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sweetknight
Are there any Americans here that can help me with your experiences with Swedish (or nordic) names? Can you give me your best examples of your idea of a "standard" Swedish/nordic name :)
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themauser
I am learning Swedish with Duolingo and need children's books or comics if anyone has a line on any or any titles.
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@themauser hey, I know your post is quite old, but i started to learn Swedish, too :) I'm also using duolingo. Did you find some other useful pages/books/programs? Du är en jordgubbe <3
birger
Swedish Christian Democrats sign up for Stockholm Pride
http://www.thelocal.se/33586/20110505/
Too often the news items I pass on are about something depressing, so I was glad to find this. The Christian Democrats are what you might call liberal on social issues, but conservative about homosexuality (the only Swedish party not to …
http://www.thelocal.se/33586/20110505/
Too often the news items I pass on are about something depressing, so I was glad to find this. The Christian Democrats are what you might call liberal on social issues, but conservative about homosexuality (the only Swedish party not to …
birger
Swedish diplomat Sverker strm has died aged 96.
No non-Swedes (and quite few Swedes) knew about him, but he was essential for setting up the Stockholm international conference about pollution and the environment in 1972 (this was before international pledges regarding the environment were tagged as anti-American, and actual progress …
No non-Swedes (and quite few Swedes) knew about him, but he was essential for setting up the Stockholm international conference about pollution and the environment in 1972 (this was before international pledges regarding the environment were tagged as anti-American, and actual progress …
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this weekend got drunk yet again and went to my cousins' annnual midsummer fest up at the utne farm where bunch of swedish people and non swedish people erected a phallic pole danced around it in a circle and sang swedish songs and did weird swedish traditions...it was purdy fun...now it's sunday night and i'm bored as hell and too lazy to do laundry...blah....
Vilken vacker dag!
That would be Swedish for "What a beautiful day!", or something along those lines. My attempts at learning Swedish are going... slowly. At the very least, I think I'll be able to to survive now if I suddenly woke up in the Swedish backcountry where nobody spoke English.
Hmm, and if I was lucky, a nice Swedish girl would come to my...
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That would be Swedish for "What a beautiful day!", or something along those lines. My attempts at learning Swedish are going... slowly. At the very least, I think I'll be able to to survive now if I suddenly woke up in the Swedish backcountry where nobody spoke English.
Hmm, and if I was lucky, a nice Swedish girl would come to my...
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I blame staynobody for this.
I am suddenly, irreparably obsessed with Sweden and all things Swedish. How can such a small (talking population here) nondescript country generate so much cool? Observe: after perusing staynobodys year-in-review (which is quite good, actually, minus a few glaring omissions which well go into at a later date when our Idle Time Top 20 gets posted), one album caught my...
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I am suddenly, irreparably obsessed with Sweden and all things Swedish. How can such a small (talking population here) nondescript country generate so much cool? Observe: after perusing staynobodys year-in-review (which is quite good, actually, minus a few glaring omissions which well go into at a later date when our Idle Time Top 20 gets posted), one album caught my...
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Gunnar, Bjorn, Aksel, Anders and Erik are all pretty popular for men.
Freya, Astrid, Ingrid, Agnes and Frida for women.
Despite actually knowing a few Swedish people from Sweden (Hans, Hampus, Mahsa, and Golsa - the last two being Persian-Swedish sisters) my go-to Swedish names are Sven and Inga, which may or may not even be Swedish names. If I were to have a Swedish person in one of my books, I would absolutely look up common names.