Veronica Maggio – Dumpa mig Posted by Tibor on Feb 23, 2011
This song is based on a true story, I have heard it through the grapevine. The only difference is that in real life a guy from Stockholm travelled down to Gothenburg to meet his loved-one who was working at the Opera House in Gothenburg. The girl didn´t want to break up through the telephone so she did it on-site…
Time for sportlov! Posted by jennie on Feb 22, 2011
Starting from week 7, children in Sweden gets a week of from school. This week is called sportlov (sport’s break) and it happens at different weeks in different parts of Sweden. The southen children enjoy the time off first (week 7) and the children up north get their holiday four weeks later – mostly because the weather is so unbarebly cold…
He’s driving his car. No, his car! Posted by Stephen Maconi on Feb 21, 2011
Today’s video is about singular personal possessive pronouns in Swedish – that is to say, using words such as my, your, his, and her. It’s a little more complicated in Swedish than in English, so I hope you find this video useful! As a side note, thank you for your helpful ideas you have left…
Swedish Plural Endings – Definite(ly) Posted by Marcus Cederström on Feb 18, 2011
As a follow up to the worksheet on plural endings, we thought we would give a brief explanation of the definite plural. We already know how to form the indefinite plural after a rousing lesson back in November: Swedish Plural Endings. So now instead of just being able to say, “chairs,” we’ll be able to…
English in Sweden Posted by Katja on Feb 17, 2011
In Sweden there is English everywhere. On TV, posters, bus stops, in shops, on the back of food packaging and basically any other imaginable place. It is really only children’s videos that get dubbed to Swedish. Most other media is just played in English with Swedish subtitles. This makes Swedes’ ears very accustomed to English…
Swedish Humor (The Angry Law Show on P3) Win two tickets! Posted by Tibor on Feb 16, 2011
What do you do if you need to do a poo in Sweden? Well, this is nothing really what we research here on the Swedish Blog. I am so sorry guys! For finding toilet facilities in Sweden; the easiest way is to brush up your Swedish or English before coming here. But talking about poo….My and Linnea…
The later part of Swedish education Part 2 Posted by Katja on Feb 15, 2011
In part 1 of “The later part of Swedish education” we very briefly looked at what high school was like in Sweden. In part 2 we are going to look a little bit at what students who don’t get into Swedish universities do instead. What happens to all the students who don’t get into medical…