10 Swedish series to BLOW YOUR MIND!
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2024
- Here are the 10 series I recommend for people who want to learn to speak Swedish.
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Timestamps:
00:00 People are learning Swedish for Young Royals
00:37 Extra tips to learn Swedish
01:06 A Swedish classic with some Danish
01:39 A new Swedish series on Netflix
02:15 How to practice speaking a language
04:59 Swedish mini-series based on a novel
05:39 Draknästet and the lovely Swedish accent
06:31 A controversial Swedish series
06:58 Our Time is Now
07:27 Swedish RUclips FOOD
07:58 Björnstad
08:24 This Swedish series is too real for me
09:03 Lana Blakely approves of this Swedish series
09:48 How to get a lot more series and films in Swedish
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The series I list are:
Bron, Snabba Cash, Störst av allt, Draknästet, Kali**t, Vår tid är nu, Uppdrag mat, Björnstad, Bonusfamiljen, Kärlek och anarki.
OK if you've reached the end of the description then you obviously need something to do. You can answer this question in the comments:
Only ONE Swedish movie/series is shown in this video that is not actually mentioned at all (just shown on screen). What is it? 
Хобби
Have you seen any of these Swedish series, and which ones do you think you might watch?
Did you ever think about how funny you are but people probably don’t get it a lol
@@jonathanemslander6896 Haha, I just try to make my videos entertaining. I think I am about an average level of funny.
@@daysandwords Have you seen the Johan Falk movies yet?
I watched bron broen a few years ago and loved it, wasn't trying to learn the language, now that i'm interested, i can't find it anywhr. Other show i enjoyed a few years ago was akta människor, but again, wasn't paying atention to the language learning, so, i don't know how good would it be. The story tho, exelent
I used to watch your videos and think "Why would anyone on their right mind learn Swedish?". And now, after watching YR, I am learing Swedish myself 😂
I stopped watching Snabba Cash because I was picking up the accent. I found myself saying to my swedish coworkers "yalla min bror" when I wanted them to hurry up. On the other hand Bonusfamiljen and Kärlek och Anarki it's just very useful for people learning swedish while living in Stockholm.
Haha really, in 8 episodes?
It didn't overpower my existing exposure to Swedish. But some of the slang words are useful to know.
yalla yalla kebab till alla
Du kan git 😄 instead of du kan gå
watching yr got me interested in swedish as well, and that's how I found your channel couple months ago! I find your video very encouraging and real for language learners. although I didn't start my swedish learning yet (i currently still learning korean) so excited to check out some of this list!thank you
I’m not learning Swedish but I won’t lie I want to watch these 😅 I also wanted to thank you, your tips have really helped me with my language learning journey. Your encouragement to watch, listen and to native content and not being afraid of not understanding everything that is said has already improved my understanding of French.
Also I remember ages ago you mentioned the profile trick, I did it too!, and it is a game changer 🤩
A great Swedish show that is criminally underrated is Anno 1790. It's crime show set in Stockholm in the shadow of the French revolution. Peter Eggers is at his best. I wish they would have made a second season, but the one that existst is superb.
Vilken kung du är som ger shoutout till Mauri! Love the content dude, keep it up!
Björnstad is great, watched that a few weeks ago.
The series I’d recommend, purely from a language learning perspective rather than for just enjoyment, is Klassen on SVT Play. It’s about a school class of around 12/13 years old I’d guess. The episodes are only 8 or 9 minutes long, and there are a huge amount of them. Each episode is on a different subject/issue. They’re entertaining enough and helped me massively in my first few months learning.
That sounds a lot like Skam.
@@daysandwords I hadn’t heard of Skam before. Looks like Klassen is the same concept but aimed at a younger audience. It’s the best thing I’ve found covering real life issues without being too complex.
After almost 11 months living in Sweden I’m getting to the stage where when I speak Swedish to people they answer back in Swedish instead of English. I only started learning properly in the middle of May when I started SFI C. Because of COVID there’s been a massively reduced class schedule, but it’s still been really helpful.
What’s been interesting is that I started two months after my classmates and was far below their level, but have done a lot of reading of Swedish books and watching Swedish TV since. Now I and four other classmates are moving up over two months early to SFI D out of a total of over 20 students. The immersion has definitely paid off. On the downside I’ve got an exam from 8.30am to 14.00 tomorrow (with breaks) on reading, listening and writing skills and a 30 minute interview on Tuesday to test my speaking skills. A bit scary, but fun to see how I do.
Learning Swedish is the best thing I’ve ever done. It’s such a great feeling to have an entire conversation with someone in a language that I couldn’t speak six months ago. The first time I spoke entirely in Swedish on a visit to my Swedish in-laws was amazing after 26 years of them having to speak English with me.
omg my favourite language learning yter talking about my favourite series 😂
I've really enjoyed watching episodes of Historieätarna. It's hilarious, and has a lot of history and historical food
I don't even know why I'm watching this channel. But I like it!
Great list! I'd also recommend Fröken Frimans krig.
Cool list. I don't plan to speak swedish but the shows seem interesting.
I started learning Swedish because of Young Royals. I love the emotion that is in the show and it is probably my number one show that i would recommend to someone who likes dramaxromance.
I live in... "not Sweden" 😂👍
I have been using Italki for 5 years, it is awesome. I am just making babysteps with Swedish, I am starting with a book and basic videos, but as soon as I know "the basics" I think I will book lessons there, it has been a huge help with Russian 😊
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Even if I'm not learning Swedish your videos are always enjoyable to watch. Thank you for making this amazing content.
ありがとう～
Nice list! I'd suggest also watching "Älska mig" and "Solsidan", when speaking of good TV shows ;)
Solsidan is good for every day dialogue but it's hard to watch haha.
The Bridge is amazing. seen it 3 times. I love Saga
Thanks to you, I found SVT Play. So many amazing Swedish shows on their. I gotta say, my favourite is ‘Leif and Billy’. Cracks me up every time I watch it. 😂
The itaki lessons sound kinda scary but I know there's nothing to lose.
Lamont, What's your goal with Swedish? How far do you intend to take the language? Do you plan to start/continue another language? There are those that have a time/fluency marker when studying a language. I was wondering if this applies to you.
I honestly don't get how people could have a fluency marker.
Time is a different thing but I haven't got time to answer this now. I might do a video on it soonish because I have some other non-Swedish experiments starting soon.
I saw young royals and immediately clicked
I'm glad because honestly I've been thinking about what to make the thumbnail for like 3 days. It's so hard to walk the line between something that actually looks good, something that makes people want to click and something that actually gives some information on what is contained within the video.
At one point the thumbnail was literally just Wilhelm's close up (this same bit) but filling the whole screen and nothing else.
Anyway, hope you liked the list!
The last tip was GOLD, never thought about how there actually are Swedish dubbed movies.
Thanks for saying so!
If you want to heat lot's of swedish music (not Max martin or Abba) give Så mycket bättre a watch. It's a show where a bunch of swedish established artists spend time at a house during a week in summer at Gotland. The main idea to draw viewers is that these artists cover each other songs in a completly new way and they get released on Spotify later on. They sing it front of the rest at lunch and dinner. If you can find it with english subtitles, it is a warm suggestion.
Dude yes. Netflix is a language learner's tool, especially with the chrome extension of double captions for beginners. I used it to swap anime and movie audio to Italian and Jurassic park was good! It seemed a bit too hard so I think I'll dial it back and go with what you said about watching children shows again.
The problem I have always had with the Chrome extension is the "Chrome" bit.
Can't they make it for a decent browser...
@@daysandwords Most if not all Chrome extensions work for Opera too.
@@daysandwords Oh well that's too bad then. I'm sure if you search hard enough you'll find a good extension for whatever browser you're using.
@@sikamaru666 Hahaha Opera. I meant Firefox of course.
@@JV-km9xk I don't actually have much use for those extensions so it's not a big deal. I just don't like stuff not being available for Firefox because it's a superior browser.
I recommend watching Eagles on SVT play if you enjoyed Young Royals.
Lamont my man, I fully support your decisions, but these are the times I selfishly wish you hadn’t stopped French...I could use a vid like this for that language. 😭 👶 Btw, Young Royals looks right up my alley, other than it being in Swedish.
Watching your videos makes me want to learn Swedish except for two things... (a) I'm busy learning Korean, and (b) I already know Norwegian so it wouldn't be a very big challenge. But I watch all your videos all the way through even when they're not relevant to me, because... just because. So yeah. Not learning Swedish.
But! I just read a Swedish novel!
In English. And now I'm working my way through it in Korean. And what do you know, the Korean translation seems more true to the original than the English one (without having actually read it in Swedish). Odd, isn't it? I would have expected them to translate from Swedish to English to Korean, but no. Astonishing.
I think you will be surprised. Norwegian is not massively different to Swedish and other than a few gotchas (å bruke vs att bruka being one that comes to mind) it is just like a dialect in many ways.
@@memsom Surprised in what way?
Have you shared your plan for learning Spanish?
On Netflix in the UK we seem to currently have a tonne of Swedish language films and TV. Well, at least, I do. I have Netflix in Swedish for my account and probably did the VPN trick at some point, so I can’t confirm if it now thinks I am “special” or whatever. But I can see stuff from the 50s in black and white, right up to recent stuff. So if you can see “kära släkten”, “bitchkram” and “sällskaps resan” and stuff like that, you have a lot more and it is not just me. Lol.
It actually has basically nothing to do with your location... that is, what shows people can and can't see DOES have to do with location but it's not Sweden = more shows in Swedish. It's just "certain country = certain show".
@@daysandwords that’s true normally, but in Europe it is more complicated. All European countries can access their home Netflix catalogue abroad. So, for example, when I was last in Norway 2 years ago, I still saw the UK catalogue. But since that time we obviously left the European Union, so who knows. Either way, my UK Netflix account can access a lot of Swedish movies, like a lot. So either we are flooded by Swedish content, or my account thinks I belong to Sweden. Either way, I can see at least 30 or 40 Swedish language movies.
I threw up an Instagram post with the list I made and tagged you.
Orka plugga. This one is a youtube channel that has a bunch of videos with subtitles.
I feel called out hahaha
Why am I watching this I'm not even learning Swedish dammit I'm already halfway through the video-
My videos are just that good.
Same here, lol.
Few film tips on Swedish movies
Torsk på Tallinn (avaliable on SVT Play)
Tomten är far till alla barnen
Sunes sommar
Solsidan!!! Kan verkligen inte rekommendera tillräckligt. Exit är en annan favorit, dock så är det mycket norska i den men det finns åtminstone en svensk karaktär så alltid nått
As someone who was completely obsessed with The Beatles a very long time ago, I love your username!
Thanks for the Netflix tip, now I'm watching Peppa pig with Spanish audio and English subtitles. 👌
I can hook you up with swedish tv series or movies. Just let me know.
Sadly some of the shows in your top 10 I cannot find on Australian Netflix :(
They're not all on Netflix at all, so it's got nothing to do with Australia.
Björnstad is HBO so that one is a bit of a struggle to find, Draknästet is SVT Play, Bron isn't on Aussie Netflix but you might find it SBS-on-demand, Vår tid är nu: I addressed the issue there, Uppdrag Mat is on RUclips so that's easy.
It's really only Björnstad that is hard to get and that I didn't address.
@@daysandwords my mistake I assumed Netflix.
Could you recommend an app for learning Swedish? 🙏🏼
probs just the apps he recommends in general
Sorry, I didn't see this.
Most apps don't have Swedish so I would say Duolingo is not bad (but you should cheat on the placement test so you don't get tied to doing the tree at their pace), and SwedishPod101 is actually pretty good too but you should listen to the dialogues a lot rather than the English parts.
Hmmm we’ve chatted about this before but I still can’t see what’s supposed to happen on my Swedish profile? The only shows I can watch in Swedish on my svenska profile are the same ones I can already listen to in Swedish on my English profile?
Is the profile's options and settings and everything in Swedish? For example, at the top left it should say "Hem, Serier, Filmer, Nytt och populärt, Min lista..."
If that's the case, then type in "Despicable Me" or "Dumma Mej" into the search and click on it (doesn't matter what the thumbnail for it says, just click on it), and then click on language options. If the languages and subtitles are listed IN English, then you've done something wrong. They should be listed in Swedish, and "svenska" should be one of them.
@@daysandwords yes they’re in Swedish all the text on that profile is. What I’m saying is, I can also select Swedish as audio on the English profile.. what is supposed to be different between the English profile and the Swedish profile? Thanks for your help :)
Ohhhh I get you.
Oh well, yeah, once you do it for ONE show where it isn't the first language, I think it essentially trips a wire in the Netflix settings to then show you svenska as an option.
This is actually how I discovered this trick, because I used to do it the same way as you did - but if you create an entirely new profile from Australia and don't change anything, or maybe you might even need to create a new ACCOUNT, you'll find that the language options on kids' movies are English, Italian, Mandarin, Arabic and sometimes Croatian or something... definitely not Swedish.
It's 100% a real thing because dozens of people have confirmed this result, and I just did the same thing today for a language that I've ltierally never seen in the language options, and now I can watch any Dreamworks etc movie in it.
@@daysandwords ok thanks. I have noticed on my English Netflix profile that if I set Swedish as the audio in one movie it will automatically now play any other available show in Swedish audio which is good. Forces me to listen to more Swedish without having to look to see if that movie is dubbed into Swedish first.
@@daysandwords wonder why it’s only animated dreamworks tho?
First, thank you for all the tips! Second, I'm shocked you have such high praise for "Love and Anarchy". My opinion, (which appears to a tiny minority): the storyline of a small publishing house trying to survive in the current era had the potential to be absolutely brilliant, and should have been the main focus of the show. Instead, that story played second fiddle to a silly, poorly written romance that was a waste of actors who clearly deserved better...as did the viewers.
You wanted a story about a small publishing house trying to survive, they made a story about a woman repressed and oppressed (by husband) in various ways trying to find her true self and learn to love and let go. Just different topic. It’s an incredible show, something you could never find in Hollywood.
Hey OaktownGirl - hmm, well, I liked both stories. I mean, it's not in my top 10 series EVER or anything like that. I just think it's funny.
The publishing house thing was good yes, but I feel like the general setting has been done before in Dix pour cent ("Call My Agent!" in English), and I feel that Kärlek och anarki had just enough of a Swedish twist that they could explore Swedish culture in it.
If it wasn't in Swedish I probably wouldn't really care about it that much, whereas Kali**t and Björnstad are good series in their owns rights, although I think I'm becoming a bit too aware of Swedish culture to really know what I would like without that coming into it.
Jag kan bara säga dig var du kan titta "Vår tid är nu" på svenska med ryska undertexter hahaha
Om du vill veta det kan du fråga mig. Tack för video, from Russia with love )))
Asså nån berättade för mig var jag kan hitta den, enligt lagen och allt! Men tack ändå!✌
where can i watch kärlek?
Netflix...
@@daysandwords it’s not on my netflix
Hi where can I watch Vår tid är nu?
Hmm sist jag kollade var det på Amazon Prime Video men också kunde man hitta säsonger 2-4 på SVT Play.
Sorry I just realised you asked me in English haha... Pretty sure you can see all 4 seasons if you have Amazon Prime, and seasons 2-4 on SVT Play. I think SVT Play has it for like 6 months of every 2 years or something.
It’s ok, I understood some of it as I have been learning Swedish. It doesn’t seem to be available in my country for Amazon prime. How can I access it on SVT?
If you don't have a VPN then you'll need one. I'd recommend Surfshark (I have been sponsored by them but also I do actually recommend it, as I used it for about 2 years before I was sponsored by them).
surfshark.deals/LAMONT
@@daysandwords After i do that do i have to pay for SVT?
No, SVT Play is a public Swedish service. They even have some stuff that is free from anywhere in the world, but most of the good stuff is not.
Not sure why I watched it, is not like I'm learning Swedish or planning to learn Swedish in the foreseeable future.
Interesting how Sweden and Romanian have the same dubbing stuff only for an audience that's probably incapable of reading the subs (so younger than 12 I guess).
That's actually all countries that don't dub stuff for adults. So like, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Estonia, Romania... the list goes on. They all dub stuff for kids but not for adults, it's a pretty common model.
@@daysandwords
What's it like in Australia? Do they dub? Or is it subtitles?
Germany, France and the US are the absolute worst with this I think. They dub everything! 😂
I think the situation is improving worldwide with things like Netflix giving people options and even telling us which one the original language is, and then RUclips where even French kids are growing up hearing English (not always a good thing but that's a conversation for another day).
Australia is both good and bad:
Our foreign film distributors here have never really been dubbers. I think I was in my teens before I saw anything dubbed, but I had seen things with subtitles. (On TV and on VHS.)
Then came DVDs where you could sometimes choose the language - but often you couldn't and in Australia you would always get VO (e.g. my copy of "Joyeux Noël" is only in French, even though it's distributed in Australia). So if an Australian watched La casa de papel or Babylon Berlin or whatever, then I believe there's a 95% chance that they'll choose subtitles rather than dubbing, because we're not used to dubbing and American accents don't sound pleasant to us anyway.
So that's all GOOD.
BUT - we are talking about a minority of situations that the question even arises because foreign (as in, non English) things are still considered very very alternative here. Yes that situation is also improving, in no small part due to Norden, because Millennium series, The Bridge, The Killing, Trapped and a few others kind of "exploded" here. But when I say "exploded", I mean that it went from 1 in 50 people would watch something like that, to 5 in 50. Since then Narcos, Dark and La casa de papel have probably been the most watched subtitled things. But I'd say it's still a case of "arty people like Lamont watch stuff in crazy languages like German and Swedish..."
A few people even pause when you tell them that you're watching something in Icelandic because they are not sure "how" this happens (as in, is the show actually IN Icelandic? Does it have like... subtitles? Or what?)
But it's hard for me to know because obviously my friends are more in that "kretsan" and we are all familiar with subtitles etc. Out of those guys, I am the weird one who has gone so far as to remove the need for subtitles on Swedish stuff haha.
So progress is slow but steady.
@@daysandwords
Interesting!
What's it like when someone non English is interviewed on the news for example? Do they use subtitles or dubbing then?
@@attesmatte It's been that long since I watched normal news (Australian news is all propaganda) that I can't say for sure but I am fairly sure it's voiceover. Voiceover which is slightly different to dubbing: They let the person say like half a sentence and then that audio fades and a professional newsreader's voice comes in over the top and you can still hear the person talking in the original language (but only softly under the English).
I have also seen subtitles, but that's rare.
Great list. I couldn’t really handle Bonus Familjen either, not very appealing characters.
My absolutely favourite thing on SVT is Premiärdatum oklart. Freaking hilarious,
har du sett solsidan?
Jag har faktiskt inte det, inte än. Det finns alldeles för mycket som man får se och inte lika mycket tid för att göra så.
först
Solsidan is hilarious!! 100% recommended! (and a new season is coming soon)
Can be streamed for free in TV4 Play (might need Swedish vpn)
Young Royals är skitbra. Jag helt o hållit håller med rekommendationen. Ser fram emot den 2a säsongen.
Brååån
I will not be following your advice and signing up for italki as I already have an account and can wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone looking to learn to speak a new language. So there.
Swedish sounds like a Norwegian dialect. Could also watch "Occupied" and probably get most of it. Russians invade Norway. Bonus: If you're studying Russian too, you get some exposure.
I actually think that trying to "get" similar languages like Danish or Norwegian (or Swedish if you're studying one of those) is a mistake.
Swedish natives only understand Norwegian because the 80% that is the same or close enough is parsed completely automatically, leaving all their attention to focus on the remaining 20%. In other words, Norwegian isn't actually that easy to understand - it's just that Swedish/Danish natives are "GOAT" level at their own native language (and vice versa with the other combinations).
Even very advanced students are nowhere near native level, e.g. myself. I can understand Norwegian when I'm speaking to Norwegians, and I can understand Swedish series basically perfectly, but I struggle to understand Norwegian series. It'd be like trying to learn to hit a curve ball at major league level when you're still only hitting fast balls at college level. Therefore, I don't recommend anything in Norwegian to anything but extremely advanced Swedish students.
Solsidan is the shit
brån
Fluent.. you are walking on thin ice...
I, as a native Swede would say he's fluent... Sure, he has an accent but that doesn't matter.
I am not sure but I think Jarps might be just having a joke with me.
I think (again, I'm guessing) that he's talking about the title of the video on the clickbaityness of it.
Men tack för att du stödjar mig Katarina!
@@Shiva182Katarina It's a joke. I have followed long time his channel, so sometimes I try to be a funny here...förlåt mig.
@@daysandwords Yes, a great video. I don't watch swedish tv series but only french ones. I think this video helps to those who are interested in swedish shows.