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A Swedish jingle for grammar Posted by Tibor on Jul 25, 2016
There is often a confusion when it comes to Part of Speech & Clauses. Clauses: Subject, Predicate, Sentence Adverb, Verb2 or several depending on the length and aspect of the sentence sometimes, Object/Predicative, Adverbials (time and adverbial of place or degree etc.). The clauses can contain several part of speech words sometimes for example: on…
Glad Midsommar! Posted by Tibor on Jun 24, 2016
Glad Midsommar gott folk! The Midsummer eve that we are actually celebrating today is also known as St. John’s Day (English) or Juhannus (Finland) Szent-Iván éj (Hungary). The tradition has pagan origins. In Sweden we celebrate always on the weekend of the summer soltice so actually the longest day has already been on the 21st…
Veronica Maggio – Dumpa mig in Swedish and English Posted by Tibor on Jun 22, 2016
Read the English lyrics by clicking on the hyperlink: här Tog tåget ner, du skulle dumpa mig Bättre på plats än genom telefon Jag visste inte vad som väntade Första semestern på fyra år Som jag förstod var vi förälskade Du sa att ingen vart så bra som jag Vi talade om allt och älskade…
Stylistic value of a word in Swedish Posted by Tibor on May 31, 2016
I guess you all have been learning a lot of vocabulary that you don’t repeat and don’t really know in which situation you shall use them. When is it “jättebra” and when is it “väldigt bra” An easy way to group the vocabulary of synonyms for example is to make an arrow or horisontal line and…
Interjections I. in Swedish (to be continued) Posted by Tibor on Apr 25, 2016
Wow! Scandinavia is beautiful ! – you might say this after seeing this picture, but do you know how to react in Swedish? Something that makes the foreign language learning more idiomatic is the use of so called interjections. There is of course a whole bunch of them but I would like to introduce some…
13 skills you need in Sweden Posted by Tibor on Mar 15, 2016
This article is so spot-on on the skills needed to live in Sweden, that I translated to English just for you guys. Enjoy! http://www.cafe.se/13-skills-du-behover-for-att-klara-dig-i-sverige/ 13 skills you need to live in Sweden In every country there are things that are specific to the place and the culture. And to survive in Sweden it is important to…
Learn tenses with time adverbs in a fun way Posted by Tibor on Feb 24, 2016
Do you recognize yourself being a tired student is class sometimes and your thoughts might go somewhere else than actually focusing on the subject. Well, I have noticed this with many of students so I started making my own board games. My inspirations was based on some old language books from the 80s. If you…