förlåt för att jag är grammatiknazist, men jag tror att det ska vara ”de” och inte ”dem” där, eftersom de är subjektet i bisatsen. till exempel: ”de ser dem”. ”de” är subjekt och ”dem” är objekt. det är samma som med jag/mig och du/dig: ”jag ser mig” men om du är osäker, så skriv bara ”dom”. det är aldrig fel 😉 *edit:* när jag tänker efter lite till så är det inte så självklart och min språkkänsla verkar vara motstridig och vilja använda olika former beroende på vilket pronomen jag testar det med. det är ju lite klurigare eftersom det inte är en fullständig mening, då den saknar verb (vilket inte gör den ogrammatisk, bara talspråklig)
It's amazing that you can even hear from where in Sweden their relatives/community has come from. Their Swedish even reflects the regional accents within Sweden - simply amazing
yes, i'm from Småland, i hear different dialects from the gentlemen. for instance Gunnar Morlberg at 11:43 speaks my dialect as if he would be my neighbor.
clarance har en duktig småländska också .. att höra svenska är ju fantastiskt men att höra så klara dialekter är helt otroligt när man tänker att det är generationer och årtionden som skiljer det åt.. +@@LusseB
Yes I agree, it's stunning that the dialect seems to prevail through the generations. Some of the people who speak "immigrant Swedish" in this video could easily be mistaken for native Swedes. Personally, I think Gunnar Morlberg sounds exactly like I'd expect someone who's lived their entire life in the Skara region of Västergötland to sound. There are just a few small things that give it away, like when he says "US" (but that could be initial). Otherwise the only thing is the pronunciation of "fantastik" (fantastic) instead of "fantastiskt," which would have been the expected pronunciation.
Fascinerande att se hur starka de dialektala skillnaderna fortfarande är, och hur duktiga många (framför allt texasborna) fortfarande är på svenska! De slår nog en hel del svenskar som försummat språket efter utlandsflytt.
Tja, har alltid tyckt att det vart lustigt med jänkare som påstår sig vara "svenskar" närom snackar sån där ful "svenska". Låter ju fan mig exakt som Eddie Meduza när han löjlar till det och låtsas vara amerikan...
I'm an American with no Swedish roots who moved to Sweden 8 years ago. As a joke, I like to speak Swedish with a Texan accent to my friends. I had no idea there was actually a group of Swedish immigrants in texas with a lil twang in their Swedish. Really interesting documentary! To all the people in the comments with Swedish roots wanting to learn Swedish, I would like to encourage you! It's one of the easiest languages for native English speakers to learn.
Have You ever listened to a Song - Somliga går med trasiga skor - on RUclips ? There IS a Master of Swedish Language ! Lite Sunny Stockholm to Everybody !
As a Swede i can recognise Different dialects when they speaks, fantastic att dom talar så bra Svenska efter så lång tid. Gud bevare er, Hälsningar ifrån Småland.🙏
Unfortunately, that's true generally here in America. However, my family is first generation Swedish-American and we are hoping to keep the language alive for our future generations. My great-great grandparents spoke Swedish and came from Sweden, but didn't want to teach their children. Fast-forward to today and I am now married to a Swede. We are going to teach Swedish to our children.
Hej, if you want to spark an interest in you kids to talk Swedish I can highly recommend a YMCA (KFUM in Swedish) summer camp here at Brevik here in Sweden. They have a senior camp (14-16 yrs) with both Swedish and American kids with canoe hiking and a lot of activities. Both my kids has participated and later on they became leaders on the camp. In the last part of the visits the American kids can stay a couple of days with their Swedish friends if they want to and see some of how it is to live in a Swedish city. Of course everyone speaks English and all our Swedish kids learn English from 3rd or 4th grade I think.
very very interesting. I had no idea that my mother tongue's so prevalent outside of Sweden and Finland. Although I gotta admit, it's a welcomed surprise.
Very wholesome documentary. As a Swede it made me kind of proud. Like many other Swedes I have distant relatives in America, most of mine in the Chicago- area. I once dated a American girl who was of Swedish decent, she spoke this kind of "Immigrant Swedish" and was almost fluent. She had just moved to Sweden with her mother to study at University and to reconnect with their Swedish roots.
3:38 This is as much of a lovely Swedish old-gentleman as it gets! An old man singing his heart out from his favorite song without a care in the world! Det är så fint och fantastiskt! Sådan skall jag också bli när jag blir 70+
My great grandparents came from Kisa. They could not speak a word of English when they got here but learned it pretty quickly from the radio and reading newspapers. I wish I could’ve known them. They settled in Red Oak Iowa where my mom was raised. My mom understood a lot of Swedish when she was little, but then as she grew up and got away from Red Oak, she forgot a great deal of it. I only know a few words. I wish I could be fluent. Tak so mycket for posting this!
Wow. As a Swede I´m impressed with how easily I can understand them speaking a more older version of the swedish language. I´m running towards the age of 60 and swedish is so influenced by english by now. "Swinglish" as mentioned is a fact in sweden these days. I think my son can understand it though. =)
Jag har inte något problem å förstå och är född 1993 dock min farfar är född i Norge å kan relatera hur dom rullar på orden eller hur man ska säga kan liknas med hans uttalande ( han gick ut till sjös strax efter andra världskriget som 14 eller 15 åring vet inte exakt å bodde ett tag i new york tills han gick i land i Sverige där hans mamma hade flyttat efter kriget)
Amazing, I am living in trollhättan and was surprised that it was mentioned in the documentary. I want to visit one of these "american swedish" places in the future. Hope the traditions will be kept alive :) cheers from Sweden.
This is amazing they kept it going so long. I am Swedish American but grew up in the Chicago area. There was a lot of Swedish and the older people spoke but knowing English was a big deal to them. Its was my dads grandparents that came but my dad never learned. My Moms parents came from Sweden and my mom spoke but my grandparents learned English and spoke very well. I was able to go to Sweden a few years ago. It was wonderful. My cousins were so hospitable and welcoming. It was a trip of a life time.
Gunnar Morlberg speaks absolutely flawless Swedish. Accent intact and everything. No grammatical errors nor syntax errors, nothing, even uses colloqualisms for the accent he speaks and doesn't even anglify his pronunciation of the names of cities. He truly does sound like a man that might have emigrated to the US when he was in his 20's or so.
Framstår som en riktig Falköpingsbo där. Man skulle kunna föreställa honom i en gammal jänkare med hembakat under läppen. Ser mer ut som en amerikanifierad svensk än tvärt om.
These are my people! I’m half Swedish and half Filipino and it’s been so cool to watch this cuz I’ve been learning Swedish for over a year and didn’t realize anyone in America spoke it. My Swedish half came here in 1869 and I’ve been learning so much about them. The family farm still exists!
Holy-! Eric Carlson at 10:58! As a native swedish-speaker who grew up in the northern part of Sweden (Hälsingland province), I can barely distinguish him from someone speaks Småländska! If I met him on the street and he told me he was from Texas and spoke Swedish as a first language I would think he's talking bull! His swedish is so.. native? It sounds as if he's literally from Sweden and only moved to the USA during his 30's or so!
Two days ago I discovered through ancestry dna that the majority of my dna is of Swedish descent first and Norweigan second. I grew up believing it to be mostly Norweigan. I was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and moved to Forest Lake, Minnesota about a year ago. Scandia is the next town over about 5 miles from my house. I regularly go fishing in Chisago city (sister city is Algutsboda) and Lindstrom (sister city is Tingsryd) just northeast of me. Swedish presence is huge in all three of those towns. The coincidence in all of this is crazy to me! I am proud to be an American of Scandinavian lineage. 🇸🇪🇳🇴🇺🇸
My Scandinavian percentage says 30 percent Swedish 29 percent Norweigan. I found that my great, great, great grandfather’s name was Andrew Collum and he moved to Lake City, Minnesota from Sweden. My wife and I are visiting Norway and Sweden in October and we couldnt be more excited.
Absolutely fascinating to see how a language has both been so preserved and changed in the different environment. Best of luck to the swedish speaking americans. Lycka till!
I love that they use old or rural verisons of swedish like the word "Fruntimmer" for women, its not really used anymore but i find it fun that on the other side of the atlantic that word still lives on
I live in Falköping. Nice to see that the world are quite small after all. His father where from Vartofta right outside Falköping where I live. That's amazing.
The man in the Texas hat not only speaks perfect swedish he also speaks the dialect of his father perfect, I speak the same dialect and its very nice to hear
I live in sweden and i find it really interesting about the swedes the immigrated to america personally my ancestors never had any chance to make it to america during some of the worst times in sweden since my great grandfather was a homeless man who used to walk around near the west coast for search of jobs until he finally got married and built a farm and family in 1917
Quite odd that the Swedish-American population did not erupt in bigger numbers despite immigrants from Sweden arriving here in similar numbers than some other European groups. For example, say the Irish (2 million arrived in a few years vs 1.3 million Swedes). 35 million Americans have Irish heritage while only 3 million Americans have Swedish heritage. Even 5.5 million Italians came and grew. It's definitely strange.
I think it is easier to keep the language alive today with the use of the internet. It's really just a matter of one person setting it up a chat server for the various communities and spread the word.
Åker ofta till Las Vegas men nästa gång stannar jag till i Lindström och bidrar med lite svensk Marabou choklad =) Så häftigt med dessa svenska ställen. Man blir ju konstigt nog stolt över att vara svensk =) Go USA/SWE !
Hahahaah gör så ! . Har flyttat hitt från Sverige och det e jätte kul och se folk med svensk bakgrund. De blir chockad speciellt när man ser en svart -svensk från Sverige men svenskar är alltid snälla oavsett om de är amerikaner eller svenskar.
@@mohaosman1473 Dom har ju en helt annan ras syn där. Eller kanske är fel att säga på det sättet, men dom bryr sig lite mer i USA än vad vi gör i Sverige. Men det är skönt att höra att dom är trevliga där borta!
As a Swede I am so fascinated with this. I wouldn't mind visiting a few of these places. Sadly, a few of the ones interviewed in this documentary has since passed away 😢
Love this! As a Swede with both Swedish and English as mothertounge this was a new encounter... never heard of this type of Swedish. Jätteroligt att höra och se... Hoppas verkligen att det Svenska språket och kulturen fortsätter att bevaras. God bless America, and God bless Sweden!
Love the video, but this is weird. I'm Swedish to the bone.. I was born and raised in Sweden and have lived here all my life.. (more than half a century) and STILL I find myself reading the subtitles! WTH... ;)
It is funny when they talk about distance. At one point (19:30) the amerian swede means 1500 miles but he says 1500 mil. A swedish mil is actually 10km so 40 mil is not 40 miles. I can imagine they misunderstood each other there. The regular swede must have thought they were talking about 15000km and the american swede must have thought the regular swede talked about 40 miles 😂
Have you heard about the Tv-show "The Great Swedish Adventure" or in Swedish "Allt För Sverige"? People with Swedish roots, that have never been to Sweden, are brought to Sweden where they travel around the country and compete for a meet with their Swedish family. All of them get a copy of their familys history and a family tree. The frirst seasons are available on RUclips. It's a very popular show in Sweden.
As a swede myself, i never knew about this... It's so interesting to hear about!! So thank you for posting this video. I definitely wanna visit one day
20:05 perchance a conversional problem right there! or a missunderstanding somewhat, as sweden has its own metric mil, which is 10 kilometres ~6.2 imperial miles, tho ofc still not close to 1500 miles
my maternal grandmother’s maternal grandfather’s cousin Ida was born in 1883 in finland. she moved at the age of 16, in 1899, to Östersund (right in the middle of Sweden) where she worked as a maid for 3,5 years. then in 1903 she went to Göteborg, where she got on a boat. the boat stopped on the east coast of the UK, and she stayed there for about a week. she then got on a boat in Manchester and after a couple of days they arrived at Ellis Island, NY. she then took off to Superior, Wisconsin, where she met her future husband Carl (also a Finn who had lived in Sweden for a while as well). She gave birth to her first daughter in Superior and then moved to Duluth, MN, where she had the rest of her kids. now, almost all of her descendants live in Duluth or in the St. Paul-Minneapolis metro area. with the help of MyHeritage, i’ve found 5th cousins, and even a 6th cousin to my nephew! Ida’s little sister emigrated to the US in 1906 and i think she settled down in Ishpeming, Michigan and had some kids and grandkids.
It is a shame that they lost their language. You would think that in more or less isolated states, it would live on. Then again, one must not forget that it's easy to switch from speaking one Germanic tongue to another Germanic tongue. That's why immigrants from other Germanic speaking lands switched to English earlier than other groups of immigrants. Despite the sheer amount of French loanwords English has, it still has a lot of obvious similarities to other Germanic languages. These touchingpoints trigger early language shifting. But yeah, some families are able to keep the language going.
Fun fact: Town of Lindström has a sister city, it's called Tingsryd, in the southern part of Småland, bordering county of Blekinge, and is it's sister city!
It's always so interesting to learn about the smaller immigrant groups that came to the US so long ago. And sad that their culture is dying. Even the ones who grew up with Swedish and, like the gentlemen were discussing in the beginning were talking about, has become rusty and is often mixed with English as they simply no longer live somewhere where they can hear the everyday man talking it often. It's really sad that these unique cultures withered out following the great wars, and that so few new people are immigrant from such countries now.
I am mostly Swedish and Danish. Born in Montevideo, Minnesota. My Swedish side is from Providence, Lac Qui Parle County. They arrived in 1880, from a boat that took off from Kristianstad, Sweden. Many of us out here. (: we still have Scandinavian festivals and such. The language may have pretty much died out after gen x, but we do celebrate our culture. We still look for trolls as children and eat lefse. ❤
Are you sure it was from Kristianstad? I live in Hässleholm (next to Kristianstad) and i can tell you that no immegration boat would be able to leave from Kristianstad as it's not a costal city. There is a lake and a river that goes to the sea but its to smal to fit a big boat. There is a big port in the same area (Kristianstad municipality) called Åhus and i would bet that the boat left from there.
@@Death_By_Snu_Snu I live in Östra Göinge and I think she means they simply came from Kristianstad. Åhus would be the most likely place to leave from since going all the way to Göteborg on horse and cart would've taken weeks.
Den här var väldigt intressant. Jag tycker att det är roligt att jag själv är född och uppvuxen i Minnesota men har ingen svensk rötter hellre finsk, men för 11 år sen flyttade jag till Sverige. 😊
Thank God - there IS The RUclips ! Here a Song for You to listen - Somliga går med trasiga skor - and Your - Swedish Gets BETTER and Bättre - Every Time You heard IT ! Annors - Hade Bra - och Vi alla Älskar MUSIK !
their swedish is very interesting and reminds me of some distant cousins i have who has lived in england for the past 90 years. their swedish is "old" with an english tang to it, and it sounds really cool!
as an American who lives in Sweden, I wish I understood Swedish as well as I do when I hear this guy speak. WOW it's like I finally learned the language.
Jaså? Lär dig språket då. Lär dig det språk vars land du lever i. Är inte det sunt förnuft? Är inte det vad en förståndig och vettig människa skulle göra? Man blir ju fan helt paff varje jävla gång man hör på såna som ni. Att man ens har MAGE att bete sig på sånt vis. Det är ju fan helt jävla otroligt. Gläd dig åt Sverige och den svenska kulturen, lär dig språket. Ännu en lat jänkare.
Very interesting film 😊. As a Swede i could easily hear the different dialects. I speak Småländska myself but they have the "older version" like my grandparents spoke 🥰 Greetings from Sweden 💝
My Great Grandma & her Sister moved to USA back in the 1900's, but she ended up moving back to Sweden which was lucky for me, because if she didn't I wouldn't have existed today. It's impressive to see some still speaking Swedish, and even have the accents almost on point after 100 years.
Ja det finns det. USA har eget snus dom gör också. Jag tror den heter Skoal. Dom började göra snus i USA på sent 90-tal då jag vet att många Amerikaner började snusa svenskt snus då det ansågs nyttigare och enklare än att röka. Det finns säkert fler snus i USA än bara Skoal men det är den enda jag känner till.
My boyfriend is from Sweden but speaks perfect English; my best friend grew up speaking primarily Swedish out in the country; She's the one with the Swedish accent; he thinks it's funny cause he has to help her with English
Surprisingly, she is from Minnesota in America but her family lived on a farm in the country; she was homeschooling and spoke mostly Swedish all her life. My LTR is from Sweden was was surprised because his English is better than hers. She struggles with English ; she sounds Swedish and has trouble with the letter "J" If she tries to say "Job", it comes out sounding like "Yob"
@@mountcliff_valleybay I don't know. First time I met her I thought she was from Sweden. My LTR makes things easier for her by speaking Swedish with her. This is new to me too. As I said before my Swedish LTR speaks fluent English. My friend who was born in Minnesota can hardly speak it at all, so he is trying to teach her English
@@patriciamartin6756 Very fascinating indeed! Around what age is she (20s, 30s, 40s...)? The thing is, even here English fluency is expected in society, with Swedish, English and Maths being our core subjects in elementary and high school. In high school, the level of English instruction basically corresponds to that in English-speaking countries
I am a swede and I loved how the two tourguides (elderly men) pronounced "hatar" when they spoke about how his father hated it when he mixed languages. The first a in "hatar" should be pronounced more as in the english word "all" :) I giggled cause it really sounded like an american trying to pronounce "hatar", when the first a sounded more like "ay".
Oh. Jag saknar Minnesota. Jag var internationell (svensk) student på Gustavas Adolphus College på 90-talet. Fick uppleva många trevliga möten med svensk-amerikaner i Minnesota och andra delar av USA. Jag var på plats i Almelund, Lindström, Scandia och Saint Peter naturligtvis… Många svensk-amerikaner som bevarat sin svenska kom till Gustavus i Saint Peter och American Swedish Institute i Minneapolis.
Such an interesting perspective they must have, being 100% American since generations while still being able to watch Swedish television with no issues. I wonder what they think about Swedish politics and culture, given how different it is from the US.
Svenskan i Minnesota låter nästan som norska. Lite svårt att förstå men det är säkert för att jag inte är van vid dialekten, speciellt eftersom det är närmare 1800-talets svenska än det moderna språket
Både dialekten og tonefall var veldig lik på begge sidene av grensen mellom Norge og Sverige. Jeg var i Härjedalen og hadde som nordmann ikke problem å forstå dialekten. De som bodde der sa at når det kom besøk fra Stockholm måtte de snakke rikssvensk.
@@erlingdugan3448 I dagens Sverige är det bara en liten minoritet som snackar dialekt (t.ex. de du mötte i Härjedalen), och det betraktas inte längre som normalt. Normen är rikssvenska med regionalt uttal, som vi ofta felaktigt kallar "dialekt". Ungefär som att t.ex. en jaerbu högläser en tidningsartikel på bokmål.
Really fun to see as a Swede that have relatives in USA that we don't know... Only that they exist. One sister and two brothers emigrated from Skåne in southern Sweden, the sister was oldest and first to go across the pond, she took her first step at Ellis Island in 1895, then the middle brother in 1901 and last the youngest brother in 1906. The sister first lived in Minnesota, don't know where but later moved to Stamford Texas there one of her brother lived, and the youngest brother lived in Austin. Two sisters and one brother stayed in Sweden and when the middle brother died in 1943 he left a large amount of money from the oil he found in his land behind him and shared it even with all his siblings, even them in Sweden👍The youngest brothers daughter was her in Sweden to visit when i was a kid in the early 80's.
Haha! That's interesting. They even preserved the dialects. He still speaks southern Swedish, skånska, and the other guy sounds like he is from Småland or Gotland and yet another from like the Skövde area. That's crazy.
Att han till och med använder "och allt" och "liksom" som fyllningsord är sjukt häftigt. Respekt till dem som håller svenskan vid liv.
Det e omvälvande mentalt att det sitter amerikaner och pratar svenska
@@YourEx..fast deras föräldrar eller farföräldrar är ju svenskar så rent teckniskt sätt är de ju inte amerikaner
förlåt för att jag är grammatiknazist, men jag tror att det ska vara ”de” och inte ”dem” där, eftersom de är subjektet i bisatsen.
till exempel: ”de ser dem”.
”de” är subjekt och ”dem” är objekt. det är samma som med jag/mig och du/dig: ”jag ser mig”
men om du är osäker, så skriv bara ”dom”. det är aldrig fel 😉
*edit:* när jag tänker efter lite till så är det inte så självklart och min språkkänsla verkar vara motstridig och vilja använda olika former beroende på vilket pronomen jag testar det med. det är ju lite klurigare eftersom det inte är en fullständig mening, då den saknar verb (vilket inte gör den ogrammatisk, bara talspråklig)
@@-pinkbarbie-8676 i så fall är bara Native Americans amerikaner, eftersom resten är invandrare av ganska få generationer
@@asdfghyter Han kunde skrivit dom också. "dem" är lika mycket korrekt.
It's amazing that you can even hear from where in Sweden their relatives/community has come from. Their Swedish even reflects the regional accents within Sweden - simply amazing
yes, i'm from Småland, i hear different dialects from the gentlemen. for instance Gunnar Morlberg at 11:43 speaks my dialect as if he would be my neighbor.
Very clear yes!
Håller med ! O där kom Västergötland tänkte jag o mycket riktigt Falköping var trakten för härkomsten .
clarance har en duktig småländska också .. att höra svenska är ju fantastiskt men att höra så klara dialekter är helt otroligt när man tänker att det är generationer och årtionden som skiljer det åt..
+@@LusseB
Yes I agree, it's stunning that the dialect seems to prevail through the generations. Some of the people who speak "immigrant Swedish" in this video could easily be mistaken for native Swedes. Personally, I think Gunnar Morlberg sounds exactly like I'd expect someone who's lived their entire life in the Skara region of Västergötland to sound. There are just a few small things that give it away, like when he says "US" (but that could be initial). Otherwise the only thing is the pronunciation of "fantastik" (fantastic) instead of "fantastiskt," which would have been the expected pronunciation.
Fascinerande att se hur starka de dialektala skillnaderna fortfarande är, och hur duktiga många (framför allt texasborna) fortfarande är på svenska! De slår nog en hel del svenskar som försummat språket efter utlandsflytt.
Vilken underbart filmad och klippt dokumentär, en riktig pärla som man aldrig hade sett utan youtube
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Tja, har alltid tyckt att det vart lustigt med jänkare som påstår sig vara "svenskar" närom snackar sån där ful "svenska". Låter ju fan mig exakt som Eddie Meduza när han löjlar till det och låtsas vara amerikan...
I'm an American with no Swedish roots who moved to Sweden 8 years ago. As a joke, I like to speak Swedish with a Texan accent to my friends. I had no idea there was actually a group of Swedish immigrants in texas with a lil twang in their Swedish. Really interesting documentary! To all the people in the comments with Swedish roots wanting to learn Swedish, I would like to encourage you! It's one of the easiest languages for native English speakers to learn.
Have You ever listened to a Song - Somliga går med trasiga skor - on RUclips ? There IS a Master of Swedish Language ! Lite Sunny Stockholm to Everybody !
How Are People taking You " joke " ? Where in Sweden - More North You Go - More People Are NEEDED !
Try www.youtube.com/@sayitinswedish
And the irony is that Cornelis wasn't even born in Sweden. He was Dutch! And he's still one of our most beloved folk musicians
Välkommen till Sverige 🇸🇪
As a Swede i can recognise Different dialects when they speaks, fantastic att dom talar så bra Svenska efter så lång tid. Gud bevare er, Hälsningar ifrån Småland.🙏
Unfortunately, that's true generally here in America. However, my family is first generation Swedish-American and we are hoping to keep the language alive for our future generations. My great-great grandparents spoke Swedish and came from Sweden, but didn't want to teach their children. Fast-forward to today and I am now married to a Swede. We are going to teach Swedish to our children.
Tjena.
Gör det. Svenska är ett svårt men vackert språk!
thats awesome
Hej, if you want to spark an interest in you kids to talk Swedish I can highly recommend a YMCA (KFUM in Swedish) summer camp here at Brevik here in Sweden. They have a senior camp (14-16 yrs) with both Swedish and American kids with canoe hiking and a lot of activities. Both my kids has participated and later on they became leaders on the camp. In the last part of the visits the American kids can stay a couple of days with their Swedish friends if they want to and see some of how it is to live in a Swedish city.
Of course everyone speaks English and all our Swedish kids learn English from 3rd or 4th grade I think.
very very interesting. I had no idea that my mother tongue's so prevalent outside of Sweden and Finland. Although I gotta admit, it's a welcomed surprise.
Fan, man fick ju nästan en klump i halsen av den här intressanta filmen. Tack för den!
Very wholesome documentary. As a Swede it made me kind of proud. Like many other Swedes I have distant relatives in America, most of mine in the Chicago- area. I once dated a American girl who was of Swedish decent, she spoke this kind of "Immigrant Swedish" and was almost fluent. She had just moved to Sweden with her mother to study at University and to reconnect with their Swedish roots.
Man har ju liksom hört folk med samma dialekt när man växte upp i Jönköping. Kunde vara vilken gubbe som helst
3:38
This is as much of a lovely Swedish old-gentleman as it gets! An old man singing his heart out from his favorite song without a care in the world! Det är så fint och fantastiskt! Sådan skall jag också bli när jag blir 70+
Försöker för mitt liv finna låten, vet du vad den heter?
Vad fränt! Vissa av dem låter ju nästan som om de vore från Sverige.
Verkligen!
Vissa pratar bättre än andra "svenskar" i Sverige
@@fund-ed Inget konstigt dom är ju etniska svenskar
I was born and raised in Sweden and I can hear from which regions in Sweden they emigrated from! That's so cool!
As a Swede: Their swedish is really beautiful. Understand everything very well.
My great grandparents came from Kisa. They could not speak a word of English when they got here but learned it pretty quickly from the radio and reading newspapers. I wish I could’ve known them. They settled in Red Oak Iowa where my mom was raised. My mom understood a lot of Swedish when she was little, but then as she grew up and got away from Red Oak, she forgot a great deal of it. I only know a few words. I wish I could be fluent. Tak so mycket for posting this!
Hälsningar från Kisa! :)
@@GopmiSapmi Hallå där!
@@janabell3810 Hej, jag är Svensk och kvart Dansk, men jag vuxte upp i London. Tjena!
@@nordscan9043 Mycket trevligt!
@@janabell3810 Tack.
Wow. As a Swede I´m impressed with how easily I can understand them speaking a more older version of the swedish language. I´m running towards the age of 60 and swedish is so influenced by english by now. "Swinglish" as mentioned is a fact in sweden these days. I think my son can understand it though. =)
Jag har inte något problem å förstå och är född 1993 dock min farfar är född i Norge å kan relatera hur dom rullar på orden eller hur man ska säga kan liknas med hans uttalande ( han gick ut till sjös strax efter andra världskriget som 14 eller 15 åring vet inte exakt å bodde ett tag i new york tills han gick i land i Sverige där hans mamma hade flyttat efter kriget)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_emigration_to_the_United_States
This is inaccurate. "Swenglish" usually refers to english with a heavy swedish accent. Swedish is still swedish.
Lät som texas-svenskarna talade sydsmåländska med engelska låneord och lite förenklad grammatik. Riktigt häftigt
@@kl0omÄh det finns väl ingen ren definition av vad swenglish är för nåt och att dom där borta kallar det är inte fel
Amazing, I am living in trollhättan and was surprised that it was mentioned in the documentary.
I want to visit one of these "american swedish" places in the future. Hope the traditions will be kept alive :) cheers from Sweden.
Its intresting that still after 150 years you can still hear the distinct swedish dialects that the different people are speaking in
Vilken underbar människa som håller kvar det Svenska språket! Kram!
This is amazing they kept it going so long. I am Swedish American but grew up in the Chicago area. There was a lot of Swedish and the older people spoke but knowing English was a big deal to them. Its was my dads grandparents that came but my dad never learned. My Moms parents came from Sweden and my mom spoke but my grandparents learned English and spoke very well. I was able to go to Sweden a few years ago. It was wonderful. My cousins were so hospitable and welcoming. It was a trip of a life time.
Gunnar Morlberg speaks absolutely flawless Swedish. Accent intact and everything. No grammatical errors nor syntax errors, nothing, even uses colloqualisms for the accent he speaks and doesn't even anglify his pronunciation of the names of cities. He truly does sound like a man that might have emigrated to the US when he was in his 20's or so.
At 15:37 he says "mesta karlar" instead of "de flesta karlar", but yes, excellent Swedish
DUDE I KNOW, I absolutely love the way he speaks. The way elders say "di" instead of "du" is so sweet to hear.
@@mountcliff_valleybay Det är nog mer dialekt än brist i språket faktiskt.. min småländska släkt säger "Di mesta" istället för "De flesta".
Tyckte de va roligt och höra västgötska ifrån Gunnar som bor i Texas👍😊
"fröntimmera"
Framstår som en riktig Falköpingsbo där. Man skulle kunna föreställa honom i en gammal jänkare med hembakat under läppen. Ser mer ut som en amerikanifierad svensk än tvärt om.
These are my people! I’m half Swedish and half Filipino and it’s been so cool to watch this cuz I’ve been learning Swedish for over a year and didn’t realize anyone in America spoke it. My Swedish half came here in 1869 and I’ve been learning so much about them. The family farm still exists!
so cool that the farm was kept all these years :D
Holy-! Eric Carlson at 10:58! As a native swedish-speaker who grew up in the northern part of Sweden (Hälsingland province), I can barely distinguish him from someone speaks Småländska! If I met him on the street and he told me he was from Texas and spoke Swedish as a first language I would think he's talking bull! His swedish is so.. native? It sounds as if he's literally from Sweden and only moved to the USA during his 30's or so!
As someone from Småland I love his accent, the grammar could use some work tho. But at 11:44 Gunnar frikkin kills it, that lady was right about him!
Skämtar du? Han har tydlig engelsk brytning på flera håll, men visst hörs hans småländska ursprung.
Two days ago I discovered through ancestry dna that the majority of my dna is of Swedish descent first and Norweigan second. I grew up believing it to be mostly Norweigan. I was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and moved to Forest Lake, Minnesota about a year ago. Scandia is the next town over about 5 miles from my house. I regularly go fishing in Chisago city (sister city is Algutsboda) and Lindstrom (sister city is Tingsryd) just northeast of me. Swedish presence is huge in all three of those towns. The coincidence in all of this is crazy to me! I am proud to be an American of Scandinavian lineage. 🇸🇪🇳🇴🇺🇸
Did a DNA test myself earlier this year and saw that I have distant relatives in Minnesota somewhere.
Thanks for sharing your story 😊
You should visit Sweden sometime! The country of your ancestors :)
How many percent would you guys have? What would be the full mix lets say. Is it german aswell?
My Scandinavian percentage says 30 percent Swedish
29 percent Norweigan. I found that my great, great, great grandfather’s name was Andrew Collum and he moved to Lake City, Minnesota from Sweden. My wife and I are visiting Norway and Sweden in October and we couldnt be more excited.
God jul och gott nytt år Mvh Stefan i Sweden 👍❤️
God Jul Stefan, hälsningar från Västkusten!
Absolutely fascinating to see how a language has both been so preserved and changed in the different environment. Best of luck to the swedish speaking americans. Lycka till!
I love that they use old or rural verisons of swedish like the word "Fruntimmer" for women, its not really used anymore but i find it fun that on the other side of the atlantic that word still lives on
Fruntimmer! används fortfarande ganska oftai i Sverige!. Kram från södra Sverige
@@thomassjonnebring Ja absolut men inte lika ofta som längre bak i tiden, det var i alla fall det jag menade när jag skrev denna kommentar
Det är bara de äldre svenskarna som säger fruntimmer numera. 🙂
Amazing. Fun to hear old Swedish like that and even dialects. They even look Swedish. If it was't for the climate it could be Sweden.
The place looks just like Sweden in the summer too, lol.
Väldigt mysig video.
jag skulle kunna tänka mig att flytta dit , för att hålla allt dom pratar om i liv, historia är viktigt
Väldigt intressant dokumentär! Skulle vilja besöka samhällen som dessa!
Underbart att se! Nästan så man vill flytta dit för att hålla språket vid liv ☺️
It’s so interesting, in some phrases they have a very clear american accent, and in others, it sounds completely swedish.
The Swedish folk music is fantastic. Hälsningar från Sweden
I would love to visit some of these Swedish American towns before it's completely gone.
I live in Falköping. Nice to see that the world are quite small after all. His father where from Vartofta right outside Falköping where I live.
That's amazing.
Helt underbar dokumentär, tackar
The man in the Texas hat not only speaks perfect swedish he also speaks the dialect of his father perfect, I speak the same dialect and its very nice to hear
Bro speaks better Swedish than me...
Vilken dialekt är det? Inget jag känner igen men mycket behaglig att lyssna på
Västgötska
tackar@@icaros1574
I live in sweden and i find it really interesting about the swedes the immigrated to america personally my ancestors never had any chance to make it to america during some of the worst times in sweden since my great grandfather was a homeless man who used to walk around near the west coast for search of jobs until he finally got married and built a farm and family in 1917
Gunnar ä frå schlätta, dä hörs ju
Quite odd that the Swedish-American population did not erupt in bigger numbers despite immigrants from Sweden arriving here in similar numbers than some other European groups. For example, say the Irish (2 million arrived in a few years vs 1.3 million Swedes). 35 million Americans have Irish heritage while only 3 million Americans have Swedish heritage. Even 5.5 million Italians came and grew. It's definitely strange.
Amazing video, as a swede this was a really interesting watch
I think it is easier to keep the language alive today with the use of the internet. It's really just a matter of one person setting it up a chat server for the various communities and spread the word.
@Holo Holopainen beautiful song :) reminds me of my time in sweden
my swedish ancestors settled in scandia in 1880s and the family farmhouse is still in the family
Gunnar speaks absolutely perfect swedish!
Åker ofta till Las Vegas men nästa gång stannar jag till i Lindström och bidrar med lite svensk Marabou choklad =) Så häftigt med dessa svenska ställen. Man blir ju konstigt nog stolt över att vara svensk =) Go USA/SWE !
Hahahaah gör så ! . Har flyttat hitt från Sverige och det e jätte kul och se folk med svensk bakgrund. De blir chockad speciellt när man ser en svart -svensk från Sverige men svenskar är alltid snälla oavsett om de är amerikaner eller svenskar.
@@mohaosman1473 Vi Svenskar har varit för snälla, det har utnyttjats av olika grupper som bränner Sverige från grunden.
@@mohaosman1473 Dom har ju en helt annan ras syn där. Eller kanske är fel att säga på det sättet, men dom bryr sig lite mer i USA än vad vi gör i Sverige. Men det är skönt att höra att dom är trevliga där borta!
Mycket intressant video ❤ Tack för den.
As a Swede I am so fascinated with this. I wouldn't mind visiting a few of these places.
Sadly, a few of the ones interviewed in this documentary has since passed away 😢
Jaha, någon med hemlängtan? Som Kristina i Utvandrarna. Fast Liv Ullman är ju Norsk. 5:10 där satt svenskan som en smäck, Nils Hasselmo.
Love this! As a Swede with both Swedish and English as mothertounge this was a new encounter... never heard of this type of Swedish. Jätteroligt att höra och se... Hoppas verkligen att det Svenska språket och kulturen fortsätter att bevaras. God bless America, and God bless Sweden!
Interesting history they share. Well made video. Thanks for sharing.
Love the video, but this is weird. I'm Swedish to the bone.. I was born and raised in Sweden and have lived here all my life.. (more than half a century) and STILL I find myself reading the subtitles! WTH... ;)
Jag har aldrig nytt detta förrän nu. Tack för att du delar detta! 😁🥰
Den största frågan återstår, kollar dom på Mello?
It is funny when they talk about distance. At one point (19:30) the amerian swede means 1500 miles but he says 1500 mil. A swedish mil is actually 10km so 40 mil is not 40 miles. I can imagine they misunderstood each other there. The regular swede must have thought they were talking about 15000km and the american swede must have thought the regular swede talked about 40 miles 😂
Amazing to watch/Fantastiskt att titta på.
Amazing watching this alla random. I live a couple of KM from Vartofta Falköping, and i heard instantly that Gunnars parents was from around here.
Jag har svendska rötter i Värmland, och jag vill gärna till Sverige, det finns pä min bucket list.
Have you heard about the Tv-show "The Great Swedish Adventure" or in Swedish "Allt För Sverige"? People with Swedish roots, that have never been to Sweden, are brought to Sweden where they travel around the country and compete for a meet with their Swedish family. All of them get a copy of their familys history and a family tree. The frirst seasons are available on RUclips. It's a very popular show in Sweden.
@@nocturne7371 no sorry, I haven't i wonder if it is around anywhere to watch.
This was such a well made and interesting documentary! Wow! 👏 Tommy Hellström, well done!
As a swede myself, i never knew about this... It's so interesting to hear about!! So thank you for posting this video. I definitely wanna visit one day
vem gjorde den här dokumentären? var hittade du den?
20:05 perchance a conversional problem right there! or a missunderstanding somewhat, as sweden has its own metric mil, which is 10 kilometres ~6.2 imperial miles, tho ofc still not close to 1500 miles
my maternal grandmother’s maternal grandfather’s cousin Ida was born in 1883 in finland. she moved at the age of 16, in 1899, to Östersund (right in the middle of Sweden) where she worked as a maid for 3,5 years. then in 1903 she went to Göteborg, where she got on a boat. the boat stopped on the east coast of the UK, and she stayed there for about a week. she then got on a boat in Manchester and after a couple of days they arrived at Ellis Island, NY. she then took off to Superior, Wisconsin, where she met her future husband Carl (also a Finn who had lived in Sweden for a while as well). She gave birth to her first daughter in Superior and then moved to Duluth, MN, where she had the rest of her kids. now, almost all of her descendants live in Duluth or in the St. Paul-Minneapolis metro area. with the help of MyHeritage, i’ve found 5th cousins, and even a 6th cousin to my nephew! Ida’s little sister emigrated to the US in 1906 and i think she settled down in Ishpeming, Michigan and had some kids and grandkids.
Sitting right now reading this in Östersund
So cool!! The dialects spoken are spot on!
Helt otroligt att det har blivit bevarat så länge! Man kan också höra att vissa låter lite som sydsvenska men andra låter lite som norrländska.
12:20 He even got a dialect from a place he never been at. Very impressive.
17:35 "Två fruntimmer och en karl" hahaha
Hej! Halsningar fran Dublin, Irland.
It is a shame that they lost their language. You would think that in more or less isolated states, it would live on. Then again, one must not forget that it's easy to switch from speaking one Germanic tongue to another Germanic tongue. That's why immigrants from other Germanic speaking lands switched to English earlier than other groups of immigrants. Despite the sheer amount of French loanwords English has, it still has a lot of obvious similarities to other Germanic languages. These touchingpoints trigger early language shifting. But yeah, some families are able to keep the language going.
Fun fact: Town of Lindström has a sister city, it's called Tingsryd, in the southern part of Småland, bordering county of Blekinge, and is it's sister city!
It's always so interesting to learn about the smaller immigrant groups that came to the US so long ago. And sad that their culture is dying. Even the ones who grew up with Swedish and, like the gentlemen were discussing in the beginning were talking about, has become rusty and is often mixed with English as they simply no longer live somewhere where they can hear the everyday man talking it often. It's really sad that these unique cultures withered out following the great wars, and that so few new people are immigrant from such countries now.
I am mostly Swedish and Danish. Born in Montevideo, Minnesota. My Swedish side is from Providence, Lac Qui Parle County. They arrived in 1880, from a boat that took off from Kristianstad, Sweden.
Many of us out here. (: we still have Scandinavian festivals and such. The language may have pretty much died out after gen x, but we do celebrate our culture. We still look for trolls as children and eat lefse. ❤
Think you could pick up Swedish pretty easy if you want to, it is pretty close related to English 👍🏻🙂🇺🇸🇸🇪
Are you sure it was from Kristianstad? I live in Hässleholm (next to Kristianstad) and i can tell you that no immegration boat would be able to leave from Kristianstad as it's not a costal city. There is a lake and a river that goes to the sea but its to smal to fit a big boat. There is a big port in the same area (Kristianstad municipality) called Åhus and i would bet that the boat left from there.
lefse is not from sweden nor denmark.
@@Death_By_Snu_Snu I live in Östra Göinge and I think she means they simply came from Kristianstad. Åhus would be the most likely place to leave from since going all the way to Göteborg on horse and cart would've taken weeks.
That's cool. Lefse is norwegian though 😂 I think it's a flatbread. I never had it. But we're pretty much the same people Norwegians and Swedes, anyway
Den här var väldigt intressant. Jag tycker att det är roligt att jag själv är född och uppvuxen i Minnesota men har ingen svensk rötter hellre finsk, men för 11 år sen flyttade jag till Sverige. 😊
Många finländare har svenska rötter, på ett eller annat sätt! Och tvärtom.
'Minnesota' = "memory-sooting" o_o
How cool the swedish language is still spoken in the states. Really interesting as a swedish person myself to hear 😊
Man vill ju åka dit och bjuda på svensk fika 😄
@@YourEx.. eller hur 😁
Lagom mängd med kanelbullar på det@@YourEx..
This is so sad. Swedish being spoken in the US is not very common anymore. Tak sö mycket for this!
Tack så mycket själv!
Tack själv
Tack så mycket. Yes, you are at it. =)
Thank God - there IS The RUclips ! Here a Song for You to listen - Somliga går med trasiga skor - and Your - Swedish Gets BETTER and Bättre - Every Time You heard IT ! Annors - Hade Bra - och Vi alla Älskar MUSIK !
They even speak with distinct accents, it's so cool to hear as a Swede
Jättebra dokumentär! Älskart :)
their swedish is very interesting and reminds me of some distant cousins i have who has lived in england for the past 90 years. their swedish is "old" with an english tang to it, and it sounds really cool!
as an American who lives in Sweden, I wish I understood Swedish as well as I do when I hear this guy speak. WOW it's like I finally learned the language.
Jaså? Lär dig språket då. Lär dig det språk vars land du lever i. Är inte det sunt förnuft? Är inte det vad en förståndig och vettig människa skulle göra?
Man blir ju fan helt paff varje jävla gång man hör på såna som ni. Att man ens har MAGE att bete sig på sånt vis.
Det är ju fan helt jävla otroligt. Gläd dig åt Sverige och den svenska kulturen, lär dig språket. Ännu en lat jänkare.
Mannen med Texas kepsen pratar så fantastiskt bra Svenska att jag tappade hakan
As a Swede this is interesting to watch, It would be interesting to meet these people.
Im third generation swede,74 ar gammal 😊. Been doing duo lingo app for almost 400 days and still cant speak talar svenska. Would love to be able to .
Glöm inte att använda å när du ska skriv år , kompis 👌🏽😎
Jisses vilken bra svenska. Man kan till och med höra dialkekt
Very interesting film 😊. As a Swede i could easily hear the different dialects. I speak Småländska myself but they have the "older version" like my grandparents spoke 🥰 Greetings from Sweden 💝
My Great Grandma & her Sister moved to USA back in the 1900's, but she ended up moving back to Sweden which was lucky for me, because if she didn't I wouldn't have existed today. It's impressive to see some still speaking Swedish, and even have the accents almost on point after 100 years.
19:54
var det där en snus? finns de utanför norden?
Sista gången jag var i Minnesota för ungefär fem år sen hade de Marlboro snus på macken. Det heter även snus där borta.
Ja det finns det. USA har eget snus dom gör också. Jag tror den heter Skoal. Dom började göra snus i USA på sent 90-tal då jag vet att många Amerikaner började snusa svenskt snus då det ansågs nyttigare och enklare än att röka. Det finns säkert fler snus i USA än bara Skoal men det är den enda jag känner till.
@@kingwacky184 det var ju kul å veta att det är mindre niché än jag trodde
Fan, ska man flytta dit som guide/expert kanske ;>>
My boyfriend is from Sweden but speaks perfect English; my best friend grew up speaking primarily Swedish out in the country; She's the one with the Swedish accent; he thinks it's funny cause he has to help her with English
So your best friend actually struggles with English to some degree? Curious, around what age is she, and where approximately is she from?
Surprisingly, she is from Minnesota in America but her family lived on a farm in the country; she was homeschooling and spoke mostly Swedish all her life. My LTR is from Sweden was was surprised because his English is better than hers. She struggles with English ; she sounds Swedish and has trouble with the letter "J" If she tries to say "Job", it comes out sounding like "Yob"
@@patriciamartin6756 Ah, homeschooled and isolated? That explains it. Wonder what her Swedish is like (accent etc.)
@@mountcliff_valleybay I don't know. First time I met her I thought she was from Sweden. My LTR makes things easier for her by speaking Swedish with her. This is new to me too. As I said before my Swedish LTR speaks fluent English. My friend who was born in Minnesota can hardly speak it at all, so he is trying to teach her English
@@patriciamartin6756 Very fascinating indeed! Around what age is she (20s, 30s, 40s...)?
The thing is, even here English fluency is expected in society, with Swedish, English and Maths being our core subjects in elementary and high school. In high school, the level of English instruction basically corresponds to that in English-speaking countries
2:26 I love how he was looking around like "Where did all the people go?"
I am a swede and I loved how the two tourguides (elderly men) pronounced "hatar" when they spoke about how his father hated it when he mixed languages. The first a in "hatar" should be pronounced more as in the english word "all" :) I giggled cause it really sounded like an american trying to pronounce "hatar", when the first a sounded more like "ay".
Yeah, in American English "hawtar" would be the closest approximation
How odd, Gunnar Morlberg's penpal Lars is my neighbor...
Oh. Jag saknar Minnesota. Jag var internationell (svensk) student på Gustavas Adolphus College på 90-talet. Fick uppleva många trevliga möten med svensk-amerikaner i Minnesota och andra delar av USA. Jag var på plats i Almelund, Lindström, Scandia och Saint Peter naturligtvis… Många svensk-amerikaner som bevarat sin svenska kom till Gustavus i Saint Peter och American Swedish Institute i Minneapolis.
Do You still contact with Those People ?
@@holoholopainen1627 Yep… Facebook helps me to maintain my connections and friends from my time in Minnesota..,
Häftigt!
'Minnesota' = "memory-sooting" o.o
Such an interesting perspective they must have, being 100% American since generations while still being able to watch Swedish television with no issues. I wonder what they think about Swedish politics and culture, given how different it is from the US.
19:50 For context, a scandinavian mile (mil) is 10 km.
Svenskan i Minnesota låter nästan som norska. Lite svårt att förstå men det är säkert för att jag inte är van vid dialekten, speciellt eftersom det är närmare 1800-talets svenska än det moderna språket
Minnesota har även en hel del norskamerikaner, så möjligt att språkkontakt spelat in.
Både dialekten og tonefall var veldig lik på begge sidene av grensen mellom Norge og Sverige. Jeg var i Härjedalen og hadde som nordmann ikke problem å forstå dialekten. De som bodde der sa at når det kom besøk fra Stockholm måtte de snakke rikssvensk.
@@erlingdugan3448 I dagens Sverige är det bara en liten minoritet som snackar dialekt (t.ex. de du mötte i Härjedalen), och det betraktas inte längre som normalt. Normen är rikssvenska med regionalt uttal, som vi ofta felaktigt kallar "dialekt". Ungefär som att t.ex. en jaerbu högläser en tidningsartikel på bokmål.
They use "svensk" and "må" which is definitely norwegian.
Väldigt intressant. Dom till och med pratar svenska med svenska dialekter.
Really fun to see as a Swede that have relatives in USA that we don't know... Only that they exist. One sister and two brothers emigrated from Skåne in southern Sweden, the sister was oldest and first to go across the pond, she took her first step at Ellis Island in 1895, then the middle brother in 1901 and last the youngest brother in 1906. The sister first lived in Minnesota, don't know where but later moved to Stamford Texas there one of her brother lived, and the youngest brother lived in Austin. Two sisters and one brother stayed in Sweden and when the middle brother died in 1943 he left a large amount of money from the oil he found in his land behind him and shared it even with all his siblings, even them in Sweden👍The youngest brothers daughter was her in Sweden to visit when i was a kid in the early 80's.
Haha! That's interesting. They even preserved the dialects. He still speaks southern Swedish, skånska, and the other guy sounds like he is from Småland or Gotland and yet another from like the Skövde area. That's crazy.
Den första talar inte skånska utan småländska med viss engelsk brytning
@@mountcliff_valleybay Sure sure
If I were to go to America, this would definitely be a place I'd be curious about
Fantastiskt hur bra ni pratar svenskar
cool doc, its almost sureal as a swedish person.