Lovely illustrations made by Minna Sundberg
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Swedish listening practice “Godnatts fästningstorn - Ett ljus i mörkret”
en fyr (-ar) - lighthouse
en vippfyr (-ar) - bascule light, basically a prototype of a lighthouse
en fyrvaktare (-) - lighthouse keeper
en kust (-er) - coast
en verksamhet (-er) - work area, activity
en trygghet (-er) - safety
en stenkol (-) - coal
en bostad (-er) - house, accommodation
en uppfinning (-ar) - invention
ett fästningstorn (-) - fortified tower
att återvända (-er, återvände, återvänt) - to come back
att elda (-ar, eldade, eldat) - to light up, to set ablaze
att driva fyran (-er, drev, drivit) - to power a lighthouse
att se till (-er, såg, sett) - to look after sth
att kliva (-er, klev, klivit) - to stride
att bevittna (-ar, bevittnade, bevittnat) - to bear witness
att skena (-ar, skenade, skenat) - to gallop
att bestå (-ar, bestod, bestått) - to remain, to endure
att vidga perspektiven (-ar, vidgade, vidgat) - to broaden horizonts
att vara på väg - to be on the way
hemlig - secret
märklig - particular, remarkable
synlig - visible, ocular
öde - still, dead, barren
ödmjuk - humble
uppkäftig - cheeky, arrogant
nyss - just now, lately
~link to the Quizlet flashcards set~
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Not to brag but as a Swede you get really good at understanding the other Nordic languages. It's almost like an innate talent, if you will. For example: it only took me 6 45 minute long episodes of the Danish series Darkness: Those who kill (season 2) to realize that Tobias Santelmann's character was the only one speaking Norwegian, not Danish.
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I've been holding onto this picture of Tom Scott for nearly a year and I've not had enough chances to use it, hopefully some of you will be able to use it when you are foiled by Nordic languages beyond the first time.
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I FREAKIN ❤️ NORWAY
its like if German & English had a child (and it was besties with their cousin aka Swedish)
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So I am really obsessed with having a good accent. I posted a video in which I talk in all germanic languages and a Italian or half Italian guy living in Stockholm replied I sound a bit Danish? Oookay. Honestly I am more fine with sounding Danish than sounding Italian. But I’ve been studying Swedish for far longer..?? Idk with Swedish I feel like I’m always doing smth wrong while Danish is just … speaking Danish naturally, stød guides me through. Danes would probably have plenty to comment about pronunciation mistakes I make but that’s how it feels. i am about as weird as a human being as Danish is as a language so it makes sense. I do enjoy speaking Danish so much
(Maybe the Italian accent was given for granted and he just didn’t mention it🥴)
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Something that will never not be amusing to me is that in finnish, the word for seagull is lokki. And upon hearing that, my first thought was the nordic god Loki, and it’s most likely a coincidence, but it makes perfect sense to me that they’d be named after him.
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I feel like we don't talk enough about how there's literally an entire episode about Finland telling us the rest of the nordics speak germanic languages and he speaks a Finno-Ugric; the episode also implies none of the others speak Finnish. which is super funny cause it means Fin can talk trash about them in front of them.
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geopolitically estonia is baltic, the estonian language is ugro-finnic; estonia isnt recognized as nordic by anyone, the tweet op probably called them that bc theyre in the north or something, or maybe bc of their bonds with finland
Ooh, thanks for the clarification and information!!
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love thinking about the nordics & how they communicate <3 u know for a FACT that denmark & sweden only speak their own language to each other out of spite. norway isn't a petty child like the rest of them, so he switches between norwegian, danish & swedish just fine! denmark speaks to him in norwegian to butter him up. iceland uses danish the most, he's a bit insecure about speaking his language in front of the others, even if most of them would understand it. norway speaks icelandic the best, and he uses it whenever he wants to get iceland to do something for him (it works 50% of the time).
sometimes when they get really excited or heated they slip into old norse without anyone realizing, and finland is just kinda there bashing his head against the wall,,, his go-to for communicating with the others is swedish. sweden only got better at finnish recently and he speaks it with the heaviest most awkward accent but it's endearing :) i love this dysfunctional family
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