Meet the Natives showing up in the Swedish Courses now but when I choose it it tells me to learn more words even though I have completed both Swedish 1 and Swedish 2. Do I have to start over to get them to work?
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I doesn’t work for me too. Or it says that: “Natives disappeared- just kidding there are no new films for this level” or it doesn’t load (I see only a grey squere). I’m doing Swedish 3 but I checked and it’s the same in every Swedish course and also in Norwegian. Surprisingly It works for Danish (I checked everything 
). I complained on Facebook but they haven’t responded me yet. And I was so excited tomorrow when I noticed this “Meet the Natives”!
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Can you please disable the “Meeth the Natives” mode again until it really works.
I am currently doing Swedish 6 and there the mode is enabled, but only shows the gray square instead of any video/audio.
What is worse these video questions also appear from time to time in my regular learning/strengthening. Very frustrating if you can only guess an answer!
BTW: I checked and the videos work perfectly well for me (Android app) for the English courses.
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That sounds really annoying, I will check with the tech department! Thanks for the feedback, cheers Lena
Hi Amanda, the videos are up!
I’ve worked as a journalist in Sweden for almost ten years, and it never ceases to annoy me that the reporters on the radio and television don’t speak properly! Why on earth they say ‘ock’ instead of ‘o’ and ‘de’ instead of ‘dom’ is a riddle to me, and I’ve argued with my colleagues about this many times - trust me, they don’t talk like that in private! So I’m glad you are not teaching your students to talk like they do on the news, it sounds ridiculous.
Thanks for the positive feedback, and keep fighting the good fight! Cheers Lena
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They are still not up for me 
I can see only a grey square.
It was a politician, actually, who was saying “ock” 
And I have heard “ock” on other occasions, too.
And, by the way, I am most definitely NOT teaching Swedish, I am learning it. I teach English to adults and children here in Germany on a part-time basis.
Wow, I’m even more impressed with your Swedish course, then - I thought you taught Swedish! Whenever you here any Swede pronounce och ‘ock’ instead of ‘o’, it’s a sign that they have memorized a script. I promise you in day to day conversation nobody ever says that. As for ‘de’, there are some dialects where they would pronounce it ‘di’ instead of ‘dom’. But nobody says ‘de’. Hope that helps!
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I think you accidentally answered the wrong bit
Anyway, thanks for the compliments! The original course creator, sehiralti, used this database:
https://spraakbanken.gu.se/resource/kelly
This is what the 8,000+ Most Common Swedish Words is based on, although he did omit a couple of things and swap them for easier things in places, and I also discovered a couple of typos recently, too, but only about 40 in the first 3,000 words, so that is pretty good work, I think.
I am just editing the definitions and making them more detailed to avoid unneccessary synonyms which are very annoying when you are doing a memrise vocabulary course.
It is fun trying to find suitable phrases and I enjoy the work!
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Any news about videos? Does anyknow know if they are going to be active soon?
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Tack, I found that info helpful though not to the question quoted
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Hello - I’ve spotted a couple of errors in the Swedish 5 course:
“en sportklubb”: the audio is not working (at least not he web version)
“tyvärr finns det inga lediga platser”: shouldn’t this translate as “there ARE” rather than “there WERE”?
“det finns en risk för åska”: this is currently translated as lightning, rather than thunder.
“ett leende”: translated as ‘to smile’, but does this mean ‘a smile’?
Thanks for a useful course!
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One more thing: the audio for “att förlora” is incorrect - it sounds like “att vinna”.
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One more correction: “de här örhängena är min frus” - the audio cuts off after a couple of words.
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The Meet the Natives is sort of working now. Unfortunately some questions can’t be passed nor answered.
This is one after I fully scrolled as far as I could and I still can’t see the tiles.
No audio for en författare. Swedish 3, lvl 6.
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Hi all you lovelies, thank you so much for helping me improve the app! I’m sorry I’m a bit late in replying, Loren, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t sorted out the problems you pointed out. Have a great spring, cheers Lena
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Swedish 7, Level 7 - en strejk to strike (from work)
en strejk should be att strejk here I think?
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In Swedish 3, Level 23 we saw the phrase ‘att gå ut och springa’ : to go for a run
In Swedish 3, Level 21 we saw the word ‘ska’ that can be used for : to be going to
At the end of Level 23 we saw the phrase ‘vi ska ut och springa imorgon kvåll’ : we’re going to go for a run tomorrow night
Could it be that ‘vi ska ut och springa imorgon kvåll’ should be ‘vi ska gå ut och springa imorgon kvåll’? I’m still a beginner so I’m not sure but I think that you should just use ‘ska’ plus the infinitive which is in this case ‘att gå ut och springa’. So my question is: is the absence of ‘gå’ a mistake or it some kind of special form?
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