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I want to learn Swedish from scratch, and would like to become at least casually conversant eventually. Can anyone recommend any good (and hopefully free/very cheap) online language courses. I was looking at rosetta stone and others but they cost hundreds, even for the basic level. I'd have thought that somewhere there would be a great open source language resource but I don't know where to look.

Oh, and I recently acquired a kindle so if it worked on that then that would be ace but not vital.

i need to do this too so if you come across any info please let me know.

Nothing useful yet. If you look in the podcast section of the itunes store Radio Lingua Network do a 10 episode "1minute Swedish" series which is pretty pointless but good to get the first few words and used to hearing the sounds. One issue I had was with pronunciation - when someone just gives you a phrase and you repeat it it, it is hard to break it down and get a proper grip on what is going on eg. what the individual words in the phrase mean. I also signed up for the swedishpod101 and they deal with this a bit better but their podcasts are all mixed up with advanced lessons in amongst beginner ones, they promise lots of free additional materials if I signed up to their website but so far all I can see is spam.