Swedish listening practice: rescheduling a meeting
What the lesson covers
The lesson continued with Swedish listening exercises, emphasizing their importance for understanding spoken language. Participants first listened to and then reviewed two dialogues. The first dialogue involved planning a lunch at a pizzeria, with a focus on phrases like "Jag tror" and past versus present tense verbs. The second dialogue concerned rescheduling a meeting due to work, introducing phrases such as "Jag kan inte" and "Jag är fri." Throughout the exercises, the instructor provided translations and explanations of vocabulary and grammar, also offering a tip to look for similar-sounding English words when encountering new Swedish terms.
Vocabulary in this lesson
31 words. Inside Lingolib each one is tappable in the transcript and saved to your library with one tap.
- bra
- good
- dig
- you
- du
- you
- där
- there
- efter
- after
- ett
- a/an (neuter)
- fri
- free
- har
- have
- idag
- today
- igår
- yesterday
- imorgon
- tomorrow
- inte
- not
- jag
- I
- jobb
- job / work
- kan
- can / to be able to
- klockan
- o'clock
- lunch
- lunch
- maten
- the food
- med
- with
- mig
- me
- mycket
- a lot (of)
- nej
- no
- och
- and
- pizzeria
- pizzeria
- på
- at
- ska
- will / shall
- träffas
- meet
- var
- was
- vill
- want / wants
- är
- am / is / are
- äta
- to eat / eat
How the lesson starts
The opening of the lesson transcript. The rest is in the course, synced to the video.
Let's keep on doing a few more listening exercises. Um, as we talked about earlier, listening exercises are really good in order to strengthen our ability to understand spoken Swedish, which of course is a huge part of learning a language. Before you can respond, you have to be able to listen and understand what people are, are saying.
So we're going to continue on. This time we're talking about pizza, and I want you to listen to what is being said.
Jag tror att jag ska äta lunch på Adams pizzeria idag. Vill du äta lunch med mig? Ska vi träffas där klockan ett? Jag var där igår och maten var bra.
Okay, one more time. Jag tror att jag ska äta lunch på Adams pizzeria idag.
The video plays beside a transcript that follows it line by line. Swedish words are underlined; tap one and the video pauses, the meaning appears, and the word goes into your library. At the end there is a five-question quiz written from this exact lesson, and every word can be practised out loud.