Gather round the coffee pot and find out how much they – and you – know about Sweden and its people with this sometimes surprising

there’s always room for a little drop of the hard stuff to wash it all down with

men det är också underhållande för en svenskspråkig läsare att se språket och kulturen ur ett utifrånperspektiv

vem var du i plugget

Hon bjuder på en mängd recept

Brilliant Swedish words to brighten your day Bok Gather round the coffee potOnce upon a time, smrgsbord and ombudsman were the only Swedish words to make it into the international vocabulary. But with IKEA furniture names on everybodys lips and the ubiquitous fame of fika, curiosity is growing about just how cool the Swedish language is. A predisposition for compounding means it often hits the semantic spot where other languages fail, with hundreds of brilliant words out there just waiting to go global. Fancy adding some