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| INTRODUCTION |
| Jasmine: Hej allihopa, this is Jasmine. |
| Morten: Hej och välkomna. And of course, I’m Morten! Welcome to SwedishPod101.com, Absolute Beginner Season 1, Lesson 22 - The Swedish World in Colors. |
| Jasmine: In this lesson, we are looking at colors in Swedish. |
| Morten: We’re in bus number 50 from Kallebäck into town. |
| Jasmine: James is talking to Eva in the early morning. They’re on their way to the university. |
| Interviewee: They’re talking in a familiar casual manner, but the vocab is largely standard. Let’s listen to the conversation. |
Lesson conversation |
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| James: Vad kallas färgerna på trafikljuset för igen? |
| Eva: Vad? Du måste ha hört dem 30 eller 40 gånger. Röd, gul och grön. |
| James: Vadå 30 eller 40 gånger? Men din tröja den är också grön. |
| Eva: Nej, den är turkos så klart. |
| James: Alltså jag tycker den är blå nästan och den ser 50 år gammal ut. |
| Eva: Nejmen, den är ju definitivt inte blå, och inte grön heller. Och det är ju 60-talsmode. |
| James: Jag ser inte skillnaden. Min keps den är gul, eller? |
| Eva: Nejdå, den är orange. Och din tröja är märklig lila och väldigt 70-tal. |
| Morten: And now let’s listen to the slow version. |
| Jasmine: Och nu ska vi lyssna på den sakta versionen. |
| James: Vad kallas färgerna på trafikljuset för igen? |
| Eva: Vad? Du måste ha hört dem 30 eller 40 gånger. Röd, gul och grön. |
| James: Vadå 30 eller 40 gånger? Men din tröja den är också grön. |
| Eva: Nej, den är turkos så klart. |
| James: Alltså jag tycker den är blå nästan och den ser 50 år gammal ut. |
| Eva: Nejmen, den är ju definitivt inte blå, och inte grön heller. Och det är ju 60-talsmode. |
| James: Jag ser inte skillnaden. Min keps den är gul, eller? |
| Eva: Nejdå, den är orange. Och din tröja är märklig lila och väldigt 70-tal. |
| Morten: And now, with the English translation. |
| Jasmine: Och nu med den engelska översättningen. |
| Eva: Vad kallas färgerna på trafikljuset för igen? |
| Morten: What do you call the colors on traffic lights again? |
| Eva: Vad? Du måste ha hört dem 30 eller 40 gånger. Röd, gul och grön. |
| Morten: What? You must have heard them thirty or forty times: red, yellow, and green. |
| Eva: Vadå 30 eller 40 gånger? Men din tröja den är också grön. |
| Morten: What do you mean thirty or forty times? But your sweater is also green. |
| Eva: Nej, den är turkos så klart. |
| Morten: No, it's turquoise, of course. |
| James: Alltså jag tycker den är blå nästan och den ser 50 år gammal ut. |
| Morten: Well, I think it's blue almost. And it looks fifty years old. |
| Eva: Nejmen, den är ju definitivt inte blå, och inte grön heller. Och det är ju 60-talsmode. |
| Morten: No, it's definitely not blue, and not green either. And it's 60s fashion. |
| James: Jag ser inte skillnaden. Min keps den är gul, eller? |
| Morten: I don't see the difference. My cap is yellow, isn't it? |
| Eva: Nejdå, den är orange. Och din tröja är märklig lila och väldigt 70-tal. |
| Morten: No, it's orange. And your sweater is a strange purple and very 70s. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Morten: Okay. We’re talking typical Swedish colors today. What’s a typical Swedish color? |
| Jasmine: Well, when a lot of people think of Sweden, they think of the unspoiled countryside. |
| Morten: And cozy-looking timber houses, yes! |
| Jasmine: Those would be a coppery-shade of red. |
| Morten: And this is a color with a fair bit of tradition, if I’m not mistaken. |
| Jasmine: Yes. It’s a by-product of copper mining in Sweden. |
| Morten: Ore mining has been a Swedish trade for centuries. |
| Jasmine: And since this color is a natural by-product of the mining process, it’s always been cheap and readily available. |
| Morten: So that makes it very Swedish, too. What about other colors? |
| Jasmine: Some people go very colorful when painting their houses. But even then, they tend to use pastel shades. |
| Morten: True. Yellow seems to be popular. Is the same true for interior coloring? |
| Jasmine: More or less, yes. Go to IKEA and check out the color schemes for fabrics. You’ll get a pretty good idea of what Swedes like. |
| Morten: So some people go very colorful and others prefer earthier colors. |
| Jasmine: That sounds about right. There’s also a traditional Allmogestil, a style with lots of natural patterns and a lot of blue. |
| Morten: Oh, yes! That is also something else brings to my mind when thinking of Sweden. |
| Jasmine: Well, Sweden and Scandinavia in general have been famous for design for a while now. |
| Morten: Oh, yes, indeed. So get inspired in and by Sweden. And now, let’s take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| First, we have… |
| Jasmine: Röd [natural native speed] |
| Morten: Red. |
| Jasmine: Röd [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Röd [natural native speed]. |
| Morten: Next we have… |
| Jasmine: Gul [natural native speed]. |
| Morten: Yellow. |
| Jasmine: Gul [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Gul [natural native speed]. |
| Morten: Next we have… |
| Jasmine: Grön [natural native speed]. |
| Morten: Green. |
| Jasmine: Grön [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Grön [natural native speed]. |
| Morten: Next we have… |
| Jasmine: Turkos [natural native speed]. |
| Morten: Turquoise. |
| Jasmine: Turkos [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Turkos [natural native speed]. |
| Morten: Next we have… |
| Jasmine: Blå [natural native speed]. |
| Morten: Blue. |
| Jasmine: Blå [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Blå [natural native speed]. |
| Morten: Next we have… |
| Jasmine: Orange [natural native speed]. |
| Morten: Orange. |
| Jasmine: Orange [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Orange [natural native speed]. |
| Morten: And next we have… |
| Jasmine: Lila [natural native speed]. |
| Morten: Purple |
| Jasmine: Lila [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Lila [natural native speed]. |
| Morten: And finally, we have… |
| Jasmine: Skillnad [natural native speed]. |
| Morten: Difference. |
| Jasmine: Skillnad [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Skillnad [natural native speed]. |
| KEY VOCABULARY AND PHRASES |
| Morten: Let's take a closer look at some words, phrases from this lesson. A piece of vocab we’d like to take up here is a very useful word. |
| Jasmine: It’s the word “skillnad” meaning “difference.” |
| Morten: It is often used in the phrase like this, Det är skillnad på... |
| Jasmine: ”There is a difference between.” If we talk colors, you could say… |
| Morten: Det är skillnad på blå och turkos. |
| Jasmine: “There’s a difference between blue and turquoise” or Det är skillnad på öl och cocktails. |
| Morten: “There’s a difference between beer and cocktails.” Oh, there sure is! Could you say that again so our listeners can repeat it for practice? |
| Jasmine: Det är skillnad på öl och cocktails. |
| Morten: Very good. Next stop is the little expression femtiotal. |
| Jasmine: Of course, you could use any other number in the tense here. |
| Morten: It’s the way to refer to a decade in Swedish. |
| Jasmine: You can use the expression with tio, tjugo, trettio and so on. |
| Morten: Like På sjuttiotal fanns det mycket färg. |
| Jasmine: “In the 70s, there was a lot of color.” I suppose most people would agree here. |
| Morten: Let’s listen and repeat. |
| Jasmine: På sjuttital fanns det mycket färg. |
| Morten: Good work, everyone. |
| Jasmine: Our last phrase is something that is very handy to use when you want to confirm the name of something. |
| Morten: It is a sentence Vad kallas det för? |
| Jasmine: What is this called? You can substitute any word for Det. If you do use Det you’re most likely pointing at something. |
| Morten: Or referring to something that’s just been mentioned and it’s totally clear from the context. |
| Jasmine: Plug in any English word and you can ask for its Swedish equivalent. |
| Morten: Okay, but for that you should also in the word Swedish, right? |
| Jasmine: Probably, although it’s not absolutely essential. Vad kallas beer för på svenska? |
| Morten: “What is beer called in Swedish?” Well, it’s öl. |
| Jasmine: You can also asks someone for someone else’s name. |
| Morten: Vad kallas han för? |
| Jasmine: What is he called? Let’s listen and repeat. Vad kallas han för? |
| Morten: Excellent! |
| Jasmine: So, I repeat one more time, but I’m going to make a little change. Let’s see if you can figure out what it is. Listen and repeat, Vad kallas hon för? |
| Morten: Excellent! Well done! Actually, that was, “what is she called?” And now, let’s take a look at the grammar section for this lesson. |
Lesson focus |
| In this lesson, we’re again looking at numbers, or to be précised, we’re looking at tens, hundreds, and thousands. |
| Jasmine: So far, we’ve looked at cardinal and ordinal numbers up to 20. |
| Morten: This time, we’ll be expanding your number knowledge quite a bit. |
| Jasmine: Tens in Swedish are pretty straightforward. They’re actually very close to their counterpart numbers one to nine. |
| Morten: The exception is 20; we’ve already seen how that one works. |
| Jasmine: Here are the tens from 30 to 90, trettio |
| Morten: Thirty. |
| Jasmine: fyrtio |
| Morten: Forty. |
| Jasmine: femtio |
| Morten: Fifty. |
| Jasmine: sextio |
| Morten: Sixty. |
| Jasmine: sjuttio |
| Morten: Seventy. |
| Jasmine: åttio |
| Morten: Eighty. |
| Jasmine: nittio |
| Morten: Ninety. To make tens, you normally add T-I-O and occasionally, double T-I-O to the numbers three to nine. |
| Jasmine: That’s right. Even though the suffix ends in O, it’s usually pronounced TY like its English equivalent. |
| Morten: Pronunciation changes, huh? Do any other sounds get dropped? |
| Jasmine: Yes, actually they do. Any number below 10 that has two syllables and ends in a vowel loses that final vowel before adding the suffix. |
| Morten: This is the case of four… |
| Jasmine: Fyra |
| Morten: …eight… |
| Jasmine: Åtta |
| Morten: …and nine. |
| Jasmine: nio. |
| Morten: They become fyrti, åtti and nitti. |
| Jasmine: Let’s practice what we’ve learned so far with the more common pronunciation, Tjugo, tretti, fyrti, femti, sexti, sjutti, åtti, nitti. |
| Morten: Excellent job, everyone, but these are just the tens in isolation. How about more specific numbers like 35 or 47? |
| Jasmine: No problem. Here, Swedish functions like English, simply adding the number below 10 to the end. |
| Morten: So those would be trettiofem and fyrtiosju. |
| Jasmine: Exactly. Let’s practice some of the specific numbers. |
| Morten: Okay, but nice and slow, please. |
| Jasmine: First, I will give you an example in English and Swedish – 35, trettiofem. Now, I’m going to give you the number in English; I would like for you to give me the number in Swedish – 47, 66, 89, 72. |
| Morten: Thank you. These were Fyrtiosju, sextiosex, åttionio, sjuttiotvå. |
| Jasmine: Very good, everyone. It is important not to confuse the tens with the teens. |
| Morten: Right. Please be careful with sjutton |
| Jasmine: Seventeen… |
| Morten: …and sjuttio |
| Jasmine: Seventy. And with arton … |
| Morten: Eighteen… |
| Jasmine: And åttio |
| Morten: Eighty. I think we’re ready for something bigger, unto the hundreds. |
| Jasmine: Hundreds in Sweden behave as they do in English. The word for hundred is hundra. |
| Morten: And as in English, when it’s just 100, you don’t necessarily say hundra you can also say etthundra. |
| Jasmine: Exactly. Please note that in Swedish, all compound numbers are written as one word. |
| Morten: Swedish makes lots of compound words outside of numbers, too but there’s something you have to be careful of. |
| Jasmine: In Swedish, there’s a big difference between compounded and uncompounded words. |
| Morten: This can be dangerous when two words mortify the same word. |
| Jasmine: Oh, yes. There’s a difference between en brunhårig flicka… |
| Morten: A brown-haired girl… |
| Jasmine: And en brun hårig flicka with brun and hårig written apart. |
| Morten: This means “a brown hairy girl,” something entirely different. |
| Jasmine: Please be careful of that. Back to the hundreds, yes? A hundred and fifty is etthundrafemtio, or hundrafemtio. |
| Morten: One hundred and seventy-six is etthundrasjuttiosex or hundrasjuttiosex. And 124 is etthundratjugofyra or hundratjugofyra. |
| Jasmine: Let’s build some words together, shall we? |
| Morten: Okay! Simple ones first – one hundred. |
| Jasmine: etthundra |
| Morten: Two hundred. |
| Jasmine: tvåhundra |
| Morten: Three hundred. |
| Jasmine: trehundra |
| Morten: Four hundred. |
| Jasmine: Fyrahundra. Five hundred. |
| Morten: Femhundra. |
| Jasmine: Six hundred. |
| Morten: Sexhundra. |
| Jasmine: Seven hundred. |
| Morten: Sjuhundra. |
| Jasmine: Eight hundred. |
| Morten: Åttahundra. |
| Jasmine: Nine hundred. |
| Morten: Niohundra. And mixing few tens in, 250. |
| Jasmine: Tvåhundrafemtio. |
| Morten: Three hundred and thirty. |
| Jasmine: Trehundratrettio. |
| Morten: Four hundred and sixty. |
| Jasmine: Fyrahundrasextio. Well done. Now, let’s add some numbers below 10 to make these numbers more specific – one hundred and fifty seven. |
| Morten: Etthundrafemtiosju. |
| Jasmine: Eight hundred twenty-three. |
| Morten: Åttahundratjugotre. |
| Jasmine: Seven hundred ninety-nine. |
| Morten: Sjuhundranittionio.I’m wondering something. Do you always pronounce the -go in tjugo? |
| Jasmine: People often do when counting, but it’s not guaranteed. It varies from person to person. |
| Morten: Oh, I see. Last but quantifiably not least, the thousands. |
| Jasmine: Swedish word for thousand is tusen. |
| Morten: As with the hundred, you can say tusen without one in front and you can say ettusen. |
| Jasmine: So you have an option. Please use the one that fits you better. You can read 1,369 as tusen tusentrehundrasextionio… |
| Morten: Or as ettusentrehundrasextionio. |
| Jasmine: The choice is yours. What’s important is that ettusen gets two Ts if you spell it out. |
| Morten: Like English, Swedish allows for a maximum of two identical consonants in a row. |
| Jasmine: That’s right. Of course, compounding works differently in Swedish than in English. |
| Morten: Okay. So tusen very much works like hundra doesn’t it? |
| Jasmine: Exactly. |
| Morten: Let’s practice tusen a little – one thousand. |
| Jasmine: Tusen or ettusen. |
| Morten: Two thousand. |
| Jasmine: Tvåtusen. Four thousand five hundred. |
| Morten: Fyratusenfemhundra. |
| Jasmine: Six thousand seven hundred and fifty. |
| Morten: Sextusensjuhundrafemtio. Excellent. But I’m afraid we need to sign off now. |
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| Morten: Hej då, vi ses, tack tack! |
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