Archive for the year 2011
Pepparkaksbak Posted by Katja on Nov 23, 2011
To get you all in a lovely spirit of Christmas I’m going to share a recipe for Swedish Pepparkakor. It is relatively easy to make so you should all have a go 🙂 Time needed: Has to cool over night in fridge Makes about: 125 cookies Ingredients: 2,5 dl (1 cup) brown sugar 0,8 dl…
Christmas in preparation Posted by Katja on Nov 22, 2011
Christmas means different things to different people, I’m sure that that is a commonly agreed on fact by now. For a lot of people christmas has no longer anything to do with the birth of Jesus, it can be summed up with presents, Santa, snow and holidays. In Sweden food and family are huge contributing…
Learning Swedish with Janne Lucas Posted by Marcus Cederström on Nov 22, 2011
I’ve written a couple of posts about Melodifestivalen here at Transparent, one titled (creatively enough) Melodifestivalen and the other (again, my creativity knows no bounds) Swedish Schlager. I am a shameless promoter of schlager music, whether it be Swedish, English, or German. I find the performances hilarious and the catchy songs even more so. It…
The current weather in Uppsala Posted by Stephen Maconi on Nov 18, 2011
You can read all over the internet about the typical climate in Sweden and possibly even that in particular locations in Sweden. But today I’m going to give you something different: the current weather in Uppsala! What’s the point? Well, just imagine yourself in your favorite Swedish scenery with the following weather pattern for the…
Time Adverbs with certain tenses Posted by Tibor on Nov 16, 2011
Yesterday då (then) i morse (this morning) igår (yesterday) i förrgår (the day before yesterday) häromdagen (the other day) förra veckan (last week) förra månaden (last month) i fjol/fjor (last year) för….x år sedan ( x years ago) *Use Swedish verb forms in Simple Past (preteritum aka. imperfekt) I ate breakfast with her yesterday. Jag åt frukost…
Monopoly, but just not the board game! Posted by Katja on Nov 15, 2011
As many, if not all of you know, Sweden has a strict monopoly on its alcohol sales. It is only “Systembolaget”, the name of the organization, that is allowed to sell alcohol over 3,5% in all of Sweden. There are a total of 416 stores and 508 agents who are allowed to sell alcohol…
The Swedish flag Posted by Stephen Maconi on Nov 12, 2011
The Swedish flag looks like this: For those of you who can’t see the image (for whatever reason), it’s a horizontally lying rectangle with a blue background and a yellow cross through it, with its vertical stroke panned to the left. The Swedish flag is said to have been inspired by Dannebrogen, the Danish name…