Translating Names of Ikea Products from Swedish to English - Back To School Edition
Channel: This Colorful World
Date: 2018-09-06

As college freshmen are getting situated in their dorms, the chances are good that back to school preparations will feature at least one trip to Ikea. I know ours did. And since Ikea's arrival to the US years ago, we have returned time and time again to affordably and consciously decorate our homes. 

Nowadays, one of our silliest past times is to go into an IKEA store and have Lisa translate the names of products from Swedish into English. It's so funny because the names almost never make sense to the product. On top of that, it seems like Ikea creates the most difficult words to pronounce, making it a great place for a Swedish speaker to people watch and listen to unassuming Americans try to phonetically pronounce Swedish words. We often burst out laughing in the middle of the store as because it's so funny. So for this month's Swedish/American video, we wanted to duplicate that. 

Lauren has gone through Ikea's website and picked out items from the Back to School Recommendations for Lisa to translate on the fly.