Swedish prepositions: på Posted by jennie on May 27, 2010
Alright, time to get down and dirty with “På”. I wrote earlier this week that Swedes seem to love “Till”, but we have a pretty good love affair with “på” as well. I have bee thinking, reading, asking and googling to find as many ways as possible to use “på” and I am pretty sure…
Swedish singer and song writer Linda Skoog. Posted by Tibor on May 26, 2010
Jazz and Blues grows on you by time. It was nothing I appriciated when I was younger. Nowadays, I like to get into different moods and experience the audience around me. It was on a hot summer day in Slottskogen in Gothenburg last summer when I first saw Linda performing. In the middle of the wild Swedish nature…
Butchering Swedish 101 Posted by Gabriel on May 25, 2010
Let’s talk about snus Posted by jennie on May 25, 2010
A friend of mine came back from her fist visit to Sweden the other day. Like all of us, she loved it (but of course!) and came back with a new found love for Kalles kaviar and 433 pictures of the archipelago, the castle, sea food and slightly sunburnt Swedes. But there was one picture that confused me slightly. In between photos…
Vote for Sweden’s new national costume! Posted by jennie on May 25, 2010
Remember Folkdräkt 2.0? The 25 – one for each Swedish province – brand new and meticulously designed costumes are now ready and up for display! Have your say and vote for your favourite here! Foto: Karin Granstrand/Småland
Swedish prepositions: Till Posted by jennie on May 24, 2010
Prepositions can be a real horror to master when you are speaking a foreign language and for me – a native Swedish speaker living in England -, it is to/for that is extremely confusing. The reason for this is quite obvious: I translate from Swedish to English when I speak and where it is “till” in Swedish, it’s either “for”, “to” or even…