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Alicia Vikander is a Swedish actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, and nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and three British Academy Film Awards. She is best known globally for playing the British heroine Lara Croft in the 2018 reboot Tomb Raider.
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[@MaxSujyNorden]

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[@ulricaandrae4381]

Ingen ko på isen = no cow on the ice = no need to panic = take your time.

[@memoblom2112]

”Is i magen” is similar to ”Stay cool”☺️

[@rateit1474]

Back in the days the cows were roaming free and it happened that they went out on thin ice and drowned. So the problem is that the farmers were losing their income or food when that happened. So first they checked and then replied "no problems there is no cow on the ice"

[@rasmuswi]

Also they can quite easily slip and break legs. Which more or less means you lose the cow as well.

[@gamehardy]

She does pronounce the R, i can hear it very clearly. I guess it is easy to miss if you dont speak the language maybe

I've never really thought about it before, but I just realized that the position of your tongue is almost the same for R and L when you pronounce the Swedish R compared to how you would shape your tongue to say R in English. Especially with an American accent. Though the bend is slightly different and the sound is completely different if you grew up hearing it, so you can pick up on the difference. Check out the episod from "An idiot abroad" where Carl tries to pronounce his name and the other person cannot hear the difference between R and L in the end of Carl.

[@jenstornell]

I also hear the R very very clear. Maybe because I'm from Sweden.

[@hansaugustsson7288]

Letters 27, 28, 29 of the Swedish alphabet represent sounds that lie BETWEEN the sounds of two other vowels. Between A and O you have Å. Between A and E you have Ä. Between O and E you have Ö. Å is the vowel sound in the English "door". Ä is the vowel sound in the English "air". Ö is the vowel sound in the French "queue". These 3 Swedish extra letters are not letters with accents, but SEPARATE letters in their own right. From now on you will pronounce Swedish words very well. You're welcome. De rien.

[@jenstornell]

Her best movie is Ex Machina in my opinion. She is an AI robot in that one. Very good script, very good acting, independent movie style but very well done.

[@MaxSujyNorden]

Oh! I've seen this movie!! Very good movie indeed.

[@nocturne7371]

Fjortis is short for Fjortonåring (Fourteen years old). So a Fjortis is a young person that does not have full brain development yet and has hormone raging. Knullrufs is the messy hair you get after having sex. Knulla is slang for having sex, rufs is messy hair

[@Djuuugarn]

And Knullrufs is when your hair is all messed up after lying on your back during sex. Particularly if you dont have short hair.

[@MaxSujyNorden]

Oh!!!

[@jenstornell]

I confirm this is correct. Messy hair after sex.

[@butterfliesandmoths]

Skogstokig = lit. Forest-crazy = completely nuts

[@karinsgarederobe]

No cow on the ice referred to a frozen lake. There is now cow on the frozen lake -- ice . The Ice might crack if a cow would walk on it as such we can chill when there is now cow there… also having Ice in the stomach means to chill as ice is cold … hence no heat ….if you have it hot around your ears means your buzzy or in your trouble which is the opposite to now cow on the ice

[@KarlOlofsson]

"Give back for old cheese" is an old slang for revenge. Old cheese being something stinky or "toxic" that happened to you a long time ago (old-ish event).

[@hansaugustsson7288]

Your series of reactions to Sweden and Swedish culture could maybe be given the name Tolv Hundar (Twelve Dogs)?

[@vansting]

Pommes frites=French fries

[@Djuuugarn]

She is surprisingly bad at swedish slang and sayings. She is wrong about several of them. Feels like she has grown up shielded from regular society. Youre better off asking a regular swede.

[@Flokarl1]

Alicia must been away from Sweden alot.... Because she didnt explain several words correctly

[@tomeng9520]

Tjena gubben! Hon bor i England och är gift med Michael Fassbender. Michael Fassbender, född 2 april 1977 i Heidelberg, dåvarande Västtyskland, är en tysk-irländsk skådespelare. Wikipedia

[@andreaspersson6929]

Yeah its a bit confusing for non swe since she is kinda bad at explaining them

[@rebeccalebeck9180]

I have to say, she didnt do a very good job to me! 😂 I mean, she hardly explained what the sayings actually mean!

[@kenteriksson1054]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGichZ1to5mJhdEsi=z_MR4r8ZbjgvgK6_Astrid Lindgren ’s Emil i Lönneberga.Original Björn Gustafsson i Emil i Lönneberga 1971/73.