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Swedish proverbs Posted by Tibor on Apr 29, 2010
New times call for new proverbs. I have collected some evergreen Swedish proverbs. You may recognize some of them or similar from your own language. Please do share it with everyone if you have some funny sayings. As we are used to it: Som man bäddar får man ligga. As you make your bad you will…
Snakker du dansk? Posted by Tibor on Apr 28, 2010
It is not only the 15 km long Öresundsbron (Öresund bridge) that connects Denmark with Sweden, but several hundereds of years of common history as well. However, the most important link between the two countries is the language. Thousand of Swedes and Danes working on the other side of the sea and commuting is not…
Swedish numbers 1-100 Posted by Tibor on Apr 7, 2010
0 noll [nɔl:] 1 Ett [et:] 2 Två [tvo:] 3 Tre [tre:] 4 Fyra [fy:ra] 5 Fem [fem] 6 Sex [Sek:s] 7 Sju [ɧu:] 8 Åtta [ɔtta] 9 Nio [ni:ʊ] 10 Tio [ti:ʊ] 11 Elva [elva] 12 Tolv [tɔlv] 13 Tretton [trettɔn] 14 Fjorton [fju:ʈɔn] 15 Femton [femtɔn] 16 Sexton [sekstɔn] 17 Sjutton [ɧɵttɔn] 18…
The Evolution of Swedish pop part II. Posted by Tibor on Mar 22, 2010
We finished last time around the middle of the 1990s and with The Cardigans a band from Jönköping the capital city of the so called Swedish Bible Belt Area (Bibelbältet). There is hardly anything religious about them. They made a major breakthrough in 1996 with Lovefool with a song that annoys me so much nowadays whenever I…
The evolution of Swedish pop part 1 Posted by Tibor on Mar 9, 2010
Modern Swedish pop music has been around for almost four decades on the international scene. We can all agree that it started with ABBA in 1974 at the Eurovision Song Contest. They put Sweden on the map in the music industry. But it has been quite a ride since then, and believe me when I say…
Tänka, tycka, tro Posted by Tibor on Mar 4, 2010
You guys have surely been wondering what the differences are between these three words. It is nothing strange with them, since everyone can find similar words in their own languages. But sometimes it can happen that you would use a different verb in cases when tänka, tycka, tro are used in Swedish. It can be tricky. Sometimes the translation of…
Have a nice weekend everyone! Posted by Tibor on Feb 19, 2010
Det är dags för fredagsmys! Gabriel, Jennie, Marcus, Katja and Tibor