Simple Swedish Podcast - #246 - Träd

Episode Date: August 27, 2024

Nivå: A2-B1 I det här avsnittet lär du dig några galna fakta om träd, om betydelsen av träd för människan och för Sverige, och en massa bra ord! Anmäl dig till Katrins gratis webinarium "Låt som en svensk" - klicka här! ------------------- För att stödja podden och få transkript till avsnitten - bli patron för bara 5€ per månad – klicka här! Letar du efter en plats dit du alltid kan gå för att träna din svenska varje dag? Har du svårt att få tillräckligt med tid att PRATA svenska? Vi har löst ditt problem, och det heter The Language Gym! Klicka här för att läsa mer! ------------------- Instagram: swedish.linguist YouTube: Swedish Linguist Website: www.swedishlinguist.com Language Lock-in: https://www.languagelockin.com/ ------------------- Ett smakprov (sample) på transkriptet: Hallå där! Välkommen till Simple Swedish Podcast. Jag heter Fredrik och idag ska vi prata om träd. För träd tycker jag väldigt mycket om. Jag älskar faktiskt träd. Jag tycker träd är riktigt härliga livsformer. Så därför tänkte jag göra ett avsnitt om det. Berätta lite intressanta fakta och lära er några bra ord som har med träd att göra. Först och främst ska vi bara tacka några nya Patrons. Och det är Olga, Eric, Arthur, Matthew, d dR, Mariann, Katrina, Julia, Qing Xi och Ann. Så tack till er för att ni stödjer den här podden. Det är ju transcript till alla avsnitt som man får när man stödjer podden. Det kostar bara 5 euro per månad. Om man betalar lite mer, 10 euro per månad, då får man också uttalsövningar varje vecka, och tillgång till våra chattrum på Discord där du kan prata med mig och de andra. Jag vill också berätta om ett webbinarium som kommer vara den 29 augusti. Det är Katrin Berndt som håller i det, och det är om hur man låter mer svensk. Yes, jag lämnar en länk till det webbinariet i beskrivningen. Det är helt gratis så missa inte det. Bra, då ska vi prata lite om träd. För jag älskar träd. Alltså skog har alltid varit min favoritnatur. Skog alltså. Om du har många många träd, då har du en skog. ....för att läsa hela transkriptet till detta och alla andra avsnitt, klicka här!

Hello there! Welcome to Simple Swedish Podcast. My name is Fredrik and today we are going to talk about trees. Because I like trees a lot. I actually love trees. I think trees are really lovely life forms, so therefore I thought I would make an episode about that, tell some interesting facts and teach you some good words that have to do with trees. First and foremost, we should thank some new Patrons. And that is Olga, Erik, Arthur, Matthew, DDR, Marianne, Katrina, Julia, Ching-Chi and Ann. So thank you for supporting this podcast. It's a transcript for all episodes you get when you support the podcast. It only costs 5 euros per month. If you pay a little more, 10 euros per month, you also get monthly exercises every week and access to our chatroom on Discord where you can talk to me and the others.

I also want to tell you about a webinar that will be on August 29th. It's Katrin Band who's holding it and it's about how to sound more Swedish. Yes, I'm leaving a link to that webinar in the description. It's completely free, so don't miss it. Good. Then we'll talk a little about trees. I love trees. Forest has always been my favorite natural forest. If you have many trees, you have a forest. Trees are big, they are old, they feel wise in some way. They feel protective. It feels like you feel safe when you I was little, I still like climbing trees. In Sweden there is a lot of trees. We have a lot of forest in Sweden and the forestry industry is very important for Sweden's economy, both today and throughout Sweden's history. We export a lot of wood and a lot of things that are made of wood. Think of IKEA for example.

IKEA needs a lot of wood to build their furniture. And as I said, we have a lot of wood in Sweden. If we count trees that are at least 2 meters high, there are 76 billion trees in Sweden.

That is 76,000 million trees. And that is 7,600 trees per person in Sweden. 7600 trees per person in Sweden. So there is a lot of trees. Trees are important for people. You get building materials, so you can build things, houses and furniture and everything. In Sweden it is common to build houses out of wood. So you see a lot of wooden houses in Sweden. You also make paper. You use it as firewood to burn with, so you burn wood. Wood is the material you get from wood. So you get wood from wood. also important, like a biotope, simply. And the forests absorb 30% of the air's carbon dioxide. So it's important also that we can breathe. Yes, forests are very important.

A little vocabulary then. So, a tree consists of a trunk and a crown and roots. So the roots are what goes down under the ground. So down under the ground go theötterna, en rot, många rötter, okej? Och från marken går stammen. Så stammen är liksom det här långa raka som kommer upp ur marken, upp ur jorden. Så ja, det är en stam. from the ground, from the earth. So that is a trunk. And then at the farthest up we have the crown. So the crown is all the branches and branches and leaves and so on. So a branch is what comes out of the trunk. So we have many branches and a twig is like a branch, but much smaller.

So we have branches that come out of the trunk and twigs that come out of the branches. And on the branches and branches there is a leaf. So the leaf is what is green, basically. So it can be either a leaf or a pear. So there are two types of trees. There are leaf tree and bark trees. So bark, then it is not really like a leaf, but it is quite long, rough and more solid than a leaf. Leaves are like flat and light and soft. and light and soft. Bar is like long, wide, hard. And leaf trees, they fall their leaves in the autumn. So in the winter the leaf trees do not have any leaves, but they lose their leaves.

You say that they fall their leaves. The oak tree, however, they have their oak left. So the oak is left on the oak tree in winter. So the oak tree is green also in winter, while leaf trees fall their leaves, they lose their leaves, so they have no leaves in the winter. In Sweden, then. Because in Sweden we have different seasons, and in the winter it is cold, in the summer it's warm, not really warm, but pretty warm. Warmer than in the winter at least. And along the tree is bark. You could say that bark is like the skin of the tree. It protects the tree from the branches, branches and branches. There is bark.

So we have bark tree, leaf tree and we have the most common trees in Sweden, for example, the pine tree. The pine tree is a birch tree and you can see pine trees all over Sweden. Maybe not so much along the southern part of Sweden, but all of Sweden, all of northern Sweden, there are a lot of tall trees. And that is a oak tree. Another very common tree is a branch. The branch is known for being related to the branch with a wheel. Yes, so the tree used on wheels is a branch. It is called a Christmas branch. So if you take a branch and takeate and take home your pomegranate and decorate it, then it's called Christmas pomegranate. So Christmas pomegranate is the Christmas tree you use. And the species itself is called spruce. And then we have birch.

Birch is a leaf tree. Unlike pine and spruce, because pine and spruce are spruce trees. Birch is a leaf tree and it grows all over Sweden, I think. Very, very common. The bark is often white and black, so the bark is quite characteristic. It is called a spruce actually, and it is very easy to have my favorite tree and that is oak. I don't know why the oak is my favorite tree. Maybe because we had an oak on the garden where I grew up, in our garden, in the house where I grew up, not in the house, but in the garden outside the house where I grew up. Yes, a lot of them as children. And eagles can get very very old. They can get over 1000 years old.

And, yes, over 1000 years, that's really crazy when you think about it. Imagine 1000 years ago, yes, then Sweden was not a country. But some of the oak trees that exist today, started to grow. Before Sweden's history even started, there were some oak trees that still live today. It's pretty crazy to think about. Trees are actually the organisms in the world that can become the oldest. There are many trees in the world that are even 3000, 4000, 5000 years old. So almost 5000 years. And that means that the tree lived when the pyramids in Giza were built. So already when the pyramids were built in the ancient Egyptian fort, then the tree that still lives today grows. Really crazy when you think about it. And that is like, the tree itself. So if you count the oldest from purely genetic, that is, the same, what So there is a tree, a branch actually, in the valleys in Sweden, in a place has been dated to 9550 years.

So, it's not the same tribe, but the same individual. So, this tree is almost 10 000 years old. Which is crazy. It's almost back to the ice age. So, I don't think so. I'm not going to say that I know when the ice age was. But anyway, this branch is called Old Chico and it's almost 10 000 years old. Insane. And trees are also the biggest organisms in the world. And the biggest tree in the world is called General Sherman and is a mammoth tree that grows in California, a specific tree of the mammoth species. four meters high and has a diameter of 11 meters and it is believed that General Sherman is about

2500 years old. So really crazy facts about trees. These mammoth trees in California can generally be very large and old. This specific tree, the General Sherman, is 84 meters high and 11 meters in diameter, 2500 years old. So, yes, trees are really cool life forms. And one thing that I also think is very cool, not only with trees, but with plants in general, because they grow up from the ground, from the earth, so you think that they take their material from the ground. But actually they take their but from the air. They take carbon dioxide and water and through photosynthesis they create their material. Sugar, cellulose and such things. So that's quite interesting to think about as well. So really, they are sitting in the ground, but they actually grow from the air. Interesting, I think trees are insanely cool. That was what I was going to talk about today. I am fixing myself and everything that is needed for language lock-in in Mora in the valleys.

So I will be going there in a couple of days, or no, in the morning actually. So we will do our language lock-in the third time, so bootcamp number three, and the second time we do it in the summer. So that will be really fun and interesting. So yes, you will certainly hear a little about how it was afterwards. So yes, we'll see you soon in two weeks. Have a good one.