About Sweden

Sweden is among the ten happiest countries in the world. It is the third largest country in the EU in terms of territory after France and Spain. In terms of human development, Sweden ranks second in the EU, and in the ranking of countries with the best reputation it has the first place in the world.

 

 

Swedish is the most popular Scandinavian language.

More than 10 million people speak the Swedish language and only 53 out of 6500 languages, that exist on our Planet, have more speakers, than Swedish has. That is why Swedish belongs to a large language group. The language is an official one in Sweden, Finland and Aland Islands. Swedish is one of the Germanic languages and, therefore, people, who know English or German, should find it rather easy to learn Swedish. And if a person knows Swedish, it will be easy to learn Norwegian and Danish. The research “Swedish in Belarus” has shown that 100% of respondents know English and choose Swedish as the second foreign language. But even if you don’t know any foreign language, you can easily learn Swedish as the only foreign language.

 

The Swedish language gives privileges to study in Sweden, get internships and participate in international projects in Sweden. For example, according to the research “Swedish in Belarus” conducted in 2017 by the Swedish Centre, 33% of respondents received grants to study in Sweden.

 

The Centre provides a unique chance to pass the Swedish language test Tisus in Belarus. The results of the test are accepted by all Swedish universities as the assessed knowledge of the Swedish language.
 

Knowledge of Swedish opens new opportunities for work. According to the research “Swedish in Belarus”, 45% of respondents use Swedish at work, for 15% of respondents, knowledge of Swedish was the obligatory work requirement and, for 42% of respondents, knowledge of Swedish gave benefits to get a job.

 

You may say: “Everyone speaks English!” It is possible to find information about Sweden and communicate with the Swedes in English. But sometimes our own level of English is not sufficient to communicate successfully. If you do not know Swedish and therefore the specificity of Swedish mentality, you will find it difficult to establish relations with the Swedes.  

 

Knowledge of Swedish is an opportunity for those who dream to learn the Scandinavian culture and traditions, travel and read books in Swedish. 2-3 times per month the Centre holds interesting meetings with the representatives of the Swedish culture. 

 

Resources:

Sweden.se- an official web-site of Sweden. You may find all necessary information about Sweden.

 

Common facts

Lifestyle

Work in Sweden

Pictures of Sweden

Society

Education and Research

Recreation and Tourism

 

Mass Media

 Dagens Nyheter 

Aftonbladet 

Expressen 

Svenska Dagbladet 

8 sidor 

Swedish radio in Russian 

Swedish radio. The echo of the day.

Klartext 

Swedish TV

News on TV4

 

The Swedish language

Following resources may be of great use for those who study Swedish.

 

The Swedish language

Dictionary

Swedish resource “Creative teaching”

Online dictionary of Swedish synonyms

Dictionary of Swedish Academy

Project “Runeberg”

Språkbanken

The Swedish Institute of Folklore and Language

Online dictionary Lexin

Learning Swedish

Project “Ett steg mot Sverige”

Language test ”Swedex”

Language test ”Tisus”

 

Additional sources

 

5 reasons to study in Sweden

Swedish high public schools

Royal Academy of Science

Nobel Committee

 

Language Learning

 

http://www.uttal.se
http://pratar.weebly.com/
http://www.digitalasparet.se/safir/startsida.htm
http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/swedishteacher/
http://taipoint.org/swedish-verbs/
http://www.grundenisvenska.se/

 

Facebook groups:

 

We learn Swedish https://www.facebook.com/groups/Vi.studerar.svenska/   

Prononciation https://www.facebook.com/groups/Svenskt.uttal/  

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/uttalet/   

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/best.pronunciation/   

Grammar https://www.facebook.com/groups/studera.svensk.grammatik/   

https://www.facebook.com/groups/partikelverb/

Verbs https://www.facebook.com/groups/Svenska.verblistor/   

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/Svensk.prosodi/   

Medical vocabulary https://www.facebook.com/groups/medicinsk.svenska/   

Swedish for English speakers  https://www.facebook.com/groups/svenska.engelska/   

Swedish for Russian speakers  https://www.facebook.com/groups/svenska.ryska/  

General https://www.facebook.com/groups/sprakhjalp/

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/Alla.sprak/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/linguisticcoincidences/  

Scone dialect (skånska) https://www.facebook.com/groups/talaskanska/ 

Travel in Sweden https://www.facebook.com/groups/Sweden.Travel/