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- Rice, Allan Lake
- 1968
This grammar is admittedly unorthodox. I have felt for many years that the teaching of Swedish has been in need of a shake-up. Being that rara avis, a teacher of Swedish with no drop of Scandinavian blood, and having come upon Swedish first as an undergraduate in an American university, I see it perhaps with different eyes than one who has had it in his blood from childhood. I am inclined to consider this an advantage in some ways. The underlying idea of the book is implied in its title. It is meant to be intensely practical, and so some corners have been intentionally cut. Experience has shown, for instance, that verb plurals are nowadays an unnecessary luxury. The intricacies of Swedish tradition with regard to noun declensions and verb conjugations and definite article endings as presented in some earlier Swedish grammars have had many a poor foreigner in a sadly muddled state. I have stormed those citadels and, I hope, made a dent. I have demoted the infinitive to the background where it belongs. Swedish is an extremely easy language, but some of the earlier grammars have been too scholarly to let the student find that out. There is nothing whatever scholarly about this one. It tries to speak the student’s own language. I will be accused of over-brevity, of non-conformity, of omitting reading selections and of choosing my vocabulary without regard for frequency lists. All this is true and intentional. My reply is that this is not meant to be either a reference grammar …
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