Make sure you pay attention to your long and short vowels when talking about vacuum cleaners. Photo: Oscar Olsson/TT There are a lot of vowels in Swedish and it can be easy for someone new to the ...

The Swedish alphabet is almost the same as ours, but they've got three more letters to cram into the song (å, ä, ö). They leave out the 'w,' which was grouped together with 'v' by the Swedish Academy ...