Learning Swedish

Several options to start learning Swedish. In order of preference:

1. Free course for new faculty offered by Lund University. Unfortunately, about twice as many people want to take the course as there are spaces available. But try.

2. You can pay for a course at Folkuniversitetet. There are intensive short-term courses (every day) as well as 9-week evening courses, two days a week. The 9-week course costs 2800 SEK. Skomakaregatan 6 ipg, 22

3. Medborgaskolan

http://www.medborgarskolan.se/

Swedish for beginners course starts Sept 22, about 1000 SEK.

http://www.medborgarskolan.se/templates/pages/CoursePage.aspx?lid=1281&sgid=11&cid=431310_Gustav

4. Free courses (Swedish for Immigrants) are offered through Komvux. Contact Ann-Sofie Ekberg at VUC on telephone 021-391706, Mon-Thu 8:30 to 9:30.

The Lund page for Komvux is here and contact info for Swedish courses is here.

This says you can also register for the course at the Lund city library (Stadsbiblioteket) at the Guidance Center (Vägledningscentrum).

To translate Swedish, Google Translate works quite well. If you use Google's Chrome browser, you can set it to do instantaneous translations of whole web pages.

You can also try http://tyda.se/ which has an English-Swedish dictionary and thesaurus.