Magnus Hambleton, a partner at the Swedish tech fund byFounders, argues that if Sweden were to make English an official national language, it would open itself up to an entire world of talent. One of ...

Swedish has been sounding more and more English in recent years. In this two-part report, we will look at the phenomenon from different angles. The first part is about language politics--just what ...

Swedish is now officially considered the main language in Sweden, according to a new language law which, along with more than two dozen other laws, took effect on Wednesday. The new law, a first for ...

The government of Sweden wants to make it harder to become a Swedish citizen. Sweden’s government has proposed making formal Swedish language tests part of the process for gaining Swedish citizenship, ...

New data from job search engine Adzuna.co.uk revealed UK roles which require Swedish language skills pay more than those seeking any other second language. Swedish language skills boast an average ...

Thanks to The Chronicle’s Global Ticker RSS feed, the other day I read about a surprising – at least to me – impediment to academic internationalization in Sweden. It seems that the government’s ...

A Taloustutkimus survey for Yle of how Finnish residents assess their Swedish language skills and how useful they found the language revealed that nearly half of respondents found the language ...

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 ...

Viveca Sten's popular novels come to life in a mix of Nordic crime and the beautiful surroundings of the outer Stockholm archipelago. In Södertälje, families, police and criminals get entangled in a ...