The Swedish language

Hi, we have gotten an assignment to write a short text about the Swedish language:

In school we learn Swedish as first language and English as second. When we are around seven years old we start learning English in school. In the sixth grade (around 12 years old) we can choose about a third language: French, German or Spanish.

There’s not any other country in the world that learns Swedish in school except for Finland.

We can understand Norwegian people almost perfect, and Danish not fully, even though these are 3 different languages. Which means that the languages are pretty similar each other.

The most people from other countries have problems with the Swedish grammar and think it’s really hard. The Swedish language got a lot words loaned from the English and German, especially the German.

We don’t dub the texts for movies or television, except for animated child movies. We just put in a text strip called subtitle and use the English language instead of dubbing over to Swedish.

If you’d like to learn some Swedish phrases just ask us and we will do our best to help you.

Best regards Frida, Karin and Rasmus.