{"id":41693,"date":"2003-11-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2003\/11\/27\/its-like-the-swedes-dont-want-you-to-learn-their-language\/"},"modified":"2003-11-27T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-27T10:00:00","slug":"its-like-the-swedes-dont-want-you-to-learn-their-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20031127-00\/?p=41693","title":{"rendered":"It's like the Swedes don't want you to learn their language"},"content":{"rendered":"

(It’s a holiday in the States today and tomorrow, so I’m not going to talk about geek stuff. That’ll resume on Monday.)\n If you pay a visit to Deutsche Welle<\/a>, the German international broadcasting service, you will find a wide array of online German learning materials, such as the daily news in slowly- and clearly-enunciated German<\/a> (including transcripts) and dozens of half-hour mini-documentaries designed for students of German<\/a> (including transcripts and exercise worksheets). These are great for improving my woefully deficient listening comprehension skills.\n On the other hand, all I could find for students of Swedish is the weekly news in simple Swedish<\/a>. No transcripts, no lessons. Sure, I can listen to all of the Swedish national radio stations anytime I want, but they sort of assume you’re fluent in Swedish.<\/p>\n

And if you go to google and search for “Swedish movies”, trust me, the top hits are definitely not<\/strong> the works of Ingmar Bergman. (Yes, I know about IMDB PowerSearch<\/a>. Now.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(It’s a holiday in the States today and tomorrow, so I’m not going to talk about geek stuff. That’ll resume on Monday.) If you pay a visit to Deutsche Welle, the German international broadcasting service, you will find a wide array of online German learning materials, such as the daily news in slowly- and clearly-enunciated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-41693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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