Simple Swedish Podcast - #281 - Förstå talad svenska

Episode Date: May 19, 2025

Nivå: A2-B1 Är du trött på att inte förstå vad folk säger till dig? Eller på att inte kunna använda poddar och serier på svenska utan undertexter? Då är det här avsnittet för dig! Jag ger dig alla mina tips för att få en bra hörförståelse. För att registrera dig för Free 6 Week Challenge och få hela din deposition tillbaka om du klarar att gå på 30 lektioner inom 6 veckor klicka här! Transkript: Tjena tjena! Det här är Simple Swedish Podcast. Jag heter Fredrik. Och idag ska vi prata om hörförståelse. Alltså att förstå det man hör. För det händer säkert ofta att du försöker lyssna på svenska men att du har väldigt svårt att förstå. Och kanske så förstår du den här podden lättare än de flesta andra poddar. Och det är för att jag talar lite långsammare med enklare ord och så. Och det är specifikt för att träna hörförståelse även om du inte är på en jättehög nivå. Men vi vill såklart nå en hög nivå i hörförståelse. Vi vill kunna förstå när människor pratar snabbt. Vi vill förstå vanliga poddar, tv-serier, filmer och kunna ha samtal på, ah svenska då för dig. Men de här teknikerna och de här strategierna, de som vi ska prata om idag, de fungerar såklart för alla språk. Och ja, innan vi börjar ska jag tacka några patrons såklart. Och det är Roberto, Brenda, Chris, Maija, J. Torres, Agnes, Jatthew, Raphael, Petar och Makino. Så, tack till er för att ni stödjer den här podden. Och en annan grej också innan vi börjar. Så, du kanske hörde om den här Free 6 week challenge som jag pratade om i ett par andra avsnitt, och det var så att den sålde slut ganska snabbt. Så vi sålde alla platser, vi utökade till och med från 50 till 60 platser, men de tog slut allihopa, så därför öppnar vi en ny Free 6 Week Challenge. Och den startar den 26:e (tjugosjätte) maj, alltså väldigt snart. Så om du vill vara med så se till att registrera dig så snart som möjligt. Senast på lördag. Och vi kommer ha ett onboarding call på söndag och sen på måndag den 26:e (tjugosjätte) maj så startar utmaningen. Och det är alltså att man går på 30 lektioner inom 6 veckor, och om man klarar det så får man sin deposition tillbaka. Så det är en väldigt, väldigt, väldigt bra deal. Och det är perfekt för dig som redan kan en del svenska men du behöver komma igång med att prata mycket. Länk finns i beskrivningen, okej. Så men nu ska vi prata, inte om att prata, utan om att förstå det man hör, hörförståelse, okej. Och hörförståelse är ju faktiskt väldigt, väldigt viktigt när man har samtal på svenska. För om du inte förstår personen du pratar med då blir det väldigt svårt att ha en konversation, okej. Och det finns två grundläggande färdigheter för en bra hörförståelse. Och det är, för det första, att förstå många ord. Så du måste kunna förstå många, många, många ord för att ha ett bra samtal och för att ha bra hörförståelse och du behöver också ha tränat ditt öra att förstå talspråk. Okej. Talspråk, det talade språket. Så du behöver ett stort ordförråd, förstå många ord. Och du behöver träna dig att förstå talspråk. Okej, så. Vi ska gå igenom fem punkter som är väldigt viktiga för att förstå talad svenska, eller vilket språk som helst. Och om du applicerar de här metoderna och teknikerna så kommer du garanterat att få mycket bättre hörförståelse. Så! ..för resten av transkriptet - klicka här

Hello, hello! This is Simple Swedish Podcast. My name is Fredrik and today we will talk about listening comprehension. Meaning to understand what you hear. Because it probably happens often that you try to listen in Swedish, but that you have very difficult to understand what you hear. And maybe you understand this podcast easier than most other podcasts and that's because I speak a little slower with simpler words and so on and that's specifically to train listening skills even if you're not at a very high level. But we want to

reach a high level in listening comprehension. We want to be able to understand when people speak quickly. We want to understand regular podcasts, TV series, movies and be able to have a conversation in Swedish for you but these techniques and strategies the ones we are going to talk about today they work for all languages and before we start I want to thank some Patrons Roberto, Brenda, Chris, Maja, Jay Torres, Agnes, Jathu, or Matthew, I don't know if I wrote it wrong

Rafael, Petar and Makino So, thanks to you for supporting this podcast And one more thing before we start So, you might have heard about this free 6 week challenge Which I talked about in a couple of other episodes and it was like that, it sold out pretty quickly so we sold out all the places

we even increased from 50 to 60 places But they all finished So, therefore we open a new Free Six Week Challenge And it starts on May 26th Very soon So if you want to be part of May, the challenge starts and that is that you go to 30 lessons within 6 weeks and if you manage that, you get your deposit back.

So it's a very, very, very good deal. And it's perfect for you who already know some Swedish, but need to get started with talking a lot. Link is in the description. So, but now we're going to talk, not about talking, but about understanding what you hear. Hearing comprehension. Okay? And listening comprehension is actually very, very important when you have a conversation in Swedish. Because if you don't understand the person you're talking to, it becomes very difficult to have a conversation. Okay? And there are two basic

skills for a good hearing understanding. And that is, first of all, to understand many words. So you must be able to understand many, many, many words. So you must be able to understand many many many words

to have a good conversation and to have good listening skills and you also need to have trained your ear to understand spoken language. Okay? The spoken language. So you need a large vocabulary to understand many words

and you need to train yourself to understand the spoken language. Okay, so. We will go through five points that are very important for understanding spoken Swedish or any language. And if you apply these methods and techniques, you will be guaranteed to get a much better listening experience. So, number one. And that, massive exposure of the right material, the right activities and so on. So, some people study only specific days in a week, maybe Mondays, Thursdays, ok then I study Swedish. Or that you take one day a week and study a lot, a lot get some intensity, that you get into the language, that you bathe in the language for a long time. But it is also very important that you train the language regularly. That you do it regularly means that you do it every day, like in a reasonable, equal interval so it becomes regular, something you do

a lot, often, all the time, every day so you study and train regularly but you also have this intensity so that is the massive exposure so you do that a lot and often. Why? Well, partly you need to understand thousands of different words. And you need to understand many, many more words than you need to be able to use yourself because if you have a conversation, you can say quite a lot just by using the words you know you can explain a lot with few words. But if you speak with a Swedish person, you need to understand the word that this Swedish person is saying.

You need to understand all of those words. I, as a Swedish person, can speak many many many more words than you can as a Swedish person can learn many many more words than you can learn in Swedish So your understanding must include many many more words than you need to use And the best way to learn many words is actually to read maybe not for all people but for most people the best way to learn many words is to read so, to get a good understanding

maybe it's important to read a lot. Precisely because you learn a lot of words by reading. And then of course you also need to listen a lot, to train your ears to understand languages. Okay, so reading to understand many words, listening to to train your ears to speak languages. Because you need to understand automatically, okay? Because you don't have time to listen to all words. So therefore you have to listen for thousands of hours on authentic material to reach a high level in hearing comprehension.

Think about it. in listening. Think about it. And in the beginning, when you start learning a language, it can be good to read and listen at the same time, or to read a transcript. this podcast because it's very very good in the beginning when you start learning that you have written material that you can also listen to so you can do both so it becomes like a bridge to just listen.

Massive exposure is very important to both read and listen. Intensity is also important. Regulation, that you do it every day. Okay. That was the first, maybe the biggest point. Point number two is to have patience. Okay? So, to have patience.

To have patience. To be patient. Okay? To have patient. To be patient. So, we must prepare ourselves for a long journey with the language. As I said, you have to Swedish to train your ears And to do that you need to know why you learn Swedish, you need to feel that it is important to you and know why you actually do that and you have to integrate the Swedish language into your life so that it becomes personal to you. And so that you are always in contact with the Swedish language every day.

And this is more and more important the more advanced you become. So in the beginning you may not need to have the language very integrated in life but if you want to reach a high level then the language has to be integrated into your life and it has to be personal and of course that the material you use that it has to be interesting for you, that it must feel fun and meaningful so that you stay engaged and motivated. So that was to have patience and make sure that you are ready for a long journey. Okay, number three. And this has to do with when

you actually listen to Swedish. For example when you listen to a podcast or when you listen to a person. So, focus on the whole, okay? Because we won't understand all words But if you focus on the whole Then the chance is big that you can understand the general

and follow the conversation, follow the action and so on so you have to relax a little and try not to understand all individual words no, focus on the whole listen for key words. Listen for words that you understand. Or look for other signals, for example body language. And try to take in the whole. Listen to...

When we listen to our mother tongue we don't listen to individual words we listen to the content and we take in the whole Try to do that when you listen to Swedish Point number four And that is to always try to know the context because you might have this experience to say that you are in a conversation

or that you are listening to a conversation and you might understand pretty well so you know what they are talking about and you can follow the conversation But, a little later, you may lose the thread Or you may simply not know the context anymore You don't know what the conversation is about And then, suddenly, you don't understand anything.

So, just knowing what the conversation is about, knowing the context, that makes you understand a lot more. So, and that's also why, for example, if someone comes and starts a conversation with you in Swedish, or if someone asks you something in Swedish, starts a new conversation, it can be quite difficult to understand what that person wants, what that person says, what that person wants because you don't have context, you don't know the context. And that's why these short conversations are quite difficult. So, if you have, for example, in a store or at a restaurant,

or you're talking to a person in the city, so these short conversations are quite difficult because you don't have the context and the brain doesn't have the time to have a longer conversation and people you're used to because it's easier to find the thread to the conversation and if you're a beginner and listen to a podcast like this one it can be very good to read the transcript because then you know the subject and you know the context and then it becomes much easier to understand everything So, and if you have the context, you don't need to understand all words.

Because you can focus on the key words, understand the whole. And that's also why it often works to do some like a little fake until you make it? Imagine that you're talking to a person and the person says something that you don't really understand But you pretend that you understood and just continue the conversation You didn't understand that detail, but you just keep going. You're just like, okay. You pretend that you understood. You fake it till you make it.

A little bit. And you can keep the conversation going. But of course, that only works to a certain limit. Because sometimes someone says something that you have to understand in order to continue the conversation. So it's also important to say, sorry, I didn't understand, can you say that again? You also need need to say often, of course. And it's not a shame, it's important that you can say, excuse me, I didn't understand,

can you say it again? But as I said, that you know the context because what you listen to makes you understand a lot more and you don't need to understand all words Okay, that was point number four Now we come to point number five which is the last point and point number five is about that you have to build self-confidence for your listening comprehension.

Because you might actually have a pretty good listening comprehension, so you might be able to listen to podcasts, watch shows without subtitles But when you actually speak with a Swedish person it becomes much harder And that is often because you are a little nervous, you are blocked, you feel stressed or maybe there are other negative feelings like fear, shame, you judge yourself, you're a perfectionist. Your brain can handle it. To handle it means that you create problems. The brain can handle it. The brain can create problems. It's often that you get very stressed and your brain ends up in a state of survival.

Your brain thinks that it has to survive. This is a very stressful situation. It's a dangerous situation I feel scared then then the brain thinks that you have to survive Okay, so that we have to We have to try to overcome The insecurity and build Self-confidence build self-confidence, build self-confidence and it's about finding ways to calm down your brain trying to get rid of the perfectionism

get rid of perfectionism You don't have to be perfect It's very important to be ok with not understanding It will happen so many times that you don't understand and that's ok So we shouldn't judge ourselves when we don't understand. Don't judge yourself. We have to be friends with ourselves. And speak to ourselves as if we are friends. And not be so critical So that the brain can relax

And we are not in a state of survival And we will understand much better Okay? And it is also about choosing the right context, the right situation, the right people so that we can feel more comfortable so that we don't panic But at the same time, to build self-confidence, it is of course important that you push yourself out of your comfort zone. So that you have to challenge yourself as well. So that you go out of your comfort comfort zone Doing things that are a little difficult

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It's very important that you get a lot of input, both to learn vocabulary and to train your ears. And that you have patience and know that this takes time. And then when you listen to Swedish, try to get to know the context, the subject, and to focus on the whole, not to listen to these individual words, to focus on the whole, listen to key words, that you maybe don't pause the conversation every time you don't understand but you can fake a little that you understand if it's small details but then if it's something important you don't understand that you say, sorry, I didn't understand, can you say it again? And that you build self-confidence by pushing yourself out of your comfort zone

Doing things that are a bit difficult But don't get into situations that not too stressful situations because then we can start associating the language with negative feelings and even build small traumas So yeah, those were the five points, maybe a little more complicated than five specific points But I hope you have learned a lot about how to get a good listening understanding And yes, if you are interested in the Free Six Week Challenge, don't forget to register as soon as you can for it. I will leave a link in the description. So that was all for today. Have a good one and see you soon.