Archive for 'Vocabulary'
10 best Swedish snow toys Posted by Katja on Jan 3, 2014
This post will make you an expert in the vocabulary of the best and most common Swedish winter toys. As you’ll be able to see from the following pictures ALL ages love these. Both adults, teenagers and youngsters go out every winter and play with these. Whole families go out together and spend hours out…
Gott nytt år till er alla! Nyårslöften? Posted by Katja on Jan 1, 2014
Today is the 1st of January. 2013 is over and 2014 is a book with 365 blanc pages for you to fill with important things to you. Like maybe learning more about Sweden, or gathering the courage to try some Swedish phrases out? What are your nyårslöften or mål för 2014? nyårslöfte – new years…
The Weather Outside is Frightful. And Swedish. Posted by Marcus Cederström on Dec 26, 2013
One of the many stereotypes about Swedes is that they aren’t always the most talkative. But one subject they’re more than willing to talk about is the weather In fact, Katja did a great job of putting together a couple of posts about starting conversations in Sweden, one is titled How to small talk in…
15 Scary Swedish Adjectives Posted by Marcus Cederström on Oct 31, 2013
Happy Halloween! As we learned in 15 Scary Swedish Creatures, Swedes don’t really celebrate Halloween. They’ve got Alla helgons dag instead. Of course, scary creatures can come out at any time of the year and that means you need some scary adjectives to describe them. Steve has covered some of the grammatical details of adjectives…
15 Scary Swedish Creatures Posted by Marcus Cederström on Oct 24, 2013
Halloween isn’t really a Swedish holiday. In fact, it hasn’t been until the last few years that Halloween has really made any sort of appearance in Swedish culture. Of course, just because there aren’t a bunch of witches and wizards running around looking for treats on October 31, doesn’t mean there aren’t witches and wizards…
To ‘speak’ in Swedish: tala, prata, snacka. Which one do I use?! Posted by Stephen Maconi on Oct 14, 2013
I live in a very culturally diverse part of Uppsala where there are many non-Swedes. As a result, many of my friends and acquaintances in the area are in the process of learning Swedish either just for fun or in order to really dig into the Swedish culture – after all, you can’t really get…
Drunken Moose and Swedish Months Posted by Marcus Cederström on Sep 27, 2013
Maybe you saw the news from a month ago. Radio Sweden released a short report about a gang of drunken moose tormenting Swedes. (You can click here for the original.) It was picked up by plenty of news agencies here in the US and categorized under the “Weird” news section in plenty of places. It’s…