Sweden One - Transcription
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I was born in Sweden, Stockholm, but I'm not really from the centre of Stockholm, I'm from the suburb, a suburb called Järfälla and it's twenty minutes by train from Stockholm city. And it's a kind of neat little suburb and really small little houses and it's very nice, I think. But, like, as soon as I get older and older I want to live closer to the city, which I don't but it's nice. And I also, my parents are divorced, so I have my, my dad is living on the other side of town, so I do pass Stockholm a lot when I'm not in Stockholm. So Stockholm is a good city. There are many different suburbs in the um, the closest part, they're *divided up in "malms", like Östermalm, Södermalm, *Östermal.. No I can't remember any of the closest inside, but outside it's *Barkarby, Järfälla, Kallhäll, Kungsängen, Sundbyberg, Karlberg, Spånga. [Och massa orter olika. Och många ..] Oh no, stop. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I was starting to speak Swedish. And many of the suburbs, like people think different things about different suburbs, you know, everybody have their own stereotype and everything, so, I d'know. I know that people who live in the middle of the city think that we are living out in the country, which we apparently don't, but, yeah. Um Stockholm, and then Gothenberg, but we pronounce it Göteborg, um Malmö is the third largest city, and *then the rest are pretty much the same size I think, like Umeå, Skellefteå, um yeah. I first started to speak English when I was in fourth grade. Um the Swedish people put a lot of effort into the English education because Swedish is kind of a small country and um, if we don't learn English, we can't communicate with so many people, so um English is requirement, *it's also another language except Swedish is, and English is requirement but we have the opportunity to choose that language so that's good. *But I really think that English is the easiest language to learn since um you hear it on the TV, and the computer language and everything is so American and like news, some things in papers and stuff, so.
Transcribed by Kevin Flynn, IDEA's Associate Editor for Transcriptions