Speaking of changingen your language and using fixed phrases in foreign languages. Way way back in the mid eighties I worked in a Benetton shop in Covent Garden in London. One day this girl walked in and said "I want Manchester trousers". I politely told her in Swedish "Du kan prata svenska med mig!" She looked shocked and said. "Hur kunde du veta att jag är svensk?!?!?". If you are Swedish you will get this one..... :-)
I am swedish but living in Zambia at the moment and these videos really make me feel at home with all little reminders of my home country🥺❤️ Its so cozy!!
Aww that’s so nice to hear🤩🤩 I’m glad I could help Frida!! Cool that you’re living in Zambia though, how did you end up there?😋 you’ll have to let me know if there’s a subject you think I should cover to make you feel even more cosy!!
Turning more and more Swedish is probably difficult to avoid, unless you live in a closet. Besides, it's easier (and cheaper) to follow the habits one is surrounded by than sticking to the old routines. When I lived in Ireland, I often had lamb simply because it was easy to find or take away food from the local restaurants. We went to the pub after work simply because the apartments we had were not big enough for me and my colleagues. Adjusting to life where you live is probably the same as doing yourself a favour, because life gets so much easier then. I can also confess that, even if we spoke Swedish between ourselves at home, hearing Swedish when in Sweden sometimes confused me. On the other hand, I got very confused one day when shopping at Dunnes Stores, glancing at the salmon and read "Gravad lax" from the label. I thought I had gone mad! Later I learned that this was something new to them and they had not found any translation (cured salmon doesn't sound too tempting). When passing by the vegetables I found a poster saying "Swedes - full of natural goodness" and suppressing that I knew what it meant made me feel at ease again.
If you happen to pour milk on your müsli instead of yoghurt.. Oj! When a neighbour happen to walk out of their apartment at the same time as you do... Oj! When you happen to say "Can I take the beef" in England... Oj! When it gets dark in the afternoons in the winter.... Oj! When there is some sudden sunshine in the winter... Oj!
haha you got me there Åsa, it really does suit any occasion😅 truly a word for every situation! and hey, I'll take some more of that sudden sunshine in winter! no complaints here😎
Oj! I don't know why but that part of your vid made me laugh out loud. Perhaps because I use it often and also when I've been on vacation and instead of saying "I'm sorry" or "excuse me" it's just OJ! Which... might sound very rude if you accidently walk into someone. But it really is that element of surprise. Such a neat little word that can mean so much! Hehehe I really don't know if it's only Swedes with the yoghurt. But yeah, you are becoming Swedish. For sure. :D
hahaha thanks for sharing your story Sussie! I can completely relate to what you mean, because I've begun to wonder if I sound rude using it as an exclamation out and about abroad. Had to consciously try to tone it down when I was in Croatia the other week becaus I was using it so often!😆 but you're right, its just the perfect word for any occassion, way to go Sweden! thanks for giving this video your time though and fun to hear that you could also recognise some of the things I spoke about as being a little Swedish😅 can you think of anything I missed? haha have a great evening🎉🤩
det tycker jag med! det är riktigt kul att uppleva en ny kultur och sen ser hur det påverkar sig tycker jag! jag håller med helt och hållet då - vår sol blir🤩🤩🤩 tack för att du tittade!
@@JustaBritAbroad jag är väldigt imponerad över hur bra svenska du skriver, talar du lika bra också? Hur är det med melodin? Fått till den ännu? Jag vet att den kan vara ganska svår att lära sig för folk från engelsktalande länder. Några små notiser från det du skrev, som jag helt ärligt inte vet om de är grammatiskt rätt eller ej, bara känns rätt när jag säger det. 'Se' istället för 'ser', 'en' istället för 'sig' och 'vårsol' istället för 'vår sol'. Hoppas inte att du tar det illa, försöker bara vara hjälpsam.
I was attracted to all things Swedish and Norwegian all my life, never knew why then I took a dna test and I’m half Scandinavian. Thanks for sharing your experiences.
I am Swedish and I eat müsli with milk, not yoghurt. When I eat cereals, I eat them with milk or filmjölk. About the distance between people; if there is only a couple of people in the queue, yes, we keep a distance (but not 6 meters!). If it's a long queue we stånd as close to each other as in any other country. Except when there is a pandemic of course. I would never cross the street to get away from a random person, and I think that greeting and making small talk with my neighbours is very nice. Even though we don't know each other very well. We have never had "fredagsmys" in my family, and we eat tacos on other random days. When I was a child, we had "hemmakväll" on Saturday evenings. We played boardgames, watched TV and ate sweets.
I think that one of the reason that we swedes eat fermented milk (the variety is stunning even in a small shop) is tradition. Fermenting (syrning) was one of few ways to keep milk longer. Most coutries around us has their cultured milk too, but i think we are the most obsessed with it. And it's not just for breakfast. Gräddfil (sour cream) with sill or in sauces. Desserts made with sour cream. It's healthy and not very expensive. And there are a lot of regional products. Different strains of bacterias, different methods. Quite fun to test around. Find your kind. But people eat a lot of fresh milk with their cereals too. I really love breaking some good knäckebröd in full fat milk and pour apple sauce on top. Standard snack when I was a kid.
I am not sure if I will ever become full Swedish because I am mostly East Slavic but I noticed certain culture things are very similar. Not smiling at strangers , reserved, don’t like having to many friends, staying away from people, and love of winter.
interesting, thanks for sharing your experiences - it was cool to read about! as you say though, I'm not sure we'll ever change identity completely, but its certainly fun to be able to identify some of the similarities!
By the way - in Icelandic ”oj” - or rather ”oi” - means the same as, in Swedish, ”usch”, so don’t say that to an Icelander when you taste the food you are offered!
Oj, you´re definetely turning swedish! Btw, as i remember it having take-away like pizza or something was a very common thing on fridays when i grew up in the 80s and 90s, then suddenly everyone had tacos instead.
haha fun to know that I'm not the only one thinking it! interesting to hear that takeout pizza used to be such a popular Friday night trend though. I wonder what changed things!
One thing I've noticed as a swede becoming more North American is capitalizing a lot of things such as Swedish. Swedes don't do this, but I've found myself doing it in Swedish and getting corrected.
Interesting, Swede here, and when I was a kid I always had milk with my müsli, but now I prefer really thick vanilla yoghurt. Of course, when I was a kid I mostly ate very sugary müsli, like Start, and now I prefer the ones with a lot of fruits and seeds. Maybe it depends on what kind you're eating. Thinking about it I do think milk would go better with Start müsli. And BTW, gooble gobble! One of us! One of us!
Please keep saying hi or good morning to ppl you meet. That is a nice thing. But do not ask them how they are doing, or ”how are you”. That is a real question for us and you might get the real answer. (My boss is evil, my Cat is sick, I just got a new job or whatever). You know this bc you are Swedish now, but others should know the small difference how you say hej to us.
Enjoyed the video and think you are spot on :) The thing with wanting to avoid neighbors is more difficult where I live - in a radhus - because you'll never know when/or if a neighbor will appear from almost nowhere =) I really can't see or hear from my doorstep . . .
"mäh" is more an annoyed kind of surprise. "Oj" is pure surprise. But really, when instead of those two you start to say "vafan"... that's when you really are turning swedish... ;-)
Being a swede who loves a good nice bowl of yoghurt and müsli I could feel my face scrunch up when you mentioned pouring milk on müsli. The thought has never occurred to me, and I've never seen or heard of anyone doing it, so it must be some weird brit thing! XD I think another swedified thing that might have slipped through the cracks here without you even noticing. I noticed during the "oj" bit that you said "I'm talking english/swedish" instead of "I'm *speaking* english/swedish." Translated wordy by word "jag pratar engelska" would become "I'm talking english", but that's not how you would actually say it in "proper" english.
Filmjölk(A-fil is best) + crushed knäckebröd + Raisins, makes a great combo. sliced banana (preferably with a cheese slices) and chopped green apple works too. I think it's mostly scandinavia and some parts off Russia and eastern europe.
American girl married to Swedish man here!! I think I have always been Swedish. Oj! No shoes at home. Only yogurt with muesli. Keeping distance and not being very friendly. After three years here, there’s not much I have changed because it’s stuff I was already doing forever!!
haha I didn't think about that Johan, you and some of the other originals have been watching this journey unfold for a while now. I wonder where it'll take us next😳😆 thanks for watching though, as always, and I'm more than happy to take another step towards becoming an honorary Swede😅😅
Filmjölk with museli is most definitely Swedish. I have to leave a bit in the bowl for Filémon, my cat 😅 Tjenare Filémon är det dax för Filémonmjölk nu?
Some people eat müsli with yoghurt in Germany, but milk is more common, so I guess that's more a Swedish thing. I've heard "oi" a lot from Spanish friends and also in an English context, e.g. in "oi, f..k face" . 😅 The first time I had vitamin D deficiency and needed to take supplements was about 2 years after I moved to the UK, so maybe that's more a Northern European thing now? Funnily, I had the conversation about "I take the full English" with my friends who were visiting from Germany. Guess that's similar. Good to know how to order correctly without sounding too much like a foreigner after 13 years in the UK. 😂
I used sour milk to serial and müsli all the time before. That changed about 14-15 years ago when I moved to Estonia for a couple of years. Sour milk in Estonia is not the same as sour milk in Sweden. The Estonian version is more softer almost like milk. So I just started using milk instead. That followed with me when I moved back to Sweden.
I have never had musli with yogurth only with milk or more rarely, with filmjölk. I remember when I was young and worked as a digging volunteer on archaeological digs in Britain the only way for a desperate Swede to get milk was to fill half the teacup w milk😁 as we got plenty of milk to use for tea but no milk to drink. But on one dig I could order milk from the milkman and it was bliss to get a pint to drink every day- as here I drink milk to every meal. Apparently Scandinavians are rather heavy milkdrinkers ( or used to be before the vegan craze w oatmilk started) compared to the rest of the world. My English friends said only kids drink milk in England.
I was so hoping for the all round word being the ultimate (northern) swedish "word" ssshhp. At least that's how I would spell it. :D Could be used for anything. :)
I am learning Swedish though as well. I know some people say, "if you can speak that language in your dreams you're fluent." Yeah, that's a lie unfortunately. I have dreamt where I have spoken Russian, French, German, and Japanese before but didn't remember anything when I woke up!
Tea and toast is my favourite breakfast. But many Swedes love müsli. Yes, we don’t want to stand too close lol! But I do say hello to strangers. Even if they don’t answer. Just for fun. Expressions hahaha! I love it! You’re so right! Oj jävlar typ! Swenglish is great! Fridays are days when all are tired. Easy to do take out. Yes, I’m so happy you’re taking vitamin D and others. Living in Sweden, we ruddy need it. You’re such a nice and funny guy so thanks for sharing! It’s always enjoyable 👍👍👍🍁🍂🧡
I’m a Swede that has moved to the US and I have noticed that I have much less of a problem to speak with strangers in public now than when I lived in Sweden. Don’t get me wrong I still come off as a bit shy to the locals
- Sony Ericsson hasn't existed as a company for the last 9 years. - "Mieuwsly" ("mjüsli")? I think you mean "müsli" (muesli). There's no Swedish j-sound (English y-sound?) in "müsli". The word is German, by the way. - No Swede sees the Covid distance as a decrease of any distance. It's a JOKE (for foreigners). The Covid distance is a MINIMUM distance, of course. (OK, you are joking too.) - Lördagsgodis is for KIDS. I have yet to meet an ADULT Swede who practices that. (As an adult, you can, of course, eat candy on any day you want since Mommy and Daddy won't stop you.) - Vitamin D supplements? If you eat plenty dairy, and get some sun, that shouldn't be needed. I've never heard of a fellow Swede eating such (beyond multivitamins), but that may just be my own ignorance. - "Oj!" is basically just "oops!" Some say "oj" when they should say "sorry" instead (which is just poor manners in such situations).
Hahaha 😂 guush so True.. Yee, oj ar often use here 🤪 hmm... But distance? Mm... Lot so but not so far 3 meter is enough 😁 something i do is 2 put on a smile caz a smile makes ur swedish heart melts.. ❤️
Milk with cereal, yoghurt with müsli. Only hug close family and close friends you haven't met in a long time - handshakes for the rest, possibly a pat on the back. Don't ask people what they do for a living until after you've talked for a while. Never ever ask someone how much they earn per month.
Haha thanks Anita😆 try to make my videos a bit funny here and there where I can! I’m just glad you enjoyed it. Thanks so much for watching! And I hope you’ll stick around to catch some more!
About musli. We in Russia always add milk! You can add yogurt but that is a more strange thing to do. Yeah🙂 BTW love your channel. Thinking about moving to Sweden and just love their culture so can't stop watching all your videos! Thank you.
Müsli is better w yoghurt than with milk because the Müsli gets soggy in milk, more like porridge if you don't eat it really fast. We always had cereal w milk but w müsli - yoghurt it is. I have to say something about the distance issue. Are you living in a big city or up north? Because I haven't experienced any of that. Live 30 km outside middle sized town. We say hello when we meet someone, never cross the street to avoid people and we stand together in the "busskur" when we wait for the bus. 😀
Not sure if muesli with yoghurt or filmjölk is Swedish, but it’s certainly more common than muesli with milk. I think most swedes would choose yoghurt or filmjölk, but I wouldn’t be disgusted if someone chose milk instead. My dad sometimes have muesli with milk when there’s no yoghurt left, and I’ve certainly done the same just a couple of times. My mum probably hasn’t but she’s also a very picky eater. But generally speaking, I subconciously go for yoghurt/filmjölk and I think a lot of swedes do the same. It just tastes better :)
when you came into D-vitamins, my brain was like: oh here comes the ad of the video. But nope :o no ad of some specific product, like most youtubers :D
That is the way for blending in to the local culture. There are also different habbits between differant cities. I´m from Kokkola Finland and i work ower 300km away in Tampere. Even thou most of the things are tha same, somethings are still slightly different like accent. So i´ve been mostly in Tampere now four years and mostly i speak like the people in Tampere even when i come back to home. I use words and terms what the locals don´t usualy use here. Like in local store if someone comes to say hi or hello ("hei" or "moi" mostly, i say "moro" like people in Tampere). It just stucks in you by the time. Also the accent is much more changed so people in Tampere doesn´t notice anymore that i´m from somewhere else, but here in my home area people notice that my speaking style has changed to that way.
Interesting to hear how much your speaking and accent has been affected Archie. And I agree with you, it’s only natural after all that after you spend some time in a place it begins to take effect on your personality and identity. It’s such a privilege to get to experience that!
@@JustaBritAbroad im quite quick to adjust to my new surroundings no matter is it a new job, city or etc.. I learn quick by watchin how others behave and work. I´ve also worked in many kinds of jobs and it is very easy for me to blend in and learn what i have to do that i can work intepentendly. So no wonder that moving from place to other i can relate there fast. That is also very good thing if i need to learn new skills. I also have very good memory so it helps alot.
Lördagsgodis (candy on a saturday) is mainly something for kids that shall not eat candy other days of the week :D But I personallt love that you added this i your life as an adult :D We all should! (But a tip; you might not want to mention your routine of Lördagsgodis to other grown ups tho, it is a liiiiittle weird) :D
I could not stop giggling on this one... funny and scary true!!! For once social distance is accepted. It used to be rude saying: dont touch me and stay away from me Now its social awareness!!!!
Yoghurt on muesli is my preferred method as opposed to milk but I know a lot of Brits use milk which seems odd to me. Yoghurt seems more "right" if that makes sense.
"Oj!" is a great notice. Oj to me is much nicer than the english "oi" for some reason! Oj. Insåg inte att du stod där. Oi mate! Watch yourself, yeah? Oj is better :p
Verkligen irriterar mig att folk är så dåliga på att hälsa på varandra. Jag är inte bättre och ofta skäms jag över att jag inte har förmått mig att hälsa. Vi måste som ett folk bli bättre på det!
Take-away, taco or something else easy and scrumtious are all a part of fredagsmys (friday cosy time). It started with an ad for OLW or Estrella snacks... I'm 54 yo and 100% swedish, almost fluent in English but mostly speaking my own language. I don't use oj that often, I'm using oops instead. I've allways used milk with cereal and müsli - never ever yoghurt in any form. Yoghurt is best in a glas with a small spoon as a snack between breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Filmjölk is the king in the dairy isle! Especially långfil, but that's hard to come by nowadays. Filbunke is also wonderful. Flavoured yoghurt is not my thing though, and neither is lördagsgodis. I'd rather slip into a pub, if one is available and have a pint or two reading a book. Maybe we've just switched bits of our nationality? :-D
yeah you're right, its becoming a lot more difficult to find långfil, I think I've only tried it once! and then when I was travelling in Norrland I got to try hjortron långfil one time too which was really fun to experience - completely different again!! haha certainly sounds like we're a good match for a trade though! thanks for giving the video a wtch though Martin, have a great evening!
Vill inte heller ha nån smak på filen eller yoghurten. OCH jag har svårt att hitta riktig bitter på svenska pubar, blev en favvo efter två år i London. Introducerade sonen senast jag var där, han blev inte impad. (Avdelning ointressant info).
@@christinesalomonsson1082 dum fråga men heter den bitter för att den är bitter? Eller besk (BESK) snarare? Vi är ju som ganska dåliga på det här, tycker jag 🙂
Can it be that if we walk right behind someone to long, we think that they may think that we are following them? And if someone is walking behind me, I want to make sure that they don't following me. Or is it just me 🤣 if I don't know them and don't want to know them or don't want to make eye contact, I don't want them close to me too long 😬
No sunshine for two months? where do you live in sweden? we are stuck inside from August till march due to weather and light in Gothenburg!😮you can also say ojda
Ok muesli on your strawberry yoghurt might not be that common (though i love it). But even in none-touristy Kharkiv, Ukraine, natural yoghurt with granola and maybe some fruits is a thing
Jag noterade att en afrikansk kollega blivit "riktigt svensk", när hon berättade att hon och hennes familj, blivit noga med att vänner/släktingar, måste ringa först, om de vill hälsa på dom. Helst, minst en dag innan. ;)
I now days have my daily muesli with A-fil, a banana (or any other fruit) and a sprinkle of honey. After a discussion with a Swedish pro athlete. Previous I just had it with fil. But I would never pour milk over it?!
oooh hadn't considered a touch of honey, but I'm totally onboard with the idea - especially if the athletic greats are doing it!!😅 yeah I know right?! I can't imagine having it with milk anymore, don't even recognise that I ever did to be honest😅😅
I'm swedish and I use milk. But I'm looking forward to the end of the pandemic so we can go back to 6 meters distance. Another swedish thing is tipsextra on Saturday, when we watch English football.
Question about the yoghurt. Is yoghurt (plain or flavoured) available in larger packaging in England, like milk, or is it just one serving size packaging?
good question Sara! and you know what, its been so long since I spent any real time there that I'm finding it quite tough to answer😅 only kidding! with plain yoghurt and greek yoghurt its quite easy to find big containers, not too dissimilar to the ones we have here, but with other types of yoghurt it used to be less common and you'd have to buy like a multipack of singles. But I think even that's changing now! what did you think about the 5 things that made my list Sara? could you recognise any of these things yourself? or was there something else I should have picked up on😅
@@JustaBritAbroad The reason I'm asking is that apparently people in France absolutely refuse to buy larger packages of yogurt, and you can't really scoop out five tiny Yoplaits into a bowl to pour müsli on it. 😜 So maybe people in countries with larger packaging of yogurt put müsli on it, while countries with only portion sized packaging don't? 🤔 I personally don't put any type of cereal on my yogurt, only on filmjölk. 😜 (Don't ask me why, I don't know. 😜) All the other things in the video are indeed very, very Swedish, but I'm probably a bit of an outlier with many of the examples. I live in a house in the countryside with just a few neighbors, so I actually say hi or wave to people I meet. 😜 I also don't have a Mon-Fri job, so weekends are just another day, which means I eat candy when I feel like it, not just on Saturdays. 🍬 😁 I actually think you managed to fit most of the soooo typically Swedish things in the video, I can't really think of any other super obvious ones. 😜
@@attesmatte refuse to? really? how interesting! I wonder whaat the objection is? haha good point about the difference between country and city living when it comes to greeting your neighbours though. I thought about that when I was filming the video, but I thought that distinction was better left for a country vs ciity comparison sometimes! fun to hear that you think I picked up on most of them though haha
oh you do Jörgen? interesting!! as for the shoes, I never even thought of that, since its very common to do it in England as well. but you're right, it is very typical Scandi. Should have thought to mention it!! p.s. thanks for watching!
Speaking of "Oj". I have a colleague from Africa and he has a habit of saying "Juste" (short for "Ja just det") when he realises that he forgot to do something since he heard us saying it all the time :P I think you might have done that yourself a couple of times?
haha you're right actually André! that came before oj for me haha but I always got SUPER self confident when I wanted to use it in writing😆like how do I spell it? juste, just det?! 😱😱😅
Listen i was born in sweden and i lived in sweden 9 years i lived there for so long but now i live in spain and all of these are actually correct yes we do eat with yoghurt and not milk most people in sweden eats with yoghurt and its a sweden thing and yes we like our personal space we DO NOT AND I REPEAT DO NOT go close to eatchother we like our personal space ok? And yea people use a weird expression like in english they say ”oh im so sorry” but in sweden we just say ”oj förlåt”. And yea on the friday we always have a family friday night watching a movie or eating snacks something like that. And yeah on saturday not all of us eat candy att that day and yes the sun doesnt show so much in sweden but in summer its always super light outside doesnt matter if its 2 in the morning its always light. Thats all facts he said in the vid all of it is correct 👍🏻 hope you enjoyed reading my facts
One typical Swedish thing I’ve noticed is that they’re very Anglophile. If you speak with an English accent you’ll always got attention and placed on a pedestal in contrast to someone with Eastern European accent or worse Middle Eastern accent, they pity you instead. It’s not to be rude but an admiration for successful people I think🤔
It's propably a very cultural Thing. We Are used to yoghurt, filmjölk, skyr, ymer, tykmælk and so on. But think Greece and their yoghurt with honney. Så not only i the Nordic countries.
Filmjölk and youghurt with musli and as breakfast is def a Scandinavian thing. In the NL (where my partner comes from) you eat youghurt as a dessert, not breakfast and filmjölk doesn't really exist at all outside of Scandinavia 😂
interesting! didn't know that yoghurt was more of a dessert tradition in NL - its so cool to hear how we all do these things *slightly* different from one another! glad to hear that I'm not going crazy though ;)
Well as someone living in Bulgaria and so close to Greece and Turkey (where the name comes from) , I wanna say as the Yogurt being Greek/Bulgarian/Turkish thing, we have our granola/muesli with Yogurt too and never thought to have it with milk. We have it for breakfast, snack, even as a soup. And I mean plain non sweetened normal Yogurt. P.S. And I didnt know that the Nordic people count it as "theirs" ;) :D
@@loradawn We don't really count yoghurt with müsli as ours, it's really "filmjölk", sour milk, that is our thing. But yoghurt has become like a sweeter substitute to filmjölk. More common for kids. Or people trying to ease into their swedishness. :)
Well, yes you got everyone correct and welll i guess your family were confused when you talk like a Swede even when you speak English. Anyway great video as usual and your videos are always fun to watch.
thanks for watching! and fun to hear that you could recognise the things that I spoke about! I think you're right about the fact that I've started talking like a Swede though😅
@@JustaBritAbroad Yeah but that is what we call evolution you have adapt to how we live and talk you pick that up. Take me for an example when i speak English are my accent not brittish i have more american accent and that is why i have picked up a lot from american movies .
@@ShadowScoutSwede yeah good point! it just shows how much your environment and surroundings really have an impact on us - we absorb so much, sometimes without even realising!
@@JustaBritAbroad Yeah and you pick things up with out knowing it and you adapt. Lets say if i would listen to a person who has a Scottish accent every day i would pick up that accent without knowing it. And i would have the same accent when i speak. I wouldn´t hear it myself but those who are around you would notice.
Spot on with “oj”! Never realised is a Swedish thing, but come to think about it, it is! I’m using it all the time! 😂
oj! there I go again 😉 I'm so glad Sweden taught me oj though, its perfect for all occassions and sounds so cute haha
And a Norwegian thing, what about Danes? And I miss the word Jo in English.
Saw a 2 year old drop his too large winter hat over his eyes and exclaimed oj oj oj ... made my year 🤣
Speaking of changingen your language and using fixed phrases in foreign languages. Way way back in the mid eighties I worked in a Benetton shop in Covent Garden in London. One day this girl walked in and said "I want Manchester trousers". I politely told her in Swedish "Du kan prata svenska med mig!" She looked shocked and said. "Hur kunde du veta att jag är svensk?!?!?". If you are Swedish you will get this one..... :-)
För "Manchesterbyxor" är "corduroy pants/trousers" på engelska. 😄
Yes😂
Don't forget when you're really impressed or shocked with something you can always emphasize it by adding more ojs. "OJ OJ OJ !!"
oj oj oj oj oj oj oj oj oj oj oj oj
I am swedish but living in Zambia at the moment and these videos really make me feel at home with all little reminders of my home country🥺❤️ Its so cozy!!
Aww that’s so nice to hear🤩🤩 I’m glad I could help Frida!! Cool that you’re living in Zambia though, how did you end up there?😋 you’ll have to let me know if there’s a subject you think I should cover to make you feel even more cosy!!
My good man, I wish I had this back in the day. Are you doing well? If you need anything I know a lot of people in Zambia that can assist.
Hej Frida
Scary haha
Turning more and more Swedish is probably difficult to avoid, unless you live in a closet. Besides, it's easier (and cheaper) to follow the habits one is surrounded by than sticking to the old routines. When I lived in Ireland, I often had lamb simply because it was easy to find or take away food from the local restaurants. We went to the pub after work simply because the apartments we had were not big enough for me and my colleagues. Adjusting to life where you live is probably the same as doing yourself a favour, because life gets so much easier then.
I can also confess that, even if we spoke Swedish between ourselves at home, hearing Swedish when in Sweden sometimes confused me. On the other hand, I got very confused one day when shopping at Dunnes Stores, glancing at the salmon and read "Gravad lax" from the label. I thought I had gone mad! Later I learned that this was something new to them and they had not found any translation (cured salmon doesn't sound too tempting). When passing by the vegetables I found a poster saying "Swedes - full of natural goodness" and suppressing that I knew what it meant made me feel at ease again.
If you happen to pour milk on your müsli instead of yoghurt..
Oj!
When a neighbour happen to walk out of their apartment at the same time as you do...
Oj!
When you happen to say "Can I take the beef" in England...
Oj!
When it gets dark in the afternoons in the winter....
Oj!
When there is some sudden sunshine in the winter...
Oj!
haha you got me there Åsa, it really does suit any occasion😅 truly a word for every situation! and hey, I'll take some more of that sudden sunshine in winter! no complaints here😎
Oj! I don't know why but that part of your vid made me laugh out loud. Perhaps because I use it often and also when I've been on vacation and instead of saying "I'm sorry" or "excuse me" it's just OJ! Which... might sound very rude if you accidently walk into someone. But it really is that element of surprise. Such a neat little word that can mean so much! Hehehe
I really don't know if it's only Swedes with the yoghurt. But yeah, you are becoming Swedish. For sure. :D
hahaha thanks for sharing your story Sussie! I can completely relate to what you mean, because I've begun to wonder if I sound rude using it as an exclamation out and about abroad. Had to consciously try to tone it down when I was in Croatia the other week becaus I was using it so often!😆 but you're right, its just the perfect word for any occassion, way to go Sweden!
thanks for giving this video your time though and fun to hear that you could also recognise some of the things I spoke about as being a little Swedish😅 can you think of anything I missed? haha have a great evening🎉🤩
Oj! Kul att du blivit så "svensk"! ❤ Och ojojoj så skönt det är när solen kommer tillbaka till oss på våren! ❤
det tycker jag med! det är riktigt kul att uppleva en ny kultur och sen ser hur det påverkar sig tycker jag! jag håller med helt och hållet då - vår sol blir🤩🤩🤩 tack för att du tittade!
@@JustaBritAbroad jag är väldigt imponerad över hur bra svenska du skriver, talar du lika bra också? Hur är det med melodin? Fått till den ännu? Jag vet att den kan vara ganska svår att lära sig för folk från engelsktalande länder. Några små notiser från det du skrev, som jag helt ärligt inte vet om de är grammatiskt rätt eller ej, bara känns rätt när jag säger det. 'Se' istället för 'ser', 'en' istället för 'sig' och 'vårsol' istället för 'vår sol'. Hoppas inte att du tar det illa, försöker bara vara hjälpsam.
Swedish people do say hi and smile to strangers when you're outside of a large town :)
So true!
I was attracted to all things Swedish and Norwegian all my life, never knew why then I took a dna test and I’m half Scandinavian. Thanks for sharing your experiences.
I am Swedish and I eat müsli with milk, not yoghurt. When I eat cereals, I eat them with milk or filmjölk.
About the distance between people; if there is only a couple of people in the queue, yes, we keep a distance (but not 6 meters!). If it's a long queue we stånd as close to each other as in any other country. Except when there is a pandemic of course.
I would never cross the street to get away from a random person, and I think that greeting and making small talk with my neighbours is very nice. Even though we don't know each other very well.
We have never had "fredagsmys" in my family, and we eat tacos on other random days.
When I was a child, we had "hemmakväll" on Saturday evenings. We played boardgames, watched TV and ate sweets.
I think that one of the reason that we swedes eat fermented milk (the variety is stunning even in a small shop) is tradition. Fermenting (syrning) was one of few ways to keep milk longer. Most coutries around us has their cultured milk too, but i think we are the most obsessed with it. And it's not just for breakfast. Gräddfil (sour cream) with sill or in sauces. Desserts made with sour cream. It's healthy and not very expensive. And there are a lot of regional products. Different strains of bacterias, different methods. Quite fun to test around. Find your kind.
But people eat a lot of fresh milk with their cereals too. I really love breaking some good knäckebröd in full fat milk and pour apple sauce on top. Standard snack when I was a kid.
Personligt utrymme är viktigt för oss!
"Oj" är ett bra sätt att uttrycka sig!
Ha en trevlig vecka!
I am not sure if I will ever become full Swedish because I am mostly East Slavic but I noticed certain culture things are very similar. Not smiling at strangers , reserved, don’t like having to many friends, staying away from people, and love of winter.
interesting, thanks for sharing your experiences - it was cool to read about! as you say though, I'm not sure we'll ever change identity completely, but its certainly fun to be able to identify some of the similarities!
You've become a Swede. I'm proud of you Gregg
haha thank you! I'm trying... slowly but surely!😅
@@JustaBritAbroad But it's still something now ey
By the way - in Icelandic ”oj” - or rather ”oi” - means the same as, in Swedish, ”usch”, so don’t say that to an Icelander when you taste the food you are offered!
haha really? good tip!! great job you said, as I'm hoping to make it over to Iceland sometime soon!
Jättebra tips, då jag har en islandsresa framför mig. Kan lätt säga ”Oj” om en fantastisk rätt ställs framför mig. Blir ju helt fel då 🥴
Jæa...
I think a more interesting Swedish word is "öh". Can have several different meanings depending on the situation and pronounciation.
Oj, you´re definetely turning swedish! Btw, as i remember it having take-away like pizza or something was a very common thing on fridays when i grew up in the 80s and 90s, then suddenly everyone had tacos instead.
haha fun to know that I'm not the only one thinking it! interesting to hear that takeout pizza used to be such a popular Friday night trend though. I wonder what changed things!
Still pizza is most common diner everywhere in Sweden
The "oj" bit should always be said three times - "oj oj oj!". It's the Swedish version of "oh my God"! 😆
One thing I've noticed as a swede becoming more North American is capitalizing a lot of things such as Swedish. Swedes don't do this, but I've found myself doing it in Swedish and getting corrected.
Interesting, Swede here, and when I was a kid I always had milk with my müsli, but now I prefer really thick vanilla yoghurt. Of course, when I was a kid I mostly ate very sugary müsli, like Start, and now I prefer the ones with a lot of fruits and seeds. Maybe it depends on what kind you're eating. Thinking about it I do think milk would go better with Start müsli. And BTW, gooble gobble! One of us! One of us!
oooh good point, perhaps it does!! I hadn't thought about🤔🤔 you could be onto something here! brb heading for Google!
Where in Sweden do you live? I thought you were in gothenburg for some reason but you must be pretty north if the sun is away for 2 months!
I’m looking forward to when you get a little bit of the Swedish accent when you speak English 😉
oh my gosh can you imagine😅 that's when you know its time for a visit home ;)
@@JustaBritAbroad I’ll keep my fingers crossed that you’ll have some Swedish accent in the future 😉
@@Vocassify haha watch this space!!😉 there'll certainly be an accompanying video if it happens haha
The Swedish alphabet
It's happened already. Check out the variations of pronunciation of Milk and Yoghurt!
Oj is like the English oops and WTF and oh, no at the same time.
Please keep saying hi or good morning to ppl you meet. That is a nice thing. But do not ask them how they are doing, or ”how are you”. That is a real question for us and you might get the real answer. (My boss is evil, my Cat is sick, I just got a new job or whatever). You know this bc you are Swedish now, but others should know the small difference how you say hej to us.
Enjoyed the video and think you are spot on :) The thing with wanting to avoid neighbors is more difficult where I live - in a radhus - because you'll never know when/or if a neighbor will appear from almost nowhere =) I really can't see or hear from my doorstep . . .
I think the northern equivalent to "oj" in Sweden is "mäh", well we use both, so we're still guilty as charged 😅
Loved your video 👍
"mäh" is more an annoyed kind of surprise. "Oj" is pure surprise. But really, when instead of those two you start to say "vafan"... that's when you really are turning swedish... ;-)
Being a swede who loves a good nice bowl of yoghurt and müsli I could feel my face scrunch up when you mentioned pouring milk on müsli. The thought has never occurred to me, and I've never seen or heard of anyone doing it, so it must be some weird brit thing! XD
I think another swedified thing that might have slipped through the cracks here without you even noticing. I noticed during the "oj" bit that you said "I'm talking english/swedish" instead of "I'm *speaking* english/swedish." Translated wordy by word "jag pratar engelska" would become "I'm talking english", but that's not how you would actually say it in "proper" english.
Filmjölk(A-fil is best) + crushed knäckebröd + Raisins, makes a great combo. sliced banana (preferably with a cheese slices) and chopped green apple works too.
I think it's mostly scandinavia and some parts off Russia and eastern europe.
oooh sounds good Magnus! I might have to give it a try🤩
American girl married to Swedish man here!! I think I have always been Swedish. Oj! No shoes at home. Only yogurt with muesli. Keeping distance and not being very friendly. After three years here, there’s not much I have changed because it’s stuff I was already doing forever!!
You're right. You *_have_* become swedified.
Has been nice following the process.
haha I didn't think about that Johan, you and some of the other originals have been watching this journey unfold for a while now. I wonder where it'll take us next😳😆 thanks for watching though, as always, and I'm more than happy to take another step towards becoming an honorary Swede😅😅
These signs may be mostly Scandinavian. Here (Denmark), we don't use 'Oj' as much as the Swedish do. But it is common as is the rest. :D
Filmjölk with museli is most definitely Swedish. I have to leave a bit in the bowl for Filémon, my cat 😅 Tjenare Filémon är det dax för Filémonmjölk nu?
Some people eat müsli with yoghurt in Germany, but milk is more common, so I guess that's more a Swedish thing.
I've heard "oi" a lot from Spanish friends and also in an English context, e.g. in "oi, f..k face" . 😅
The first time I had vitamin D deficiency and needed to take supplements was about 2 years after I moved to the UK, so maybe that's more a Northern European thing now?
Funnily, I had the conversation about "I take the full English" with my friends who were visiting from Germany. Guess that's similar. Good to know how to order correctly without sounding too much like a foreigner after 13 years in the UK. 😂
I used sour milk to serial and müsli all the time before. That changed about 14-15 years ago when I moved to Estonia for a couple of years. Sour milk in Estonia is not the same as sour milk in Sweden. The Estonian version is more softer almost like milk. So I just started using milk instead. That followed with me when I moved back to Sweden.
Must be hard for an englishman to change the use of "oi!. In England it means hello and in Sweden it means wow.
I have never had musli with yogurth only with milk or more rarely, with filmjölk. I remember when I was young and worked as a digging volunteer on archaeological digs in Britain the only way for a desperate Swede to get milk was to fill half the teacup w milk😁 as we got plenty of milk to use for tea but no milk to drink. But on one dig I could order milk from the milkman and it was bliss to get a pint to drink every day- as here I drink milk to every meal. Apparently Scandinavians are rather heavy milkdrinkers ( or used to be before the vegan craze w oatmilk started) compared to the rest of the world. My English friends said only kids drink milk in England.
I was so hoping for the all round word being the ultimate (northern) swedish "word" ssshhp. At least that's how I would spell it. :D Could be used for anything. :)
I am learning Swedish though as well. I know some people say, "if you can speak that language in your dreams you're fluent." Yeah, that's a lie unfortunately. I have dreamt where I have spoken Russian, French, German, and Japanese before but didn't remember anything when I woke up!
What map of Croatia (at 1:04) did you use? It doesn't look quite right.
Tea and toast is my favourite breakfast. But many Swedes love müsli. Yes, we don’t want to stand too close lol! But I do say hello to strangers. Even if they don’t answer. Just for fun. Expressions hahaha! I love it! You’re so right! Oj jävlar typ! Swenglish is great! Fridays are days when all are tired. Easy to do take out. Yes, I’m so happy you’re taking vitamin D and others. Living in Sweden, we ruddy need it. You’re such a nice and funny guy so thanks for sharing! It’s always enjoyable 👍👍👍🍁🍂🧡
I’m a Swede that has moved to the US and I have noticed that I have much less of a problem to speak with strangers in public now than when I lived in Sweden. Don’t get me wrong I still come off as a bit shy to the locals
- Sony Ericsson hasn't existed as a company for the last 9 years.
- "Mieuwsly" ("mjüsli")? I think you mean "müsli" (muesli). There's no Swedish j-sound (English y-sound?) in "müsli". The word is German, by the way.
- No Swede sees the Covid distance as a decrease of any distance. It's a JOKE (for foreigners). The Covid distance is a MINIMUM distance, of course. (OK, you are joking too.)
- Lördagsgodis is for KIDS. I have yet to meet an ADULT Swede who practices that. (As an adult, you can, of course, eat candy on any day you want since Mommy and Daddy won't stop you.)
- Vitamin D supplements? If you eat plenty dairy, and get some sun, that shouldn't be needed. I've never heard of a fellow Swede eating such (beyond multivitamins), but that may just be my own ignorance.
- "Oj!" is basically just "oops!" Some say "oj" when they should say "sorry" instead (which is just poor manners in such situations).
Hahaha 😂 guush so True.. Yee, oj ar often use here 🤪 hmm... But distance? Mm... Lot so but not so far 3 meter is enough 😁 something i do is 2 put on a smile caz a smile makes ur swedish heart melts.. ❤️
Milk with cereal, yoghurt with müsli. Only hug close family and close friends you haven't met in a long time - handshakes for the rest, possibly a pat on the back. Don't ask people what they do for a living until after you've talked for a while. Never ever ask someone how much they earn per month.
Hahaaaa! You’re really funny 😀 now the Swedes can go back to the 6 meters gap (instead of 2 meters) 😂😂😂
Haha thanks Anita😆 try to make my videos a bit funny here and there where I can! I’m just glad you enjoyed it. Thanks so much for watching! And I hope you’ll stick around to catch some more!
About musli. We in Russia always add milk! You can add yogurt but that is a more strange thing to do.
Yeah🙂 BTW love your channel. Thinking about moving to Sweden and just love their culture so can't stop watching all your videos! Thank you.
Müsli is better w yoghurt than with milk because the Müsli gets soggy in milk, more like porridge if you don't eat it really fast. We always had cereal w milk but w müsli - yoghurt it is.
I have to say something about the distance issue. Are you living in a big city or up north? Because I haven't experienced any of that. Live 30 km outside middle sized town. We say hello when we meet someone, never cross the street to avoid people and we stand together in the "busskur" when we wait for the bus. 😀
Great video!
Not sure if muesli with yoghurt or filmjölk is Swedish, but it’s certainly more common than muesli with milk. I think most swedes would choose yoghurt or filmjölk, but I wouldn’t be disgusted if someone chose milk instead. My dad sometimes have muesli with milk when there’s no yoghurt left, and I’ve certainly done the same just a couple of times. My mum probably hasn’t but she’s also a very picky eater. But generally speaking, I subconciously go for yoghurt/filmjölk and I think a lot of swedes do the same. It just tastes better :)
when you came into D-vitamins, my brain was like: oh here comes the ad of the video. But nope :o no ad of some specific product, like most youtubers :D
That is the way for blending in to the local culture. There are also different habbits between differant cities. I´m from Kokkola Finland and i work ower 300km away in Tampere. Even thou most of the things are tha same, somethings are still slightly different like accent. So i´ve been mostly in Tampere now four years and mostly i speak like the people in Tampere even when i come back to home. I use words and terms what the locals don´t usualy use here. Like in local store if someone comes to say hi or hello ("hei" or "moi" mostly, i say "moro" like people in Tampere). It just stucks in you by the time. Also the accent is much more changed so people in Tampere doesn´t notice anymore that i´m from somewhere else, but here in my home area people notice that my speaking style has changed to that way.
Interesting to hear how much your speaking and accent has been affected Archie. And I agree with you, it’s only natural after all that after you spend some time in a place it begins to take effect on your personality and identity. It’s such a privilege to get to experience that!
@@JustaBritAbroad im quite quick to adjust to my new surroundings no matter is it a new job, city or etc.. I learn quick by watchin how others behave and work.
I´ve also worked in many kinds of jobs and it is very easy for me to blend in and learn what i have to do that i can work intepentendly. So no wonder that moving from place to other i can relate there fast.
That is also very good thing if i need to learn new skills. I also have very good memory so it helps alot.
Lördagsgodis (candy on a saturday) is mainly something for kids that shall not eat candy other days of the week :D But I personallt love that you added this i your life as an adult :D We all should! (But a tip; you might not want to mention your routine of Lördagsgodis to other grown ups tho, it is a liiiiittle weird) :D
Jepp, you are definitely a good part Swede =) Välkommen 😁
I could not stop giggling on this one... funny and scary true!!! For once social distance is accepted. It used to be rude saying: dont touch me and stay away from me
Now its social awareness!!!!
My dad used to have crushed knäckebröd and lingonsylt together with milk. That is really old fashioned. Still Swedish though.
Milk with museli is common in NZ. Also, yoghurt with museli is common in NZ.
Yoghurt on muesli is my preferred method as opposed to milk but I know a lot of Brits use milk which seems odd to me. Yoghurt seems more "right" if that makes sense.
"Oj!" is a great notice.
Oj to me is much nicer than the english "oi" for some reason!
Oj. Insåg inte att du stod där.
Oi mate! Watch yourself, yeah?
Oj is better :p
Hehe jo, ’oj’ har en känsla av ’hoppsan’, medan ’oi’ är mer som ’vad fan’. Typ. Kul med samma ljud men med helt olika innebörd 😀
My father was always so damn creative when it came to Saturday sweets 🤗💯
Verkligen irriterar mig att folk är så dåliga på att hälsa på varandra. Jag är inte bättre och ofta skäms jag över att jag inte har förmått mig att hälsa. Vi måste som ett folk bli bättre på det!
Take-away, taco or something else easy and scrumtious are all a part of fredagsmys (friday cosy time). It started with an ad for OLW or Estrella snacks...
I'm 54 yo and 100% swedish, almost fluent in English but mostly speaking my own language. I don't use oj that often, I'm using oops instead.
I've allways used milk with cereal and müsli - never ever yoghurt in any form. Yoghurt is best in a glas with a small spoon as a snack between breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Filmjölk is the king in the dairy isle! Especially långfil, but that's hard to come by nowadays. Filbunke is also wonderful. Flavoured yoghurt is not my thing though, and neither is lördagsgodis. I'd rather slip into a pub, if one is available and have a pint or two reading a book. Maybe we've just switched bits of our nationality? :-D
yeah you're right, its becoming a lot more difficult to find långfil, I think I've only tried it once! and then when I was travelling in Norrland I got to try hjortron långfil one time too which was really fun to experience - completely different again!!
haha certainly sounds like we're a good match for a trade though! thanks for giving the video a wtch though Martin, have a great evening!
Vill inte heller ha nån smak på filen eller yoghurten. OCH jag har svårt att hitta riktig bitter på svenska pubar, blev en favvo efter två år i London. Introducerade sonen senast jag var där, han blev inte impad. (Avdelning ointressant info).
@@christinesalomonsson1082 dum fråga men heter den bitter för att den är bitter? Eller besk (BESK) snarare? Vi är ju som ganska dåliga på det här, tycker jag 🙂
@@gellawella bra fråga som jag inte kan svara på. Hm. Den är ju bara ljummen, lättdrucken och varken bitter eller besk. Google, kanske. Sorry!
I’m Danish, I eat musli on my yoghurt. 🍐🍓
Hi Inga.
How are you today?🌹
Can it be that if we walk right behind someone to long, we think that they may think that we are following them? And if someone is walking behind me, I want to make sure that they don't following me. Or is it just me 🤣 if I don't know them and don't want to know them or don't want to make eye contact, I don't want them close to me too long 😬
OJ! Vilken bra video! 😆😉
Hahaha tack så mycket! Får planerar vår stor crossover collab snart😉😅
@@JustaBritAbroad Det måste vi göra! Och vår podcast about nothing 😅
No sunshine for two months? where do you live in sweden? we are stuck inside from August till march due to weather and light in Gothenburg!😮you can also say ojda
Yep! You're almost swedish now!
Swedes: Yes YES MY MASTERPLAN IS WORKING IMMA TURN THIS BRIT TO SWEDE. 😂 lol
And if you are worried, something fell down or you are comforting someone you can say ”Oj, oj, oj”. 😂
Hahaha true! I do that sometimes as well, but mainly just in a cosy way!
Ok muesli on your strawberry yoghurt might not be that common (though i love it). But even in none-touristy Kharkiv, Ukraine, natural yoghurt with granola and maybe some fruits is a thing
Jag noterade att en afrikansk kollega blivit "riktigt svensk", när hon berättade att hon och hennes familj, blivit noga med att vänner/släktingar, måste ringa först, om de vill hälsa på dom. Helst, minst en dag innan. ;)
I now days have my daily muesli with A-fil, a banana (or any other fruit) and a sprinkle of honey. After a discussion with a Swedish pro athlete. Previous I just had it with fil. But I would never pour milk over it?!
oooh hadn't considered a touch of honey, but I'm totally onboard with the idea - especially if the athletic greats are doing it!!😅 yeah I know right?! I can't imagine having it with milk anymore, don't even recognise that I ever did to be honest😅😅
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brilliant video as usual
Thank you!! so fun to hear that you enjoyed it🤩🤩 anything else that should have made my list?
I'm swedish and I use milk. But I'm looking forward to the end of the pandemic so we can go back to 6 meters distance. Another swedish thing is tipsextra on Saturday, when we watch English football.
Please note that "Oj" is not pronounced the same way as "Oi!"
Because Oi in English is very different in meaning and connotation than Oj in Swedish.
Question about the yoghurt. Is yoghurt (plain or flavoured) available in larger packaging in England, like milk, or is it just one serving size packaging?
good question Sara! and you know what, its been so long since I spent any real time there that I'm finding it quite tough to answer😅 only kidding! with plain yoghurt and greek yoghurt its quite easy to find big containers, not too dissimilar to the ones we have here, but with other types of yoghurt it used to be less common and you'd have to buy like a multipack of singles. But I think even that's changing now!
what did you think about the 5 things that made my list Sara? could you recognise any of these things yourself? or was there something else I should have picked up on😅
@@JustaBritAbroad
The reason I'm asking is that apparently people in France absolutely refuse to buy larger packages of yogurt, and you can't really scoop out five tiny Yoplaits into a bowl to pour müsli on it. 😜
So maybe people in countries with larger packaging of yogurt put müsli on it, while countries with only portion sized packaging don't? 🤔
I personally don't put any type of cereal on my yogurt, only on filmjölk. 😜 (Don't ask me why, I don't know. 😜)
All the other things in the video are indeed very, very Swedish, but I'm probably a bit of an outlier with many of the examples. I live in a house in the countryside with just a few neighbors, so I actually say hi or wave to people I meet. 😜 I also don't have a Mon-Fri job, so weekends are just another day, which means I eat candy when I feel like it, not just on Saturdays. 🍬 😁
I actually think you managed to fit most of the soooo typically Swedish things in the video, I can't really think of any other super obvious ones. 😜
@@attesmatte refuse to? really? how interesting! I wonder whaat the objection is?
haha good point about the difference between country and city living when it comes to greeting your neighbours though. I thought about that when I was filming the video, but I thought that distinction was better left for a country vs ciity comparison sometimes! fun to hear that you think I picked up on most of them though haha
@@attesmatte p.s. thanks for watching! have a great Wednesday :)
@@JustaBritAbroad
They're French... Do we really need more of an explanation than that? 😜 😂
(I love using yogurt with muesli and/or fruit)
I eat my müsli with milk - don’t like yoghurt and can’t stand fil! You forgot about the shoes indoors 😉. Otherwise you pretty much nailed it…🥛🥾
oh you do Jörgen? interesting!! as for the shoes, I never even thought of that, since its very common to do it in England as well. but you're right, it is very typical Scandi. Should have thought to mention it!! p.s. thanks for watching!
I weirdly know exactly where (99.99% certain) that first short clip from Croatia is taken.. ..which is pretty odd I have to admit..
Speaking of "Oj". I have a colleague from Africa and he has a habit of saying "Juste" (short for "Ja just det") when he realises that he forgot to do something since he heard us saying it all the time :P I think you might have done that yourself a couple of times?
haha you're right actually André! that came before oj for me haha but I always got SUPER self confident when I wanted to use it in writing😆like how do I spell it? juste, just det?! 😱😱😅
@@JustaBritAbroad in text messages you can write juste but the correct spelling is just det.
"Juste" = schysst. bara idioter tror att det är samma som "just det"
@@Aeneiden på sms språk blir det juste just det men du har absolut rätt i att det även betyder schysst eller juste ( korrekt på franska)
Typiska saker som är vanligt att sakna på semestern: kaffe, kaviar, mjölk och knäckebröd.
Listen i was born in sweden and i lived in sweden 9 years i lived there for so long but now i live in spain and all of these are actually correct yes we do eat with yoghurt and not milk most people in sweden eats with yoghurt and its a sweden thing and yes we like our personal space we DO NOT AND I REPEAT DO NOT go close to eatchother we like our personal space ok? And yea people use a weird expression like in english they say ”oh im so sorry” but in sweden we just say ”oj förlåt”. And yea on the friday we always have a family friday night watching a movie or eating snacks something like that. And yeah on saturday not all of us eat candy att that day and yes the sun doesnt show so much in sweden but in summer its always super light outside doesnt matter if its 2 in the morning its always light. Thats all facts he said in the vid all of it is correct 👍🏻 hope you enjoyed reading my facts
You should check out "Scandinavia and the World" it is web comic, kind of, made by a Dane who lived in the UK for a while. They are quite funny.
oh really? I'm not familiar with it! sounds interesting though, I'll have to take a dig into it :)
One typical Swedish thing I’ve noticed is that they’re very Anglophile. If you speak with an English accent you’ll always got attention and placed on a pedestal in contrast to someone with Eastern European accent or worse Middle Eastern accent, they pity you instead. It’s not to be rude but an admiration for successful people I think🤔
filmjölk or yoghurt is the way to go for eating musli for sure 40year old swede!
Im swedish and i do that
You are nice, cool and funny. I hope you stay in Sweden forever. 😀
...owning an ornamented brass tray definitely proves you are becoming Svensk. :)
How to find the reason to go swedish????
Nr:5 Sweden will be a refrigerator with a broken lamp
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Fun video! You can be both! :)
All is good exept one thing... Lördagsgodis is different for kids and adults. Dont get stuck with sweets...
??? Do you live in Kiruna?
Yoghurt or filmjölk is very normal/common with cerial/müsli i DK too.
Not so much plane Milk. Thats quite rare to see.
interesting! I'm wondering if its a Nordic thing or if its just the UK that hasn't got onboard with the yoghurt hype😅
It's propably a very cultural Thing. We Are used to yoghurt, filmjölk, skyr, ymer, tykmælk and so on. But think Greece and their yoghurt with honney. Så not only i the Nordic countries.
Someone said you know you're turning swedish when you go to bed happy because you know as soon as you wake up you can drink coffee again...
I love that!!
Filmjölk and youghurt with musli and as breakfast is def a Scandinavian thing. In the NL (where my partner comes from) you eat youghurt as a dessert, not breakfast and filmjölk doesn't really exist at all outside of Scandinavia 😂
interesting! didn't know that yoghurt was more of a dessert tradition in NL - its so cool to hear how we all do these things *slightly* different from one another! glad to hear that I'm not going crazy though ;)
Well as someone living in Bulgaria and so close to Greece and Turkey (where the name comes from) , I wanna say as the Yogurt being Greek/Bulgarian/Turkish thing, we have our granola/muesli with Yogurt too and never thought to have it with milk. We have it for breakfast, snack, even as a soup. And I mean plain non sweetened normal Yogurt. P.S. And I didnt know that the Nordic people count it as "theirs" ;) :D
@@loradawn We don't really count yoghurt with müsli as ours, it's really "filmjölk", sour milk, that is our thing. But yoghurt has become like a sweeter substitute to filmjölk. More common for kids. Or people trying to ease into their swedishness. :)
Well, yes you got everyone correct and welll i guess your family were confused when you talk like a Swede even when you speak English. Anyway great video as usual and your videos are always fun to watch.
thanks for watching! and fun to hear that you could recognise the things that I spoke about! I think you're right about the fact that I've started talking like a Swede though😅
@@JustaBritAbroad Yeah but that is what we call evolution you have adapt to how we live and talk you pick that up. Take me for an example when i speak English are my accent not brittish i have more american accent and that is why i have picked up a lot from american movies .
@@ShadowScoutSwede yeah good point! it just shows how much your environment and surroundings really have an impact on us - we absorb so much, sometimes without even realising!
@@JustaBritAbroad Yeah and you pick things up with out knowing it and you adapt. Lets say if i would listen to a person who has a Scottish accent every day i would pick up that accent without knowing it. And i would have the same accent when i speak. I wouldn´t hear it myself but those who are around you would notice.
Haha, you swede! 😂
I think this would happend to more or less every one who lives in a new country for a long time. I bet you love it! 😉
I dunno. 14yrs strong and I'm still not swedefied 🤷♂️ I get what ya saying though.
Moved to kiruna?
haha were the things I said soo typical of Norrlänningar then?😆