More Swedes want to switch currency from the krona to the Euro, with support the highest it’s been since 2009, according to a survey by Gothenburg University’s SOM Institute.
Paywall? https://archive.is/ZXdUu
More Swedes want to switch currency from the krona to the Euro, with support the highest it’s been since 2009, according to a survey by Gothenburg University’s SOM Institute.
Paywall? https://archive.is/ZXdUu
Also we should change our official language to English. Those who want to keep old traditions alive can learn Swedish at home.
I’m not even kidding :P
Maybe it’s me not being able to count, so please tell me again how many (and which) countries gave up their language since joining the Euro?
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What are you talking about? Why would you stop speaking swedish?
All Swedes are basically fluent in English already and there’s no point keeping tiny little language around in a global world.
My kids (9 and 12) speak English more than Swedish since all content they consume is in English anyway.
“All Swedes are basically fluent in English already and there’s no point keeping tiny little language around in a global world.”
I find this perspective interesting, because to me, this same justification would make me less inclined to support kids learning Swedish (if I were Swedish). This is a purely abstract question for me though, as I am English, and salty that I didn’t get a chance to learn a foreign language in school.
Edit: just seen your comment about Scanian, which gives additional context to your viewpoint
Thankfully this is a minority opinion and also mostly redundant, since most swedish people of working age speak and write English well enough for business purposes. There would be no benefit and a huge cultural heritage would be lost. Young swedish people need no extra motivation to learn english - they pick it up naturally from globalized media anyway, a lot faster than we can teach them.
The way the world is heading, it would be better to make German, French and Spanish mandatory in school instead.