@@mickeyamf It's not exactly Russian influence, since Finnish belongs to the same language group as Hungarian and Estonian, so called "Finno-Ugric" languages, whereas Russian is a Slavic language. But I get your point, Finnish is basically an Eastern language because the Finno-Ugric languages are derived from Uralic languages that were spoken somewhere in Middle-Russia, whereas the other Nordic languages belong to the Germanic family and are therefore more European.
Yep Grisnackh sort of says it but all the other "Nordic" languages are descended from Old Norse (the language spoken by the Vikings) and so are part of the Germanic group within the Indo-European family (most of the languages spoken in Europe and South/Central Asia) but Finnish (along with Estonian, Hungarian and a few other localised dialects/languages) comes from the Finno-Ugric family of languages spoken in the Ural mountain regions of Russia, it's part of a completely different language family and came to Europe through the migration of an Ugric people from the Urals into Europe.
@@mickeyamf wtf it has nothing to do with Russian. The world is not black and white, it doesn't have to be either Swedish or Russian influence, it's FINNO-UGRIC.
He is bad at finnish and when he ended the video that's when I understood he probably can only sound the same as in the news video and not actually speak because he couldn't at all pronounce words in finnish.
Did understand some of the Finnish. Mutta kyllä kuulosti että moneet lauseet oli "omia yhdyssanoja" Just started to laugh. Nice try though for a swedish guy. They have to try it like we finns learned in school. He-vo-nen Tark-ka 😅😅😂😂😂😂
Norway: hey guys our languages are pretty similar Iceland: Of course! They are Germanic languages after all Sweden: That's so amazing! Danish: Its so nice that we are able to at least understand a litt... Finland: *VIHDOIN VIHDOIN VIHDOIN*
Having family on Jylland and growing up in Copenhagen. I can confirm that it is absolutely true lol. I feel like he was doing a Copenhagen style accent, but I somehow still didn’t understand what he was saying half of the time. It is a hard language to learn though, so props to him.
@@Miex5068 I dunno.. I don't really think that's true in the vast majority of cases. I've lived in copenhagen all my life but spent most of my summer vacations in various parts of denmark and I've never been to a place where most people spoke with such a heavy dialect that I had difficulty understanding them.. Mostly it's a few old people here and there.. But not really the norm..
@@MaMastoast Agree. Virtually everybody can speak "Rigsdansk" unless you find yourself in the most remote parts of Denmark (Bornholm for instance). And in that case it would solely be elderly people, not the youth.
Actually, Scandinavia only consists of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Finland and Iceland are Nordic countries just like the rest, but they're not Scandinavian
To all people who still are wondering how Finnish is a Nordic language: because Finland is one of the Nordic countries. It has nothing to do with Scandinavia...
No no, Finnish is not a Nordic language at all, it's not even related to Nordic languages. Finnish is merely a language whitin the area of the Nordic countries, like Sami and Greenlandic.
I might be wrong but I think there isn't a language group called the Nordic languages. There are the North Germanic language group and the Finno-Ugric language group. The Nordic languages are in either one. I think the term "Nordic language" simply means a language that is spoken in a Nordic country.
Yes, you are wrong. Nordic language is a group which consists of Norwegian, Faroese, Icelandic, Danish and Swedish. But yes, SOME times the term North Germanic is used as well. Finnish has nothing in common with these languages, just because you're geographically situated in the same area it doesn't mean you can take this very precise term away from us. It's like saying that French is an African language because it's spoken there. "I'm Finnish, I wanna join." Go play with Estonia or something....
Yeah well that example was a little bit stupid. But North Germanic language group is the correct term to describe those languages you listed, not Nordic. Google a bit and you'll find that Finnish is included in Nordic languages. Nordic is like the cultural term that is not based on linguistic things. Like Scandinavian.
Finnish is not regarded a Nordic language in Scandinavia. There's even an academic discipline called "nordiska språk/nordiske språk/nordiske sprog" which includes Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and even Icelandic and Faroese. It's just another term for "North Germanic languages" from a linguistic point of view. In the general language however it could mean "languages spoken in the Nordic countries", so even Sami, Finnish and Greenlandic would be seen as Nordic languages in that context, but I've never heard it being used in that way. Besides the term "Scandinavian" is a "linguistic thing" too , since it describes three more or less mutually intelligible languages.
Har du lärt dig lite finska nu, för uttalet har du tydligen redan länge haft! Jag tyckte du missade på bara två ord, där den svenska betoningen slog igenom, när finskan ALLTID betonar första stavelsen, även i uppenbara lånord, så det heter SLOvakia och KRItiikki. Jag blev riktigt imponerad! Tro inte att finska är så svårt som det påstås. Alltför många försöker poängtera krångligheter som inte alls behövs för att klara sig i de flesta sammanhang.
DNA350ppm Jag är finlandssvensk, har bott hela mitt liv i Finland och studerat finska i nio år. Ändå kan jag inte finska ordentligt. Hur är det inte svårt?
@@DNA350ppm Me ei vittu ymmärretä teitä svedupellejä! Miksi vitussa sää luulisit että meillä olisi älykkyysosamäärää ymmärtääkseen ruotsia sillä mehän asutaan metsässä meidän omissa mökeissämme kaukana muusta maailmasta. Mutta siis kuitenkin suurin osa meistä ei ymmärrä teitä tippaakaan mitä sanotte kuten te ette meitä jos ei lasketa suomenruotsalaisia.
@@juliushakala5148 "Honkain keskellä mökkisi seisoo" ja onhan se ihanaa! Jos ei halua ymmärtää ja olla kavereita, eihän sitä tartte. Suomi on vapaa maa. Mutta mielestäni on vähän mälsää jos joku tahtoisi oppia vähän suomea ja jotkut "asiantuntijat" aina paasaa että suomenkieli on niin mahdoton oppia ettei kannata yrittää edes. Minusta kannattaa yrittää. Jokaisella saa olla mielipiteensä, minusta riikinruotsalaiselle helpon suomen oppiminen on suunnilleen yhtä aikaa vaativaa kuin helpon englannin oppiminen. Kaikki riippuu opettajasta, asenteesta ja tavoitteesta. Olen muuten huomannut että monet suomalaiset osaavat erinomaisen hyvin englantia - miten he ovat siihen pystyneet?
dang your finnish pronunciation is actually very good!!! it's really difficult and takes many many years to have perfect finnish but considering you don't even live in finland your finnish is really nice and i can understand everything very clearly
His Finnish is very easily understandable, I am impressed! Some long vowels are pronounced short and the intonation is off at times which is why it sounds a bit funny. It's still fantastic.
The trouble with Swedish is that it looks so easy and interesting and nice while learning, hey, Swedish grammar is easier than English. So, soon enough, you can read, write, you're coping well with the grammar, but then, you get blown away when you start listening to spoken Swedish on TV or in person. It's basically like: the narrator or TV anchor is speaking something on SVT, it's all nice, you understand everything, but then the guest starts talking and suddenly you have no idea what's going on.
That's true in any country, because it's about a cultivated standard language (pronunciation), that everybody in that country learns to understand in school, versus everyday speech that you learn in a certain limited social and local setting. You need perhaps a week or two "in the field" and then you'll be comfortable with the difference, which is more systematic than it sounds. Always learn standard language before you learn dialects or slang, if you want to make it easier for yourself.
radunMARSHAL Swedish, Danish, and Bokmål, are basically the different standardizations of the same dialect continuum, Nynorsk is part of those to some extent but it is also a bridge connecting the west nordic languages, Faroese, Icelandic, and the now extinct Norn and Greenlandic, with the East ones. A dialect continuum is a phenomenon that happens when one language expands (in this case the culprit is Old Norse) and the different settlements formed out of this expansion don’t lose contact with each other, so the little changes in grammar and vocabulary are shared among the towns and cities that are closer to each other, so for example you can go to the neighboring town that speaks different from your own, and understand pretty much everything, but the farther away you go from your hometown the harder it gets to you to understand, at times the dialect continuum get broken and the people of that town cannot understand the people in the next, at this point we can talk about two new languages forming out of the previous one, or simply because of geographical distances it gets naturally broken (that’s why Icelandic and Faroese are not connected to the Scandinavian dialect continuum). Lets not confuse it with regional accent, that’s like the previous step, for example English in the UK is very diverse despite the small territory that it’s formed of, and that’s because they have coexisted in a dialect continuum since the middle ages when the Anglo-Saxon invaded Britain, but in the USA, where English has been spoken half that time, somebody from Texas has a different accent from somebody from NY, but the difference is negligible, there’s a difference as large as that one between the English in Manchester and in Liverpool. On that regard there’re places where then standardization has won over regional dialects, like in France, where the Langue d’Oil and Langue d’Oc dialect continua have been replaced almost entirely by Parisian French (which is the basis for the standard metropolitan French and part of the Langue d’Oil dialect continuum). What has happen in Scandinavia though, since the standardization of the nordic languages, is that the regional variations have transformed closer to the standard of their country than before, Scanian for example, that linguistically speaking is closer to standard Danish than to standard Swedish or perhaps better said is a bridge between them, cause i’m afraid of hurting national sentiments), adopts innovations from Swedish more often now, cause their speakers are proficient in Swedish but not in Danish, in fact Scanian and Bornholmsk (in Denmark) are linguistically closer to each other than they are to either Danish or Swedish, and just the fact the fact that they ended in different countries has separated them. This is similar to Jämtmål, in that is closer to the Norwegian dialects than it is to the Swedish ones. There’s also the case of Gotland, where Old Gutnish was already distinct from Old West Norse (Icelandic, Faroese and Nynorsk) and Old East Norse (Swedish, Danish, Bokmål) but the constant exposure to Swedish made it transform alongside Swedish, this is similar to what happened to Galician and Catalan, that despite being closer to Portuguese and Occitan (almost extinct by now) respectively than to Spanish, both have adopted features and vocabulary that are originally from Spanish, but unlike these two languages Gutnish has been replaced almost completely by Swedish, albeit with a Gutnish twist of course.
A Swedish hello is hej. Actually spoken swedish hello: Tjena hallå Läget Nej men se goddag kära du Hej hej Haj ha h h hu (cough) Or if in the north: The sound of inhailing Or if in southern sweden Skåne: Haj haj hallå, hur e läget Haaalå för fan Dauws It would help if we Swedes stuck to using swedish lol
@@DNA350ppm that's not true for every country. In Russia, pretty much all language variability is gone, and I cannot tell if a person coming from Kaliningrad or Vladivostok or from anywhere in-between. Very-very rare local words or expressions can give it away, but not immediately
Gurra Official Just for information, your main problem is that you pronounce short vowels in first syllables too long. For example, your "heti" sounds like "heetti" to a Finnish ear. Otherwise rather good.
+Mestis what? are you swedish? Han är förmodligen svensk, det hör man på när har pratar svenska, troligen stockholmare. There was no strange emphasis on words at all. Thats how you speak swedish.
***** That's not what I meant. His Swedish sounds fine to me. I meant that when he was talking in Finnish, he emphasized some syllables in a Swedish way.
Yeah it sounds like Danish alright, but very difficult to understand. It sounds like a Norwegian speaking Danish (and making fun of us just a tiny bit).
Your Finnish is surprisingly good and the pronounciation is very solid although you definately wouldn't go for a native but every word was clearly understandable.
I wonder why we Scandinavian, Nordics, Northern Europeans or what ever you want to call us, fight all the time? If you really look into the eyes of each other, we are brothers. We may have different habits, language or heritage. But we have been here thousands of years together. So what is wrong with us today? I'm a proud Finn. Call us Mongolians or what ever but I still love you.
UnzkysGamertag I never heard about anyone claiming that Finns are substantially related to Mongolians. The Sami and the Finns have similar languages but I don't think they are related to Mongolians either.
amandus westin I'm a Finnish American (Username is not related to my heritage whatsoever) My grandfather (a Savonian) had to deal with a lot of people calling him a "China Swede" and a "roundhead" during the 1930's a lot, typically from employers that didn't like us because we made a workers union. He went home to fight in the continuation war and came back in the 50's. Sadly I can't speak a hint of Finnish and learning is damned hard, but I really want to be able to connect to him in that way. Plus I even have his rifle!
I think you have misunderstood my friend. We "fight" but it's all good. It's just for fun and it has alot of irony and sarcasm to it, and that's fun to. It's actually beacuse we can make these kind of jokes about each other without getting mad, that we have a good bond.
UnzkysGamertag we dont really fight all the time, i just look at it as siblings roasting each others lmao❤️ idk i feel like we’re pretty close. Like in OL i usually root for my fellow nordic contries. - norwegian.
Finnish always puts stress on the first syllable of every word. You never put stress on anything else than the first syllable, unlike the other nordic languages. For example, you said kriTIIKkiä when it should be KRItiikkiä. / / Finskan betonar alltid den första stavelsen i varje ord, till skillnad från Svenska där det kan variera.
Absolutely! And also - everything spoken in Finnish makes a short sound unless if there are two vowels behind each other (like "aa") which makes it a long vowel, or two consonants where you hold a small pause in between. I've noticed that this is notoriously hard for Scandinavians to grasp even though it's a very strict rule. With Gurra you hear words like "alussa" become "aalusa". That initial a should be very short, and between the two s one should enlengthen the s sound for a very brief but meaningful moment. He nailed the tone of voice though. Monotonic af :D
If you want to be very strict about stressing syllables then stress is on every odd syllable unless it is a compound word. Basically long words have major stress on first syllable but also minor stress on 3rd and 5th syllables.
Damn, your danish is REALLY close. Only some of the endings on our words is a struggle to you. You basicly spell it correctly, but the swedish accent is taking over from time to time
1. Nice avatar where is it from? 2. It is so cool to meet someone from a small nation like yours! I am just an American but also from an obscure folk. Do you like living there? It seems almost mystical...
@@lenar.5059 Actually the pronounce words pretty different. My mom is Danish and she can't understand Norwegian. I live in Norway and understand also Swedish, I understand fareos better than Iceland.
Maanantai, Tiistai Keskiviikko (german Mittwoch) Torstai Lauantai Sunnuntai Compare with Estonian: Esmaspäev Teispäev Kolmapäev Neljapäev And as my Estonian teacher said "The came the Swedes and ruined our fine system" Reede Laupäev Pühapäev (okay, this one is quite Balto-finnic) But yes, not counting a whole bunch of random words, Finnish is pretty much unintelligible for Indo-european outsiders
"Sound like German"? Nope... I've been learning Norwegian for about 7 months now and it's not really all that close to German (I'm Swiss German, so I daresay I'm fairly familiar with German)
THANKS A LOT FOR ONE MILLION VIEWS - and watch another clip where I speak different languages (ruclips.net/video/Ygp-FgJaqek/видео.html) This video has now over 1 million views. It's recorded 6 years ago and I'm very happy that you all have watched this video! You can also see that I probably did not think that this clip would be seen by so many as I did not put so much energy on the interior (the hanger on the couch). Well, big virtual hugs to you all - take care, and thank you :)
+Gurra Official In the vid-info it should be "talar" not pratar. It's still somewhat correct but more of colloquial Swedish so among "linguists"the propper world should be "tala". With that in mind i could not bare watching the video. In respect of the brilliant mind i possess i had one of my staff bring me a report on it, and i must give you so called "kudos" for balancing content with personality, according to the report i was given. Excellent staff member, as for you and your video, i have not seen it, just love a quality report that's all.
+Gurra Official Godt jobbet :-) Noen steder er det lett å høre at du er svensk når du snakker norsk. Sjekk f.eks ut hvordan du uttaler "nordiske". Du sier "nordiske nyheter" på svensk, når skal snakke på norsk! ;-)
Norge leverte* (du sa levererte). hoppet og danset, du skal aldri si "og", du skal si "å". g'en uttales aldri, da høres du ut som en utlending :P eller noen som leser opp fra et ark xD Ellers veldig bra! :D
Your Norwegian is pretty good, though I can hear a slight hint of a Swedish accent in there, sort of like a Norwegian person who's been living in Sweden for a few years.
Your Finnish sounds otherwise good, but you are pronouncing vowels either too long or too short, which makes it harder to understand. Good try though! :)
As a Dane: There was a little too much of that lyricial Swedish/Norwegian influence in the accent. It needs to be steered more towards German. As in more stodgy / "labored". Like you have a hot potato in your mouth ;)
yeah... it seems like he actually do know and try to get the correct pronunciation, but just speak so fast, that every second word gets a Swedish or Norwegian touch.
@@Gustavgurrakarlsson Yeah, the pronounciation was a bit off, but the way you spoke actually sounded like how the actual newscasters speak. If that makes sense
@@AntonACF I think Swedes can fake it quite good as many of us have heard a lot of Finnish. At least my Finnish teacher in Tampere said my pronunciation was good when I read directly from a note (the thing was I didn't understand what I was reading).
People taking about weird emphasis.. what the fuck is a weird emphasis? The dude is a monster! He even speaks finnish that is more related to japanese than every other euro language!
The Finnish was very good. I could understand everything, but some of the words were pronounced wrong. You gotta to be careful with double wovels/consonants. For example you pronounced aloittanut as alloitanut. There's no double L so the L ought to be shorter. Other examples: osakseen not oosakseen, esimerkiksi not essimerkiksi, teki not teeki, heti not heeti etc. :)
Agreed with this! I understood everything as well, but some syllables were 'weighted' wrong so it sounded a little silly. Though I am still impressed by this! Very good for someone who is not a native speaker. :)
Otso Karvinen That's because finnish actually is a completely different language, I wouldn't really call the other "languages" separate languages at all.
Den søteste norske dialekten jeg har hørt! Du høres egentlig ut som en vestlending som prøver litt for hardt på østlandsdialekten, men et veeeeeldig bra forsøk!
Du klarade finskan helt utmärkt med tanke på hur lite du (antagligen) vet om språket! Förväntade mig något mycket sämre. Stolt över dig! H: en finne från Östra rikshalvan.
To all the people who are saying 'your pronunciation was great but you can tell you're not a native speaker' can I say - WTF? Don't you get it? Everyone, yes even YOU, has an accent no matter how slight when you speak a second learned language. It's really annoying when Nordic people tell you that you have an accent when you try to speak their language especially when they are telling you that in English with an accent. The lack of self-awareness is infuriating.
You are right. Even inside one country there can be tens of different accents. I am Italian, and just in my small region I can tell if someone is from a city or from the countryside, from the Venice area or from the north.
Your mentality is wrong. Before you even start to learn a language you should learn how to pronounce the sounds. If you are lazy and you halfass your language learning that is your call. However, you should not blame others for pointing out that you do not speak properly. No matter where you live as a native, if you cannot pronounce your language properly they will send you to a special class that helps you improving your speach. If you actually put in the time you can speak, think and sound like a native. There should be no participation awards for the weak minded. Grow up and learn the actual language.
@@roberth4395 While I agree that a person should strive to learn how to pronounce another language correctly, some people have better capabilities in that regard than others, so no matter how hard they try, their lack of an "ear" dooms them to an accent. As to native speakers having various dialects being the equivalent of not learning their own language "properly" and needing to be sent to a special class- WTF??? While many countries may have one standardized pronunciation that is used officially because there is too much divergence between the various dialects, this does not mean that those other dialects are not speaking properly.
@@a.westenholz4032 Based on your surname, I presume you are german and speak mostly indo-european languages. The special class I mentioned is very common in my country. There are some sounds that are hard to pronounce for some people, like "r" s and there are some people who have other issues with their speech. Our schools provide free classes with a speech therapist. To help them learn how to speak properly. If you think this is a bad thing you should be ashamed of yourself and stay away from the education system as you are clearly not suited for the job. Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian etc are not indo-european languages. If you want to learn to speak a finno-ugric language, until you learn how to pronounce every character do not even try to proceed with learning. *In a finno-ugric language pronounciation is extremly critical as 99% of the words are pronounced as they are written.* Also the difference of words can be almost indistinguishable for the untrained non native speaker's ears. In finnish the difference between meeting and killing someone is 1 less double character. Tapan ( _to meet_ ), tapaan ( _to kill_ ). "I will meet your daughter tonight." Or "I will kill your daughter tonight." Kuusi ( _6_ ), kusi ( _piss_ ). "I would like to order 6 beer." or "I would like to order piss beer." Suddenly pronounciation matters. Hungarian is similar. If you pronounce a word incorrectly you can insult someone or for example örülök ≠ őrülök (first one means _I am glad_ , the second one means _I am literally going (asylum) insane_ ). I could go into a lenghty detailed comment, but if you want my time hire me and pay for it. Ps: excluding the nordic countries every european country have abismal language learning systems. Instead of going full pc "everyone is perfect the way they are" these countries should admit that they have no idea how to learn and teach languages and improve their ways. *Learning how to pronounce a sound perfectly is extremly easy. As long as you use the right methods to learn.*
Oh thanks xD I thought my Danish understanding was dwindling D: Got scared there for a moment. Me- "I've been too long in Sweden, I can't understand Danish anymore T^T " But thanks for clearing it up ;)
I understood nothing of it and I´m 100% Danish, I speak fluently Danish on a daily basis and I still live in Denmark... I´ve lived here for 20 years and I´ve heard anyone pronounce my language like that ^^
Synes nu han gjorde et godt forsøg. Det er virkelig svært at udtale dansk, da man udtaler ordene på en helt anden måde, og ligsom bruger ens "hals" forskelligt, i forhold til svensk og dansk
Just to clear things up! Nordic countries = Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Faraoe Islands. Scandinavia = Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The name comes from the mountain chain "Skanderna" that runs through all three countries.
I speak English, Spanish, French and German. It’s curious to me that all the Scandinavian Languages and German are related yet German is nowhere similar to the others in pronunciation.
Wow your Finnish is good! I understood everything you said. Really cool video, hope to see more of these about Nordics! Heja alla nordiska bröder/systrar!
One important thing when speaking finnish is to understand the difference between single and double letters. Your speech will sound a lot better and clearer if you concentrate on that more. There's no pronounciation in finnish. As an example when you said "osakseen" the first o was really long and sounded like if there were two os in the beginning like "oosakseen". Really good still.
@@otsoblomster761 eli osaaks puhuu riikin vai Suomen ruotsii täydellisesti niis on iso ero ja niille jotka puhuu riikin ruotsii nii niille on kuulema karseeta kuunnella Suomen ruotsii :D
I'm sorry but as a Fin I still had a hard time understanding the finnish part. But I get it because Finnish is so different from the other nordic languages and it's a hard language. Kuitenkin, hienoa työtä!
@@jonnejantteri948 Joo siis on kyl. Ei siinä siis muuta kun muutamat sanat mitä ei välttämättä ymmärrä kun ne ottaa pois kontekstista. Esim pallonhallinta.
@@kissanpentux6204 Niin, no siinä voi kans olla jotain osaa et oon useemman vuoden joutunu ymmärtämään suomenruotsalaisen alueen melko rikkinäistä suomea kun oon joutunu kommunikoimaan. Toi on niinku yks taso kaupunginjohtajan suomen alla lol.
I'm very happy and impressed with your finnish. I understand it perfectly! Not many nordic people can do it so well (and likewise we are mostly bad at other norsic languages)
Born and raised in Denmark, still had a kind of hard time with some of his words haha, it is a hard language to just replicate the accent off without sounding just a little dumb and incomprehensible
Speaking Norwegian/Danish with a Swedish background seems to be a lot harder than vice versa. I have a Swedish friend who's been living here in Norway for 6 years, I still don't understand how she says 7!
@@thebudgieartist3391 Standard Norwegian is the easiest out of all the Nordic languages to learn for a foreigner, I think. I'm Danish, Danish is very hard due to pronunciation because we talk both from the throat and the front of the mouth at the same time. Good thing is, once you learn Norwegian, you'll be able to read Danish almost seamlessly and it's also a good foundation to then learn other Scandinavian languages.
@@thebudgieartist3391 I once knew a German exchange student who could speak perfect Norwegian with local dialect within less than a year. Norwegian and German are fairly closely related languages and I think once you get the more sing-songy intonation of Norwegian down, you should become pretty fluent without too much trouble. Norwegian is like a middle-road of the Scandinavian languages and a good start as Alex Larsen says, only issue is that Norwegian has more variations of local dialects than any Nordic country due to inaccessible geography and spread-out population.
This is really good, i`m a danish person and your danish was really good too, you could hear a bit of the swedish accent, but it doesnt matter. You could basically travel in all the Nordic countries. Forsæt det gode arbejde!😄
Quite decent. I just stumbled upon this video so I haven't heard your voice before, but could tell from your Norwegian that you're a native Swedish speaker. Something about how you overenunciated words in ways not even news presenters do, and how some word endings that in Norwegian are basically always pronounced with silent consonants (for example in "landslaget"), really sounded like Swedish. After this realization I recognised some Swedish traits in your Danish too.
your Finnish was kinda hard to understand, since you had a really weird emphasis. But it sounded great whatsoever, if you'd have a proper emphasis, you would have sounded like a normal Finn :)
5 dudes, Finn, Swedish, Dane, Norsk, and Islandis walk to a bar. We all talk english.
True story.
Except the finn, the swede and the norwegian...
(given that the finnish dude was good in school)
@@lindaakesson8403
It was ME ! And I use english all the time.
I’m sorry but Finnish sounds NOTHING like the other languages. 🇳🇴
@@KoriEmerson
Try Estonian.
"Welcome" in the Nordic languages:
Swedish - Välkommen
Norwegian - Velkommen
Danish - Velkommen
Icelandic - Velkominn
Finnish -
*TERVETULOA*
Yeah why is that is there more russian influence in finland?
@@mickeyamf It's not exactly Russian influence, since Finnish belongs to the same language group as Hungarian and Estonian, so called "Finno-Ugric" languages, whereas Russian is a Slavic language. But I get your point, Finnish is basically an Eastern language because the Finno-Ugric languages are derived from Uralic languages that were spoken somewhere in Middle-Russia, whereas the other Nordic languages belong to the Germanic family and are therefore more European.
@@ToastedCigar yes!
Yep Grisnackh sort of says it but all the other "Nordic" languages are descended from Old Norse (the language spoken by the Vikings) and so are part of the Germanic group within the Indo-European family (most of the languages spoken in Europe and South/Central Asia) but Finnish (along with Estonian, Hungarian and a few other localised dialects/languages) comes from the Finno-Ugric family of languages spoken in the Ural mountain regions of Russia, it's part of a completely different language family and came to Europe through the migration of an Ugric people from the Urals into Europe.
@@mickeyamf wtf it has nothing to do with Russian. The world is not black and white, it doesn't have to be either Swedish or Russian influence, it's FINNO-UGRIC.
I am a simple Finnish person.
I see my flag, I hear my call.
I like your way of thinking!
@@Gustavgurrakarlsson Thanks! That's the best compliment I've gotten in days.
Same, but i’m from Sweden
As an American: Same
Suomi perkele
Icelandics, Norwegians, Danes and Finnish: "Hey, you do a reasonable job, but I can hear your Swedish accent"
Swedes: “I can’t believe you can do all these languages without a SINGLE distracting accent! Wow!”
True
Decent Grocery Bag As a swede, I can 100% say this is true. I was very inpressed
@@decentgrocerybag4003 nah, he is good but I recognised a fellow swede
He is bad at finnish and when he ended the video that's when I understood he probably can only sound the same as in the news video and not actually speak because he couldn't at all pronounce words in finnish.
Your Norwegian is great but I can hear that you’re Swedish
Yes, but the accent was not consistent. Some times very south east, some times Swedish and sometimes very TV like.
He's not Danish either, but doing good. I wouldn't know about Finnish tho.
I love Icelandic even I don't speak it, I understand much.
Thanks a lot :)
@@Gustavgurrakarlsson Høres ut som Jan Hanvold
For an Scandinavian yes. Not for a non nordic speaking though.
After reading the comments
Me as a a non-Nordic person: Yeah, he still sounds Swedish
Yeah, i am Nordic, still sounds either northern or swedish
@@dr4c077 I'm Norwegian, and he definitely sounds Swedish.
A Person im norwegian too
@@dr4c077 Ka by?
A Person føler egentlig ikke for å si det til en ukjent, men jeg kan si at jeg er fra fylket Vestfold og Telemark
All the other Nordic countries while watching this video: *Hey that's my country*
Faroese Islands: **cries in faroese**
Haha!
True
You guys have a difficult language. I understood give or take 2% of my friend speaking with his faroese parents
@@williampetersen6377 and those words were probably English slang words
Do you mean Denmark
I think that your Finnish is great for a foreigner. The rhythm of the words was a little off but I could understand everything perfectly.
Siin oli semmone vähä ehk venäläinen aksentti :D
By what metric was it great?
Did understand some of the Finnish. Mutta kyllä kuulosti että moneet lauseet oli "omia yhdyssanoja"
Just started to laugh. Nice try though for a swedish guy.
They have to try it like we finns learned in school.
He-vo-nen
Tark-ka
😅😅😂😂😂😂
Yeah stress was off, like in "päävalmentaja" and the vowels were a little too Swedish-sounding, but I agree, good job for a Swede!
Yeah he's still got that Swedish cadence and emphasis to his words and sentences. Gotta make it much more monotone and slow it down a bit too.
“Girls can’t maintain eye contact with persons they like”
Girls talking to me:
Hahahahaha
This is just sad... 😂
Goddamn
Norway: hey guys our languages are pretty similar
Iceland: Of course! They are Germanic languages after all
Sweden: That's so amazing!
Danish: Its so nice that we are able to at least understand a litt...
Finland: *VIHDOIN VIHDOIN VIHDOIN*
Finland famous..pukki hyypia väisänen bottas & helsinki greetings from indonesian
Why did you write finally finally finally?
@@switchbladestrawberry4777 i realized it just now
But yeah, Finnish is not a Germanic language, but a Uralic language
Finnish flies be like:
Kato kattoon, mun kaveri tapettiin tapettiin.
Your danish is with heavy accent, but dude, cheers to you for understanding 5 different languages.
Accent in the Danish language is so weird just drive two hours to one direction and you can’t even understand your own people anymore
@@Miex5068 omg that's so true i moved 5 and a half years ago and i still don't understand what people are saying sometimes XD
Having family on Jylland and growing up in Copenhagen. I can confirm that it is absolutely true lol. I feel like he was doing a Copenhagen style accent, but I somehow still didn’t understand what he was saying half of the time. It is a hard language to learn though, so props to him.
@@Miex5068 I dunno.. I don't really think that's true in the vast majority of cases. I've lived in copenhagen all my life but spent most of my summer vacations in various parts of denmark and I've never been to a place where most people spoke with such a heavy dialect that I had difficulty understanding them.. Mostly it's a few old people here and there.. But not really the norm..
@@MaMastoast Agree. Virtually everybody can speak "Rigsdansk" unless you find yourself in the most remote parts of Denmark (Bornholm for instance). And in that case it would solely be elderly people, not the youth.
I'm Mexican, I don't understand a single word of what he is saying, but it sounds epic, Scandinavian languages are beautiful
En sueco dio la sección de deportes, así que no te perdiste de nada, pero eso sí, suena lindo. 😺
Thank you Jesus!
@@Gustavgurrakarlsson thank you Jesus! You died for our sins. Really thanks! 🙏
@@NowCheckYourSound This cracked me up😂
Indeed!
your Finnish sounds like drunk Estonian
lol
XD
hahhahaa
Estonian is drunk Estonian.
I die...hahahaha!
Finnish just sounds like you’re speaking backwards
because it belongs to a different language family than the others (Finno-Ugric)
i thought Finnish was supposed to be backwards. sort of a secret code.
Finnish sounds very powerful language
@@lumikatariinaa Nah bruh, as a Finn, our language is just drunk af-
@@mach.in.a i am a finn too but i still think it is super cool🤣🤣 moi
Scandinavia has five children but one was adopted. I’m talking about you, Finland
eeyup
Actually, Scandinavia only consists of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Finland and Iceland are Nordic countries just like the rest, but they're not Scandinavian
Yup
Estonia and England are the jealous cousins then?
@@MorganKing95 I know but that’s for the joke
To all people who still are wondering how Finnish is a Nordic language: because Finland is one of the Nordic countries. It has nothing to do with Scandinavia...
No no, Finnish is not a Nordic language at all, it's not even related to Nordic languages. Finnish is merely a language whitin the area of the Nordic countries, like Sami and Greenlandic.
I might be wrong but I think there isn't a language group called the Nordic languages. There are the North Germanic language group and the Finno-Ugric language group. The Nordic languages are in either one. I think the term "Nordic language" simply means a language that is spoken in a Nordic country.
Yes, you are wrong. Nordic language is a group which consists of Norwegian, Faroese, Icelandic, Danish and Swedish. But yes, SOME times the term North Germanic is used as well. Finnish has nothing in common with these languages, just because you're geographically situated in the same area it doesn't mean you can take this very precise term away from us. It's like saying that French is an African language because it's spoken there. "I'm Finnish, I wanna join." Go play with Estonia or something....
Yeah well that example was a little bit stupid. But North Germanic language group is the correct term to describe those languages you listed, not Nordic. Google a bit and you'll find that Finnish is included in Nordic languages. Nordic is like the cultural term that is not based on linguistic things. Like Scandinavian.
Finnish is not regarded a Nordic language in Scandinavia. There's even an academic discipline called "nordiska språk/nordiske språk/nordiske sprog" which includes Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and even Icelandic and Faroese. It's just another term for "North Germanic languages" from a linguistic point of view. In the general language however it could mean "languages spoken in the Nordic countries", so even Sami, Finnish and Greenlandic would be seen as Nordic languages in that context, but I've never heard it being used in that way. Besides the term "Scandinavian" is a "linguistic thing" too , since it describes three more or less mutually intelligible languages.
Not bad Finnish impression. You were actually understandable.
thanks a lot :)
Har du lärt dig lite finska nu, för uttalet har du tydligen redan länge haft! Jag tyckte du missade på bara två ord, där den svenska betoningen slog igenom, när finskan ALLTID betonar första stavelsen, även i uppenbara lånord, så det heter SLOvakia och KRItiikki. Jag blev riktigt imponerad! Tro inte att finska är så svårt som det påstås. Alltför många försöker poängtera krångligheter som inte alls behövs för att klara sig i de flesta sammanhang.
DNA350ppm Jag är finlandssvensk, har bott hela mitt liv i Finland och studerat finska i nio år. Ändå kan jag inte finska ordentligt. Hur är det inte svårt?
@@DNA350ppm Me ei vittu ymmärretä teitä svedupellejä! Miksi vitussa sää luulisit että meillä olisi älykkyysosamäärää ymmärtääkseen ruotsia sillä mehän asutaan metsässä meidän omissa mökeissämme kaukana muusta maailmasta.
Mutta siis kuitenkin suurin osa meistä ei ymmärrä teitä tippaakaan mitä sanotte kuten te ette meitä jos ei lasketa suomenruotsalaisia.
@@juliushakala5148 "Honkain keskellä mökkisi seisoo" ja onhan se ihanaa! Jos ei halua ymmärtää ja olla kavereita, eihän sitä tartte. Suomi on vapaa maa.
Mutta mielestäni on vähän mälsää jos joku tahtoisi oppia vähän suomea ja jotkut "asiantuntijat" aina paasaa että suomenkieli on niin mahdoton oppia ettei kannata yrittää edes.
Minusta kannattaa yrittää. Jokaisella saa olla mielipiteensä, minusta riikinruotsalaiselle helpon suomen oppiminen on suunnilleen yhtä aikaa vaativaa kuin helpon englannin oppiminen. Kaikki riippuu opettajasta, asenteesta ja tavoitteesta.
Olen muuten huomannut että monet suomalaiset osaavat erinomaisen hyvin englantia - miten he ovat siihen pystyneet?
dang your finnish pronunciation is actually very good!!! it's really difficult and takes many many years to have perfect finnish but considering you don't even live in finland your finnish is really nice and i can understand everything very clearly
Thanks hell of a lot!!
totally unrelated, I really like your channel name it made me laugh
@@michellepackman1484 haha thanks :D
the feeling when I am from Slovakia and obsessed with Finnish and he used something related to Slovakia in Finnish
I wonder what specifically he was talking about 😅
@@tobaccoworm2511 He is talking about football. Finland played against Slovakia and lost 2-1.
@@Kouhia123 Thanks 😄
The truth of confusing Slovenia and Slovakia. Look it up. Also in same Slavic group 😉
what has made you become obessed with finnish if I may ask? As a finn I find this interesting haha
His Finnish is very easily understandable, I am impressed! Some long vowels are pronounced short and the intonation is off at times which is why it sounds a bit funny. It's still fantastic.
:DDDDDDD
i like how you change your tie everytime you speak different languages.
Everyone: *talking about the accuracy of the languages*
Me a South east asian: *hmmm i agree*
Ahhh I wasnt the only southeast asian here 😂
@@RedExia you're definitely not alone
SE Asia gang
Eyyyy SEA gang! But seriously, I can't tell much difference besides the accents 😅
Yo! I'm here too!
The trouble with Swedish is that it looks so easy and interesting and nice while learning, hey, Swedish grammar is easier than English. So, soon enough, you can read, write, you're coping well with the grammar, but then, you get blown away when you start listening to spoken Swedish on TV or in person. It's basically like: the narrator or TV anchor is speaking something on SVT, it's all nice, you understand everything, but then the guest starts talking and suddenly you have no idea what's going on.
That was like moving to Norway. Learned the language over a summer, and then I got to school...
That's true in any country, because it's about a cultivated standard language (pronunciation), that everybody in that country learns to understand in school, versus everyday speech that you learn in a certain limited social and local setting. You need perhaps a week or two "in the field" and then you'll be comfortable with the difference, which is more systematic than it sounds. Always learn standard language before you learn dialects or slang, if you want to make it easier for yourself.
radunMARSHAL Swedish, Danish, and Bokmål, are basically the different standardizations of the same dialect continuum, Nynorsk is part of those to some extent but it is also a bridge connecting the west nordic languages, Faroese, Icelandic, and the now extinct Norn and Greenlandic, with the East ones. A dialect continuum is a phenomenon that happens when one language expands (in this case the culprit is Old Norse) and the different settlements formed out of this expansion don’t lose contact with each other, so the little changes in grammar and vocabulary are shared among the towns and cities that are closer to each other, so for example you can go to the neighboring town that speaks different from your own, and understand pretty much everything, but the farther away you go from your hometown the harder it gets to you to understand, at times the dialect continuum get broken and the people of that town cannot understand the people in the next, at this point we can talk about two new languages forming out of the previous one, or simply because of geographical distances it gets naturally broken (that’s why Icelandic and Faroese are not connected to the Scandinavian dialect continuum). Lets not confuse it with regional accent, that’s like the previous step, for example English in the UK is very diverse despite the small territory that it’s formed of, and that’s because they have coexisted in a dialect continuum since the middle ages when the Anglo-Saxon invaded Britain, but in the USA, where English has been spoken half that time, somebody from Texas has a different accent from somebody from NY, but the difference is negligible, there’s a difference as large as that one between the English in Manchester and in Liverpool. On that regard there’re places where then standardization has won over regional dialects, like in France, where the Langue d’Oil and Langue d’Oc dialect continua have been replaced almost entirely by Parisian French (which is the basis for the standard metropolitan French and part of the Langue d’Oil dialect continuum). What has happen in Scandinavia though, since the standardization of the nordic languages, is that the regional variations have transformed closer to the standard of their country than before, Scanian for example, that linguistically speaking is closer to standard Danish than to standard Swedish or perhaps better said is a bridge between them, cause i’m afraid of hurting national sentiments), adopts innovations from Swedish more often now, cause their speakers are proficient in Swedish but not in Danish, in fact Scanian and Bornholmsk (in Denmark) are linguistically closer to each other than they are to either Danish or Swedish, and just the fact the fact that they ended in different countries has separated them. This is similar to Jämtmål, in that is closer to the Norwegian dialects than it is to the Swedish ones. There’s also the case of Gotland, where Old Gutnish was already distinct from Old West Norse (Icelandic, Faroese and Nynorsk) and Old East Norse (Swedish, Danish, Bokmål) but the constant exposure to Swedish made it transform alongside Swedish, this is similar to what happened to Galician and Catalan, that despite being closer to Portuguese and Occitan (almost extinct by now) respectively than to Spanish, both have adopted features and vocabulary that are originally from Spanish, but unlike these two languages Gutnish has been replaced almost completely by Swedish, albeit with a Gutnish twist of course.
A Swedish hello is hej. Actually spoken swedish hello:
Tjena
hallå
Läget
Nej men se goddag kära du
Hej hej
Haj
ha
h
h hu (cough)
Or if in the north: The sound of inhailing
Or if in southern sweden Skåne:
Haj haj hallå, hur e läget
Haaalå för fan
Dauws
It would help if we Swedes stuck to using swedish lol
@@DNA350ppm that's not true for every country. In Russia, pretty much all language variability is gone, and I cannot tell if a person coming from Kaliningrad or Vladivostok or from anywhere in-between. Very-very rare local words or expressions can give it away, but not immediately
I think your finnish was great actually! I'm from finland and I was even a bit surprised! 😄👏
Rakentamisen Suola Haha thanks a lot :)
Rakentamisen Suola His finnish was about 12% better than the usual rappakalja from a swedish mouth hahaha....good try though ;D
Gurra Official Just for information, your main problem is that you pronounce short vowels in first syllables too long. For example, your "heti" sounds like "heetti" to a Finnish ear. Otherwise rather good.
+Rakentamisen Suola It sounded a lot like estonian tbh, haha. But I totally agree, he was a lot better than most swedes trying to speak finnish.
you make some of the vowels too long otherwise it's nearly perfect
Your Finnish accent is great, you just have a strange Swedish emphasis on some words.
Vitun on kaunis!
+Mestis oh...I didn't know that
+Mestis what? are you swedish? Han är förmodligen svensk, det hör man på när har pratar svenska, troligen stockholmare. There was no strange emphasis on words at all. Thats how you speak swedish.
***** That's not what I meant. His Swedish sounds fine to me.
I meant that when he was talking in Finnish, he emphasized some syllables in a Swedish way.
OHH lol sorry XD
Yeah it sounds like Danish alright, but very difficult to understand. It sounds like a Norwegian speaking Danish (and making fun of us just a tiny bit).
"very difficult to understand" is one of the cornerstones of the danish language
Maybe he learned to speak danish from a jyde
Sounds like danish to me -a Norwegian
Well he's Swedish, so of course he's making fun of the Danish, we have to!
The Llamacorn XD
Your Finnish is surprisingly good and the pronounciation is very solid although you definately wouldn't go for a native but every word was clearly understandable.
Yes it was wery solid maybe bit robotick if that makes sense
Juuri näin. Vaikkei puheeltaan niinkään suomenkielinen mutta suuret propsit ruotsalaiselle joka onnistui kehittää näinkin tasokkaan kielitaidon
I wonder why we Scandinavian, Nordics, Northern Europeans or what ever you want to call us, fight all the time? If you really look into the eyes of each other, we are brothers. We may have different habits, language or heritage. But we have been here thousands of years together. So what is wrong with us today? I'm a proud Finn. Call us Mongolians or what ever but I still love you.
UnzkysGamertag I never heard about anyone claiming that Finns are substantially related to Mongolians. The Sami and the Finns have similar languages but I don't think they are related to Mongolians either.
amandus westin I'm a Finnish American (Username is not related to my heritage whatsoever) My grandfather (a Savonian) had to deal with a lot of people calling him a "China Swede" and a "roundhead" during the 1930's a lot, typically from employers that didn't like us because we made a workers union. He went home to fight in the continuation war and came back in the 50's. Sadly I can't speak a hint of Finnish and learning is damned hard, but I really want to be able to connect to him in that way. Plus I even have his rifle!
I think you have misunderstood my friend. We "fight" but it's all good. It's just for fun and it has alot of irony and sarcasm to it, and that's fun to. It's actually beacuse we can make these kind of jokes about each other without getting mad, that we have a good bond.
UnzkysGamertag we dont really fight all the time, i just look at it as siblings roasting each others lmao❤️ idk i feel like we’re pretty close. Like in OL i usually root for my fellow nordic contries. - norwegian.
And you’re all quite cute.
Finnish always puts stress on the first syllable of every word. You never put stress on anything else than the first syllable, unlike the other nordic languages. For example, you said kriTIIKkiä when it should be KRItiikkiä. /
/ Finskan betonar alltid den första stavelsen i varje ord, till skillnad från Svenska där det kan variera.
Windir true
Absolutely! And also - everything spoken in Finnish makes a short sound unless if there are two vowels behind each other (like "aa") which makes it a long vowel, or two consonants where you hold a small pause in between. I've noticed that this is notoriously hard for Scandinavians to grasp even though it's a very strict rule. With Gurra you hear words like "alussa" become "aalusa". That initial a should be very short, and between the two s one should enlengthen the s sound for a very brief but meaningful moment. He nailed the tone of voice though. Monotonic af :D
If you want to be very strict about stressing syllables then stress is on every odd syllable unless it is a compound word. Basically long words have major stress on first syllable but also minor stress on 3rd and 5th syllables.
Danish has stress on first syllable too.
Icelandic also has almost exclusively first-syllable stress I believe.
Damn, your danish is REALLY close. Only some of the endings on our words is a struggle to you. You basicly spell it correctly, but the swedish accent is taking over from time to time
yeah he knows how to put the points
I feel left out :(
Sincerely, a faroese person lol
1. Nice avatar where is it from?
2. It is so cool to meet someone from a small nation like yours! I am just an American but also from an obscure folk. Do you like living there? It seems almost mystical...
@@lenar.5059 It sounds like Americans trying to speak icelandic
Oh I thought you got a little icelandic?
But he wasn't that good, think he's from Sweden 🇸🇪
@@lenar.5059 Actually the pronounce words pretty different. My mom is Danish and she can't understand Norwegian. I live in Norway and understand also Swedish, I understand fareos better than Iceland.
Sorry bruh
All Nordic languages:
*sound like german and is an indo-european language*
Finnish: We don't do that here
Haha
Maanantai,
Tiistai
Keskiviikko (german Mittwoch)
Torstai
Lauantai
Sunnuntai
Compare with Estonian:
Esmaspäev
Teispäev
Kolmapäev
Neljapäev
And as my Estonian teacher said "The came the Swedes and ruined our fine system"
Reede
Laupäev
Pühapäev (okay, this one is quite Balto-finnic)
But yes, not counting a whole bunch of random words, Finnish is pretty much unintelligible for Indo-european outsiders
"Sound like German"? Nope... I've been learning Norwegian for about 7 months now and it's not really all that close to German (I'm Swiss German, so I daresay I'm fairly familiar with German)
The icelandic one sounds so much like faroese, so cute to hear :P
*Queen Morges omg it's you*
Love how he even changes his tie to suit the country flag colors
I'm surprised nobody is talking about this
THANKS A LOT FOR ONE MILLION VIEWS - and watch another clip where I speak different languages (ruclips.net/video/Ygp-FgJaqek/видео.html)
This video has now over 1 million views. It's recorded 6 years ago and I'm very happy that you all have watched this video!
You can also see that I probably did not think that this clip would be seen by so many as I did not put so much energy on the interior (the hanger on the couch).
Well, big virtual hugs to you all - take care, and thank you :)
Keep up the great work!
@@mousekiller6731 🙏🏻
pretty good finnish by a foreigner / aika hyvää suomea ulkomaalaiselta
thanks :)
Want to see more of me speaking different languages? Then give the video and this comment thumbs up :)
+Gurra Official In the vid-info it should be "talar" not pratar. It's still somewhat correct but more of colloquial Swedish so among "linguists"the propper world should be "tala". With that in mind i could not bare watching the video. In respect of the brilliant mind i possess i had one of my staff bring me a report on it, and i must give you so called "kudos" for balancing content with personality, according to the report i was given. Excellent staff member, as for you and your video, i have not seen it, just love a quality report that's all.
+Gurra Official Godt jobbet :-) Noen steder er det lett å høre at du er svensk når du snakker norsk. Sjekk f.eks ut hvordan du uttaler "nordiske". Du sier "nordiske nyheter" på svensk, når skal snakke på norsk! ;-)
Norge leverte* (du sa levererte).
hoppet og danset, du skal aldri si "og", du skal si "å". g'en uttales aldri, da høres du ut som en utlending :P eller noen som leser opp fra et ark xD
Ellers veldig bra! :D
Bra jobbat! Läser du från något eller bara kan du prata språken flytande? Begåvad är du iallafall Gurra!❤️
den danske kan man næsten ikke høre hvad du siger!!
Your Norwegian is pretty good, though I can hear a slight hint of a Swedish accent in there, sort of like a Norwegian person who's been living in Sweden for a few years.
Niobesnuppa Helt enig ;D
Niobesnuppa Holy shit man, I would never be able to tell, with the languages being so similar. Mind listing some details you recognized that by?
+SaturnineXTS If you live in the Scandivavian area it is not that hard. :p
Scandinavian* xD
Sadly I don't. Not yet at least :P But his Norwegian sounded pretty much spot-on to my ears, according to what I've heard so far.
Hey youtube, why am I seeing this 5 years after it was published?
same
Sameeee
Same!
I understand your Danish, but the accent is very heavy. Too much "r", and too silent "t" for the most part. :)
É tho dé ohså
Lemonz1989 og udtalen af stumt d.
Lemonz1989 yea he should have put a potato in his mouth then it would have been a 100%👌👌
Meget enig. Der er noget med t- og s-erne, der ikke bliver udtalt kraftigt nok.
The Norwegian sounds like Norwegian With swedish accent....
It is ...
Not very surprising considering that's literally what it is lol
Well considering Norwegian is basically Swedish (and a touch of Danish) with a singy songy accent, then he did it very well.
@@brocklod3673 Norwegian is basically Norwegian, dude.
@Michael Leech neei, ikke diss oss slik
I'm Icelandic and I barely understood the Icelandic 😂
Icelandic is reeeeeeaaaaaally difficult.. :)
Gurra Official Haha 😅
Greetings! We don't have much chance to encounter with an Icelandic :)
nahh, it was not too bad. I got most of it. But you had sort of a Finnish rhythm to the syllables, I think that was the biggest problem.
I understood it.
When you unlock all the playable characters
Your Finnish sounds otherwise good, but you are pronouncing vowels either too long or too short, which makes it harder to understand. Good try though! :)
I am French and I don’t speak neither Swedish nor Finnish but I do agree
I’m a monolingual english speaker and I agree
I wonder if it ever gets easy
@@blockbasher6475 American, huh? Lol
No, Australian
Your finnish was suprisingly good! :)
Lakupata Thank you :)
As a Dane: There was a little too much of that lyricial Swedish/Norwegian influence in the accent. It needs to be steered more towards German. As in more stodgy / "labored". Like you have a hot potato in your mouth ;)
+C. S. Christopher haha I will think of that next time :)
Jag tycker hans svenska är bra. Han är ju väl svensk också loool
+C. S. Christopher
Exactly. We actually understood too much of it :D :D :D
Det danske stød er svært for udlændinge.
I like how this video is 5 years old and all comments are few months old.
Hahaha I have NO IDEA what is happening 😂😂😂
@@Gustavgurrakarlsson algorithm goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
How did i come here and why am i watching this i cant even understand anything hahah
Panda Bär But still your name has the letter "ä" :/
Wich means berry in swedish, so your comment doesn't make any sence
iamslycloud it means bear in german
Panda Bär I feel you!! I'm English and know how to speak none of these languages lol
Michael Boland same
Panda Bär LÖL thought you were swedish with that name
Pro tip for speaking finnish. Always place the weight on the first syllable of the word.
thanks, I´ll think about that :)
I think the Danish is the worst here. Even I as a Norwegian, can clearly hear that this is not how Danish really sounds.
True, it was really hard to understand as a dane, but very impressive nonetheless
+Alpha Kay I understand how he has difficulty's with danish... It is a very difficult language. As a dane you can here the pronounce fails
yeah... it seems like he actually do know and try to get the correct pronunciation, but just speak so fast, that every second word gets a Swedish or Norwegian touch.
he should just remove all accent from his voice and speak slower and it would have been more understandable
True
Impressive how the tone of voice was almost perfect for Finnish
Say whaaaat?
@@Gustavgurrakarlsson Yeah, the pronounciation was a bit off, but the way you spoke actually sounded like how the actual newscasters speak. If that makes sense
@@AntonACF well thanks a lot :)
@@AntonACF I think Swedes can fake it quite good as many of us have heard a lot of Finnish. At least my Finnish teacher in Tampere said my pronunciation was good when I read directly from a note (the thing was I didn't understand what I was reading).
@@romuruotsalainen1903 wait if you’re Swedish why do you call it “Tampere” and not “Tammerfors”?
You Sound like a swedish person when talking danish
Harald Franck he is Swedish
oh haha
That's one of the most things you can say to a swede..
Offensive*
thats not how swedish sounds XD
People taking about weird emphasis.. what the fuck is a weird emphasis? The dude is a monster! He even speaks finnish that is more related to japanese than every other euro language!
+Gianfranco M thanks a lot :)
+Gianfranco M what about estonian? And I dont think it is related that much to japanese and has many swedish influences
I don't know if estonian is considered scandinavian, wheter it is said to be very related to finnish
Gianfranco M Both are finno-ugric. Which are non indo-european languages
It most certainly isn't. Neither is Finnish.
From a norwegian: My hat off to you, man. Very impressive, although there is a little bit of swedish tonality in there ;). Anyway, good job!
thanks a lot :)
Your Danish was actually quite good everything considered
The Finnish was very good. I could understand everything, but some of the words were pronounced wrong. You gotta to be careful with double wovels/consonants. For example you pronounced aloittanut as alloitanut. There's no double L so the L ought to be shorter. Other examples: osakseen not oosakseen, esimerkiksi not essimerkiksi, teki not teeki, heti not heeti etc. :)
thanks a lot :)
Gurra Official You're welcome :)
finnish : such a difficult language !!!!!!!!
Yuge Yun the finnish was so off
Agreed with this! I understood everything as well, but some syllables were 'weighted' wrong so it sounded a little silly. Though I am still impressed by this! Very good for someone who is not a native speaker. :)
Your finnish was good, I understanded almost everything :)
Understood*
RikuZi Kyllähä siit joitai sanoi ymmärsin mut en mä kyl saanu iha kaikest selvää.
Korjaan * understood ^-^
Javla fint! It continues to amaze me how different Finnish is to all the rest of the Nordics. Glad we learn Swedish at school!
Otso Karvinen That's because finnish actually is a completely different language, I wouldn't really call the other "languages" separate languages at all.
Ei sitä paskaa missään tarvi
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huns
@@oravagamer99 Kyllä sitä Suomessa tarvii.
@@maratwaliyev9694 Finns were not huns.
Changing the tie to match the flag color is real dedication.
This is litelally great stuff! Adding Faroese wouldn't have hurt, but maybe I am asking to much :D
Den søteste norske dialekten jeg har hørt! Du høres egentlig ut som en vestlending som prøver litt for hardt på østlandsdialekten, men et veeeeeldig bra forsøk!
+Telefonkatalogen haha tack så mycket!
faroese is always left out of Nordic things :/
Cuz u belong to Denmark :p
+Greve von Dy it is still a Nordic language though, lol. I feel like many people do not know that it exists.
+Brittany Martin There is only one nordic language: Sami. So pls.
+Freyja Svensdóttir what does Faroe Islands have their own language? I've totally missed that 😳
Sami is not a nordic language at all. Learn the definition.
This dude be starring in to my soul
I could tell you're Swedish by the way you pronounce the last syllables of some words in Norwegian ;)
Finnish languages is belongs to uralic languages just like Hungarian while the other scandinavian languages is belong to the germanic languages
MC.W TV It's still a nordic language, because Finland is a nordic country. 'Nordic' is a geological term, not a linguistic one.
www.phil.muni.cz/jazyk/files/uralic-migrations.pdf
Uralic? Finnic*
Vali Zeth No it’s actually Uralic. He is correct.
How strong is the russian influence on finnish
Du klarade finskan helt utmärkt med tanke på hur lite du (antagligen) vet om språket! Förväntade mig något mycket sämre.
Stolt över dig! H: en finne från Östra rikshalvan.
man tackar så hjärtligt :)
were are faroese
Yea!
To all the people who are saying 'your pronunciation was great but you can tell you're not a native speaker' can I say - WTF? Don't you get it? Everyone, yes even YOU, has an accent no matter how slight when you speak a second learned language. It's really annoying when Nordic people tell you that you have an accent when you try to speak their language especially when they are telling you that in English with an accent. The lack of self-awareness is infuriating.
Thanks a lot :)
You are right. Even inside one country there can be tens of different accents. I am Italian, and just in my small region I can tell if someone is from a city or from the countryside, from the Venice area or from the north.
Your mentality is wrong.
Before you even start to learn a language you should learn how to pronounce the sounds.
If you are lazy and you halfass your language learning that is your call. However, you should not blame others for pointing out that you do not speak properly.
No matter where you live as a native, if you cannot pronounce your language properly they will send you to a special class that helps you improving your speach.
If you actually put in the time you can speak, think and sound like a native.
There should be no participation awards for the weak minded. Grow up and learn the actual language.
@@roberth4395 While I agree that a person should strive to learn how to pronounce another language correctly, some people have better capabilities in that regard than others, so no matter how hard they try, their lack of an "ear" dooms them to an accent.
As to native speakers having various dialects being the equivalent of not learning their own language "properly" and needing to be sent to a special class- WTF??? While many countries may have one standardized pronunciation that is used officially because there is too much divergence between the various dialects, this does not mean that those other dialects are not speaking properly.
@@a.westenholz4032 Based on your surname, I presume you are german and speak mostly indo-european languages.
The special class I mentioned is very common in my country. There are some sounds that are hard to pronounce for some people, like "r" s and there are some people who have other issues with their speech. Our schools provide free classes with a speech therapist. To help them learn how to speak properly. If you think this is a bad thing you should be ashamed of yourself and stay away from the education system as you are clearly not suited for the job.
Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian etc are not indo-european languages.
If you want to learn to speak a finno-ugric language, until you learn how to pronounce every character do not even try to proceed with learning.
*In a finno-ugric language pronounciation is extremly critical as 99% of the words are pronounced as they are written.* Also the difference of words can be almost indistinguishable for the untrained non native speaker's ears.
In finnish the difference between meeting and killing someone is 1 less double character.
Tapan ( _to meet_ ), tapaan ( _to kill_ ). "I will meet your daughter tonight." Or "I will kill your daughter tonight."
Kuusi ( _6_ ), kusi ( _piss_ ). "I would like to order 6 beer." or "I would like to order piss beer."
Suddenly pronounciation matters.
Hungarian is similar. If you pronounce a word incorrectly you can insult someone or for example örülök ≠ őrülök (first one means _I am glad_ , the second one means _I am literally going (asylum) insane_ ).
I could go into a lenghty detailed comment, but if you want my time hire me and pay for it.
Ps: excluding the nordic countries every european country have abismal language learning systems. Instead of going full pc "everyone is perfect the way they are" these countries should admit that they have no idea how to learn and teach languages and improve their ways.
*Learning how to pronounce a sound perfectly is extremly easy. As long as you use the right methods to learn.*
I'm danish and I didn't understand what was said in danish ^^ Men godt forsøgt,min ven ;)
Huh?
haha tack ändå :)
+Plumpy Who proved that? It doesn't sound right.
Oh thanks xD I thought my Danish understanding was dwindling D: Got scared there for a moment.
Me- "I've been too long in Sweden, I can't understand Danish anymore T^T "
But thanks for clearing it up ;)
I understood nothing of it and I´m 100% Danish, I speak fluently Danish on a daily basis and I still live in Denmark... I´ve lived here for 20 years and I´ve heard anyone pronounce my language like that ^^
Haha, your Norwegian sounds so weird. You sound like every Swede in Norway :) The others sounds really good though.
haha thanks!
The might sound good but finnish was not that good
His Swedish is very good!
han kommer ju från sverige så inte så konstigt
Even so it had a distinct Swedish accent that most people here in eastern part of Norway just doesn't have.
Din svenska var skit bra!!
Han ER svensk lol
+Jonas Dalbakk jag tror han skämtade
+Jonas Dalbakk jag tror han kommer fran norge 😂
aftersom jag talar skånksa kanske
In almost every sentence he says in norwegian I can hear that he is not from Norway, but he was very close though
kanskje fordi han er Svensk
As a Dane listening to his “Danish” I could hardly understand a word...
Samme her, lyder som om han er en svensker som taler svensk
as a swede listening to every dane i can hardly understand a word.
Synes nu han gjorde et godt forsøg. Det er virkelig svært at udtale dansk, da man udtaler ordene på en helt anden måde, og ligsom bruger ens "hals" forskelligt, i forhold til svensk og dansk
Det är klart ni inte förstår, ingen förstår danska, inte ens danskar...
I have no trouble understanding my Danish uncle and cousins. No I'm not Danish.
Just to clear things up! Nordic countries = Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Faraoe Islands. Scandinavia = Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The name comes from the mountain chain "Skanderna" that runs through all three countries.
Faraoe Islands is danish though, doesn't count really.
+C. Rivalley I thought there were no mountains in Denmark?
Sindraug25 Danmarks högsta punkt är Yding Skovhöj/Möllehöj. (Ca 170 m. ö h.) Skanderna går mellan Sverige & Norge, men lite i Finland också.
Sindraug25 It kind of ends right in the very north of Denmark... it's not a proper "mountain" there.
Ah shit. Wrote in swedish. Good job.
You're Danish sounds like a drunk Sønderjyske
@ಠ_ಠ oooohh burned
ಠ_ಠ You sound like a salty Swede.
Æ æ synnejye, å do vi it ku forstoo et oe a va æ soj, hvis do høe mæ snakk. Å stau ka do it æ heller! Mojn!
I speak English, Spanish, French and German. It’s curious to me that all the Scandinavian Languages and German are related yet German is nowhere similar to the others in pronunciation.
hola UwU
Wow your Finnish is good! I understood everything you said. Really cool video, hope to see more of these about Nordics! Heja alla nordiska bröder/systrar!
Honestly ... loved all of them ❤️
based on what I know of nordic languages I would say he is swedish. Am I right? (I'm pretty sure he is not an icelander).
Yeah. His Icelandic was a bit broken at the start but consistently better as he went on.
necrosodomblasphemia his icelandic is terrible
Elmithian do you even icelandic bro, i am from iceland and i could barely understand him
Other nordic languages: 😇
Finnish: 🥴
@ That must explain Hungarian. It's branched off from Finnish, but totally different.
Haha!
It do be from a different language family though.
Ikr, btw I'm finnish xD
Finnish sounds like japanese
One important thing when speaking finnish is to understand the difference between single and double letters. Your speech will sound a lot better and clearer if you concentrate on that more. There's no pronounciation in finnish.
As an example when you said "osakseen" the first o was really long and sounded like if there were two os in the beginning like "oosakseen".
Really good still.
The Norwegian is a little «Svorsk», but still impressive.
Enig. Måten han uttalte "er" og "landslaget" på var veldig svensk.
And "levererte". Other than that I think he could have passed as a news reader from Østfold trying to hide his dialect.
@@aperson4826 haha enig
'' svorsk '' 😂😂😭😭
The danish is a bit too sweden accent. Kind regards a dane
Sees the finnish flag: Hey, that's my country!
Speaks finnish: But that's not my language...
(I'm finno-swedish)
Im not finno swedish but I was in a swedish school for 9 years in Ekenäs so I can speak it perfectly
@@otsoblomster761 eli osaaks puhuu riikin vai Suomen ruotsii täydellisesti niis on iso ero ja niille jotka puhuu riikin ruotsii nii niille on kuulema karseeta kuunnella Suomen ruotsii :D
@Finland No siis jos se on suomenruotsalainen niin tuskin se osaa suomea ainakaan kovin hyvin.
Alex Nurmi tosi harva suomenruotsalainen puhuu riikinruotsia. Kyllä, se kuulostaa karseelta :D
Your language is Randommish👍😜
your icelandic is actually lowkey good!! i had low expectations because few people can actually speak it good!!
I'm sorry but as a Fin I still had a hard time understanding the finnish part. But I get it because Finnish is so different from the other nordic languages and it's a hard language.
Kuitenkin, hienoa työtä!
Mun mielestä se oli aika helposti ymmärrettävää. Onks suomi sun äidinkieli?
@@jonnejantteri948 Joo siis on kyl. Ei siinä siis muuta kun muutamat sanat mitä ei välttämättä ymmärrä kun ne ottaa pois kontekstista. Esim pallonhallinta.
@@kissanpentux6204 Niin, no siinä voi kans olla jotain osaa et oon useemman vuoden joutunu ymmärtämään suomenruotsalaisen alueen melko rikkinäistä suomea kun oon joutunu kommunikoimaan. Toi on niinku yks taso kaupunginjohtajan suomen alla lol.
Ur finnish skill is good but ur accent more sounds like immigrant who managed to succeed speak finnish eventually but with little clumsy vocal
Haha :)
Oh my god that finnish was so good!👍🏻 we have a very difficult language but you are rocking it💪🏼🇫🇮
I'm very happy and impressed with your finnish. I understand it perfectly! Not many nordic people can do it so well (and likewise we are mostly bad at other norsic languages)
not a dane, but been living in Denmark for 6 years... really difficult to understand his danish XD
As a a Dane, it is confusing
Does he sound like he has TWO potatoes in his mouth? xD
Born and raised in Denmark, still had a kind of hard time with some of his words haha, it is a hard language to just replicate the accent off without sounding just a little dumb and incomprehensible
In any case Kudos !! Would only like to be able to understand / speak all nordic languages
Yea. Or maybe you did not learn our language after 6 years. Not a surprise tho.
The Scandinavians here understand how impressive this is. Even though I lived in Norway for 12 years I still sound danish..
Thanks a lot William 🙏🏻
Oh my god, your Danish is amazing.
I can barely even hear anything different than a Dane.
Great work!
Thanks a lot :)
Did this suddenly pop up on everybody’s recommendations?
No, not in mine
Your icelandic is quite good. Not perfect but i still managed to understand you
thanks :)
ertu frá íslandi
Sturla Jónsson Já það er ég nu víst
Þetta var samt alls ekki fullkomlega borið fram
Viktor Katrinarson Það er nú satt en þetta er mjög gott fyrir utan flesta
Speaking Norwegian/Danish with a Swedish background seems to be a lot harder than vice versa. I have a Swedish friend who's been living here in Norway for 6 years, I still don't understand how she says 7!
I am German and want to learn Norwegian. Do you know any Germans who can talk Norwegian? Is it good or does the accent sound very weird?
@@thebudgieartist3391 Standard Norwegian is the easiest out of all the Nordic languages to learn for a foreigner, I think. I'm Danish, Danish is very hard due to pronunciation because we talk both from the throat and the front of the mouth at the same time. Good thing is, once you learn Norwegian, you'll be able to read Danish almost seamlessly and it's also a good foundation to then learn other Scandinavian languages.
@@thebudgieartist3391 Btw...I know a German who can speak both Danish and Norwegian. It's my grandfather, who's a German from Slesvig
@@thebudgieartist3391 I once knew a German exchange student who could speak perfect Norwegian with local dialect within less than a year. Norwegian and German are fairly closely related languages and I think once you get the more sing-songy intonation of Norwegian down, you should become pretty fluent without too much trouble. Norwegian is like a middle-road of the Scandinavian languages and a good start as Alex Larsen says, only issue is that Norwegian has more variations of local dialects than any Nordic country due to inaccessible geography and spread-out population.
This is really good, i`m a danish person and your danish was really good too, you could hear a bit of the swedish accent, but it doesnt matter. You could basically travel in all the Nordic countries. Forsæt det gode arbejde!😄
Thanks a lot :)
The Icelandic is really off, it's like he's speaking a whole other language.
I know right
Well, he is, isn't he?
Þetta var ekki það slæmt
I'm a simple person.
I see Finland I click
I like your way of thinking!
Being 100% Danish I have to say that I had a hard time understanding the Danish section. but nice try ;-)
+Hemmeligt Navn thanks anyway ;)
+Hemmeligt Navn me being Faroese it sounds like normal Danish to me... but then again when I hear Danish spoken I never really listen...:P
+Gurra Official I understood it relatively fine, bit of a swedish touch but by no means did it sound bad.
Hemmeligt Navn I as a finn understood every single word despite him having a really reeaally strong swedish accent.
Same here, I had a hard time understanding his Icelandic, but nice try though.
Quite decent. I just stumbled upon this video so I haven't heard your voice before, but could tell from your Norwegian that you're a native Swedish speaker. Something about how you overenunciated words in ways not even news presenters do, and how some word endings that in Norwegian are basically always pronounced with silent consonants (for example in "landslaget"), really sounded like Swedish. After this realization I recognised some Swedish traits in your Danish too.
Well I say thanks :)
the Danish sounded like you had an accent ...but the rest was cool!
Hibaq Ali I think he speaks better than you, arab
HurrayTsk How was that racist?
Nope i dont think he speaks better than me and im not arab lol, just because i wear hijab you are expecting me to be arab.
Hibaq Ali you are either sudanese, somali or eritrean, and all of them are part of the arab world
HAHAHAHHAHAHA No! It is in africa! what does that have to do with the arab World??!
your Finnish was kinda hard to understand, since you had a really weird emphasis. But it sounded great whatsoever, if you'd have a proper emphasis, you would have sounded like a normal Finn :)
+Kusti2801 thanks :)