16: Språkmelodi, or the Sound of Swedish: Fredrik's Language Journey Around the World

Easy Languages: Stories of Language Learning

In this episode, we have a guest: Fredrik grew up in a small town close to Gothenburg, Sweden, but has lived in Australia, Turkey, Hungary, and Spain, where he lives now. When he's not studying languages, he teaches Swedish as the Swedish Linguist. In the first section of this episode, Fredrik tells us a bit more about his story.

In the second section, we discuss the intelligibility between Scandinavian languages, and one of the features that make Swedish unique: språkmelodi, or the distinctive intonation of this beautiful language. But we also investigate the unusual meaning hidden behind a Swedish day of the week...

Finally, in the last section of the episode, Fredrik opens up about how he really learns languages, and what lesson Hungarian taught him... Tune in and enjoy Fredrik's language journey around the world!

Show Notes

• Fredrik’s projects:
  • https://www.swedishlinguist.com/
  • https://www.swedishlinguist.com/podcast/
• Are the Nordic languages mutually understandable? (Nordics Info, Aarhus University)
• Why is the Swedish language so melodic? (Transparent Language)
• Fredrik’s resources to learn Russian
  • Lingq
  • Russian with Max