Tag: Swedish

  • Will it never end?

    You think I’m joking when I say everything about in Sweden is about Abba, but here is today’s homework in Swedish class.  It’s all about two men named Björn and […]

  • Be careful what you ask

    Our Swedish teacher asked our class of students from all over the world today what we thought was different about Sweden and Swedes.  She was bombarded by shouting: “They all […]

  • Movie review

    Our assignment today was to write a movie review in Swedish. Everyone else was picking all these girly “Under the Tuscan Sun” type dramas. I picked The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. […]

  • Genius

    Today in Swedish class, we had a list of vocabulary words.  One girl didn’t recognize the word “genius” in Swedish and asked what it was.  As the teacher was answering […]

  • Another day, another Swedish class

    As I said last week, going to school as an adult is pretty much the same as high school.  The teacher’s heels click down the hall as she walks to […]

  • Happy St. Patrick’s day!

    This is the one day of the year my husband probably regrets marrying an American.  I’m not sure about other places, but our tradition has always been that if you […]

  • Vilse i Pannkakan (Lost in the pancake)

    Oh, Sweden isn’t escaping my week of messed-up children’s programming.  This is from the 70s in Sweden.  My husband often speaks of this show and then shudders, going into an […]

  • No.

    From online Swedish news site, the local.  If I had to guess – someone just broke up with an Italian.

  • Swedish dinner

    Tomorrow we celebrate Christmas in Sweden.  This means a huge Christmas dinner (lunch actually). As you can guess, there are a lot of meatballs involved.  Also sausages, ham and potatoes.  […]

  • Understanding Swedish

    Attention all tourists and newcomers to Sweden who wonder what everyone is saying in Swedish.  Let me translate: It’s always about the weather. If a Swede is talking next to […]

  • Fill in the blank

    I’ve realized that speaking a second language (not very well) is often like playing a fill-in-the-blank game.  I was talking to my husband last week when he tried to tell […]

  • Shopping – Sweden vs. U.S.

    An advantage to shopping in Sweden – you can wander around alone in a store all day and not one salesperson will bother you.  If you need help, they are […]

  • Accent

    My Swedish husband had a great accent when we first met.  When we went back to Texas on vacation, everyone would ask where he was from.  We (he) got free […]

  • Swedish Swim Halls

    It’s often very cold here in Stockholm ( a surprise, I know!), so the town is full of indoor swim halls for people who would like to swim year round. […]

  • Caviar?

    It’s funny to me, as a Texan, that Swedish children eat caviar in squeeze tubes.  Caviar was always an expensive delicacy when I was growing up, but over here it’s […]

  • Stereotypical kids

    I just realized that this past weekend, my kids ate meatballs for lunch, danced to Abba and watched the Swedish chef on YouTube.  I never noticed just how Swedish they […]

  • Disturbing

    Yesterday my 5-year old son said, “Mamma, when you are killed I will be old.” Mistake in English or warning?

  • My hovercraft is full of eels

    I saw a paper yesterday for new students coming to Sweden. It gives helpful phrases they may need to know in Swedish. There were only about 20 phrases. The best […]

  • News of the Weird

    I picked up the Swedish paper this morning and had to ask myself, why is there a train full of virgins going to Moscow? After careful reading I finally realized […]

  • Watch your language

    I am usually very careful about the expressions I use around people who don’t have English as a first language, but I slipped up earlier this week.  A woman was […]