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Swedish Language Learning Tips Posted by on Sep 21, 2011

Learning a new language is difficult. It can not be done in two weeks. It takes years to reach fluency. This isn’t news to anyone who has ever truly delved into a language. There will be great frustration and small accomplishments. There will be cursing (in your native language and maybe even the language you’re…

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A Swedish lesson from a 3-year old Posted by on May 24, 2010

Moving to Sweden – housing words defined Posted by on May 7, 2010

Moving to Sweden can be easy and it can be hard. One thing which is really different is the housing market. There are all sorts of strange and hard to understand names for things that there most likely is no equivalent for in your own language or country. Here’s a list to help you along…

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Madeleine and Jonas split – Do you support Sweden’s royal family? Posted by on Apr 27, 2010

The Swedish Royal Court recently announced that Princess Madeleine had broken up with her fiancé, Jonas Bergström, after weeks of media reports about a brief affair between the groom-to-be and a Norwegian handball star during a ski trip. Yes, handball. (We’ll explain that in another post:-)) It has been quite a few exciting years for…

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Tänka, tycka, tro Posted by on Mar 4, 2010

You guys have surely been wondering  what the differences are between these three words. It is nothing strange with them, since everyone can find similar words in their own languages. But sometimes it can happen that you would use a different verb in cases when tänka, tycka, tro are used in Swedish. It can be tricky. Sometimes the translation of…

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2010 is coming – be prepared! Posted by on Dec 29, 2009

Christmas is over (at least the fun bits of it…) and the only thing left of it is the extra kilos of meatballs on my belly that I’m now proudly carrying. Luckily for me, there’s a new year – and a new decade! – waiting around the corner and we all know what that means…

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What Time Is It? Posted by on Aug 7, 2009

About an hour ago I was struggling to explain to someone how to say what time it is. In Swedish naturally. You see, again, it’s one of those things that is deceptively easy on the surface and so similar to English that we tend to forget that there are a couple of bits that are…

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