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About the languageVill du tala svenska?Swedish is a Scandinavian language like Danish and Norwegian, and is also very similar to English and German. The Swedish alphabet is like the English one, but it has three extra letters – å, ä, and ö. Swedes love to use English words. Here are some English words and their Swedish equivalent. Have a go at matching them – it shouldn’t be too hard!
But it’s not always as easy as it looks! Now for something a little more difficult! Want to speak a bit of Swedish?Here are a few words to get you started. We’ve divided some of them into two groups: things you’d say to friends, and slightly more formal expressions. Here’s a list of numbers one to ten, as well. You can see how similar they are to English: Read them while you listen.
The days, too, are pretty much the same. Read them while you listen.
Lördag, the Swedish word for Saturday, means ‘washing day’ in old Swedish, as Saturday was the day which people used to wash themselves after the working week and before church on Sunday! Swedish is spoken not only in SwedenYou might not know this, but Swedish is actually the second official language of Finland. In fact…
Swedish also opens doors to the whole of Scandinavia. Learning Swedish gives you easy access to learning both Danish and Norwegian, which are very close to Swedish. In terms of working life, many Nordic conferences use Swedish as the common language. Famous Swedish speaking Finns include Tove Jansson (the creator of the Moomin characters), Edith Södergran (poet) and Bo Carpelan (writer). Source: finland.fi/Public, 30/11/08. |
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