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Swedish Saturday Candy Posted by Marcus Cederström on Apr 30, 2012
Every Saturday, children throughout Sweden have a little extra kick in their step. Not just because it’s Saturday and they don’t have to go to school, but because Saturday means lördagsgodis. Lördagsgodis is of course one of those fun compound words that we sometimes write about here (remember, you can read about the longest word…
Swedish-American Food Posted by Marcus Cederström on Apr 26, 2012
I’ve been living in Wisconsin for the last 18 months or so working on a graduate degree in Scandinavian Studies. I moved here after having lived in Stockholm for just over three years. Most of my work actually focuses on Swedish Americans. I travel around interviewing Swedish immigrants and later Swedish-American generations. It’s a lot…
False friends between Swedish and Norwegian Posted by Stephen Maconi on Apr 25, 2012
As you may or may not know, the Swedish and Norwegian languages are very closely related. They have only been separate languages since around 800 AD, when Swedish is considered by historians to have become its own language. Therefore, a large majority of words are nearly the same, or at least interpretable. There are also…
Museum of Bellas Artes Posted by Tibor on Apr 17, 2012
“In the autumn of 2008 a small group of people recorded a new version of an old gem originally released in 1964. A project initially meant as a pastime while Stockholm was empty because of friends living abroad, basically everywhere between Tokyo and Oslo. Things happened faster than expected and the first recording reached a…
Swedish Crime Fiction – Easy Money Posted by Marcus Cederström on Apr 13, 2012
I’m not a big fan of Swedish crime novels. They feel too formulaic to me. It starts with murder. Then you’ve got your detective. He (and he usually is a he) tends to have a pretty severe drinking problem. He tends to have problems with women. He tends to be half feared and half respected…
Benefits of Hårdbröd (knäckebröd) Posted by Katja on Apr 9, 2012
When somebody says bread, most people probably think of soft bread straight away, however after living in Sweden for a while you’ll know that you don’t only think of the loafs of bread, but even hard bread in it’s thin slices will occur to you. Hard bread actually has a lot of benefits, would you…
Alfons Åberg Posted by Katja on Mar 29, 2012
Understanding a culture, and ultimately the language I think it is important to be all round aware/educated in different things. As a person who has grown up in Sweden you just know things. Different phases in your life have given you different cultural baggage. On this blog we try to give you as many different…