How many Swedes emigrated? During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the mass emigration of some 1.3 million Swedes to the United States occurred. Why did they leave? Emigration was due to several reasons. One was the sharp population growth. Between 1825 and 1900, the number of children born yearly […]
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Sometimes it surprises me what people know or think they know about Sweden. And today, I stumbled on a website called the fact file.org g, and one of their articles was; 52 Interesting Facts About Sweden. This tickled my curiosity. So in today’s episode, I’m going to review these facts […]
I must cancel this Monday’s episode of A Swedish Fika since I have lost y voice. After several attempts to record, I know sometimes it is not good to be stubborn, but I have finally given up and decided to let everyone know that there will not be an episode […]
Today I am comparing the metric system to the US imperial system of measurements and try to answer the question; Why is the US not using the metric system?
Today’s episode is inspired by an article on vox.com from 2017 that I accidentally stumbled on. The title of the article is I’m an American living in Sweden. Here’s why I came to embrace the higher taxes. Tom Heberlein writes the article, and I have a link to the full […]
Today I am returning to a topic I have talked about before, and that is food. It seems like many of you enjoy it when I talk about Swedish food. So today I’m gonna take a look at the calendar for special celebration days for different foods in Sweden. Some […]
In today’s episode, I will talk about something very close to my heart education, and the focus will be on primary education. I will divide this into five sections. In the first section, I want to give you an overview of the Swedish school system. Then I want to talk […]
Last Sunday, September 9th, was the election day in Sweden, and since this is a podcast about Sweden and Swedes, I had to cover that. But before we talk about the actual results of the election, and what changes it will lead to, let’s talk about the election process in Sweden.
The red Cottage Red cottages with white corners and other white trimmings are as iconic as Fika in Sweden. Many houses in Sweden are made of wood and need to be painted, the question is why so many are painted in the color Falu Rödfärg – Falu red? But to […]
Some general background Swedish is part of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is closely related to Norweigan and Danish, and all three languages are developed from the old Norse. Swedish is generally divided into three main dialect areas;Northern Swedish Eastern Swedish (Finnish Swedish and Estonian Swedish) […]