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Translations of important Swedish principles
MBL – the Swedish Co-Determination in the Workplace Act LAS – The Employment Protection Act Offentlighetsprincipen - The Principle of Public Access to Official Documents Allemansrätt – Right of...
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My Swedish CV
Janet Carr, Course Director Utbildningsbakgrund och undervisningserfarenhet BA, motsvarande fil.kand. i engelska och journalistik (1982), Rhodes University South Africa 40 poäng i datavetenskap (1991),...
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Grej of the Day
I am starting with a new category this week – ‘grej of the day’. This will be a small post about interesting facts. 2 percent of Swedish women are housewives Fewer than 0.5 percent of Swedish men are...
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Complete Swedish Parliament Tour
The Main Staircase, Swedish Parliament Here is the Swedish Parliament Tour document I promised you today – click on the link to download and/or print. Swedish Parliament Tour Final The only part I have...
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The Quiet Culture of Swedes
THE QUIET CULTURE • Nathaniel Handy Timber strained and wheezed, aching in the fresh salt water. The sea lulled gently around the expansive girth and a breeze fluttered around the rigging. Stockholm’s...
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Sweden, THIS is why I love you
Blaise Pascal said ‘Love Has Reasons That Reason Knows Not’ and ‘The Heart Has Reasons That Reasons Cannot Know’. Very wise words. I love Sweden. Sure, I really like that the systems work, that the...
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Which English words come from Swedish?
Some words in English originate from Swedish. knife tungsten moped smorgasbord husband
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Numbers – false friends between Swedish and English
There are often incorrect translations from Swedish into English so beware: Svenska: 1.000.000 – miljon 1.000.000.000 – miljard 1.000.000.000.000 – biljon 1.000.000.000.000.000 – biljard...
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Unwritten Rules for Using the Stockholm Underground
The underground travels on the left but people walk to the right. If you happen to walk to the left at any point in the passageways you will confuse and irritate people. And you may be trampled....
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Swedish-English plants, animals, food items….
I am in the process of creating a booklet with plant, animal, tree and food items. It is Swedish-English. If you would like a copy please email me at jt@londonschool.se and I can send you one!
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Swedish-English list of plants and animals
abborre perch al alder alm elm and duck baljväxt pulse bandmask tapeworm bark bark barr conifer bekämpningsmedel pesticide bete bait bi bee björk birch björn bear bläckfisk squid; calamari bok beech...
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Unwritten Rules for Living in Sweden
I heard many things which helped me acclimatise to my new home. But the ones which helped me the most were There are two laws you must understand to know Sweden – Jantelagen and Tvättstugalagen Våren...
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The Swedish Chef from the Muppets – Never!
Most of my students seem to have a very deep fear of sounding like the Swedish chef from the Muppets when they speak English. Firstly, I had to actually go and watch YouTube to see what he sounded like...
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Translations of important Swedish principles
MBL – the Swedish Co-Determination in the Workplace Act LAS – The Employment Protection Act Offentlighetsprincipen - The Principle of Public Access to Official Documents Allemansrätt – Right of...
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Shop Mannequins in Sweden
The photograph above went viral last week. It was taken three years in the Swedish department store, Åhléns by Rebecka Silverkroon, who posted it to her blog. Somehow it found itself on Facebook...
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Model scouts try to recruit patients outside Stockholm anorexia clinic
Sweden’s largest eating disorders treatment clinic, the 1,700-bed Stockholm Center for Eating Disorders, says it has an unusual problem: scouts for Sweden’s biggest modeling agencies who congregate...
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My beautiful workplace
I work in the most beautiful building I have ever seen. How lucky am I to be able to work here every day! Main staircase of the Swedish Parliament – looking up Looking down Main Hall
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My Swedish CV
Janet Carr, Course Director Utbildningsbakgrund och undervisningserfarenhet BA, motsvarande fil.kand. i engelska och journalistik (1982), Rhodes University South Africa 40 poäng i datavetenskap (1991),...
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It’s that time of year in Sweden – cows being let out of the enormous barns where they have spent the long dark cold winter. Look how happy they are. And how many people come to watch them being let out!
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