av LYS editorial team | 2019, nov, fre | Make Sweden your Home
I am often told miracle anecdotes about people who learn fluent Swedish in three months. Apparently, this makes others feel inspired, and it is also concluded that such fast progress is due to motivation. “She really wanted to learn.” I am very sceptical to all of...
av LYS editorial team | 2019, nov, fre | Swedish language
You know when you want to make that monster really frightening, and you end up calling it a pattern? There must be plenty of post-ignorant expats out there, laughing smugly at their idiotic co-patriots who are too ignorant to take those dots seriously enough. When...
av LYS editorial team | 2019, nov, fre | Make Sweden your Home
The word think, or the equivalent(s) in your language, is conveniently translated into three different words in Swedish: tycker, tänker, tror. Do not believe that you can use these sporadically, as per your own preference, because for any Swede, these three words have...
av LYS editorial team | 2019, nov, fre | Make Sweden your Home
To celebrate the change of clocks this weekend, please find this guide to help you through the tunnel, that will be the experience of your Swedish life up until mid-April next year. Why? Like most people, I believe that it is not the cold that presents the greatest...
av LYS editorial team | 2019, nov, fre | Swedish language
There are some more complicated and some less complicated challenges when it comes to Swedish pronunciation. I have collected five particularities of the Swedish language, that should be rather easy to master technically, as soon as you have recognised their...
