"Villa Volvo Vovve: The Local’s Word Guide to Swedish Life" - Emma Löfgren & Catherine Edwards

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"Villa Volvo Vovve: The Local’s Word Guide to Swedish Life" – A Guide to the Most Important Swedish Words!

The words we use both reflect and shape reality. They create and describe societies, cultures, and ways of thinking. Learning words in another language gives insight into a foreign world and a different perspective. It provides new tools to express feelings, thoughts, and experiences that may not exist in our native language.

Swedish has contributed words to English, such as moped, ombudsman, and smörgåsbord. Abba, Ikea, and Spotify have also drawn global attention to Sweden. Lifestyle blogs worldwide highlight typical Swedish concepts such as fika and lagom.

But Sweden is much more than trends and clever solutions. It is a country that celebrates fredagsmys, kosläpp, and lillördag, while everyday life includes vårstädning, trotsåldern, and halka. Swedish has given us expressions like nja, fy, and eller hur, in a country where Medelsvensson dreams of a villa, a Volvo, and a cute dog (gullig vovve).

Discover Sweden and the Swedish language free from stereotypes through over 100 unique Swedish words translated into English.
Learn about a country where saying “no” can mean “yes,” where the word trucizna may mean something completely different, and where meaningless words are called snow slush (blöt snö).
Listen to audio files in three different Swedish dialects and practice pronunciation of tricky Swedish sounds like tj and sj.
Test yourself with language quizzes, word games, and crosswords.
Have fun with wild literal translations, false friends, and other quirky aspects of the Swedish language.

Villa Volvo Vovve is based on the popular “Swedish Word of the Day” series, which has been widely appreciated by readers of The Local Sweden for many years.

The book is in English

Why Read This Book?

The words featured in the book will show you the Swedish way of life and culture from a new perspective!
It is worth exploring this book if you are learning Swedish, as it will help you better understand the Swedish mentality.
On the LYS publisher’s website, you can listen to the pronunciation of the words presented, read with different accents.

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Details

ISBN 9789189141315
Editing house LYS
Premiere date 2021-10-28
Version Book
Author Emma Löfgren & Catherine Edwards
Binding Soft cover
Pages 254
Level B2
Language Swedish
Translated no

Manufacturer

LYS

Bigarråvägen 77B

904 36 Umeå, Sweden

redaktion@lysforlag.com

Importer

Katarzyna Hasiewicz-Obarzanek

Mazowiecka 17/23

70-526 Szczecin, Poland

biuro@ksiazkiposzwwdzku.pl

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"Villa Volvo Vovve: The Local’s Word Guide to Swedish Life" - Emma Löfgren & Catherine Edwards

Description

"Villa Volvo Vovve: The Local’s Word Guide to Swedish Life" – A Guide to the Most Important Swedish Words!