It's crazy how honest they are, a lot of people in some countries tend to say they speak multiple languages, but instead they barely speak it well, whereas in Sweden they openly say, they speak 2 fluently and the others not in a very dissent level
Bragging, especially if done in a brazen or open way, is a much worse sin in Sweden than in many other places. When I have visited the USA that is something that has been glaringly obvious.
That is nice to read as it bothers me when people aren't more clear and honest. If I got the question I know I would have said 1 (Swedish) or maybe if being more exact 1.5 just because I am not used to speaking English and get very uncomfortable... I pretty much panic... there is no way I could ever claim to speak English fluently when my speaking skills are lacking. Comprehension and typing isn't enough...
Respect to the girl who talked about sign language! I agree! More people should learn it and we all mighy lose our hearing as we age anyway so it would be extremely convenient to aleady know it.
swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Färöisch, Icelandic are North Germanic languages. Together with west Germanic languages (German, Dutch, Flemish, Luxemburgish. I'm not sure with Jüdisch) they build Germanic languages. I've lived in Denmark 20 years ago. Because so lang time ago I've forgotten almost all of Danish. I remember just 3 things about this language: 1) there is difference between "hans" and "sin" which both would be translated into English as "his" or German "sein" French "son" or Chinese (my mother tongue) "tade". At the beginning I couldn't distinguish these two words. After long time I finally understood the difference. 2) determinant is some times behind (not in front of) the noun, for example "huset", which would be translated into English as "house the" instead of "the house" ("et hus" would have another meaning). 3) the 3rd point is a little complicated so that I would write a very long comment in order to formulate it
@@aramisone7198 You can understand Danish if they just try to talk a little slower and clearer. 😉 And if you hear it for a few days you pretty quickly start to understand when they talk faster as well... at least enough to make by.
Dont they understand norwegian and danish? Or do they take it for granted, or simply forget they understand both danish and norwegian beside swedish and english?
I’ve been living in Sweden for 1,5 years know and completely agree. It’s a really nice country with very friendly people,who do their best to be nice. It helps a great deal if you learn Swedish, it is definitely not necessary, but very much appreciated.
But saying that it's something that everyone should know is just extremely unrealistic. Most people go their entire lives without ever having to interact with someone who can only speak in sign language. The closest most people ever come to sign language is seeing some random person sign once on the other side of the bus
I'm Italian, very happy to know that many of these people want to learn my native language ❤ if you want speak Italian I would be glad to practise and to learn Swedish in change!😊
I wanted to learn another, I chose Italian because I love both the people, the place and the language. Sono andato a perugia..veramente una bella citta che mi manca.
@@MerlinaTheFriendlyGhost Hi Merlina!I studied foreign languages (autodidacte in English), French and Spanish. If you want communicate in Italian, I'm very happy to help you 😁 can we change the address email if you want, but I don't know how 😅
A basque speaker here. I didn't expect anybody to mention our isolate language in this video. Nice! Swedish people seem to be very open to foreign languages btw
Interesting I love the way it sounds, I am English, learning Swedish but I’m happy to know it’s similar somewhat to German as I already hear some familiarity through English
@@-db4rfGerman and Dutch may be closer than German and Swedish, but German and Swedish are pretty close. I’m Swedish and never studied German in school but I still understand a fair bit, and could “speak German” when I met people in Germany who didn’t speak English. Wouldn’t have been possible if our languages weren’t related.
I was in Sweden and I can say that absolute majority speak English - bus drivers, any shop assistant, etc. Including small towns. Only elderly people don't speak English.
Interesting that almost none of the younger people speak German anymore. However, many of those over 50 still speak German, including in Denmark and the Netherlands. In the past, German books and the German language were also used in science in Sweden.
In Denmark, we are still taught German beginning in around 6th grade. Most Danes speak a little bit. Some, like me, speak it at basic conversation level and there is probably a higher percentage of Danes that speak it fluently compared to Swedes because of Denmarks geographical location. Unfortunately a lot of Danish kids give up on German because the grammar is a nightmare. It also just feels a bit unnecessary since you can get by with English most places in Germany anyway, sadly.
typically you get to pick either german, french or spanish. Not many kids pick german these days, i studied spanish while i was in school. However since i now work in the forest industry i regret not studying german since it would've been more useful for me to know.
Scandinavians are practical people, and they love to travel. English is widely spoken in Germany (and other German speaking countries), so not a pressing need to learn it. Not so in Latin America - you would need to have a basic understanding of Spanish. Spanish is more utilitarian. Same with Mandarin.
I never thought anything about the swedish language but then I got introduced to a rapper Sarettii from Sweden and the language really intrigued me, now I am starting to learn it haha
i'm married to a german woman and we have a summer house near Arvika Sweden about half way to the northern areas. last week we had two friends from netherlands visit us in Germany and we all spoke english . The netherlands folks couldn't speak deutsche or swedish so it was english or nothing .
When we are 13 years old, we can choose to study either French, German or Spanish in school. English is taught to everyone since we’re about 9 years old.
Salut les gars c'est super cool que vous soyez autant a vous intéresser à la langue Française en Suède, ici en France c'est pas évident de s'intéresser à la langue Suédoise dans le but de l'apprendre 🇨🇵🤜🤛🇸🇪
Mon expérience est que ceux qui étudient le français s’intéressent plus à la langue que ceux qui étudient l’espagnol. L’espagnol, on le choisit parce que tous les amis le font également, mais le français, c’est plus d’une choix consciente et souvent liée à une passion pour la culture française.
@@elinbranting ça me touche en tant que français de savoir ça ! Je m'intéresse aussi a la langue Suédoise parce que j'apprécie beaucoup la culture Scandinave, et j'envisage de faire un road-trip de plusieurs semaines en Scandinavie qui se déroulerait majoritairement en Suède et j'aimerais maîtriser quelques notions de languages afin de témoigner du respect aux locaux. La base du respect dans un pays étranger c'est de s'intéresser un minimum à la langue et a la culture de son interlocuteur ! 💙💛
@@si.3107 normal, le suédois et l'anglais sont des langues issues du groupe germanique, à partir de là la base de leur langue maternelle se retrouve en grande partie dans la langue anglaise ... Le français est une langue latine, nous quand on passe du français a l'anglais on doit passer de différentes logiques et structures grammaticales, sans parler des conjugaisons des verbes pour se faire comprendre. On part de plus loin qu'eux dans une quête d'arriver au même résultat, et surtout l'apprentissage scolaire de l'anglais en France est complètement à revoir, le niveau scolaire général est médiocre par rapport aux attendus des programmes scolaires donc, oui malheureusement
In sweden every kid gets to choose between learning french, spanish or german in school. We all know english (and understand norwegian and a little danish).
wow, both the men and women in Sweden are good-looking.I'm American but I speak German and Swedish. I got suspended from work because of a guy making fun of Sweden, I yelled at him.
Cool, 🫶I was not expecting Chinese was mentioned so many times. I thought Japanese maybe more popular. 😂 I used to worry that the Swedish official media had too much of a negative tendency to report on China, and worried whether I should go to Sweden for a PhD (I've always been very impressed with Sweden's welfare policy, but learning Swedish requires quite a bit of commitment). Guess the public opinion is shifting recent years.❤
Many people are kinda suspisous of the chinese goverment, but not of the people! Most are very accepting of other cultures and interested so I think you would like it here!
It switches between generations which east asian culture is seen as cool, if they were asking middle aged people it'd be Japanese, younger adults it'd be Korean, but these are mostly teenagers.
@@IMKAPPAA no, per favore. Non esistono " migliori al mondo" soprattutto ultimamente. Ovviamente mi fa piacere che siano interessati ad imparare l'italiano, dato che vivo in Svezia
Should have done the interview in Finland since we have mandatory 3 languages here in school so 1 more than Sweden 😂 And most of people pick extra languages as well, the same way in Sweden.
@8:22 I am hearing but know Swedish sign language. It's really neat in some situations, like you can talk through a window or when you're in a really noisy place it's so much more convenient to sign! All though sign language is problematic when carrying stuff but wanna talk and a bit tricky to walk and talk at the same time. But I do recommend everyone to try i out, it's an amazing language!
That girl whoms parents are from Chile and Finland is soooo beauteful, I can't! She's born in Sweden so despite you can tell shes not fully Sweden she do melts in the crowd and nobody would question her not being ethnic Swede. If I'd meet her I would simply by curiousity ask her "you are not fully Swedish arent you?" Because I am intrested in culture. However once I would hear her speak I would think she is just like all other Swedes.
As a Vietnamese, I find that Chinese is very easy when it comes to pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. But the writing system is the entire opposite thing
Hard for you to judge if it is your mother tongue. I have studied some Korean, Japanese and Mandarin, and Mandarin is by far the hardest to get started with among those three due to the difficult pronounciation.
I used to think Sweden was a bilingual country we would get missionaries here in Africa and surprisingly all of them spoke very good and nice English the young and old ones
Big respect to the people who wanted to learn Chinese in this current climate where there is so much Sinophobia. I did learn a bit of Swedish a while back but didn't have time to continue. I did find it to be one of the less difficult languages, but alas, it still has genders! I loved the fact that verbs don't conjugate with the person. Tak.
I'm indian but i love china and really respect them im also learning mandarin and hope to visit china in near future. Sadly many people hate china due to ccp and western propaganda.
Nothing against the chinese people. It's the government we hate. They have supressed their population with social credit scores and violent crackdowns like Tiananmen square. They oppress Uyghurs and claim land that isn't theirs to please Xi Jinping's vanity. I have much love for the chinese, not for Xi.
I speak Swedish, Danish, English, French, some German, and (before I left Sweden) several Arabic expressions because the large quantity of muslims in Malmö, Sweden.
You should come and ask South Africa people, becouse we have 11 official languages, on top of that you have different dialog from province to province within some of the languages.
det är helt roligt och härligt att många svenskar vill lära sig kinesiska. XD alltså det känndes inte att svenskar var för mycket intresserade på kinesiska för mycket när jag fortfarande befann mig där i Sverige XD
@@petergustafsson1670 I just learned it little bit in school since it is required as swedish is official language here. But since the resemblance to some finnish words that have swedish origin and english words it is more so understandable for me than I actually know how to speak.
El castellano/español e inglés es lo mas útil a nivel mundial, en todo el mundo hablan ambos idiomas. Sabiendo español entiendes el italiano y portugues sin problema
I'm from norway, and I'm lowkey jealous of swedes cause they can also understand us and danes to a high extent. I can understand swedish well enough but reading it is a bit tough and they spam "ä" alot hahah. On the other hand tho, reading danish is pretty easy since our bokmål is extremely similar to written danish but once a dane opens their mouth I have to strain my ears lollll love my neighbors tho, we all chill
@@FreezeMathias Jeg er mye i Stockholm, og de fleste svenskene der forstår meg veldig godt tbhh. Du har sikkert rett tho, men jeg vet at svenskene fra Skåne forstår dansk veldig godt.
Norwegian has so many dialects tho. We might be able to understand the Oslo dialect. No you see, you guys are the ones spamming except you're spamming "æ"!!
Swedish, English, a little French, a little Italian, a little Spanish, a little Finnish, some Chinese and Japanese. Astrid Lindgren, who was able to give a TV interview, speaking German at a native's level is long dead.
Men man kan ju inte jämföra en författare med vanligt statsfolk. Författarens jobb är ju att kunna språk till en väldigt hög nivå och sedan kunna återberätta dem väldigt specifikt via sina böcker. Många författare har då mycket lätt för att lära andra språk itu med deras förståelse om grammatik och bra minne gällande ordföråd.
@@Norguosanow- I know quite some Swedes who are *not* writers and *still* speak German like Germans. One of my professors was one of them. My uncle's wife was another, she even spoke Swabian, although they both live in Västernorrland. It probably has more to do with age and the language sequence that once used to be standard in Swedish schools.
@@maximkretsch7134 Ja, tyskan är lätt att förstå som svenskfödd, kan själv en mängd som hjälper här och där, men det betyder ju inte att man kan förväntas PRATA tyska som en författare vars jobb ät litteratur! Definitivt att våra byggarbetare skulle behöva tyska och värna om det.. eller kanske våra veterinärer? Nja, inte riktigt.
@-heloticaxz6514 I have no contact to Swedish veterinarians but well to Swedish construction workers and most tolerate instructions given in English. The usual mode is that on everybody's hard hat the flags for the languages he speaks are displayed. 😂
I want to give a tip to the Swedish people, who are very practical, affectionate, smart, curious, affectionate and fun, the Swedes are honest, they love all the Neo-Latin languages, they don't know which one to start with or which one to end with, as there are many languages, even I get lost, I recommend learning occidental (Interlingue), novial, Interlingua, language Nova Franca because this is how they communicate with all Latin peoples using languages common among them all. Regarding Asian languages, it would be good for them to learn Wutun/Wutum, a language that mixes Tibetan, Chinese and a little Mongolian, I say this because Swedes love Chinese culture and language and Chinese and Tibetan culture together are the bases of other Asian cultures. Of the Austronesian languages, the best language for Swedes to love and enjoy is Indonesian and Malay, which are dialects of the same ancestral language and there are plenty of materials in English and Dutch. These 2 languages are sisters of Swedish, plus Dutch and Afrikaans, which have a very similar sound. to Swedish and you can study everything and the materials in English help the Swedes because English is the second language of the Swedes who today are one of the best English speakers in the world, even better than many native English speakers. Kisses to the Swedish girls, always cool and beautiful.🥂👍🌹💋😊😊🎇🎁😍❤️🦋🫂🌍💙
Thanks. English in Sweden is a foreigner lang that Swedes only adopted for international life. And Sweden speaks in half native level or native level, it's a facts. Thanks for the appreciation.🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂 🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂
I went to Sweden this year in June and got a tattoo from a Bolivian man, we spoke in English Swedish and Spanish together and is definitely the peak of my life thusfar Edit: ADD SWEDISH SUBTITLES
Well even though Swedes likely understand them, they cannot speak or write in Danish and Norwegian. Sure as a Swede I could likely fake an accent that may fool non Scandinavians. But that's about it.
Most Scandinavians can read and understand eachother's languages but they are so close it is difficult to speak. My sister who is Swedish but lived and went to school in Norway for example never know if it's pensionär or pensionist in Swedish and Norwegian respectively.
@@tovep9573 yessss, so similar that it's difficult is a good way to put it. Finding the right words is difficult when you have to second guess if the translation really is that simple or you're forgetting something.
That's because they often don't speak each others languages. They speak their own to each other and hope for the best. And most Swedes don't understand much of what Danes are saying.
I think young Swedes between 13-34 yrs can speak English pretty good about 77% of them after this older people over+40 yrs can understand Norwegian bokmål and Danish about 64% of them.
@@oskich Yes but my point is you don't understand the other languages automatically, just because you speak one of them. You still need to learn them, because they still are different languages.
Average Swede can speak swedish, english and some Norwegian bokmål (with a little effort), some spanish/french/german. Knows a few important words in Finnish or Danish (usually it's one or the other.) And many people in Sweden who have foreign background speaks one extra language atop on that. So I would say average is three and a half.
Uppsala. Aha ni besöker stockholm? Det tar 34 min med pendeln haha. Besöker? Går fortare att ta sig från Uppsala till Sthlm City än från många ställen i Sthlm. Fun fact 40 000 of uppsala Inner city reseidents commute to stockholm every day. Thats almost 25% of the ppl living the central part of Uppsala. So, there's a lot of "visiting".
I'm guessing they didn't add subtitles cause the guy was sort of just thinking out loud until he got to his actual answer, but here's what he said: "Some other language? Hmm not really... I tried learning a bit of Spanish but that wasn't very fun, but some other language... Maybe French?"
Fem språk ganska flytande: bulgariska, svenska (bodde där under 5 år), engelska, ryska och spanska. Nu läser jag franska. Efteråt så blir det italienska och något annat, kanske tyska, vi får se!
Why would chinese be surprising? For all we know, it's going to be waaay more popular in the future. It makes sense. I just don't like to have to make the choice between mandarin and cantonese. It'd be nice to learn ONE and have acess to all of China.
None of them said Norwegian. I bet they know more norwegian than spanish, german and french :P.. maybe some of them know some danish too.. basicly same words, but spoken differently.
The Swedish language has a charming and beautiful sound and a sing-song language. I think the Swedish language is beautiful and the three Swedish girls are model babes, the German Swedish girl is a total charmer. The Eueco people in terms of Germanic languages and fluent in English, a worldwide native and almost native level, of the other Germanic languages that Swedes need to learn are German, Afrikaans, Dutch and Swiss German. As they love painting and music, Swedes should be conlang solresol, the international sign language for social inclusion and the languages of emojis. The Swedes are notorious lovers and friends of all Neo-Latin languages, it awakens passion and love in them, the Swedes must study Ido, novial, interlingua and interlingue (occidental) and the Occitan that underlies all Western Neo-Latin poetry to this day. As Swedes today love Chinese culture, they should study the Hokkien language and classical Chinese, Hokkien and the direct descendant of the classical and ancient Chinese language. Swedes are not perfect but at least they are honest, they are humanized and when they trust a foreign person they are loving, trustworthy and try to be loyal and nice. They have their madness, xenophobia and depressions, but at least they try to love and understand different cultures similar to theirs, which they like in Sweden.
1:45 Haha då kommer du ju inte från Irak. To ask a Swede what languages they speak when they say two (even when speaking Swedish) is funny. You're probably never gonna find some odd maybe old person who speaks another language that isn't English. Yay finally a guy said he would wanna learn Japanese. Chinese is nice too- I speak Japanese, but not very much and I really wanna learn American Sign Language and Old Norse.
It's crazy how honest they are, a lot of people in some countries tend to say they speak multiple languages, but instead they barely speak it well, whereas in Sweden they openly say, they speak 2 fluently and the others not in a very dissent level
Bragging, especially if done in a brazen or open way, is a much worse sin in Sweden than in many other places. When I have visited the USA that is something that has been glaringly obvious.
That is nice to read as it bothers me when people aren't more clear and honest. If I got the question I know I would have said 1 (Swedish) or maybe if being more exact 1.5 just because I am not used to speaking English and get very uncomfortable... I pretty much panic... there is no way I could ever claim to speak English fluently when my speaking skills are lacking. Comprehension and typing isn't enough...
@@petergustafsson1670 I used to live in Sweden (I'm American). I encountered just as much bragging there than here in the US.
Respect to the girl who talked about sign language! I agree! More people should learn it and we all mighy lose our hearing as we age anyway so it would be extremely convenient to aleady know it.
Most forget that they understand most of the Norwegian and Danish language as well. :)
Jag håller med...men är Norska och Danska verkligen utrikiska...🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭
Noweigan yes but Danish no its different from Swedish and Norway.
swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Färöisch, Icelandic are North Germanic languages. Together with west Germanic languages (German, Dutch, Flemish, Luxemburgish. I'm not sure with Jüdisch) they build Germanic languages.
I've lived in Denmark 20 years ago. Because so lang time ago I've forgotten almost all of Danish. I remember just 3 things about this language:
1) there is difference between "hans" and "sin" which both would be translated into English as "his" or German "sein" French "son" or Chinese (my mother tongue) "tade". At the beginning I couldn't distinguish these two words. After long time I finally understood the difference.
2) determinant is some times behind (not in front of) the noun, for example "huset", which would be translated into English as "house the" instead of "the house" ("et hus" would have another meaning).
3) the 3rd point is a little complicated so that I would write a very long comment in order to formulate it
@@aramisone7198 You can understand Danish if they just try to talk a little slower and clearer. 😉 And if you hear it for a few days you pretty quickly start to understand when they talk faster as well... at least enough to make by.
Dont they understand norwegian and danish?
Or do they take it for granted, or simply forget they understand both danish and norwegian beside swedish and english?
The woman who is Finnish and Chilean is a beauty.
Agree 😮
Happens when you mix latin and nordic genes
Best looking girl I've seen in a very long time 😍
Simps
I still agree.❤
lived in sweden for three years. welcoming ppl, inclusive society, it's an amazing country and i miss it so much.
cringey comment
@@alessbritish228 Yup your comment is definitely cringey
@@AtomicMushroomz no u
TU ❤
I’ve been living in Sweden for 1,5 years know and completely agree. It’s a really nice country with very friendly people,who do their best to be nice. It helps a great deal if you learn Swedish, it is definitely not necessary, but very much appreciated.
That last girl is a real one! She wanted to learn sign language! 🙏🏾
But saying that it's something that everyone should know is just extremely unrealistic. Most people go their entire lives without ever having to interact with someone who can only speak in sign language. The closest most people ever come to sign language is seeing some random person sign once on the other side of the bus
@@MarcusH... There are also hundreds of different sign languages, which consequently makes each relatively small.
I'm Italian, very happy to know that many of these people want to learn my native language ❤ if you want speak Italian I would be glad to practise and to learn Swedish in change!😊
I'm Swedish also. Would also love to learn Italian. Beautiful language. Latin would be cool also!
I wanted to learn another, I chose Italian because I love both the people, the place and the language. Sono andato a perugia..veramente una bella citta che mi manca.
i would love to learn italian :)@@ale.d.3812
@@ale.d.3812 Hi I’m Spanish and would love to learn Italian any tips?
@@MerlinaTheFriendlyGhost Hi Merlina!I studied foreign languages (autodidacte in English), French and Spanish. If you want communicate in Italian, I'm very happy to help you 😁 can we change the address email if you want, but I don't know how 😅
I'm Italian, nice to hear so many swedes would like to speak Italian!
Davvero, non me lo aspettavo
Poi oh sono anche carino quindi meglio
They would like, but they will never put in the work required
Forza Italia! Pizza, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Pasta, Spaghetti, Capeesh, and Cosa Nostra. I´m Swedish, I know why!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what about Portuguese? it's maybe the most sensuous of the Roman stock languages.
figata infatti, faccio le valigie
A basque speaker here. I didn't expect anybody to mention our isolate language in this video. Nice! Swedish people seem to be very open to foreign languages btw
Well, he speaks a little Basque because his father is Basque.
@@inotoni6148 yes, of course. I've understood it but between so many languages it is surprising to menton the basque/euskara
I like the sound of Swedish. I'm always happy when I naturally understand it because it's so close to German.
Interesting I love the way it sounds, I am English, learning Swedish but I’m happy to know it’s similar somewhat to German as I already hear some familiarity through English
i speak norwegian… swedish is like a fever dream
Deutsch is close to Dutch bro Deutsch is nowhere near Swedish what are you saying mate..??!!
@@kieranlowrieGerman and Dutch are close toe ach other but nor swedish thats wrong info mate..
@@-db4rfGerman and Dutch may be closer than German and Swedish, but German and Swedish are pretty close. I’m Swedish and never studied German in school but I still understand a fair bit, and could “speak German” when I met people in Germany who didn’t speak English. Wouldn’t have been possible if our languages weren’t related.
I was in Sweden and I can say that absolute majority speak English - bus drivers, any shop assistant, etc. Including small towns. Only elderly people don't speak English.
Interesting that almost none of the younger people speak German anymore. However, many of those over 50 still speak German, including in Denmark and the Netherlands. In the past, German books and the German language were also used in science in Sweden.
In Denmark, we are still taught German beginning in around 6th grade. Most Danes speak a little bit. Some, like me, speak it at basic conversation level and there is probably a higher percentage of Danes that speak it fluently compared to Swedes because of Denmarks geographical location. Unfortunately a lot of Danish kids give up on German because the grammar is a nightmare. It also just feels a bit unnecessary since you can get by with English most places in Germany anyway, sadly.
Well obviously it’s getting less, English now is even stronger than it was at the end of WW2. German was at it’s peak before WW1
typically you get to pick either german, french or spanish. Not many kids pick german these days, i studied spanish while i was in school. However since i now work in the forest industry i regret not studying german since it would've been more useful for me to know.
Danish still speak German.
Scandinavians are practical people, and they love to travel. English is widely spoken in Germany (and other German speaking countries), so not a pressing need to learn it. Not so in Latin America - you would need to have a basic understanding of Spanish. Spanish is more utilitarian. Same with Mandarin.
First girl was gorgeous
Really remarkable that two specific languages - Italian and Chinese - are mentioned most among those Swedes want to learn
Also spanish
Hahaha😂. Probably I could go to there to teach them both of Italian and Chinese. I am a Sino-Italian who speaks 4 languages.
It's because we think italian sounds beautiful, and chinese is the most spoken language in the world.
5:39 LoL...The Spanish guy was really in a hurry. 😂
Walking and Interviewing is a lot harder than it seems but I liked how the interview turned out.
come to Italy, dear Swedish friends, you're all welcome!
the girl at the end is totally right about sign language,
i can see it being very useful, also outside of the deaf community.
I never thought anything about the swedish language but then I got introduced to a rapper Sarettii from Sweden and the language really intrigued me, now I am starting to learn it haha
Nice video, thank you!😊 I love Sweden. They seem very interested in Italia, my country. It makes me so happy❤😊
Italian is very popular. Nice to hear that :))
i'm married to a german woman and we have a summer house near Arvika Sweden about half way to the northern areas.
last week we had two friends from netherlands visit us in Germany and we all spoke english . The netherlands folks couldn't speak deutsche or swedish so it was english or nothing .
Yep, agree that Chinese is a pretty cool one to learn! There is a shock effect too if you look western and can communicate in Chinese!
As a French , nice to learn several got French classes in their schools. French greetings Sveska.
When we are 13 years old, we can choose to study either French, German or Spanish in school. English is taught to everyone since we’re about 9 years old.
I'm a French teacher in Siberia (Russia)😊
I have lots of students who learn French at schools or just for pleasure❤
Salut les gars c'est super cool que vous soyez autant a vous intéresser à la langue Française en Suède, ici en France c'est pas évident de s'intéresser à la langue Suédoise dans le but de l'apprendre
🇨🇵🤜🤛🇸🇪
One cool thing is that our royal family is french - house of Bernadotte🇫🇷
Mon expérience est que ceux qui étudient le français s’intéressent plus à la langue que ceux qui étudient l’espagnol. L’espagnol, on le choisit parce que tous les amis le font également, mais le français, c’est plus d’une choix consciente et souvent liée à une passion pour la culture française.
@@elinbranting ça me touche en tant que français de savoir ça ! Je m'intéresse aussi a la langue Suédoise parce que j'apprécie beaucoup la culture Scandinave, et j'envisage de faire un road-trip de plusieurs semaines en Scandinavie qui se déroulerait majoritairement en Suède et j'aimerais maîtriser quelques notions de languages afin de témoigner du respect aux locaux. La base du respect dans un pays étranger c'est de s'intéresser un minimum à la langue et a la culture de son interlocuteur ! 💙💛
Ils sont tous bilingue anglais, alors que nous on le parle à peine
@@si.3107 normal, le suédois et l'anglais sont des langues issues du groupe germanique, à partir de là la base de leur langue maternelle se retrouve en grande partie dans la langue anglaise ... Le français est une langue latine, nous quand on passe du français a l'anglais on doit passer de différentes logiques et structures grammaticales, sans parler des conjugaisons des verbes pour se faire comprendre. On part de plus loin qu'eux dans une quête d'arriver au même résultat, et surtout l'apprentissage scolaire de l'anglais en France est complètement à revoir, le niveau scolaire général est médiocre par rapport aux attendus des programmes scolaires donc, oui malheureusement
im from Chile, really lovely the Swedish accent. now try to learn some words, es medio cantadíto jaja
Eso es lo que había escuchado, que cantan mucho al hablar
Beautiful language,beautiful country
Everyone is so beautiful in Sweden, what the hell
In sweden every kid gets to choose between learning french, spanish or german in school. We all know english (and understand norwegian and a little danish).
wow, both the men and women in Sweden are good-looking.I'm American but I speak German and Swedish. I got suspended from work because of a guy making fun of Sweden, I yelled at him.
If asked this question, I would absolutely mention that I understand danish and swedish very well 😅 swedes are too humble
Cool, 🫶I was not expecting Chinese was mentioned so many times. I thought Japanese maybe more popular. 😂
I used to worry that the Swedish official media had too much of a negative tendency to report on China, and worried whether I should go to Sweden for a PhD (I've always been very impressed with Sweden's welfare policy, but learning Swedish requires quite a bit of commitment). Guess the public opinion is shifting recent years.❤
Many people are kinda suspisous of the chinese goverment, but not of the people! Most are very accepting of other cultures and interested so I think you would like it here!
I really don’t like the Chinese government though
I would say we Swedes likes chinese PEOPLE , but we do not like the chinese GOVERNMENT. If you want to travel here you are most welcome.
It switches between generations which east asian culture is seen as cool, if they were asking middle aged people it'd be Japanese, younger adults it'd be Korean, but these are mostly teenagers.
Wow, grazie from an Italian girl:)
Siamo i migliori al mondo 🇮🇹
@@IMKAPPAA no, per favore. Non esistono " migliori al mondo" soprattutto ultimamente. Ovviamente mi fa piacere che siano interessati ad imparare l'italiano, dato che vivo in Svezia
6 Gesù gli disse: *Io sono la via, la verità e la vita; nessuno viene al Padre se non per mezzo di me.*
Giovanni 14:6
@@auroradeja-vu8763 siamo i migliori al mondo , se vai in giro all’estero un Italiano lo riconosci subito 😂🇮🇹
Should have done the interview in Finland since we have mandatory 3 languages here in school so 1 more than Sweden 😂 And most of people pick extra languages as well, the same way in Sweden.
On behalf of all of Sweden I'm sorry you have to learn our language in your schools!
@@John-Is-My-Name Hahah 😂 I think it's easier to study Swedish than any other Scandinavian language ;)
Thats false we also have 3 languages as mandatory here in Sweden
great watch this deserves more views
@8:22 I am hearing but know Swedish sign language. It's really neat in some situations, like you can talk through a window or when you're in a really noisy place it's so much more convenient to sign! All though sign language is problematic when carrying stuff but wanna talk and a bit tricky to walk and talk at the same time. But I do recommend everyone to try i out, it's an amazing language!
I literally fall in love with the guy at 5:55 everyone is so beautiful in Sweden
Swedish girls are beautiful ❤❤❤
We are very much waiting the two ladies best friends with open arms here in Italy ❤
That girl whoms parents are from Chile and Finland is soooo beauteful, I can't! She's born in Sweden so despite you can tell shes not fully Sweden she do melts in the crowd and nobody would question her not being ethnic Swede. If I'd meet her I would simply by curiousity ask her "you are not fully Swedish arent you?" Because I am intrested in culture. However once I would hear her speak I would think she is just like all other Swedes.
I'm from China, Chinese Mandarin is not as hard as people suppose. 节目不错，加油。
As a Vietnamese, I find that Chinese is very easy when it comes to pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. But the writing system is the entire opposite thing
im learning chinese now and the hardest part is learning handwriting and remembering all the charachters
Same, im chinese and I didn't find Vietnamese hard vice versa
Hard for you to judge if it is your mother tongue. I have studied some Korean, Japanese and Mandarin, and Mandarin is by far the hardest to get started with among those three due to the difficult pronounciation.
I live in Latin America and I was in a Chinese high school, mandarin is the most difficult language. Till this day I just remember like 3 phrases.
sista tjejen var super gullig 💖
Many attractive people 😍
I used to think Sweden was a bilingual country we would get missionaries here in Africa and surprisingly all of them spoke very good and nice English the young and old ones
Big respect to the people who wanted to learn Chinese in this current climate where there is so much Sinophobia. I did learn a bit of Swedish a while back but didn't have time to continue. I did find it to be one of the less difficult languages, but alas, it still has genders! I loved the fact that verbs don't conjugate with the person. Tak.
I'm indian but i love china and really respect them im also learning mandarin and hope to visit china in near future. Sadly many people hate china due to ccp and western propaganda.
"Tak" is thanks in Danish, in Norwegian is "takk" and in Swedish is "tack"
@@cooltechnician Tack så mycket.
@@bizzarefam8122it is not because of western thing i hate that term, it is because they never put themselves in peoples shoes
Nothing against the chinese people. It's the government we hate. They have supressed their population with social credit scores and violent crackdowns like Tiananmen square. They oppress Uyghurs and claim land that isn't theirs to please Xi Jinping's vanity. I have much love for the chinese, not for Xi.
I speak Swedish, Danish, English, French, some German, and (before I left Sweden) several Arabic expressions because the large quantity of muslims in Malmö, Sweden.
You should come and ask South Africa people, becouse we have 11 official languages, on top of that you have different dialog from province to province within some of the languages.
1:12 She's so sweet and beautiful!
det är helt roligt och härligt att många svenskar vill lära sig kinesiska. XD alltså det känndes inte att svenskar var för mycket intresserade på kinesiska för mycket när jag fortfarande befann mig där i Sverige XD
I am Swedish and I speak Swedish and English fluent, plus German pretty good. I also know some Portuguese, Spanish and Finnish
I'm from Finland and I speak finnish and english fluently, swedish and korean little bit. I understand more swedish than I can speak.
Are you from a place with a significant amount of Swedish-speaking people (Åbo, Ekenäs/Tammisaari, etc.) or from a place like Jyväskylä?
@@petergustafsson1670 I just learned it little bit in school since it is required as swedish is official language here. But since the resemblance to some finnish words that have swedish origin and english words it is more so understandable for me than I actually know how to speak.
Good luck on your Korean studies as a Korean guy ✌️😙
@@mgjiyffjifxf 감사합니다 😊
I must say, Swedish people are beautiful.
El castellano/español e inglés es lo mas útil a nivel mundial, en todo el mundo hablan ambos idiomas.
Sabiendo español entiendes el italiano y portugues sin problema
Some time ago we know swedish to its core and english and french/german. most Swedes dont know Swedish today.
I'm from norway, and I'm lowkey jealous of swedes cause they can also understand us and danes to a high extent. I can understand swedish well enough but reading it is a bit tough and they spam "ä" alot hahah. On the other hand tho, reading danish is pretty easy since our bokmål is extremely similar to written danish but once a dane opens their mouth I have to strain my ears lollll love my neighbors tho, we all chill
Nei, svensker forstår ikke dansk + de har problemer å forstå oss nordmenn også
@@FreezeMathias Jeg er mye i Stockholm, og de fleste svenskene der forstår meg veldig godt tbhh. Du har sikkert rett tho, men jeg vet at svenskene fra Skåne forstår dansk veldig godt.
@@FreezeMathiasNäää har inga problem att förstå er norrbaggar! Danska är helt hopplöst dock
Norwegian has so many dialects tho. We might be able to understand the Oslo dialect. No you see, you guys are the ones spamming except you're spamming "æ"!!
@@Rebelgoose hahah fair enough. also I'm indeed from oslo so that maybe why swedes can understand my shi
lol I’m learning Swedish and now I found this!
8:07 Dakota Fanning... gotcha! 😂🤣🤣😂
Swedish, English, a little French, a little Italian, a little Spanish, a little Finnish, some Chinese and Japanese. Astrid Lindgren, who was able to give a TV interview, speaking German at a native's level is long dead.
Men man kan ju inte jämföra en författare med vanligt statsfolk. Författarens jobb är ju att kunna språk till en väldigt hög nivå och sedan kunna återberätta dem väldigt specifikt via sina böcker. Många författare har då mycket lätt för att lära andra språk itu med deras förståelse om grammatik och bra minne gällande ordföråd.
@@Norguosanow- I know quite some Swedes who are *not* writers and *still* speak German like Germans. One of my professors was one of them. My uncle's wife was another, she even spoke Swabian, although they both live in Västernorrland. It probably has more to do with age and the language sequence that once used to be standard in Swedish schools.
@@maximkretsch7134 Ja, tyskan är lätt att förstå som svenskfödd, kan själv en mängd som hjälper här och där, men det betyder ju inte att man kan förväntas PRATA tyska som en författare vars jobb ät litteratur! Definitivt att våra byggarbetare skulle behöva tyska och värna om det.. eller kanske våra veterinärer? Nja, inte riktigt.
@-heloticaxz6514 I have no contact to Swedish veterinarians but well to Swedish construction workers and most tolerate instructions given in English. The usual mode is that on everybody's hard hat the flags for the languages he speaks are displayed. 😂
I want to give a tip to the Swedish people, who are very practical, affectionate, smart, curious, affectionate and fun, the Swedes are honest, they love all the Neo-Latin languages, they don't know which one to start with or which one to end with, as there are many languages, even I get lost, I recommend learning occidental (Interlingue), novial, Interlingua, language
Nova Franca because this is how they communicate with all Latin peoples using languages common among them all.
Regarding Asian languages, it would be good for them to learn Wutun/Wutum, a language that mixes Tibetan, Chinese and a little Mongolian, I say this because Swedes love Chinese culture and language and Chinese and Tibetan culture together are the bases of other Asian cultures.
Of the Austronesian languages, the best language for Swedes to love and enjoy is Indonesian and Malay, which are dialects of the same ancestral language and there are plenty of materials in English and Dutch. These 2 languages are sisters of Swedish, plus Dutch and Afrikaans, which have a very similar sound. to Swedish and you can study everything and the materials in English help the Swedes because English is the second language of the Swedes who today are one of the best English speakers in the world, even better than many native English speakers.
Kisses to the Swedish girls, always cool and beautiful.🥂👍🌹💋😊😊🎇🎁😍❤️🦋🫂🌍💙
English has no official status I Sweden. Other then that your comment was interesting
Thanks. English in Sweden is a foreigner lang that Swedes only adopted for international life.
And Sweden speaks in half native level or native level, it's a facts.
Thanks for the appreciation.🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂
🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂
I went to Sweden this year in June and got a tattoo from a Bolivian man, we spoke in English Swedish and Spanish together and is definitely the peak of my life thusfar
Edit: ADD SWEDISH SUBTITLES
Was his name Gerson, by any chance?!
Haha
love finland and chili ❤
Can I just say the girls are gergeous!
Шведский язык так необычно звучит.
1:50 the first dude that i've ever heard in sweden thats not speaking the orten language! and has a clean accent creeds to him
Shes a Finlean: half Finnish half Chilean
Interesting that Danish and Norwegian was not even mentioned in this video…
Well even though Swedes likely understand them, they cannot speak or write in Danish and Norwegian. Sure as a Swede I could likely fake an accent that may fool non Scandinavians.
But that's about it.
That's because it's a bit "cheating" since they are so similar to each other.
Most Scandinavians can read and understand eachother's languages but they are so close it is difficult to speak. My sister who is Swedish but lived and went to school in Norway for example never know if it's pensionär or pensionist in Swedish and Norwegian respectively.
@@tovep9573 yessss, so similar that it's difficult is a good way to put it. Finding the right words is difficult when you have to second guess if the translation really is that simple or you're forgetting something.
That's because they often don't speak each others languages. They speak their own to each other and hope for the best. And most Swedes don't understand much of what Danes are saying.
I think young Swedes between 13-34 yrs can speak English pretty good about 77% of them after this older people over+40 yrs can understand Norwegian bokmål and Danish about 64% of them.
If you speak one Scandinavian language you will not have problems understanding the other two.
@@oskich Not true, I'm native Danish and don't understand spoken Norwegian or Swedish, only written.
@@GlobDaSon Well I'm Swedish and understand both Danish and Norwegian without much trouble. It's just about exposure :-)
@@oskich Yes but my point is you don't understand the other languages automatically, just because you speak one of them. You still need to learn them, because they still are different languages.
Какие люди красивые!😍
Average Swede can speak swedish, english and some Norwegian bokmål (with a little effort), some spanish/french/german. Knows a few important words in Finnish or Danish (usually it's one or the other.) And many people in Sweden who have foreign background speaks one extra language atop on that. So I would say average is three and a half.
Uppsala. Aha ni besöker stockholm? Det tar 34 min med pendeln haha.
Besöker? Går fortare att ta sig från Uppsala till Sthlm City än från många ställen i Sthlm.
Fun fact 40 000 of uppsala Inner city reseidents commute to stockholm every day. Thats almost 25% of the ppl living the central part of Uppsala. So, there's a lot of "visiting".
The guy at 2 minutes looks like Said from Lost
2:20 No subtitles for this part 😮😮😅
I'm guessing they didn't add subtitles cause the guy was sort of just thinking out loud until he got to his actual answer, but here's what he said:
"Some other language? Hmm not really... I tried learning a bit of Spanish but that wasn't very fun, but some other language... Maybe French?"
That girl is from Oooops Salad...
Fem språk ganska flytande: bulgariska, svenska (bodde där under 5 år), engelska, ryska och spanska. Nu läser jag franska. Efteråt så blir det italienska och något annat, kanske tyska, vi får se!
Why would chinese be surprising? For all we know, it's going to be waaay more popular in the future. It makes sense. I just don't like to have to make the choice between mandarin and cantonese. It'd be nice to learn ONE and have acess to all of China.
swedes have many beautiful people, both men and woman
Swedes can understad norwegian/norse, and som danis (its easier to understad written danish than spoken)
Weird how nobody mentioned Norwegian or Danish?
Surprised over how no one is really saying that they understand Norwegian (and Danish)
I kinda think everyone don’t think it counts to mention if you haven’t been studying it in school.
Khmer heter väl språket i Kambodja?
Learning Sign Language sounds really far out man❤
Finnland=The end of the Earth
Chile= The end of the Earth
I´m surprised they didn´t say norwegian and danish as well
The guy at 2:45 😍
None of them said Norwegian. I bet they know more norwegian than spanish, german and french :P.. maybe some of them know some danish too.. basicly same words, but spoken differently.
Why didn't anybody mention other Scandinavian languages? Is it perhaps because they consider them to be dialects?
It's cheating to call them a separate language. Just too similar. Perhaps Danish to get a pass.
I wouldn’t say I speak Danish and Norweign, because I speak Swedish when talking to other Scandinavians with some words changed to avoid confusion.
That’s mostly because we only understand them, but generally can’t write or speak in their languages.
@@genoric4094 so would, for example, a Swede and a Norwegian each talk to each other in their own language or are they reduced to speaking English?
@@fintonmainz7845Yes, usually they would talk to each other in their own languages.
Swedes are the best
The Swedish language has a charming and beautiful sound and a sing-song language.
I think the Swedish language is beautiful and the three Swedish girls are model babes, the German Swedish girl is a total charmer.
The Eueco people in terms of Germanic languages and fluent in English, a worldwide native and almost native level, of the other Germanic languages that Swedes need to learn are German, Afrikaans, Dutch and Swiss German.
As they love painting and music, Swedes should be conlang solresol, the international sign language for social inclusion and the languages of emojis.
The Swedes are notorious lovers and friends of all Neo-Latin languages, it awakens passion and love in them, the Swedes must study Ido, novial, interlingua and interlingue (occidental) and the Occitan that underlies all Western Neo-Latin poetry to this day.
As Swedes today love Chinese culture, they should study the Hokkien language and classical Chinese, Hokkien and the direct descendant of the classical and ancient Chinese language.
Swedes are not perfect but at least they are honest, they are humanized and when they trust a foreign person they are loving, trustworthy and try to be loyal and nice.
They have their madness, xenophobia and depressions, but at least they try to love and understand different cultures similar to theirs, which they like in Sweden.
Norwegian: Am I a joke to you? 😢
Парень - метис тай/Швеция - очень красивый получился)
Mixed people always do 😊 I am mixed
And i would love to learn Russian...but i guess just now its a bit out of fashion...but very beautiful
@kecleonboi Most mixed people look like aliens
Там таких очень много. Шведы массово завозят тайских женщин, причём непонятно почему.
to the blonde girl, if you want to learn italian, i'm up, as long as you teach me swedish.
Have to say I’m rather surprised only a couple speak German.
Though not surprised they all speak English.
Hur många språk kan du
Hur fan kan man ha missat denna kanalen?? Kung!
Tack!
Bizde Fransız bunlarda da İtalyan hayranlığı varmış demekki🤔
När hon sa teckenspråk jag bara svenskt, engelskt spanskt mm teckenspråk för de är så olika
❤
Lmao tjejen som kan tyska och franska gick i min klass i grundskolan
Chilean Finn Perkele!
1:45 Haha då kommer du ju inte från Irak.
To ask a Swede what languages they speak when they say two (even when speaking Swedish) is funny. You're probably never gonna find some odd maybe old person who speaks another language that isn't English.
Yay finally a guy said he would wanna learn Japanese. Chinese is nice too-
I speak Japanese, but not very much and I really wanna learn American Sign Language and Old Norse.
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