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| INTRODUCTION |
| Engla: Hej allihopa! I’m Engla. |
| Gabriella: Hi everyone, I’m Gabriella. Welcome back to SwedishPod101.com. This is Lower Beginner, Season 1, Lesson 17 - Keeping Fit in Sweden. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to talk about how often or seldom you do something. |
| Engla: Yes, and the conversation takes place at Hans’s work. |
| Gabriella: It’s between Hans and his co-worker Mark, and they're using informal Swedish because they’re co-workers. |
| Engla: Okay. Let's listen to the conversation. |
| DIALOGUE |
| Mark: Hans har du gått ner i vikt? |
| Hans: Ja, jag har börjat träna. |
| Mark: Jaså! Hur ofta? |
| Hans: Jag tränar tre gånger i veckan. |
| Mark: Oj! Det var inte illa. Jag tränar typ två gånger om året. |
| Hans: Vill du följa med någon gång? |
| Mark: Ja kanske det. |
| -With English Translation- |
| Mark: Hans har du gått ner i vikt? |
| Gabriella: Hans, have you lost weight? |
| Hans: Ja, jag har börjat träna. |
| Gabriella: Yes, I've started to work out. |
| Mark: Jaså! Hur ofta? |
| Gabriella: Really! How often? |
| Hans: Jag tränar tre gånger i veckan. |
| Gabriella: I work out three times a week. |
| Mark: Oj! Det var inte illa. Jag tränar typ två gånger om året. |
| Gabriella: Wow! That's not bad. I work out about two times a year. |
| Hans: Vill du följa med någon gång? |
| Gabriella: Do you want to join me sometime? |
| Mark: Ja kanske det. |
| Gabriella: Yes, perhaps. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Gabriella: Well, well well! It sounds like Hans is really getting into shape. |
| Engla: It sure does! |
| Gabriella: Are Swedes very healthy? |
| Engla: I guess that depends on what you mean by healthy, but if you mean that they exercise a lot, I think we're pretty active. |
| Gabriella: Really? |
| Engla: Well, at least if you look at the result from a national survey that was done in recently. |
| Gabriella: And what did that show? |
| Engla: Three-quarters of those who answered the survey exercise at least once a week. |
| Gabriella: That’s pretty good. |
| Engla: Yes, and about 50 percent exercise more than twice a week. |
| Gabriella: And what kind of exercise do they usually do? |
| Engla: Common activities include biking, running, walking, working out in groups, and working out at the gym. |
| Gabriella: And is there any group that's more active than others? |
| Engla: Yes, children and youth are the most active groups. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Gabriella: Let's take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson. The first word we shall see is… |
| Engla: att gå upp [natural native speed] |
| Gabriella: to gain |
| Engla: att gå upp [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Engla: att gå upp [natural native speed] |
| Engla: vikt [natural native speed] |
| Gabriella: weight |
| Engla: vikt [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Engla: vikt [natural native speed] |
| Engla: att träna [natural native speed] |
| Gabriella: to work out |
| Engla: att träna [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Engla: att träna [natural native speed] |
| Engla: ofta [natural native speed] |
| Gabriella: often |
| Engla: ofta [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Engla: ofta [natural native speed] |
| Engla: gånger om/gånger i [natural native speed] |
| Gabriella: times per |
| Engla: gånger om/gånger i [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Engla: gånger om/gånger i [natural native speed] |
| Engla: vecka [natural native speed] |
| Gabriella: week |
| Engla: vecka [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Engla: vecka [natural native speed] |
| Engla: år [natural native speed] |
| Gabriella: year |
| Engla: år [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Engla: år [natural native speed] |
| Engla: att följa med [natural native speed] |
| Gabriella: to join |
| Engla: att följa med [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Engla: att följa med [natural native speed] |
| Engla: någongång [natural native speed] |
| Gabriella: sometime |
| Engla: någongång [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Engla: någongång [natural native speed] |
| Engla: kanske [natural native speed] |
| Gabriella: maybe |
| Engla: kanske [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Engla: kanske [natural native speed] |
| KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES |
| Engla: Let’s take a closer look at some of the words and phrases from this lesson. The first word we’ll look at is the verb att gå. |
| Gabriella: Meaning “to walk” right? |
| Engla: Yes, that’s correct. |
| Gabriella: But can't you use this verb to talk about gaining and losing weight as well? |
| Engla: Yes, exactly! If we use att gå together with either upp, meaning “up,” or ner, meaning “down,” we can say things like “to gain” and “to lose” in terms of weight. |
| Gabriella: Okay, so how do we say, “to gain weight”? |
| Engla: Att gå upp i vikt. |
| Gabriella: And how do we say, “to lose weight”. |
| Engla: att gå ner i vikt. |
| Gabriella: Great! Now, let’s move on to the next word. |
| Engla: Next up, we have the word att följa, meaning “to follow”. |
| Gabriella: I guess this is a word we can use when talking about being updated in terms of certain information. |
| Engla: Yes, as well as when we're talking about carrying out an activity in regards to specific rules or instructions. |
| Gabriella: But in this lesson's dialog, this verb is used together with a preposition. And it’s translated as “to join” rather than “to follow”. |
| Engla: That’s correct. When we use it with the word med, as in att följa med, it corresponds to the English “to join” instead. |
| Gabriella: And I guess we use it when talking about joining someone when they're going somewhere? |
| Engla: Exactly! |
| Gabriella: Okay, let’s move on to the final word. |
| Engla: The final word we’ll spend some extra time on is the word någon gång. |
| Gabriella: I know that word means “sometimes,” but I always get confused when I hear it, because it seems like Swedes pronounce it differently from how it's spelled? |
| Engla: Yes, Swedes usually say nån instead of någon, so någon gång becomes nån gång. |
| Gabriella: I see. So, I guess this is also the case for other words? |
| Engla: Yes, other words that include något such as någonting, meaning "something," and någonstans, meaning "somewhere," are pronounced as nånting and nånstans. |
| Gabriella: Okay, now let’s move on to the grammar. |
Lesson focus |
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| Gabriella: In this lesson, you’ll learn to talk about how often or seldom you do something. |
| Engla: We’ll start by dividing the sentences into two, then we'll study the two parts separately to make it easier. |
| Gabriella: So which is the first part of the sentence? |
| Engla: The first part of the sentence consists of the subject of the sentence, which can either be a personal pronoun or a noun. The subject of the sentence is then followed by a verb in its present tense. |
| Gabriella: So, for example, “I shop”? |
| Engla: Yes. “I shop” in Swedish is Jag handlar. |
| Gabriella: And how would you say “Anna is doing the laundry”? |
| Engla: You use the name “Anna” together with tvättar meaning “does the laundry” which becomes, Anna tvättar. |
| Gabriella: Let’s look at the second part of the sentence. |
| Engla: Which consists of the number of times you do something within a specific period. |
| Gabriella: You mean when we say things like “once a week” or “five times a day”? |
| Engla: Exactly, and in Swedish those would be en gång i veckan and fem gånger om dagen. |
| Gabriella: I see. So first we say the number of times we actually do an activity, such as “once” or “five times”. |
| Engla: Correct. And in Swedish, we always use a number and then the word for “time,” which is gång in its singular and gånger in its plural. |
| Gabriella: What comes after this then? |
| Engla: After this, we need to specify the period of time during which we do the activity, as “a day”, “a week”, “a month” or “a year”. |
| Gabriella: But Swedish is a bit more irregular than English in regards to how we say this. |
| Engla: You see, when talking about a period consisting of a day or a year, we use the preposition om, meaning "within" and say, om dagen for "a day" or om året for "a year". |
| Gabriella: And when we instead talk about a period of a week or a month? |
| Engla: Then we need to use the preposition i, meaning "in" and say i veckan and i månaden. |
| Gabriella: I see. So how would I say, “once a week”? |
| Engla: en gång i veckan. |
| Gabriella: Great! How do you say, “Five times a day”? |
| Engla: Fem gånger om dagen. |
| Gabriella: Great! Now, let’s put the two parts of the sentence together to create a whole sentence. How do you, for example, say “I shop once a week”? |
| Engla: Jag handlar en gång i veckan. |
| Gabriella: And finally we have “Anna does the laundry five times a day”. |
| Engla: Anna tvättar fem gånger om dagen. |
Outro |
| Gabriella: Great! I think that's all for now. Thanks for listening, and we’ll see you next time. Bye everyone! |
| Engla: Hej då! |
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