functions, the monthly subscription may be a bit overpriced. However, the yearly subscription seems fair.

I Like…

I can easily import almost any material I want to study.

I can use SRS flashcards to quiz new words from a specific page.

Each lesson in the library displays the percentage of known and unknown words based on my reading history.

There are many dictionaries to choose from for definitions

I DON’T LIKE…

Reviewing words is chaotic. Every word you look up gets added to a huge queue that quickly becomes unmanageable.

The extra features are overpriced and can be found other places for cheaper.

Very little of the content is original. Much of it was uploaded by users from other places.

The free version is extremely limited.

Languages

Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, English, Korean, French, Russian, German, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Greek, Polish, Esperanto, Belarusian, Latin, Ukrainian. There are also 20 additional languages in Beta.

Price

Premium membership costs $12.99/mo, $71.94/half-year, $107.88/year, $191.76/2-years; single-language lifetime membership costs $199

Visit LingQ

When I first signed up for LingQ, I wasn’t very impressed. Its seemingly random lesson library, filled with custom cover photos and inconsistent title formats, made me want to click on just about anything to get away from that page.

However, after exploring every function I could find, I realized that the reading tool has several useful functions for anyone trying to learn a language through extensive reading. Most importantly, it makes reading in other languages feel manageable.

The site has three main pages: Lessons, Tutors, and Community. Within them, you can find free and purchasable lessons, coins, an avatar, writing exchanges, a community forum, audio playlists, and challenges.

I mostly used LingQ for reading in Spanish and dabbled in French, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, and Korean.

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AmazingTalker Mini Review: Not Our Top Pick for Web Classes

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Verbling Review: Online Classes With Helpful Revision Tools

Teacher Quality

There are some less experienced teachers, but I found the lessons to be more consistently high quality than on italki.

Platform

The classroom technology, flashcards, and filing system are fantastic for learners and easy to use.

Value

Some teachers charge more than on italki, but you get better classroom technology, more privacy, and fewer disorganized teachers.

I Like…

I quickly found great teachers.

The platform’s extra features, such as teacher-made, personalized flashcards, help you review the material learned in each lesson.

It seems focused on long-term progression as well as immediate student satisfaction.

You don’t have to give out your contact details, thanks to the classroom technology.

I DON’T LIKE…

Some teachers don’t use the platform’s flashcards and materials system.

There are fewer languages available than on italki.

You can only pay in US dollars, plus there’s a hidden fee.

The forums need more moderation.

Languages

Verbling lists 65 different languages on their platform, from Spanish and Mandarin Chinese through to Twi and Berber. Not all of them have available teachers, however.

Price

Prices are set by the teacher and range from $5 to $75 for an hour-long lesson. You can get discounts for buying packs of 5, 10, or 20 lessons with a teacher. Every student gets one free trial lesson, after which they’re $6 each.

Visit Verbling

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Lexilogos Mini-Review: A Resource Bank For Dictionaries and Books

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