When learning languages I use a variety of tools. At the moment I’m using Duolingo and Memrise, and also Colloquial Icelandic. I like the way Duolingo puts words in different contexts and tests you in different ways. I like the way Memrise gives you the option to create your own memory hooks, and the conversations and grammar notes in Colloquial courses are useful.<\/p>\n
To practise my speaking and writing, I find projects helpful. For example, I might decide to write a blog post, conversation, story, song or poem in a language I’m learning, or to write about some aspect of that language – words, idioms, grammar, etc. The process of doing this helps me learn new vocabulary and grammar, and it tends to stick if I find it interesting and\/or amusing.<\/p>\n
So today I will write about the Swedish word snart<\/strong>, which means ‘soon, shortly, any time soon, anon’. Here are some examples of use:<\/p>\n – s\u00e5 snart som m\u00f6jligt = as quickly as possible Related expressions include:<\/p>\n – snar = early, ready, quick, swift Snart<\/strong> comes from the Old Norse snart<\/em> (quickly). Danish and Norwegian have the same word with the same meanings, and in Icelandic there are snar<\/em> (quick, swift, fast) and snarlega<\/em> (quickly, fast).<\/p>\n Sources: bab.la<\/a>, Wiktionary<\/a> and The Old Norse World<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Do you set yourself projects or tasks when learning languages, or other things?<\/p>\n Do you find it useful?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When learning languages I use a variety of tools. At the moment I’m using Duolingo and Memrise, and also Colloquial Icelandic. I like the way Duolingo puts words in different contexts and tests you in different ways. I like the way Memrise gives you the option to create your own memory hooks, and the conversations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,104,107,124,10,13,31,36,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danish","category-english","category-etymology","category-icelandic","category-language","category-language-learning","category-norwegian","category-old-norse","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– det snart \u00e4r jul = the run-up to Christmas
\n– f\u00f6r snart ett \u00e5r = nearly a year ago
\n– vi m\u00e5ste g\u00f6ra det snart = we have to do it soon; we must act quickly<\/p>\n
\n– inom kort = shortly, before long
\n– om en stund = in a while
\n– strax = soon, close, directly <\/p>\n