What’s a good website to get Swedish language videos, movies, TV shows, etc. at?
June 8, 2010 by
Filed under swedish language
In light of a study abroad opportunity, I’m hoping to teach myself Swedish. Being that I am a native English speaker, and the pronunciation of Swedish is somewhat musical and very hard to teach oneself, I was hoping to improve mine by watching/listening to enough Swedish language media. However, I am having trouble finding videos/audio that correspond to my beginner level. I would prefer to watch movies with English subs, or children’s shows (because of their simple language). If anybody could direct me to a site that contained such things, or contained links or torrents therein, I would be grateful.
Sorry, I don’t know of any site that offers free Swedish movies. But there is one movie that you may consider looking for at your local video store. The movie is Swedish director Ingmar Bergman’s “Fanny & Alexander.” If you can get the whole Criterion Collection, the better, as this contains not only the theatrical version, but the television version as well. The TV version (312 minutes) is actually the uncut version of the film (only 188 minutes) shown at moviehouses.
Swedish state television has a huge archive of tv shows, ranging from the very early days of broadcasting, to new episodes that just were on air last week, on all sorts of topics.
Head over to http://www.svt.se and click ‘öppet arkiv’ in the menu near the top (it’s at the far right)
You can probably figure you way out from there, with some basic swedish and a dictionary. Children’s shows are under ‘barn’
There’s more here: http://www.svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=306&lid=barn&from=menu
Bolibompa is aimed mostly at preschoolers, Hej Hej Sommar and Tillbaka till vintergatan are my 8 year old’s current favourite tv shows.
There’s also a lot of interactive flash games aimed at beginning and non-readers there, which you may find helpful.
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Few of it will have swedish subtitles though.