More Swedes want to switch currency from the krona to the Euro, with support the highest it’s been since 2009, according to a survey by Gothenburg University’s SOM Institute.
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More Swedes want to switch currency from the krona to the Euro, with support the highest it’s been since 2009, according to a survey by Gothenburg University’s SOM Institute.
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Also we should change our official language to English. Those who want to keep old traditions alive can learn Swedish at home.
I’m not even kidding :P
Maybe it’s me not being able to count, so please tell me again how many (and which) countries gave up their language since joining the Euro?
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What are you talking about? Why would you stop speaking swedish?
All Swedes are basically fluent in English already and there’s no point keeping tiny little language around in a global world.
My kids (9 and 12) speak English more than Swedish since all content they consume is in English anyway.
“All Swedes are basically fluent in English already and there’s no point keeping tiny little language around in a global world.”
I find this perspective interesting, because to me, this same justification would make me less inclined to support kids learning Swedish (if I were Swedish). This is a purely abstract question for me though, as I am English, and salty that I didn’t get a chance to learn a foreign language in school.
Edit: just seen your comment about Scanian, which gives additional context to your viewpoint
And what’s the benefit to giving up what’s a such big part of our culture? And the part about kids speaking more English than Swedish is mostly not true. I’m in year nine of grundskola and almost no one I know prefers to speak English over Swedish. And that’s an almost because I know people who have grown up with English as their first language
The benefit is that we can attract more people to come, live and work in Sweden. While I have myself hired people and told them they don’t need to learn Swedish to live in our society, they’ve come back and said that actually they felt they needed to when they had settled and had kids.
I don’t have the same “culture” as my parents did. They didn’t have the same as their parents. Move forwards, not backwards.
This is a job that Swedish Girls Abroad™ is already excelling at. The amount of sob stories from british, australian and american expats lured here by some blond vixen one has had to sit through…
(Come to think of it, we should probably discourage people from coming here instead, it rarely ends well. Be advised: Sweden is cold, dark and no one past 25 wants to make new friends. Education and culture is regarded with suspicion. When swedes hear music, they clap on beats 1 and 3. The younger generations even pissed away their social safety net to a large extent, which basically was their only USP as a country. It’s a culture of bean counting engineers with emotional lives irrevocably damaged by protestantism; don’t come here, if you value your sanity.)
Great, so let’s make all Swedish speakers feel this way instead of your inconvenienced employees (because you gave them bad advice). Most swedes aren’t as fluent as they believe themselves to be and prefer to speak swedish in day to day situations. When you have kids, you can’t live in your own little bubble anymore.
Nah, better that we just switch to English. The “Aj spiik Sveidish” boomers are soon gone anyway.
Sweden already erased the language of my forefathers (Scanian). As the world is ever more interconnected we’ll all come together around one single lingua Franca.
I don’t know if the kids still speak Skånska, but, when I lived there, Swedes above 30 who grew up in Scania did.
lol no
You did know Sweden forbid people from speaking Scanian on national television and radio all the way up to the 70s?
Whatever you think is scanian today is far from what it was. My elderly relatives used words that are completely gone today.
So, let’s just continue. The talk about “culture” is obviously moot.
Thankfully this is a minority opinion and also mostly redundant, since most swedish people of working age speak and write English well enough for business purposes. There would be no benefit and a huge cultural heritage would be lost. Young swedish people need no extra motivation to learn english - they pick it up naturally from globalized media anyway, a lot faster than we can teach them.
The way the world is heading, it would be better to make German, French and Spanish mandatory in school instead.
Most Swedish kids do actually study German, French or Spanish. You can choose not the and read extra English and Swedish instead but that’s mainly done for people already performing poorly in language, people who really don’t need another language but need to master the ones they know. Some schools (including public schools) also let students study two of those languages instead of just one if they wish to. I’m currently studying French and German
Yes, I’m aware. I’m saying we should step it up and probably start earlier.
Maybe, it does sure create a sense unity with the other European countries