really nice, every word was correct. We in Sweden are though so in to the accent thing, don't know why. Thats what i love with brittish people. Brittish can say u have a proper english with out having an english accent.
Hi, my name is Thorben I'm from Germany (a bit of useless information is always good, right?) I've been studying Swedish for three weeks and I'd like to know if you would be so kind as to suggest me the names of the most important poets, novelists and short stories writers of the Swedish language. I have no idea where to look for this kind of information and the sources are not very abundant.
@kingofkillings If u r looking for the classics read Astrid Lindgren, Vilhelm Moberg or August Strindberg. If u want more contemporary reading try Stieg Larsson, Björn Hellberg, Camilla Läckberg or Jan Mårtensson (the last examples mostly writes detective stories). Good luck with your Swedish :) /Malou (I am Swedish by the way)
That's really amazing. To me, as a native Swede, it sounds something like how a person born in the early to mid 1900s would speak. Meaning the people who were the first to really be taught rikssvenska in school. Basically there is a dialect at the core, but an effort to pronounce the words as written, which of course is what rikssvenska is all about. As it is the standardized Swedish derived from the uniform Swedish writing rules.
When you read "de unga" and "de gamla" aren't those the definite article (as in, the young and the old), rather than the 3rd pers. plural pronoun? You read them as /dåm/ rather than as /de/, but I thought that only the pronoun "de" was pronounced that way.
He talks swedish pretty much perfect, it's just the pronoucnification that is a little weird... it sounds like some old norseman would sit their and read it, or an icelandic.
Very excellent pronunciation! Fluent, clear, effective. But as a Swede, I have to say that your R:s don't quite sound right. If you tried to meet your American pronunciation with your Swedish pronunciation of the letter halfway, I'd say it would sound a lot better.
@trifisaris3 In my opinion, the >harshest< is Danish. They are all equal in difficulty, in my opinion, aside from Icelandic which appears a little more difficult. Danish is beautiful, but somehow more harsh and less beautiful than the others in my opinion, although I really love hearing it.
@trifisaris3 for non-nordic language groups, probably Icelandic. But Danish is actually the worlds hardest language to learn how to speak. It's very similar with swedish and norwegian in text, some minor differencesw in grammatics, but how to speak danish is far more difficult. A danish child will learn his/her own languae slower than other children across the world
@Stravinsky91 You're very wrong. Russian, Japanese, and Danish are all much more difficult. Danish may be difficult to speak with an authentic, native-like accent, but I think Mandarin, Korean, and Xhosa, for example are much more difficult. Danish is not the world's most difficult language, the grammar is quite simple, and as far as producing a native accent, I've never heard a Dane produce English with a native accent. Is English more difficult, or is accent irrelevant?
@9244Matt Which one is harder depends on what language is your native language. The continental Scandinavian languages are probably about equal for grammar, so on pronunciation Norwegian and Swedish are pretty close, but Danish is definitely harder. While Chinese is hard to write, if you spoke Vietnamese, the pronunciation would not be nearly so difficult as English or Swedish. Xhosa has the click sounds that take children the longest time to learn, but English th also takes a long time.
It sounds slighlty norwegian/hallandish to me. In the sense that some of the As u pronounce as Es but u speak with a Halland accent. It does sound a bit like an old guy speaking too. Othewise VERY good :D
You are really good at this! While you're pronunciation is a little funky with some vowels, it is still fantastic. You are perfectly understandable, and I'm sure anyone who is fluent in Swedish would have no trouble understanding you, but they might think you sound a little Finnish...
This is a great text and it feels so nice that you have done this clip. Your swedish is very good. It sounds a litlebit like the swedish they talked in the 30s or 40s. Very clear and fast. This was very intresting. Thank you.
You do it really well, there's just a minor detail that isnt completely accurate. The text "bredvid skjutskarlen med Johan i knäet" Actually translates to something like "next to the driver with Johan on his lap" As I'm sure you know the swedish word "knä" translates into "knee" (knäet = the knee), however we use the same word for "lap". I suppose we figure that if you're sitting on someones lap you are in fact sitting on that persons thighs/knees. :)
As a Swede, I can understand that the "melody" of the Swedish language and the clear vowels are very difficult. People from other countries that I've spoken to, often say that it sounds like it just goes up and down and up and down all the time. The "melody" of the language is very distinct and hard to define for a non-Swede.
I just love this video and your linguistic explanations. And you did a VERY good job in reading that text :)
I was thinking about Swedish but there are things that encourage me and thinks that don't. I love the way the written language looks, it just excites me. But the spoken language kind of scares me. Also, the fact that most of them speaks english kind of discourages me. I like the way it sounds like singing too, still scary. I also like that the grammar isn't too complicated (compared to spanish or german, the verbs tend to annoy me). Can I get some more insight? It's not been long since I started
@FeralArtist Trust me, Swedish grammar is hard. The longer you try to learn it, the more obvious it gets why Swedish is one of the toughest languages to learn. My father is from Sweden, and he worked some time as a teacher in the language.
His students taught him how hard his native tounge was.
@AnomalyINC I haven't found Swedish grammar all that hard. I kinda like where they invert subject and verb order. Sounds poetic. It's hard to pronounce like a Swede, and it's not a language that flows off the tongue easily when you learn it. It has some tongue-twisting characteristics that I didn't find when I studied French in school. I don't know what the rules are for emphasis and all that. I guess you have to be immersed in it to pick up the rhythm. It's fun to study though.
@FeralArtist I find your comment really interesting for the simple fact Im Swedish and I wan to know why you found the spoken language scary. Is is because of the å, ä and ö or the melody of the language? Im just curious :)
When you started to speak Swedish you reminded me of the old stories I had on tape that I used to listen to as a child 8D Great work on the Swedish accent, it's awesome!!! <3
Lol, my mother language is Dutch, and Swedish is like Dutch, but every vowel is changed to an "ö" sound xD Lopen => löpa, overige => övriga, over=> över, open=> öppen... Which is also the comon joke we make over here, Swedish is all about the ö :D
@Metaldude1945 I have to agree, but from my point of view its the other way. From my perspective Dutch looks like make-believe Swedish, where you have taken Swedish words and made them into dutch in some weird way, it looks really funny.
I think it sounds like an australian trying to speak swedish.. Knew one once that was in the process of learning and he spoke like that. A little less nervous maybe. Otherwise you wouldnt have any problem making yourself understand over here.. You maybe would get some remarks over the accent but ppl would understand.
Sry but you are wrong agen. skjutskarlen is not the driver. Is is can ha dubbel meening and if you look at the rest it is satans helper. Ther and therfor the only one that see him is then one dead or are to die. And you did miss than maby ise the same textes and look at Nederland when you talk about nordic lang... and maby lock upp the relation betwin ösel and gottland. EDIT1: I can have miss understudd the last to meenigs at screen for a metafor. sry. =(
Sry but you are wrong agen. skjutskarlen is not the driver. Is is can ha dubbel meening and if you look at the rest it is satans helper. Ther and therfor the only one that see him is then one dead or are to die. And you did miss than maby ise the same textes and look at Nederland when you talk about nordic lang... and maby lock upp the relation betwin ösel and gottland.
@ProfASAr " I thought there was an international system to type these characters using only lation words :s Ö= oa Å=aa Ä=ae ü=ua or am I completely off? When I fly with Norwegian airlines they always type my name out as ''Maard'' on the ticket." Got to correct you a little bit on this one :) Ø/Ö = OE Å = AA Æ/Ä = AE Ü = UE
man, you're awesome. your swedish is 100% fully understandable. as someone mentioned earlier, one can hence a finnish accent, but more so "småländska" which is the dialect spoken in småland.
what's really amazing (and i'm saying this because i've watched some of your other vids) is that you emphasize the correct vowels when you're speaking. i really enjoyed this vid...bra jobbat!!
You sound a bit like a horny finish guy but hey!, you are waaay better than anyone ive ever seen before// guy from sweden. Ha det bra! (have a nice day)
Who cares, the whole world speaks English. I grew up speaking Castillian, later moved to the US and learned English. Then French, Italian and German. When I traveled to Europe I found out I had wasted roughly $4500 US dollars learning the last three as in every country people had adopted English as rather its... "unofficial" first language.
The letter Ä is not really an "A-variant" (even if typographically may look like it was).
The correct pronounciaion of Ä (i.e. in the older, traditional rikssvenska) is closer to an E than to an A. One of the few exceptions is where the Ä precedes an R which leads to a wider and more open ä-sound.
RANDOM QUESTION! is swedish, danish, & norweigen-with all its dialects-mutually intelligible? if i speak swedish can i understand and read danish & norweigen?
@arivas713 Yes and no. I can read nynorsk as a swede without any problem what so ever. Only a few words that distincts. Danish is more difficult but also understandable. When it comes to Speaking, nynorsk is perfectly understandable for me whilst I don't hear what danes say, simply because of their pronounciation. I would say that if you wish to understand all of the languages, you should learn norwegian bokmål.
@arivas713 Yes you can, we scandinavian's can understand each other pretty good but as a foreigner it can be quite tough to pick up all the different dialects, especially if you learn danish and trying to understand swedish/norwegian or vice versa as the languages in spoken form differs alot, whilst it in written form is easier to understand. you can understand most of it by just learning one langague but if you wanna master it good you need to study some of the others languages as well.
I was about to note my surprise at how similar they were to English - then you made that exact point. Excellent video. Thanks for taking the time to make this.
I'm also constantly surprised at how universal the inane "you sound like x", "no offense" comments are in YouTube. Almost any video where the presenter dares to record their voice has some idiot that took the time to enter a valueless insult of some sort.
I am learning Swedish now. I am having trouble with the word föräldrar. I cannot pronounce it! I try and I try and I try ... I cannot pronounce that word.
there are some people in southern sweden that not swedish or danish people understand at all. it´s in the region skane in southern sweden. p.s if you want to go to sweden go to stockholm in the summer. I swear it´s the worlds most beautiful city in the summer and maybe the winter to. And you cant throw a stone without hitting a tourist.
Very well done. I was smiling througout the video due to the fact that the accent very much reminds me of, and is similar to, those that you'd hear on TV in the 50s where things sounded somewhat sped up if you understand what I mean hehe. Also sounds somewhat skånskt (southern dialect).
@d1ckyj0nes HAN SNACKAR JU FAN MED EN ENGELSK DIALEKT! X' D Då låter ju fan inte resten i landet som honom! Henkekk har rätt. Och att du ska nämna södra Sverige är ett dåligt exempel.. Det finns många dialekter i Sverige. Men hans dialekt är ingen man hittar i Sverige...
@Priciaf Yes, that's my father's father's homeland. Unfortunately, the "ü" cannot normally be typed in English, so I've had to drop it. Earlier I tried to insist upon it for official documentation, but this just resulted in confusion, two spellings at best, and a third - Argiielles - at worst. So, I've had to become Arguelles, though if I lived in a country where it could be written easily, I would be Argüelles.
@ProfASAr you can change your keyboard by going to control pannel and i think its in dates and times then go to language and you selct what keyboard you want then you can switch between keyboards very easy using a botton on the bottem right of your screen dont know if your using a mac or pc but the is for windows or if all comes to worse just use character map
Swedish sounds very nice and gentile to me:) Maybe because I used to watch swedish (childern)movies when I was a kid, they were always very good:P I'm Dutch/Frisian btw.
you´re doing a great job reading the swedish, what´s complicated for you is getting the pronounciation of the vowels right, like the real swedish "u" and "a" sound, I suppose, very funny to hear though :)
@MsAliciahl what do you talk about? ofcourse we understand the northern swedish people if you mean swedish speaking people and not the Sami speaking people...
@maunus the dialect in the most southerend part of sweden can sound really danish if the dialect is distinct. If you put two people in the same room together, one from the northest part and one from the southest part of sweden and tell them to talk to each other in their most distinct dialect. you should immediatly be able to physically see the questionmarks forming above their heads! ;P
very well done :D I love hearing people try to speak swedish, despite the accents, it's always amazing how people learn to talk this horrendously hard language... the grammar is quite easy, but the rest is just hell
@dappledice Really? I think Swedish is probably one of the easiest languages for a native English speaker to learn. The grammar is very easy, and a lot of the vocabulary is very similar to English words. The only hard thing about Swedish is some of the pronunciation.
We don't have that problem, we immediately see whether text is danish, swedish or norwegian (I'm swedish). I¨'d say danish is "heavier", norwegian is lighter and swedish is somewhere in between.
@mdm15 As someone said, If you went to Stockholm, i'm not surprised actually because they are unfriendly. I live about 80km from Sthlm but I find that norhtern Sweden has the most kind people :)
@Errathetube I have been to Stockholm a few times (I am Austrian so i speak German and English) and they were all friendly, except some retarded Banker in a Täby Centrum that didnt want to help us when we had a problem with one of the money-machines.
Ä is an "A-variant" only typographically, it's seen as a distinctive letter. It's standard pronounciation is close to the vovel sound in the English word "ear", except when it precedes an R and becomes similar to the vovel in "air" (such as in "ära", for instance).
However, due to immigration, people moving from Norrland to Stockholm and bad education, the Ä-sounds has changed dramatically in the last decade; most young speakers now pronounce them either as in "air" or like a Swedish open A.
The ä is an "a-variant" only typographically, it's seen as a distinctive letter.
It's standard pronounciation is closer to a Swedish E than to a an A, *except* when it preceeds an R - the word ÄRA (glory) has a vovel sound similar to the English AIR, for instance. However, due to people moving from Norrland to Stockholm (and other factors), these Ä-sounds has changed dramatically over the last 20 years or so - most speakers below 35 now pronounce all Ä's with a very open A-like sound.
WOW @ your swedish, I'm swedish and you sound like someone from norrbotten, the place where my mom grew up... Can't even hear a trace of american in it.
Btw, "norrbotten" is the northern part of sweden, that's why some people from the south can't distinguish the accent from the finnish variant of swedish, but it's a clear difference and you don't sound finnish at all.
In Finland we have to study our own language (finnish), swedish and english. I also chose german.
jopeteus 5 days ago
...Yeah, everyone in Africa can read Swedish.
ThisHasBeenAlex 1 week ago 2
really nice, every word was correct. We in Sweden are though so in to the accent thing, don't know why. Thats what i love with brittish people. Brittish can say u have a proper english with out having an english accent.
GottochBlandat100 2 weeks ago
Well you had a decent pronounciation, however,the text was horrible and really old sounding
LPOPQ 3 weeks ago
This is really good! You almost sound Finnish, though! :)
JayEee08 1 month ago
he sounds like he was born in finland, learnd finnish, moved to norway and started speaking norwegian with a finnish accent and then learnd swedish.
vikktorzz 1 month ago 2
den här texten är ju från boken utvandrarna, bara så att alla vet (a)
konstigFiSK 1 month ago
alt lys er svunnet hen. is this swedish?
keepcompletecontrol 1 month ago
@keepcompletecontrol It's Norwegian (Norsk)
idiousmatt 1 month ago
This was so well done - who are you?
JoachimderZweite 1 month ago
Holy crap that was almost perfect
KingOfParrots 1 month ago
Hi, my name is Thorben I'm from Germany (a bit of useless information is always good, right?) I've been studying Swedish for three weeks and I'd like to know if you would be so kind as to suggest me the names of the most important poets, novelists and short stories writers of the Swedish language. I have no idea where to look for this kind of information and the sources are not very abundant.
Keep up the incredible work.
With the best regards, Thorben
kingofkillings 2 months ago
@kingofkillings If u r looking for the classics read Astrid Lindgren, Vilhelm Moberg or August Strindberg. If u want more contemporary reading try Stieg Larsson, Björn Hellberg, Camilla Läckberg or Jan Mårtensson (the last examples mostly writes detective stories). Good luck with your Swedish :) /Malou (I am Swedish by the way)
grytbitvbg 2 months ago
That's really amazing. To me, as a native Swede, it sounds something like how a person born in the early to mid 1900s would speak. Meaning the people who were the first to really be taught rikssvenska in school. Basically there is a dialect at the core, but an effort to pronounce the words as written, which of course is what rikssvenska is all about. As it is the standardized Swedish derived from the uniform Swedish writing rules.
tiarin 2 months ago
Hehe, I agree that his accent has some very Old Swedish feel to it, combined with some foreign accent. Love it! :D
magnusfi 2 months ago 9
you had a mix of norweigen, finnish and german dialect when you read the text ;D but still good :)
Moomilainen 2 months ago
His swedish is very brute but it really does the job.
he sounds like he has been living in sweden for a couple of years, good job
Rickster621 3 months ago
Where can I get many similar videos of text analise?
izdajalec 3 months ago
When you read "de unga" and "de gamla" aren't those the definite article (as in, the young and the old), rather than the 3rd pers. plural pronoun? You read them as /dåm/ rather than as /de/, but I thought that only the pronoun "de" was pronounced that way.
himonfukwe 3 months ago
He talks swedish pretty much perfect, it's just the pronoucnification that is a little weird... it sounds like some old norseman would sit their and read it, or an icelandic.
Hyddan92 3 months ago
you talk good swedish !
:-)
qkelliq 4 months ago
haha awesome, you sound exactly as a relative of mine who is from austria, so she is a native german speaker, but dude this was entertaining :)
frexadapa 4 months ago
Do you speak all the languages you do videos about?
the1inAmillionSPERM 5 months ago
u have the Noregian Dialekt when you speak
MrBesvikenson 5 months ago
Very excellent pronunciation! Fluent, clear, effective. But as a Swede, I have to say that your R:s don't quite sound right. If you tried to meet your American pronunciation with your Swedish pronunciation of the letter halfway, I'd say it would sound a lot better.
ploothable 5 months ago
bizarre accent sounds like how sorta like how people spoke in the 30s.
rubbe 5 months ago
@rubbe
Yeah! It sounds a bit like early 1900 swedish - that is an achivement though!
Samzonish 5 months ago
@rubbe
Haha! Yeah, that is an achivement though! Lite norska-danska-engelska inblandat också.
Samzonish 5 months ago
@rubbe
Haha! Yeah, that is an achivement though! Lite norska-danska-engelska inblandat också.
Samzonish 5 months ago
@trifisaris3 none of them are harsh really, but some norwegian dialects sound a little harsh
MyStuff774 5 months ago
@trifisaris3 In my opinion, the >harshest< is Danish. They are all equal in difficulty, in my opinion, aside from Icelandic which appears a little more difficult. Danish is beautiful, but somehow more harsh and less beautiful than the others in my opinion, although I really love hearing it.
9244Matt 6 months ago
@trifisaris3 for non-nordic language groups, probably Icelandic. But Danish is actually the worlds hardest language to learn how to speak. It's very similar with swedish and norwegian in text, some minor differencesw in grammatics, but how to speak danish is far more difficult. A danish child will learn his/her own languae slower than other children across the world
Stravinsky91 6 months ago
@Stravinsky91 You're very wrong. Russian, Japanese, and Danish are all much more difficult. Danish may be difficult to speak with an authentic, native-like accent, but I think Mandarin, Korean, and Xhosa, for example are much more difficult. Danish is not the world's most difficult language, the grammar is quite simple, and as far as producing a native accent, I've never heard a Dane produce English with a native accent. Is English more difficult, or is accent irrelevant?
9244Matt 6 months ago
@9244Matt Which one is harder depends on what language is your native language. The continental Scandinavian languages are probably about equal for grammar, so on pronunciation Norwegian and Swedish are pretty close, but Danish is definitely harder. While Chinese is hard to write, if you spoke Vietnamese, the pronunciation would not be nearly so difficult as English or Swedish. Xhosa has the click sounds that take children the longest time to learn, but English th also takes a long time.
himonfukwe 3 months ago
You sound like someone important from the 1700's in Sweden. Like a diplomat or something.
kNekarn 6 months ago
Your swedish is just aaaaaawesooome !! even though if you woulda been in a shop or somethin' they would have not understodd you ....
Sojje1997 6 months ago
hey, do you think animals have a different language in a different country ??
someone reply plzz :)
EmilyRules971 6 months ago
@EmilyRules971 i actually think so :D but we need a proof..
mustakirsikka 6 months ago
yeah its difficult to distinguish swedish,norwiegion, & icelandic.
at least im studying, i think most English speakers would have trouble
telling the difference. i mainly study Hungarian & Russian.
But wanna learn more.
MetalHeart8787 6 months ago
It sounds slighlty norwegian/hallandish to me. In the sense that some of the As u pronounce as Es but u speak with a Halland accent. It does sound a bit like an old guy speaking too. Othewise VERY good :D
CFKberg 6 months ago
You are really good at this! While you're pronunciation is a little funky with some vowels, it is still fantastic. You are perfectly understandable, and I'm sure anyone who is fluent in Swedish would have no trouble understanding you, but they might think you sound a little Finnish...
Awshbuscus 7 months ago
Your accent sounds more like swedish chef than any swede on the planet.
CU2UK 7 months ago
This is a great text and it feels so nice that you have done this clip. Your swedish is very good. It sounds a litlebit like the swedish they talked in the 30s or 40s. Very clear and fast. This was very intresting. Thank you.
Wawazipata 7 months ago
U sound, lil bit norsk :) I am swedish
NicklasAchieves 7 months ago
He translated längst as "longest." I think längst där bak just means along the back.
MillionthUsername 7 months ago
I think I do quite all right pronouncing Swedish as a Flemish person!! :)
Obelisk1990 7 months ago
Well, you have a funny accent, but it's fully understandable. But you choose a really hard text if you want to learn swedish!
TheGosbubblan 7 months ago
Thanks for posting these videos
bradmacaboy 7 months ago
You do it really well, there's just a minor detail that isnt completely accurate. The text "bredvid skjutskarlen med Johan i knäet" Actually translates to something like "next to the driver with Johan on his lap" As I'm sure you know the swedish word "knä" translates into "knee" (knäet = the knee), however we use the same word for "lap". I suppose we figure that if you're sitting on someones lap you are in fact sitting on that persons thighs/knees. :)
shadowfaxe 8 months ago
He sounds like our swedish queen. x)
AlbaFlavius 8 months ago 40
I just love listening to Swedish, Norwegian and Icelandic. I enjoy the sound of the vowels which sound so hard for someone like me to pronounce . xD
erick91402 8 months ago
As a Swede, I can understand that the "melody" of the Swedish language and the clear vowels are very difficult. People from other countries that I've spoken to, often say that it sounds like it just goes up and down and up and down all the time. The "melody" of the language is very distinct and hard to define for a non-Swede.
I just love this video and your linguistic explanations. And you did a VERY good job in reading that text :)
SonataArctica89 9 months ago
@SonataArctica89 so u r a 22 or 21 yr old swedish sonata arctica
kookieless 8 months ago
you sound like you have a finswede dialect when you read it, it's pretty convincing!
SubjectOfMatter 9 months ago
I was thinking about Swedish but there are things that encourage me and thinks that don't. I love the way the written language looks, it just excites me. But the spoken language kind of scares me. Also, the fact that most of them speaks english kind of discourages me. I like the way it sounds like singing too, still scary. I also like that the grammar isn't too complicated (compared to spanish or german, the verbs tend to annoy me). Can I get some more insight? It's not been long since I started
FeralArtist 9 months ago
@FeralArtist Trust me, Swedish grammar is hard. The longer you try to learn it, the more obvious it gets why Swedish is one of the toughest languages to learn. My father is from Sweden, and he worked some time as a teacher in the language.
His students taught him how hard his native tounge was.
AnomalyINC 9 months ago
@AnomalyINC I haven't found Swedish grammar all that hard. I kinda like where they invert subject and verb order. Sounds poetic. It's hard to pronounce like a Swede, and it's not a language that flows off the tongue easily when you learn it. It has some tongue-twisting characteristics that I didn't find when I studied French in school. I don't know what the rules are for emphasis and all that. I guess you have to be immersed in it to pick up the rhythm. It's fun to study though.
MillionthUsername 7 months ago
@FeralArtist I find your comment really interesting for the simple fact Im Swedish and I wan to know why you found the spoken language scary. Is is because of the å, ä and ö or the melody of the language? Im just curious :)
lolloo92 7 months ago
I saw kvar and I immediately thought "Four" in esperanto
ALX11231 9 months ago
When you started to speak Swedish you reminded me of the old stories I had on tape that I used to listen to as a child 8D Great work on the Swedish accent, it's awesome!!! <3
Youz127 9 months ago
Lol, my mother language is Dutch, and Swedish is like Dutch, but every vowel is changed to an "ö" sound xD Lopen => löpa, overige => övriga, over=> över, open=> öppen... Which is also the comon joke we make over here, Swedish is all about the ö :D
Metaldude1945 9 months ago
@Metaldude1945 I have to agree, but from my point of view its the other way. From my perspective Dutch looks like make-believe Swedish, where you have taken Swedish words and made them into dutch in some weird way, it looks really funny.
Degenskonto 9 months ago
Ja, jeg fatter sgu svensk og norsk og jeg er fra danmark;)
jeddie234 10 months ago
natthumor
OnlineWalters 10 months ago
I think it sounds like an australian trying to speak swedish.. Knew one once that was in the process of learning and he spoke like that. A little less nervous maybe. Otherwise you wouldnt have any problem making yourself understand over here.. You maybe would get some remarks over the accent but ppl would understand.
weeruz 11 months ago
Sry but you are wrong agen. skjutskarlen is not the driver. Is is can ha dubbel meening and if you look at the rest it is satans helper. Ther and therfor the only one that see him is then one dead or are to die. And you did miss than maby ise the same textes and look at Nederland when you talk about nordic lang... and maby lock upp the relation betwin ösel and gottland. EDIT1: I can have miss understudd the last to meenigs at screen for a metafor. sry. =(
Vitl0ken 11 months ago
Sry but you are wrong agen. skjutskarlen is not the driver. Is is can ha dubbel meening and if you look at the rest it is satans helper. Ther and therfor the only one that see him is then one dead or are to die. And you did miss than maby ise the same textes and look at Nederland when you talk about nordic lang... and maby lock upp the relation betwin ösel and gottland.
Vitl0ken 11 months ago
Han skämde värkligen ut sig =)
hardwear10 11 months ago
@hardwear10 *verkligen. Och nej, det gjorde han inte.
MolinMUSE 9 months ago
@hardwear10 du med. det stavas "verkligen" :)
TuvaKisEn 9 months ago
Awesome finish dialect :P
jimmyjager 11 months ago
låter som finlandssvenska =)
FamicomGaming 1 year ago 3
@FamicomGaming låter mer som drottning silvia tycker jag haha
Arodon3x0 9 months ago
hurdy gurdy gurdy gurdy
userdetails1 1 year ago 3
smykke 1 year ago
jag titta på mycke tv
Spartan172FIN 1 year ago
haha lite kul att vara halvnorsk och titta på det här...
tivinivi 1 year ago 3
man, you're awesome. your swedish is 100% fully understandable. as someone mentioned earlier, one can hence a finnish accent, but more so "småländska" which is the dialect spoken in småland.
what's really amazing (and i'm saying this because i've watched some of your other vids) is that you emphasize the correct vowels when you're speaking. i really enjoyed this vid...bra jobbat!!
zimbalist 1 year ago 52
You sound a bit like a horny finish guy but hey!, you are waaay better than anyone ive ever seen before// guy from sweden. Ha det bra! (have a nice day)
1ms0l33t 1 year ago
Sweden <3
hasse951 1 year ago
Its not hard to tell swedish, danish and norwegian apart XD cuz im
Ramonezs 1 year ago
Who cares, the whole world speaks English. I grew up speaking Castillian, later moved to the US and learned English. Then French, Italian and German. When I traveled to Europe I found out I had wasted roughly $4500 US dollars learning the last three as in every country people had adopted English as rather its... "unofficial" first language.
neuroncompany 1 year ago
It sounds a little bit forced to me...
gabriellando 1 year ago
The letter Ä is not really an "A-variant" (even if typographically may look like it was).
The correct pronounciaion of Ä (i.e. in the older, traditional rikssvenska) is closer to an E than to an A. One of the few exceptions is where the Ä precedes an R which leads to a wider and more open ä-sound.
Svettjodd 1 year ago
RANDOM QUESTION! is swedish, danish, & norweigen-with all its dialects-mutually intelligible? if i speak swedish can i understand and read danish & norweigen?
arivas713 1 year ago
@arivas713 Yes and no. I can read nynorsk as a swede without any problem what so ever. Only a few words that distincts. Danish is more difficult but also understandable. When it comes to Speaking, nynorsk is perfectly understandable for me whilst I don't hear what danes say, simply because of their pronounciation. I would say that if you wish to understand all of the languages, you should learn norwegian bokmål.
brickan2 1 year ago
@arivas713 Yes you can, we scandinavian's can understand each other pretty good but as a foreigner it can be quite tough to pick up all the different dialects, especially if you learn danish and trying to understand swedish/norwegian or vice versa as the languages in spoken form differs alot, whilst it in written form is easier to understand. you can understand most of it by just learning one langague but if you wanna master it good you need to study some of the others languages as well.
zazee86 1 year ago
@arivas713 Danish is a little bit difficult to understand, but you can understand norwegian quite well and read both of them easily.
gabriellando 1 year ago
I was about to note my surprise at how similar they were to English - then you made that exact point. Excellent video. Thanks for taking the time to make this.
I'm also constantly surprised at how universal the inane "you sound like x", "no offense" comments are in YouTube. Almost any video where the presenter dares to record their voice has some idiot that took the time to enter a valueless insult of some sort.
frac 1 year ago
bra svenska :D
anuwatplayer 1 year ago
danes and norwegians does not have that problem at all :)
KASKALEGSKRIVE 1 year ago
I am learning Swedish now. I am having trouble with the word föräldrar. I cannot pronounce it! I try and I try and I try ... I cannot pronounce that word.
NaomiChambers 1 year ago
the letter 'ö' is pronounced like 'ə' in the word 'the' [ðə]
one way to pronounce 'föräldrar' may sound like [fər'eldrar]
DiamondClaw1991 1 year ago
@NaomiChambers For - rel - dra. Sort of ;)
Achilles94627 1 year ago
Very Good of you too read in Swedish. You sound like The Queen Silvia but with a men voice. But youre were very good :)
Olympen2 1 year ago
you sound funny dude, nervous or something
TheShampow44 1 year ago
Kul att se folk lära sig svenska =)
hynix93 1 year ago 63
@hynix93 Ja verkligen :d
Emma97Emma 11 months ago
Kul att se folk lära sig svenska :)
hynix93 1 year ago
there are some people in southern sweden that not swedish or danish people understand at all. it´s in the region skane in southern sweden. p.s if you want to go to sweden go to stockholm in the summer. I swear it´s the worlds most beautiful city in the summer and maybe the winter to. And you cant throw a stone without hitting a tourist.
maxmohlin 1 year ago
this is funny to listen to when your swedish
maxmohlin 1 year ago
SVENSKA ÄR BÄST!!! :D
Theowest 1 year ago
@Theowest I understand swedish is the best schwedisch ist das beste
Gott2070 1 year ago
vafan har tony irving gjort en sån här för ? ;D
NillePartyboy 1 year ago
instead of saying "on his knees" you should say "on his lap"
TheAircraftMasters 1 year ago
I'll be starting a Swedish course next semester... The following year it'll be added to my regular program... Örebro, here I come..;)
petterhny 1 year ago 2
Very well done. I was smiling througout the video due to the fact that the accent very much reminds me of, and is similar to, those that you'd hear on TV in the 50s where things sounded somewhat sped up if you understand what I mean hehe. Also sounds somewhat skånskt (southern dialect).
Ganbacchau 1 year ago
Nice video but for all the non swedish people in here, his swedish accent is not very common.
henkekk 1 year ago
@henkekk
This is incorrect.
(Är du från södra Sverige? Det här är väl hur svenska låter i princip över hela landet i övrigt.)
d1ckyj0nes 1 year ago
@d1ckyj0nes HAN SNACKAR JU FAN MED EN ENGELSK DIALEKT! X' D Då låter ju fan inte resten i landet som honom! Henkekk har rätt. Och att du ska nämna södra Sverige är ett dåligt exempel.. Det finns många dialekter i Sverige. Men hans dialekt är ingen man hittar i Sverige...
Theowest 1 year ago
When he translates it you really notice how similar it is to english
msmarch4 1 year ago
One small question about your surmane: is it "Argüelles", from Asturias? I'm currently living in Asturias and your last name caught my eye.
Priciaf 1 year ago
@Priciaf Yes, that's my father's father's homeland. Unfortunately, the "ü" cannot normally be typed in English, so I've had to drop it. Earlier I tried to insist upon it for official documentation, but this just resulted in confusion, two spellings at best, and a third - Argiielles - at worst. So, I've had to become Arguelles, though if I lived in a country where it could be written easily, I would be Argüelles.
ProfASAr 1 year ago 9
@ProfASAr you can change your keyboard by going to control pannel and i think its in dates and times then go to language and you selct what keyboard you want then you can switch between keyboards very easy using a botton on the bottem right of your screen dont know if your using a mac or pc but the is for windows or if all comes to worse just use character map
darkferiousity 1 year ago
@ProfASAr I thought there was an international system to type these characters using only lation words :s
Ö= oa
Å=aa
Ä=ae
ü=ua
or am I completely off? When I fly with Norwegian airlines they always type my name out as ''Maard'' on the ticket.
Book5550 1 year ago
@ProfASAr So we share the same homeland! My grandparents are also from Spain, Barcelona :)
thundernuts0 1 year ago
@ProfASAr I'm curious. How many languages can you read write, speak and understand fluently?
link0zeldarulz89 6 months ago
I think your Swedish sounds a bit lite "norrländska". A dialect from the north of Sweden!
RightWereIAm 1 year ago
Swedish sounds very nice and gentile to me:) Maybe because I used to watch swedish (childern)movies when I was a kid, they were always very good:P I'm Dutch/Frisian btw.
evildeathmonkey1 1 year ago
thats extremly helpful thankyou make more
hurryupche 1 year ago
you´re doing a great job reading the swedish, what´s complicated for you is getting the pronounciation of the vowels right, like the real swedish "u" and "a" sound, I suppose, very funny to hear though :)
gabriellasofiee 1 year ago
probably don't take speed before you make your next video
mathiusmat 1 year ago
o BUT UR GOOD! =))
djcalvados 1 year ago
it doesn't sound very nice. I'm a native romanian speaker, but out english sounds the best out of all germanic languages, and the next is german.
i might be subjective, especially because english is basically my second native, and german the the fourth language i learn.
But still... get some sounds, some diphtongs... something.
De4sher 1 year ago
@De4sher It's beacause he doesn't say it right. He has a really unswedish accent!
HernameisPekka 1 year ago
omg I lol'd so bad when he started reading swedish. It's good, but it sounds really funny in my swedish ears!
Fudgepacker4000 1 year ago 4
It's good. But he pronounce "de" as them when it should be they. Them is "dom" or "dem" in swedish. Otherwise, really good.
SlaytheAngels 1 year ago
@SlaytheAngels dem är det rätta, inte dom, en dom får du om du gjort nåt dumt =)
RoffePop 1 year ago
OMG I want to snap my fingers and be able to speak it
valentine70valentine 1 year ago
say what!?!?! que complicado!!!
fyelpi 1 year ago
it's interesting how Danes can understand southern Swedes but not Northern Swedes
maunus 1 year ago
@maunus haha trust me, NO ONE understand northern swedes...
MsAliciahl 1 year ago
@MsAliciahl
yeah
Fontothitam 1 year ago
@MsAliciahl what do you talk about? ofcourse we understand the northern swedish people if you mean swedish speaking people and not the Sami speaking people...
RoffePop 1 year ago
@maunus the dialect in the most southerend part of sweden can sound really danish if the dialect is distinct. If you put two people in the same room together, one from the northest part and one from the southest part of sweden and tell them to talk to each other in their most distinct dialect. you should immediatly be able to physically see the questionmarks forming above their heads! ;P
kirianna21 1 year ago
very well done :D I love hearing people try to speak swedish, despite the accents, it's always amazing how people learn to talk this horrendously hard language... the grammar is quite easy, but the rest is just hell
dappledice 1 year ago
@dappledice Really? I think Swedish is probably one of the easiest languages for a native English speaker to learn. The grammar is very easy, and a lot of the vocabulary is very similar to English words. The only hard thing about Swedish is some of the pronunciation.
Achilles94627 1 year ago
bortfarande? Thought it has to be "Fortfarande" (?)
AnnieOnePiano 1 year ago
har en lärare som pratar såhär
mrjojo1995 1 year ago
låter som om att han kommer från finland
zmith1234 1 year ago
Do you have a video of you speaking Finnish?
me700gnomes 1 year ago
texten är från utvandrarna! =) " jag tyar inte mer Karl-Oskar"
Leaderofpancakes 1 year ago
Dude! You're awesome! Your accent could use a little polishing, but hey - good stuff :-)
whostoleJiMZ 1 year ago
Where can I buy this book?
TehCacti 1 year ago
too fast!!! too fast!!!! :P
kefalotirii 1 year ago
Queen Silvia goes Marc Levengood. Folk i lund förstår ju utrikiska....så klart.
mannen33bast 1 year ago 2
We don't have that problem, we immediately see whether text is danish, swedish or norwegian (I'm swedish). I¨'d say danish is "heavier", norwegian is lighter and swedish is somewhere in between.
HORPISS 1 year ago
bork bork bork
GeekyMex 1 year ago
How many languages do you actually speak?
Rolandhinio 1 year ago
Haha... This dude is funny.
I have a word for all of you...
"Bullfitta", it means "I love you" in Swedish.
ricardrin 1 year ago
I want to be like you when I grow up.
charlotttaaa 1 year ago
Låter som Robert Gustavsson när han spelar den gamla tanten :)
freedetheman 1 year ago
You sound more Swedish than any swede
Galentw 1 year ago
@Galentw exactly
TJRHINO29 1 year ago
wow so hard to tell apart for a foreigner like me, it looks alike
lucirz 1 year ago
It's actually really good. I like your voice too. You sound a little german when you speak swedish xD
InforcedHellCrusader 1 year ago
nerd alert
tromboneJTS 1 year ago
det låter som om han har en pistol mot huvet
pleexo 1 year ago 41
@pleexo tänkte samma saken
npbass 1 year ago
@pleexo lol x/
Emma97Emma 11 months ago
After I get done with learning Norwegian, I hope to learn Swedish. Thanks for the overview!
ModernVikingSaga 1 year ago
great language very close to English, but sweden has to be the most unfriendly place ive ever been to
mdm15 1 year ago
@mdm15 Thats a little surprising I must say :o
Where were you? Stockholm? In that case I'm not surprised but I mean... I thought we came off as pretty kind and decent people xD Who'd know.
Blackiesoul 1 year ago
@mdm15 really? how were they unfriendly? russia was the most unfriendly place i've been too lol.
lucirz 1 year ago
@mdm15 Swedes unfriendly? That was very interesting! I've heard quite the opposite from many tourists. Would you care to elaborate?
kitsune2222 1 year ago
@mdm15 As someone said, If you went to Stockholm, i'm not surprised actually because they are unfriendly. I live about 80km from Sthlm but I find that norhtern Sweden has the most kind people :)
Errathetube 1 year ago
@Errathetube I have been to Stockholm a few times (I am Austrian so i speak German and English) and they were all friendly, except some retarded Banker in a Täby Centrum that didnt want to help us when we had a problem with one of the money-machines.
DemonFoxDeity 1 year ago
hahahah funny accent.. im swedish/australian.. i speak both eng and swe 100 :% if u may.. and you're not bad :D hehe
DangerousMusicProd 1 year ago
im from swe and it was very good but i :P very many times
themib21 1 year ago
kristina satt PÅ baksätet?? är det inte I baksätet man ska sitta??
xXElitziaXx 1 year ago
@xXElitziaXx Det är häst och vagn de åker på så det finns inget att sitta i utan tänk dig i stället en öppen vagn med två rader av säten.
ingsve 1 year ago
Ä is an "A-variant" only typographically, it's seen as a distinctive letter. It's standard pronounciation is close to the vovel sound in the English word "ear", except when it precedes an R and becomes similar to the vovel in "air" (such as in "ära", for instance).
However, due to immigration, people moving from Norrland to Stockholm and bad education, the Ä-sounds has changed dramatically in the last decade; most young speakers now pronounce them either as in "air" or like a Swedish open A.
Svettjodd 1 year ago
The ä is an "a-variant" only typographically, it's seen as a distinctive letter.
It's standard pronounciation is closer to a Swedish E than to a an A, *except* when it preceeds an R - the word ÄRA (glory) has a vovel sound similar to the English AIR, for instance. However, due to people moving from Norrland to Stockholm (and other factors), these Ä-sounds has changed dramatically over the last 20 years or so - most speakers below 35 now pronounce all Ä's with a very open A-like sound.
Svettjodd 1 year ago
I've been learning Swedish and I really enjoy discovering all
the words that are similar to English. You can tell that there is
deep connection between the two when you can come up
with simple sentences that sound just the same like "Vi måste
gå hem nu"/We must go home now or "Du är min bästa vän"/
You are my best friend, or "Jag vill ha två kopp kaffe"/I'll have
two cups of coffee.
Pronunciation is hard at first, but then the verbs are less work than
most languages, so that's a relief.
MillionthUsername 1 year ago
Sånt här gör mig glad. Du är bra. (Jag är en kortfattad svensk.)
Awaitsubasa 1 year ago
kan du mycket svenska???...själv bor jag där :)
5zimon 1 year ago
WOW @ your swedish, I'm swedish and you sound like someone from norrbotten, the place where my mom grew up... Can't even hear a trace of american in it.
Btw, "norrbotten" is the northern part of sweden, that's why some people from the south can't distinguish the accent from the finnish variant of swedish, but it's a clear difference and you don't sound finnish at all.
clarkcolt45 1 year ago
haha han låter som en nervös stressad gubbe från 50-talet.
heggish 1 year ago