https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Does your personality really change when speaking another language? Are people more comfortable expressing emotions in certain languages and can understanding the emotional shift actually help with language learning? Language professors Mari Mar Boillos Pereira and Ana Blanco Canales explore the latest research. https://www.thelocal.se/20241206/opinion-your-personality-changes-when-you-speak-another-language-but-thats-not-always-a-bad-thing Fri, 06 Dec 2024 11:38:45 +0100 opinion-your-personality-changes-when-you-speak-another-language-but-thats-not-always-a-bad-thing A Swedish taxi company has launched an ambitious new service that will allow foreign visitors in Stockholm the chance to book multilingual drivers, with up to 28 languages on offer. https://www.thelocal.se/20160711/sweden-now-offers-taxis-in-28-different-languages Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:38:09 +0200 sweden-now-offers-taxis-in-28-different-languages A mystery brunette has the world transfixed by her spot-on interpretations of what different languages sound like to outsiders. So perfect is her imitation of a Swede that The Local was ready to place bets on her actually being Swedish... https://www.thelocal.se/20140306/could-this-be-the-best-fake-swedish-ever-spoken Thu, 06 Mar 2014 11:44:00 +0100 could-this-be-the-best-fake-swedish-ever-spoken A research group led by the University of Gothenburg in the west of Sweden, has been granted 25 million kronor ($3.5 million) in EU funding to develop an online multilingual translation system covering most European languages. https://www.thelocal.se/20100119/24468 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:19:00 +0100 24468