Blogs in Swedish Posted by jennie on Mar 30, 2010
There has been a few requests about good Swedish blogs lately and jag är inte den som är den! But what is a good blog? To use another great Swedish expression, smaken är som baken – delad (Your taste is like your butt -divided) and there is a strong possibility that the blogs I like…
More Swedish odd expressions Posted by jennie on Mar 29, 2010
It’s Monday morning and today it’s even harder than usual to get out of bed, since the American inventor and politician Benjamin Franklin decided that we should save some daylight back in 1784 and came up with the brilliant idea of clocks going back and forward. In other words, the clocks went forward one hour…
A (Very) Short History of the Kings of Sweden Posted by Marcus Cederström on Mar 26, 2010
For over 1000 years, Sweden has been considered a monarchy of some sort. This has included periods of foreign rule, periods of dual rule, even periods of female rule at a time when women did not usually ascend to the throne. Today, Sweden retains its status as a monarchy, albeit a constitutional monarchy. Essentially this…
How to make Swedish meatballs – The Conclusion Posted by Gabriel on Mar 25, 2010
How to make Swedish meatballs Part II Posted by Gabriel on Mar 23, 2010
The Evolution of Swedish pop part II. Posted by Tibor on Mar 22, 2010
We finished last time around the middle of the 1990s and with The Cardigans a band from Jönköping the capital city of the so called Swedish Bible Belt Area (Bibelbältet). There is hardly anything religious about them. They made a major breakthrough in 1996 with Lovefool with a song that annoys me so much nowadays whenever I…
Swedish odd expressions part I Posted by jennie on Mar 22, 2010
My biggest language struggle when living in the UK is definitely all the weird expressions and idioms that people use in everyday life without even thinking about it. For a non native speaker, it can be darn tricky to figure out what they mean, but probably even more difficult to try to incorporate them when…