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...
by LYS editorial team | 2019, Nov, Fri | Swedish language
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...
by LYS editorial team | 2019, Nov, Fri | Make Sweden your Home
After having lived almost seven years in Scotland, I returned to Sweden in 2008. I was shocked to discover how rude the Swedes are, slamming doors in my face, yawning without covering their mouths, bumping into me without apologising. Later I realised that I was...
by LYS editorial team | 2019, Nov, Fri | Make Sweden your Home
Summer is over, and Swedish business is about to settle back into its slow yet productive rhythm. Perhaps you are starting a new job, or hoping that the new season will bring new possibilities. Perhaps you are hoping to make friends with your colleagues. You are newly...
by LYS editorial team | 2019, Nov, Fri | Make Sweden your Home, Working in Sweden
Do I need to speak Swedish to get a job? It is not necessary that you speak Swedish for all professions. In business, IT, engineering, design, research, and many other fields, many companies hire international team members on a regular basis, and the working language...
by LYS editorial team | 2019, Nov, Fri | Make Sweden your Home, Working in Sweden
Make sure they can see your potential If you are good at what you do, you will probably be good at it anywhere. Being intelligent, well educated, serious, and having the appropriate work experience and skills is not culture dependent. However, when we talk about our...
by LYS editorial team | 2019, Nov, Fri | Swedish language
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...
by LYS editorial team | 2019, Nov, Thu | Dear Writer
Dear writer, I am so pleased to see how productive you’ve been recently, thanks for forwarding me the updates. However, I think we need to talk about plot. The exhibition opening story, for example. What a lovely evening you have depicted! What beautiful people you...
by LYS editorial team | 2019, Nov, Thu | Dear Writer, Uncategorized
Dear writer, Thanks for your explanatory note about the boarding school (girls only) in the town of Lycksele. I do appreciate that you, the author, is the God and creator of the reality you are depicting, and in fact, that this reality is entirely fictional. Yes, of...
by LYS editorial team | 2019, Nov, Thu | Dear Writer
Dear writer, I do understand your concern about your biography. Like you, I started my career somewhere else, and to my disappointment circumstances came in the way and it was discontinued. What grief I went through. I could not bear to identify with the tasks that...
