Politeness will get you far when traveling, but one European country lacks a word for "please." Here's how to sweeten your ...

Swedish is a wonderful, melodic but often deeply odd language full of strange phrases and words that are seemingly impossible for a human being to pronounce. So, let’s not beat about the bush ...

Today's word of the day is the Swedish word for 'loneliness' – but why are Swedes considered some of the loneliest people in the world? If you want to talk about living alone with no connotations of ...

But where does the word våffla come from? Honeycombs and waffles both have similar patterns (Wabe comes from a term meaning "to weave" in Middle High German) which is presumably how the sweet treat ...

Incidentally, the Swedish word for "six" is "sex", which is pretty weird in itself… In Britain, brought up on Wind in the Willows and Rupert Bear, we tend to view badgers as cuddly or even wise ...