The Swedish government
[tooh-mass bhood-sturmh] Thomas Bodström
Each fourth year the Swedish people vote for the riksdag and kommuner and landstings they want. Then we get a prime minister. Then he or she gets ministers. Then they decide all.
Because that Sweden is a democracy you can vote for anything you want if you only are 18. Or older of course! But you can think and decide all the time until suddenly you are 18. Then you vote! Then you think four years more. Then you vote again.
Democracy is important but love and freedom and peace is important too! When there wasn’t democracy people could die if they got an infection in maybe the ear! Scary!
The Swedish royal family [beahr-nah-dått]
This is the Swedish royal family. You think they look good? The father is a king and sometimes the mother talks to a frog on TV. His name is Skurt. They talk about serious things. Sometimes the girls have pretty dresses that look old.
There is a big castle in Gamla Stan but they don’t want to live in it because it once was a big fire and it burnt up. So maybe they think it will happen again.
All the children have names. They are Victoria, Carl-Philip and little Madeleine. Every-one thinks Madeleine is the most pretty one. We don’t know if it is true.
http://www.lingonord.se/sweden.html