Archive for 'Swedish Language'
A new trend has infiltrated the Swedish language. Posted by Katja on Dec 12, 2009
Of course we know that a lot of languages borrow words from each other and adapt them to their own. Most people are fine with that, something a little bit annoying, new, different or just plain strange is a new trend amongst Swedish speakers right now. English verbs like to dress, to sprint or to…
The Nobel banquet – Sweden’s equivalent to the Oscars. Posted by Gabriel on Dec 11, 2009
Stockholm City Hall where the Nobel Banquet is held Reading time: 2 minutes I originally planned to publish Part II of the Swedish Christmas vocabulary film today, but Nobeldagen (the Nobel day) popped up yesterday and I could not avoid writing about it. Nobeldagen consists of a prize ceremony in the afternoon, followed by a…
Swedish Christmas words, Part 1 Posted by Gabriel on Dec 8, 2009
Men dog eleven? Posted by jennie on Dec 7, 2009
In these Google Translation times, the language missunderstandings are probably more and bigger than ever. A friend experienced this when he tried to translate a restaurant meny from Swedish to English and got the not very tempting result “dandruff fish” meaning “mjäll fisk” in Swedish, as in a fish that is very tender. NOT a fish served with flakes from the…
Beware of varsågod Posted by Gabriel on Dec 2, 2009
We’re back, but who are we? Posted by Gabriel on Nov 30, 2009
Warning! (OBS!) There are now five people who will be blogging on the Swedish language blog. If you want to turn back now, we completely understand. We five have taken over for Anna Ikeda, and we know it will be hard (svårt) to fill her shoes. The first thing we want to do is apologize…
What Time Is It? Posted by Transparent Language on Aug 7, 2009
About an hour ago I was struggling to explain to someone how to say what time it is. In Swedish naturally. You see, again, it’s one of those things that is deceptively easy on the surface and so similar to English that we tend to forget that there are a couple of bits that are…