Alla Vi Barn I Bullerbyn - Reading in Swedish

Hey guys, it's Bregje and today I'm going to be doing the first in a series of videos where I'm going be talking about books that weren't originally published in English but rather in another language and I'm trying to read those books in their original language The first book I want to talk about today is a Swedish book It's called Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn I believe the English translation of this book is called The Children of Noisy Village This book is written by Astrid Lindgren who also wrote Pippi Longstocking and it's actually a series of three books but they are the kind of books that you can read separately I think and I've read the first two books of this series in Swedish but years ago I read all three of them in Dutch This book is about six children who live in a very small village in Sweden The village actually only consists of three houses The main character Lisa is about seven years old I think when the story starts out She has two older brothers Lasse and Bosse and in one of the other houses lives another boy called Olle and in the last house live two sisters called Britta and Anna Together these kids have all kinds of adventures and it's just really sweet because the kind of things they do... they're like looking for treasures or they're baking a cake or they're just going to the store because their mom wants them to or things like that So it's just really sweet and I really used to love these stories as a kid because they are just so relatable eventhough these books were writen so many years ago I believe the first one was written in 1946 but still it was really relatable to me as a kid because it's just about all the things kids really worry about like what they are going to get for their birthday or what they are going to do during the summer things like that and also I found the relationships really relatable Especially Lisa's relationship with her older brothers, because I also have an older brother and it was just really relatable but eventhough these books were written so many years ago I never really noticed that when I was a kid I mean, now that I read them I do obviously notice it because there is a lot less technology than there is nowadays because they don't have a phone in their village If they want to call someone they have to go to the next village to do so but all the other things, like the things that the kids really care about and the things they like to do in their free time are really just the things I cared about as a kid so that really proves that this is a wonderful classic I think these are really good books to read if you are learning Swedish because the great thing about these is that... Um, because the kids go on all these kind of small adventures pretty much every chapter is a story on its own It's one of these small adventures they go on It's not really the kind of book that you have to read in one go You can just read one chapter and then you can put it down for a while and then just continue without really having to remember a really complicated plot because reading in another language that you are not too familiar with costs a lot of effort and if you have to read it all the time and can't just read something else in between it can get a little bit annoying and can take a way the fun of learning this new language So if you want to learn Swedish this is definitely a good book to pick up I think There is something that I noticed about the way Astrid Lindgren writes certain words that I wasn't really sure why she did this For example when the subject of a sentence is 'they' In swedish that's [dom], but you write it 'de' at least that's the way I learned it but in this book she actually writes it 'dom' so it's written a lot more like... the way it sounds and this was the same for the word 'says' which is 'säger' in Swedish but I learned to write it with a g, but in this book it's written with a j and that also to me looks a lot more like the way it sounds but I'm not really sure if it's written this way because it's an older book or if it's somethings that's done in certain regions of Sweden or if you can actually use both versions of these words but I haven't actually seen them written this way before so I'm not really sure but if you happen to know, please let me know in the comments down below because I would love to know that And also if you have any recommendations for books that were originally written in Swedish but aren't too complicated please let me know I hope you enjoyed this video and I'll see you next time, bye!