Simple Swedish Podcast #5 – Guest: Soraya

In this episode I’m talking to my friend Soraya who moved from Sweden to Budapest six years ago. As usual I don’t use any script and we ended up having an interesting conversation about life in Budapest compared to Sweden, culture, people, making friends, perspectives on life and other things. Free transcript and word list in the PDF below together with a bonus – an explanation of some common Swedish filler words! And here’s a link to Soraya’s song on Spotify:)

Transcript, word list, and Swedish filler words:Download

You can also find the podcast on iTunes and Spotify, as well as the PodBean app! And here I will share how to use this podcast efficiently in your Swedish studies:

Listen to the episode and try to understand as much as possible.
Go through the text and translate the words you don’t understand, until you understand most of the text.
Listen to the audio while reading the text. Pause if you need to.
Now listen to the audio without the text. Pause/rewind if you need to. Get back to it in a few days again.

Bonus tips:

Remember the Pareto Principle. 80% of your progress comes from 20% of your effort. Don’t aim to get 100%, 80-90 is better if you want to be efficient 🙂
Listen to podcasts whenever you’re on your way somewhere, cooking, washing dishes, standing in line, traveling, or any other time you can’t sit down to study, but you can use your ears.

Davor on September 17, 2019 at 08:49

First time listening to the podcast and I’m loving it! It hits the sweet spot between being understandable—thanks to your speaking not too fast, as well as using simpler vocabulary—and going over relevant, interesting and relatable topics. And the reading material/transcript turns makes it a gem for any language learner. Appreciate this so much and hope there are many more episodes to come after this one! 🙂

I tried finding the podcast in my Pocket Casts app, but couldn’t. Think something could be done about that?
- admin on October 2, 2019 at 09:57
  
  Hey Davor, thank you for your comment! It makes me happy that people find it good and useful. Sorry for the delay in replying. I think maybe the only app it’s available in is the PodBean app, but you can find the RSS feed and put in manually into your app, at least that’s what I did in my BeyondPod app. But it’s also available on Spotify and iTunes:)
Stefan on March 4, 2021 at 10:54

I have to admit, this one was for me very hard to understand. Even when I translated unknown words, I still couldn’t quite figure out what was tried to be said, at least during the whole part where you talk about meeting people in Hungary. But I guess that’s what anyone learning a foreign language has to get used to. Everyday way of talking where people try to figure in the middle of talking what they want to say.

Do you have maybe some episode in which you talk about that? If not, couldn’t be a bad idea to talk how Swedes formulate sentences in the middle of talking and explaining it little bit.

Thanks again for making this. Greetings
Nesst on September 15, 2021 at 18:42

Jag tycker mycket om din pod. Jag har lärt mig Svenska sedan mars. Jag tar sfi kurs c nu. Mitt tala språk är väldigt problematiskt (ingen tid att tänker och ’spit’ orden ?) men kampen förtsättar. Din pod är perfekt för min nivå! Jag kan förstå mycket och dina ordlistor… mind blowing!
Bra jobb och hälsningar från Halmstad!
- admin on September 16, 2021 at 14:59
  
  Hej! Tack för dina fina ord, det glädjer mig att podden hjälper dig! Lycka till med dina studier 🙂
Fatih N on March 31, 2023 at 13:38

You are the King ✌️
- admin on April 5, 2023 at 13:57
  
  Haha:D