Typical Swedish mentality.
It basically says that six prisoners forgot to be locked in one night, so they decided to watch some TV and bake a chocolate cake.
One of their best night in a long time, they said…
(Source: illuminatiroxas)
// Merry Green Christmas//
There’s absolutely no snow outside. For a Swede that means a lot. Christmas is supposed to be white, not like any other day in April.
Oh well, it’s still gonna be a nice evening, I’ll be celebrating with my family at my sisters house, eating lots and lots of vegetarian holiday food (that I cooked). No Christmas ham for me.
This is usually how we celebrate Christmas:
- meet around 2pm.
- eat some lunch and have a coffee break (fika).
- watch Donald Duck at 3pm (every Swede does it).
- prepare Christmas dinner.
- eat Christmas dinner until you’re about to throw up.
- eat some more.
- open Christmas gifts.
- eat rice pudding.
- eat some Christmas snack.
- go to bed.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND GOD JUL!
Die Zeit heilt nicht die Wunden.: anywherebutsweden: epicwinsauce: I was having trouble saying the...
I was having trouble saying the Swedish word själv until it dawned on me that it totally sounds like the English word “self.” then I looked it up and it turns out that that’s what it means, too.
Almost. ‘Själv’ should be pronounced like this: ɧɛ:lv,…
Oh I forgot, ‘sk’ isn’t always pronounced like ‘ɧ’, it depends on the vowel after. So, in this case ‘skulle’ is pronounced with a normal ‘s’ (it’s like saying the word ‘scar’) =D
Anyway, back to ‘ɧ’. If you google it, they explain the sound as a mix of ‘x’ and ‘ʃ”. In other words, you have to make to sounds sound like one. The air should be coming directly from your throat (I think it should be somewhere from the glottal area, if I feel it right) and your tongue mustn’t touch anything, but instead be somewhere in the middle. When pushing the air out, the back of the tongue (post-dorsal) should feel tense, and also your lips, creating a small opening, where the air comes out.
Try to put your hand on your throat, to make sure that you can feel air coming through. The throat should also feel a bit tense.
Another way to explain the sound, is to make an imitation of that special sound that Darth Vader does, except this time without any help from random things. Try to imagine what he would sound like, only using your mouth, and then you should be able to create a sound that’s pretty familiar to ‘ɧ’.
I was having trouble saying the Swedish word själv until it dawned on me that it totally sounds like the English word “self.” then I looked it up and it turns out that that’s what it means, too.
Almost. ‘Själv’ should be pronounced like this: ɧɛ:lv, so the ‘s’ is not the same as in English. I don’t even think English have this sound ‘ɧ’. We use it every time a word begins with sk, sj or stj.
// Let there be light//
Bought a couple of second hand stuff today. This lamp was one of those things. My kitchen is now ridiculous cozy. These two chairs are btw very typical Swedish design. Just like the blue dalecarlian horse in the background.
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This is funny if you know Swedish
—// Can anyone help explain to me the difference…//
between Min/Mitt and Din/Ditt
ex
Min banan är gul
and
Mitt hus är gult
Why change Min and gul to mitt and gult.
Banan and hus have different genders. A banana is ‘en banan’ and therefore it’s what we call utrum (or N-gender). A house is ‘ett hus’ which has the neutrum (or T-gender).
This means we have to change the possessive pronoun so it matches the noun. Min follows the N-gender and mitt follows the T-gender. This applies for all three possessive pronouns: min/mitt, din/ditt and sin/sitt.
Also, one more thing to mention: if you want to write banan and hus with the definite article, like a banana or a house, you have to think about the genders once more. In English for example, the article comes before the noun, but in Swedish be put it behind the word: bananen, huset. If a noun is an utrum word, it ends with -n or -en (in singular!). If it’s a neutrum word it ends with -t or -et (in singular!).
There’s a lot more to this, but let’s take that another time.
Dalarna - Twilight time at river by Olof S on Flickr.
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Pronouncing ögonlock (eyelid), genomskinlig (transparent/see-through) and skyhöga (sky-high. In this case the word is with a plural ending. To say it with a singular ending, just take away the ‘a’)
—Btw, are there any words you would like to hear pronounced in Swedish?
Skam den som ger sig
