Swedish
Audio
Drive and Listen - An incredibly cool website that allows you to choose a city from the drop-down menu, ride around the city in a car (the visuals make you feel you are actually looking out the window of a car). If you click the play button, you can listen to live radio spoken in the language of that city as you ride around the city. [Shared by Camille Henrie]
Christmas
Räven och Tomten Jul - An 8:29 min. CGI video in Swedish (much of it wordless) with subtitled dialogue in Swedish
Ted Ström - Vintersaga - A music video of the song illustrated by Ted Ström's watercolors
Tomten - The text of Viktor Rydberg's poem presented in Swedish alongside two different English translations
Tomten - en vintersaga - An 11:20 min. video of the story by Viktor Rydberg in Swedish with subtitles in Swedish
Tomten (Remastered) - A 12:00 min. remastered video of the story by Viktor Rydberg in Swedish (no subtitles)
Viktor Rydberg - Tomten (läst av klas jonsson) - A 7:00 min. illustrated video of the classic story
Cultural Comparisons
Dollar Street - Use the dropdown menus on this incredible site to choose countries and topics for comparison based on socioeconomic level. Your selections will bring up photos of whatever you chose from the countries you selected. The site contains many common everyday objects, people, and situations (e.g., adding spices to food while cooking, alarm clocks, answering phones, arm watches, armchairs, backyards, bathrooms, bedrooms, beds, bikes, boats, books, bowls, brushing hair, brushing teeth, car keys, carrying water, cars, ceilings, chickens, child rooms, chopping food, cleaning equipment, cleaning floors, closing the front door, computers, cooking, cooking pots, cooking utensils, cups, cutlery, diapers, dinner guests, disability aid, dish brushes, dish racks, dishwashing soaps, dishwashers, doing dishes, drinking water, drying clothes, drying dishes, earings, eating, everyday shoes, families, family snapshots, favorite home decorations, favorite items in kitchen, floors, freezers, get water, glasses, go through mail, goats, grains, guest beds, hairbrushes, hallways, handwashing, hands, and so forth.
Images (Note: Search Pixabay for "Sweden" or "Swedish" for many culturally authentic images)
Berlin Tyskland. (2021, May 14). Books, Old, Kulla-gulla image. Free for use. Pixabay. Retrieved from https://pixabay.com/photos/books-old-kulla-gulla-6254239/
Pedagogical Resources
Swedish Christmas Poem - "Tomten" [English Translation] - A 4:43 min. illustrated version of the story read aloud in Swedish with Swedish and English subtitles