SWEDISH VS ICELANDIC - Language Challenge
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- A guy from Iceland tries to speak Swedish while I try to speak Icelandic in a language challenge.
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Aaw, finally! Such a beautiful language. I love how icelanders embrace and glory their r sound.
Where are you from?
iuriSalvador I'm from Russia. we love r's too :)
Mona Sabbat Spaciba :)
Elsa Þórsdóttir oh, you should keep it that way, it's beautiful *-*
Elsa Þórsdóttir Rrrrrrussia :D
Wow, I thought these languages were closer
Maicon Oliveira to me, Icelandic is like a distant version of tricky Norwegian.
+TheSwedishLad you are my favourite youtuber 😊
+Nikøs K (from greece)
Ikr I thought it would be a lot similar
And Norwegian
Wow! Those girls singing Barbie Girl directly from the 90s!! 😂😂😂😂😂
VirginColada everything is svout the 90's right now.
TheSwedishLad Really?!? We didn't have enough about the 90s 20 years ago? 😂
Apparently not :)
TheSwedishLad ahahhaha I agree with you. Please keep doing these videos I love them soooo much!
As long as I find great people to film with, they will keep on coming. I did two videos the other day, one in Portuguese and one in Swiss-German. Yay!
Icelandic is the closest language to old norse in these old times.
Even today, Icelandic/faroerse, then Norwegian
Technically, the closest languages to Old Norse are Greenlandic Norse and East Norse, tho Icelandic and Faroese are also super close to Old Norse, and also, Old Icelandic and Middle Icelandic and Old Faroese and Middle Faroese and Old Norwegian - these are all very closely related, as I am studying them all, so I can see that most words are cognates!
@@FrozenMermaid666For what reason, science?
Skånish vs icelandic
This was AWESOME! Icelandic is so different from the peninsula Scandinavian languages.
Its contenental and insular
Wyrmbana Finnish isn't even Indo-European
theadam22 isnt both icelandic and dutch germanic?
ein Kekman Why yes they are same goes for the other Norse languages (Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Faroese).
I'm Icelandic. These languages (at least in written language) aren't that different... although, we are closer to Norway and MUCH closer the Faroe Islands, in spoken language. It's the spoken Icelandic language that is much more difficult.
Now Faroese language
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEEEEES
Ja
Snälla!
no it´s a shit version of Icelandic
It’s super fascinating to see how different languages from the same language family can sound... my native language is german and it sounds nothing even near icelandic.
Yessssss, two of my favorite languages :D Tack Martin!!
jageens you're welcome. Loved filming this video. Girl choirs and volcanoes. Ha ha
I love both peoples. Cheers
Nice I've been waiting for this. I like how the icelandic word for volcano translates as firemountain, at least i think it does based off my knowledge of Norwegian
yes, you are right, eldfjall directly translares to firemountain
It does. Works the same in Finnish (tulivuori, tuli=fire, vuori=mountain) - even though we don't have any of them.
It would be "ildfjell" in Norwegian. Edit: Not in every dialect, but most of them.
And "ildfjeld" in danish, we should be using that word instead of volcano :-)
@@steensangill7772 Det er sant. nesten det samme som norsk, ildfjell.
I love how Iceland sounds!
I've been learning Icelandic recently; what an amazing challenge of a language, especially the phonology. I'm having such a great time getting my head around all the sounds and pronunciations.
I am right now trying to learn as much Icelandic as I can in a week. Such a difficult (and at times easy if you're a Swede) language.
Icelandic is one of the prettiest languages I’ve ever seen, like Norse / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic etc, and all other Germanic languages are also gorgeous, so I am learning them all, and Icelandic is actually a category 2 language, as is Norse and all other ancient Germanic languages, so it’s very easy to learn, especially for speakers of other Germanic languages, Germanic languages being the easiest to learn / read / type etc in general, with very organized aspect and super pretty words that require less repetitions to become part of the permanent memory, as one naturally tends to memorize / remember the prettier and more distinctive words faster - I am close to intermediate level in Norse and in Icelandic, advanced level in Dutch, intermediate level in German and Swedish, close to advanced level in Norwegian, writer level in English, beginner level in Faroese / Danish / Gothic etc and the other Germanic languages, and I highly recommend learning Norse / Dutch / Norwegian / Icelandic / Gothic etc, which are as pretty / refined / poetic as English, definitely too pretty not to know, and the other Germanic languages as well, as they are all gorgeous!
By the way, the words einn / ein / eitt should be used in Icelandic and Norse as an indefinite article as well, because it doesn’t really sound right saying that Iceland is very cool country, instead of saying Icelandic is a very cool country, and in most situations an article needs to be used to sound more flowy, like the words en / ei / et are used in Norwegian, which mean both the indefinite article a / an and the number one!
I’m Icelandic but moved to America for most of my late childhood. I speak English, Icelandic, and my girlfriend is Swedish so a lot of Swedish, but I’m not fluent. Maybe it was since I’m from Iceland, but I found learning Swedish was easier than English
Í hvaða fylki flutturu til?
I love these challenges and I love Icelandic - perfect video! Also: I'm kind of living in hope you'll *do* Sami (yes, there are many Sami languages and very few native speakers of any of them so ..maybe Northern Sami?) and I'm also in the Maltese "lobby". I just made that up I just think someone requested it on a comment here or in the Svenska/Português "The Birds" challenge video. Kudos to you (if that is a rude word in any language you know please do let me know)!
It was a lot of fun watching you guys speaking three different languages ! Takk ! :)Greetings from Kobe, Japan.
Martin you did what i wanted.
me also!
i love Sweden I know ;)
TheSwedishLad Do you need someone for Faroese maybe? :)
Oh yes!!! If you're in Stockholm, send me a message on my facebook page. That would be gold!!
I found really funny haha, even that these two languages are kinda hard for me to reproduce (perhaps because I speak a Latin language), I really like Martin's excitement xD
lol for me is not hard cause i'm asian...
It’s only because yé don’t know the words and their pronunciations and the pronunciation rules etc yet, but they are very easy to pronounce, especially Icelandic has one of the easiest pronunciations ever, just like English / Dutch / Norwegian etc, and typical Swedish pronunciation is a bit harder, unless one just uses a normal intonation and a SH instead of the other sound that most use when saying Swedish words with skj letter combinations, so the typical Swedish intonation would be the only type of Germanic pronunciation that a bit trickier and harder to get right, but in general, Germanic languages are super easy to learn / read / type / pronounce / memorize etc with very modern and very organized aspect and very modern and soft pronunciation, and are the easiest languages ever, tho one will find all foreign languages hard as a beginner because one doesn’t know yet how the language works and doesn’t know the words well and doesn’t know what sounds the different letters represent etc, so most of the time when ppl feel that a language is hard it’s subjective, as Germanic languages are all category 1 and category 2 languages, so they aren’t objectively hard, unlike Chinese / Arabic / Japanese / Thai / Vietnamese etc which are objectively hard category 10 / category 9 / category 8 languages - in fact, Germanic languages come from Latin, so Germanic languages and Latin languages are very similar in many ways, so it’s very easy for those whose first language is a Germanic language to learn Latin languages, and it’s also easy for ppl whose first language is a Latin language to learn Germanic languages, because they have so much in common, including tons of cognates and mostly similar sounds and very similar grammar, which is definitely an advantage for a learner that knows a Germanic or Latin language, and Celtic languages are also very close to both Latin and Germanic languages, even tho they look very different at first sight!
These are always so much fun to watch!
:) Son of Anton! Well done man.
I've heard Icelandic is super difficult to learn! I love your videos and hope to visit that whole region one day....
It depends probably on what you're first language is
In truth, Icelandic and Norse are very easy category 2 languages, so it isn’t hard to learn them, but the reason why ppl think Icelandic is hard is, because Icelandic uses these different letters ð and þ which look very scary and very different, which give Icelandic a very different and unique aspect that others aren’t used to, so it can look very scary to a new learner at first sight, and it kinda makes sense, because Icelandic comes from Norse, and Norse and other Germanic languages were created / modified by dudes that had that raider spirit, so these languages reflect that in their very strong / battle-like aspect, one can definitely tell that they are languages made and spoken by warriors and raiders, so they look very ‘thrætening’ and very dominant and very unique, so I can see why a new learner would think Icelandic has to be one of the hardest languages ever, but when it comes to language difficulty level, one should know that all Germanic languages are actually super easy to learn / read / type / pronounce / memorize etc with very modern and very organized aspect and very modern and soft pronunciation, and are the easiest languages ever! It’s also the fact that one will find all foreign languages hard as a beginner, anyway, because one doesn’t know yet how the new language works and doesn’t know the words well and doesn’t know what sounds the different letters represent etc, so most of the time when ppl feel that a language is hard it’s subjective, as Germanic languages are all category 1 and category 2 languages, so they aren’t objectively hard, unlike Chinese / Arabic / Japanese / Thai / Vietnamese etc which are objectively hard category 10 / category 9 / category 8 languages! Germanic languages and the 6 modern Celtic languages and Latin languages and Hungarian and Slovene and Finnish / Latvian / Estonian are the easiest languages, and they include category 1 and category 2 and category 3 languages, which are quite easy to learn and definitely the easiest to read, however languages that are category 4 / category 5 + are extremely hard to read and learn and pronounce, and category 6 to category 10 languages are very impossible with impossible scripts and impossible characters and very complicated tonal pronunciation or clicks etc, so I don’t think anyone could ever be truly fluent and writer level etc in one of those, not even natives, for example, no one can learn all the characters used in Chinese, and there is always the risk of using a different tone without realizing and saying a completely different thing, however, the easy languages that aren’t harder than a category 3 language are very easy to learn to fluency, especially when compared to the others, and one can even get to a writer level in those languages in less than a decade, plus they can easily be used, and even the category 3 languages like Irish and Scottish Gaelic can be easy to read to someone that has already reached fluency and knows the words well - Irish & Scottish Gaelic are the hardest languages I am learning, which are category 3 languages, and they are definitely harder to spell / read than the other languages I’m learning, with lots of vowel clusters and accents, Icelandic being quite easy to spell / read, especially when compared to them, altho Icelandic isn’t as easy to spell as a category 1 language like English / Dutch / Norwegian etc, as it has many words with accents, tho not as many as Irish and Scottish Gaelic, so these classifications are very accurate, especially when considering the spelling of the words and the type of letters that they use, tho the pronunciation is very easy in all these languages, so they all have like a category 1 language pronunciation, except for the typical Swedish pronunciation and the typical French pronunciation which would be more like a category 2 language pronunciation, as they are slightly less easy to pronounce than the others due to the different intonations used in Swedish and the many nasals used in French!
Definitely one of my favorites so far!
Brittany Martin same here.
These two have to be my favorite Norse languages. Cheers from Mexico, and I wish I someday learn those two!
This was a great video! 👍🏻
Fashion Confession sleays fun to incorporate volcanoes, though mostly not applicable.
Swedish vs Hindi! We need it!
Well guys, you are linguistic cousins, so you can repeat each others sentence almost without problem
Lena Rosic I did better that I thought I would.
Its the same for spanish and italian person to repeat the things they say.
Swedish-Icelandic is not like Spanish-Italian, more like Spanish-French.
0:29 that’s true, normally fathers name. I am Ólafur Jónsson, son Jón
Why can't we Scandivians have a own language that we speak to each others, so all can understand
Because History. But if you want to be technical, Norway should speak Swedish and be apart of Sweden, and Denmark is more complicated but at a time also very much Sweden and Swedish. As well as Estonia and parts of Finland spoke Swedish. But Iceland was discovered by Norwegian Vikings some oh which my have been Danish but thats another story. Greenland is Danish so like there that. Oh my gosh its annoying your right. If I were to decide it would be Icelandic because that is the old way and closer to Swedish. Norwegian is newer so its less good. And Danish is just German mixed with some Swedish words. So I hope I helped but i probably just made you more confused.
Xerathon there was a language named old Norse the language the Vikings spoke
Icelandic is more related to old Norse If you gave an Icelandic person a script of old Norse they can understand it
But over time Danes and Swedes and Norwegians developed their own languages from the original language old Norse or “ donsk tunga”
Yeah it's called Old Norse.
Someone should invent a New Norse language that combines all of Scandinavia languages
@@SnowElf_96 Or we could just compromise by using eastern Norwegian which is basically "Swedish with a Danish spelling".
@@SnowElf_96 Swedish was much more ingrained in Finland than in Estonia though. Finland was part of Sweden for almost 700 years, and Swedish was the only official language here until 1863. and on top of that, Old Middle German was the trade language. What I think would be the best choice would be a grammatically simple language that prioritises words that are found in all the Northern Germanic languages. Doesn't matter if it's old fashioned, like in Swedish the word "Neighbour" used to be "Nabor", and it has an equivalent in Finnish too: "Naapuri"
Þessi hnífur *á* að vera þungur
Bjarni Valur LOL, saell gestur!
'Iceland' is 'Island' but 'island' is 'eyja' hahaha.
both have viking roots but I guess it is easier to pronounce for the Icelandic guy ;)
Icelandic has Viking roots. Swedish doesn't. Swedish descended from non Viking proto Norse speakers
a normal guy Yeah of course I’m supposed to trust you over all the academic research, books, runes, and articles that prove that Sweden was inhabited by vikings.
I love it that volcano is fire mountain.
Ahah you did a pretty good job on the editing of that one!!!
Enogimka it was a fun one to play around with (and a one-take).
TheSwedishLad speaking of the last part of the video, that part with the meteor! XD
Danke dir
I love all your vlogs
1:37
You can say ,, ég tala FLJÓTANDI íslensku." Its just more common to say reipreynandi.
I figured it would be a lot easier for you since you also speak a Norse language
The languages are similar enough that I can understand icelandic after listening and attuning my ears for a few minutes. The swedish spoken here is southern, I'd say scanian and I'd suspect that makes it more dissimilar to icelandic. A huge number of words are shared between the two languages though they sound different because of the intonation and pronounciation of certain letters. But yeah, fellow swedes and probably norwegians, pick out a nice icelandic documentary or movie and turn of the subtitles, you'll find that you understand most of it after a short while, even after thousands of years of separation. It's a beautiful language. :)
Icelandic actually sounds more like the dialects of Swedish spoken in Finland, where there're old Swedish-speaking communities on the coast and in the archipelago. What with a more monotone intonation and main stress mostly on the first syllable etc. Isolation sometimes means that more archaic forms tend to survive. But yeah, I've only learned Swedish at school, and I can understand surprisingly much Icelandic. I think the main catch is to learn the proper pronunciation - I'm trying to understand the difference between i and í, somebody told me that i is like the i in Finnish and í is more forward, but to me it sounds like the í is exactly the same as the i in Finnish and i is pronounced more in the back of the mouth and slightly more open...
Comparing Icelandic with Swedish is like Comparing Latin to modern day Spanish, or maybe Italian. The Swedish word for "cool" (not hot) is 'sval' and in Icelandic it is 'svöl'. If Swedes use the old synonyms they can communicate with Icelanders more easily, like use the word 'fara' (fare, drive, travel) instead of 'åka' and 'fager' (faire, beautiful) instead of 'vacker' etc. Some type of videos like these seem to want to show differences instead of similarities.
He's a happy chap!
Gizmo Goose he sure is!!
really the kind of person you want to hang around with and have a beer together..
this guy is really of the same mind with me. I like languages and making language challenges with foreign people too.
WHY ISNT "VOLCANO" ELDFJÄLL IN SWEDISH TOO! So much more badass!
I speak both languages fluently and I think it would have been easier for Egill if you didn't have a dialect XD bra video förresten. Kul att se att någon bryr sig om vårt lilla språk :)
Just a wee correction to the English there. We don't ever say a volcano is 'having an eruption'. It sounds a bit like it's having an erection. We just say a volcano is erupting.
Áfram Ísland! 😄
Little bit wrong to learn someone else Swedish when youself have an a little bit of skånska in the accent
Many dialect speakers can speak almost without dialect if the situation requires it - I don't know if SwedishLad can do that. Maybe he doesn't want to.
They both are so awesome, at it!
Watch out, the volcano is having an eruption! This is so ambiguous... xD
Both languages are beautiful
OMFG, the Icelandic guy is SOOOOOOOOOO dang cute!
I could tell from the thumbnail he was Icelandic...
Takk fyrir þetta. Það er en svöl video.
SuperMagnetizer you're welcome.
Þetta var svalt myndband* :)
Are u gonna make videos about other languages too? Like German, Italian, Turkish, Persian maybe Chinese?
One man is speaking Icelandic quite close to how the Vikings spoke (Old Norse) and the other guy is speaking a language from Old Norse that has developed a lot over the centuries (Swedish). Nice video though.
If you translate "Iceland is a very cool Island" like this in Swedish: "Island är en mycket sval ö" it is much closer to icelandic. So it is also very much a question of which words you use and how you interpret the english sentence.
If you want to hear singing in Icelandic, have a listen to Vikings Of Thule theme song and Fortíðin on my SoundCloud Channel
soundcloud.com/egill-antonsson/vikings-of-thule-theme-song-remastered
Egill Antonsson wow, very cool!!
Egill Antonsson I'm gonna go play Skyrim for no reason at all now :D it's wonderful!
I'm Filipino and i love both of these languages
In the past there were more similar words, in the 1600s there were a lot of words from Icelandic in Swedish and a lot of words from Danish in Icelandic that exist still in Swedish, and in medieval times Swedish and Icelandic had the same grammar.
Me: Thinking about learning icelandic...
*watches Video*
Me: fuck my life
Sounds like Icelandic has been isolated on an island for 1000 years, oh wait
This was the most interesting one
And the language.
I thought they would be closer. Maybe Icelandic vs Danish
Monsieur Africain, Danish arn’t closer to Icelandic either nor is Norwegian. We Scandinavians only understand a word here and there, Norwegian who speaks some of the western dialects, may understand two words here and there.
Good stuff; thanks.
Reiprennandi...aldrei heyrt þetta orð áður 😂
OK... Hva sier du, da? Jeg har hørt mange islendinger som sier "reiprennandi" eller noe sånn :D
Swedish as a lot of words taken from other languages.
that was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I saw the Tunnelbana in the background, Were you at Islandstorget?
John Crane ha ha, I wish. No this was between Gullmarsplan and Globen.
Ahahahahaha that was so much fun!
I love Scandinavia and its languages, they are quite interesting to listen.
I wish you Vikings could stay for longer in Holmgarðr and eventually form my homeland Garðaríki. Pity it didn't happen though.
I think at least some Vikings did stay for so long that over time they simply assimilated into the Slavic majority along with their language and most of their cultural customs. Thank you for making me look up uroboros, I was not familiar with the concept until now.
More Icelandic please
Cool language this is
i always thought Icelandic would be more different from the other Nordic languages but i understood much more than i expected. im norwegian and its kinda intresting to hear how we also spoke here in Norway before the union with Denmark
Elsa Þórsdóttir Æ er fra nord Norge. Hvor på Island er du i fra
Elsa Þórsdóttir wow. Så du er en skikkelig verdensborger. Jeg tror jeg har litt dansk blod også har jeg bodd i Stockholm. Men ikke så mye som du har. Har du vært her i nord Norge da? Jeg har ikke vært på Færøyene men det set ut som et fint sted.
Elsa Þórsdóttir Æ har Facebook. Bare søk ætter mæ
I am Swedish and Icelandic! :)
Jag heter Joseph Swensen!
life_scratcher va coolt! kan jag fråga, är isländska svårt att lära? jag har plötsligt velat lära mig det, vissa ord är samma, men andra är väldigt annorlunda. Som när ð och þ används, några råd? :)
Fun fact: Swedish is closer to Danish, German and Dutch, while Iceland is closer to Norwegian, Faroese and the Celtic languages.
Grammatically, Icelandic is closer to German - and not even close to the other Nordic langugages.
jatojo Not really
@@arodoetukasiewicz497 Yes, it is. In Icelandic, there are several cases, and the conjugation is much more similar to German. That's because Icelandic have kept this grammatical structure, while the Scandinavian languages have lost most of it.
That is not a fact at all. Are you even scandinavian?
swedish is closer to danish and norwegian....
If someone in Iceland is called Jason his son will be called Jasonson and his son will be called Jasonsonson😂
The last name is based on the first name so Jasons son would be (for example) Aron Jasonson. And if Aron gets a son, his last name would be Aronsson.
No, his son would just be called whatever his father name is and then son. So if Jason's son is also called Jason then his son would be like his dad Jasonson.
Only UK using english. scotland,ireland,britain..
This was Icelandic vs Danish
Man they talk alot cooler over there in iceland
The icelandic is a big boi!
Can you try Norwgian vs Arabic challenge?
I am a native dutch speaker. I speak english, dutch, french and german.
In september I start my Swedish language course. Icelandic must truly be the most difficult language ever to pronounce :p
Hej! Har det gått bra att lära sig svenska så här efter fyra år?
ofc its the danish singing barbie girl
They didn't sound danish.
Great! Wish English had embraced more of its Nordic origins!
Awesome!
I am living on the western part of Norway and I can see some clearly simularities with my dialect in norwiegen and obiously swedish is almost the same
That makes sense linguistically. I live din Bergen for a year.
hahah Íslendingar horfa á þetta og hlæja sig máttlausa.
Ég öskraði við að heyra hann segja síðustu setninguna á íslensku 😂
Henrik Dorsin?? Fett lik haha
Wow, the Icelandic accent is very similar to the Danish one.
Watch out, the volcano is erupting! Is the proper English translation of what they just said..
that's correct, I altered it to that, because I think 'having an eruption' sounds strange in Icelandic, I'm not sure if it sounds strange in English
Yeah, nobody would say "having an eruption" in America, at least.
1:54 han från island låter som papanomaly
Hann frá eyju hljómar eins og papanomaly
Icelandic is on of the few languages in the world that has the th(Θ) sound...We greeks have it and I know that only we,English,Spanish and Icelandic have it....and maybe Irish??I'm not sure about Irish
A bit late, but it is ÉG TALA REIÐBRENNANDI ÍSLENSKU
uuuh! swedish vs italian is missing! :D
Skånish vs swedish
Do VS Gothic language...
I live in Eastern Europe and it was very awkward to hear such prevalence of name Anton
Nohh Eigill
Það er ég :)
It’s obvious the Icelander can more easily speak Swedish than vice versa (although both of you being Scandinavian, the difference is not THAT dramatic).
North Germanic Language family
I could count to 10 in Icelandic. I'm Swedish and I don't know if I wrote wrong.