Just a short note to advertise a new page of our blog, where we have begun storing the cheat sheets that we produce while preparing for the SAS exams. We hope that they will be of some use for at least somebody out there!

A few days ago, when the Obama administration forced BP to set up an escrow account for speeding up the process of refunding residents of the the gulf region that are affected by the spill, it made world news what Carl-Henric Svanberg said during the press conference.

Of course -- for as evil as one can imagine BP top management to be -- the intended meaning of the expression was not derogatory. The expression itself was a translation slip from the expression “den lilla människan” which a commenter on the New York Times explains much better of how I could do: Read the rest of this entry »

Many of our friends and family members are curious about our linguistic experience with Swedish. How does it sound? Is it difficult to learn? Is it hard to pronounce?

There is not a single right answer to the question of course, given that the way one learns a language depends greatly from which other languages she or he speaks already. For all of those who would like to get a taste of how Swedish compares to English -- however -- varsågod a short video on the subject!