Prenumerera: | | Vi är tillbaka! En ny sommarsäsong med ett gäng nya, friska avsnitt. I det här första avsnittet går vi till botten med det så kallade #swedengate, alltså påståendet att svenskar inte bjuder sina gäster på mat, det som spridits över världen och blivit...
Lyssna här: Prenumerera: | | Vi återkommer snart med en ny säsong av Lysande lagom, men till dess vill vi gärna träffa alla lyssnare som befinner sig i Stockholm den 18 maj! Vi har bokrelease för Paddy Kellys nya bok We Can English, onsdag den 18 maj klockan 17.30 på...
“Get me a chocolate muffins,” my Swedish friend says. “I’ll fix a taxi.” As I stroll into the bakery, I realise that a novice to Sweden might be confused at this point. What exactly did my friend order? How many oversized cupcakes is “a muffins”? The answer is one....
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...
Lördagsgodis is le thing. It’s on the BBC, it’s in Villa Volvo Vovve (this is the only book about Sweden you need rigt now) and it’s on Swedish children’s lips every Saturday. The concept is simple enough, that is, kids (and adults alike) are allowed sweets (or candy)...
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...
Lyssna här: Prenumerera: | | Vilka sjukdomar är mycket vanligare i Sverige än i andra länder? Är foglossning okänt i andra länder? Är utbrändhet en så kallad kultursjukdom? Är det bara svenskar som får ryggskott? I det här avsnittet har vi med oss Pauline, fransk...
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