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		<title>Is Sweden Turning Communistic?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 08:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, as many of you who follow my blog may know, I am definitely of the opinion that Sweden is becoming more and more communistic everyday. Recently they passed a law that requires the state to pay for half of the chores done around your house by other people. For instance, if you want to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, as many of you who follow my blog may know, I am definitely of the<br />
opinion that Sweden is becoming more and more communistic everyday. Recently<br />
they passed a law that requires the state to pay for half of the chores done<br />
around your house by other people.</p>
<p>For instance, if you want to have someone re-shingle your house or get your<br />
lawn mowed, then you pay the company that does it for you only half the<br />
bill. Then it is up to that company to fill out a bunch of forms in order to<br />
get the other half of the money owed from the state.</p>
<p>Of course the state takes out taxes before the company gets the money, and<br />
then you have to pay taxes again at the end of the year for the entire sum.<br />
They are trying to destroy small businesses in any way that they can. They<br />
want everything to be run by the state.</p>
<p>They are enslaving themselves just<br />
to save a few bucks.</p>
<p>Not only that, but the entire thing is just a charade<br />
anyway since they just increased taxes to pay for this program. I mean,<br />
where do these people think the money is coming from? So they pay more in<br />
taxes just to save a few bucks when someone cleans their gutters.</p>
<p>How people get brainwashed and duped so easily is beyond me&#8230;Who do they<br />
think stands to gain from all this? The average taxpayer or the Parliament?<br />
You don&#8217;t need a course in deductive logic to figure this stuff out, just a<br />
modicum of prudence.</p>
<p>Swedes don&#8217;t even want to pay the neighborhood kids to rake leaves anymore.</p>
<p>Not that neighborhood kids even want to rake leaves in Sweden. It&#8217;s almost<br />
unheard of that a group of kids goes door to door and offers to shovel the<br />
driveway or mow the lawn. Instead, they are encouraged to become<br />
professional students and play video games. They spend most of their youth<br />
drunk and don&#8217;t get jobs until they are almost 30.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s not forget that they are also trying to &#8220;erase the genders&#8221; in Sweden and<br />
now many day cares and kindergartens are forcing their male pupils to wear<br />
pink and their female pupils to wear blue. Even the parents are getting in<br />
on it. I have a friend who works at a daycare who told me that one of the<br />
moms forces his one year old boy to were nail polish!</p>
<p>And I thought America was on the fast road to communism&#8230;</p>
<p>The good news is that I figured out a solution&#8230;</p>
<p>Learning Russian!</p>
<p>Alright, I&#8217;m joking, that&#8217;s not my solution, that&#8217;s my advertisement for my<br />
new <a href="http://learnrussianforretards.com" target="_blank">Russian For Retards</a> Course for any of you interested in learning the<br />
Russian language. I had a few requests, so click on the link above to access<br />
Volume 1 if you are interested, or even if you aren&#8217;t interested, take a<br />
minute and check out the site. I worked hard on it <img src='http://speakswedishstupid.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve also had many requests for other languages like Spanish, French,<br />
Ukrainian, Polish, Danish, Norwegian, etc and I promise that I will get to<br />
those languages as soon as I have the time and money to make it happen.</p>
<p>For now though, even if you are not interested in learning Russian I would<br />
really appreciate it if you could stop by the website and leave some<br />
positive comments. It will help my ranking in Google.</p>
<p>Even better, go to one of my new <a href="http://youtu.be/_6XHpsBraqk" target="_blank">Russian Youtube Videos</a>, and give me some<br />
extra views, likes, and positive comments. I could really use the help<br />
getting this program off the ground. There is a lot of competition, but I<br />
worked my *ss off for the last 6 months getting this program/website<br />
together and making sure that it was the absolute best Russian course out<br />
there!</p>
<p>Thanks for all your support, I am very grateful.</p>
<p>Ha det så bra!</p>
<p>Professor Paul</p>
<p>P.S. Everything I said about Sweden in this letter was 100% true! It&#8217;s<br />
really scary!</p>
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		<title>Endings Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Learn Swedish]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s up? Professor Paul Back Once Again With Another Post For All Of You Who Wanna Learn Swedish Fast And Effectively. Now I&#8217;ve gone over some of this stuff before in my videos like the one included below, but sometimes things bear repeating. Not only, that but many of you may be visiting the website [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What&#8217;s up? Professor Paul Back Once Again With Another Post For All Of You Who Wanna <strong>Learn Swedish</strong> Fast And Effectively.</p>
<p>Now I&#8217;ve gone over some of this stuff before in my videos like the one included below, but sometimes things bear repeating. Not only, that but many of you may be visiting the website for the first time and have not watched all my videos on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/SpeakSwedishStupid/videos">Youtube</a>.</p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8A6jhm2HMIk" frameborder="0" width="560" height="315"></iframe></p>
<p>So if you have not seen the video above give it a little play and I promise you will learn a lot. Then you can come back down and read some of this for a little while if you like.</p>
<p>You see when I was first learning the Swedish language I was completely lost. I was trying to memorize things and it just wasn&#8217;t working. It&#8217;s not like I have a poor memory or anything, actually I usually score extremely high on memory tests, but unless your Rainman, no one can expect to learn the vast amount of vocabulary required to speak an entire language in few weeks.</p>
<p>What we can do however is learn to recognize patterns. Sometimes these patterns are obvious and sometimes not so obvious. However much like the feeling you get when someone tells you the answer to a riddle, everything seems obvious after it is revealed. These patterns made it much easier for me to learn <a href="http://www.101languages.net/swedish/" target="_blank">other languages</a> (Danish, Norwegian, German, Russian, etc). Especially amongst the Scandinavian languages, it was extremely easy to just adjust these patterns accordingly.</p>
<p>SOOOOOOOOOO anyways, now we wanna learn Swedish and we wanna get a big vocabulary. So we have to see these patterns. The things is not all these patterns are as easy as the ones described above. I explained in one of my other videos how the prefix &#8220;för-&#8221; works. Well the Swedes have many prefixes like these and getting to know them is essential to understanding the patterns and building up a working vocabulary quickly.</p>
<p>To be honest when I first started to learn Swedish I would just make up words that I didn&#8217;t know. And you know what? I was right the majority of the time!</p>
<p>For instance, the first time I wanted to say the word for &#8220;possibility&#8221; in Swedish, I didn&#8217;t know how to say it. Amazingly enough in the middle of a sentence my mouth just spit out the word &#8220;möjlighet&#8221;, and the Swede I was talking to did not even bat an eye.</p>
<p>So how did I do this magic&#8230;simple.</p>
<p>I already knew the word for &#8220;possible&#8221; was &#8220;möjlig&#8221;, and I also knew that Swedes often put the ending &#8220;-het&#8221; at the end of &#8220;Swedish sounding&#8221; adjectives in order to form the noun. Put the two together and &#8220;voila&#8221;.</p>
<p>What I mean by &#8220;Swedish sounding&#8221; is that the word &#8220;möjlig&#8221; sounds nothing like English. If the the word had been something like &#8220;possibel&#8221; then I would have put the ending &#8220;-itet&#8221; and came up with the word &#8220;possibilitet&#8221;. That&#8217;s because words that sound &#8220;English&#8221; like &#8220;university&#8221; or &#8220;mentality&#8221; turn into &#8220;universitet&#8221; and &#8220;mentalitet&#8221; respectively.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s little tricks and patterns like these that will build your vocabulary quickly. I teach many of these tricks in the &#8220;Lucky 13&#8243; program so be sure to head to the home page and pick yourself up a copy if you haven&#8217;t already.</p>
<p>I think that&#8217;s it for now! See ya next time!</p>
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		<title>The 10 Biggest Lies About Learning Swedish (Language) Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 08:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Learn Swedish]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Lie #1 Swedish is a difficult language. This is the most ridiculous and harmful rumor ever spread amongst the English speaking world when it comes to learning Swedish. Even Swedes themselves are somehow convinced that Swedish is a difficult language and they spread this message throughout the world. Who knows why they do this. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Big Lie #1</strong></span></p>
<p>Swedish is a difficult language.</p>
<p>This is the most ridiculous and harmful rumor ever spread amongst the English speaking world when it comes to learning Swedish. Even Swedes themselves are somehow convinced that Swedish is a difficult language and they spread this message throughout the world.</p>
<p>Who knows why they do this. It could be because they want to keep their language secret and mysterious to retain some level of elite identity or it could be to spread the message of &#8220;tolerance&#8221; towards Swedes that get irritated when immigrants can&#8217;t speak the language.</p>
<p>My experience tells me that it is both. I have been teaching Swedish on the internet for almost a year now and have been quite successful. This success has lead to many Swedes sending me hate mail, because they don&#8217;t think that I should be teaching foreigners to speak Swedish. These letters or comments almost always come late at night on weekends when Swedes are drunk and surfing the net.</p>
<p>I have no idea why a drunk Swede would be searching for &#8220;learn swedish&#8221; on youtube or the internet, but some how they find me and take issue.</p>
<p>Since I speak Swedish with a swedish accent it confuses and offends people. Some Swedes assume that I am a Swede trying to impersonate an American and tell me that I am doing a bad impersonation. Other Swedes actually hear me talk about being born in America (in my videos), and they try to accuse me of teaching Swedish poorly.</p>
<p>They tell me that I am teaching bad grammar or vocabulary and try to correct me without realizing that the way they prefer to say things is not at all proper Swedish and is in fact an anomaly of their regional dialect. If they would just take the time to look things up in a <a href="http://www.studyinsweden.se/Learn-Swedish/" target="_blank">Swedish dictionary or grammar book</a> before they left these inane comments, then such things wouldn&#8217;t happen. However, I suppose drunk people don&#8217;t think very clearly.</p>
<p>So moving on&#8230;</p>
<p>The point is, if you speak English as your mother tongue, you will be hard-pressed to find an easier second language to learn than Swedish. The only possible two exceptions are Norwegian and Danish. The grammar is much more simplified in these languages than Swedish. Norwegian is a little tricky because of all the dialects and different accepted versions of the language. Danish is a little tricky when it comes to pronunciation.</p>
<p>In general, Swedish is extremely easy compared to any other language in the world as a <a href="http://francisstrand.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">native speaker of English</a>. There is no reason to be intimidated.</p>
<p>You actually already know most of the language if you know English. Essentially, it&#8217;s just another dialect. I teach you all this at Speak Swedish Stupid. That&#8217;s why my students learn faster than everyone else and why I have gotten so much attention in the last year.</p>
<div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Tune in tomorrow for Part 2!</strong></span></div>
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		<title>Learn Swedish Lesson 1 (Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
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<p>These videos will give you some insight into what you will be learning in the &#8220;Find Your Flow&#8221; program. To gain access to the program simply click on the link above that says &#8220;24-Week Course&#8221; and you will be redirected to the page where you can sign up for only 1 dollar!</p>
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		<title>The Absolute Best Way to Learn Swedish (Part 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alright, so let&#8217;s pick up where we left off last time and finish my list of the TOP 5 WORST WAYS to learn Swedish. Just to give you a reminder, the first three were&#8230; 1) Buying and Reading Expensive Grammar Books 2) Buying Expensive and Fancy Computer Programs 3) Wasting Your Time With Flashcards Well, at least [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alright, so let&#8217;s pick up where we left off last time and finish my list of the <strong>TOP 5 WORST WAYS</strong> to learn Swedish.</p>
<p>Just to give you a reminder, the first three were&#8230;</p>
<p>1) Buying and Reading Expensive Grammar Books<br />
2) Buying Expensive and Fancy Computer Programs<br />
3) Wasting Your Time With Flashcards</p>
<p>Well, at least flashcards won&#8217;t break your wallet. Let&#8217;s not forget however the old adage &#8220;Time is Money&#8221;. Instead of throwing away your precious time on this planet struggling with flashcards in vain, you could be using those hours to make more money and buy a plane ticket to Sweden. If you already have enough money, then you can use the hours saved to spend some quality time with your friends and family.</p>
<p>I am trying to save you both time and money, so here we go with #4 on my list&#8230;</p>
<p>4) <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Learning From Online Drills and Quizzes</span></p>
<p>As you will notice, most of these poor learning methods share common glitches. Here we see once again a failure to intergrade the language into your everyday life and get you thinking in Swedish.</p>
<p>By this point, I am sure that you have googled the words &#8220;Learn Swedish Online Free&#8221; or something of that nature. I&#8217;ll even bet that you have spent hours clicking on all the links to the pages in a desperate attempt to find a website that will help you reach your goal of fluency in Swedish. I did the same thing, so I know.</p>
<p>There are various grammar quizzes, verb drills, vocabulary multiple choice etc that will keep you occupied for quite some time. None of these sites however (even after weeks of exploring) will make you feel comfortable in Swedish. As soon as you try to read a swedish wikipedia page or turn on a swedish film without subtitles, you feel lost at sea with no land in sight.</p>
<p>Why does this happen? Again, we see the same pattern of not making the drills anything like real life. Nobody speaks the way the drills are structured. Not only that, but staring at a computer and doing drills does nothing to get you <a href="http://www.sweden.se/eng/Home/Education/Swedish-language/Reading/Learning-Swedish-Lessons-in-Language-and-Life/ 	" target="_blank">hearing Swedish</a> the way it is spoken by Swedes. When you can&#8217;t here the language in its true context you will not only get the wrong feel for the language, but you will also have zero interest in the sentences that you are working with.</p>
<p>This brings me to the 5th and final <strong>WORST WAY</strong> to learn Swedish (for now).</p>
<p>5) <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Buying and Using the &#8220;All in one&#8221; language learning books or CDs that claim you can &#8220;teach yourself&#8221; at home or in your car</span></p>
<p>This category contains some of the most atrocious language learning products out there. Not necessarily because their methods are any worse than the ones used with other products I&#8217;ve mentioned, but because they are the most popular. Millions of these books and CDs are sold every year and most of the people who buy these products are so bored that they never finish the courses. The ones that do manage to finish the courses (like me) find themselves only being able to understand and speak a tiny limited fraction of the language.</p>
<p>These programs claim to prepare you for speaking and understanding the language, but they never do. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you master all the advanced levels, you will still be a dolt when it comes to REAL Swedish. Why? Because you can&#8217;t possibly drill every sentence that can be spoken in any situation into someone&#8217;s head through repetition. Even if you had 5,000 CDs and all the time in the world, it&#8217;s not going to happen.</p>
<p>Let me say this in an all caps rage&#8230;<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>YOU CANNOT LEARN A LANGUAGE THROUGH DRILLS, REPETITION, OR ROTE MEMORIZATION!</strong></span></p>
<p>That&#8217;s all these books and CDs are doing. They try to get you to memorize sentences you would never say whilst using vocabulary you will only use once a year.</p>
<p>Honestly, when was the last time you said &#8220;Good day Sir, I would like to buy 3 loaves of bread and a hard rock candy. By the way, could you tell me where the nearest post office is? I would like to send an overnight delivery to my cousin in Stockholm. Do you know if I will be able to pay in travelers&#8217; checks? Also, do you happen to know what the rate of exchange is today? I would like to trade some american dollars for swedish crowns, find a hotel with a queen-sized bed, and book a one-way ticket to Gothenburg with a private sleeping compartment&#8221; ?</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve never had a conversation anything like that ever in your life, have you? In reality, you go to the store, put the bread on the counter, give the cashier your money and go home. Maybe you slip a &#8220;Thanks&#8221; or &#8220;Have a nice day&#8221; in there somewhere, but otherwise it&#8217;s a fairly simple procedure. These books act as though you are gonna be out on the town all day going to museums, airports, and hotels.</p>
<p>These are things that tourists do. In real life tourists don&#8217;t normally speak the native tongue of the country they are visiting. They speak broken English with the Swedes in the trains and at the hotel, then go to museums and take guided tours given in English. They leave a week later for the next stop on their european vacation. They never learn Swedish.</p>
<p>The people who learn Swedish are the ones who have a <a href="http://swedishlingq.com/" target="_blank">swedish lover</a>, a swedish circle of friends, or who are immigrating (or have immigrated) to Sweden. These people need to learn how to communicate with their friends and family in Swedish and they need to learn it fast. They don&#8217;t need to know how to book a museum tour paid in cashiers&#8217; checks.</p>
<p>Truth be told, these books and audio programs are worth very little when it comes time to learn REAL Swedish for communication with Swedes. They teach you phrases that tourists would use if tourists actually ever spoke the mother tongue of the country they were visiting.</p>
<p>So that&#8217;s it&#8230;</p>
<p>Those are the 5 Worst methods for learning Swedish. Of course there are many more ineffective yet popular ways to try and learn Swedish, but I don&#8217;t want us to spend all our time discussing them. What I do want to do is give you some insight into the most EFFECTIVE ways to learn Swedish (or any language for that matter). If you know how to implement these methods then you will accomplish fluency in less than half a year.</p>
<p>Tune in next time to find out more!</p>
<p>Ha det bra!</p>
<p>Prof Paul<br />
PS. In the meantime <a href="http://speakswedishstupid.com/reviews/">see what people are saying</a> about the <a href="http://speakswedishstupid.com/my-membership-options-page/?s2member_seeking=page-33&amp;s2member_level_req=0" target="_blank">&#8220;Find Your Flow&#8221;</a> course at <a href="http://speakswedishstupid.com/my-membership-options-page/?s2member_seeking=page-33&amp;s2member_level_req=0" target="_blank">www.SpeakSwedishStupid.com</a> . It&#8217;s the first and LAST program you will ever need to learn <a href="http://speakswedishstupid.com/my-membership-options-page/?s2member_seeking=page-33&amp;s2member_level_req=0" target="_blank">Fluent Swedish!!!</a></p>
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		<title>The Absolute Best Way to Learn Swedish (Part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what is the absolute best way to learn Swedish? &#160; Well before I tell you what the best way to learn Swedish is, let me give you a list of the 5 WORST WAYS to Swedish&#8230; Just be forewarned, you may get angry with me for saying some of the things I am gonna say, but [...]]]></description>
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<h1>So what is the absolute best way to learn Swedish?</h1>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Well before I tell you what the best way to learn Swedish is, let me give you a list of the <strong>5 WORST WAYS</strong> to Swedish&#8230;</span></p>
<p>Just be forewarned, you may get angry with me for saying some of the things I am gonna say, but sometimes the truth hurts. People don&#8217;t want to feel stupid or gullible. They don&#8217;t want to admit that they have wasted piles of hard earned cash and years of their life investing in inferior learning methods. Don&#8217;t feel too bad though, because I have also wasted my time and money on all of these. I understand where you are coming from. I have learned the hard way and now I am here to help you save as much time and money as I can. So before you write me hate mail, just know that I am honestly trying to help you.</p>
<p>1)<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> Buying and Reading Expensive Grammar Books</span></p>
<p>Reading a book on swedish grammar might cure your insomnia, but it will not help you learn Swedish very effectively. Grammar books are boring and confusing. They overwhelm you with loads of arbitrary rules before you even have any kind of foundational point of reference in the language. These books are produced solely for use as reference material in assisting people who already know the language quite well. You didn&#8217;t learn your mother tongue by reading a grammar book, so why would you try and learn <a href="http://www.101languages.net/swedish/" target="_blank">your new language</a> by reading a grammar book?</p>
<p>Save your money and don&#8217;t buy a swedish grammar book until you have already learned to speak the language fluently.</p>
<p>2) <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Buying Fancy and Expensive Computer Programs</span></p>
<p>I don&#8217;t want to mention any names, but most of you will know what I am talking about. These programs cost thousands of dollars, eat up a lot of memory on you hard drive, and teach you almost nothing. Yes, they look very impressive but that&#8217;s about it. I promise you however that even if you master the entire program you will still not be able to speak or understand the language very well at all.</p>
<p>You might learn a few new words but you will only be able to remember them when you are using the program and looking at the pictures they are showing you. These programs do nothing to make the language your own or increase your fluency. You can think of these computer language programs like a video game. Mastering a tennis video game will not make you much better at playing tennis in the real world, right? So why do you think mastering a Swedish video game will help you speak <a href="http://www.thelocal.se/15784/20081119/" target="_blank">Swedish in the real world</a>? It doesn&#8217;t work. Believe me, I have wasted money on these programs myself and they don&#8217;t work at all. I have never met anyone who became fluent in a language by using one of these ungodly expensive computer programs.</p>
<p>3) <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Wasting Your Time With Flashcards</span></p>
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<div>&#8220;Oh my god! He&#8217;s not going to attack flashcards now is he? Everybody knows flashcards are effective!&#8221;Well, I&#8217;m sorry to burst your bubble, but flashcards are a huge waste of time. I also know many of my students use flashcards and that is part of the reason why I am writing this. I am trying to save them time and help them learn effectively. I&#8217;m sorry if you feel like a kid who just learned that Santa Claus isn&#8217;t real, but this is the truth. Flashcards will waste your valuable time and slow down your learning.&#8221;How can you say this Prof Paul? I use flashcards all the time and I see improvement everyday.&#8221;Exactly, you see improvement everyday with your <em>flashcards </em>,but how much more fluent have you gotten in your Swedish. If you stop doing your flashcards for two weeks, will you still remember all the words you &#8220;memorized&#8221;? Of course not, because (just like the computer game), you are only learning the words in the context of the flashcards. However the real world doesn&#8217;t work like flashcards, so now ask yourself&#8230; were those words ever really &#8220;memorized&#8221; in the first place?For instance, when was the last time you used the word &#8220;thimble&#8221; in a sentence? What about the words &#8220;anchor&#8221; or &#8220;starfish&#8221;? These aren&#8217;t words you use very often, but even if you didn&#8217;t hear the word &#8220;starfish&#8221; for 25 years you would still never forget what it was. Why is that? Was it because you &#8220;memorized&#8221; it from a flashcard as a kid? Probably not, it was because you used the word in REAL LIFE situations several times at different time intervals.Practicing flashcards will make you better at playing the game of flashcards, but you have to remember it&#8217;s just a game, nothing more. It is never gonna make you fluent in Swedish. Does that mean that flashcards are 100% useless? No, I&#8217;m not saying that. They do provide entertainment. You might even retain a few words in your long term memory, but the majority of your &#8220;memorized&#8221; words will never be stored in the part of your brain that is used for speaking and understanding a language. It will be stored in the same part of your brain that helps you play games.</p>
<p>You have to bring Swedish into your everyday REAL life and make it a part of your being. The only program on the planet that teaches you this is the  <a href="http://speakswedishstupid.com/my-membership-options-page/?s2member_seeking=page-33&amp;s2member_level_req=0" target="_blank">&#8220;Find Your Flow&#8221;</a> course at <a href="http://speakswedishstupid.com/my-membership-options-page/?s2member_seeking=page-33&amp;s2member_level_req=0" target="_blank">www.SpeakSwedishStupid.com</a> . It&#8217;s the first and LAST program you will ever need to learn <a href="http://speakswedishstupid.com/my-membership-options-page/?s2member_seeking=page-33&amp;s2member_level_req=0" target="_blank">Fluent Swedish!!!</a></p>
<p>Seriously, I&#8217;m not just tooting my own horn here. I made this program because it works and because it didn&#8217;t exist before. It&#8217;s what I used to get myself fluent as well as many others and it will work for you too.</p>
<p>Tune in tomorrow to read about the last two <strong>WORST WAYS </strong>to learn Swedish as well as some great tips on how to actually learn Swedish <em>fast and effectively</em>!</p>
<p>Ha det bra!</p>
<p>Prof Paul</p>
<p>P.S. <a href="http://speakswedishstupid.com/reviews/">See what others are saying</a> about the &#8220;Find Your Flow&#8221; course.</p>
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		<title>How Do Swedes Treat Foreigners?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday I got the following letter from someone who asked me some questions I think many of you may be interested in hearing the answers to&#8230;</p>
<p>Hi there,</p>
<p>How are you ?<br />
My name is R, I&#8217;ve just started learning Swedish and your videos have been helping a lot.<br />
It&#8217;s so true when you say that it&#8217;s very difficult to find material to learn Swedish, but your videos are amazing dude.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve always had this passion for languages, but I&#8217;m half Brazilian/Japanese, I&#8217;ve been living in Tokyo for 6 years so I speak English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese and I want Swedish to be the next !</p>
<p>I was thinking to go to Sweden, try to find find a Job there.</p>
<p>How is the life there ?<br />
Is it difficult to set up yourself there ?<br />
How do they treat immigrants ?<br />
I&#8217;d be very thankful if you could give me some tips about the country dude.</p>
<p>You are doing an amazing job with your videos, congratulations !<br />
I&#8217;m so looking forward to hearing from you.</p>
<p>best regards</p>
<p>R</p>
<p>And here was my response&#8230;.</p>
<p>Hej R!</p>
<p>Thanks for watching!</p>
<p>Have you signed up for my newsletter yet? Better yet, if you are really serious about learning Swedish, you need go to my website and check out the 24-Week course . Seriously, it&#8217;s the best course available and I get fan mail everyday from people thanking me for changing their lives with the program.</p>
<p>So your first step is to sign up for the mailing list. It&#8217;s free and I explain MANY things about the Swedish and what it is like living in the country. You can go to my blog and read all the old newsletters to catch up. You will learn A LOT about Sweden and Swedes from reading it.</p>
<p>Your second step is to purchase the 24-Week course . It&#8217;s really cheap and it will take you from zero to fluent in 6 months or less if you follow the guidelines given to you in the program.</p>
<p>Your third step is to get online and start making Swedish friends on skype, etc so you can chat and videochat in Swedish. Just don&#8217;t ask Swedes about their own culture. They can&#8217;t see the forest from the trees. Ask foreigners who have been living here for a while&#8230;like me! <img src='http://speakswedishstupid.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Getting set up here can be tricky. It helps to know someone in Sweden, or many people if you can manage it. That&#8217;s another great reason for making Swedish friends online. Not only to you improve your fluency in the language but you can make valuable business connections. If you read my &#8220;About Me&#8221; page, then you will know that I knew a lot of Swedes when I got here, so I had some connections and places to sleep. I registered my own swedish company and started working really hard to get it going so I could put food on the table and build my own life here. Things are going pretty good today, but it definitely wasn&#8217;t easy. There was a great deal of struggle involved.</p>
<p>Your struggle will be completely different than mine, but if you wanna survive in Sweden then you need to start making swedish connections before you get here. Make as many as you can and try to make some really tight ones too with people who honestly understand and admire your vision.</p>
<p>Foreigners get treated differently depending on where they come from. I will tell you however, that if you are fluent in the language, then you usually get treated pretty good as foreigner. Being half Brazilian/Japanese, you will get treated very well. It might take you a while to adapt to the swedish culture, but you will not have to put up with a lot of the hatred that I have had to put up with when I first got here because I came from America.</p>
<p>It is very trendy for Europeans in general to hate Americans and America these days, so when I first got here, most people treated me with a very bad attitude. Many Swedes think that they know everything about America even though they don&#8217;t. They think Americans are all fat, uneducated religious fanatics who want to drop bombs for Jesus. Either that or they think that they are rich and pompous airheads.</p>
<p>Sweden watches more American movies than Swedish movies. They imitate all of America&#8217;s TV shows, import American restaurants, clothing stores etc, and 90% of Swedish rock bands try and sing in English. Yet, these same Swedes are constantly talking sh#t about America and Americans. It&#8217;s really peculiar and at times rather annoying.</p>
<p>I think deep down Swedes tend to have a love/hate relationship with America. They love american culture, but at the same time they are a little envious. It&#8217;s the classic example of building up an idol so you can tear it down. The same thing happens to movie stars. The media builds celebrities only to take them down later. It&#8217;s how the economy goes around. You can&#8217;t judge American by what the european media shows on TV.</p>
<p>Anyways, by getting my Swedish good enough so that I sounded like a Swede, I have gotten Swedes to treat me like a normal Swede. Now, when they do find out that I am an American, all their prejudices and misconceptions gets flushed down the toilet and they are left with no choice but respect me like a normal human being. Actually, they usually even respect me a little bit more than usual for having been able to transcend their expectations in a humble fashion. At this point, being an American starts working to my advantage because now I have become something exotic. It&#8217;s like I&#8217;m a Swede with &#8220;an edge&#8221;, if you know what I mean.</p>
<p>So don&#8217;t worry. You shouldn&#8217;t have any problems other than a little culture shock in the beginning. Again, read my blog for more details and write me back with any other questions. But if you really want to feel at home here in Sweden, then you MUST get fluent in the language. The absolute fastest and most efficient way of doing that is through the Find Your Flow program available at www.speakswedishstupid.com !</p>
<p>Good luck and best wishes</p>
<p>Prof Paul</p>
<p>P.S. There are a small percentage of swedish nationalists here who are concerned over the extremely high numbers of moslems flooding Sweden every year, but this obviously does not concern you (At least I don&#8217;t think so. I don&#8217;t think I ever met someone from Japan or Brazil who was moslem.). I just thought I would mention that so you would know, but even so, most Swedes show tolerance towards moslems.</p>
<p>So I hope this letter was a good start in answering some of the questions many of you may have in regard to living in Sweden as foreigner. Please feel free to write me if yo have any other questions. <img src='http://speakswedishstupid.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Lycka Till!</p>
<p>Prof Paul</p>
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		<title>Learn Swedish Vocabulary &#8211; Utskällning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s Your Learn Swedish Word of the Day (en) utskällning &#8211; (-ar, -na) &#8211; a scolding; a talking-to; a dressing-down Herregud, vilken utskällning han fick när han kom hem! (Lord o&#8217; mighty, what a scolding he got when he came home!) This word is a favorite amongst the Swedes and it goes hand in hand [...]]]></description>
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<p>(en) utskällning &#8211; (-ar, -na) &#8211; a scolding; a talking-to; a dressing-down<br />
Herregud, vilken utskällning han fick när han kom hem! (Lord o&#8217; mighty,<br />
what a scolding he got when he came home!)</p>
<p>This word is a favorite amongst the Swedes and it goes hand in hand with the<br />
the verb &#8220;att skälla ut&#8221; (to scold, to lambast). This is how you dicipline<br />
animals, busdrivers, kids, and even your boyfriend when he makes an<br />
inappropriate joke and embarrasses you at a social gathering. The word is in<br />
constant use in Sweden.</p>
<p>Giving men a bitter &#8220;utskällning&#8221; and putting them in their place seems to<br />
be a national pastime for swedish women. I don&#8217;t think a single day has<br />
passed since I have been in Sweden when I haven&#8217;t heard some woman talking<br />
on the cell phone talking about how she gave her man a good talking-to. To<br />
tell you the truth, I hear this multiple times every hour when I ride the<br />
bus or subway. If for no other reason, this word is important to know<br />
because of the sheer frequency of its use.</p>
<p>I still haven&#8217;t figured out exactly why so many women here love to go on<br />
scolding rampages and then brag about it to their friends, but I am guessing<br />
it has something to do with how their society is structured in general.<br />
Language reveals a lot about a culture, especially when you take into<br />
consideration the frequency of word use.</p>
<p>Take for instance the word &#8220;a scolding&#8221;. Walk around with a notebook all day<br />
in your country and see how often you hear the word being used. If you live<br />
in the USA, I can almost guarantee that you will hear the word used very<br />
seldom if at all within a given day. During that same day, write down how<br />
many times you here someone use the words &#8220;makes sense&#8221;. Again, if you live<br />
in the USA, I can almost guarantee you will hear those words &#8220;makes sense&#8221;<br />
or &#8220;that makes no sense&#8221; etc almost 100 times a day, if not more.</p>
<p>Now try to comprehend the fact that Swedes have no concept for &#8220;makes sense&#8221;<br />
in their language. There is absolutely no way to say it. I find ways around<br />
it by saying things like &#8220;Det verkar inte vettigt&#8221; (that doesn&#8217;t seem<br />
sane-minded) or &#8220;Det e inte ens logiskt&#8221; (that&#8217;s not even logical), but this<br />
is not normal speech for a Swede. I&#8217;m the only one in Sweden who uses such<br />
phrases (that I know of). All my friends laugh at me because I am always<br />
saying such absurd sentences in an effort to say &#8220;that makes sense&#8221; or &#8220;that<br />
don&#8217;t make no sense&#8221;.</p>
<p>So what does that say about swedish society? Well for one, it shows that<br />
when it comes to personal conversations, logic is not an issue. The things<br />
that come out of your mouth in a conversation are not expected to &#8220;make<br />
sense&#8221;. Instead you might here people say something like &#8220;I understand what<br />
you mean&#8221; or &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand what you mean&#8221;, but they will never be<br />
expected to supply any concrete logic for what they are saying. This is<br />
pretty flimsy to say the least and watching Swedes debate can be quite<br />
amusing for someone who comes from a society that respects the laws of<br />
logic.</p>
<p>All this becomes extremely interesting when you take into consideration that<br />
there is so much scolding going on here. Think about that for a second.<br />
Rampant scolding with no regard for logic. Does that sound like a dangerous<br />
combination to you?</p>
<p>So I will give you a piece of advice for when you are talking to Swedes and<br />
it doesn&#8217;t matter if you are speaking Swedish or English with them. This<br />
will save you hours, if not years of frustration. Because of the way their<br />
language and society is set up, Swedes haven&#8217;t been hard-wired to think in<br />
terms of logic or semantics like people from other parts of the world. At<br />
first glance it seems as though this leaves no room for structured conversation<br />
capable of persuasion, and in a way this is true. However, all hope is not<br />
lost and I have found in my experience that there are other ways to &#8220;get<br />
through&#8221; to a Swede.</p>
<p>You can never expect that your logic is going to convince a Swede to listen<br />
to your point of view. Instead, you need to appeal to their personality and<br />
emotions. Remember, you are trying to get them to say &#8220;I understand&#8221; instead<br />
of &#8220;that makes sense&#8221;. The former is emotional, the latter is logical. If<br />
you know from the onset of any conversation, discussion, debate, etc, that<br />
your chances of reasoning with a Swede are most likely futile, then you will<br />
be much better prepared when you enter into that situation.</p>
<p>Learning how to appeal to a Swede&#8217;s personality instead of logic will help<br />
your progress in any sort of relationship you have with a Swede whether it be<br />
personal or business. These are parts of the language and culture that are<br />
hidden far beyond the mere words and grammar. If you don&#8217;t master these<br />
skills, your ability to communicate in Swedish will be severely handicapped.</p>
<p>Only the &#8220;Find Your Flow&#8221; course at www.SpeakSwedishStupid.com will<br />
teach such things while you learn the grammar, vocabulary and usage in the<br />
fastest and most efficient way possible. Be sure to pick up the course<br />
today! (if you haven&#8217;t already done so)</p>
<p>It took me a long time to learn such cultural differences and how they tie<br />
in with the language. I want to teach you these essential principles so you<br />
do not have to suffer through the same culture shock as me whilst you are<br />
speaking a brand new language. The combination can be overwhelming and in<br />
the end will most likely result in you never fully being able to make the<br />
language your own.</p>
<p>Lycka till och ses igen snart!<br />
Prof Paul</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 05:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s Your Learn Swedish Word of the Day (en) skilsmässa &#8211; (skilsmässan, skilsmässor, -na) &#8211; divorce; separation; parting; divorcement Skilsmässor är sorgliga, eller hur? (Divorces are sad, aren&#8217;t they?) This morning I got a letter from a student who told me that he was in the middle of a divorce and it made me want [...]]]></description>
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<p>(en) skilsmässa &#8211; (skilsmässan, skilsmässor, -na) &#8211; divorce; separation;<br />
parting; divorcement<br />
Skilsmässor är sorgliga, eller hur? (Divorces are sad, aren&#8217;t they?)</p>
<p>This morning I got a letter from a student who told me that he was in the<br />
middle of a divorce and it made me want to share a few ideas with everyone<br />
concerning the notion of marriage in Sweden. Perhaps many of you have a<br />
Swedish lover or fiance and if you do, I am in no way trying to discourage<br />
you. I just wanted to offer some perspective on some things you may not have<br />
been aware of. Every Swede is different and every Swede is an individual. If<br />
I say something about Swedes in general, I am not saying that the person you<br />
are with is like the herd. I simply paint with broad strokes in order to<br />
awake interest and make a point.</p>
<p>When it comes to divorce, almost no one does it better than Sweden.<br />
According to the most recent statistics , Sweden has the _second highest<br />
rate of divorces in the world _ with a whopping 54% of marriages ending in<br />
divorce. The only country that has more divorces is Belgium where nearly 60%<br />
of marriages end in divorce. Actually, when it comes to percentages of<br />
divorce overall, Scandinavia dominates the world. Finland, Denmark, Norway,<br />
and Iceland are all amongst the _TOP 15_ countries with the highest<br />
percentages of divorce. Too bad divorce isn&#8217;t an olympic sport.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s face it. If you are looking for commitment, Sweden is not your best<br />
bet. Swedes are notorious for not wanting to commit to anything, and not<br />
just when it comes to marriage. We all remember what happened during World<br />
War II when the Swedes decided to be &#8220;neutral&#8221;. In fact, historically, the<br />
only thing Sweden has really ever committed itself to is its so called<br />
&#8220;neutrality&#8221;. Not only is this a silly notion but it is also an egregious<br />
contradiction in terms. Nonetheless, I still hear many Swedes utter words<br />
like &#8220;Sweden is committed to neutrality&#8221; or &#8220;We believe in neutrality&#8221;.</p>
<p>On the spiritual front, Sweden is filled with agnostics and atheists. The<br />
average Swede does not believe that morality exists, rather only the law of<br />
the land and political correctness.</p>
<p>Socially speaking, a fanatical sense of feminism dominates the country and<br />
has figuratively castrated the male population while turning the female<br />
population into what foreigners jokingly refer to as &#8220;men with c#nts&#8221;. They<br />
have even gone so far as to literally start castrating statues and even the<br />
lion on the Swedish Coat of Arms.</p>
<p>Please don&#8217;t misunderstand me. Sweden is my home and I embrace it<br />
fully&#8230;the good, the bad, and the ugly. I just want to give those students<br />
of mine who live outside of Sweden a realistic picture of the country. It is<br />
easy to glorify countries that you don&#8217;t live in before you get there. There<br />
is however no paradise. Every country has its pluses and minuses. Where you<br />
ultimately decide to live will be based upon your personal priorities at the<br />
time. Your pluses may be another person&#8217;s minuses.</p>
<p>Many people value Sweden&#8217;s lack of commitment. They see it as progressive<br />
thinking. I would be lying if I said that I was one of these people, but I<br />
do acknowledge their place in the world. Sweden has a rich history and a<br />
beautiful language and I hope that I am able to be the catalyst that helps<br />
you learn all about it&#8230;from all angles. The good, the bad, and the ugly!</p>
<p>If you are a man who&#8217;s thinking about marrying a swedish woman, proceed with<br />
caution (I am talking to the men now because the vast majority of divorces<br />
are initiated by women). She might not have the same understanding of<br />
commitment that you do. The environment she was raised in might not have<br />
prepared her to live up to your expectations.</p>
<p>Alright, if I haven&#8217;t offended you all so much by now, that you have<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s Your Learn Swedish Word of the Day (en) drottning &#8211; (-ar, -na) &#8211; queen; regina Vad tycker du om drottningen? (What do you think of the queen?) As you may or may not know, the medieval monarchy is still alive and well in Sweden. Of course your average Swede will not admit this. They [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s Your <strong>Learn Swedish</strong> Word of the Day <img src='http://speakswedishstupid.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>(en) drottning &#8211; (-ar, -na) &#8211; queen; regina<br />
Vad tycker du om drottningen? (What do you think of the queen?)</p>
<p>As you may or may not know, the medieval monarchy is still alive and well in<br />
Sweden. Of course your average Swede will not admit this. They will most<br />
likely tell you that they live in a &#8220;social democracy&#8221; or &#8220;unitary<br />
parliamentary democracy&#8221; in a feeble attempt to convince you that they have<br />
actually crawled out of the Dark Ages, but this is complete hogwash.</p>
<p>Although Swedes can in a sense &#8220;vote&#8221; on a few limited and paltry issues,<br />
they have no say whatsoever when it comes to how the royal family spends the<br />
taxpayers&#8217; money. Every year the royal family spends millions upon millions<br />
of the taxpayers&#8217; money on their own weddings, educations, vacations,<br />
clothes, jewelry, etc without ever asking the permission of the taxpayers.<br />
No one in the royal family has a real job. Every penny they spend comes from<br />
the pockets of Swedes who actually worked hard providing goods and services<br />
for their fellow citizens. The money is taken by force and the royal family<br />
spends it however they please. If you don&#8217;t pay taxes, then police officers<br />
with guns come to your house and put you in jail.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know. Sounds like a monarchy to me, yet Swedes are taught in school<br />
that the royal family no longer has any power and that they are just there<br />
for show. It&#8217;s the oldest trick in the book. Convince the people that you<br />
don&#8217;t have any power, and they will not resist you. Without resistance, you<br />
can have complete power over the people. It works like a charm too because I<br />
haven&#8217;t met a Swede yet who calls the monarchy into question. As long as the<br />
monarchy isn&#8217;t being called into question, the royal family can continue<br />
living out their luxurious and decadent lives for generations to come<br />
without ever having to work for a living. So the king says whatever he needs<br />
to in order to keep the tax wheel rolling&#8230;&#8221;What, me have power? no, no,<br />
no, I have no power, you the people have the power, I am just your humble<br />
public figure&#8221;. Whatever.</p>
<p>Sweden is not alone here. Every country has it&#8217;s method for stealing your<br />
money. Some countries manage to hide it better, but in the end they are all<br />
the same. A country is nothing more than a giant corporation that employs<br />
you by force. You never had a choice in the matter. You were born into<br />
slavery. Today we just seem to accept government as a natural part of life,<br />
while forgetting that the governments of today were the street gangs of<br />
yesteryear. The guys who didn&#8217;t wanna work for a living and decided instead<br />
to go from town collecting taxes by force. If you paid, they promised you<br />
protection from the other gangs of bandits. If you didn&#8217;t pay, they killed<br />
you and turned your wife and daughter into sex slaves. The gangs fought for<br />
territory rights in order to collect the most taxes, and the winners of<br />
those gang wars went on to become the governments and countries that we have<br />
today.</p>
<p>We let ourselves be easily ruled by these thugs because our bodies, minds,<br />
and spirits have become listless. They have become soft and<br />
non-confrontational from years of school and television. One of the fastest<br />
and most effective ways to make your mind sharp is by mastering a new<br />
language. Learning a new language forces your brain to question all it&#8217;s old<br />
patterns. The more you question your old patterns, the more clearly you will<br />
be able to think, and the less easily you will be manipulated by &#8220;authority<br />
figures&#8221;.</p>
<p>Start your journey towards personal freedom today, by picking<br />
up the &#8220;Find Your Flow&#8221; course at www.SpeakSwedishStupid.com . It&#8217;s<br />
the first and LAST program you will ever need to learn Fluent Swedish!!!</p>
<p>Shoot for the stars och ha det bra!<br />
Prof Paul</p>
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