Archive for 'Swedish Language'
More Swedish odd expressions Posted by jennie on Mar 29, 2010
It’s Monday morning and today it’s even harder than usual to get out of bed, since the American inventor and politician Benjamin Franklin decided that we should save some daylight back in 1784 and came up with the brilliant idea of clocks going back and forward. In other words, the clocks went forward one hour…
Swedish odd expressions part I Posted by jennie on Mar 22, 2010
My biggest language struggle when living in the UK is definitely all the weird expressions and idioms that people use in everyday life without even thinking about it. For a non native speaker, it can be darn tricky to figure out what they mean, but probably even more difficult to try to incorporate them when…
Win a book! Posted by jennie on Mar 19, 2010
I went back to Sweden last weekend and as usual, coming back from one of those visits, my bag contains a very weird mix av things. This time I brought back fifteen kilos of toothbrushes (the Swedish ones are much softer than the UK ones) salty liquorice (but of course!) Polly-chocolate (can’t live without it part I) Falukorv…
Practice Swedish – your suggestions Posted by jennie on Mar 19, 2010
Thank you for sharing your great “How to maintain your Swedish”-tips, I hope you don’t mind me putting them together in a post like this. Some people might never look through the comments, and it would be a right shame to miss out on these treats: For the very novice, the “GoSwedish” videos on YouTube…
How to maintain your Swedish… Posted by jennie on Mar 17, 2010
…when you have no one around to practice with is today’s request topic and in order to figure this one out, we’ll definitely need your help. You people out there all over the world, how do you practice your Swedish when you are thousands of miles away from us? The general and very true opinion…
Sweden invents new ways for unemployment Posted by Katja on Mar 11, 2010
Swedes usually like to pride themselves in being creative and their ability to invent new things. Since we were starving and had a really poor quality of life during the 1800’s and before that when things started turning we were all too happy to embrace (omfamna) change. Therefore change has been a good thing for…
Swedish Relationships – The Sambo Posted by Marcus Cederström on Mar 5, 2010
Swedish can be a very literal language at times. Grönsaker for example means vegetables, literally though? Green things. Tandkött are your gums. Or literally, tooth meat. So the formation of the word sambo actually makes quite a bit of sense. Sam a shortening of the word for together, samman, and bo a shortening of the…