Resources
A few extra tools to support your learning journey — dictionaries, simplified-Swedish media, curated music, and facts about Sweden.
Facts about Sweden
Population, government, history, the flag — the essentials about the country whose language you're learning.
Articles
Tidbits and deep dives into Swedish language and culture — the parts no textbook covers.
The bookshelf · Bokhyllan
Books for the offline hours.
Everything from the podcast and the app, distilled into books you can hold, scribble in, and take anywhere the wifi can't reach.
A Lagom Guide to Swedish
Your pocket study companion — secrets, fun facts, and the stuff no one explains.
A Lagom Workbook for Swedish
Pen-to-paper drills that make the Guide actually stick.
To Shit in the Blue Cupboard
1000+ idioms that will help you understand Swedes, and maybe have a chuckle.
Dictionaries
Svenska.se
Three official dictionaries from Svenska Akademien — check a word's gender or a verb's conjugation here.
www.svenska.seWiktionary
Good for dialectal or colloquial words you won't find in an official dictionary.
en.wiktionary.org/Korp
A linguistic research corpus that shows how common a word is and how it's actually used in context.
spraakbanken.gu.se/korp/Media
Nyheter på lätt svenska (TV)
SVT's news broadcasts in simplified Swedish.
www.svtplay.se/nyheter-pa-latt-svenskaNyheter på lätt svenska (Radio)
Sveriges Radio's news programs in simplified Swedish.
sverigesradio.se/radioswedenpalattsvenskaSpotify playlists
Curated Swedish music to sing along to while you learn.
Sing it in Swedish
A meticulously curated list of bops in Swedish to sing along to, powered by Say it in Swedish.
Listen on Spotify
Swedish Classics
Ever wondered what those songs are that Swedes all know the lyrics to? Now you know.
Listen on Spotify
Jävla helvete
Heavy guitars and riff with jävlaranamma. This is hard rock, metal, and punk in Swedish.
Listen on Spotify