2. A Conversation About Books and Series

[Music] Hi and welcome to the second episode of Swedish for the almost beginner. So this episode I'm going to discuss books in Swedish or how you say that you prefer certain books and what you read and so on. So I'm going to begin with a conversation between two people who have different opinions on what they like in books. So I'm going to read it in Swedish first and then I'm going to go through it again and explain the different words and meanings. So it starts like this. Emma, hey, how are you? Johan, I'm so glad. Thank you. How are you? Emma, just fine. You know, I've read the book so clearly. Johan, I'm not reading the book. I think they're so ahead of me. I just read a book about the number 12. Emma, the number 12. Why is it all the difference? Johan, I like historical handles and this book contains a very alive language. You know the book that you started with in the beginning of 1700s. Emma, I'm just going to sing. I don't have the same taste as you say. Johan, no, it's really not. But there's a way to think that criminals can really keep up with the number. Emma, I'm with. What are you looking at now? Johan, it's a series that has been in the mood for a long time and it's built on a book of the week's time, I think. Emma, and she's so good at it. I must also see it in the series. Johan, I love it. I can recommend it. So the beginning you probably understood already if you listen to the first episode, so Emma asks, "How are you?" Johan says, "I'm all good." I feel really good. "Yet, the bra." And then he asks, "How are you?" Emma says, "Bora bra." That's sort of like, "I'm just fine." And then she says, "Vete, I have missed last and so underbar book." So Nis is recently, Johan is last. I've just read N so underbar book, such a wonderful book. Camila Lackberg is Andra Dekare. So that's Dekare is like a crime story. So that's the second Andra, which is a second. So it's a second crime story by Camila Lackberg. And then she asks, "Hardu last and have you read it?" Johan says, "Nja, ja las it inte Dekare." Nja is kind of like somewhere in between, yes, and no, ja or ne. So it's a bit more polite in this context to say, "Nja, instead of saying ne, ja las it inte Dekare." And then she says, "I don't read crime stories." And then she says, "I think they're so predictable." So I think they're so predictable. "I've just read a book called "Enthalfte." So at the moment, I'm reading a book on this 12th. And then Emma says, "Cald and tolde varf fere hi elafri den. Why in the world would you read something like that, basically?" But Johan says, "Jajilla historiska handelser. I like historical events." So, historisk, historical, handelser is an event. So something, you can say, "The hender, something is happening." But when you say "Hendelser," it's some event. And then he says, "Den här boeken innehåller ett väldigt levande språk." So this book contains, innehåller, contains a colorful language, you could say. So "Veldit levande språk." So a very alive language. So språk comes from German sprache. In the old Swedish, you would say tungumol. In Icelandic is still tungumol. But tungumol sounds kind of old. It's mostly used in old texts. So språk is what you say for language in modern Swedish. And then she says, "Man kjännäs i nästan som om man befinner sig i början av 1700-talet." So kjännäs i is like to feel something. "Jaj käni mig sjuk, I feel sick." But he says, "Den jaj käni mig nästan som om, jag befinner mig i början av 1700-talet." So I almost feel jaj käni mig nästan som om jag befinner mig. Like I'm situated somewhere at befinner sig nånstans. You are in a place. "Jaj befinner mig hemma, I am at home." So he feels like he's actually, when he's reading, he feels like he's in the 18th century. So in Swedish you say he says "iburjan av 1700-talet." So 1700-talet is actually 17 and something, which in English you would say 18th century. So that's 1713 for example would be 18th century in English. But in Swedish it's actually 1700-talet. Emma says "I just could be able to sleep. I would just fall asleep." We have not direct some of the smoke from what you say. We don't have the same taste in the box. For when you say "I was a way of saying" you could say that. You could say that we don't have the same taste. "Johan, nei verkläinte, no, certainly not." So verkläinte. "Mänt där emot, but on the contrary," he says. "Där emot, kan jag tycka?" I can think that. "At kriminalare på teve kan man ganska underhållande." So kriminalare is another way of saying "deckare" so like a crime story. Kriminalare på teve, on the tally. So, på teve, at he says that they can be ganska underhållande. Pretty entertaining. So he likes it as a kind of entertaining, you know, to something to watch on TV but not to read. And Emma says "Joh mere, mi to, vad titter uppo nu? What are you looking at now?" Which is basically what stuff are you watching on the TV right now? And Johan says, "There are a series that hit the order moden." So it's a series called "The Order Murders." "Biigt po en bok av vi veka steen" through you. So it's like based on a book by Vi veka steen. I think. "Biigt po en bok av vi veka steen." "Truh jag." I think. So you'd say in English you say "I think" but in Swedish you say "truh jag." That's a grammatical thing that we're going to go into more later on. So Emma says, "Aa, honor en så bra, författare." Oh, she's such a good writer. "Ja måste också se den serien." I also have to watch that series. And then Johan finishes. He says, "Ja den er bra." "Ja, it's a good one." "Ja kan rekommendera den?" "I can recommend it." So you can see like some words in Swedish are kind of similar to English. So criminalare, crime story, "rekommendera, recommend." But then some words like if you can still remember it, predictable, for it's a bar. But it's actually logical. So "förut" means before, say to say, and then bar, which is just like something you add at the end. So before said "ish." You know, before said "ish." I'm predictable for it to say bar. "Händelser" - important like an event. "Ok" - "Nogonting händer" - something is happening. So hand that is very much used in Swedish. It's good to remember that. one. Okay, that's all for this episode. So I hope that you listen to episode three. We should be out soon. [Music]