language family-tree, North Germanic

http://www.ielanguages.com/eurolang.html

Norwegian, Swedish and Danish are also very easy for English speakers to learn. Like Dutch, Swedish and Danish use two genders ( Norwegian, except for the Bergen dialect, uses three), but verbs only change for tense (and not person) and word order is much like English. Definite articles attach to the end of the noun (as in Romanian). Swedish and Norwegian are tonal lanugages, meaning the accent on a syllable can distinguish meaning between words, though tones in Norwegian are easier to master. These differing accents give the languages a "singing" quality, but also make it harder for English speakers to learn pronunciation correctly. These three languages are said to be mutually intelligible, meaning they can be considered dialects of one language. However, it is often hard for Swedes and Danes to communicate with each other, but not so hard for either to communicate with Norwegians. You should learn Norwegian first if you plan to learn all three; however, Swedish is spoken by more people.

Vocabulary sets showing side by side comparison: Dutch, German, Swedish

recent-ish Swedish movies

responses on traveler forum of the lonelyplanet.com website service:

http://www.visitsweden.se/

PHRASES http://www.canuckabroad.com/language/swedish.shtml
ONLINE dictionary (http://lexin2.nada.kth.se/swe-eng.html), but it doesn't say whether each word is an en or a ett word. I know there is no easy rule for this, so I'd like to know if there is a dictionary which gives this information beside each word.

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MOVIES - two rural movies and two Stockholm movies (Änglagård, Så som i himmelen, Vuxna
människor and Darling): http://temporarystockholmer.blogspot.com/2009/01/movies-right-now-post-bergman.html

Mitt liv som hund
Tillsammans
Lilya 4ever
Ondskan
Låt den rätte in
---I didn't like "Frostbiten"
--I really didn't like "Du levande"

the fourth movie directed by Lukas Modysson - Mammut:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1038043/
or your second starring Alexandra Dahlström - Fröken Sverige:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Miss-Sweden-Fr%C3%B6ken-Sverige-DVD/dp/B000NA6V6E

'The New Land'...just saw that a couple nights ago...really, really good!

"Jalla Jalla" is a hilarious movie that takes a peek into a part of Swedish daily life that you don't hear too much about. This wonderful movie shows just how good the Swedes are at making movies.