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Is it difficult to obtain citizenship there? I think I want to move.

You can apply for citizenship online.

This rather funny crash course in Swedish, concentrate on some of the more important aspects of the Swedish language that English speakers have hard to grok on their own (it only covers the rather simplistic (almost as simplistic as English) dialects around the Swedish capital). Most people that move to Sweden as adults never learn to speak good Swedish. It is especially hard for English speakers as they can cheat and get by using their native language, e.g. we had a wave of immigrants from USA during the Vietnam war, none of those guys that I've met even try to speak Swedish, despite living here for more then 40 years. Other then more grammar, much more phonemes (you will sound more ridiculous then a Chinese person that can't say R in English), extensive use of tonality (nobody will understand you until you get the Swedish prosody right and unless you already speak some Asian language like Chinese, or have a perfect pitch, you likely never will), extensive use of word composition, a much larger vocabulary in common use and a lot of false friends, Swedish and English is rather similar, English is almost a subset of Swedish (but use all prepositions wrong and we modernised our spelling in the 1830's, prior to that it was similar to English spelling), spoken Old English could perhaps even pass as a Swedish dialect.

No, THIS is what Swedish sounds like.

Start here!

Mastering Swedish, lesson 3 (and the other parts) is a quick way to learn Swedish. It contains all the common phrases.

Sweden is beautiful in july and august when the weather is good but awfully cold most of the year. If you go here, make sure it's in the summer.

Mastering Swedish, lesson 3 (and the other parts) is a quick way to learn Swedish. It contains all the common phrases.

Sweden is beautiful in july and august when the weather is good but awfully cold most of the year. If you go here, make sure it's in the summer.

(Still off-topic)

If you really wanna learn swedish (or at least hear how it sounds) this is a good place to start:
http://www.slayradio.org/mastering_swedish.php

Or well, scrap good, but it's a funny one :D

Slay radio rules (stream)

I use a Danko track as a ring-tone in my phone. A bit retarded really, it's so good I don't want to pick up :-)

Slay radio rules (stream)

I use a Danko track as a ring-tone in my phone. A bit retarded really, it's so good I don't want to pick up :-)

• Slayradio: http://www.slayradio.org/, if you want to listen to random tracks
• Kwed: http://remix.kwed.org/, if you need to download something (original SIDs and MP3-remixes available!)

That has been taken out of context.

Given that we have a large number of immigrants from old bosnia, iran, somalia, etc who does not speak any language with which to get by in sweden. These have been blamed for all kinds of problems, some might be warranted but probably not all. The law you refered to would be an attempt to get the people who want to stay here to make a bigger effort of getting integrated.

I personaly have no opinion in the matter.

However anyone speaking english would have no problem in Sweden, since we learn english from the age of 7 these days, english/american TV shows and movies are not dubbed etc.

If you would like to learn swedish here is an online course for you:
http://www.slayradio.org/mastering_swedish.php

I wouldn't say that. Speaking for myself, my spoken English is absolutely atrocious (never have much of a reason to practice it), but I do believe Scandinavians are good at understanding both written and spoken English, so if you're touristing here making yourself understood isn't much of a problem. There is an age barrier here; some eldery never learned English -- my grandmother for instance hardly knows a word.

There's always the Mastering Swedish if you want to pick some of it up :-)

Also, some say alcohol helps. This is probably why the Finns are beter at English?

There is still a communiy for C64 music and games

http://remix.kwed.org/

http://www.slayradio.org/

http://www.remix64.com/

there is even a pod cast http://www.slayradio.org/podcast/

There is still a communiy for C64 music and games

http://remix.kwed.org/

http://www.slayradio.org/

http://www.remix64.com/

there is even a pod cast http://www.slayradio.org/podcast/

Machinae Supremacy rock! Check out their guitar version of the Giana Sisters theme!

You can find & download this and C64 game song remixes from a lot of other artists at remix.kwed.org, the definitive guide to C63 remixes. There's also a webradio at www.slayradio.org!

even if 1/1000th of the music out there is good - that's enough music to keep a person entertained. the trouble is finding that music among the trash - this is where the collaborative filtering kicks in - then there's the thing that bandwith and huuuge, huuuge libraries are expensive to keep, this is where the p2p kicks in(keeping something like mp3.com up must have been pretty expensive on the bandwith side of things).

lately i've just been listening to slay radio all day long( link here).. too bad they don't do live shows more often.