{"id":8389,"date":"2019-11-26T21:08:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T21:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=8389"},"modified":"2019-11-26T21:08:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T21:08:15","slug":"get-to-know-swedish-julkalender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/get-to-know-swedish-julkalender\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to know Swedish Julkalender"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: SVT – Panik i tomteverkstan<\/p><\/div>\n

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Julkalender<\/span><\/i> is an annual television event of epic proportions. Swedish Television, SVT<\/em>, goes all-out to produce an original Christmas-themed series that Swedes both young and old look forward to. The show premiers on December 1st and concludes on Christmas Eve. Keeping up with <\/span>julkalender<\/span><\/i> is like having one of those advent calendars where you open a little paper flap each day, but instead of eating a piece of so-so chocolate, you get to watch the next episode in the<\/span> julkalender<\/span><\/i> series. Also, this is an incredible opportunity to work on Swedish: it\u2019s fun, it\u2019s playful, and BONUS, the episodes are only fifteen minutes long!<\/span><\/p>\n

First, because this show is about Santa, how do we say \u201cSanta\u201d in Swedish? A <\/span>tomte <\/span><\/i>can be a little elf, or gnome. However, if we put this word in the definite form, with a capital \u201cT\u201d, <\/span>Tomten<\/span><\/i>, we now mean THE TOMTE, aka, Santa. You can also use <\/span>Jultomten, <\/span><\/i>literally the Christmas elf, if you\u2019d like to emphasis that you mean the “Christmassy” elf, and not other elves who play tricks on you around the house and steal your socks from the laundry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Vem ska vara Tomte i \u00e5r?\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/i>Who is going to be Santa this year?<\/span><\/p>\n

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This year\u2019s program is titled \u201cPanik i tomteverkstan\u201d or \u201cPanic in Santa\u2019s Workshop.\u201d So what\u2019s the panic all about? Apparently, kids have stopped believing in Santa and this news is seriously bumming Tomten<\/em> out. His wife, kids, and helpers, try their best to pull it all together as the holiday approaches. Per Andersson plays Tomten<\/em> and Pernilla Wahlgren plays Tomtemor<\/em>. Despite the show being filmed in March of this year, actors said that the julst\u00e4mning<\/em>, or Christmas spirit, on set was high due to the use of fake snow and hundreds of Christmas trees.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

att tro<\/strong> p\u00e5<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0to believe in<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0– > tror -> trodde -> har trott\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Barnen slutar tro p\u00e5 Tomten.\u00a0<\/em>
\n<\/span>The children stop believing in Santa.<\/p>\n

Tomtemor\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>Mother Christmas or Mrs. Claus<\/p>\n

Pernilla Wahlgren spelar Tomtemor i \u00e5r.\u00a0<\/em>
\nPernilla Wahlgren plays Mrs. Claus this year.<\/p>\n

<\/span>en sk\u00e5despelare\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>an actor<\/span><\/p>\n

Markoolio \u00e4r en av sk\u00e5despelarna i \u00e5rets program.\u00a0<\/em>
\n<\/span>Markoolio is one of the actors in this year’s show.<\/span><\/p>\n

att spela in\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>to film \/ shoot<\/span><\/p>\n

-> spelar -> spelade -> har spelat\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Programmet spelades in i mars.\u00a0<\/em> \u00a0<\/span>The show was shot in March.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

julst\u00e4mning\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>Christmas feeling
\nHur fick ni julst\u00e4mningen i mars?<\/em>
\nHow did you get that Christmas feeling in March?<\/p>\n

fejksn\u00f6\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 fake snow<\/p>\n

en julgran<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 a Christmas tree<\/p>\n

Vi anv\u00e4nde en massa fejksn\u00f6 och m\u00e5nga julgranar.<\/em>
\nWe used a lot of fake snow and many Christmas trees.<\/p>\n

Julkalender<\/span><\/i> is 24 episodes in total. Each episode airs twice daily on SVT, once in the morning, and once in the evening. It\u2019s also available to stream outside of those times on SVTplay<\/a>. Some Swedes aren\u2019t really into <\/span>julkalender,<\/span><\/i> but when the theme is good, the buzz builds and folks tune in. Last year\u2019s show, \u201cStorm p\u00e5 Lugna gatan,\u201d a play on words about the Storm family, \u201cThe Storm on Quiet Street\u201d had nearly 775,000 streams online for each episode, which was up about 80% from the previous year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Storm p\u00e5 lugna gatan. Photo: Johan Paulin, SVT<\/p><\/div>\n


\nWhen I was living in Sweden, the main character of \u201cTjuvarnas jul\/ The Thieve\u2019s Christmas\u201d was a spunky little girl named Charlie. Her name was pronounced with a \u201csh\u201d-sound instead of the English \u201cch,\u201d becoming \u201cShar-lee.\u201d This is really similar to the way Swedes end up pronouncing my name, \u201cShelsea.\u201d In fact, while meeting people during this run of\u00a0 <\/span>julkalender<\/span><\/i>, I would tell them my name is Chelsea, and next time we\u2019d see each other, they would call me Charlie. I would kindly remind them that I wasn\u2019t the girl from <\/span>julkalender,<\/span><\/i> which left them feeling a lot more awkward than I did.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pretty bummed that you\u2019ve been missing out on all the fun of <\/span>julkalender <\/span><\/i>each year, right? <\/span>Ingen panik<\/span><\/i> \/don\u2019t panic! Here is the list of all <\/span>60 programs since <\/span><\/a>the tradition started in 1960. Some programs are archived and available to watch in <\/span>SVT\u2019s archive<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>here<\/span><\/a>. A few years ago, SVT polled viewers for their favorite <\/span>julkalender <\/span><\/i>theme<\/span>. 1991\u2019s program, \u201cSunes jul,\u201d based on the popular books by Anders Jacobsson och S\u00f6ren Olsson, came in first by a landslide.\u00a0 Second was 1996\u2019s <\/span>\u201dMysteriet p\u00e5 Greveholm\u201d<\/span><\/a> and third was <\/span>\u201dTrolltider\u201d<\/span><\/a>, which aired in 1979.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00d6ppet arkiv\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Open Archive on SVT<\/p>\n

Det g\u00e5r att titta p\u00e5 b\u00e5de\u00a0 <\/span>\u201dMysteriet p\u00e5 Greveholm\u201d<\/span> och <\/span>\u201dTrolltider\u201d<\/span> i SVTplays \u00d6ppet arkiv.
\n<\/span><\/em>You can watch both <\/span>\u201dMysteriet p\u00e5 Greveholm\u201d<\/span> and <\/span>\u201dTrolltider\u201d<\/span> in SVTplay\u2019s Open Archives online.<\/span><\/p>\n

So will this year\u2019s theme be a hit or a flop? I don\u2019t know! I haven\u2019t seen it yet! But check out a <\/span>sneak-peak, <\/span>en smygtitt<\/span><\/i> here!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Julkalender is an annual television event of epic proportions. Swedish Television, SVT, goes all-out to produce an original Christmas-themed series that Swedes both young and old look forward to. The show premiers on December 1st and concludes on Christmas Eve. Keeping up with julkalender is like having one of those advent calendars where you…<\/p>\n

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