[willmacdonald]

I'd love to find to startup or developer communities here too. Do you speak Swedish ? I'd feel a bit awkward going to some meeting and being one of the few people who don't speak Swedish. I moved to Stockholm a couple of years ago but haven't had a chance to do any searching yet, busy with babies.

[sbt]

You really don't need to speak a scandinavian language in scandinavia. People speak english almost as well as the dutch, and they don't mind switching to english at all.

[dsimard]

I'm learning fast, but it'll be a while before I'm really comfortable with it. Every time I think I'm getting good somebody will say something that sounds to me like a long unparsable stream of borka-borka like the swedish chef and I'll get all depressed about my progress for a couple of days. :)

Rumor has it that most of this kind of work is done in English, which would help. I haven't been able to verify that yet though.

Anyway, maybe we can help each other out. Email me if you feel like it. It's a gmail account and I'm "davesimard".

[willmacdonald]

I am self employed, and 99% my clients are in UK, so I speak English all day. When I'm at home I need to to speak English with my children so they learn some English. I have trouble finding any time to learn Swedish.

[mmelin]

People usually don't have a problem with switching to English if there are non-Swedes present, but otherwise Swedish is used. Some people have difficulty sticking to English but a helpful reminder usually does the trick.

[thirdusername]

It might be interesting to know that it's not entirely unusual for people to learn Swedish but stick to speaking English making English optional for the locals. I know of at least two people in my small city of Skövde that does that because they are more comfortable with speaking English (one is Icelandic and the other German). There was also a mainstream TV show a few years back (maybe it's still running?) about home improvment where the lead designer did the same and I'm not sure it was even subtitled.