Learn Swedish with Katrin – Details, episodes & analysis

Hej! Welcome to my brand new podcast, Learn Swedish with Katrin! I'm so excited to branch out and start offering content for absolute beginners. I hope you are ready to learn Swedish in 2025. 🎉

All the resources (transcript, vocabulary, and exercises) for this episode are available for free on Patreon. So download them and study up to master your introduction in Swedish!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/1-introduce-in-119154274

Starting next week, you'll be able to listen to all the episodes for free, but the resources will be Patreon exclusive for only $10 per month. So consider joining Slow Swedish on Patreon to get access to all coming podcast documents.

Let's go, 2025! Nu kör vi, 2025! 🇸🇪

Hej! This week, you will learn how to talk about your family in Swedish. What did your family of origin look like? What does your immediate family look like now? Do you have or want kids? Pets? Or no?

Get ready for a vocabulary packet episode with loads of useful rules to bring along on your Swedish learning journey. And remember, just do your best! If you don't understand everything the first time around, that is not a problem at all.

Want to read along in the transcript, study the vocabulary list, and do some exercises to practice what you've learned? Consider joining Learn Swedish with Katrin on Patreon for only $10 per month.

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Most people who learn Swedish are intimidated by En and Ett. En and Ett are the Swedish noun genders that completely lack logic and reason. And sure, you will have to learn them word by word, and yeah they do affect the language a lot...

But! My mission is to dedramatize this part of the Swedish language. And I will be teaching it slightly differently than many other resources. Fingers crossed it helps hehe.

Want to read along in the transcript, study the vocabulary list, and do some exercises to practice what you've learned? Consider joining Learn Swedish with Katrin on Patreon for only $10 per month.

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Welcome to part two of the En/Ett 101 series. This week, we will get to know the cooky cousin, the exception, the spiky noun gender: Ett!

Remember, Ett-nouns make up about 20% of the Swedish language... so when in doubt, always go with En hehe.

You can download the transcript, vocabulary list, and exercises for this week's episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/slowswedish

Don't forget to share your Swedish sentences in the comment section this week! I look forward to reading them.

Happy learning! 💛

This week, we are going to start speaking Swedish again after two weeks of En and Ett. We are going to talk about daily activities and routines!

You will learn numbers (to tell time), many verbs, and some useful nouns (spoiler alert, only one Ett-word this week!).

You can download the transcript, vocabulary list, and exercises on Patreon.

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Happy learning! 💛

Now that you know a handful of nouns and verbs, I think you are ready to learn about questions in Swedish!

In this week's episode, you will learn how to ask closed and open-ended questions, using the vocabulary from the previous weeks.

You can download the transcript, vocabulary list, and exercises on Patreon.

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Happy learning! 💛

If you live in Sweden or ever plan on visiting Sweden, this topic is crucial! It will get you through every small talk situation with another Swede. I promise.

In this week's episode, you will learn how to describe different seasons. We will go through the nouns, adjectives, and verbs for the most common weather types.

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Happy learning! 💛

Welcome to the first episode of our new series "Swedish in the Wild". In these episodes, I’ll take you out into the real world and teach you useful phrases and information for different situations.

We’ll visit different places and go through all the phrases and expressions you need to navigate them like a true Swede. And today, we’re going out to eat!

You can download the transcript, vocabulary list, and exercises on Patreon.

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Happy learning! 💛

I have been receiving a lot of similar questions on Patreon in the past 1-2 weeks, so that confirms that you guys are ready for today’s lesson!

The topic we are going to discuss today is inverted word order. This is also sometimes called the “V2-rule”. And it’s not at all as complicated or intimidating as it might sound. It’s just a tiny change in word order, activated by a very specific kind of words.

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Happy learning! 💛

This week, we’re going to dive into one of the trickiest parts of Swedish pronunciation: the vowels. They are especially tricky because each vowel has multiple pronunciations depending on the surrounding letters... and they're all split into two categories that interact differently with other letter combinations as well.

Yeah, it sounds like a lot. But we'll take it one step at a time.

You can download the transcript, vocabulary list, and exercises on Patreon.

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Browse all episodes here: https://slowswedish.com/

Happy learning! 💛