If you moved to Sweden thinking you’d soon learn the language, only to find yourself constantly speaking English, you’re not alone. But how can you break the cycle and finally start making real progress with your Swedish?
There is a significant difference between working abroad using your mother tongue, and the ability to do your job in another language entirely. Language proficiency opens up many more opportunities for career fulfilment in a new country. Here's how one migrant to Sweden powered up her teaching career with an intensive language course.
Like many of Stockholm’s international residents, Kathryn Mathews moved to Sweden for love and was soon ready to get stuck in with learning the language. That was almost eight years ago.
If you’re an international resident of Stockholm, learning Swedish can seem a painfully slow process. Perhaps you’ve become reluctant to risk even trying to speak the language with the locals – after all, their English is largely faultless.
