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Ban the big Asian ones – Swedish Anti-Scampi Ad. Posted by Tibor on Nov 11, 2011
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The Swedish R Posted by Stephen Maconi on Nov 7, 2011
One thing you’ll notice while traveling around Sweden (and Swedish-speaking parts of Finland) is its myriad of different dialects. Each of these dialects has its own name, for example stockholmska (Stockholm dialect), norrländska (Norrland dialect), and finlandssvenska (Finland Swedish), to name a few. These dialects vary in many aspects, but one particular sound that distinguishes…
Hatkärlek for your hometown Posted by Tibor on Nov 3, 2011
Hatkärlek=Love-hate (when you both love and hate something at the same time). Do you ever feel like leaving your hometown because you are sick of it? Think again! The Swedish singer and songwriter Maia Hirasawa means that one will always return at some point. Do you agree with the song? She is originally from Stockholm…
School vacation in Sweden Posted by Stephen Maconi on Oct 31, 2011
Different countries have different standards for when their students get time off from their studies to take a drive to the beach, go hiking in the mountains, or simply take it easy and veg out for a week. Sweden’s school vacation schedule looks like this: First, you go to school for about two months, and…
Winter clothing in Swedish Posted by Stephen Maconi on Oct 21, 2011
If you’ve ever gotten the idea that Sweden is a cold country, you’re wrong for three months of the year—June, July, and August. Although sometimes it’s warm in the second half of May and sometimes in the first half of September, so I guess we can call that four months. During the remaining 8 months…
Wordfeud – a new way of practicing Swedish Posted by jennie on Oct 19, 2011
Have you been bitten by the Wordfeud-bug yet? Well, if you haven’t and you have no intention to be bitten by it either, I strongly advice you to stop reading now. Wordfeud is highly addictive and might harm your relationships- unless your family, friends and partner are addicts too, that is. But Wordfeud can also…
Producer responsibility = Producentansvar Posted by Katja on Oct 17, 2011
Many countries all over the world have recently banned free plastic bags (plastpåse) in grocery stores, including in Australia, Great Britain, Ireland, France and many more. Kenya, certain parts of India, Bangladesh and Taiwan have even banned plastic cutlery in some cases. Sweden has not. According to Hannes Borg, employee at the Ministry of Environment…