av Sofi Tegsveden Deveaux | 2024, mar, tis | Make Sweden your Home, Okategoriserad, Swedish for Parents
In school years three, six, and nine, Swedish schoolchildren write an exam called nationella prov (‘national exams’). Nationella prov are also written in gymnasiet, the last three years of school. Third-graders take exams in Swedish and mathematics only, and six- and...
av LYS editorial team | 2020, dec, mån | Make Sweden your Home, Okategoriserad, Swedish language
The Swedish language (just like all languages) has its peculiarities. Social media has become a great place for memes that share the funny, obscure, and downright nonsensical. But who makes these memes and how accurate are they? And what do they teach us about Swedish...
av LYS editorial team | 2020, nov, ons | Kommunicera bättre över kulturgränser, Nyheter på svenska, Okategoriserad, Svensk kultur, Svenska som andraspråk
Översättningssvenska: Jag korsar fingrarna! Svenska: Jag håller tummarna! Det här exemplet minns jag från min barndom. Jag såg på ett avsnitt av Familjen Flinta (The Flintstones) nån slö vårdag hos pappa (han hade minsann parabol). Att korsa fingrarna är en klassisk...
av LYS editorial team | 2020, okt, lör | Make Sweden your Home, Okategoriserad
We are entering dark times, if not metaphorically, at least in a physical sense. Earth is tilting, and it is not to our advantage. What good could we say about the month of November, experienced from the vantage point of Stockholm? Every morning, my bed has turned...
av LYS editorial team | 2020, mar, tis | Okategoriserad, Swedish language
avliden This is the word used to report that someone is dead. Avlidna in the plural, as this is a perfect participle from the verb avlider (decease). (avlid! – avlida – avlider – avled – avlidit). Don’t confuse this with avlivar...
av LYS editorial team | 2019, nov, fre | Make Sweden your Home, Okategoriserad
It could be in the middle of the night – it is dark enough, and you are dead tired. But it is eight in the morning, early December, and you are in Sweden. You cannot remember why you chose to come to this place, but here you are, standing on a cold and wet platform,...
