The Golden Can Award
Celebrating the best of the worst english language corporate ad writing blunders. Save the date: 18 May 2022.
Sweden’s Biggest Fails Using Ads in English
This is the book you’ve been waiting for, featuring the gems of Paddy Kelly’s collection of Swenglish ad fails. Our message: Hire a native copywriter!
Words to make your life more Swedish
Enjoy the silliness of literal translations, Swedish compound words and false friends, while exploring more than 100 Swedish words that can teach us more about Sweden beyond the clichés.
New material for teaching professional Swedish
LYS together with Energy Sweden have produced a material for Swedish teachers on how to adapt course content according to the participants’ professional expertise. The material is available for free in our webshop.
Online training in Swedish work culture
Take an online course to improve your career chances in Sweden. Accessible, flexible and affordable, in collaboration with The Newbie Guide to Sweden.
Unbury the secrets
Meet NYC detective Veronika Brand, who travels to Sweden for a family reunion, only to learn much more about her past than she ever wanted to know.
Body parts and organs in new edition
Buy our revised edition of Kroppen på svenska, an invaluable learning resource for international healthcare professionals
More than 250 medical conditions in pocket format
This complementary vocabulary resource helps international healthcare professionals to communicate with patients and peers.
Swedish gone bananas
Our ever-most popular book Svenskan går bananer explores the Swedish language in the way it is influenced by English. A great resource for advanced Swedish learners who tend to speak Swenglish once in a while. Out now.
Energisvenska has made a friend
Ta kontakt is a booklet designed to inspire better intercultural communication workplaces within the energy sector.
Swedish similes
The world’s only book on Swedish similes. A shortcut to speak more like native Swedes and insights into the culture and history behind expressions.
Can you skip the disgusting food when you try to become Swedish?
Tomas Spragg Nilsson knows. He spent one year attempting to become Swedish and has now written a book about his efforts.
From Russia with Herring
Kristoffer Lieng shares his experiences of living in Russia.
The revised edition is out
Our best-selling Working in Sweden: The A-Z Guide has been updated and revised. For Swedsh learners, there is also a Swedish translation.
Medical Swedish for international healthcare professionals
Newly released Journalsvenska will soon be complemented with two pocketsized books about illnesses and medications.
Professional Swedish for the Energy Sector
We are currently working together with the umbrella organisation Energiföretagen to develop more material for international energy professionals based in Sweden.
Season five with Emil and Sofi
Our podcast Lysande lagom (in Swedish) is the source for anything related to the Swedish language, Swedishness and the process of becoming Swedish.
Business as unusual
Your order is shipped the next business day from our warehouse in Järfälla, Sweden.
LYS förlag
LYS is an independent publishing house working for a brighter Sweden, with a focus on language, culture and belonging. Our readers are new and established Swedes and our mission is to promote local expertise and global experiences.
Course literature in professional Swedish
Course literature, Swedish as a second language
Guide books
Books about language
Biographies and fiction
Podcast in Swedish
Would it be helpful for your Swedish friends, colleagues or family members to understand more about what it’s like to learn Swedish, move to Sweden and become part of Swedish culture and society? Tell them about our podcast, Lysande lagom, that brings up all these questions in detail.
Corporate Services
Customised Literature
We create learning material, literature and other communication tools for international professionals working in Sweden or We have more than ten years’ experience of teaching professional Swedish and creating course material. Our books and tools are always directly applicable and based on real-life case studies.
Lectures and workshops
We help international professionals as well as their Swedish colleagues to develop cultural self-awareness and understanding of language within the context of work.
Speak to your readers
Our editing and text production team can help your organisation to develop text material adapted to more diverse target groups. We produce and edit text for readers and co-workers from different backgrounds and help you to formulate a long-term strategy for communicate in a more inclusive manner.
