Learn a little Swedish

Want to actually understand what Swedes are talking about during their fika,
This visual guide is your ultimate shortcut to the Swedish language. I skipped the boring, stiff textbook talk and packed this gallery with the essential words you actually need. Click on the images to enlarge them.

Perfect for surviving your very first week in Sweden, When you have learned these words, perhaps you want to step it up and learn some more, or maybe you want to read about out our daily & weekly habits?

For the very brave one, I have added some tongue twisters below the images. Feel free try them out.

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Swedish tongue twisters

First line: The tongue twister
Second line: The english translation

• Får får får? Får får inte får, får får lamm
  Do sheep get sheep? Sheep don’t get sheep, sheep get lamb
• Sex laxar i en laxask
  Six salmons in a salmon-box
• Packa pappas kappsäck
  Pack daddy’s suitcase
• Sju sjösjuka sjömän sköttes av sju sköna sjuksköterskor
  Seven seasick seamen were cared for by seven beautiful nurses
• Sju sjösjuka sjömän på skeppet Shanghai sköljde sju skjortor i sjön
  Seven seasick seamen on the ship ‘Shanghai’ washed seven shirts in the sea
• Plocka pepparkorn i en kopparpanna
  To pick peppercorns in a copper pan
• Flyg, fula fluga, flyg! Och den fula flugan flög
  Fly, ugly fly, fly! And the ugly fly flew