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How to move from Africa to Sweden.

24 July 2016 By The Newbie Team 2 Comments

So you’ve just been given an admission for your undergraduate, postgraduate or doctoral studies in Sweden and you are super excited! You will be leaving your home country to study “abroad”. But after the excitement comes reality. And a move from an Africa country to Sweden can be a bit of a challenge.  There are […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: accomodation, Africa, culture, food, homesick, study, swedish behaviour, weather, Wemi

Short & Sweet – ‘Fika’

20 July 2016 By The Newbie Team Leave a Comment

Want to make Swedish friends? Want to know them more or want to learn more about Swedish behaviour? Yes? then there is a ‘Short & Sweet’ way to do that – and in Sweden we call it a ‘Fika’. When I heard this word for the first time, I had several thoughts ranging from fika […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: culture, fika, Junaid, make friends, social codes, Sweden, swedish behaviour

What I did to learn Swedish

12 July 2016 By The Newbie Team Leave a Comment

Learn Swedish and what I did. Learning an entirely new language is always an interesting and slightly daunting task. And let’s face it, for most of us Newbies, we didn’t find ourselves hearing much Swedish before coming here. If you grew up in Britain, there was the Swedish chef from the muppets, (whose mastery of […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: learn Swedish, learning swedish, learning Swedish by yourself, sas, sfi, Study Swedish, swedish behaviour, swedish for immigrants

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