How Swedes celebrate Christmas - 5 STRANGE Christmas Traditions 🇸🇪 - Learn Swedish in a FUN way!

[@EmilieÅgren]

I LOVE your sense of humor. The best teacher ever.

[@EmilieÅgren]

Is he dead? Or is he on vacation in Spain? Let's call the police anyway.

[@FunSwedish]

Thanks for laughthing at my jokes and for your positive comments! You are the best!

[@sararubicubi]

As a Spaniard, Christmas for us doesn't stop until January 6, so when you said Swedes celebrate Christmas until late I expected something like that hahahaha

[@byronchandler5000]

Donald Duck, aka Kalle Anka is such a fascinating Svenska Christmas tradition, so I adapted Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land into my own Christmas tradition here in Wisconsin, my home state.

[@Bambinistrappatii6984]

In italy we have a sweet 2 sweet similar to a "cake" it name is:"panettone" and" pandoro" . And we have a game at christmas:"tombola" . This year I'll miss very much panettone😢

[@moon_SY_G]

3:38 we in lithuania also using alot of these candles

[@lauriegranstrand4018]

Have experienced all when visiting for the holidays. Growing in in a Swedish American home we always celebrated Julafton and had jullampor i fönstret

[@FunSwedish]

😍

[@gabriellek4587]

Chocolate is a must! My family watches Charlie browns Christmas special every year! I think watching a movie or tv show everyone enjoys is a great way to bring everyone together! ☺️

[@FunSwedish]

Thanks for sharing!! Exactly the traditions, even though sometimes weird fill a purpose 😁

[@zainulabdin1720]

Christmas as usual movie 🍿🎥❤

[@KarlaLopez-ec7dr]

Also Lucia tradition, food for Christmas , Christmas calendars 😉🇸🇪👌

[@FunSwedish]

Oh yes! That is coming in one of the next videos! Spoiler alert! 😁

[@MusicByAllonaMayost]

3:30 it looks like a menorah.

[@FunSwedish]

True 😊. Not exactly the same, but there is clearly some of the same idea in there.

[@GA-lx6ib]

Donald Duck?! That’s hilarious! Thank you for the video

[@FunSwedish]

Haha, I know! We love Kalle Anka (Donald Duck) over here 🙂

[@DavidLopez-wd7rx]

Thank you for sharing, greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽

[@FunSwedish]

Thanks for watching!

[@Beatrix211]

In several parts of Canada we also start to celebrate on the 24th. We have a Christmas dinner with family in the evening, open our presents and stay up late playing different games. The 25 and 26 are paid holidays and we continue to visit family and have a feast together. I love this time of the year!!!

[@FunSwedish]

Sounds lovely 😍

[@MelissaSaguran-nw1fn]

In our country 🇵🇭 Christmas starts on September 1st until January ☺️

[@shadowpuppet8192]

I have Swedish roots. No wonder I love Donald Duck.

[@FunSwedish]

😂😂

[@tomeofslyev]

The Asian version of Swedes celebrating Xmas early would be Singaporean Chinese starting to celebrate Chinese New Year about a week before it even started- by "starting to celebrate", I mean stocking up on CNY goodies and deco and then start visiting relatives' houses about 2-3 days before the actual CNY👀 Also, the Julstakke looks so cool! The closest Chinese version of that (imo) would be the Mid-Autumn festival (中秋节) lanterns. Mostly because kids love to hold multiple lanterns at one go for some absurd reason🤷‍♀️

[@FunSwedish]

Yes. Sounds like the most similar thing to the Swedish Xmas. The celebration of the Chinese New Year seems like super fun! I would love to experience it someday 😊

[@tomeofslyev]

@@FunSwedish You absolutely should! We have a LOT of goodies - from pineapple tarts, to egg rolls/love letters (very crunchy)! Also, CNY is a brilliant excuse to stay up till the wee hours of the morning and get money from your elders in the form of red packets😏

[@melaniesouza3174]

Thank you for this. Your traditions are very similar to my personal traditions, actually and I’m not Swedish at all. My family never understood my fascination with Donald Duck on Xmas day 🤪 and actually I don’t understand it either but maybe I was Swedish in my past life ? 🤣🤣🤣

[@FunSwedish]

You should double check and make sure you are not part Swedish 😂😂😂

[@montenegromf]

I just love it! I have been living in Sweden for 5 years and didn't know about Donald duck 😂🤣. Your acidic humor make lough loud here hahah. Tack tack ❤️

[@FunSwedish]

Glad you enjoyed it! 😁

[@Littlekatyb]

I have always loved Christmas Eve more than Christmas Day, so I would fit right in with the Swedish traditions I think 😂

[@FunSwedish]

Haha, and I wouldn't mind having more British things for Christmas! Yesterday I tried Christmas Pudding. Super delicious :)

[@Littlekatyb]

@@FunSwedish Haha! That definitely is an acquired taste, I have to admit I am not a fan! You should try mince pies and shortbread if you haven't already too! :)

[@LeticiaMirandaF]

Love this video! Very interesting 😊

[@FunSwedish]

Thank you!! 😊

[@mercia1land]

I’m going to adapt to watching Donald Duck on Christmas lol

[@FunSwedish]

Haha, great! A very Swedish tradition!

[@zorasavage8289]

The same in the Czech Republic. Xmas is on 24th and 25th, and 26th is off. I live in US where only 25th is off. Americans just work and work 😔

[@FunSwedish]

Time to move to Sweden? 🤔😁

[@JayeCole]

In the UK we usually have a family meal on Christmas Eve - but smaller and with close family or maybe friends. In our house we open one present each as well but not everyone does this. We also keep celebrating after the 25th - on the 26th is “boxing day” where you commonly see friends and eat a buffet (smörgåsbord) of food leftover from the big dinner on the 25th. I think there isn’t a country in the world where boxes of chocolate aren’t a cause of family conflict! There is always one person who doesn’t play fair! They should come with vouchers for free family therapy. 😂🤣😂

[@FunSwedish]

True! Christmas is a traumatic experience 😂🤣😂

[@bogdanberg9962]

Jag är svensk, men jag gillar att titta på videor som denna bara för skojs skull :D

[@melaniesouza3174]

🤣🤣 don’t mess with my chocolat

[@FunSwedish]

How dare they! 😠😂

[@lucabarelli259]

Considering that I love Christmas, Christmas traditions, Sweden, chocolate and Donald Duck...this was my favorite video, of course!!! Tack så mycket och god Jul!!!

[@FunSwedish]

Glad you enjoyed it! 😁

[@davidbandini3484]

Tack så mycket för videon Grazie tante!!

[@FunSwedish]

😍

[@arunkumarpitchaimani9870]

Happy Lucia 🎉

[@FunSwedish]

🎉🕯️

[@erikandersson6145]

Kalle Anka är en mycket välkommen besökare i Svenska hem

[@FunSwedish]

😁

[@volantiad]

Thanks for this video! I love learning about Sweden & Swedish this way. Is there any lore about how Donald Duck ~ of all Disney characters ~ ended up beloved by Swedes? Why not Pluto, for example? God jul och Gott nytt år!

[@FunSwedish]

The show is a mix with lots of short bits of popular Disney movies. From The Lion King to Frozen and some really old ones. However, Donald Duck is the "presenter" of the show. So that why it is called after him :)

[@volantiad]

@@FunSwedish Thanks: I thought it was a whole show of nothing but Kalle Anka. I'm still curious, though: is there an origin story of how the tradition got started in the first place? It seem so random, lol :)

[@giadabertini772]

Wow!! I really appreciated this video, how lovely your traditions are😍 in Italy we usually eat dinner on the 24th and open the gifts at midnight, and on the 26th we celebrate St. Stephen. I want to eat your Aladdin chocolates so bad😂🍫 I can't wait to watch the next video about your typical Christmas traditions!

[@FunSwedish]

Aw, so sweet. Thank you for your comment 😍. The next one should be coming out this Wednesday

[@soleilrougelhorizon3439]

Dide tou still like that do hour pensa sama hopa ? You must thibk’med huvet min ❤to lova yog commer there met du 😂!! Ok !

[@danilosantabarbara2760]

I feel really swedish with my julstake in my window. Do you know why most of them have 7 "candles"?

[@FunSwedish]

Hmmm... good question! I am not sure, but I will try to find out.

[@adaiacob6191]

Good to know!!! Tack så jättemycket! ❤️ God Jul!!! 🎄

[@FunSwedish]

God Jul!

[@dianysierra]

Hur länge är Kalle Ankas tv-shown i julafton? Från kl. 3 till?

[@FunSwedish]

ca 60 min :)

[@BackJackJohnnyDebt5708]

Hey I like Donald duck, I'm not even Swedish 😄

[@BeNiceToEachOtherplease]

whas youraddress your camera and lighting add a lot of noise to the image

[@FunSwedish]

We have improved the camera quality a lot in our latest videos. Check them out and let us know what you think!

[@BeNiceToEachOtherplease]

@@FunSwedish Cool I was going to send you a microphone and good camera - you deserve a voice

[@anicabroer3705]

It is not at all that we are impatient, we celebrate because the Nordic custom has its roots in the time before the mechanical clock. A new day began then at sunset instead of as now at midnight

[@robertasilvia2095]

Julmust...

[@catarinaeriksson9526]

Sorry but .... the 'normal' in Sweden is absolutely not to have guests early on Christmas Eve. Christmas lunch about 1 PM is more 'normal' but definately not early.

[@FunSwedish]

For the rest of the world that is pretty early 🙈. In some countries, people will get toghether at 19:00 or 20:00 😅