The Local

Is lagom really the best word in the Swedish language?

Lagom, allemansrätt, fika or something else entirely – what's the best word in the Swedish language? Photo: Håkan Wike/imagebank.sweden.se Add The Local as a preferred source Swedes' favourite word is ...
Computer Weekly

Sweden is developing its own big language model

In 2019, a group of researchers at AI Sweden received funding from the Swedish Innovation Agency (Vinnova) for a project called Language model for Swedish Authorities. The goal was to produce language ...
Helsinki

New Swedish language study module in Nordic studies

CENS launches a Swedish-language module in Nordic studies within Candidate Programme for Cultures (KuKa). The new Nordic module within the is a 15 ECTS Swedish language module open for students from ...
Yle

Moves to Defend Status of Swedish as Official Language in Finland

The Magma Academy has been set up with the help of two major Swedish-language cultural foundations, the Svenska kulturfonden and Konstsamfundet. “Apparently knowledge of Finnish history and awareness ...
Yle

Students increasingly reject Swedish language, close to 50% drop in exams over last decade

The last ten years or so in Finland have seen an almost 50 percent drop in the number of upper secondary school pupils who sign up for a Swedish language exam as part of their end-of-school ...