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swedish just came out, how could you already finished your tree? Congratulations :)
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Thanks! I tested out of some stuff, and then I just worked on it a lot every day!
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What?! I thought it just came out 2 weeks ago... Congratulations anyway! Got to work out my tree!
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A lil obsession you do have :p thats super awesome and crazy quick! I did my first lesson and it was real nice. Loved the sound of it as well but i controlled myself from going further cause i gotta focus on german first hoho. Cant wait to learn it soon :p congratulations!! :D
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Sometimes it was a breeze, sometimes I wanted to smash my head against a wall. It was easier if I didn't have music with English lyrics or an English tv show on or something.
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I know it's easier than English because it's more consistent and grammatically very pleasing, but I'm still struggling. It sounds so good, though, and I love the diacritics. I hear there are some good Swedish crime-drama and science fiction shows.
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I typically can't get into the crime shows (too dark for me) but I haven't seen any of the sci fi ones yet. I actually really struggle with some aspects of the grammar, but I seem to do fairly well with vocabulary. And I agree, Swedish is very pleasing to the ear. Although, I prefer very southern Swedish accents, which I'm told is a bit unusual.
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I heard Real Humans is good, but I haven't seen it yet. I'm not very far through, so the grammar might get harder, but vocabulary's my struggle. I like the southern accents because they use the French R, if my information is correct.
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I dunno if everyone would be happy about you calling it the "French" R :p, but yes in my experience they more or less do use a pretty guttural R.
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Wow, congratulations! I have a question, though, about the trees. I've tried looking it up, but for some reason I cannot find an explanation on what a "tree" is exactly. Like, you completed the tree, but your swedish is level 11?... If someone could explain or link me to the explanation that I must have missed, I'd really appreciate it :)
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So finishing my tree means that I completed all of the Swedish lessons that are on Duolingo. The level cap on Duolingo goes way higher (25 I think?) than what's necessary to complete the Swedish (or any language) tree on Duolingo. Does that make sense?
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Congrats! I wish I was that fast. xD I'm no where near done with my Swedish tree, but I believe it will be the first tree I'll complete ever since I found Duolingo two years ago. ^^ Must keep going!
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No, I noticed that there are some similar adjectives but besides that it's pretty different. But also, I know a very, very small amount of German, so...
But in any case, linguistically, I don't think German and Swedish are close enough for one to really get confused between the two. It's not like, say, Spanish and Italian.
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What is your native language? And, really, congratulations!!! That is absolutely amazing! So, how is it knowing Swedish?
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Thanks! My native language is American English. And I still don't think I exactly KNOW Swedish yet :)
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my native language is Hungarian, and swedish and german (for me) really very close, not even the vocabulary, it's close in grammar - the Hungarian grammar is very different from them. But i don't mix the 2 language, sometimes when I am tired I make few mistakes.
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That's amazing, congratulations! I'm still working on the basics, but I'll get there eventually, I'm sure. :-)