I would love to join to the skype group and maybe learn swedish, but I am scared now from a group.
my swedish sucks, I basically use my computer, my phone in swedish, so I understand them mostly, but I could not talk to a person.... my vocabulary is like knowing "create, new, search, error, message" or something basic computer stuffs..... looking at my phone, it says "draw your finger over the screen for ____ up"..... mostly my swedish is like I can understand if i read, because they are similar to english or german, but I also learnt some words from using computer/phone in swedish. I have watched melodifestivalen for years now, and I basically can understand they basics they talk about, like "you can vote not, we have a result, you can vote in text message or call, number 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10" some few other stuffs they talk about, and I am so happy when I get a joke they say! e very year it is better. first time I understood noting, last time I understood like 40% of the show or more........ out of 40% there was only like 20% I actually got right the rest was more like I could guess what is happening, or what they say
I was also trying to watch swedish kid shows I found and tried to understand (it was nice to see them with subs, i understood more then without it)
and I never actually tried to SPEAK... I never actually tried to speak much, if I did I used dictionaries or something for words. I can't create any sentence by myself in swedish......