Did you know that several words that are still in use in Swedish today originally come from a secret language made up by travelling salespeople? The best thing about being a journalist is all the new ...

Karolina Wirdenäs, head of the Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism at Stockholm University, explains why her ...

Officially, Sweden doesn’t keep a record of the languages its inhabitants speak. That fact was infuriating to Mikael Parkvall, a linguist at Stockholm University, so he decided to find out for himself ...

My two-and-a-half-year-old son is quite the celebrity at his dågis (Swedish preschool); he speaks Swedish with his classmates, French to his mother (her mother tongue), Irish to me (and his Mamó), and ...

Ruben Ostlund‘s Palme d’Or winner The Square is Sweden’s choice to represent it in the race for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. This is Ostlund’s third time at the rodeo for the Scandinavian ...

Ruben Ostlund’s “Force Majeure” (Turist), which world-premiered at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard and won the jury prize, will represent Sweden in the Oscar’s foreign-Language race. The fourth feature from ...