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Learning Swedish Vocabulary

Learning Swedish Vocabulary

Although most of you would agree that any language is made up with – well, words, I encounter endless numbers of students that have a difficult time integrating vocabulary learning in their Swedish studies. Although some of them have made a conscious efforts not...

Please Say Thank You

To the horror of many visitors to Sweden, the Swedish language completely lacks an equivalent to the English please, the French s’il vous plait, or the German Bitte. This, according to many of my students, proves their hypothesis that the Swedish are impolite by...
Enough of Lagom

Enough of Lagom

Enough of lagom Although even hugely accessible sources, like Wikipedia, claim the opposite, most Swedes believe that the word lagom cannot be translated into other languages. There is a huge myth surrounding this little word, it almost has the status of a conceptual...