The people behind Duolingo have been trying to discover what the most popular languages are according to what people choose on its app. With a user base of more than 120 million, this dataset can ...

In bold if not surprising news, last week Swedish Education Minister Jan Björklund called for Chinese language to be taught in all primary and secondary schools, which would make Sweden a leader in ...

Multiple choice questions and listening comprehension will form the Swedish language test needed in the future to get permanent residence permit in Sweden. That is according to a government inquiry ...

Ruben Ostlund’s “Force Majeure” (Turist), which world-premiered at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard and won the jury prize, will represent Sweden in the Oscar’s foreign-Language race. The fourth feature from ...

Justice Minister Morgan Johansson, right, and former supreme administrative court justice Mari Andersson who led the inquiry. Photo: Jessica Gow/TT People applying for Swedish citizenship should be ...

Arabic is set to become the second largest first language in Sweden, with Finnish being overtaken for the first time in history. Finnish has been the most commonly spoken non-Swedish mother tongue for ...

Officially, Sweden doesn’t keep a record of the languages its inhabitants speak. That fact was infuriating to Mikael Parkvall, a linguist at Stockholm University, so he decided to find out for himself ...

Winner of Venice Critics’ 2012 audience nod, “Eat Sleep Die” centers on 20-year-old woman (Nermina Lukac) who lives with her father in a small village in Sweden and loses her job at a factory. The ...