We had some friends around for dinner last night.\u00a0One of them\u00a0is going to Sweden for a work exchange in a few weeks time and she kindly asked me to teach her something typically Swedish. Of course, I took my task seriously and I decided to teach\u00a0her\u00a0 how to\u00a0drink aquavit Swedish style, drinking songs included… An excellent idea at the time, but now, after several hours of staring blankly into the computer screen, I might regret being so generous with my knowledge and my Aquavit.<\/p>\n
Anyhow, because of the reason mentioned above, I haven’t been overly productive today. But I came across something\u00a0brilliant when browsing the net earlier that I want to share with you Swedenlovers. Swedia <\/a>is an excellent webpage where you can read and listen to over 100 different Swedish dialects, from far north to way down\u00a0south. You simply just click on a region, chose if you want to listen to a man\/woman\/elderly\/youth and then\u00a0you\u00a0can\u00a0read along with the\u00a0transcript. You even get\u00a0some info about the region and some lovely pictures\u00a0\u00a0as well! It’s easy as pie, very useful and lot’s of fun. I have decided (the only decision made today…)\u00a0that my favourite Swedish dialect is spoken on the island Gotland and this is probably a quite common opinion. People from Gotland sounds awfully kind and trustworthy, you often here it spoken in commercials and\u00a0rumours has it \u00a0that telephone sales companies are quite eager to hire people with a Gotland accent…<\/p>\n To illustradte some\u00a0serious\u00a0gotl\u00e4nska, click here<\/a>\u00a0for a clip from a brilliant Swedish tv-series called Solsidan (The sunny side<\/strong>) where Anna is struggling to understand her\u00a0midwife. Do you?<\/p>\n Ha en h\u00e4rlig helg alla!<\/strong><\/p>\n PS:\u00a0Want to learn how\u00a0to drink the aquavit? I found this cute video, you get a very sweet explaination to the “lyrics” aswell. \u00a0SK\u00c5L!<\/p>\n