Sjuksköterska. Sjö. Tjena. Tjej. Växjö. Tjugosju. Stjärna. Kjol. Any Swedish learner recognises this as their worst nightmare. As a novice, you also tend to think that the apparently most difficult things are also the ones that will cause you the most trouble when...
You know that sucking feeling when your body or mind really wants something? Well, the Swedes made a word for it! Sugen. Pronounced, according to your favourite anglo-something lifestyle magazine as [soohgen], but obviously, not really, as the Swedish long U sound...
Listen carefully. Your brain may trick you. We hear things that are not there, because we expect them, and we miss other sounds because they are unfamiliar to our ears. Swedes who speak English often pronounce ‘ice’ and ‘eyes’ the same, because the voiced s (‘eyes’)...
What the h**l is a roundabout dog? Every country has its traditions, and although some of them may be rooted in something historically significant, something that had consequences, something important, some traditions stem from nowhere, and are entirely whimsy....
Until recently, not many Swedish words were known outside the country, with just a few of its words adopted elsewhere, most of them fairly unexciting: ‘orienteering’, ‘ombudsman’, ‘smorgasbord’. But then a trend for Scandinavian culture swept the globe, boosted by...
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...
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