Just taken a nurofen, I think that sums up the day. Again more grammar and back onto word order and past tense…I am getting myself into knots over when to use for example jag drack and jag har druckit. I am the type of student who likes to read, absorb and get it into my head but thats not the Berlitz way.
Neither is having it explained in English, ‘Engelska är inte min vän’ and they are of course right. Berlitz is about absorption and repeating what the teacher says but not me I need to know how the rule works.
Today it was the turn of the pluperfect, and future pluperfect heavy stuff and they worked me over on this one. The double lesson focussed on the past vad har du gjort t.ex…no wonder my head is banging.
We also looked at the future and when you say..jag ska..jag kommer att as well as a lot of new vocab.
I need a drink! But no, one day left!!! Last night I watched most of Ebbe the movie, a recommendation from Eskilstoona, its a post for another day but I refuse now to use the subtitle Swedish option. This course has shown me I can listen and understand I just need more practice so I will be doing a lot more of this.
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Glad that you found Ebbe the movie useful.
Good luck with the exam.
Sounds like a right stressful few days you’re having mate. Glad you are keeping us all up to date though.
I find future tense the easiest to talk in, its simple enough.
My SFI class was shite for practicing reading/writing/speaking and learning vocab but I had a good grammar teacher although I still don’t really get prepositions. I think that’s just come through trial and error and learning when to use what.
Once your brain has fried out then recomposed itself, if you want/need I think I can help with word order (huvudsats and bisats), past tense and hans/hennes/sin – grammar in general. I have a fairly good book just lying around all about grammar that you can borrow if you want?
I also have a brilliant sheet with examples and exercises on word order and it becomes a bit easier when you know more about ‘bisatsinledare’s’.
What about pluskvamperfekt?! That one was always my favourite in school
hej, just wondering about contact info for Berlitz, i think i found them on the net but the online test does not have swedish as an option. Im in malmö right now. Also, what are you paying or what did your company pay for you to do the training? I also thought the lessons were 2 weeks?
I think they have different courses Oz, give them a ring, I think your nearest one is Göteborg though?
http://www.berlitz.se/1-28-start.html
This course was 48000 SEK including taxes.
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