Archive for 'Swedish Language'
He’s driving his car. No, his car! Posted by Stephen Maconi on Feb 21, 2011
Today’s video is about singular personal possessive pronouns in Swedish – that is to say, using words such as my, your, his, and her. It’s a little more complicated in Swedish than in English, so I hope you find this video useful! As a side note, thank you for your helpful ideas you have left…
English in Sweden Posted by Katja on Feb 17, 2011
In Sweden there is English everywhere. On TV, posters, bus stops, in shops, on the back of food packaging and basically any other imaginable place. It is really only children’s videos that get dubbed to Swedish. Most other media is just played in English with Swedish subtitles. This makes Swedes’ ears very accustomed to English…
Why the girl ate the cookie Posted by Stephen Maconi on Feb 8, 2011
Tjaaaaa ~ Here we go: Episode 8 of Swedish with Steve: Why the girl ate the cookie. Prepare yourselves for a useful but tedious grammar lesson. I hope you all manage to enjoy it, as technical as it is! But believe me, this will come in handy in the future!! Ha en bra vecka!
SwS Episode 6: Att baka semlor Posted by Stephen Maconi on Jan 20, 2011
Hey guys! I’m back again, after just two days. (The frequency might explain why it took me until 23:00/11:00pm to complete this post!) Aurora and I decided to make semlor today, and we thought you might like to see the process and its result, and even learn some new phrases. So we filmed the entire…
Fun with the Swedish Language – Pluskvamperfekt Posted by Marcus Cederström on Jan 6, 2011
I’m sure we all remember such riveting posts as “Perfect Perfekt” and “Imperative.” How could you not really? Everyone loves grammar. Because we all remember the imperative and the perfect form though, it’s time to move on to pluskvamperfekt, or, as it is known in English, pluperfect or past perfect. This form is used, not…
SwS Episode 4: Going home then, being home now Posted by Stephen Maconi on Dec 30, 2010
God dag! Told you I’d be back again this month with a useful Swedish language video! Here it is: I hope you find it helpful! I remember that I, myself, had trouble with this concept at one point, so I figured someone else here might, as well. 😉 Hope you like it, and have a…
New words in Swedish Posted by jennie on Dec 29, 2010
2010 will soon draw to a close and by the end of every year, Svenska språkrådet (The Swedish Language Council) puts together a list over the new words that have infiltrated the Swedish during the past year. The list normally contains between 40-50 words and it can be anything from new made up words, loan words…