Jonas, our vice president for Education Policy, and I participated in a conference about the consequences of the fact that the English language is gaining ground in the higher education in Sweden. It was fantastic to hear different researchers tell what they have found to be the positive and negative consequences. What happens when a professor suddenly has to teach the same course she has taught for years in English? Does this affect the quality of the lecture? Do the students learn the same amount? Do they study the same way, regardless of language? How do we give more support to students (local and international) who feel their level of English is too low? Since I am a language nerd myself, it was amazing to see that the "establishment" takes these questions seriously. I was also happy to hear that many shared my opinion: that the Swedes (in general) are far from fluent in English. We need to realise the difference between understanding the jokes in Seinfeld and being able to ask questions at a seminar about Mineralogy and Petrology...