Two Americans Discussing Experiences In Sweden & Denmark
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- In this video my friend Will and I discuss our experiences in Denmark and Sweden as two Americans living in Scandinavia. Surprisingly we were able to communicate speaking Danish and Swedish together! We also try some traditional foods from the two countries provided by the awesome folks at Hilma.
Check out more about Hilma here: www.hilmastock...
Will's Football (Soccer) Channel: / @goluremi
I’m working on my Swedish guys...haha Collab number two all in Swedish?? 🤔 Let’s goooooo🙌
Love your Defending John !
Will, din danska är fantastiskt bra! Jag hörde ingen amerikansk brytning alls. Imponerande att du lärt dig danska på ett år.
What now i got a weird feeling have been watching your soccer stuff and found this stuff now. Keep it.
Du er super god til at snakke dansk! Jeg er så stolt over din udtale og ordforråd!
What an absolutely charming young man you are.
Your knowledge of danish is amazing.
You'd love Norway. Norwegian and danish is practically the same.
We have a saying in Norway:
Det er deilig å være norsk
... i Danmark!
one year in Denmark and you speak Danish that well..- wauw, that amazing. (I`m Danish)
gas gazman enig
Me too
I'm a language teacher and linguist enthusiast in general, so yeah I agree. His pronunciation is so good for not being a native of Danish.
me speaks on and of perfect som en dansker så er det da utrolig godt
You’d be surprised by how much you can learn in just one year
I’m danish but this deserve a shout out to all Skandinavien countries. We are family after all! 🇳🇴🇩🇰🇸🇪🇫🇮🇫🇴🇮🇸
S A - Ehhh what? Based on what?
🤦♂️
@@liloolo have you ever been in Denmark?
@@liloolo but all these things are related to you being a foreigner. Not arguing that there isn't racism in Denmark, I know there is. I think the fact that a guy with very, what would indicate, racist policies got 60k votes last election. Which is sort of scary. We are smol country (5mil population) so that's quite a lot of votes.
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I’m a Dane and plan to move to Norway next year. They don’t expect me to speak Norwegian to get a job 😉 (Sweden does)
Norway/Sweden/Denmark - who cares. We are brothers and sisters 🇳🇴🇸🇪🇩🇰
I don't think the rest of the world understands the relationship we have in Scandinavia.
Blitz Gordon
I’m a doctor so it makes sense that people have to understand me 🤷🏽♀️☺️
I can relate to that with the beers. It also helps if you don’t listen to closely. Then you don’t get stuck in small words. 😂
@@metteg.1898
Anne som ung dreng boede jeg i Danmark i halvandet år. Uden forudgående viden lærte jeg dansk inden for et par uger. Lidt mere, og jeg blev ofte taget som Bornholmer.
Of course we are brothers and sisters in Scandinavia and in today's world it is more important than ever
Krister Forsman
Jeg er også overbevist om at det går utrolig hurtigt med sproget. De fleste svenske ord kan bruges på Dansk men det er bare ikke førstevalget i daglig dansk tale.
Det kan være at jeg ende i Sverige senere i livet. 🇸🇪 ❤️
I første omgang har jeg lovet min datter at hun kan ride på sin egen fjordhest i de Norske fjelde. ☺️
Jeg elsker hele Skandinavien + jeg savner vinteren. Vi har bare 6 måneders efterår nu til dags ☔️🌪
Wait? Sweden expects you to speak norwegian to get a job? xD
Lol this is such a surreal experience hearing two American guys actually speaking Swedish & Danish with each other! Wow. I'm impressed with you guys! I love that you both seem so openminded and interested in other languages and cultures.
As a Swede I'm impressed with you language skills. The Danish sounds pretty flawless to me (I guess since I actually understand every word lol), but what impresses me most is both your willingness to learn. What's cool about Scandi languages is you're pretty much learning 3 in 1, once you learn one it much be quite easy to pick up on the other two. I understand 95% of Norwegian and about 70-80 % Danish on a good day lol. It all depends on what kind of dialect - or how clearly - the other person speaks. For instance, someone from Oslo is easier to follow for me than someone from Bergen, and my understanding of Danish is directly correlated to how distinctly or slowly the other person speaks. Then again there are Swedish dialects which are also difficult to figure out, like from some parts of Dalarna (particularly Älvdalen - they basically have their own language), Västergötland, Värmland or Skåne.
Anyway, great video!
rofl My experience is opposite than yours :D I think their swedish sounds better than their danish xD but My swedish suck so haha XD
Yoo im danish and wills accent he sounds like someone who is born in denmark
Thats a talent not a lot of people have
Norge her.. Jeg sliter selv med å skjønne hva dere sier. 🤦♀️😁
Ja
bortset fra at han tror vi siger rugbrød med fløde istedet for rød grød:)
@@DoctorDarkDude ; nårh ja. Det er en ting som ikke bar helt perfekt. Men ellers var hans accent 100% rigtig i min bog
Do you speak to non-natives in Danish?
Ordet rolig betydde ’lugn’ i svenskan för 200 år sedan, precis som det fortfarande gör i danska och norska. Och det är ju den äldre betydelsen som lever kvar i orolig (o-lugn)
Wow mind = blown. Jag är 34 och jag har aldrig tänkt på det....
Wow. Tack för den!
nu lever ni om för mycket, det ska vara lugn och ro på kvällen.
Kommer ju också från substantivet ”ro”
He needs to be a regular guest, it was amazing!
Will is an international soccer player AND speaks 8 languages? I can’t even imagine the amount of hard work he must put in every day. Amazing!
I’m impressed how easily you guys understood each other. As a native Danish speaker, I have such a hard time understanding Swedish
I was thinking the same thing! As a native Swede I understand written Danish, but spoken Danish is not the same language... First there are consonants and then there are none😅
@@bluelotus9245 i think scandinavians in general think they are supposed to understand each other at least partly cause if you really know that what you will recieve is something you wont understand you will make a greater effurt to overcome than if you think that im suppose to understand this but at first you dont
@obaolori, There could be something to that🤔
However, since all Scandinavian languages in written form is understandable to Scandinavians, I would say it’s fair to asume they’d be somewhat understandable in spoken form as well. For Swedes, that is the case when it comes to Norwegian Bokmål, but not Danish. I’m trying to learn both languages and while I understand Norwegian effortlessly I can understand a little bit of Danish if I actively listen and concentrate🤯 Before I started learning I even understood Icelandic better than Danish😂
@@obaolori I live in Skåne so I understand more Danish than like someone from Stockholm
sagalindhe very true. It’s way easier to understand someone from Skåne than further up the country
I'm Swedish, and for me it's easy to understand both Danish and Norwegian :) Your Swedish is good mate :)
Thanks man 🙏🏼
Which part of sweden are you from?
In My opinion, Norwegian is much closer to the Swedish language than Danish. It's easier to understand Norwegian than Danish
@@igamingmp1526 2 h from Gothenburg :)
@@igamingmp1526 true 🙏
Seems like a really cool guy. Would love to see more content with him. Respect for playing in the Danish league. Very underrated league in Europe (FC K fan myself ;) ). As for what you both were saying about languages, it’s absolutely true. Content is so important, not rules. Your brain absorbs patterns way, way quicker than it absorbs rules. Once you start learning sentences that you can use daily, even by talking to yourself, you’ll start to notice how words are conjugated, sentences are structured, and common vocabulary without even opening a grammar book.
I loved this , interesting to hear two Americans speak Swedish and Danish together , I am Danish , lived in Sweden for a year in Gothenborg , learned to speak Swedish fluently , the show that grabbed my attention was the show you did about your first trip to Copenhagen, now I am a big fan!!! I live in the US now , watch your show a lot.
Surely it can't be that hard to be fluent in Swedish when you're Danish. It's like learning a dialect, rather than a different language
@@shaungordon9737 there's actually quite a difference in pronunciation. The written language is easier.
What show are you talking about?
I am Norwegian. Been living 4 years in Sweden. I still don't speak it fluently. A problem is that Skåne sort of has many similarities with the dialect of Bergen where I come form in Norway. Apart from that. The biggest problem is of course switching to Norwegian and mixing.
Second is the words before/earlier in Swedish. What a mess! They say "innan" about everything. In Norwegian we just say før for the most part and tidligere. Then they say förr i tiden. And there is also the word förut. Which no one uses because it sounds old fashioned? Before they use förr or förut they will say like primarily, alltså i början.
Another a little problematic word. To use. Använda. Yeah, but why not use bruka or förbruka which exists in the vocabulary. How do they say "I feel used"? Jag känner mig förbrukad/använd?
More. The complicated verb have to/must. Jag måste. I understand that, but yesterday i had to. Then it all turns into jag var tvungen att. In Norwegian we say måtte. Feels a bit easier.
I have also seached for how one says what's the point in Swedish. Hva er poenget/vitsen we say In Norwegian. In Swedish, vad är meningen?
Also a bit confusing with prepostions. At the other side OF the road, på andra siden vägen (where did of go?). Too much use of i instead of på. But that is a minor thing.
Then finally. The word had combined with a verb. For instance I had done it. That would be jag hade gjort det. Okay. But in a larger sentence. It was not done since it had already been done earlier. Det blev inte gjort eftersom det redan gjorts innan. So the had verb just disappears. So weird.
Apart from this Swedish is quite straight forward. Would be good if they could have ignored the Finnish influence. Pjäxor sounds non sensical. Then there is brallor. I don't know if it cimes from Finnish, but is sounds unrelated to anything.
@@SSEnrich It seems to me that Danish and Norwegian is more similar , than Danish and Swedish , when I first went to Sweden I did not understand much of what I heard, but after a while it got easier , a lot of Swedish words are totally different from the Danish words , ( for the same thing) that can be funny, or get you in trouble, haha
As a half swedish and half danish guy it's so funny to listen to the pronunciation of both languages. It's unbelievable how he learned that good danish in a year!
Stefan, it should be no contest. Sweden and Denmark complement each other. SAS crews from all three countries have flown together and understood each other for decades. I am happy to see you including DK on your vids. Midsummer this weekend!! Who sleeps in June anyway? It's a northern blessed curse. But a happier curse than 21 DEC! Shortest day thankfully saved by Christmas hygge!
Woah, he literally sounds as if he was born in Denmark! I'm a language enthusiast so I always listen to other languages and explore, but that pronunciation for a short time of exposure shows good evidence of how immersion works.
If you've already tasted "leverpostej" and didn't like it the right word is "synes". It's an expression of your personal opinion.
If you haven't yet tasted "leverpostej" but you've seen or smelt it and you believe that it will taste gross the correct word is "tror". In that case "tror" is an expression of something you believe but don't know for certain.
Tror = think
@@Emily-zl8ii Synes = think as well, it depends on the grammar/context
there was a swedish youtuber who talked about tro/tycka/tänker(maybe something else) which could all be translated to think but they imply different things
tro- believe something which may or may not be the case
tycker- personal opinion
tänker- you are thinking about something.
quite similar to what c0der just said, slightly different words in swedish though. i'm not sure if i though much about it before. i type "think" all the time when i type stuff.
edit: stefan went through it a bit later.
Hats off to learning to speak danish in a short time. Hear it's one of the hardest languages to speak. Also 8 languages is freaking insane, wish i had an affinity for language.
You two are really good - I understood both as a Norwegian 🇳🇴
As a Dane that understands Swedish and has spent a lot of time in Sweden, it is a fascinating experience to see how Danish and Swedish your BODY languages are too! Well done!
"Clone" is translated wrong in the subtitles - it is actually "Klovn" which is a very funny comedy. Don't miss out on it. "Klovn" means "Clown". :) - ("Clone" is "klon" in danish)
Signe Solskin arh det var det han mente
Troede bare at det var en film jeg ikke kendte
The danish american is correct (and he sounds very good in danish), Klovn is amazing. Very funny tv series.
"Clone" is "klon" in Swedish aswell. "Clown" is "Clown", so that's simple enough. :p
Tackar tackar. I was looking for Clone and I just found Turkish and Brazilian novel...
I'm swedish, and I understand norwegian just as good as swedish ;) I can understand a bit danish. I'm always amazed over how good swedish you speak, and Will, so good danish! Love it!
I appreciate both Swedish and Danish food and in my humble opinion, the Scandinavian countries may be different but complement each other. The Danish word "ikke" did exist in Swedish, we spelled it "icke", but it is considered oldfashioned and has been replaced by "inte".
I just started to learn Danish, and I want to learn Swedish next, so this video is music to my ears ! 😀
"Sankt Hans" is the Danish midsummer celebration. It's on the 23. of June and usually includes a big bonfire and often barbeque - And a speech at the bonfire + singing certain songs.
(Saint Hans is actually John the Baptist)
Exactly, we celebrate Saint John's Eve in Denmark. It's widely celebrated across Europe. It dates back from when Christianity was first spread across Europe, and meant to replace the pagan celebrations around midsummer. The bonfire remained ;-)
And burning of an effigy of a witch.
@@PeterBondeVillain A lot of Danish (nordic in general) traditions were just renamed, in order to fit into christianity xD The church knew that the scandinavians wouldn't renounce their traditions, so they just formatted christianity to fit the traditions xD
Also, Julemanden/Santa Clause (Father Yule) was Odin, delivering presents.
The older Yule/christmas celebration was nuts though, so the church got rid of that....
The original celebration included partying, drinking, sex and sacrifices and all the other stuff and the celebration would last until they ran out of alcohol (a couple of weeks) xD
This is bloody awesome, I dunno why, but I could watch those two talking for hours and hours, even if it wasn't bumbling about, with cute american naivity, in my language and culture :)
Jeg lærer norsk nå og syns det var kult å høre andre utlendinger som snakker svensk og dansk.
Jeg er helt enig.
@@krydder Jag är också helt enig.
Gick det bra att förstå?
det er altids morsomt når nokon snakker gebroken norsk eller andre språk men det er spesielt americanere som har den standard amerikanske formen
@@frida507 Ja, det gikk bra. Jeg tror at svensk er lettere å forstå enn noen andre norske dialekter.
Your Danish is very well spoken, I am honestly impressed.
8:00 It is actually: "Rødgrød med fløde" that we use that for. That is strawberries blended into almost a liquid & served with milk & cream
Rødgråd?? wtf :P
Hehe @raven Dodger .. "Rødgråd" literally means "red crying" or "red tears". The correct word we make foreigners say is "Rødgrød", meaning "red porriage". But it's very close to "Rugbrød".
@@havenisse2009 Det har du ret i. Jeg retter den stavefejl med det samme
Rødgrød is not just strawberries, its a mix of different berries and rhubarb :-)
@@sixgruyes. However It is a just a little superfluous to list a bunch of berries when the topic is danish words that are hard to pronounce for foreigners...
Tack. Bor i skåne och det var kul att få sitta med och dela ert hygge. Ni är båda väldigt duktiga och nej, rivalitet mellan danskar, norrmän och svenskar är inte mer än vanlig syskonkärlek.
This video makes me miss Sweden so much, especially our food!!❤️ Love your videos!
Thanks! The traditional food took me some getting used to for me but I tend to like it now 💁🏼♂️
We actually have a Midsommer song in Denmark called "Midsommervisen".
Possibly best known as performed by Shu-Bi-Dua, which borders on being a national treasure(both the song and the band).
And lots of drinking songs, but not specifically for holidays.
I love how good you are at the languages! And his pronounce
danish is amazing! I can't even say it that well hahah
As Bald and Bankrupt once said, "Don't care about grammar, learn vocabulary". No one is going to judge you for having bad grammar, but not being able to say what you want (even if it's totally wrong in grammar) is never good. So, learn vocabulary, and speak with people, ask people for things you don't know.
The famous Danish tongue twister is "Rødgrød med fløde" not "Rugbrød med fløde". Red porridge with cream is an actual dish, whereas rye bread with cream is unlikely to be hahaha
'Øllebrød' is basically liquified ryebread with cream, so it's not completely off ;)
No one cares
Exactly, the tongue twister has nothing to do with bread.
Jeffurz It's not that much of a tounge twister, though that may just be me. And no I'm not Danish.
ad ik spis øllebrød med flødeskum
It was fun and interesting to listen to you. I definitely like Sweden more, even though I grew up in Denmark.
Coming from the south of Sweden (Skåne) it is much easier to understand Danish, while they are closer to our dialect Skånska that we speak there. I’m saying there because I’m a swede who moved to Germany a while back. And Norwegian has always been easy to understand but since the tv-show Skam it is even easier to understand. 😅
Håller med! Vi skåningar har en fördel där! Vi hör Stockholmska på tv etc och kan förstå norska och Danska lättare.
Sen är inte Tyska så långt ifrån Svenska/engelska heller
sagalindhe Exakt. Skånska är ju ursprungligen svenska, danska och tyska mixat tillsammans.. så ja vi skåningar har lättast att förstå alla dialekterna och språken runt Skandinavien, och även Tyskland. 👏🏻
@@zzbiegel det är vår fördel! Tänker definitivt hålla kvar den och lära mig mer tyska bara pga det 😂
sagalindhe Det låter perfekt! Skånska är något min tyska partner även lär sig och vad vi kommer lära våra barn utöver svenskan sen. 👏🏻😁
Will’s accent and mannerisms are on POINT (as a Dane). Give him another year, no one’s gonna be able to tell he wasn’t born and raised here.
Wow, I've been watching your channel for at least a year and I think this is my favorite one so far. Will seems like a really cool guy and it was great to hear you guys speaking Swedish & Danish together. It's easy to make fun of Duolingo (there must be a million sköldpadda in Sweden based on how often Duo uses them in examples, lol), but I was actually able to follow along for much of your conversation (!). I hope you guys have more videos together. Tack så mycket!
Åh en av dina absolut bästa! Will verkar så väldigt sympatisk och ni har ett skönt "häng" som man upplever sig delta i. Jeg elsker Denmark men jag är svensk i själ och hjärta. Men kanske mest kosmopolitan, världsmedborgare. Tack Stefan och Will!
Great video! We have sitning in Finland as well, it’s so much fun! But we probably took the tradition from Sweden tbh, like many other traditions 😂 It’s a amazing that I actually could understand you guys quite well because I had to learn Swedish at school and I’ve studied some Norwegian on my own. Happy midsummer! Glad midsommar!
I wonder if there are other countries who do this singing before drinking thing.
I like the way you edited the video with the English sub text on the bottom of the screen when speaking Swedish. My wife is Swedish and told me, you have really improved in 2.5 plus years on your pronunciation. Your new friend is great to listen and understand about his background, cultural knowledge & opinions on integrating to Danish / Finnish & Swedish societies. Great content!
You got the swedish "versions" of "think" down, bro. Right all the way.
Will and Stefan! One of the most fun and informative videos. Thanks guys!!
I think Will must be some kind of genius when it comes to learning and pronoucing foregin languages. Danish is so HARD, man!! Also, I'm Swedish but I don't eat sill nor leverpastej. So yea, it's traditional and all but not all of us enjoy the taste. ;D Thanks for a great video!
I’ve heard Danish described as ‘Swedish but with a mouth full of mashed potato’. Thought that was great!
Looking forward to seeing more of your videos. I’m quite early into my RUclips journey, I’m trying to incorporate my love for video editing as well as my love for Sweden. Nice to see you doing a great job!
I’m subscribed to both of your channels but I never thought I’d see you two collab lol! Love it
Hahah right? Who would have guessed? 🙈🙌🏼
Same here !!
Hi Stefan. I am Ole from Copenhagen Denmark. Thank you for your grate videos from Sweden and tour visit to Copenhagen.Great video. I think It is great that you are working with the Nordic languages. Perfect! And trying traditional food. 👍
Am I the only one who also knows and watches Will John ?
When they said they're friends, I felt like the world is small.
I really enjoyed this video! I am half Danish and half Swedish, so I cannot decide which country is better. I love both countries :)
This video gives me warm and fuzzy feelings towards Sweden, Denmark AND americans. Also, I’m hungry.
Det var super sjovt at høre jer 2 snakker på svensk og dansk! Lækker mad, hvordan var øllene? 😊
This is one of your best videos I think - so so interesting/good! Will seems like such a nice dude as well!!l :)
Stefan sounds so cute when talking Swedish... awwwweeee, "jawg dgillar aätt prawta svänskaä".
Ibland låter du riktigt bra dock, höjde ögonbrynen flera gånger när du plötsligt pratade hela meningar utan brytning. Jag är djupt imponerad över hur duktig du blivit
Alltså Will, jag är sååå imponerad av hur bra han pratar Danska efter ett år. Jag är från Sverige och bodde 6 månader i Danmark och jag är inte i närheten av det uttalet.
I speak both Swedish and Danish, and you are both really good! I’m so impressed
Eating Potatoes, Sour Cream and Herring like that - you do not get more Swedish ;-)
Good to know I’m doing it right than 😉
@@StefanThyron props for getting it down.. im Swede and i think its disgusting :D
i have never tried 🙈 lived in sweden all my 27,5 year old life
I think that’s More of a Scandinavian thing, because here in that meal sounds normal here in Denmark
@@longkorts Coward.
Take a deep breath and dive. Or load with snaps first.
Will's Danish is great! I find it much easier to understand him than understanding native Danes! (Native Swedish speaker myself)
Helt fantastisk å høre dere snakke Svensk og Dansk sammen.
Instämmer. Och det gick ju ganska bra att kommunicera.
I really hope that I can speak Swedish as well as you guys can very soon!! If you both ever want to collab, let me know as I'd love to grow my channel!
I love this video! So I'm Danish but I actually live in Washington DC. Also, my aunt is married to a Swede and lives there. I myself am married to an American! So this video is the bomb dot com for me!! :-D
One thing I also need to comment on is that it is not "Rugbrød med fløde" but "Rødgrød med fløde" which is a Danish traditional dessert. But overall, this video was great!! :-)
Swedish herring is really good. I was brought up eating herring but it was almost always marinated with onion, vinegar, salt and sugar. But in Sweden there are so many different types of herring that everyone can find some type they like. I really like senapssill, skärgårdssill, svartvinbärssill and kräftmarinerad sill. Even currysill is surprisingly delicious.
Up north you can use "o" in front of "gott". "O" means negative. "Ogott" (not tasty), "Oäten" (I haven't eaten). My favourite one is when something isn't in something, like a key in a lock. They key is "oi" (you stress both syllables: "O-I". Welcome up north!
You do not need to go up north to find O-words! Otroligt, Oanad, Oanständig, Oansenlig, Oansvarig, Oantastlig, Oanträffbar, Oanvändbar, Oavbrutet, Oavgjord...
Ja det är svårt att hitta ut från flygplatser och andra offentliga miljöer. Det står ju in och out på skyltarna.
Jonas Åman men han menar ju att man sätter o framför allt i norr, förutom de vanliga orden som finns i ordlistan.
@@jonasaman9104 Jodå, det vet jag, men användningen av "o" som som prefix på ord som vanligtvis inte inte tar dom, är vanligare i de norra delarna. Eller är "oäten" och "oi" väldigt vanligt i hela landet tror du? Som "lö" (kommer från södra delarna...)
Tror du på riktigt att som har "oasat" i Skåne? Eller att dom har "ogoa" gubbar i Göteborg? Kanske "otirat" i Stockholm?
Jag hoppas få veta om du har "omidsommarfirat", eller om det bara var "obra".
Rikssvenska, säger du...
@@jonasaman9104 Det där är väl kanske lite mer faktiska ord, som finns med i ordböcker osv? Obra, ogod, oi osv, är kanske inte ord som man kan hitta i ordböcker, och tex är med i läran på svenskalektionerna i skolan :)
You guys rock speaking Danish & Swedish! 🙌🙌😊🇩🇰🇸🇪
Hej! Jag lär mig talar på Svenska för fyra månader nu och att går jättebra hittar jag. Också, jag lär mig lyssnar mycket på Svensk genom din videos. Ibland jag svaret något av din frågor jag själv haha. Att är interessant som ser hur danska är, och det är också riktig fin att du kan första honom när han talar på Danska jättesnabb. Hej då från Nederländerna (jag är Nederländsk)!
I’m also learning Swedish and have been for about a month and a half. I’m glad to say I understood 99% of that paragraph :)
James Young Trivs du i Sverige?
@@Annini00 ja! Jag tycker mycket om Sverige :) flytte till Sverige är min DREAM. Jag hoppas att är möjlig nästa år.
James Young Så trevligt! hoppas att du kommer att trivas här 🙂
Your Swedish is supergood! For only have learned for four months I am rating you ten out of ten👍 Language are funny and interesting.
Jag tror detta kan vara det mest intressanta jag någonsin sett!! Extremt underhållande och rolig konversation också!! More collaboration with your friend would be amazing!! Very good video!!
Menar du rolig eller "rolig"? :-) /Micke P
Will even played in America a few times in the MLS!
I’m American, but went to high school in Denmark (Copenhagen International School). After high school I moved to Sweden (Lidingö). I was married to a Swede. I can speak both languages (very rusty now), and think Swedish is the easiest. Even if I see a Dane here in the States I prefer to speak Swedish. Love watching your videos. It brings back lots of memories.
we eat a lot Hering in Denmark too. to be honest the whole table just looked Danish too me
We eat a lot of Smørrebrød in Sweden too. At least here in the southern parts.
@@phgu Honestly we dont eat that much Herring (if you mean Sild) .... Other nations/races eat Herring at a daily basis :D We almost pretty much only eat it at Holidays or events etc. We dont eat it 4 days a week. No danes do. However its a 110% known dish true. But you mostly eat it around Xmas, and national/holidays.
I have worked places where it was availble everyday at lunch. At Christmas there is a lot different kinds of herring/sild like the Christmas herring. In my family we eat it a lot but i also know families that doesn't eat it at all.
@@jensjensen4836 Ja men der er lang vej til at spise ligesåmeget sild som andre lande :D vi spiser det stadig kun (hovedsageligt) på brød spm du selv siger og specielt omkring jul ;) ;) ;)
eating smørrebrød with your hands is something we do a lot in Denmark, though it is usually when we eat it as the more simplified everyday versions you take to school or work (which is how this thing started out). So technically Will ate it as traditonally as possible, unwittingly.
Dere prater dansk og svensk utrolig bra altså, jeg er imponert! Hilsen en nordmann. :)
So awesome to hear 2 americans to speak swedish and danish with eachother
"Klovn". Clown. Not Clone.
EIther you hate it or love it, because it's comedians crossing the line all of the time :P I hate it.
Really interesting video to see how well you understand danish now! :D
Klovn is best, no protest! 😁
They have also released their latest movie in USA
I hate it also. I can't watch it. I cannot even haandle hearing the title melody without cringing. It's so bad that once I had a roomie who was watching it in his own room and I had to put on headphones and play music just to be able to handle not leaving the place.
As a Dane understanding English and some Swedish this was a whole lot of fun because my brain when ?? because I registered you switched language but I could still understand you. LOL It was fun seeing you compare words and figuring out that some words aren't that far from each other and others are, that's basically how Danes understand Swedes. We recognise the words we understand and guess the rest. Plus we do have Swedish tv shows here and we're just exposed to a little bit of Swedish all the time growing up. It takes some getting used to and after 3 weeks sommer holiday in Sweden for instance you pick it up quite quickly. Anyway this was just so fun and I haven't even seen you eat anything yet... LOL
You can eat Rugbrød with both your fingers and with a fork and knife, it sort of depends on where you are and who you're with. If you're at a restaurant we'd usually eat with a fork and knife but if you're at home with your mum or friends you'd probably eat with your fingers, a formal setting vs a more relaxed setting. We sometimes also call it ''En finger mad'' or a ''klap sammen mad'' . Leverpostej is an acquired tast. I only like a few and there are different recipes from every butcher you go to, some are good and some aren't.
We don't really have midsommer, I wish we did, it looks so fun and hyggeligt but we have Sankt Hans which is sort of a bon fire night where we celebrate the end of the light days and light a big bon fire and sing songs and an old child superstition is that the ''witch''(a really ugly made doll) is lit on fire and she supposedly travels to Blocksbjerg (German mountain) on her broom. It's a real place too. We visited when I was really young.
Hahah lite kul det här, hans danska uttal är jäkligt bra. Hör inte så mycket "amerikanska"
Håller med, nu är jag iofs svensk men bor i Malmö och hör en del danska så jag TRODDE åtminstone att jag skulle kunna höra skillnad men för mig lät han som vilken dansk som helst och sedan säger han att han bara var i Dk ett år?! Sjukt imponerande.
Midsummer is big in Denmark too. We call it Sankthans evening. Having big bonfires and sing the midsummer song 😊
And herring is also something we eat a lot of in Denmark. They comes in different flavours depends on what kind of marinade they have been in.
We also have drinking songs, but I can't remember how they are. It's too many years ago I sang them 😜😂
"Chilla" is still a swedified english word, "lugn" is probably the best translation even though "ta det lugnt" is most commonly used.
"Läcker" is a swedish word as well, mostly used for when someone or something has "pizzaz". But it's pretty much used as rarely as "pizzaz" as well nowadays ;P
You can say "ogott" and everyone would understand it even though it's not really a word XD And can be used with many other adjectives.
Salmon is still the best fish, hands down :P I get that people have trouble with herring, and other fishes... But salmon? What's wrong with you? XD
I tend to have an easier time understanding Dansk than most swedes that I've spoken about it with, but obviously the rougher the accent the harder it gets. With Will's accent it was easy, lost a word or so but could easily get the context and figure out what was missing.
A thing with danish is like Rugbröd, which really sounds like Rouhbrouh. So "Rouhbrouh me flöouh". Which actually was pretty easy to get since it was said slowly and it was a short phrase.
At it's worst it's pretty much just a swarm of vowels and a consonantish sound here and there and said at an alarming rate. You'll probably still try to figure out what vowels that were tried to be said that you barely have time to notice the consonants. After a while you just give up because it's overwhelming.
But yeah, usually danish people can get their point across :P (though of course I blame the danes for making it hard instead of my incompetense ;) They are torturing vowels and having, as the saying goes, hot potatoes in their throat ^^)
Bra inlägg Seestrand! Jag vill tillägga att svenskan är mycket influerat från andra språk genom tiderna. För länge sedan var ordet rolig av exakt samma betydelse som danskan. Det är ju därför vi har ordet "orolig" som betyder "icke lugn".
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Förstår inte hur jag kunnat missat att det är anledningen till varför det heter "orolig"!
Tack, då lärde jag mig något nytt idag också!
And "oläckert" would be the opposite of "läckert".
Im 99,99% sure that läcker comes from the dutch Word lekker. Since I started to learn a little dutch I've realized that dutch words can be found everywhere in the Swedish language. Also it's a bit funny to hear or read dutch and encounter a Word that you for sure thought was a Swedish Word from the very beginning 😀
To be fair the word exists in german (Lecker) as well. Since dutch and german started to grow into their own languages about at the same time and still have a lot of similarities it's hard to say which language it originated from. Though since germans were travelling more throughout scandinavia than the dutch (from all I know, and even though the dutch also did spread their language up to scandinavia) it's more likely we took it from german just as many other words from dutch since they tend to exist in german as well (or french/english for that matter).
Barely any word are swedish from the beginning XD We came too late to the party :) Almost exclusively from english, french, german, dutch or a mishmash :P Though I suppose some have changed enough to say that they actually are swedish ^^
I am danish male. I love swedish. But I think Will has the best way to speak danish. So cool. He is super masculine and chilled.
Im not proud of it, but as a swede I talk english with my danish friends
I get that! It took my a long time to learn to understand Swedish. For years I knew Swedish and Norwegian apart, because Swedish was the one I understood 🤭 now that I understand Norwegian - thanks to Skam - I find it pretty hard to tell them apart. English is the lingua franca of Scandinavia in any case 😅
I liked when Will said "English is boring", that is exactly how I feel about Swedish and why I'm quick to take every chance I get to speak English instead. I read somewhere that people moving to Sweden find it hard to learn the language because people like me sabotage by insisting on speaking English to them. So now I still do it but feel bad while doing it.
Happy for your'e findings and that you found your way of living. Keep on doing what you're doing and stay where you are. / Micke P
As a swede, i'd probably pick up the bread thing into my hads. its "sort of a sandwich" anyways :D
In danish you could call smørrebrød for en håndmad “handfood” as Well.
so cool to get the outside perspective. I am sort of stuck in the middle as have parent from each country grew up with both cultures food and languages. but as i live in sweden that kind of started to dominate a little as i got older.. thanx for a great video. love to see more content like this.
We have an old word for "inte" in Sweden, but in Denmark, they use double K (Ikke) while we use "CK" (Icke).
Actually it's inte in Bornholmian too and ønte in old Zeelandic dialect.
@@davidbresson8716 Thanks for the info, but I was talking about the actual main language, not dialects.
*ætte* (danish æ) in many Jutlandic dialects, even just *æ'* sometimes
Wow that danish pronunciation is seriously impressive for an American who did not speak it growing up or anything. Respect my dude. And that's coming from a dane. Sometimes he legit just sounds like a dane.
You should check Baltic countries! You would see how similar and different in the same time we are to Scandinavian countries!
we are starting to realize that in scandinavia -finally!!
@@gasgazman9698 even our food is similar! Cepelinai is the same as kroppkakor, just for some reason swedes eat that with cranberry jam and we eat with sour cream😂
This was a delight to watch! Great content! :)
This video is almoast 20 minutes long, it has been online for 7 minutes. Who is the person that disliked already?? Show some love in stead of hate!
Haha appreciate that, maybe someone from Finland or Norway who felt left out 😉
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Probably Finland, where there are many Sweden haters unfortunately.
It's a dumb video, after the first 7 minutes, you absolutely get no useful information, not even funny.
S A I got usefull information: he explained the difference between tycker and tror, that’s something I did not know
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English speaking often uses "think" instead of tycker and/or tror, sometimes even think also for tänkandet.
Quite explainable given the English way of using the term and that thinking (tänker) also exists in the Swedish language.
Hahaha! Me as a Swede enjoys this conversations you’re having very much. So funny! Mycket skoj😂
The Selføligt or however it's spelled is självfallet in swedish meaning "ofcourse".
Selvfølgelig
@@79ped Pronounced "se'fø'li'" XDD
I really enjoyed this video. I am Danish and during my holidays in Sweden and Norway I’ve never had significant problems communicating with my Nordic neighbors although there exist some words that’s quite different for various items. E.g. my brother moved to Helsingborg and lived there for several years. At some point he wanted to buy “pantice/underpants”. The Danish word is “underbukser” while the Swedish word is “kalsonger”. They didn’t have a clue of what he was talking about. :)
I once went to a software development seminar in Sweden and asked for a “ringbind” (= binder). The Swedish word is “pärm”, another word difference you can’t logically unravel between the two languages.
I have sweet memories of my childhood chopping trips to Malmø with my mother and grandparents back in the 70’ties at Christmastime but that seems like something that happened in another life. Seeing what happens in Sweden these days doesn’t make this country attractive to me anymore - hell, even my own country seems like it will go down in a near future due to massive immigration from the MENA-countries. This is dark times my friends
... dark times.
Du har så rätt, så rätt. Hälsningar från en broder i Swe. /Micke P
Can you make a video about the swedish trains and busses and so in corona times?
Well, they are full. Like there is not a deadly sickness arround. I work with trains in Stockholm.
@@johnnorthtribe Ye i know i live in stockholm saag ja men alltså för tittare från andra länder
I would've never guessed that Will only lived in Denmark for 1 year. The pronunciation is IMO incredible.
PS. The sentence which Danes makes you say is "rød grød med fløde"
It is actually "Rød grød med fløde", not Rugbrød med fløde. Rød grød is a compot of berries, mostly strawberries.
Stefan, you are completely spot on regarding "tänker, tycker och tror".
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Funny fact about English language is that it origins partly from "old english" and "old norse" and of course other smaller influences 😉
Old English which basically is anglo-saxon. Anglo-saxon was the language spoken in northern half of jutland , Anglia (southern half of jutland), sachsen and frisia. People from these areas "invaded" England and are just known in english history as anglo-saxons. A few hundred years later another invasion of England happened. The Danish and Norwegian Vikings came (mainly Danish) and established themselves. I guess they almost understood each others languages, but the old english adopted words from the Danes which eventually became the english we all know today. So Scandinavian languages and english isn't far apart.
English is just a strange Danish dialect, like Norwegian 🤣🤣🤣
So, this is a Swede and a Dane speaking fluent American English...? Oh, it's not?! I could have been convinced that this was the deal here... What a great video. Subscribed!
No hate between swedes and danes, thats not the way to go forward we need to reunite and build for the future.
Reunite? You mean both under Danish rule again! It's the perfect time - we have a Queen Margrethe again! 😁 Now, please just open the borders - we miss the Swedes! 🥺
@@jakobraahauge7299 Mabey reunite was a weird word to use here, just more colabs betweem the nations. Also with Norway and Finland.
@@jakobraahauge7299 hey, us in Skåne love Denmark, always has!
@@cannonball3779 Exactly, my friend! 😄 Let's enjoy the fact that we're united in the happiness of being sovereign countries! And more collaboration, yes! What happened to Nordisk Samarbejde?! More of that please! Think Skam was popular in Norway? You should have been here in Denmark! It was ALL the rage! 😍 Sana, da! 😁
@@sagalindhe As we will always love you! 🥰 Denmark is putting all efforts into getting a vaccine on the market! Please tell me that Sweden is beating us to it!! You have Karolinska! It's the best research hospital in the entire region, like top tier globally! Rigshospitalet is world leading in cancer research, which is great, but in this particular instance not that helpful..
The best videos are the ones when you have a guest.....really interesting to watch. As regards to which one is best...Sweden or Denmark! None. They are different and we all love visiting and enjoy the differences in our countries.
As a swede, I know we are jealous on Denmarks relaxed attitude on life as they seem to enjoy the good things a bit more, however we swedes do like personal space a lot. A good way of understanding Swedish mentality is to study the text of "öppna landskap" by Ulf Lundell which catches our core values quite accurately
Swedish sounds better to my ears but the Danish food looked more lucrative
Try listening to skånska. It’s a mix of swedish and danish.
Ye but we swedish people only eat that on some holidays, not usual.
As a Dane I gotta say it's wonderful to see you guys enjoying our culture. And I say that while eating leverpostej (sorry Will!) :)