Archive for February, 2011
English in Sweden Posted by Katja on Feb 17, 2011
In Sweden there is English everywhere. On TV, posters, bus stops, in shops, on the back of food packaging and basically any other imaginable place. It is really only children’s videos that get dubbed to Swedish. Most other media is just played in English with Swedish subtitles. This makes Swedes’ ears very accustomed to English…
Swedish Humor (The Angry Law Show on P3) Win two tickets! Posted by Tibor on Feb 16, 2011
What do you do if you need to do a poo in Sweden? Well, this is nothing really what we research here on the Swedish Blog. I am so sorry guys! For finding toilet facilities in Sweden; the easiest way is to brush up your Swedish or English before coming here. But talking about poo….My and Linnea…
The later part of Swedish education Part 2 Posted by Katja on Feb 15, 2011
In part 1 of “The later part of Swedish education” we very briefly looked at what high school was like in Sweden. In part 2 we are going to look a little bit at what students who don’t get into Swedish universities do instead. What happens to all the students who don’t get into medical…
Fun with Plurals – Answer Sheet Posted by Marcus Cederström on Feb 14, 2011
Hopefully everyone had a chance to go over their work sheets on plurals in both the definite and indefinite forms. The answers are as follows: Noun Plural – Obestämd Plural – Bestämd English en affär affärer affärerna a store en ambulansförare ambulansförare ambulansförarna an ambulance driver en brand bränder bränderna a fire en byggnad byggnader…
And the winner is… Posted by jennie on Feb 11, 2011
Phew, this wasn’t easy! I’m actually a bit moved by all you lovely people who wants to read Swedish books, and if I could I would send one to all of you… But unfortunately I can’t. BUT, I do have a great surprise up my sleeve! The author of “Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret…
“It´s the gays´fault” Posted by Tibor on Feb 10, 2011
Okay, so you have not only an awful lot of verbs that are easy to understand but some really good expressions as well. The nouns are also easy to find in online vocabulary books. What you have to know about this song that is from a Swedish humor program (Grotesco) that SVT (Svergies Television) sends with…
Finlandsvenska Posted by Tibor on Feb 9, 2011
Did you guys know that there are Swedish-speaking Finns and that Finland is a bilingual country? Or at least they have a very generous language policy when it comes to people whose first language is Swedish. FinnishSwedish or Finlandsvenska is considered as an eastern dialect of Swedish with Finnish influence (this mainly regards vocabulary and intonation)…