ICA - Midsommar in Arabic / Midsummer explained - (2012) :30 (Sweden)

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Posted by dabitch on 19. June 2012 - 21:07

You should be familiar with the ICA campaign by now. Stig here is the owner of the local ICA, and in this particular ad he is hell-bent on explaining the phenomena of Midsommar (midsummer with wonky Swedish spelling) to our friends and neighbors. That's why he's doing it in what I presume is terrible Arabic.

"At midsummer, the Swede will eat outside. No matter what the weather is like" this is true, and more often than not, it's raining. Still we got all these funky paper plates so we are eating outside goshdarnit.
Stig continues: "Lots of people will nap at the table" - translation, we get hammered.
"Then everyone dances 'Little frogs'" -- bonus Ikea translated this crazy song to German in an ad once.
And last but not least: "Don't be surprised if you wake up at the neighbors". It happens.

He ends with wishing us a happy midsummer in both Swedish and arabic. And that concludes ICA-Stigs midsummer-school for today. There are others variants, with languages like Chinese and Polish, but since they are dubbed we're only posting the Arabic one where our favorite ICA actor is doing his best to attempt to speak it. How is he doing?

Ad agency: KING

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Submitted by AnonymousCoward on 19. June 2012 - 21:39.
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Åsk.... his arabic ain't awful (i could understand him)

Submitted by dabitch on 20. June 2012 - 6:26.
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Really? How fun! He is an old-school actor of the classically trained sort (theatre) so he should know a thing or two about copying spoken word (as in accents). Still, Arabic, that's pretty impressive, there's a lot of sounds in that language which Swedish never utilises.

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