Ten weird habits of Swedish people

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Yes, yes, this is a podcast about Paris and France, but I decided to cast the net wider for this episode and take a closer look at Sweden.

Why? Well, today's guest is Swedish, we're both in Sweden right now, and as you might remember, I spent about five years in Sweden before Paris.

So with about 10 years of observing the very fascinating Swedes under my belt, I pitched to Lina the ten most unusual things I've noticed about Swedes to see what she thought.

Here's that conversation.

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0:00.0	Bonjour everyone, or perhaps bonsois, depending on where you are in the world.
0:04.9	Heck, perhaps you say a whole different kind of word for hello, which is funny I say that
0:10.1	because I'm sitting across from today's guest who is a swede.
0:14.9	It's Leanie.
0:16.6	A bono.
0:18.3	It's Leanie.
0:19.8	Oh, God.
0:20.5	Leany? Yeah, I don't know what I came from. It's Leigh. Oh, God. Leaning?
0:21.1	Yeah, I don't know what I came from.
0:23.1	It's Lena.
0:25.2	How do you say hello and good evening in Swedish?
0:29.5	Oh, well, you would say, hey, good quvail.
0:33.0	Hey, good quvail.
0:34.1	Yes.
0:34.7	They're the two.
0:35.2	Good quail is good evening.
0:36.6	Good evening, everybody in listener land. Lena will be're the two. Good quedle is good evening. Good evening. Everybody in listener land.
0:39.2	Lena will be my guest today, aka Lini, okay Lina, okay lovely Lina.
0:43.3	And we're in Sweden just a little bit longer before going back to Paris.
0:47.3	And I thought, why not do an episode about Sweden?
0:50.7	An introduction of sorts.
0:52.0	I thought so. I thought if people like podcast, they like travel,
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