Learn Swedish with Stories and Spaced Repetition

[ittolaja]

Hi All,

I created an App (currently for Android and Windows) to learn Swedish with stories and SRS.

Reading stories where the manually added meaning in context and correct conjugation of every word is immediately available speeds up learning. It also teaches you high to medium frequency words just by reading. Combining this with spaced repetition practice for medium to low frequency words completes the picture.



Here's a link to my Android App using this method. PM me if you don't want to install the Amazon App store App for this and you want a direct link to the package from the shop. Using the Amazon link is better for the App's ratings I suppose. I'm planning to come up with an iOS version as well soon.

HypLern Swedish Reader for Android download on Amazon or see content info here
HypLern Swedish Reader for Windows download at Microsoft or see content info here

If you want to support this project please go to learn-to-read-foreign-languages.com and buy the pdf or software versions. If you dislike pdf's (ugly Icon in Kindle) check out the Amazon Kindle versions. Or give reviews on Amazon for example. The idea is to add content to every language to a certain extend (up to 100,000 words? 200,000 words? Open for discussion, should be quite varied like short stories or multi-subject articles). Because of the method (read, re-read for hi-to-medium and practice for medium-to-low freq vocab using built-in SRS) a more limited amount of material is needed in a shorter study time to become independent reader.

Thanks to all the people that helped me get this off the ground, and thank you for still reading this at the last line

Ittolaja

[razlem]

Any planned support for Apple?

[ittolaja]

Any planned support for Apple?

Yes! The code I have already runs on the Apple (I used Apache Cordova based javascript+HTML)

But I'm out of resources, to put it nicely, and only own a Windows laptop that's 8 years old, and Apple does not make it easy to create Apps if you don't own a Mac

I'll probably use Adobe Phonegap (on which the free Cordova is based) which has a free plan for one App, and which can compile the code I have on any platform, to upload one Apple App (not sure for which language). But I'm first going to continue with Windows App Shop and Google Play store now before the Apple version. Should be this summer though

[Johanna]

Pro-tip: Swedish doesn't distinguish titles from ordinary sentences, except they lack a full stop at the end. In other words, it should be Den ledsna drottningen, with only the first word capitalised

Oh, and it should be ett torparpar ("a pair of crofters") or the very least ett par torpare ("a couple of crofters"). Torparfolk (note the lack of -e-) means crofters in general, at least these days.

[razlem]

But I'm out of resources, to put it nicely,

I wonder if Sweden has a language institute that gives out grants

[ittolaja]

Pro-tip: Swedish doesn't distinguish titles from ordinary sentences, except they lack a full stop at the end. In other words, it should be Den ledsna drottningen, with only the first word capitalised

Oh, and it should be ett torparpar ("a pair of crofters") or the very least ett par torpare ("a couple of crofters"). Torparfolk (note the lack of -e-) means crofters in general, at least these days.

Thanks! this input means a lot to me (and the people who'll use the App)

[ittolaja]

Pro-tip: Swedish doesn't distinguish titles from ordinary sentences, except they lack a full stop at the end. In other words, it should be Den ledsna drottningen, with only the first word capitalised

Oh, and it should be ett torparpar ("a pair of crofters") or the very least ett par torpare ("a couple of crofters"). Torparfolk (note the lack of -e-) means crofters in general, at least these days.

I just changed all the titles in all the stories to First cap only and recompiled the App package, it's probably going to take a day or two before the new version is uploaded, but anyone who downloaded the HypLern Swedish Reader from Amazon should get an automatic update.

[ittolaja]

But I'm out of resources, to put it nicely,

I wonder if Sweden has a language institute that gives out grants

Yes or crowdfunding. But I first want to see if people like this method at all