Thanks to The Chronicle’s Global Ticker RSS feed, the other day I read about a surprising – at least to me – impediment to academic internationalization in Sweden. It seems that the government’s ...

Did you know that several words that are still in use in Swedish today originally come from a secret language made up by travelling salespeople? The best thing about being a journalist is all the new ...

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 ...

Sweden's language watchdog has removed the term "ogooglebar" - or "ungoogleable" - from its proposed list of new words after becoming involved in a dispute with Google. The word in question was ...

In the late 19th century, when huddled masses of Swedes began arriving in America in droves, they looked for whatever help and comfort they could find in adjusting to their strange new home. Relatives ...

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 ...