Archive for 'Swedish Language'
And the winner is… Posted by jennie on May 14, 2010
Remember the book competition? Thank you once again for the big interest!! And since it’s Friday, sunshine, almost post work and soon pre party, we all of a sudden have two winners instead of one! (Though I’m in the office still and I don’t have any camera here, so you’ll just have to trust me…
Your wish – our command! Posted by jennie on May 13, 2010
I admit, we have been a bit lazy when it comes to grammar and vocab lately. But before we dig deeper into the fascinating world of accusative cases, the genitive, å-ä-ö, tongue twisters and sj-sounds, we would love some guidelines from you kära läsare (dear readers). Please let us know what confuses you the most about Swedish and what you never seem to…
Swedish odd expressions part III Posted by jennie on May 5, 2010
The more you start digging into the endless world of idioms and expressions, the more confusing many of them seem. Or what do you make of today’s collection og shelves, eyes, apples and churchbells? Make perfect sense or totally confusing? Any similar expressions in your language? Bita i det sura äpplet Meaning: When you have…
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…
Madeleine and Jonas split – Do you support Sweden’s royal family? Posted by Gabriel on Apr 27, 2010
The Swedish Royal Court recently announced that Princess Madeleine had broken up with her fiancé, Jonas Bergström, after weeks of media reports about a brief affair between the groom-to-be and a Norwegian handball star during a ski trip. Yes, handball. (We’ll explain that in another post:-)) It has been quite a few exciting years for…
How Often Do You Speak Swedish? Posted by Marcus Cederström on Apr 20, 2010
How often do you actually nee to respond to the question how often? Often enough it seems. And the Swedish language offers you a couple of different options when answering. As a general rule, the response is the word “i.” Hur ofta läser du dina mejl? En gång i timmen. How often do you read…