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In addition, the agency should work to increase employment in the long term. [1] [2] This is primarily done by giving active support to companies in the recruitment process, facilitating meetings at the premises of the Swedish Public Employment Service and the use of a searchable, gratis vacancy database (Swedish: Platsbanken). [3]
Of Sweden's roughly 10.5 million people, [7] almost all speak Swedish, with the overwhelming majority of people in Sweden identifying Swedish as their first language (9.5 million, according to SIL's Ethnologue). [8] [9] Swedish is also an official language in Finland where it is spoken by a large number of Swedish-speaking Finns.
The Ministry of Employment (Swedish: Arbetsmarknadsdepartementet) is a ministry in the Swedish government responsible for labour market, labour law and the work environment. The Ministry is also responsible for the work of advancing gender equality and human rights at national level.
Swedish belongs to the North Germanic branch of the Germanic sub-family of the Indo-European languages.As such, it is mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish.Because most of the loanwords present in Swedish come from English and German (originally Middle Low German, closely related to Dutch), and also because of similarities in grammar, native speakers of Germanic languages usually ...
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [69] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [70] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
At least five different Sami languages are spoken in Sweden, but "Sami language" (undifferentiated) is recognised as an official minority language in Sweden, and is co-official with Swedish in four municipalities in Norrbotten County (Swedish Lapland). Most of Sami speakers speak Northern Sami (5,000–6,000 speakers), although there are ca ...
Europeans need to get more productive, Sweden’s central bank boss says. But that doesn’t mean Americans work harder. Ryan Hogg. May 9, 2024 at 8:37 AM. Erik Flyg/Bloomberg via Getty Images.
Knowledge of English in Sweden as reported by Swedes, 2005. [2] Very good: 31% Good: 37% Basic: 21% Not enough: 11%. The name Swenglish is a portmanteau term of the names of the two languages and is first recorded from 1938, making it one of the oldest names for a hybrid form of English. [3]