3 000 Swedish fans… Posted by jennie on Feb 11, 2010
…on Facebook about an hour ago! That is a great number and we are just about to start celebrating with a huge meatball feast. Please feel free to drop a comment about yourself, if we lucky we might get 3 000… Tack och bock! /Gabriel, Jennie, Katja, Marcus and Tibor
The silence of the Swede. Posted by jennie on Feb 11, 2010
Warning! The following post will contain some major generalizations: As much as I love Sweden and going back home to see friends and family, there’s one big thing that bugs me more than the darkness and the expensive price for a pint. The Swedes. Us. There are many good things about Swedes. Swedes are kind…
Swedish Schlager Posted by Marcus Cederström on Feb 11, 2010
Schlager. It’s a Swedish word that means horribly tacky music. I made that up. Kind of. Schlager music is the song that gets stuck in your head that you kind of hate but know all the words to. Schlager music reaches its zenith in May when the best of European schlager meets at Eurovision Song…
Useful short words (attitudinal adverbs) in everyday Swedish; ju, nog, väl, heller Posted by Tibor on Feb 10, 2010
You put these small words after the verb in sentences with staright syntax in main clauses. Staright syntax means: 1st. Subject. 2nd. Verb 3rd. Object. Please note that these small words end up as 3rd. so the object ends up as 4th in the sentence (in written language). In spoken language they can end up…
En stor stark i solnedgången… Posted by jennie on Feb 9, 2010
Just got back from a four days holiday in the north, and blimey it sure IS freezing and packed with snow up there – even in the southern parts. Never in my life have I experienced anything like that back home. Cars driving on the frozen ocean, snowmen that last for a month and a…
Swedish Stand-Up. In English. Posted by Marcus Cederström on Feb 4, 2010
Last Thursday night I saw something that I will never forget. Stand-up comedy in Gamla Stan, Stockholm. In English. By Swedes. It’s not that the comedians were snort-inducing (they weren’t), or that the crowd was lively (we weren’t), or that the beer was cheap (it never is), it’s that all but one of these men…