Jacob Sundberg

Jacob Sundberg is a Swedish fiction writer, and has published two books: "Vi hör av oss" and "Förunderlig nåd". The former has been released in English with the title "We'll Call You". He also does freelance writing in various forms.

Jacob has an interest in foreign languages. While theoretical knowledge about a language can be helpful (nothing against grammar books), Jacob realised that language learning is more like a skill than it is a form of knowledge. It takes a lot of practice to be able to speak a language, and before you’re anywhere near fluency, it’s difficult to find a native speaker with the patience to endure all those hours of conversations with you it would require for you to get there.

There’s a sort of Catch-22 thing about language learning – you can’t really socialize with natives until you speak the language, and you can’t learn the language without socializing with natives. It’s not entirely true, but almost.

What Jacob was after was practice that would transform his theoretical knowledge into practice, to move all those words and sentences he struggled to express into the unconscious, so that speaking became natural and intuitive.

There are a number of good courses out there that do this quite well, such as Unlimited Spanish (for, well obviously, Spanish).

And so Swedish4Real was conceived of in order to alleviate the frustration experienced by all those people intent on learning Swedish but have found it hard to get to a decent conversational level. And also, to give a boost of confidence for those same people.