only a pause of 306 days
Aug. 1st, 2015 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaI know that one of the best ways I can improve my Swedish pronunciation and ability to understand spoken Swedish as well as I can read it is to listen to audio books at the same time as I read it. However, life is busy, and making time to actually sit down and do that hasn't been very high on the priority list, given how many other interesting things there are to d. Besides, I have a strong preference for just picking up a book without the bother of trying to find the correct place on the recording where I last paused it, to say nothing of the ability to read as fast as I like when not listening to a recording, or being able to stop and look up a word if I need to, without needing to hit the pause button.
Be that as it may, today I have finally picked back our copy of Röde Orm by Frans G. Bengtsson (there is an English translation available called "The Longships" if anyone is interested) and started listening to and reading it again. The last time I made time for this was September, when I made it to the end of chapter 3. Just now I made it to the end of chapter 5. With luck I will keep making time for this--the story is interesting (about a boy who sets of a Viking (not exactly of his free will) and the adventures he has, and finally learning how sounds map to letters will do me in good stead. Only 12 more chapters to go...
Be that as it may, today I have finally picked back our copy of Röde Orm by Frans G. Bengtsson (there is an English translation available called "The Longships" if anyone is interested) and started listening to and reading it again. The last time I made time for this was September, when I made it to the end of chapter 3. Just now I made it to the end of chapter 5. With luck I will keep making time for this--the story is interesting (about a boy who sets of a Viking (not exactly of his free will) and the adventures he has, and finally learning how sounds map to letters will do me in good stead. Only 12 more chapters to go...