I enjoyed my Swedish for Immigrants classes in Halmstad for no other reason than I met my first friends there. To this day we still get together when we can. We come from Vietnam, Indonesia, Germany, Poland, Spain and the US to name a few countries. When we moved to Stockholm I found a great class …
Source: Transparency Language Saying Please in Swedish Ice cream by Clemens v. Vogelsang. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Flickr Last week, we learned several different ways to say thank you in the creatively titled post, Saying Thank You in Swedish. When you’re learning a new language, all of those polite words can really come …
Source: Transparency Language HEN Hen is a new pronoun in Swedish. It is a gender neutral pronoun that many people mean was needed very much to fill a hole in the Swedish language. The purpose of the pronoun isn’t to gender-neutralize a person but more like not revealing gender in cases when you don’t want …
