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Jan. 25th, 2011
a children's story I read in Swedish
Jan. 25th, 2011 04:38 pmIn addition to taking an intro to Swedish class and learning songs in Swedish I have also started reading children's books. The first one I picked up is one of those with detailed illustrations on every page and not so many words, which meant that I was able to correctly guess the meaning of every word on the first try. Learning to pronounce them, on the other hand, has been a challenge. For the first book I had ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
archinonlivefirst read me the story straight through, then I tried to read it, and he corrected my sounds as needed. This is needed more for some words than for others. The phrase which proved to be hardest for me is "ge mig", which sounds more like what an American would spell "yeayah myuh". The fact that this story has lots and lots of repetition makes it a very good beginner's book.
( The story itself, and the translation thereof )
After spending a couple of days working on how to pronounce the words in that story we started a new children's book last night. This one still has illustrations on every page, but instead of only one new sentence per page it has a couple of actual paragraphs per page. This time the approach was for me to attempt to read it aloud at one go. Then he read it out loud to me so I could hear how it should have sounded. Then I did my best to translate it. This turned out to be far easier for the first page of the book (which was quite enough for one evening!) than I expected it to be. Some words I already knew from my songs, others from the Swedish course, and others I could guess from the similarity to the Norwegian (which I took a class in a decade ago) or to English. There were only a few words I had to ask for help to get the meaning. This pleased me very much. Then we worked through it again, first him pronouncing a phrase, and then my repeating it as often as needed to actually say them more or less correctly. The plan is to work our way through this book one page at a time, then move on to others. Eventually, as my reading level increases we will switch to books aimed at older and older kids...
However, I don't think I'll take the time to type out the paragraphs I'm reading, unless someone asks me to...
archinonlivefirst read me the story straight through, then I tried to read it, and he corrected my sounds as needed. This is needed more for some words than for others. The phrase which proved to be hardest for me is "ge mig", which sounds more like what an American would spell "yeayah myuh". The fact that this story has lots and lots of repetition makes it a very good beginner's book.( The story itself, and the translation thereof )After spending a couple of days working on how to pronounce the words in that story we started a new children's book last night. This one still has illustrations on every page, but instead of only one new sentence per page it has a couple of actual paragraphs per page. This time the approach was for me to attempt to read it aloud at one go. Then he read it out loud to me so I could hear how it should have sounded. Then I did my best to translate it. This turned out to be far easier for the first page of the book (which was quite enough for one evening!) than I expected it to be. Some words I already knew from my songs, others from the Swedish course, and others I could guess from the similarity to the Norwegian (which I took a class in a decade ago) or to English. There were only a few words I had to ask for help to get the meaning. This pleased me very much. Then we worked through it again, first him pronouncing a phrase, and then my repeating it as often as needed to actually say them more or less correctly. The plan is to work our way through this book one page at a time, then move on to others. Eventually, as my reading level increases we will switch to books aimed at older and older kids...
However, I don't think I'll take the time to type out the paragraphs I'm reading, unless someone asks me to...
