It's a thing. I asked this Slovak girl I went to school with where she was from. She told me (a Canadian anglophone) in fairly thickly accented English that it's strange that I knew she was from somewhere else because she doesn't have an accent. (I then shared that my dad was Czech and she angrily informed me they are not the same thing, but that's another story...)
Well, I'm a Finn. My mothertong, my native language is Finnish. And I have always been very interested of it. I got Laudatur from the Finnish language in my matriculation examination. I'm 47 years old now, and I feel like I learn more of this beautiful language of mine basically every week or so. I've never stopped learning and hopefully I never will!
@@guruchintanan5686 I'd say the most important thing in learning any language is to be patient and interested in the language. We like to joke about how difficult the finnish language is, but it's not actually harder than any other language, because all languages have their own difficulties. What you might find annoying about finnish is that you'll at first be taught the official, written version of Finnish that almost no Finnish person uses to speak (and there are also many different dialects in Finland so how different people talk can vary drastically). But don't panic, you'll learn with time if you persist.
@@guruchintanan5686 For the swedish part, you don't really have to learn it if you don't live in a swedish speaking area! but in a swedish speaking area it could be helpful
@@derkateramabend This is the first time I've seen the words "decent" and "hotdog" in the same sentence. It's just a very linguistic night for me, I guess.
It reminds of the time I had a danish customer come in. I work in Malmö and this dude was talking to me. I responed, "sorry my danish is really bad, could we speak in english instead?". He got mad saying he was already speaking in english. bruh
I haven't met anyone yet, who wasn't accutely aware of their Danish accent xP. Maybe it's a generational thing (I'm 32). Whenever an English-speaker has wanted to speak to me on mic, I've always warned them, that while my written English is fluent, my spoken English sounds like a German who just had a cavity filled and the anesthetic hasn't quite worn off yet.
@@vanefreja86 Yeah, my canadian friends tell me that my english sounds like it's spoken from a native, but everytime I speak to a stranger they ask me where I'm from haha. I'm sami-swedish fyi.
I’m a Swede. When I was in Mexico I met a Norwegian and a Dane. We tried to communicate in some sort of Scandinavian and no one understood each other. But then as we were drinking and got drunker our languages kinda melted and we understood each other perfectly. So my theory is back in the days when our Vikings ancestors tried to communicate they all just got super drunk and took it from there. Maybe why there was some insults from misunderstandings too 😂
They actually all spoke the same language to begin with, Norse, an old danish “tongue” which came from Northern Germany/South Jutland, and can best be compared to the language of the Faroe Islands, and to some degree Iceland… 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇮🇸🇳🇴🇸🇪
I moved to Japan to study, and agreed to help with the local Finnish Association with their language lessons. There happened to be a Swede of all things there too, and the Japanese teacher just happily introduced us, saying that "well you guys are able to speak with each other perfectly then, right?" We just looked at each other and snickered.
because Japanese do not recognize swedish speaking Finns or Sami and karelians officially in Sendai there is well being Finland center and teach Finnish and a Finnish scret church group and Finnish xmas ironic he promotes Nordic using English but never mentions norn that is still spoken in North England Scotland
Finland here. He's absolutely right about everything he says about the Finnish language. If you just listen to the sounds in words, the Finnish sentence for "I'm gonna kill you" actually sounds much less violent than "I love you".
On the other hand Minä tapaan sinut means I meet you, like your meeting guests, so anybody who cant speak finnish should be careful in how you say this to finnish person, that you meet in bar.
Not sure about that. Minä MURHAAN sinut or Minä rakastan sinua. I think Murhaan is much more brutal than rakastan. Maybe it's more that you say murhaan stronger than lightly saying rakastan
So true, I went to a comedy show in Sweden and everyone was really quiet. It may have been in part due to the comedian constantly telling the audience that they were a bad audience....
I met a health coach and teacher a week ago, and he told me that the chances of accidental inbreeding is so high there, that a specific mutation occurs more often on those islands than on the mainland: A couple of extra ribs.
It always amuses me how Scandinavians point the finger at their neighbours for being drunks. I met in my life Norwegians, Swedes, Finns and Danes, and I really cannot say which ones of them were more drunk than the others.
Kimi Raikonnen is a big role model of mine :D ! Guy crashes in the monaco gp, instead of going back to the garage/team, 10 minutes later he is topless on his boat, with his friends, seemingly getting drunk.
As a non-native Icelandic speaker (native English), I can relate to this. I always thought that Icelandic was so difficult to understand because everyone always mashes the syllables together. Then I heard someone speak Danish.
Faroese people actually also have a weird Danish accent very similar to the Icelandic one, and it's the best way for communicating with norwegians and swedes
The Icelandic pronunciation sounds a lot like the Finnish one, when speaking English or skandinavisk in general. A bit rough and very, very familiar. Intonation is different, though.
then you can't really have listened to a longe stretch of it an addition to 'rakastan'. It is possible to say it quite softly, not like he does at all. It is a bit like Italian, suitable for singing.
What makes the resemblance for me, is the subtle "harshness" and sharp consonants. Also the tone was quite monotonic, although the weigh was on different parts of the words.
+Chris The Swedish spoken in southern Finland is rather high pitched. The western dialects are based on older Swedish and sound more like standard Swedish.
I am italian, and reading the comments i probably am the only one here. I am so curious and fascinated by your culture. I ve been to danmark and sweden , enjoyed every moment of my holiday there , love the places, food, people. Cheers dear Scandinavian friends!
I used to work in a lab in the United States that did neurogenetic research on alcoholism. I wondered why our scientific director and our collection of DNA samples came from Finland. Now I know.
Non-Scandinavians: "Scandinavia is so cool. Such different, diverse countries but they still speak sort of similarly enough to have a basic comprehension of what they mean." Fins: "Yeah, we don't do that here." *Thousands of miles in the distant Ural region between mountains, lakes and towers of ice* Finno-Ugric ancestor: "I feel you, brother."
@@MrPicky - They're considered part of Scandinavia culturally either way. The "cross flag countries". I'm Danish and whenever anyone I've known have talked about Scandinavia, that has included Iceland and Finland.
@@VelkanAngels well you must then be a part of the younger generation that is more influenced by English culture. I see this in the younger generation in Iceland as well. Many of them think we are a part of Scandinavia. Even though that we share similar culture, lifestyle and flags (the cross) that still does not make all of us Scandinavian. And technically then Denmark isn't even a part of Scandinavia but is included "for old times sake" 😉
Two Finns go to a bar. They get their drink and sit down. After 10 minutes one says to the other 'Nice bar isn't it'. 30 minutes later the other replies.. 'Did we come here to drink or just talk'?
Here's the original text: To svenskere sidder i en hytte og drikker, på et tidspunkt siger den ene: 'skål', hvortil den anden svarer: 'Fan, skal vi drycka eller prata skit'?
Oh my god I’m Mexican and that part of the Macarena being invented in Finland is the best thing I’ve heard!! i had to rewind 3 times to listen to the end without laughing 😂
My grandma spoke fluent Finn, absolutely horrifying when she got mad and started yelling and speaking quickly. I’d argue it’s almost scarier sounding than German.
It's funny how perception of language changes due to cultural and historical stuff. When Mark Twain wrote about German he found it too soft compared to English ))
@@JessicaMiller-pc4dj mmm... I can try to recall my impression of English from my past ) First, it's a bit high-pitched (typical for languages with rich vowels articulation). Also, it's kinda staccato... I mean, it's kinda more rhythmically prominent, like TA-ta-ta-TA-ta-ta-ta-TA-ta-TA, while my native language is more legato (some even call it monotonous). I guess, that's why rock and rap work well in English. Though American language sounds more relaxed for me.
@@JessicaMiller-pc4dj do you mean standard American English? Quite common, coz almost the entire world is constantly exposed to it. More or less the same with the British RP. But things change dramatically with regional accents. For me, cockney hardly can be considered as an accent of English language. Sometimes sounds like Chinese or javanese or else. Northern English accents seem as someone is just gibberishing all the time. Same for Scottish (with the addiction of lots of strongs "Rs".) Sometimes, I'm afraid if brits (non RPs) are really speaking a very different kind of English or if they are conjuring some terrible spelling in a certain demonic language. I feel much more comfortable with American regional accents, in general (with the exception of the Boston area). Canadians sound like typical Americans, but with some exotic pronunciation (house, mouse, about, etc). It's not usual to be in a hard time with English spoke by aussies, Jamaicans, kiwis and Indians, but, in general, you just identify that they simply are people who come from these countries, speaking with their strong but recognisable accent. No problems, because it's different, but still English. My issue, and the problem with lots of non-born English speaking people is really about the UK regional accents. Most part of the time, those accents and dialects sound like a mixture of several languages, with one or another English word. It seems a pidgin or something like that. Very strange.
clearly you've never heard native english speakers attempt finnish, this guy was perfectly understandable even at the start to me as a person who's heard australians give it a go lol
I am Arab. Totally unrelated linguistically, but find this extremely funny. One, for the comedic part of it. Second, for Arabs judge each other the same way. Not only, countries, but cities or even parts of the city. I think this is common among nationalities with diverse dialects.
Hah! We hungarians just hate each other. Like everyone on the train looks at each other angry/distant, but as soon as you ask if you could sit beside someone, they become very kind.
except the scandinavians are actually related to each other genetically. While "arabs" aren't. Arab speakers from the levant are completely different. Lebanese people are white. So you're not the same people by far.
I can and like to report, all the finnish guys and girls i met in Germany and Switzerland (just 4 persons) are speaking German like Germans. Fluently without accent. Very impressive!
@@Analyytikko got a similar thing in Danish, "den man elsker, tugter man." It means, if you're being a little mean to somebody, it's because you love them.
I'm jealous that a country can have a stand-up event with the performer speaking a non-native language and the crowd understands... wish the US would push at least a second for us to learn in school.
And I would like to suggest that the second language you should be thaught should be ASL (American Sign Language)! (I think that should be done here in Sweden [but with Swedish Sign Language, of course] as well.) - Sign languages are cool!
Though, on second thoughts, I'm not sure this is such a good idea - just look at the tensions between the Finnish and Finnish-Swedish speaking populations, and how they are intensified because schools are required to teach "the other's" language. It's not super pretty. :/ And requirement like this would have to come from a deep desire within the community itself, and then - why make it a requirement?
@@silviu7568 In the US, at least where I live, if you want to go to college you need at least 3 (Recommended 4) years of math in High School, 2 years of foreign language or 1 year of an art, 4 years of English/Language Arts, 2 years (recommended 3) of science, 2 years (recommended 3) of history, 2 years of PE, and there are multiple available electives. There are also options for Advanced placement, AVID, and Honors. AP is the only one to give college credit before college the others just look good on a resumé.
As a Finn it's cool that the other Nordic languages are so similar! I could actually follow my coffee maker's cleaning instructions that were written in Norwegian based on my Swedish knowledge (which is not that impressive to begin with).
@@maxrolland3148 Estonian a little, hungarian no chance. I've heard that estonians can understand finnish better than vice versa since to them finnish sounds like a weird ancient version of their own language.
@@ikkimi7745 Interesting, that's a similar situation to Icelandic and Norwegian then, as I've heard Norwegians sometimes can struggle with the "Old Norse" vibe of Icelandic, but the Icelanders don't struggle so much in the opposite direction.
@@maxrolland3148 more estonian and less hungarian but there are suprisingly many words that sound the same. J’ai oublié quand je regardais cet video, Je parles français aussi.
@@Finlandpro1 I learned basic Korean and it wasn't so tough, although you have to learn their writing system (which is actually quite logical.) I have Finnish friends but learning the language seemed pointless because their English is so good
So this is basically what a Southern European convention would be: Portuguese: Te amo. Spanish: Te amo. French: Je t'aime. Italian: Ti amo. Greek: SAGAPOOOOOOOOOO
Well that’s because greek is not a romance language, unlike french, italian, spanish or portuguese. And I wouldn’t classify the french as southern europeans, they’re western european…
@@maxrolland3148 everyone (or mostly everyone anyway) knows Greek isn't Romance. Just like Hungarian, Romanian, Albanian or Lithuanian are not Slavic, to some people's surprise. Or when people realise Chinese, Japanese and Korean are actually rather different, or Arabic, Turkish and Persian. And yes, France is Western European, but it's also Southern European. Those two classifications aren't mutually exclusive, besides France is big enough, so depending on which region we talk about it can be more Western Europe or more Southern Europe. The same applies Italy (Northern Italy can very well be included in both Southern and Central Europe) as well as Spain and Portugal (again, Northern Spain and Northern Portugal is more Western than Southern, besides the Iberian peninsula is the Westernmost bit of mainland Europe). Even Greece can be classified as both Southern and Eastern, which is basically what the Balkan region is like.
The geography is somewhat irrelevant though. The point is that the first 4 languages you listed are all in the same language branch (derived from Latin), whereas the 5th is a language branch of its own with no connection to Latin, so obviously the language would be completely different. While the same holds true for the Scandinavian languages vs. Finnish, the joke still works, because Finland is a Scandinavian country like the others and is considered one of our "neighbours" same as the others. Finland is the one that stands out from its pack. That doesn't even remotely hold true for Greece in relation to Spanish, Portugue, Italian and French-speaking countries, cause Greece has nothing to do with any of those countries :l
As a Brit with some schoolboy French and a tiny amount of Japanese I can only say how impressed I am by this routine moving through the scanda languages glued together with English and the audience understands perfectly. Bless all you wonderful northern folk
Miguel Sandels Eres español??? When finns happen to say "mina rakastan sinua" it does sound like they're gonna murder you while you sleep!!! Luckily, they say it like once every 3 years 😅 phew!
The funny thing is, I have a Danish friend who once, many years ago, tried to convince me that when he went to England everyone thought he was a local. And he demonstrated his shitty English accent. I had no idea how to tackle that situation... so I just nodded.
Try having english classes with 30 other danes... Some people are so convinced they are rocking amazing british accents when they all in fact sound like in this video
Indeed, it's the Copenhagen accent though which is also the one Swedes always joke about when they mock our language. It's clear that most of them have only ever been to Copenhagen, which is understandable I suppose. I guess most people visiting France also just visit Paris etc. You can immediately identify the Copenhagen accent if you're from another part of Denmark as well. The Swedes always use the excessive use of 'soft D' from Copenhagen a lot when they make fun of the Danish language for example. It's true enough but it just doesn't go for other parts of the country. The word "meget" (a lot/very) is basically pronounced like "Maard" (soft D) in Copenhagen which it isn't elsewhere for example. You don't get people in Southern Jutland, the west coast etc. saying "maard" so the stereotype doesn't really go for them. They still have both an accent and a dialect of course but it's not at all like the Copenhagen one, not even close. :) There's something about his Danglish accent that screams Copenhagen to me but I'm not really sure what it is. Maybe it's the "rhythm" or something, but you wouldn't get that kind of sound in Aalborg, Aarhus, Esbjerg, Odense or whatever. It's very clearly Copenhagen-English.
how to make to make delicious fruit wine in finland: put two raisins in a wooden barrel, add 30L of vodka, let it sit for two full sauna sessions, enjoy , if too fruity, skip the raisins, good for 80 swedes or 6 finns...
I'm a half Spanish half Venezuelan from Madrid, never been anywhere further north than Germany, and I still loved and laughed out loud at this hahaha I guess humor has no frontiers
We did have Icelandic Magnus Magnusson as the quizmaster on UK TV's Mastermind. Agree his accent in English was very clear and elegant. His catchphrase when the time was up was, "I've started, so I'll finish". We all wondered if that was what he said in the marital bed!
As an Englishman it sounds like you guys have the same sense of brotherhood and rivalry that the UK has with Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Love it, long may it continue. Greetings and best wishes from your North Sea neighbours. :)
@@SocialDemocrat1789 you guys are literally brits tho (historically) how can you guys not be allied to us? why do you hate us? you have our system of government, our language, our scientific discoveries (well the whole world does but i digress), places and buildings over there are named after us, your comedy is like ours, you basically stole the london rap scene recently (as new age australian rap wouldn't exist without us, don't think we didn't notice) etc. we have so much in common why the hell would we not be brothers?
Italian native speaker here. Finnish sounds very melodic to my ears. I especially love how they pronounce vowels. I look up to you, my dear Scandinavian friends, for your rich culture and for being able to preserve it.
dane here. My absolute favorite place to visit is italy. Such rich culture and foods, and im not even a food guy - this changes when im in italy. People drive like crazy though :D
I'm a Finn and my favourite language is Italian and I speak some of it, it sounds so melodic. Our languages actually have some similarities like in the way words are pronunced. Saluti dalla Finlandia ❤
Yeah they didn't handle the pandemic that well.. True that. I just watched an Danish/Swedish news about Sweden and Finland, they speaked about how/why Finland handled the pandemic so well compared to Sweden.
American here, and I actually left the country once... Was in Germany at a cafe and the server was speaking perfect English without even what I'd call am accent, just a very crisp delivery. I know many Europeans can speak English, but this was so perfect that I was compelled t ask him where he learned English so well. His reply - "back home in school in Denmark".
@@Eyepice Nope. North America and South America are continents, and Central America is a region of North America. There is no continent called America.
I live in Northern Ontario where we have loads of mäkäräinen and hyttynen. The local population is mostly French speaking (Franco-Ontarien, NOT to be confused with Quebecers. I will save those two Finnish pearls till the right moment.
Icelandic is relatively monotonic and tends to emphasize the first syllable of a word just like the not related at all finnish. Icelanders in the other nordic countries have a tendency to be mistaken for finns by non-speakers of either language. and this works the other way. once I had a finnish girl read me a passage from an Icelandic book. It was creepily accurate.
Icelandic and Finnish have a very similar phonology, we pronounce letter mostly the same way, and Icelandic also often has the stress on the first syllable, similar to Finnish.
My own experience with Danish English was very positive. I'm an American who loves languages but doesn't speak any Scandinavian language. Years ago I was in Copenhagen and needed to get something at the local convenience store near my hotel. So I got out my phrasebook and tried to figure out how to ask for what I wanted in Danish. (I hate the rude tourists who start speaking English to everyone, no matter what country they're in.) When I got to the store, there was a teenage guy behind the counter. As I tried out my attempt at Danish, he smiled and said, "Actually, I speak English." And we proceeded that way. The thing is, his English sounded as if he had been born a kilometer from where I live! I was astonished. I suppose it's possible he had lived abroad, but I encountered similar situations with other Danes as well. Needless to say, this level of English was not what I found in countries that speak "big" languages like France, Italy, and Germany.
Finland is like the adopted brother who's very close family now, and Iceland is the little Brother who was your closest friend, then moved out and made a name for himself, then surpassed you in some things, and to your dismay, started listening to Denmark's favourite music instead of yours. Love you both!
Went to Denmark as a Dutch person, reading wasn't super difficult, lots of similarities with Dutch, but then they started to speak and I was lost as soon as they opened their mouth.
I'm from Mecklenburg and worked 10 Month in Netherland at the German border - learned the regional dialekt in 3 month - through my own low german dialect. Tried this in Sweden afterwards, by working there for 4 month. Could understand nearly 80% - Speak maybe 10%, by the end. Now I live in Switzerland for 5 Years, after 3 weeks I could understand nearly everything - can just speak 5 sentences today in this dialects... Can't really figure out, how this "learning germanic languages /dialects" really works... By the way: I still love The Netherlands, I have a lot of good memories of the time there!
@@elbruhmomentonumerodos9227 You mean Dutch? Id have to agree. I'm Dutch myself but when I switch back from English to Dutch it takes me a while to gather myself 😂
Cause he pronounced all but 1 of the D's as hard D's like Norweigans, Swedes and... well, everyone else except Danes do (apparently), lol. He said "undskyld, hvor er Rådhuspladsen?". Both of the D's in "undskyld" are silent, so is the 2nd D in "Rådhuspladsen" (he got that one right), while the first is pronounced softly, kinda like the "th" in the English word "the", only a bit softer. Basically to get a soft Danish D, you say the English "th" without letting the tip of your tongue touch the upper part of your mouth at all xP. Fortunately that sound is only used in the middle of a word or at the end, or it'd sound even dumber. The first D in a Danish word will always be pronounced hard (words beginning with D, I mean), while D's preceded by a vocal will be soft and D's preceded by a consonant will be silent. That's not a grammatical fact I know about or anything, but I can't come up with a single Danish word involving a D, in which those rules don't hold true. If another Dane sees this and they can come up with one or more, please let me know! Only thing I can think of is maybe a few town names like "Hundige", but town names - same as people names - tend to not follow "rules" of pronunciation very strictly, so I don't count that. :l Also, I just realised "Hundige" might originally have been a compound word, combining "Hun" (she) and "dige" (dam), in which case such pronunciation rules wouldn't have applied anyway, as compound words are two seperate words, only with the space removed. I'm only still writing cause I'm bored at this point.
@@Lugmillord Saatana = Satan Perkele = Goddamnit Vittu = Literally translates to cunt, but in this context it means something more like fuck Mäkäräinen = Blackfly
I remember I was playing a game of Among us, and I just started talking icelandic. And some Danes and swedes understood me and replied in their own language. We weren't talking the same language yet we communicated with each other perfectly.
I love that. I'm an American who was studying Icelandic for a while and was able to understand my cousin when he texted me in Norwegian. It's so amazing how connected all the Nordic languages are.
Yes, I speak Finnish and when I hear people speaking the Sami language it feels kinda weird in the sense that I feel that it sounds very familiar, my brain pick up the structure of the language, like it should make sense, but it doesn't!
@@olivial5142 hey! russia is big, we are just all so different. I am from Saint-Petersburg for example and we are all almost identical to Finns) same mentality, same culture, only different language.
Самое интерестное, что темпераменты наших и северных народов очень схожие, и много вещей , теже языки (Украина, Россия, Беларусь) тоже возникают смешные конфузы)
You should check Finnish comedian Ismo, or swedish comedian Fredrik Andersson. The latter only have a few videos in english but really good, and Ismo have alot
Ari Eldjárn is on Netflix, too, I keep going back to his show there because he's so funny in it. He has worked on these jokes here since and the show is sooo good :)
If you are from Denmark then you would know plenty of Danes have lost a lot of their accent. Especially younger generations. I mean I haven't but I have a lot of friends with almost no accent what so ever. It is not like I can't hear Danish accent either, my parents sound really weird in English.
I went to Denmark once, thinking I actually could speak the language perfectly. It was so embarrassing when everyone looked at me like a mad man, Which is especially embarrassing since Danish is a mad mans language! I dont think I can ever show my face in Denmark ever again.
icelandic danish was way easier to understand than actual danish. the way your people pronounce letters somehow makes danish more understandable for norwegians
"You thought I was English because I don't have an æccænt".
That's exacly what I say when I switch to danglish
why is it some much funnier when you write it out ahahaha
It's a thing. I asked this Slovak girl I went to school with where she was from. She told me (a Canadian anglophone) in fairly thickly accented English that it's strange that I knew she was from somewhere else because she doesn't have an accent. (I then shared that my dad was Czech and she angrily informed me they are not the same thing, but that's another story...)
Not gonna lie, I laughed for a solid 10 minutes at this comment.
"You þought..." :D
They say that if you ask a finn to teach you finnish you will be friends for life. Because that's how long it's gonna take to learn finnish.
I can agree to that lol
It’s so complicated!
Well, I'm a Finn. My mothertong, my native language is Finnish. And I have always been very interested of it. I got Laudatur from the Finnish language in my matriculation examination. I'm 47 years old now, and I feel like I learn more of this beautiful language of mine basically every week or so. I've never stopped learning and hopefully I never will!
@@guruchintanan5686 I'd say the most important thing in learning any language is to be patient and interested in the language. We like to joke about how difficult the finnish language is, but it's not actually harder than any other language, because all languages have their own difficulties. What you might find annoying about finnish is that you'll at first be taught the official, written version of Finnish that almost no Finnish person uses to speak (and there are also many different dialects in Finland so how different people talk can vary drastically). But don't panic, you'll learn with time if you persist.
@@guruchintanan5686 For the swedish part, you don't really have to learn it if you don't live in a swedish speaking area! but in a swedish speaking area it could be helpful
@@tuikkur.5655 mothertongue* (With best regards, a fluent 16 year old Finnish girl.)
"He must be rich. He must be rich." is basically what Germans think when they meet Swiss people.
well i think thats what everyone thinks when they meet Swiss :D
Or...polish people when they see germans
@Mathias Eggimann Then you're getting ripped off, a decent hot dog costs like 5.50 chf (55 sek)
Mostly they'd be right. I don't know what the definition of rich is but I think compared to most European the Swiss do pretty well for themselves.
@@derkateramabend This is the first time I've seen the words "decent" and "hotdog" in the same sentence. It's just a very linguistic night for me, I guess.
Your observation about Danes being proud of their English while not being aware of how thick their accent is was so spot on and I'm Danish lol
It reminds of the time I had a danish customer come in.
I work in Malmö and this dude was talking to me.
I responed, "sorry my danish is really bad, could we speak in english instead?".
He got mad saying he was already speaking in english.
bruh
@@Crimp476 I can easily imagine that lol
@@Crimp476 Hilarious. And I love your profile picture.
I haven't met anyone yet, who wasn't accutely aware of their Danish accent xP. Maybe it's a generational thing (I'm 32). Whenever an English-speaker has wanted to speak to me on mic, I've always warned them, that while my written English is fluent, my spoken English sounds like a German who just had a cavity filled and the anesthetic hasn't quite worn off yet.
I'm a finn living in Denmark and I actually thought that was the funniest part of the whole video xD The impression was spot on
Finnish guy meeting a swedish guy:
*He must be gay, he must be gay*
He is gay*
and vice versa
It is because swedish men speak more like finnish women
Screw you we Finns are drunk.
*Finnish persu guy meeting a swedish guy
"Haha that's true, all other Danes sound terrible when they speak English. But not me though" - Every Dane watching this.
Fact.
I would say mine its slightly better - living in Great Britain for 2 years MUST have paid off in some way! :) :P
vanefreja86 believe me, it really doesn't
@@hugokarlen3510 well, my friends in England and Wales have applauded my english. But of course there will be a little accent left.
@@vanefreja86 Yeah, my canadian friends tell me that my english sounds like it's spoken from a native, but everytime I speak to a stranger they ask me where I'm from haha. I'm sami-swedish fyi.
I’m a Swede. When I was in Mexico I met a Norwegian and a Dane. We tried to communicate in some sort of Scandinavian and no one understood each other. But then as we were drinking and got drunker our languages kinda melted and we understood each other perfectly. So my theory is back in the days when our Vikings ancestors tried to communicate they all just got super drunk and took it from there. Maybe why there was some insults from misunderstandings too 😂
Haha
It's actually that everyone was drunk all the time. Then someone got sober and started messing around with languages, and here we are.
They actually all spoke the same language to begin with, Norse, an old danish “tongue” which came from Northern Germany/South Jutland, and can best be compared to the language of the Faroe Islands, and to some degree Iceland…
🇩🇰🇫🇴🇮🇸🇳🇴🇸🇪
😂😂😂😂
A Dane, a Norwegian, and a Swede walked into a bar?
I moved to Japan to study, and agreed to help with the local Finnish Association with their language lessons. There happened to be a Swede of all things there too, and the Japanese teacher just happily introduced us, saying that "well you guys are able to speak with each other perfectly then, right?"
We just looked at each other and snickered.
because Japanese do not recognize swedish speaking Finns or Sami and karelians officially in Sendai there is well being Finland center and teach Finnish and a Finnish scret church group and Finnish xmas ironic he promotes Nordic using English but never mentions norn that is still spoken in North England Scotland
to japanese every european is the same or look the same like how europeans think of east asia
I feel like I've accidentally walked into a family reunion, but the food is good so I'll just pretend to be some distant relative.
@@bjr8509 Yup both Uralic
I'm italian, my family is in the pizza truck outside lol
Please have a big plate of surströmming
Ikr? Vikings 😂🤣
I've actually been to family dinners in Denmark and Finland and the food was delicious. But living abroad has made me miss Russian food much more :(
American standup: Mostly sex or stereotypes.
Icelandic standup: Linguistics.
Well, he didn't mention sex but he did list a lot of stereotypes, so I don't get your point.
British standup: men in drag
Here come the anti-American comments. You clearly have never watched American standup.
@@juliaj7939 ruclips.net/video/VcDYUnKd7BI/видео.html
icelandic comedy......no people of color allowed it seems
Finland here. He's absolutely right about everything he says about the Finnish language. If you just listen to the sounds in words, the Finnish sentence for "I'm gonna kill you" actually sounds much less violent than "I love you".
Is this some commentary about the Finnish love life perhaps?
Its Minä tapan sinut, but it depends on which kind of tone you say it in how scary it sounds.
On the other hand Minä tapaan sinut means I meet you, like your meeting guests, so anybody who cant speak finnish should be careful in how you say this to finnish person, that you meet in bar.
Not sure about that. Minä MURHAAN sinut or Minä rakastan sinua. I think Murhaan is much more brutal than rakastan. Maybe it's more that you say murhaan stronger than lightly saying rakastan
How often are you meeting someone and say "minä tapaan sinut" like yeah obviously I already realised@@jout738
His Danish accent in English is spot on. The fact he can do a foreign accent in a foreign language is mindblowing
The most Scandinavian thing about this video is the audiences reactions.
True, there were probably no alcohol available at this event..
Yeah they only laugh at Finland xD
Polite golf claps
I thought it was appropriate. When you hear something funny, you don't normally scream like the Americans do.
So true, I went to a comedy show in Sweden and everyone was really quiet. It may have been in part due to the comedian constantly telling the audience that they were a bad audience....
Any other Nordic person meeting a Faroe Islander: “He must be inbred, he must be inbred.”
I met a health coach and teacher a week ago, and he told me that the chances of accidental inbreeding is so high there, that a specific mutation occurs more often on those islands than on the mainland: A couple of extra ribs.
Didn't Iceland itself have an anti-inbred app, where you can check if the person you're dating is related to you? I've read about that.
Sweeeeeet home Faroe Islands! Sorry, I'm not even Scandinavian, just a Russian on a lockdown.
@@Roozyj Yeah i'm from Iceland and i was pretty stressed when i checked if my date now my girlfriend was related to me, thankfully not.
@@nonburger1778 Honestly though, there's a few towns in the Netherlands that could use an app like that too xD
It always amuses me how Scandinavians point the finger at their neighbours for being drunks. I met in my life Norwegians, Swedes, Finns and Danes, and I really cannot say which ones of them were more drunk than the others.
Because all of them are drunkers hhhhhh
No u
as a finn who doesn't, can't and does not want to drink..
It's us
as another Finn who doesn't drink, it's us
All pretty drunk tbh
Finns are the most badass people on the planet.. Big love to my Finnish brothers and sister here from Copenhagen 🇩🇰❤️🇫🇮
Do you mean "Kööpenhamina"
Kimi Raikonnen is a big role model of mine :D ! Guy crashes in the monaco gp, instead of going back to the garage/team, 10 minutes later he is topless on his boat, with his friends, seemingly getting drunk.
im from finland and i speak danish perfectly when im drunk.
I'm a finn aswell. Only thing i know in danish is "god røv" and i might use it when i'm drunk but don't know appropriate situation to use it..
Kaikki suomalaiset pähkinänkuoressa
+peltsi40
Being drunk *is* the appropriate situation to use it.
so you only speak danish
I actually think it's a good drinking-language, since the words are very long and slowly spoken. It fits the drunkenness 😅
When you speak three languages
You’re trilingual
When you speak two languages
You’re bilingual
When you speak one language
You’re
Probably an American
no americans are 0,5 languages
Magellanic
It’s .5 in America
Not ,5
If you’re going to insult an entire culture at least say it in American
Or Australian...
That's why they ruled the world
@ibesweetp2 Mate, English isn't from the U.S.A. English is English
As a non-native Icelandic speaker (native English), I can relate to this. I always thought that Icelandic was so difficult to understand because everyone always mashes the syllables together. Then I heard someone speak Danish.
Icelandic - Normal mode
Danish - Hard mode
Finnish - *Nightmare mode*
hahahahaha
Danish starts strong and just ends in a mumble. Like a spoken doctor’s signature.
good to know there are other non-native icelandic speakers out there :)
what i find funny is as an icelander speaking english he sounds irish! lmao (by the way i am irish)
I'm half Finnish and half Norwegian so I'm in a league of my own. Master of all the nordic languages.
High five from a fellow Nordic mash up. 🖐️ I'm half Finnish and half Danish 😊
I'm fully Finnish but also speak fluent swedish (I went to a swedish speaking school)
Nu får vi se om du mestrer fars kødpølse
Man has all the infinity languages of the north
With 1 Nordic language you can speak in all Nordic countries
Finns: We dont speak scandinavian here
@Blue Steel No most of us doesnt give a shit to learn Swedish.
"We don't speak indo-european here"
@Blue Steel do not slander moominsvenska like that in my presence
@Blue Steel ye the "finlandswedish" is called "Meänkieli"
Basically an easier version of Swedish for Finnish people to understand
@@vilisalmi8359 No siis tää perkele
As a Norwegian, I think his danish is easier to understand than actual danish.
Enig
Enig. I agree.
Faroese people actually also have a weird Danish accent very similar to the Icelandic one, and it's the best way for communicating with norwegians and swedes
sant
The Icelandic pronunciation sounds a lot like the Finnish one, when speaking English or skandinavisk in general. A bit rough and very, very familiar. Intonation is different, though.
Swedish: Easy mode
Norwegian: Normal mode
Danish: Hard mode
Icelandic: Extreme mode
Finnish: God mode
Swedish, Norweigan, Danish and even Icelandic is about the same hardness. The languages are so similar. Finnish is another story tho
😂😂😂😂
interesting so i have to learn Swedish and Finnish
Spot on
Finnish. One of the few languages that makes Klingon sound like the language of milk drinkers.
then you can't really have listened to a longe stretch of it an addition to 'rakastan'. It is possible to say it quite softly, not like he does at all. It is a bit like Italian, suitable for singing.
Klingon is not a national language.
Russian language looks Klingon 😂😂😂
His Danish sounds exactly like Swedish spoken by Finns.
Interesting that you would say so. If I am not mistaken, the pitch accent is used in neither Danish nor the dialect of Swedish spoken in Finland.
What makes the resemblance for me, is the subtle "harshness" and sharp consonants. Also the tone was quite monotonic, although the weigh was on different parts of the words.
+Chris The Swedish spoken in southern Finland is rather high pitched. The western dialects are based on older Swedish and sound more like standard Swedish.
Matias Kautto jeg kender mange der lyder præcist sådan når de snakker engelsk xD jeg gør også selv hvis jeg ikke koncentrerer mig ^^
My friend who lives in Norrland says I speak swedish like someone from Uppsala, I am from southern Finland but finnish is my first language.
Russian meeting finnish guy:
dont drink with him, dont drink with him
I died
...and then polish guy came in.
@@natanlis8240 Lithuanian: can I join?
Czech: I got beer, want some?
New Orleanians: I got bourbon, a Sazerac, grenade, and Hurricane if anybody’s willing
this standup is a great way to learn cultural views with linguistics.
I am italian, and reading the comments i probably am the only one here.
I am so curious and fascinated by your culture. I ve been to danmark and sweden , enjoyed every moment of my holiday there , love the places, food, people.
Cheers dear Scandinavian friends!
That’s such a nice thing to say! Cheers dear Italian friend, from Sweden 🇸🇪
This video now has twice as many views as there are Icelanders.
Four times.
20 times
Lmaoooo
So this vidoe no longer requires a dating app that keeps track of who is related to who? (Like iceland does.)
😊
I used to work in a lab in the United States that did neurogenetic research on alcoholism. I wondered why our scientific director and our collection of DNA samples came from Finland. Now I know.
😂😂😂😂 ei saatana
Oh my god 😄😄 That's just great
Hahhhaaaa 😂😂😂
Kansantauti!
Hahaha.
Minä olen Kreikkalainen. I just started learning Finnish in Duolingo but I also love Swedish 🤣😉❤️🇬🇷🇸🇪🇫🇮
Kreikkalainen has to be the most badass way of saying a nationality I've ever seen. That just does something to make my brain happy
Release the kreikkalainen!
As an American who speaks and has lived in Sweden, I love Finnish. Such a badass people and language.
His version of the Macarena sounds like if Rammstein made this version lol
Stimmt.
Finish is badass
@@pirolocito Lopettaminen on pahaperse
@@user-pv7vc9kp9k 🤷🏻♂️
Now that is something I would love to hear XD
"saatana, perkele, vittu, makarainen". i just collapsed
Makkarainen
@@rykehuss3435 macarena
i made it, hope you like: finnish macarena song. it is on my channel now!
Those are all the Finnish words you will need to know ;)
*Mäkärainen
me, an American: *I don't feel like I should be here*
Go away Yank, this is the European side of RUclips. You're in the wrong hood.
@@Sirius1914 Ok. Just don't mention to Putin, that we are leaving.
Don't worry about it, we let anyone in, including ex-ISIL warriors.
Yeah but that has never stopped America has it.
@@smalltimer666 millions of Americans are from countries that either Europe or the U.S. itself have invaded babes 😩
Non-Scandinavians: "Scandinavia is so cool. Such different, diverse countries but they still speak sort of similarly enough to have a basic comprehension of what they mean."
Fins: "Yeah, we don't do that here."
*Thousands of miles in the distant Ural region between mountains, lakes and towers of ice*
Finno-Ugric ancestor: "I feel you, brother."
Finland isn't a part of Scandinavia, nor is Iceland ;)
And the Finns speak Swedish as well...
@@MrPicky - They're considered part of Scandinavia culturally either way. The "cross flag countries". I'm Danish and whenever anyone I've known have talked about Scandinavia, that has included Iceland and Finland.
@@VelkanAngels well you must then be a part of the younger generation that is more influenced by English culture. I see this in the younger generation in Iceland as well. Many of them think we are a part of Scandinavia.
Even though that we share similar culture, lifestyle and flags (the cross) that still does not make all of us Scandinavian.
And technically then Denmark isn't even a part of Scandinavia but is included "for old times sake" 😉
"Pay the money by wednesday" XD
The best part.
As a Swede I can honestly say I have the very best neighbours.
As a Finn I can't really say the same
We Finns love you too, but don't tell anyone, or we'll lose our reputation.
@@juhomantynen4638 If you would someone would try to invade Finland
No matter how much we tease you, we love you too. Nordic countries are these 5 siblings who keep teasing each other and I like it
@@GenetMJF Yeah, it's how it's supposed to be.
Two Finns go to a bar. They get their drink and sit down. After 10 minutes one says to the other 'Nice bar isn't it'. 30 minutes later the other replies.. 'Did we come here to drink or just talk'?
The other one replied ''yeah can you pull it out of my bumhole now''
Hahahhahahahaha!!!
😂😂😂😂😂
Here's the original text: To svenskere sidder i en hytte og drikker, på et tidspunkt siger den ene: 'skål', hvortil den anden svarer: 'Fan, skal vi drycka eller prata skit'?
@@hassegreiner9675Inte Finska?
As a Dane, watching this is like being kicked in the balls by a younger, often bullied, sibling.
It doesn't hurt less just because you deserve it ...
There’s no good way to get kicked in the nuts
As a Dane, that's the best description of how I felt watching the video I've seen so far, despite the fact that I'm not even a man, lol.
@@Smoove_Jthere are loads of great ways
The way he says mäkäräinen sounds more like he says "sausegeling" to my finnish ears
Fucking sausagelings >:(
Herkko Koskinen Kuolin XD
Ville san you write sausegeling... does that have anything to do with soup? either way I am hungry now xD
No, it has to do with those irritating flying sausage insects we have here in Finland that sting you full of itchy spots.
Ville san I'm still hungry though xD
Finnish language is hard, that's why we keep our mouth shut.
American learning Finnish, seems like I'll fit right in.
@@me_irlg2413 You sure will
That explains Kimmi Raikkonen's "bwoah"
@@CrippleX89 and the fact you cant even spell his name properly
@@greatkali5866 Now now give the guy a break. There are no grammar nazis here among friends!
he did the "Norwegian" octave jump he was talking about to give thanks to his audience, true man of the people here
Oh my god I’m Mexican and that part of the Macarena being invented in Finland is the best thing I’ve heard!! i had to rewind 3 times to listen to the end without laughing 😂
My grandma spoke fluent Finn, absolutely horrifying when she got mad and started yelling and speaking quickly. I’d argue it’s almost scarier sounding than German.
German isn't even that scary sounding 😂 Except for when you simply shout words, but that's equally true for Russian & Finnish.
It's funny how perception of language changes due to cultural and historical stuff. When Mark Twain wrote about German he found it too soft compared to English ))
@@JessicaMiller-pc4dj mmm... I can try to recall my impression of English from my past ) First, it's a bit high-pitched (typical for languages with rich vowels articulation). Also, it's kinda staccato... I mean, it's kinda more rhythmically prominent, like TA-ta-ta-TA-ta-ta-ta-TA-ta-TA, while my native language is more legato (some even call it monotonous). I guess, that's why rock and rap work well in English. Though American language sounds more relaxed for me.
Does this sound familiar. VOI JUMALAUTA, MITÄ VITTUA MENIT TEKEMÄÄN? Eikö järki yhtään päätäpakota vaiko ootko noin SAATANAN tyhmä? ai PErkele.......
@@JessicaMiller-pc4dj do you mean standard American English? Quite common, coz almost the entire world is constantly exposed to it. More or less the same with the British RP. But things change dramatically with regional accents. For me, cockney hardly can be considered as an accent of English language. Sometimes sounds like Chinese or javanese or else. Northern English accents seem as someone is just gibberishing all the time. Same for Scottish (with the addiction of lots of strongs "Rs".) Sometimes, I'm afraid if brits (non RPs) are really speaking a very different kind of English or if they are conjuring some terrible spelling in a certain demonic language. I feel much more comfortable with American regional accents, in general (with the exception of the Boston area). Canadians sound like typical Americans, but with some exotic pronunciation (house, mouse, about, etc). It's not usual to be in a hard time with English spoke by aussies, Jamaicans, kiwis and Indians, but, in general, you just identify that they simply are people who come from these countries, speaking with their strong but recognisable accent. No problems, because it's different, but still English. My issue, and the problem with lots of non-born English speaking people is really about the UK regional accents. Most part of the time, those accents and dialects sound like a mixture of several languages, with one or another English word. It seems a pidgin or something like that. Very strange.
I find it funny that he at first doesn't speak Finnish convincingly, but when starts swearing it's incredibly spot on.
More practice?
clearly you've never heard native english speakers attempt finnish, this guy was perfectly understandable even at the start to me as a person who's heard australians give it a go lol
I think it was not about being understandable, ofcourse it was. But the swearing macarena was fluent :D
I am Arab. Totally unrelated linguistically, but find this extremely funny. One, for the comedic part of it. Second, for Arabs judge each other the same way. Not only, countries, but cities or even parts of the city. I think this is common among nationalities with diverse dialects.
Hah! We hungarians just hate each other.
Like everyone on the train looks at each other angry/distant, but as soon as you ask if you could sit beside someone, they become very kind.
except the scandinavians are actually related to each other genetically. While "arabs" aren't. Arab speakers from the levant are completely different. Lebanese people are white. So you're not the same people by far.
That his whole act fits in 5:40 is the most nordic thing ever in existence
It’s because at 6, the sun goes down.
It's interesting how Finnish sounds so badass, but when native Finns speak Swedish it sounds incredibly soft and cute.
And when they speak English they sound like robots
There was a linguistic study that found that native Finns who don't speak Swedish as their first language speak Swedish in a higher register of voice.
I can and like to report, all the finnish guys and girls i met in Germany and Switzerland (just 4 persons) are speaking German like Germans. Fluently without accent. Very impressive!
It is Moomin swedish.
@@olivial5142 ayo dont give all our secrets away 😳😳
Hands down; all the Scandinavian and Nordic rivalry and jokes asides, I truly, TRULY love the relationship we have ❤️
A swede here, thats true 💙
Can’t have a relationship without taking the piss every day ❤️
This! It's like some sibling rivalery going on
In Finland we have this phrase : "Vittuilu on välittämistä", roughly meaning "roasting is caring".
@@Analyytikko got a similar thing in Danish, "den man elsker, tugter man."
It means, if you're being a little mean to somebody, it's because you love them.
I'm jealous that a country can have a stand-up event with the performer speaking a non-native language and the crowd understands... wish the US would push at least a second for us to learn in school.
I thought you learn spanish in school...
@@silviu7568 Spanish is an elective class here, not required to take.
And I would like to suggest that the second language you should be thaught should be ASL (American Sign Language)! (I think that should be done here in Sweden [but with Swedish Sign Language, of course] as well.) - Sign languages are cool!
Though, on second thoughts, I'm not sure this is such a good idea - just look at the tensions between the Finnish and Finnish-Swedish speaking populations, and how they are intensified because schools are required to teach "the other's" language. It's not super pretty. :/
And requirement like this would have to come from a deep desire within the community itself, and then - why make it a requirement?
@@silviu7568
In the US, at least where I live, if you want to go to college you need at least 3 (Recommended 4) years of math in High School, 2 years of foreign language or 1 year of an art, 4 years of English/Language Arts, 2 years (recommended 3) of science, 2 years (recommended 3) of history, 2 years of PE, and there are multiple available electives. There are also options for Advanced placement, AVID, and Honors. AP is the only one to give college credit before college the others just look good on a resumé.
They love ski jumping and they talk like they're ski jumping up.... Hahah🤣🤣
To be fair, "I love you" in Finnish doesn't sound like "I love you" in Finland either. That's why no one ever says it.
But they say the word Rakas meaning as "beloved" one more right?
😂
@@sami-9233 dude, the joke are the finns are so badass they dont say they love someone, but just show it like a badass warrior of old does
@@nfspbarrister5681 To us it carries so much weight that it is not a word you easily say.
The first thing I learned in Finnish was "Minä rakastan sinua." So I went around saying it to everyone.
So, the Norweigans are the Scandinavian Versions of what the swizz are to german speakers? They also Jump an octave, love to ski and are rich :D
PommdönerTV i guess we Are, but we keep it low when the swedes come
@@nuddeb.9185 thanks
SamuelSomFan youre welcome
That comment made me laugh out loud 😂
Finnish people are a mixture of DDR national sport team in 80s, raggare klub från Jämtland in 90s och Lordi in 00s.
From the comments written in Finnish, I now know where all of the endangered umlauts ended up.
Your impression of a Danish person speaking English is spot on😂
ÆÆÆKCENT
Röd gröd med flöde
Kamelåså
EA Sport se on pelissä
@@Kornchipzzz YES
@@adryxele9080 KAMELÅÅÅÅÅSÅ
Yes, hello, I heard someone sing my family's song "Saatana, perkele, vittu Mäkäräinen", what's up?
So your last name is Mosquito?
@@borderlinebae4010 "Black Fly" if we're specific.
Sukunimi Mäkäräinen? Sissos..
@@sami-9233 Etunimi Sami? Sissos..
Are you guys mocking each others names?
As a Finn it's cool that the other Nordic languages are so similar! I could actually follow my coffee maker's cleaning instructions that were written in Norwegian based on my Swedish knowledge (which is not that impressive to begin with).
Can finish people understand estonians and hungarians?
I’m just a curious french guy…
@@maxrolland3148 Estonian a little, hungarian no chance. I've heard that estonians can understand finnish better than vice versa since to them finnish sounds like a weird ancient version of their own language.
@@ikkimi7745
Thanks
@@ikkimi7745 Interesting, that's a similar situation to Icelandic and Norwegian then, as I've heard Norwegians sometimes can struggle with the "Old Norse" vibe of Icelandic, but the Icelanders don't struggle so much in the opposite direction.
@@maxrolland3148 more estonian and less hungarian but there are suprisingly many words that sound the same. J’ai oublié quand je regardais cet video, Je parles français aussi.
Much love to all my Nordic brøthers. 🇦🇽🇧🇻🇩🇰🇫🇴🇫🇮🇮🇸🇸🇪🇬🇱 ❤️
Finnish cursing is best cursing.
Eestimaa!
yeah, sounds good, but listen to hungarian cursing, it is good too.
Meanwhile west slavic cursing be like: When in doubt, kurva it out
*laughs in slavic*
@@nomad963 I can curse in Russian, doesn't have the same umph.
I'm a Southkorean learning finnish thia semester at a linguistics dept. and now I see what it's like to learn Korean for foreigners.
Learning finnish is self-harm! Get help as quickly as possible!
I'm free as of yesterday. Congratulate me
pretty sure korean is still harder
@@Finlandpro1 I learned basic Korean and it wasn't so tough, although you have to learn their writing system (which is actually quite logical.) I have Finnish friends but learning the language seemed pointless because their English is so good
why are you so masochistic?
So this is basically what a Southern European convention would be:
Portuguese: Te amo.
Spanish: Te amo.
French: Je t'aime.
Italian: Ti amo.
Greek: SAGAPOOOOOOOOOO
Well that’s because greek is not a romance language, unlike french, italian, spanish or portuguese.
And I wouldn’t classify the french as southern europeans, they’re western european…
@@maxrolland3148 everyone (or mostly everyone anyway) knows Greek isn't Romance. Just like Hungarian, Romanian, Albanian or Lithuanian are not Slavic, to some people's surprise. Or when people realise Chinese, Japanese and Korean are actually rather different, or Arabic, Turkish and Persian.
And yes, France is Western European, but it's also Southern European. Those two classifications aren't mutually exclusive, besides France is big enough, so depending on which region we talk about it can be more Western Europe or more Southern Europe.
The same applies Italy (Northern Italy can very well be included in both Southern and Central Europe) as well as Spain and Portugal (again, Northern Spain and Northern Portugal is more Western than Southern, besides the Iberian peninsula is the Westernmost bit of mainland Europe). Even Greece can be classified as both Southern and Eastern, which is basically what the Balkan region is like.
The geography is somewhat irrelevant though. The point is that the first 4 languages you listed are all in the same language branch (derived from Latin), whereas the 5th is a language branch of its own with no connection to Latin, so obviously the language would be completely different. While the same holds true for the Scandinavian languages vs. Finnish, the joke still works, because Finland is a Scandinavian country like the others and is considered one of our "neighbours" same as the others. Finland is the one that stands out from its pack. That doesn't even remotely hold true for Greece in relation to Spanish, Portugue, Italian and French-speaking countries, cause Greece has nothing to do with any of those countries :l
As a Brit with some schoolboy French and a tiny amount of Japanese I can only say how impressed I am by this routine moving through the scanda languages glued together with English and the audience understands perfectly. Bless all you wonderful northern folk
From Finland:This was so funny I had to go to another room and laugh loud because my wife was sleeping!😂😂😂👍
Miguel Sandels Eres español??? When finns happen to say "mina rakastan sinua" it does sound like they're gonna murder you while you sleep!!! Luckily, they say it like once every 3 years 😅 phew!
You know what it means in finnish right? xD It sounds like that to other people??? XD
pilorin ooommmgggg xdddd but true tho
So true. I was watching while in bed, with my headphones, but I started to laugh and I woke my wife ... and I’m Brazilian 🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣
haha, danish accent is spot on
I know! Haha all my Danish friends sound exactly like that xD
It is absolutely spot on for - if they suck. Mostly my parents generation and the less educated.
The funny thing is, I have a Danish friend who once, many years ago, tried to convince me that when he went to England everyone thought he was a local. And he demonstrated his shitty English accent. I had no idea how to tackle that situation... so I just nodded.
Try having english classes with 30 other danes... Some people are so convinced they are rocking amazing british accents when they all in fact sound like in this video
Indeed, it's the Copenhagen accent though which is also the one Swedes always joke about when they mock our language. It's clear that most of them have only ever been to Copenhagen, which is understandable I suppose. I guess most people visiting France also just visit Paris etc.
You can immediately identify the Copenhagen accent if you're from another part of Denmark as well.
The Swedes always use the excessive use of 'soft D' from Copenhagen a lot when they make fun of the Danish language for example. It's true enough but it just doesn't go for other parts of the country. The word "meget" (a lot/very) is basically pronounced like "Maard" (soft D) in Copenhagen which it isn't elsewhere for example. You don't get people in Southern Jutland, the west coast etc. saying "maard" so the stereotype doesn't really go for them. They still have both an accent and a dialect of course but it's not at all like the Copenhagen one, not even close. :)
There's something about his Danglish accent that screams Copenhagen to me but I'm not really sure what it is. Maybe it's the "rhythm" or something, but you wouldn't get that kind of sound in Aalborg, Aarhus, Esbjerg, Odense or whatever. It's very clearly Copenhagen-English.
how to make to make delicious fruit wine in finland: put two raisins in a wooden barrel, add 30L of vodka, let it sit for two full sauna sessions, enjoy , if too fruity, skip the raisins, good for 80 swedes or 6 finns...
I'm a half Spanish half Venezuelan from Madrid, never been anywhere further north than Germany, and I still loved and laughed out loud at this hahaha I guess humor has no frontiers
I’m Taiwanese. I’ve never even been to a Nordic country and I still find this guy funny.
I'm from India lol and I still found it funny.
When Chinese people from elsewhere hear Taiwanese Hokkien they wonder if they've gone insane
I love the Icelandic English accent... It's so clear and elegant.
It sounds very similar to Swedish English imo
@@NotASummoner It does not.
Then you would not like my accent i go down an octave when I speak English and I don’t sound Icelandic anymore
We did have Icelandic Magnus Magnusson as the quizmaster on UK TV's Mastermind. Agree his accent in English was very clear and elegant. His catchphrase when the time was up was, "I've started, so I'll finish". We all wondered if that was what he said in the marital bed!
As an Englishman it sounds like you guys have the same sense of brotherhood and rivalry that the UK has with Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Love it, long may it continue. Greetings and best wishes from your North Sea neighbours. :)
umm... no. We (Australians) don't feel a sense of "brotherhood" with the UK. with NZ (+Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, etc) and Americans maybe, that's it.
@@SocialDemocrat1789 you guys are literally brits tho (historically) how can you guys not be allied to us? why do you hate us? you have our system of government, our language, our scientific discoveries (well the whole world does but i digress), places and buildings over there are named after us, your comedy is like ours, you basically stole the london rap scene recently (as new age australian rap wouldn't exist without us, don't think we didn't notice) etc. we have so much in common why the hell would we not be brothers?
@@ugh4387 lmao it's funny to watch this all as an Indian
Johnathan Cauldwell,
Leave us American's out of any squabblings. ...
@@ugh4387 look at a map
Italian native speaker here. Finnish sounds very melodic to my ears. I especially love how they pronounce vowels. I look up to you, my dear Scandinavian friends, for your rich culture and for being able to preserve it.
dane here. My absolute favorite place to visit is italy. Such rich culture and foods, and im not even a food guy - this changes when im in italy. People drive like crazy though :D
@@jonaswox happy to hear that you like my country. And yes, you are right, we drive like crazy.... especially in the South 😱
I'm a Finn and my favourite language is Italian and I speak some of it, it sounds so melodic. Our languages actually have some similarities like in the way words are pronunced. Saluti dalla Finlandia ❤
@@sonjass8657 saluti a te! I'd love to visit Finland!
@@jonaswoxItaly has Art and beauty, more than food:). But unfortunately it's overcrowded
I want find a Finnish man to tell me “I love you” immediately.
- love from Australia.
In Finland we don't use such expressions, except perhaps while being drunk. Minä rakastan sinua.
I mean he'll tell you he loves you all right.
In English. :P
Haven't you heard? He will tell you that on the day he marries you. If that changes he will let you know.
@@JR-mr9td in Finland we don't really express any emotions, without being a few drinks in.
@@takoen_taotaan Just like Germans (That's why we really like beer)
How times change. Any nordic meeting a swede: he must have corona, he must have corona
Yeah they didn't handle the pandemic that well.. True that.
I just watched an Danish/Swedish news about Sweden and Finland, they speaked about how/why Finland handled the pandemic so well compared to Sweden.
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That one is luckily gone sometime next year when the pandemic is dead, even in the US.
Dave Cullins We don’t know the time that this pandemic is gone
Absolutely spot on! Lived in Denmark for awhile and I love the differences and similarities among Nordic countries, especially languages.
This guy swears in finnish so perfectly
LOL..oh gosh, this guy is funny! His pronounciation when swearing in Finnish is really good! >D
Pronounciation is not that good
American here, and I actually left the country once... Was in Germany at a cafe and the server was speaking perfect English without even what I'd call am accent, just a very crisp delivery. I know many Europeans can speak English, but this was so perfect that I was compelled t ask him where he learned English so well. His reply - "back home in school in Denmark".
It's weird that nobody has politized this comment, but of course I've now jinxed it. There goes the comment section. Well done, me!
@@NuorvaJ Five months on and you're stil good!
@@NuorvaJ I'm really holding back here......
I hope you know that America is a continent
@@Eyepice Nope. North America and South America are continents, and Central America is a region of North America. There is no continent called America.
Fun fact: the word "mäkäräinen" mentioned here actually means the small gnats apparently called "blackflies". Our word for mosquito is "hyttynen".
Knott?
Joo on mäkäräinen, hyttynen ja kärpänen
Sääski.
@@suviniemisalo itikka
I live in Northern Ontario where we have loads of mäkäräinen and hyttynen. The local population is mostly French speaking (Franco-Ontarien, NOT to be confused with Quebecers. I will save those two Finnish pearls till the right moment.
A comment from Australia. So funny. The accents of Nordic people speaking English are melodic and distinctive. Enjoyed this video.
Hehe the Finish death metal version of the Macerena.
that was almost too good Finnish for outsider
And for insider
Icelandic is relatively monotonic and tends to emphasize the first syllable of a word just like the not related at all finnish.
Icelanders in the other nordic countries have a tendency to be mistaken for finns by non-speakers of either language.
and this works the other way.
once I had a finnish girl read me a passage from an Icelandic book.
It was creepily accurate.
He may be a closet-Fingol
Icelandic and Finnish have a very similar phonology, we pronounce letter mostly the same way, and Icelandic also often has the stress on the first syllable, similar to Finnish.
Until he attempted to pronounce mäkäräinen.
My own experience with Danish English was very positive. I'm an American who loves languages but doesn't speak any Scandinavian language. Years ago I was in Copenhagen and needed to get something at the local convenience store near my hotel. So I got out my phrasebook and tried to figure out how to ask for what I wanted in Danish. (I hate the rude tourists who start speaking English to everyone, no matter what country they're in.) When I got to the store, there was a teenage guy behind the counter. As I tried out my attempt at Danish, he smiled and said, "Actually, I speak English." And we proceeded that way. The thing is, his English sounded as if he had been born a kilometer from where I live! I was astonished. I suppose it's possible he had lived abroad, but I encountered similar situations with other Danes as well. Needless to say, this level of English was not what I found in countries that speak "big" languages like France, Italy, and Germany.
Thx for your story. The last 10-20ys English is taught from an early age in our schools, and some students really pick it up.
As a Finn, I found this hilarious.
Finland is like the adopted brother who's very close family now, and Iceland is the little Brother who was your closest friend, then moved out and made a name for himself, then surpassed you in some things, and to your dismay, started listening to Denmark's favourite music instead of yours. Love you both!
Judging from your comment Sweden is your little unmanly brother you are embarrassed to mention.
@Patridge Denmark is older.
Finland would actually be an adopted sister
Finland is like the adopted sibling who is supposed to shovel the shit.
Who is the weirder sibling, is it Iceland or Finland?
Went to Denmark as a Dutch person, reading wasn't super difficult, lots of similarities with Dutch, but then they started to speak and I was lost as soon as they opened their mouth.
I'm from Mecklenburg and worked 10 Month in Netherland at the German border - learned the regional dialekt in 3 month - through my own low german dialect. Tried this in Sweden afterwards, by working there for 4 month. Could understand nearly 80% - Speak maybe 10%, by the end. Now I live in Switzerland for 5 Years, after 3 weeks I could understand nearly everything - can just speak 5 sentences today in this dialects... Can't really figure out, how this "learning germanic languages /dialects" really works...
By the way: I still love The Netherlands, I have a lot of good memories of the time there!
That's rich coming from someone who's language sounds like having a constant seizure
@@elbruhmomentonumerodos9227 You mean Dutch? Id have to agree. I'm Dutch myself but when I switch back from English to Dutch it takes me a while to gather myself 😂
@@elbruhmomentonumerodos9227 Don't you dare insult the precious Dutch language. It's the sweetest thing to listen to ever! -- Sincerely, a German
as a danish person, the feeling is perfectly mutual
As a Norwegian, I understand more of this guy's "Danish" than I would if a Dane spoke.
Because it had consonants in it xD
So true!
Cause he pronounced all but 1 of the D's as hard D's like Norweigans, Swedes and... well, everyone else except Danes do (apparently), lol.
He said "undskyld, hvor er Rådhuspladsen?". Both of the D's in "undskyld" are silent, so is the 2nd D in "Rådhuspladsen" (he got that one right), while the first is pronounced softly, kinda like the "th" in the English word "the", only a bit softer. Basically to get a soft Danish D, you say the English "th" without letting the tip of your tongue touch the upper part of your mouth at all xP. Fortunately that sound is only used in the middle of a word or at the end, or it'd sound even dumber.
The first D in a Danish word will always be pronounced hard (words beginning with D, I mean), while D's preceded by a vocal will be soft and D's preceded by a consonant will be silent.
That's not a grammatical fact I know about or anything, but I can't come up with a single Danish word involving a D, in which those rules don't hold true. If another Dane sees this and they can come up with one or more, please let me know! Only thing I can think of is maybe a few town names like "Hundige", but town names - same as people names - tend to not follow "rules" of pronunciation very strictly, so I don't count that. :l Also, I just realised "Hundige" might originally have been a compound word, combining "Hun" (she) and "dige" (dam), in which case such pronunciation rules wouldn't have applied anyway, as compound words are two seperate words, only with the space removed.
I'm only still writing cause I'm bored at this point.
I wish I would see stand up comedy like this about all languages and peoples of Europe. Great stuff!
Helgi and Erlend are pretty funny, although it's not stand up but still 😆
"saatana perkele vittu mäkäräinen..." never in my life has been i offended by something that is so deadly accurate and true :D
I have no idea what that means but your comment still made me chuckle.
@@Lugmillord Saatana = Satan
Perkele = Goddamnit
Vittu = Literally translates to cunt, but in this context it means something more like fuck
Mäkäräinen = Blackfly
@@lifeofabronovich7792 haha, Finnish swearing sounds badass
@@Lugmillord Haha, I don't even speak Finnish (I'm American), I just happen to know those few words
I remember I was playing a game of Among us, and I just started talking icelandic. And some Danes and swedes understood me and replied in their own language. We weren't talking the same language yet we communicated with each other perfectly.
Sleepy boi
I heard a Bulgarian and a Serb do it.
Thats the power of roots
I love that. I'm an American who was studying Icelandic for a while and was able to understand my cousin when he texted me in Norwegian. It's so amazing how connected all the Nordic languages are.
I thought Icelandic and Faroese aren't quite as mutually intelligible with the other Nordic languages, but I guess they are after all.
@@diorossorozco9558 You mean that's the power of Amogus.
I'm Norwegian-Sami, and our language sounds so similar to Finnish
It’s because our languages are related :D
@@paju4140 ye, true, the Sámi language(s) and Finnish are both in the Finno-Ugric family after all
Yes, I speak Finnish and when I hear people speaking the Sami language it feels kinda weird in the sense that I feel that it sounds very familiar, my brain pick up the structure of the language, like it should make sense, but it doesn't!
man he nailed the Danish English-accent :D
He sure did.
As a russian, I have to say, finnish language actually does sound badass!
It's honestly nice to know, since i don't have much good experience about Russians :/ Nice that there are people like u.
Also to lessen the confusion, I just took that as a compliment lol
@@olivial5142 hey! russia is big, we are just all so different. I am from Saint-Petersburg for example and we are all almost identical to Finns) same mentality, same culture, only different language.
@@jaykjellberg5274 happy to hear that:)
Great. We are also (secretly, very secretly) admiring Russian language
Jesus, I'm Ukrainian, but I've never laughed harder in my life!!! And sure, I'll have your money by Wednesday.
Це і Макарена - топ)
Самое интерестное, что темпераменты наших и северных народов очень схожие, и много вещей , теже языки (Украина, Россия, Беларусь) тоже возникают смешные конфузы)
Lol.
hmm i dint even smirk
4:28 - 4:32 *"Pay the money by WEDNESDAY"* LOL
I'm Russian and i want more English language Scandinavian comedy!
You should check Finnish comedian Ismo, or swedish comedian Fredrik Andersson. The latter only have a few videos in english but really good, and Ismo have alot
@@andersmalmgren6528 What's the name of this comedian?
@@KatalinaKristina the islandic one in the video? Ari Eldjárn
Ari Eldjárn is on Netflix, too, I keep going back to his show there because he's so funny in it. He has worked on these jokes here since and the show is sooo good :)
Nasztrovjé!!!!!
As a dane, i refuse to believe anyone from Denmark is unaware of their horrible danglish accent!
bjoern007 actually school children in Denmark have a pretty good accent. For the most...
Since I've lived in Britian for almost two years, I would hope the worst of my danglish have vanished ;) :)
If you are from Denmark then you would know plenty of Danes have lost a lot of their accent. Especially younger generations. I mean I haven't but I have a lot of friends with almost no accent what so ever. It is not like I can't hear Danish accent either, my parents sound really weird in English.
dÄnglish*
They are
Finns be summoning Väinämöinen when saying "I love you"
The Finnish language sounds badass, like their metal and hockey team haha
I went to Denmark once, thinking I actually could speak the language perfectly. It was so embarrassing when everyone looked at me like a mad man, Which is especially embarrassing since Danish is a mad mans language! I dont think I can ever show my face in Denmark ever again.
I would speak to you - not difficult to understand, if you speak like Ari :)
Är det sant?
icelandic danish was way easier to understand than actual danish. the way your people pronounce letters somehow makes danish more understandable for norwegians
How I feel when I say my horses name in Danish (he’s from Iceland) it’s really embarrassing
come back we already miss you