Interview with a Swedish learner – Elena
Elena has been living in Stockholm since January 2013. She worked in a Swedish telecom company in Russia and almost 3 years ago she was invited to work in Stockholm. It changed her life. She fell in love in Stockholm, with a Swedish guy. Elena’s first impressions of Stockholm was not so nice: darkness, cold, […]
Interview with a Swedish learner – Carolina
Carolina comes from Spain, from a small town close to Barcelona. She did her PhD in Barcelona and moved to Umeå after that to work as a postdoc. Her research is focused on environmental radioactivity and peatlands. But that is not her only interests! She likes doing a lot of other things too. During her […]
Interview with a Swedish learner – Jess
Jess is 21 and has been living in Sweden for the past year. She moved to Sweden to be with her girlfriend and their five Golden Retrievers. They moved from Uppsala to Örebro at the end of August last year and now have their own flat in Mosås. She is currently studying SVAS 1 (Swedish as another language) and […]
Interview with a Swedish learner – Michelle
In her 27 years, Michelle has only now ventured into the Eastern Hemisphere (from the American perspective). She currently lives in Malmö, Sweden where her company relocated her to develop and train the management and part time staff. She works for Abercrombie & Fitch and is the General Manager at Hollister Co. at Malmo’s premiere […]
Learning Swedish online
Learning Swedish online Are you curious and like to be flexible? Are you interested in learning Swedish? Boy, do I have a service for you! Here are my top five reasons for why learning Swedish online is so great. 1. Location Learning online means you can learn a language even though there are no teachers […]
Interview with a Swedish learner – Ben
Ben, born in 1970, is from the east coast of the United States. In 2000, a half year after meeting a Dutch woman while both were biking around Ireland (in opposite directions!), he moved to the Netherlands. Within a few months they were married, raising her two young children together and he was speaking Dutch. Twelve years […]
Interview with a Swedish learner – Nick
Nick is 25 and originally from Kent, but he has lived in several places around England including the East Midlands for the last 4 years. He trained as a musician but since August 2011 he has been re-training to become an artist in the games industry on a 2 and a half year course in Malmö. After that […]
Interview with Alicia learning Swedish
Alicia is currently learning Swedish. She is from Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. She has moved to Sweden for a work assignment that is determined to be a two year assignment. Her employer had arranged Swedish lessons for her through the International House in London that lasted about one month. She works as a retail […]
Interview with a Swedish learner – Jeff
Jeff is from England, but he has spent several years living and working in Sweden in an engineering company. He is now re-training as a doctor. He misses Swedish coffee, cinnamon buns, semlor and management by överenskommelse and the assumption that if a job’s worth doing then it really is worth doing well. What led […]
Interview with a Swedish learner – Robert Shaw
Robert is originally from Hastings and lived the last 20 years in the UK in Derbyshire. He now lives in Stockholm with his wife and bonus son in a typical Swedish apartment near to the city. They also have a lovely summer house 70 km away looking out over the archipelago. Robert works as an […]