If you have the means neccessary, you can Google Swedish radio stations. I found one a few days ago using an app, and it made me realize I have no idea what's going on. They speak really quickly on the shows and play a lot of music, but the most useful thing is listening to the audio documentaries. Hope this helps.

Wow thank you so much! This was really helpful!

Hey there Diana. Stating the obvious, try to get some Swedes into your everyday life! You may find them on here and just try to chat or talk with them online. Also, depending on where you live in the States, you might be able to get in contact with Swedish people living there - you could try in a university, there might be Swedes who have come to the U.S. to study. Over here, some universities offer local language exchanges which work pretty much like this site, with the difference that they try to match up people who can physically meet and exchange languages. Maybe you can find something like that, too. However, this will not bring you to Sweden which means that you will still speak your native language most of the day, in your job, in the store... and you will most probably hear English most of the time. So, you somehow need to change that. What I do is that when I hear or see something in my language, I imagine what this would mean in the language I am learning. For example, when you go to a store, just imagine what the salesperson there might have said to you if they were in Sweden, and imagine what you would have answered that person. When you are more advanced, try to start thinking in Swedish, like for example think of what you are doing right now and try to do so in Swedish. Watching Swedish TV (do you know where you can find it online?) or listening to the Swedish radio may help you to the extent that you become familiar with the melody and pronunciation, but do not expect to learn the language just from listening. Few people can. You want to actively listen to something, so getting language tapes, Swedish songs or audio books that you can read along to and the corresponding translation into English would be a good idea. I hope this helps! If you need any more info, just let me know.

You can try to read some poetry. You can try to fined both the original and the translation. You can also listening to music with swedish texts. You can than try to translate the text. A problem is that the most of the swedish artists sings in english, but there are still many who sings in swedish. And there are a lot of folk-songs on Swedish.