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 ...

Finnish will be an optional language in preschools and old people's homes in eight more Swedish cities, as the government extends the rights of minority language speakers across the country. Half a ...

Under proposed changes to Swedish migration law, foreign residents would need to prove their Swedish skills to obtain permanent residence. Photo: Lieselotte van der Meijs Learning a language is ...

The Swedish National Agency for Education, or Skolverket, is to expand the teaching of Sweden’s five national minority languages (Yiddish, Finnish, Meänkieli, Sami and Romani Chib) in Sweden’s schools ...

Multiple choice questions and listening comprehension will form the Swedish language test needed in the future to get permanent residence permit in Sweden. That is according to a government inquiry ...

KIRUNA, Sweden (AP) — The members of Kiruna Church primarily worship in Swedish, their country’s main language. But this Lutheran church some 200 kilometers (120 miles) above the Arctic Circle seeks ...

Ruben Ostlund‘s Palme d’Or winner The Square is Sweden’s choice to represent it in the race for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. This is Ostlund’s third time at the rodeo for the Scandinavian ...