Learn Swedish: Lesson 1

[JoHeartsArt]

how do you say the "R" word? I can't tell how you do it? Pls help! :x

[TheSHHAS]

swedish is the best language. norway and denmark just ripped of sweden because they couldnt make their own language. finland is a great country. they are creative enough to make something of their own.

[moonaka2]

good!

[xXxStrifeMexXx]

Swedish is very similar to German! Its so much easier when you can speak a language similar to the one you are learning (:

Thanks for the helpful video! <3

[TOP2Ciggy]

Is this guy swedish?

[Haedos]

@TOP2Ciggy Nah, He's English :)

After watching this I've realised I'm going to be the British boy that all the swedes laugh at when I try and buy food :(

[BarbaraSpace]

lolololololol....did he just say hooee!!

[arabprincessss]

wow u look ugly@

[mhansson94]

han låter lite som en skåning... bara ja som tycker det?

[ProdSpace]

dam that's some skills right there!

[MIZFINETHING]

thank you, i've been trying to find a Swedish class in Canada but no luck. How ever am i going to communicate with "Thor" in his native tongue ?!!!!!!

[Sukinydeti]

american guy teaching swedish on his channel - SpeakSwedishStupid

[TheCameronsRAD]

Detta var verkligen hjälpsam tack och förresten jag vet också engelska



[ImBreezysGirl]

hj

[Sokan1993]

You pronounce the letters really well for not being Swedish :)

[Exzear]

hello im from sweden.. but anyway you got a very good pronunciation on our a alphabet just so you know! you pronounce it better then most immigrants in sweden... good job man keep it up :)

[SverigeNorgeDanmark]

An English guy teaching Swedish. I think you could find Swedish people doing the same and of course doing it better. Don't waste your time here.

Swedish people love to hear English speakers speak their language and go over board with the complements. But I don't think it is fair to those trying to learn properly.

To learn a language you need to learn it from a native speaker because fluent speakers still have bad habits and an accent.

[HHEYYPRETTY]

VOTE FOR SWEDEN IN EUC 2011 :D

[MrThundermouth]

If you come from britain or usa it takes 2 weeks to learn written swedish. The pronounciations arrrrrrrrre alittle bit more tricky. Go to scottland a few year and practie aaarrse and it will be easier. or rrrrussia

[Frajdsson]

Impressive mate!

[julygurl1]

haha det lät svensk förutom duibble w xd

[STeNeNSTeN96]

Good to know: every vowel has 2 forms of pronouncing, one fast and one long. for exampel if you say "du" (you in english) its a long vocal meaning it will sound like i dont know how to say but it sounds like you're saying eeewh in english. and in buss (bus in english) it sounds the same as in english (like an uh sound) to know if it is long or short you look if theres 1 or two consonants after. short means 2 consonants and long means 1. makes it harder though when the vowel is at the end.

[partyfelle1]

Pretty good! :D

Swedish is very difficult to learn for someone who isn't swedish

[chrismada9]

@jonathanHOLLANDER I agree! :-) it does sound like Dutch, but Dutch is much harder ;-)

[beatriz0985]

@chrismada9 holaa ...hiii i am from chile and like learn diferent languaje is very hard write :P

i hope if you can teach me pronunciation kiss

good job :)

[skittb89]

@chrismada9 i don't agree.. personally i find it very hard to get the tone right... (by tone i mean melody) with dutch the melody is the same as german and english

[hejistuen12345]

@chrismada9 dutch is alot different than swedish i am danish its right next to sweden and dutch is alot harder and its not hard to hear the differense

[chrismada9]

@danceofmrgrumble that's a fair point. But the fact that I feel comfortable speaking broken Swedish is good enough I feel. I just wanted to share what I know to other fellow swedish learners who want to know the language. Maybe if I tried doing lessons in the future about harder sentances, then I will take that advice! Thank you for bringing it up! :-)

[STeNeNSTeN96]

@chrismada9 you got it pretty good to not be from sweden :D the language is not the hard part if you're from an english speaking country, the way you pronounce is and you got it all right. i have seen many ppl fail on "R" but you made it.

[666lonny666]

@chrismada9 hey, thanks for this. My girlfriend is swedish & seeing as she is 18 & speaks better english than me i see it only fit to at least learn how to hold a basic conversation with her parents if nothing else. Thanks!

[danceofmrgrumble]

I've seen your videos and recomend you to not "Teach" swedish if you don't know the grammar properly and to get some help from a Swede if you know one. You should title your videos "Me speaking swedish/Jag talar svenska" or "I'm learning Swedish/Jag lär mig svenska" not "Learn Swedish".

But real good pronounciation though. Good job!

[MegaNooooooooooooo]

det är bara svenskar som tittar på det här:)

[thesusie1997]

@MegaNooooooooooooo typ ;) 

[MegaChAoS22]

I know both English and Spanish alphabet, it's like a mix so this should be real easy! I'm working on the accent witch shouldnt be to hard

[seanokeeffeireland]

not too hard

[xxKittyQueenxx]

for a long time* inte while

[TheKenoboll]

you are so good you sound like a swed! :] good work!

[jonathanHOLLANDER]

HAHA

It's allmost the same like Dutch!

so, it's very easy.. XD

[cappermeh]

You pronounce the letters really good, almost like you are from sweden. I only heard some wrong in R and Z.

[cappermeh]

Now I get why people think Swedish is Germany xD

[blueray1969]

@cappermeh why? they look and sound totally different. Do you mean "Swedish and German"?

[tunde34]

thanks a lot for video,very helpful.

[mixxiegurl]

@TheLoesie dutch is extremely hard. I learned german and was told it was really similar and thats not very true. Its very hard

[LilNiini]

OMG that was the best swedish ever by someone who isn't swedish... man you're good...

[UnratedMovies]

Are you from Sweden or do you just now how to speak it?

I am from sweden and great lesson to thoose who aren't!

Och Sverige har inte isbjörnar som går i städerna ;)

[mrjaret67]

im pissed, my great grandparents when they came to America from Sweden they never wanted to speak it so my grandpa could of learned it then my mom could of learned it then i could of learned it

[Ekit357]

Very good video! Do you speak many languages? Why did you want to learn Swedish?

[Neverick]

Swedish is a very hard language to learn when you start from the whole beginning.

[aurora9702]

Swedish: wow, jag trodde faktiskt att han var svensk! Jättebra uttal! :D

Eng: Wow, i almost that he was swedish! very good speaking :D

I live in sweden, to me is is very easy, but to people who dont speak swedish, i think its kinda hard, but i dont know.. Ha det bra :)

[Petegrin1]

first time i ever heard eny english man say å ä ö.

[joeyjunior111]

Yeaaah im from finland im learnin sweden its my 2nd language i have to learn it on school.

Jag Heter Amanda, vad heter du? :D

[NarowAR07]

@joeyjunior111 mitää kuulu ^^? finn living in sweden here ;)

[joeyjunior111]

@NarowAR07 :D Ok...

[NarowAR07]

@joeyjunior111 moro amanda minun nimi on Tonyä !

[joeyjunior111]

@NarowAR07 Ole hiljaa mie oon suomalaine ja opin ruottia!

[NarowAR07]

@joeyjunior111 oj oj oj :O my grandparents were drunk and took a walk in the forest and thats how i ended up in sweden Lol!

[H3XZOc]

@joeyjunior111 Emil haha

[joeyjunior111]

@H3XZOc WTF YOU MEAN? OMG STOP TALKIGN TO ME WTF YOU GUYS MEAN SO STFU.

[SlimeTron5000]

Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?

[VictorScotland]

That was good, thanks!

[Dwaarfius]

Wow, you're like the first American that can pronounce å, ä and ö correct :P

[VictorScotland]

@Dwaarfius he is British not American

[vovvenful]

Bra jobbat :D // Great job!

[emelieishere]

You sound swedish really! =)

[aaaaralle]

AH great ! :D i was wondering on the start if u where going to fail on " W" but i pulled it off :D great work :) im swedish myself and it didnt sound that bad

[tromboneJTS]

He's obviously English, not American. He learned the alphabet?  Wow.

[Svettjodd]

A somewhat more precise ÅÄÖ för english speakers

Å = OTTER

Ä before R = AIR; other Ä's = END

Ö in "öra" = BIRD; Ö in "öga" = a brighter Ö-sound (not present in english)

[evilbritta]

@Svettjodd hmm vilken dialekt pratar du med? jag tycker de låter ganska lika varann på göteborgska

[Svettjodd]

@evilbritta Vilka låter lika, ö:na i öga och öra? Det kan bero på att du förmodligen är ung. Skillnaden i uttal var påtaglig fram till för bara 10-20 år sedan, särskilt i sk standardsvenska, ett begrepp som togs bort under 90-talet.

Jag själv är uppväxt i Mälardalen och Roslagen, med ungefär samma sätt att prata.

[evilbritta]

@Svettjodd kan stämma, jag är född 85 så större delen är väl uppvuxen 90 och framåt. (min matte är enormt bra.) vardagsbruk i göteborg skiljer inte mycket på ö:na iallafall! ha de gött

[tossigtoker]

hahaa "duubelvee"

[Nightwishfan001]

Great work :)

[VladimirovichViktor]

he failed at " Y " but tbh most foreigners do..

[FestfixareLollo]

@VladimirovichViktor vadå han faila han uttalade det perfekt!

[QueerSwede1]

hehe well done!

[straylynx]

Nice pronunciation dude! Just the 'y' needs a bit more lip rounding!

Nice vid, keep up the good work!!

[NordNatur]

Well done. This sounds good.

[MsViKim]

Your lesson is useful with me. I'm starting to study Swedish. Thanks

[MrDaldagnuur]

Go blow IKEA. 72 virgins waiting for you in Heaven. :P

[zacata23]

Aww...He is so cute! But looks rather nervous :0

[amfvrak]

Good work pronouncing the words!

[maxlarsen]

Oh my good that whas reallyyyyyyy good it sounded like a real swedish

[Ocarion]

Someone call the FBI, taliban is uploading training video's on youtube.

[swelongboard]

when you say ö its like BIRD or when you say UM... and to say i its like the english E

ä is like AIR. and when you say HEJ DÅ its say it like hey do (o like in the word door )

[ludicer]

I'm learning to speak swedish , your videos are amazing!

[RosidaI]

Sverige ägeer!!! xD ♥

[iRuvHateMair]

@RosidaI aa förutom delen med att många svennar är tröga... och överviktiga.

[michaeltaby]

Based on my observation British speakers have more problems than American ones

[spraaket]

Please teach me some Swedish, I will be your friend ;)

[truppenrille]

du uttalar de svenska bokstäverna väldigt bra om du vill ha folk (om du inte bor eller så) kan du få prata med ett gäng glada svenskar :P

if you need it in English tell me :P

[spraaket]

Did you just say? You say the swedish letters really good if you want people (if you don't live or something) you can talk with a bunch of happy swedes :p

It didn't make much sense to me man

[truppenrille]

@spraaket haha no i said that if you want to talk to a bunch off happy bunch of swedes, :P

and i also told that he know the swedish letters good :P

[DenLillaSomHeterJag]

Väldigt bra uttal, faktiskt!

[GrimNeko]

Hehe kul grej ^_^

[viklar14]

alltid kul att se utlänningar försöka prata svenska!

[silentsoliloquy82]

Tack sa mycket! :) It's interesting to see people who are fascinated with Swedish, too. Pronunciation tends to be one of my area of diffilculties in foreign languages.

[silentsoliloquy82]

*areas of difficulties

[freaksweed]

that whats perfectly!!! Realy good work man :D

greatings the freakSWEED

[N3v3rG1veUp]

Thanks chris!

Really useful.Actually,Swedish is kinda similar to Estonian,we pronounce the letters the same way,except for W.

Learned all 29 in just 3 mins,thanks again.

[danzkkk]

@N3v3rG1veUp

In Estonian there is no letter Å, but the corresponding one in the Estonian alphabet is O, and in the Estonian alphabet there are two different variations for the Swedish Ö which can be pronounced in two ways, the Estonian letters Ö and Õ. All the other ones are the same (except for the W of course)

[Dangeerous]

uvel v... dubbel v, ffs!!!!

[LOVTOANIME1]

In Sweden we don't relly count W to the alphabet beacuse we hardly use it

[Enzo9996]

dubel v. hahahaha. det lät sååååååå roligt!!!

[LaViolonchelista]

faktiskt ganska bra utal :P

[AchillesTheDruid]

Videofilmerna är inte dålig hålla uppe den god arbete kompis.

[Dannepivot]

oh my god im swedish and i have never heard anyone that speaks english be so awesome! DU är så grym på svenska fortsätt!

[VilestyleShim]

2:28 sen till 2:15 :D gör det snabbt

[TheVaporeonFan]

I'm living in israel and my father is swedish, but he never speak to me in swedish so i don't know swedish, so thanks for the videos. :)

[FranksForLife]

abcdoklimnhgertwyquz thats it.

right?

[VilestyleShim]

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÅÄÖ

[suzaytwentytwo]

Swedish sounds sooo cool!

[zerker12312]

@suzaytwentytwo im a swe =)

[Grobian90]

haha omg you rock at the letters :D I've never ehard an english talking man succeeded to pronounce them right...how much did you practice? :P

[NoraDahlqvist]

I have to say you pronounce Å, Ä and Ö really well. Not bad at all, really!

[faimo10]

Mannen vrf ska man lära sig ´´svenska´´ överhuvudtaget, det e ju ett kasst land.

[KingXIV2]

Har du en finne i pannan eller vad är det???

[zerker12312]

swedish owns USA what i think maby usa is more pupular but there is so many fucking drugs and thiefevs!!! it's in sweden too but more in usa!!! lol swedish men talking english very good but the englands and amerikans sucks at swedish O_O

[doublejgurl360]

Well luckily I'm Mexican.

[zerker12312]

@doublejgurl360 ok did i ask?

[Varghjarta]

@zerker12312 There is probably only a slight difference in ratios between Swe and the US. I've seen some fucked up things in this country. Noone owns anyone else, except of course money who owns us all :(

[Ewewewewewee]

Hejdå :D

U where really good :)

Svenska äger!!!

[zerker12312]

@Ewewewewewee yes it does im from there =P

[AndrewChupka]

similar to the way the german alphabet is said

[MsBellville]

My mother and I r moving to sweden soon and I speak four lanuage Dutch is one of them I live in Canada btw I was wodering if speaking dutch will make learning swedish less diffucult?

and wish me luck in sweden

plz i think i'll defiently need it lol

:D

[flakjap]

@MsBellville

As a swede I can sometimes make out bits and pieces of dutch texts, due to similar vocabulery. I guess it's the same relation as between dutch - english. Have never studied dutch though so can't say reallly :d

[matineesuxxx]

@flakjap does the same go for norwegian? cause while studying swedish, i have taken a look at norse and it seems to be quite similar to swedish.. can you say its like a comparison of american english to austrailian english?

[flakjap]

@matineesuxxx

The difference is a bit bigger I'm afraid, but a swede and a norwegian won't find very big difficulties communicating with each other in their respective mother tongue. The same should go for them. As for the comment by patt7000 I don't know if I have it is easier deciphering dutch writing because I've studied german, that might be the case.

[zerker12312]

@matineesuxxx my brohter is from norwegian and im from sweden! cuz hes dad is a swe and me and he hasnt the same mom so hes my half brother!!! =).

[zerker12312]

@matineesuxxx and yes a little bit it is

[patt7000]

I would say that, i dont see any similar words between swedish and Dutch so it wont work, but if you can speak Danish or Norweigian its fine, have a great time & good luck!

[zerker12312]

@patt7000 lol

[BlackStitch93]

@MsBellville

well, Dutch will help you to learn Swedish in some ways, you can see Dutch and Swedish as cousin languages, it's gonna make it easier to talk swedish, if you want to master the swedish language you got to learn to say Å, Ä and Ö, and when you learn Swedish you learn 85% of Norwigan automatically :D

and dont worry, most swedes can english pretty good, so you can talk english and most ppl will understand you!

ha en bra dag och välkommen till Sverige! ^_^

[zerker12312]

nej inte många vägar lol jag är svensk! men varför suger engelskmen på svenska?

[matineesuxxx]

because we cant get the pronounciation right without tonnnns of practise.. no matter how good the grammar is without the pronounciation we are screwed lol

[zerker12312]

@zerker12312 eeh right

[DrinkinMusic]

@BlackStitch93 I disagree, I'd say Ditch and Swedish are very much not alike. There only similarity is the alphabet. Otherwise I'd say you shouldn't get your ground from the Dutch to learn Swedish, same as you can't really do that when it comes to learning chinese and then go over to Japanese and say "Well now it's similar and very easy", completley different.

[alexgqh]

k good luck lol

Sweden is teh best XDD if you like snow and short days

[zerker12312]

@MsBellville NICE

[xxMegaHitxx]

hur kan vi i Sverige egentligen ha så lätt för dom flesta språken, sen ska dom prata svenska och de låter ... förjävligt XD

fast det här var ju rätt bra :)

speciellt Å och Ä :)

och R om man jämför med t.ex. Tony Irving :P

[Enzo9996]

det låter fult när han säger dubbel w det blir: dubel v

[xxMegaHitxx]

@Enzo9996

haha, eller hur? XD

[ezzenjeh]

my god mate your good! im from sweden and i hear that you ROCK at the alphapet

[ZHEREAL]

Well, I have observed that it's easier for Scandinavians to speak English and vice-versa.

No wonder this British guy speaks Swedish so well.

On the other hand, for Latin Americans it's a pain to speak English

[Nowl8]

if Latin Americans like myself speak English it aint such a pain, its up to the languages you can speak.

[Ritxaard]

I've leart english quite fast, but you're right. for us who speak spanish for exampe, it's hard because the sounds are different and some phonems doesn't exist in spanish. however I find english a nice language and I like it.

[Millaschannelyeah]

Good! I'm Swedish and you have a very good pronunciation! I could seriously believe that you were from here! :D I especially liked the way you said "R, Å, Ä and Ö" :D

[ssssssssssssssssss82]

i know sweadish to and i think he did very good

[MyChemicalAddict96]

Im swedish and i think that sounded really good :)

[Drawien]

Wow, the pronunciation of the consonants is quite similar to Hungarian pronunciation. It was quite a nice surprise for me. I love Swedish language, I'd just need some courage to start learning it. ;)

[thaleo123]

sounds really good(im swedish)

[123diddi]

great!

[jeskar0407]

ahahaha jag älskar att lysna på hur americaner och andra tror att svenskan låter nu blev man besviken det är en video som faktist stämmer xD lol

[leosiden]

@jeskar0407 Helt klart xD

[highbyesky]

the W in swedish is like french

[PlusMinusN]

You are good, but not perfect =)

[dougiewhite778]

ÅÄÖ for english speakers

Å= OTTER

Ä=AIR

Ö=BIRD

[Baroque2009ify]

@dougiewhite778

what is otter? do you mean other?

[evilbritta]

@dougiewhite778 great words for explaining!

[dougiewhite778]

when i learned swedish i found E hardest to pronounce and swedish I sounds like english E

so i just took an "E" instead

[racebag]

it sounds like the capital dialect very similar, ure very good u pronounced everything right

[yippikahyey]

Flawless Victory!

[ronjaforever]

ÅÄÖ rules wtf?

[weirdspirit2001]

Y is like 'T'? or like "i"?

[ukcog]

Thanks dude of shoudl I say tack

[jojjsan2]

You are good ;) but w can be better

[LittleDroz]

So Jealous!

You're british like me, and you know the language amazingly! (: Nice! x

[Baroque2009ify]

your good :) /Sweden

[maniac612]

The way he pronounced the letters I and Ö sounded very much like the "stockholm accent"

Sättet han uttalade bokstäverna I och Ö lät väldigt stockholmskt.

[ramas91]

ajo verkligen ^^

[Califre97]

HELLO - HALLÅ

ASS - RUMPA/RÖV

dom orden klarar man sig med i sverige

[metalgod1993]

Under Varje Rot Och Sten..

Onder Iedere Rots Of Steen.

under every rock or stone..

correct??

responde me if not so..

@metalgod1993 Correct !! i'am from sweden so i