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Swedish Christmas Food – Lutfisk Posted by Marcus Cederström on Dec 24, 2015
Swedes celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve—December 24. But that doesn’t mean they don’t take full advantage of the holiday. Come the end of November, you’ll start seeing restaurants, hotels, catering services all offering a julbord. Literally, Christmas table, a julbord is the Christmastime smorgasbord (another Swedish word, by the way) filled with food and drink…
Swedish Tongue-Twisters. Part Two. Posted by Marcus Cederström on Nov 25, 2015
Have you mastered the tongue-twisters from last week? Personally, I think “sex laxar i en laxask” is the trickiest. If you haven’t had a chance to practice yet, take a look at Swedish Tongue-Twisters. Part One. If you have, get ready for a new set of tongue-twisters. These are a little bit harder and maybe…
Swedish Tongue-Twisters. Part One. Posted by Marcus Cederström on Nov 19, 2015
Tongue-twisters are a lot of fun. I remember several from my childhood, trying to say them faster and faster only to eventually be spitting out vowels and consonants in complete disarray. Then laughing. A lot. I was easily amused. But it turns out that being able to spit out “Sally sells sea shells by…
Swedish Halloween Word Search Posted by Marcus Cederström on Oct 30, 2015
It’s Halloween! Well, it’s almost Halloween. And if you’ve been following this blog for a while now, you’ll know that Halloween isn’t really a traditional holiday in Sweden. Of course, that doesn’t stop some people from celebrating. And it definitely doesn’t mean that Sweden isn’t full of spooky creatures. Just check out Steve’s Spooky Swedish…
Bye Bye Bye. In Swedish. Posted by Marcus Cederström on Oct 16, 2015
NSYNC made “Bye Bye Bye” popular back in 2000 with a little help from some Swedish writers and producers. But Justin Timberlake has yet to master the Swedish language, so “Bye Bye Bye” stayed English. But what if you wanted to say bye, bye, bye, in Swedish? Or at least goodbye? There are plenty of…
Emergency Vocabulary in Swedish Posted by Marcus Cederström on Sep 30, 2015
Sweden is an incredibly safe country. Serious crimes are rare, but that being said, crimes do occur. In 2014, according to The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brottsförebyggande rådet—Brå), there were 20,300 reported sex-related crimes, of which 6,700 were rape. Eighty-seven people died as a result of murder or manslaughter and 6,269 hate crimes…
Three Common Swedish Mistakes Posted by Marcus Cederström on Sep 25, 2015
Learning a language can be difficult and early on (and even later on) there are some common mistakes that you’ll make again and again. That’s ok. But some of them can be easily remedied. Let’s take a look at three common Swedish mistakes. Svart vs. svårt One pesky letter. That’s all it takes sometimes to…