1. Swedish is a language that's part of the Scandinavian group of languages, along with Danish and Norwegian.
2. Swedish speakers can understand Norwegian speakers, yet it doesn't work the other way round - Norwegians can't understand Swedish as easily!
3. Swedish is spoken by a whopping 9 million people.
4. The Swedish alphabet consists of twenty-nine letters, the regular twenty-six of the English alphabet, plus å, ä, and ö; at the end.
5. The ä and ö distinguish it from Norwegian and Danish, which use æ and ø. It's one of the official languages of Sweden, and Finland too!
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Here's Dominic Hinde's review of his year abroad. Currently studying at the University of Edinburgh, he's putting the final touches on his fourth year, reading German and Scandinavian studies and he's sharing his year abroad experience in Uppsala, Sweden with us...Published in Swedish-speakingTags
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