5 Things NOT To Do In Sweden 

I will never understand why americans always seem to wear their shoes inside 😂

Man, wearing shoes inside is nasty. Even during summer.

When you said “the Swedish silence” and “people don’t really make small talk here” I went “ahhhhhhhhhhh 💆🏽‍♀️” magical! I really need to move to Sweden, Norway, Denmark or Finland.

As a swede i can say this. We dont have perfectly sunny days. We have boiling and we have freezing

And a place where strangers don't try to make small talk with you everywhere you go??????? An introverted persons dream. I think I'm meant to be here.

Introverts watching: No small talk? That's Heaven. 😍

Taking your shoes off when you come home after a long day is the best feeling!

The last time i was in Sweden we visited Lundt and there was a small pastry/coffee shop, which was a secret tip (at least according to my friends i was travelling with :p ). The woman who i think owned the place took our orders and of course instantly recognized us as tourists, so she started to talk to us with perfect english. After a sentence or two she correctly identified us as Germans and switched to perfect German. You wouldnt have even noticed, that it wasnt her mother tongue. That kinda impressed me as it takes really quite some time and efford to be fluent in several languages, and i noticed that on several occasions in Sweden :-) Oh yes, the pastries were also great :D

90% of the people watching this video are from sweden

If a stranger talks to you on the bus or on the tube in Sweden, they're something of the below. 1. Drunk 2. High 3. Old (+70) 4. Psychotic

"they really have an indoor shoe culture" laughs in asian

I was in a public bus in Stockholm heading towards ABBA museum. I asked a beautiful Swedish girl sitting next to me about the location and she helped me find the nearest stop to go to the museum. She wished me best for the visit as it was too late as the museum was going to close in about an hour and it was raining. It was in May 2018. Sweden is cold but people are warm.

I am an introvert in Sweden so i am happy when it’s silence lmaoooo

It actually goes for all of the Scandinavian peoples. Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Finns, Icelanders and the Faroese,- for all of us stands the fact that: We WILL NOT small talk! To us it´s a complete waste of time. That doesn´t mean we won´t engage in a conversation but that´s exactly it, - it will turn into a conversation. So if you´re in a supermarket asking people; " hi, how´s you´re day? How are you doing? " and you don´t know them they will look at you in puzzlement because why would you care? On the other hand, if you express an actual interest in the other person they will happily open up to you and start conversing. It´s just a cultural thing of Scandinavia about letting people have their space to get on with whatever fills their day, so make no biggie of it. It doesn´t mean people are unfriendly,- they are just being private in public.

I never really understood why people wear shoes inside in America. I've never lived outside the US, but I hate wearing shoes inside 😂 it just feels weird

I was privileged to live in Stockholm, Malmo, Hallsberg and Umea in my two years in Sweden! Great country and incredible people.

Wearing shoes here in sweden in someone's house is like... A crime lol Lmao you just don't please

Rule number one is, never ever say that Swedish meatballs are Turkish.

I help people when i see they need help! But i hate when no one is helping someone who need help!❤️

I am from Singapore and I enjoy watching your Swedish sojourns, especially as I will be in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Abisko in December 2019. Sweden here I come !

Tbh I've never understood the concept of walking around inside with your outdoor shoes. It gets so dirty and gross inside, even if they're "clean". Besides, here in Sweden it can actually get dangerous to walk with shoes inside when it's winter. The floor gets wet and you can slip and hit the back of your head. So that's one of the many reasons you should take them off here haha.

I really hate that we are so quiet when I was in London I did not know what train to take. I did not even say anything and a random guy came up to me and just helped me. that would never happen in Sweden lol

I loved the Fika concept. Just moved back home to the states after spending 33 yrs there. Still fika. 1400. Har de gott och lycka till.

I’m from Sweden and I lives there and everything that you says is true.

I too lived in Sweden from 1980-1987. I lived and worked in a small village in southern Sweden. Everything you’ve mentioned is truly accurate. I still speak Swedish fluently to this day and still talk and visit my friends that I’ve met these many years later. Just visited last summer for a month. I miss it it very much and truly loved living there. Lycka till dig och njut av din tid I Sverige.

I have to add another "NOT To Do" in Sweden...and that is..."never break a line(que)"...even if there is an empty space...ie. in a store, an ATM or in traffic. It is probably one of the worst criminal act you can do in Sweden! :D

Hi! I am from America and will be studying in Stockholm from August 2020 till December 2020. All of your videos have helped me so much prepare for my soon to be chunk of my life in Sweden! Thank you!

I’m enjoying watching and catching up on your channel. It’s fun to read your moms comments, she raised and very nice young man. You are a very good speaker too🦋💜

The thing about the silence is so true, like the other day I was on the subway and this girl was very sweet and started randomly talking to the people next to her. You could just feel all the eyes staring at her like “ did you just talk to those strangers?”.

As a Swede I have started to considered the Swedish "fika" as a way to have informal meetings and a way to get all the talking and gossiping out of the way so you can later focus on work. The Informal meeting is where you can drop the titles and your CEO can talk to the workers in a relaxed way, an "off the record" type thing where thoughts and concernes can be voiced in a way where it is not the lowest rank at the company trying to object to the head of the company. On top of it it builds a social relation between workers and adnimistrators where they feel they know the supervisors and feel comfortable with them. Can be very valuable to a CEO that need to keep an eye on how the actual state of the company and how the workers at it feel. The Fika is also so that when you go back to work you have already had all the social talking done and can focus on being a productive employee. It is also a way, in a place with its own "fikaroom" / lunchroom to have a clear distinction that in this room we are informal, social and do things other than work, so that when you get back to class/office you focus on the task at hand dont not on whatever the sportsevent last night.

Great tips , very clear & informative. Thank you ✨ Keep enjoying Sweden . It seems like a wonderful place to live part of the year

Hi Stefan! I´m a mother to two American citiziens, both living in Sweden. I was myself introduces to the US as a chlid when my father took us to Illinois in 1962. That be the reason I´ve tuned in to your videos. It goes without saying that I like your take on Sweden - but you hit a highspot when you explain the reason to why we do as we do. The weather and nature really rules us - wether we know it or not! Keep up the good work!//Annette

I'm Swede XD This is so accurate 🌨️

Swedes doesn't wear shoes indoors unless it's cozy slippers during winter after a shower or something, we like it barefoot at home x3

I am thirteen years old and was raised with a very Swedish culture, as my family was born there but immigrated here to Pennsylvania, US. I have just decided to move to Sweden when I am old enough as it is a beautiful place and I feel like i belong there. So, i am obsessed with these types of videos❤❤🥀

I'm Swedish, and i must be honest, i love the Swedish silence. I'm and introvert anyway. And if you wonder, don't get too used to this silence, cause when we do learn to know you better, after a few months, we'll talk to you like we knew you your entire life

What a fun, sweet video, I really enjoyed this, thank you. My grandfather was 100% Swedish, he came to America as a young boy, Sweden has a special place in my heart.

Jag skulle vilja se mer utav dig när du pratar Svenska! Det är uppfriskande att se någon försöka lära sig vårat komplicerade, ibland rent ut sagt konstiga språk och jag är väldigt imponerad över hur fort det har gått för dig att prata så pass bra svenska som du redan gör :)

Our English teacher actually gave us homework to watch your videos (it was really awesome. I am from Sweden BTW. Love your videos)

It actually depends on where you are here in sweden for how silent we are, I live in the country side and I'm surprised of how quiet they are in bigger citys like gothenburg or Stockholm, i do talk to strangers time to time just as small talk and and usually its older people I talk to as they are nice and very enjoyable to talk to about anything basically, I'd say that the biggest the city the less they talk and the smaller a community is the more they talk, in my home town there are 9 000 people and for us that's more them enough and here everyone knows everyone but everyone doesn't talk to each others, we just know who where and what but we've sometimes never met them. So if you go to sweden check out the smaller towns and you'll se just how different we are, we on the countryside can also seem alot nicer then people in citys becuase mostly people on but citys think they are special and more worthy while people like me on the countryside we are just happy to live here, have our friends. Go for a drive take it chill and just relax and get the most out of life

Någon svensk här😂

I am Polish and when I visit Sweden almost everyone I see seems so cheerful and open compered to my country's people.

I just found out your channel and seems that you do know so many things as swedish people do eventhough you lived over there just for a year and i'll get there to stroll around a month later so your videos helping me out so much :)

I hope you have a fun and happy Christmas!

So excited to come visit in two weeks! I'm doing my best to learn conversational Swedish (even though I'm only in Stockholm for three days and then off to Oslo), I've got to say, I really like that you don't overpronunciate words like fika and the the others you mentioned in this video. Don't know why it's a pet peeve of mine, but it just seems more down to earth and helpful when speaking to an audience of laypeople. Wonderful video!!!

If you want a reason for swedes being silent and keeping our distance from eachother, I believe it may have something to do with us having a different look on personal space. Keeping distance and staying quiet as a sign of respect for personal space.

You nailed it! About the “fika”...it’s almost rude if you don’t offer your friends a cup of coffee when they visit you. The first thing you ask is “Do you want coffee or tea”. If you expect them to come you even prepare some “fika”, so you can start by sitting down having a “fika”. Fika doesn’t have to involve cookies and stuff, it can be coffee and ice cream 🍨 or even just a plain cup of coffee ☕️ (or tea) If you visit someone and leave their home without been offered a “fika” it feels kind of strange.🤨😕 When I was in America in our friends home, Beccas mother came over and stayed for a while and they didn’t ask if she wanted some coffee or anything. ☕️ That felt really strange to me. Other times they had “fikabröd” (”fika bread” = cookies or sandwich) 🍰🥧🥐🥯 but NO coffee! 😱 Instead they served some soft drinks. That is what we serve to the children when we have “fika” together here in Sweden. 🤪 Whit that said I want to make sure that our friends are the sweetest, most adorable and friendly people with the greatest hospitality skills! 👍😊👏It’s just that they have different ways of doing thing then us. ❤️😉😊 Then again...these cultural differences is what makes it so interesting when you go to other countries! 👍🧳🌏 I just love to travel!

Good shots from Norrköping, I've been living here for 2 and a half years, and so far great👍😋

Honestly when I see English movies and they wear their outdoor shoes inside it freaks me out 😂 I don’t understand the purpose of it

Take it from a Swede who knows: one thing you should definitely not do in Sweden is ask a Swede where he or she picks their mushrooms. I know if you asked me, I'd just give you this really weird look and then just not respond. At most, I'd reply with "the forest". It doesn't really apply to all of the inner-city folk (people aren't out in nature as much as they used to, and as such, many people just don't pick mushrooms) but I'm pretty sure they would be just as weirded out by the question as I would. It's admittedly a bit of an internal joke 'round here, but some people still keep their best mushroom spots closely guarded secrets. I suppose asking about it would be sort of like... well... suppose I just walked up to you and asked what underwear you were wearing. It would be weird. Aaaand I'm rambling. Oh well. I shall be silent now. Probably got the point across by now in either case.

I'm from Sweden and I can talk really good English and I'm only 11 years old🇸🇪😁😊

Thanks Stefan for the tips very informative cheers

Congrats to 10k subs!❤️

So interesting hearing about your observations in Sweden, esp. coming from another western country. I'm from Linköping and used to work in beautiful Norrköping, but currently work in Kuala Lumpur. I've only been here about 4 months now and boy oh boy is it different. I miss Sweden 😆

I’m 13 years old, i’ve lived in Sweden my whole life. And i have to say that i understand English soooo good! I understand every word u’re saying! And one time, when i was in LA, they didn’t believe that i was from Sweden😂 they thought it was from there

Thank you for the video, I moved to Sweden I think that almost three months ago so I want to learn about this country.

Hey i was born in sweden and it really nice to see ppl moving to sweden thats willing bc all of the hater channels about sweden. This video makes me happy im glad u like sweden, And eaven tho im 12 ik most of english i miss some grammars sometimes but I really like how u upload none hate vids!

Fika is very nice

Hey Stefan just discovered your channel. I can see your passion for this nation.

I'm half Swedish but grew up in Minnesota, USA. My family is very quiet, so I think I'll be comfortable when I visit Sweden in April!

I recognized the fireplace, but thought "no way". Then I saw the footage of Norrköping and now I'm pretty sure I've been in that room at some point. hahaha

As a swede, i find your observations and knowledge about sweden and swedes very amusing because you are so correct (i mean you're one of us now but still), that thing about us and the dead silence.. haha oh yes. I probably look really pissed of while in public because i don't like strangers but if someone asks for help or just starts talking, i'll help with a smile and i'll try my best at small talk.

im a swedish woman and i enjoyed your video so much, it was funny and i had a great time listen to you

I’m happy to see my hometown with awesome camera shots. If I ever see you on the streets would be cool to just say hi ^^

I live in sweden and i NEVER GO OUT

Varför var det en citronskiva på en kanelbulle? What the h...

Norköping is a pretty nice town. Small town with all the amenities of the city. Swedish is a beautiful language. I had three years of German in high school, so it was easy to pick up Swedish. It think it's a very difficult language to pronounce correctly, however. Now, I watch German youtube, and my Swedish helps me understand the German words.

Shoes inside are ‘No-No’ in every country in Europe! Incl homes, schools, gyms, etc. And no, your shoes are NOT clean because you’re walking outside in the street, with all sorts of crap on the ground. Why the hell do you want that on your floor, rugs, carpets, especially if you also sit on the floor, play with children, pets, lover... seriously?! 🤦‍♀️ PS - Pronunciation /ˈfiːkə/ 🙏

Am i The only one WHO thinks its only swedes watching? Xd

1 don't rape. 2 don't molest 3 don't come here illegally 4 don't spit or litter. 5 don't throw hand grenades 6 rob or steal 7 don't kill

1 day in sweden "i love den fika" 1 week in sweden "jae älskar deg" 1 year in sweden "jAg ÄLsKar fIKa"

I am definitely planning to come stay a momth in Stokholm. Thanks for your very informative vidz!!❤

As a South Asian. I was surprised at the fact that Swedish people remove their shoes before entering their home.

I hate the silence in Sweden. I’m 15 and I’ve lived here my whole life. But I’m soooo extrovert and love to talk to new people but if i talk loudly with someone on a bus for example everyone look at me like I’m an alien or something. It’s really annoying!

I imagine quiet busses and public areas. What a blessing!

It was decided that I will go abroad to Sweden. This video is very interesting for me.

Yeah its pretty accurate. The reason for swedes not talking openly to new people is deeply rooted in their culture of avoiding conflicts as much as possible.

What was saying about not wearing outside shoes inside - It seems to be a common thing at places that have ice and snow in winter.

It’s actually very nice too see Norrköping from someone else’s perspective. I think I take so much for granted here that I forget how great it is to live in Sweden. I wish people were more open in Sweden. But usually if you want to talk to someone you just need to brake the ice then you might face another problem that people won’t stop talking 🤣

You know you're in Sweden when... The compulsory dandelion lamp (maskroslampan) is in the background of your vlog 😂😂 Great video, so spot on!

Some schools in Sweden do have shoes inside(2019)

I'm glad to hear to you say all of these good things about sweden-Jag blir glad att höra alla dem här underbara sakerna du säger om sverige

Thank you for being so nice to us swedes.

the shoe thing is so so so important

i am swedish and 1. do not stay in side when its a nice day outside me: pffffff ill stay in side any way

Love the fireplace ❤️

U mentioned things that I don’t even think about- like- I’ve lived here in Sweden my whole life and I didn’t even realize that I was doing all this stuff :,)

1. Do not be politically incorrect 2. Do not think you are anyone 3. Don’t speak about your money 4. Don’t brag 5. Don’t forget to act like a fish among other fishes. My 25+ years as foreigner in Sweden

The no-shoes rule in schools generally only apply up to, and including, 6th grade.

Well in Mn it feels like winter still. Your video relates well in the upper Midwest

I love living in Sweden as I a am a calm person. People are so respectful and protect the environment ❤

I live in Sweden, and have always been living in Sweden. It's currently sunny outside, buuut I'm sitting inside, watching your videos 8)

About Number 4, in high school we have the shoes 👟 on. Well not in all but in the most

I come from 🇸🇪 Sweden and you're soo good at swedish!

Regarding taking off our shoes, we think we give less work for the person who cleans the floors. It’s a awesome habit! I love it!

Man thanks dude finally there’s people who actually know common sense better than we Americans!

Just to notice you. They talking about this clip on Swedish radio. The program is PP3 on SR P3. I smiled when i heard that they were talking about you. Really love this chanel.

Don't know about Sweden, but here in Norway, but most people in gyms have one pair of indoor gym shoes with white bottoms. Black bottoms tends to make marks on the floor if you are playing, say basketball. Even if it's summer, small stones can latch in the cracks and scuff the floor.

Thanks for this vedio.. I like to know more different peoples culture.