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Language examinations in Sweden Posted by Tibor on Jul 3, 2017
Most of you are familiar with international language examinations like the English IELTS, Cambridge Certificate, or for example the Spanish DELE. In Sweden we have two internationally recognized language examinations with two different purposes: -TISUS stands for Test in Swedish for Universities and it is available few times a year both in Sweden and some…
Useful and cool Swedish words part 4 Posted by Tibor on Jun 19, 2017
Last year in 2015 there were approximately 13000 new Swedish words that were registered by SAOL (Svenska Akademins Ordlista) and around 9000 words disappeared from the list. This kind of increase hasn’t happened since the 1950s, wrote Johan Lindquist Göteborgs Posten 2015. See the article here in Swedish: link In this blog post I have…
Useful and Cool Swedish words part 3 Posted by Tibor on Jun 5, 2017
Last year in 2015 there were approximately 13000 new Swedish words that were registered by SAOL (Svenska Akademins Ordlista) and around 9000 words disappeared from the list. This kind of increase hasn’t happened since the 1950s, wrote Johan Lindquist Göteborgs Posten 2015. See the article here in Swedish: link In this blog post I have…
Useful and cool Swedish words part 2 Posted by Tibor on May 29, 2017
Last year in 2015 there were approximately 13000 new Swedish words that were registered by SAOL (Svenska Akademins Ordlista) and around 9000 words disappeared from the list. This kind of increase hasn’t happened since the 1950s, wrote Johan Lindquist Göteborgs Posten 2015. See the article here in Swedish: link In this blog post I have…
Useful and cool Swedish words part 1 Posted by Tibor on May 15, 2017
Last year in 2015 there were approximately 13000 new Swedish words that were registered by SAOL (Svenska Akademins Ordlista) and around 9000 words disappeared from the list. This kind of increase hasn’t happened since the 1950s, wrote Johan Lindquist Göteborgs Posten 2015. See the article here in Swedish: link In this blog post I have…
Ordvitsar – Puns for advanced learners Posted by Tibor on May 1, 2017
I went a few moths ago to see the Swedish Pun Championships in Gothenburg. Where else? The capital city of puns and jokes in Sweden. It was very nice after a really long work week. Some of the jokes were really bad we would say they had lågvattenmärke literally low point but I think you…
Älvdalska-Elfdalian Posted by Tibor on Apr 17, 2017
Today I have a real treat for everyone who is in love with languages. Have you heard about the ancient dialect of Elfdalian? Not? Where I can give you a quick summary. I can also provide you a very nice poem written by Lars Göran Lannegård who obviously speaks the dialect. I say dialect but…