by LYS editorial team | 2019, Nov, Fri | Swedish language
If you are talking about 100 % of something, how do you express that in Swedish? There is hel, helt, and hela, but also all, allt and alla. There is a logic to it, but there are many parameters to keep track of. ALL or ALLT First of all, because this is the easiest....
by LYS editorial team | 2019, Nov, Fri | Nordic Noir, Swedish language
Pick up a Nordic Noir novel to help make the leap to reading in Swedish. You’ll already know the basic framework and flow of the story as most crime thrillers follow a similar pattern and you can focus on organically learning new words as you go along. By Sofi...
by LYS editorial team | 2019, Nov, Fri | Make Sweden your Home
Originally, this occasion was to celebrate the winter solstice With the change of calendars in 1753 (from the Julian to the Gregorian), the dates moved backwards. Up until then, December the 13:th marked the winter solstice. As this was the longest night of the year,...
by LYS editorial team | 2019, Nov, Fri | Make Sweden your Home
I lived in Edinburgh for seven years. Homesickness did not strike until the last few months. I started taking walks in the parks, dreaming of Swedish woods and lakes. The air was still somehow not fresh enough, the sky not bright enough. The food was somehow wrong....
by LYS editorial team | 2019, Nov, Fri | Swedish language
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...
by LYS editorial team | 2019, Nov, Fri | Make Sweden your Home, Uncategorized
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,...
by LYS editorial team | 2019, Nov, Fri | Make Sweden your Home, Working in Sweden
Your CV lists your education, work experience and skills. Your covering letter will tell your prospective employer who you are, why you want this job in particular, and why they should hire you. The two should complement each other, to give a clear idea of who you are...
by LYS editorial team | 2019, Nov, Fri | Make Sweden your Home
Dependent on the position, the size of the company and personal preferences of the managers, you will either meet a recruiter from a professional recruitment company, the HR manager, or your prospective manager for your first interview. They want to meet you to see...
by LYS editorial team | 2019, Nov, Fri | Make Sweden your Home, Working in Sweden
Far too many times, I have listened to international professionals telling me how unsatisfied they are with their salaries in Swedish companies. Many of them have started a new position with a rather low salary, in the belief that they have better chances getting a...
by LYS editorial team | 2019, Nov, Fri | Make Sweden your Home
If you have worked, studied, rented a cottage, or sent your children to school in Sweden, you must have come across the peculiar use of week numbers instead of conventional calendar dates. That is to say, instead of saying May the 7th, most Swedes would refer to today...
