Regarding learning a language, I recommend looking into Dr Krashen's theory of language acquisition, specifically comprehensible input. His favorite resource is comic books. For Swedish, I really like SVT with a VPN.
Regarding learning a language, I recommend looking into Dr Krashen's theory of language acquisition, specifically comprehensible input. His favorite resource is comic books. For Swedish, I really like SVT with a VPN.
I second comic books, though the Swedish tends to be super colloquial and you will get stuff like "dig" rendered as "dej" (which is how it is generally pronounced, but not how it is formally written.) Kalle Anka is always the classic go to for Swedish learners.
NRK on the other hand actively tries to block everyone, which makes Norwegian a lot less accessible.
Swedish public service television also has an educational branch, which is here:
I use comic books to teach my kids to read, I agree it ought to be a good option for foreign adults too.
On SVT I'd recommend Landet runt (Around the country), it shows a lot of feelgood stories from local news and is aimed at a broad audience, including kids and the elderly:
https://www.svtplay.se/landet-runt
There's also a news program for kids I think could be a good option to learn from:
https://www.svtplay.se/lilla-aktuellt-och-lilla-aktuellt-sko...
While I don't watch any of them myself, perhaps competition programs might work too:
As I mentioned above, NRK is not so great. Most of the content is geoblocked, and you need a norwegian digital ID to watch it outside of Norway (or at least, Skandinavia) without a VPN. They also regularly block VPN's, so as an example, Tunnelbear used to be fine (and gives a fairly generous free tier if you play the "invite friends and do some tasks" game), but last time I tried, it was no longer working with the NRK TV app.
Nyheter på lätt svenska: https://www.svtplay.se/nyheter-pa-latt-svenska
I love listening to the same songs over and over again anyway, and once in a while I get curious what they are actually saying in a new sentence.
I do this for learning German once in a while, but I am sure it would work fine for Swedish as well.
Markus Krunegård is my favourite right now, and I think he sings with a clear language.
But there are lots of (pop) music in Swedish with interesting lyrics; Veronica Maggio, Little Jinder, Håkan Hellström, Miss Li, Kent. A very random sample from a much much longer list obviously.
And a passive method, so, while it is pure joy, it needs to be complemented with actul studying of course.