Inter-Scandinavian Communication Posted by Tibor on May 10, 2012
The newest Norwegian research shows that we understand less and less of each other´s languages in Scandinavia. (To the Scandinavian languages you count Swedish, Danish and Norwegian). The researchers blame first of all the teachers and the media for this very matter and they say that it would be very useful to concentrate more on…
Train Travel in Sweden Posted by Katja on May 10, 2012
Service is different in all countries. Compared to a country like Japan, Sweden’s train service isn’t that good maybe. The trains are very often late, or delayed by snow, accidents or because of waiting for other slower moving vehicles on the tracks. However, to compensate for that the train companies compensate their travelers with the…
Let’s talk about Sweden Posted by jennie on May 7, 2012
Are you – like me – one of those people who get overly excited when Sweden or something Swedish is mentioned in movies or in TV-programmes? Well, then you must make sure to take a look at the collection of Sweden on the screen, “Let’s talk about Sweden”. It’s put together by the film fanatic…
The easy and hard about Swedish Posted by Stephen Maconi on May 4, 2012
There are lots of people out there who really want to learn a new language, and Sweden often comes up as a suggestion on many websites as a language being ‘close’ to English. Well, no one’s lying – they belong to the same language family (the Germanic languages) and they have a great deal of…
Swedish Blog under construction Posted by Katja on May 3, 2012
Hi All, As you may have noticed the design of the blog has changed over the past week. This is because Transparent Language is developing an even better and much fancier design as well as changing platforms. If you guys have experienced any sort of trouble during this period, we are very sorry about that. Hold on…
Barnprogram Posted by Katja on May 2, 2012
In Sweden there are special channels which are funded by the state, making the accessible to everybody. These channels are also not supposed to have any commercials either. Amongst the programs on these channels there is a special children’s program called “Bolibompa”. This is in Swedish the program which is called Barn Program. This program…
Swedish Saturday Candy Posted by Marcus Cederström on Apr 30, 2012
Every Saturday, children throughout Sweden have a little extra kick in their step. Not just because it’s Saturday and they don’t have to go to school, but because Saturday means lördagsgodis. Lördagsgodis is of course one of those fun compound words that we sometimes write about here (remember, you can read about the longest word…