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INTRODUCTION
Morten: Hej och välkomna. Morten here! And welcome to SwedishPod101.com Absolute Beginner Season 1, Lesson 23 - Review Part 1: At the Swedish Conference.
Jasmine: Hej allihopa! This is Jasmine.
Morten: In this lesson, we’re repeating some earlier vocab, especially greetings.
Jasmine: Read the IO conference on the Enhancement of International Scholarly Cooperation. It takes place at the Humanisten Building at Renströmsparken.
Morten: James is talking to Anders in the mid afternoon.
Jasmine: The tone is casual, and they are chatting about some other people at the conference.
Morten: Let’s listen to the conversation.

Lesson conversation

Anders: James, hur står det till?
James: Bra tack. Och hur är det med dig?
Anders : Också bra. Har du träffat intressant folk idag?
James: Javisst, Ania därborta är doktorand från Ukraina.
Anders: Jaha, och känner du också Holger från Berlin?
James: Han där med det långa håret? Ja, vi pratade som hastigast. Men Ana från Portugal, hon är söt...
Anders: Vem är hon? Jag har inte träffat henne än.
James: Hon har långt mörkt hår och är mycket intelligent och vacker...
Morten: And now, let’s listen to the slow version.
Jasmine: Och nu ska vi lyssna på den sakta versionen.
Anders: James, hur står det till?
James: Bra tack. Och hur är det med dig?
Anders: Också bra. Har du träffat intressant folk idag?
James: Javisst, Ania därborta är doktorand från Ukraina.
Anders: Jaha, och känner du också Holger från Berlin?
James: Han där med det långa håret? Ja, vi pratade som hastigast. Men Ana från Portugal, hon är söt...
Anders: Vem är hon? Jag har inte träffat henne än.
James: Hon har långt mörkt hår och är mycket intelligent och vacker...
Morten: And now with the English translation.
Jasmine: Och nu med den engelska översättningen.
Anders: James, hur står det till?
Morten: James, how are you?
Anders: Bra tack. Och hur är det med dig?
Morten: Good, thanks. And how are things with you?
Anders: Också bra. Har du träffat intressant folk idag?
Morten: Also good. Have you met any interesting people today?
Anders: Javisst, Ania därborta är doktorand från Ukraina.
Morten: Sure, Ania over there is a Ph.D. student from Ukraine.
Anders: Jaha, och känner du också Holger från Berlin?
Morten: Alright, and do you know Holger from Berlin?
Anders: Han där med det långa håret? Ja, vi pratade som hastigast. Men Ana från Portugal, hon är söt...
Morten: Him with the long hair? Yes, we spoke very briefly. But Ana from Portugal, she is cute...
Anders: Vem är hon? Jag har inte träffat henne än.
Morten: Who is she? I haven't met her yet.
James: Hon har långt mörkt hår och är mycket intelligent och vacker...
Morten: She has long dark hair and is very intelligent and pretty.
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
Morten: So Sweden seems like a very international place.
Jasmine: Yes. There really are people from all over the world.
Morten: I guess the downside of that is that more and more places start to feel the same.
Jasmine: It’s true. You aren’t going to get too far away from McDonalds, at least if you stay in the city.
Morten: Okay. But tell me about something unique to Sweden.
Jasmine: Well, we have some great truly unique festival. My favorite is mid-summer or Midsommar as we Swedes call it. And it’s perhaps one of the most popular of its kind.
Morten: I better can guess what season that happens in.
Jasmine: Yes. It’s always celebrated on the Saturday, between June 19th and 26th.
Morten: It’s on a weekend, so everybody can celebrate it.
Jasmine: At mid-summer Swedes often meet with family and friends to enjoy the shortest night of the year.
Morten: And I suppose there is lots of food and drink as well?
Jasmine: And a lot of singing and dancing, too. Yeah, many traditional songs and dances for this day.
Morten: You dance around the maypole, don’t you?
Jasmine: Yes. The majstång is a common mid-summer sight as our flowers and girls and a woman’s hair.
Morten: Flowers? Is there any special meaning behind that?
Jasmine: Folklore has it, that if a girl collects seven kinds of flowers and sleeps with them under her cushion that night, she will dream of her future husband.
Morten: How very practical. So Swedish girls don’t actually need to date or flirt.
Jasmine: Well, I’m not sure about that. I have to see some statistics on how often the flowers work.
Morten: Well, you do that, please. In any case, you can’t miss mid-summer if you’re in Sweden in June.
Jasmine: Under no circumstances.
VOCAB LIST
Morten: And now, let’s take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson. First, we have….
Jasmine: Intressant [natural native speed].
Morten: Interesting.
Jasmine: Intressant [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Intressant [natural native speed].
Morten: Next we have…
Jasmine: Folk [natural native speed].
Morten: People.
Jasmine: Folk [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Folk [natural native speed].
Morten: Next we have…
Jasmine: Där [natural native speed].
Morten: There.
Jasmine: Där [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Där [natural native speed].
Morten: Next we have…
Jasmine: Lång [natural native speed].
Morten: Long (physically).
Jasmine: Lång [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Lång [natural native speed].
Morten: Next we have…
Jasmine: Söt [natural native speed].
Morten: Cute.
Jasmine: Söt [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Söt [natural native speed].
Morten: Next we have…
Jasmine: Vem [natural native speed].
Morten: Who.
Jasmine: Vem [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Vem [natural native speed].
Morten: Next we have…
Jasmine: Vacker [natural native speed].
Morten: Beautiful.
Jasmine: Vacker [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Vacker [natural native speed].
Morten: And finally, we have…
Jasmine: Ännu [natural native speed]
Morten: Yet.
Jasmine: Ännu [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Ännu [natural native speed].
KEY VOCABULARY AND PHRASES
Morten: Let's take a closer look at the words and phrases from this lesson.
Jasmine: Our first word is folk, meaning people.
Morten: This is used both for people and our people, but most often the formal sense.
Jasmine: For example, Det är mycket folk här idag.
Morten: “There are many people here today.” Let’s get our listeners to try this.
Jasmine: Please repeat after me – Det är mycket folk här idag.
Morten: Very good. The next word we need to look at is lång.
Jasmine: This means “long” in English, but it can mean “tall” as well.
Morten: You can also use for stretches of time.
Jasmine: In that case, it always comes with time word, as in Lång tid.
Morten: “Long time.” The reason we’re saying this is that there is another word for long time that’s written very similarly.
Jasmine: That can be confusing. So let’s stick with lång for now.
Morten: So I could say Det tar lång tid att åka till Sverige.
Jasmine: “It takes a long time to get to Sweden.” Yeah, that works. Let’s practice that. Please repeat after me – Det tar lång tid att åka till Sverige.
Morten: Lovely. The next word is ännu.
Jasmine: Yeah. Well, sometimes it’s ännu.
Morten: And sometimes, it’s just än. Is that dialectal?
Jasmine: Not really. Both are correct and standard and used even in writing.
Morten: But än is a little less formal, yes?
Jasmine: A bit perhaps, but there’s not really much of a difference. You could say, Han är ännu inte här.
Morten: “He is not here yet.” When you use än, it’s in a different place in a sentence, isn’t it?
Jasmine: Yes. You would say, Han är inte här än.
Morten: Let’s practice the first one then.
Jasmine: Listen and repeat after me, Han är ännu inte här.
Morten: Jo det stämmer. Well done. Last, a phrase we have for this lesson is…
Jasmine: som hastigast. This means “briefly” or “in passing.”
Morten: I think you’d use that if you met someone just for a moment or glances someone.
Jasmine: That’s right, Jag träffade Thomas bara som hastigast.
Morten: “I only met Thomas very briefly.” Please listen again and repeat.
Jasmine: Jag träffade Thomas bara som hastigast.
Morten: Great. This is not the most common phrase ever but it’s very practical, Tack ska du ha!
Jasmine: Tack själv!

Lesson focus

Morten: Let’s take a look at the grammar section for this lesson. In this lesson focus, we are reviewing vocab and things we’ve already looked up before.
Jasmine: First we’ll look at greetings. When you meet someone in Sweden, you say...
Morten: That’s right, hej! When you leave you’ll say.
Jasmine: Exactly, hejdå and perhaps Vi ses – see you.
Morten: What if you want to use a whole phrase?
Jasmine: Well, there are a number of options. You could say, Hur står det till?
Morten: “How are you?” Or perhaps Hur är det ?
Jasmine: “How are things?” Another common version of this greeting is Hur är det med dig?
Morten: “How are things with you?” Or you could exchange dig with someone’s name or pronoun.
Jasmine: Yes. All those work. Let’s practice these greetings. How do you ask “how are you” in Swedish?
Morten: Hur står det till?. Very good. Now ask, “how are things?”
Jasmine: Hur är det? Good work.
Morten: And there are even more casual and sincere ways to say this.
Jasmine: For instance, we looked at Läget?
Morten: All right.
Jasmine: There are a lot more of these casual greetings.
Morten: But läget is a good start. And here’s something important that we haven’t covered yet.
Jasmine: It’s a more sincere way of asking how somebody is feeling.
Morten: You’d use this, for example, when someone’s been ill and you want to know how they are.
Jasmine: Hur mår du?
Morten: “How do you feel?” Let’s practice that a little.
Jasmine: Please repeat after me, Hur mår du?
Morten: Hur mår du?. Very good. Of course, there are many other ways to ask this.
Jasmine: Let’s move on now and look at some nationalities and their names in Swedish.
Morten: Names of nationalities are some of the regular Swedish. So let’s look at some prominent examples.
Jasmine: A French man is a fransman and a French woman is fransos ; and a German is just en tysk.
Morten: An English man is usually en engelsman; and the male Norwegian is norrman; female Norwegian is norska.
Jasmine: A male Swede is en svensk and the female is en svenska.
Morten: When the name of the country includes the name of the continent, you cannot get the nationality by adding N to the compression name as in en amerikan.
Jasmine: American.
Morten: Or en sydafrikan.
Jasmine: South African. But as ever, there are some exceptions like in en australienare.
Morten: An Australian. Canadians are called kanadensare and Italians are called italienare.
Jasmine: Imagine you’re meeting an American. What would you call an American in Swedish?
Morten: That’s right, amerikan. And what about a Canadian?
Jasmine: kanadensare. That’s a little more complicated, right?
Morten: What about an English man?
Jasmine: en engelsman. Good work!
Morten: There’s so many different names for different nationalities. It’s a good idea to check the ones you need beforehand and, of course, after meeting people.
Jasmine: Nationalities are so irregular in Swedish that there are few patterns we can actually give you.. Sorry.
Morten: Let’s now take a look at känna and känna till
– “to know” and “to know of.”
Jasmine: These two verbs express varying degrees of familiarity.
Morten: When you say Jag känner till Brad Pitt, you obviously aren’t suggesting that you know him personally.
Jasmine: Rather, you know of him. You can also use Känna till for information that you are aware of.
Morten: But don’t know very well. Jag känner till det där.
Jasmine: I know that. Let’s practice. To say you know of Brad Pitt, you would say.
Morten: Jag känner till Brad Pitt. Very good.
Jasmine: But when you actually know someone a bit better, you’d use…
Morten: känner
Jasmine: “ To know.”
Morten: Jag känner Thomas sedan många år.
Jasmine: I’ve known Thomas for many years.
Morten: You generally use känner for knowing things on people, not facts or bits of information.
Jasmine: This one is okay, Jag känner firman mycket väl.
Morten: “I know the company very well.” Let’s practice känner a little more.
Jasmine: Please repeat after me – Jag känner Thomas sedan många år.
Morten: Very nice, everyone.
Jasmine: Jag känner firman mycket väl.
Morten: Great job!
Jasmine: That’s enough of you for this lesson.
Morten: Attention, perfectionists, you’re about to learn how to perfect your pronunciation.
Jasmine: List and review audio tracks.
Morten: Increase fluency and vocabulary fast with these short effective audio tracks.
Jasmine: Super simple to use. Listen to the Swedish work or phrase…
Morten: Then repeat it out loud in a loud clear voice.
Jasmine: You’ll speak with confidence knowing that you’re speaking Swedish like the locals.
Morten: Go to SwedishPod101.com and download the review audio tracks right on the Lessons page today.
Jasmine: Tack så mycket, vi ses!
Morten: Yes, until next time. Hej då!

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