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Swedish Autumn quiz! Answers and details Posted by Stephen Maconi on Oct 21, 2015
Hejhej! We got some great results on the Swedish Autumn quiz from last week! Now it’s time for me to post the correct answers. Even if you haven’t done the quiz (which it’s never too late to do! Just click the link right there^), you can learn some extra Swedish with the answers here…
Bye Bye Bye. In Swedish. Posted by Marcus Cederström on Oct 16, 2015
NSYNC made “Bye Bye Bye” popular back in 2000 with a little help from some Swedish writers and producers. But Justin Timberlake has yet to master the Swedish language, so “Bye Bye Bye” stayed English. But what if you wanted to say bye, bye, bye, in Swedish? Or at least goodbye? There are plenty of…
Swedish Autumn quiz! Posted by Stephen Maconi on Oct 14, 2015
Autumn (or Fall, as one might call it in the States) is one of the most quickly changing times of year. Temperatures are dropping, trees are changing color and nights are growing longer (especially in Sweden!). As you sip your tea and eat cinnamon rolls at your favorite Stockholm street-side café, can you talk…
Spooky Swedish Halloween vocabulary Posted by Stephen Maconi on Oct 9, 2015
It’s finally Halloween season, and in many parts of the world, including Sweden, temperatures are sinking and the trees are all changing color. Children are playing in the newly fallen leaves and teenagers are planning their Halloween parties. Adults are working in their yards or enjoying a nice cup of tea or coffee. Halloween isn’t…
Emergency Vocabulary in Swedish Posted by Marcus Cederström on Sep 30, 2015
Sweden is an incredibly safe country. Serious crimes are rare, but that being said, crimes do occur. In 2014, according to The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brottsförebyggande rådet—Brå), there were 20,300 reported sex-related crimes, of which 6,700 were rape. Eighty-seven people died as a result of murder or manslaughter and 6,269 hate crimes…
Exciting Swedish dialects: Grammatical differences Posted by Stephen Maconi on Sep 29, 2015
Normally, learners of a second language like Swedish want to learn the standard version, which for Swedish as known as rikssvenska or standardsvenska. Yet, Sweden, being the long, vast country it is, has numerous dialects spoken in all the different parts of the country — some big, some small. So even if your goal is…
Three Common Swedish Mistakes Posted by Marcus Cederström on Sep 25, 2015
Learning a language can be difficult and early on (and even later on) there are some common mistakes that you’ll make again and again. That’s ok. But some of them can be easily remedied. Let’s take a look at three common Swedish mistakes. Svart vs. svårt One pesky letter. That’s all it takes sometimes to…