Archive for 'Vocabulary'
Loan words in Swedish Posted by Tibor on Dec 13, 2010
How Swedish is Swedish? How English is English? Well, it depends on what we consider as a loan word in one language. Can ancient Latin and Greek heritage called loan? Loan words have always been there all through the centuries. Some of the loans stayed some of them did not in our language. And some of them has been outranked by words…
Agnetha Fältskog-Doktorn Posted by Tibor on Dec 7, 2010
Do you remember Agnetha from ABBA? Of course you do. But have you heard her singing in Swedish? Here is this song (in Swedish with the English translation) from 1975. I haven´t succeeded in finding a live performance or a video to this song but if you do, please link me to it. So I can…
Homonyms Posted by Tibor on Dec 1, 2010
Homonyms are words you spell and pronounce in the same way but they have different meanings. So be careful! We have homonyms in every language. eka Kalle sitter och fiskar in en eka som han har själv byggt. (Kalle is sitting and fishing in his boat that he made himself.) Jag hör ännu dina ord eka…
SwS Episode 2: A day in the life of a Swede Posted by Stephen Maconi on Oct 29, 2010
Tjena! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? After a month of waiting, editing, and finalizing, I’ve finally got a new video to share with you all! Hopefully the next one won’t take as long to finish; I’d like to begin posting at least once every other week. I imagine I will become more time-efficient in…
Madeleine and Jonas split – Do you support Sweden’s royal family? Posted by Gabriel on Apr 27, 2010
The Swedish Royal Court recently announced that Princess Madeleine had broken up with her fiancé, Jonas Bergström, after weeks of media reports about a brief affair between the groom-to-be and a Norwegian handball star during a ski trip. Yes, handball. (We’ll explain that in another post:-)) It has been quite a few exciting years for…
Today’s talk of the town Posted by jennie on Apr 15, 2010
This is what we talk about in Sweden today: The volcano on Iceland that causes chaos – but not on Iceland A volcano in the Eyjafjallajoekull area on Iceland has erupted for the second time in a month and this time, almost all of Northern Europe is hit in a rather unexpected way, I’m sure…
The blonde and blue-eyed Swede and immigration Posted by Gabriel on Mar 31, 2010
Blonde hair and blue-eyed Swedes can be found, but less and less in groups. By now it is of course no surprise to you to hear that all Swedes don’t have blonde hair and blue eyes. Nope, Sweden has been changing. Around 20 percent of the Swedish population has a foreign background. The top three…