Talking English

A Swedish person speaking English. About the English language. Sorry about the quality. My computer keeps crashing while rendering video, so I had to make it as quick to render as possible. And try again and again and again and again. I should get a new computer. But I'm poor.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• nosensical
• rant
• swenglish
• vincent
• comedy

[Swenglish]

@ffantasy4ever Don't get your hopes up; I've never met anyone like me, and I live here;)

[Swenglish]

@MrsCavan Thanks! some errors, but you're not hard to follow, and that's what matters. Minor corrections:

"Du"=you, "din"=your. Names of counties are capitalized, but not nationalities and languages. "Dåligt" describes "ett/det/mitt/ditt/vårt/ert" words, but "en/den/min/din/vår/er" would be "dålig". "Sig"=himself/herself;"mig"=me­/myself. Svenska has S before K.

"Din engelska är fantastisk! Jag är amerikan och min svenska är så dålig. Jag borde lära mig av dig."

You're doing pretty well.

[DremordDrale]

@Swenglish Hm cool thanks!

[Swenglish]

@DremordDrale Sweden's a single-state nation. I live in the Gävleborg county. Which is in the lower north of Sweden. No big cities, just a small one, and some small towns and even smaller rural areas and sub-town village-type things. I live in one of the latter. Basically the outskirts of nowhere.

[DremordDrale]

@Swenglish If you don't mind me asking, which province (state? division? region? I don't know what it's call.)?

[Swenglish]

@DremordDrale Certainly around where I live, it seems very rare that people socialize without alcohol. Which I think is sad. Not sure how common sober socializing is in more urban areas.

[DremordDrale]

@Swenglish Also thanks for taking the time to responding ! :D

[DremordDrale]

@Swenglish Wait... Swedes only express themselves when drunk... does that mean that most of you guys drink before really socializing or is that just a high(er) amount of people that do that?

[Swenglish]

@DremordDrale There's kind of a culture of "don't express yourself unless you're drunk" here, sadly. I don't drink, myself, which leaves me with not much of a social life, because people don't want to interact socially while sober, being under the assumption that fun can only come from alcohol. What you take to be anger might just be people being hesitant to emote because they feel emoting is reserved for when out drinking. Possibly side-effect of a country that's mostly either cold or raining.

[DremordDrale]

@Swenglish lol did fool me - but whenever there is a swede online they are always angry or possibly just pretending to be angry

[Swenglish]

@DremordDrale Swedes are angry? What an odd generalization, I really haven't noticed such a thing. If you're referring to the video, I'm surprised that you haven't noticed it's just a comedy bit, and not real emotion, but I'll take that as a compliment on my acting.

[DremordDrale]

swedes are angry - now I am sad to know that swedes speak english!