Swedish Level 1 Homeschool
Build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure. Students gain the confidence to master basic conversational skills in Swedish. Level 1 assumes no prior knowledge of Swedish, and parent administrative tools provide parents with the necessary tools to lesson plan, monitor, and report on student progress.
What's Inside the Box?
- Application CD
- Language CD
- Student Management System CD
- Illustrated User Guide - Provides complete instructions to help your child get the most from Rosetta Stone
- Curriculum Text - Contains a table of contents for each level, scripts for each lesson, and an index to all words in the program
- Handbook for Teachers: Homeschool Edition - A guide to lesson planning, student tracking, and effectively using the Rosetta Stone program in a home education environment
- Installation Guide
Level 1 Examples
Sample Topics
A Sample of the Topics You’ll Find
- People and talking
- Directions: “How do I get to…”
- Affirmative and negative verb forms
- Food, eating, and drinking
- Family relationships
- Telling time
- Numbers to 100
- Clothing and dress
- Vehicles, furniture, clothing, and instruments
- Shapes, colors, and locations
Student Management System
Every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 2 Language program includes the Student Management System (SMS). The SMS allows parents to lesson plan, follow student progress and generate reports.
Lesson Planning
For many homeschooling parents, teaching a foreign language is a daunting task. Lesson planning can be difficult because many parents have never taught a foreign language course, and often times they do not speak the language the student is learning. Rosetta Stone® makes lesson planning easy because parents can create their own lesson plan or choose from two preloaded lesson plans. A simple setup wizard will help parents create student user names and passwords and enroll them into their desired lesson plan. The two lesson plans are as follows:
Comprehensive Lesson Track
Parents wishing to use Rosetta Stone as the core foreign language curriculum for their students may want to use the Comprehensive Lesson Track. This lesson track provides thorough instruction in Rosetta Stone content, guiding students through seven exercises and three tests in each lesson.
Accelerated Lesson Track
This lesson plan is intended for the student who wants to advance more quickly through the program, but still wants to have instruction in all language skills. The Accelerated Lesson Track contains four exercises and two tests per lesson
Testing
All testing is done on the computer with Rosetta Stone. Within the lesson plans, students automatically advance from exercise to tests. Once a student reaches a test, they must achieve a certain predetermined proficiency level on that test, 85% for example, in order to move on. If the student does not achieve that level, they must test again until that level is achieved.
Parents can adjust the proficiency levels set in the lesson plans to meet learning goals in both the Accelerated and Comprehensive tracks. Parents also have the ability to set proficiency levels when building their own lesson plans.
Reporting
The Student Management System gives parents the ability to view, print and export student results. Parents can create a report for one or multiple students. Information available in this report includes:
- Student's current lesson track
- Completed lessons
- Test scores
- Time on task
- Status of lesson based on proficiency level achieved
- Date and time exercises were completed
More information regarding lesson planning, testing, and reporting as well as sample schedules and cultural activities can be found in the Handbook for Teachers Homeschool Edition included with every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 2.
About Swedish
Swedish is the main language spoken in Sweden, with about 9 million speakers. In addition, a sizable minority of about 300,000 residents of Finland consider Swedish to be their primary language.
Swedish Learning Tips
- Swedish is a melodic language with rising and falling tones. The sound and length of vowels and tones help differentiate the meaning of words.
- Swedish spelling is largely phonetic. Once you know the sound each letter represents, you can approach accurate pronunciation of new words with confidence.
- There are two categories of Swedish nouns—common and neuter—that determine the form of adjectives associated with those nouns.
- Word order in Swedish is predictable, and the main verb is the second component of a sentence.
- Verbs in Swedish only change for differences in tense. You don’t have to conjugate them for different subjects.
- Swedish speakers rarely use formal speech, though they do use it in some dialects.
- Learning Swedish gives you a head start if you decide to learn Danish or Norwegian. The languages are closely related and are often understood by native speakers and experienced learners.
System Requirements
Requirements for Rosetta Stone User Workstations
- Windows (32-bit editions only) 2000 or XP, Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5
- 128 MB RAM
- 250 MB free hard-drive space
- 16-bit sound card
- 800 x 600 display resolution
- Speech Recognition feature requires a headset microphone (USB or analog)
Note for Microsoft® Windows Vista™ users:
Current Rosetta Stone® products have been engineered to install and run on the Windows Vista operating system. Some 3rd party components used in Rosetta Stone products have not been certified by Microsoft as ‘Vista Compliant’. Accordingly, you may encounter some Vista-related operating issues. Rosetta Stone technical support may or may not be able to resolve these Vista-related issues. Rosetta Stone hereby disclaims any representations, warranties, guaranties and conditions with respect to the compatibility of the Rosetta Stone products with the Windows Vista operating systems.