Translation request: Would anyone be able to translate this audio from Swedish to English? It’s a conversation between my wife’s late parents from 1996.

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  1. My wife’s father (Swedish national) passed away 17 years ago, her mother (Australian) passed away only a year ago. This is the audio from an old VHS tape that we found of them on holiday in Queensland, Australia. My wife’s mother is in a swimming pool and her father was filming from a deckchair.

    The audio quality is pretty bad, but if anyone can provide any insight into what they’re saying, it would mean the world to my wife. Ideally, I’d love to put English captions over the video footage.

  2. Seems Kim/Gören is not findable on soundcloud. I can see tracks from Make Your Winter Warmer all the way down to Max/MSP Guitar Test01.

    Can you send a link to kim/gören?

  3. I listened at bit. And it is very hard to hear what they are saying. Especially the voice of the woman. From what I heard it almost sound like they are s bit drunk and goofing around.

    Big kudos to anyone putting in the effort to translate.

  4. 00:30: The guy is clearly drunk and asking the woman first if she is special(i think) and proceeds to ask if she thinks he is being stupid. cant make out her reply.

    1:39 ish: Are you gonna say hi to grandma & grandpa?

    1:46 (woman): What is up with you? Something about the weather being better today, that it rained enough yesterday.

    1.50 – 2.11 Ish, something about expensive food, a bottle of whiskey & a movie property.

    2.22: She has become one year older & now looks like 22

    2.30ish to 3.50: arguing over gray hairs, the man complaints that is because of the company. Goes on a tangent about a time when somebody thought the man was somebodys brother & asking about the name of a certain finnish girl that worked on ITM.

    ​

    530: there´s kids on the beach, the time is 1700 & the sun is setting

  5. I tried isolating the vocals and cleaning up some noise in audacity but Kim’s words are hard to make out and there were a lot of parts I couldn’t make out. Tried to translate it to the best of my ability but certain expressions are going to be a little different.

    That aside, here’s a very loose transcript:

    >
    > G: Aren’t you special?
    >
    > G: Am I being stupid?.. I see (Sounds of swimming)
    >
    > G: (Talking about her(?) swimming) Leap, Backstroke, wow wow wow.
    >
    > G: Are you gonna say hi to grandma and grandpa (father’s side)
    > (laughter)
    >
    > G: What’s up with you, happy about the weather today?
    >
    > G: Yeah, you refused… enough yesterday
    >
    > G: Because it was raining
    >
    > K: Unintelligible
    >
    > G: And you weren’t?
    >
    > G: No, … damn, we’ve had half a bottle of whiskey… the theater
    >
    > G: As you can see, mom and dad, she hasn’t gotten a year older, she looks to be 22 now, don’t you?
    >
    > G: Not a gray hair (on her)
    >
    > G: Nobody could live with you without getting two… two gray hairs a day.
    >
    > K: Uh huh
    >
    > G: Uh huh
    >
    > K: Unintelligible
    >
    > G: Who said that?
    >
    > G: Like, I’m thinking about when mom… when they saved your old man(?)… thought I was your brother… when we were working for ITM.
    >
    > G: What was the name of that Finnish lady?
    >
    > K: What Finnish lady?
    >
    > G: That worked at ITM.
    >
    > K: Maria Perkele (Perkele is a Finnish curse word, think devil)
    >
    > G: What do you mean Perkele? Maria…
    >
    > K: Yes…
    >
    > G: I can’t remember…
    >
    > G: Are you going to say anything to grandma and grandpa?
    >
    > K: Unintelligible
    >
    > G: Yes, right. She’s brought her schoolwork up here. She had an exam… and she had…
    >
    > G: What?
    >
    > K: Unintelligible
    >
    > G: When where they… (going to start on it?)
    >
    > G: …Takes a bit longer… 14 days… long enough
    >
    > G: You’re saying it was shit(?)
    >
    > K: Unintelligible
    >
    > G: Sounds so
    >
    > G: …permanent…anyway…right?
    >
    > G: She’s braindead, my wife.
    >
    > K: (laughter)… unintelligible
    >
    > G: What?
    >
    > G: Honey/Sweetie (exaggerated)
    >
    > K: Unintelligible
    >
    > G: There were kids on the beach
    >
    > G: At 5 o’ clock we were on the boulevard.
    >
    > G: …(laughter)

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