The way she nailed the intonation is honestly so impressive, a lot of English speakers tend to struggle with getting the intonation and rhythm of swedish right but she absolutely aced it
Maybe because she learnt whilst younger and at school. It is harder when you get older I think. I have lived in Sweden for 23 years but have a distinct english accent when I speak swedish
You’re right. Americans and us Brits sound like we’re speaking English using Swedish words (and I know this because I’ve lived in Sweden for 10 years) 😂
@@dimutech Senior year of High School would be 18. And she only studied there for one year. It's still extremely impressive. She sorta sounds like a Finno-Swede, but it's quite understandable and it was grammatically correct.
Ok wow... this gave me chills. Not so much that she knows Swedish though it was suprising but more of WHERE she learnt it. Pretty much the town over from where I currently live XD and here I thought it was gonna be Stockholm or something... nope. Sandviken.
she was in sweden for just one year, lived in the us for over a decade before this interview and still remembered enough swedish to speak fluently. No wonder she's got a mensa level iq
Depends a lot on how willing you are to learn another language as well, though. A lot of people rely too much on English, and this never really leads anywhere. She probably insisted on trying to learn Swedish and stick to that language as much as possible, and probably also checked Swedish/English dictionaries a lot. You can learn a lot in just a couple weeks that way.
The fact that she only spoke Swedish for one year and still remebers after what, like 20 years of probably never saying a Swedish word is pretty impressive to say the least. I dont remember anything from my German classes and i finnished school 2 years ago.
+toby It largely depends on how willing you are to actually use the language yourself. One mistake that I often see foreigners make in Sweden is that they use English all the time - they know that we are really good at English in Sweden, so they kinda take advantage of that, and I consider that a big mistake. Geena Davis most likely tried her best to understand the Swedish language instead of just relying on English, and this can have amazing results and really help with long-term memory as well. You can learn a foreign language very quickly if you always try using it while you live in the country where it's spoken. Geena Davis was also married to a Finnish guy (and that's probably why she speaks Swedish with a Finnish accent in this video), and Finnish people tend to know at least a little Swedish since they learn it in school, and some parts of Finland even have Swedish as their official language.
Laurelindo I am Swedish so i know all that already. Im not talking about how fast a person learns a language, im saying that it's amazing that she still remembers it after probably 20+ years of not saying a Swedish word at all.
I am Swedish and I have to say that I did not see this coming. Americans usually have terrible accents but hers is very good, especially for an American who only spent a year in Sweden.
@@flormariarennerstam4886 det faktum att hon valde "jamen" säger allt. Jag är helt övertygad om att hon talar betydligt bättre svenska än du talar spanska och antagligen engelska också. Och det var 3 meningar.
"Jamen, jag kan inte. Det var så länge sen. Jag kommer inte ihåg nånting." She uses the word "jamen", which is a filler word. It's super difficult for a non-native speaker of any language to use filler words correctly and effortlessly. She knows way more than she lets on, she is very talented!
"Ja men" is technically equivalent to "yes but", although I believe that "Ja men" is used a bit more as filler words compared to in English. In this situation, it is more like "well actually".
@@kebabman1968 The Famous RENNY HARLIN of Finland ! He is The Best known Finnish born - Self made Man at Hollywood ! After His 1st Movie Born American - still in Finland - He had to move to Hollywood ! Harlin made Movies like CLIFFHANGER with Sylvester " Rocky " Stallone & Long Kiss Good Night with just Davies ! Year 2020 He moved back to Finland - and Now is working with Mika WALTARI Books - Komisario PALMU ! He plans to refilm The Whole Serie of PALMU - who was Chasing " wrong doers " already at 50s & 60s Helsinki !
People say she sounds like a fin, but honestly she sounds a bit like the Queen (who doesn't have Swedish as a native language). Finnish Swedish has much "rounder" and slower vowels.
i would think its swedish with a finnish twang thru a finnish filter. Im swedish but my fathers side of the family is from österbotten - the north of Finland were swedish is prevelant in some parts. Meaning swedish is their native tounge, just a different accent.
I too spent a year in Sweden (Gothenburg) as a student, teaching English. I am from the north of England. Her Swedish sounds very good to me. How lovely to hear it!
I don't think she sounds like a finnish speaking swedish at all, she sounds like swedish people used to speak in older movies, back in the 50's when we actually pronounced every word instead of just clumping everything together and rushing it or using slang. Very good Swedish.
well nobody really speaks any language properly beqause it takes too much effort i mean whats properly..there are different dialects aswell then we must only have one way to pronounce things, its a very human thing to not pronounce everything. - could you with all the kindness of your`re heart pass me the salt over their to your right my dearest human fellow man friend...thank you i am forever in debt and will try my best to repay you as soon as possible - pass me da sawt...fank you mai. The shorter and easier to pronounce the better, that literally goes for all languages, In russian o’s turns to a’s alot of the time cuz most of the time ist faster and easier, winteeerrr vs winta... so much easier, Är vs E/Ä, va är problemet instead? of vad är problemet? if we dont do these kind of things we are not being efficient, and we would be very slow when communicating, but slang though... if its only slang then it kind of becomes a whole other language, but britain is no stranger to that with the cockney rhyming slang, there was actually a thyming slang culture in Stockholm waaay back where they had a similar thing where they could talk with only slang (Söderslang) and that was in the 1940s but sure i can agree on when theres too much slang it doesnt sound good but as i said spoken language is more effecient when leaving stuff out and choosing easier and faster pronounciation, speaking like a book is not how most people speak and for a reason. If this was a reality then it would be one dialect per language and that would be boring for alot of people which i dare to think is a majority, but then there are preferneces ofcourse and i cant argue against what you think beqause its what you like, i myself like Skånska, Cockney for example, actually if you want to learn a language where there isnt much variation where the dialects arent that shockingly different from each other than russian is a good pick but still, the spoken language still simplify spoken speach and shorten words to make it more effecient like any other language, alot of european languages actually are more consistant from how their sounds matches their writing, so english is actually really confusing beqause of this.
She speaks good understandable swedish, with an accent but still good. Didn't know she was an exchange student her senior year... Makes me wonder: why sweden?
Sounds very clear and easy to understand. There is a slight mix of Finnish accent and the elderly way of speaking Swedish from the black and white era movies.
I'm swedish, myself and I'm fully aware how diffficult my native language is. Even if english and swedish share the same language tribe, they are still very different. So color me impressed.
She did an interview with a swedish journalist she spoke swedish and she sounded really good, languages are like muscles, if you don't use them every now and then you will lose it, one has to maintain it by speaking reading listening to music watch movies etc.
As a swede she has a very good swedish, with a very slight accent. If i met her I would guess she was a german that liver here for like 10 years or more, without knowing anything, and based on her accent
As an American, I have to say your friend is right. It took me 6 years to say my first word in Swedish. Then 4 more years to actually understand what people are actually saying. All together it took me 10 years to understand and speak this language. I also read a bit and write in Swedish. The Swedish language is hard.
I read somewhere that Swedish was the easiest language for native English speakers to learn. Really hard were Mandarin and Farsi, and the very hardest was Japanese. Hungarian and Euskara(Basque) are also a nightmare.
Super impressed. She didn't only speak it good, she also got the emotions right. Listening to her was like experiencing the old Sweden again without massmigration.
She do it well and different from other people, just amazing after only one year and so long has passed sense than. You can tell she is very smart woman.
That was...neat! Out of that short sentence like others have mentioned, great intonation. You can hear a dialect, meaning I can at least place she's not south with us wonky southern speakers xD
Being in another country, living and studying there and actively learning a language because you are interested, in 1 year you do get really far. It seems commenters here are so astounded to hear "in only 1 year".
Wow!! That is honestly amazing. If I didn't know she was American and only heard her speak in Swedish, I would honestly guess that she came from Finland or Estonia or something like that. Not the US. At least just based off of this. I could barely hear any of the "typical" American/English accent that most people from English speaking countries usually has. I'm truly so impressed!
I honestly have no clue who she is (sorry!) but as a Swede this amazes me. She speak with the right rhythm something most English speakers never do. She even speaks in a dialect of sorts, almost like a Swedish speaking Finnish person. And that’s what she learnt after one year here. Very impressive I must say!
Her accent is more like Ingrid Bergmans accent than a Finnish accent in my opinion. Compare to Ingrid in "Murder on the Orient Express" if you get the chance.
In the film, Ingrid Bergman exaggerates her Swedish accent very much. The role she plays required a strong Swedish accent. Irl Bergmans English was not perfect but ok. She never mastered the voiced s sound and also had problems separating v and w
her Swedish is actually quite impressive, no grammar errors and accurate pronunciation, albeit with a Finnish-like accent. I've seen various figures for her IQ online, ranging from 140 to 158, which is genius level, either way she's obviously really smart, and hot too! Also, a very underrated actress!
There are so many surprising things about Geena Davis… for example: plays the flute and piano extremely well, her first job after college was as a mannequin model, speaks fluent Swedish, placed 24th out of 300 in the tryouts for the US Olympic Archery team.
Great Swedish!! My native language so I know - and I miss seeing Geena!! Fuck Hollywood in the 90s for thinking women over 40 were too old to act. Geena is so likeable, I know she's doing great things in life but seems like Hollywood turned their back on her which pisses me off.
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The way she nailed the intonation is honestly so impressive, a lot of English speakers tend to struggle with getting the intonation and rhythm of swedish right but she absolutely aced it
Maybe because she learnt whilst younger and at school. It is harder when you get older I think. I have lived in Sweden for 23 years but have a distinct english accent when I speak swedish
Yeah this was sorta insane
You’re right. Americans and us Brits sound like we’re speaking English using Swedish words (and I know this because I’ve lived in Sweden for 10 years) 😂
sounds more like finish swedish that swedish tbh...
@@dimutech Senior year of High School would be 18. And she only studied there for one year. It's still extremely impressive. She sorta sounds like a Finno-Swede, but it's quite understandable and it was grammatically correct.
As a Swede I am super impressed. She has not spoken Swedish in aaaages and still sounded good.
Det var en överaskning ;) She did really good on that Swedish!
Jag visste inte det här, fick reda på det idag 😮😮😮.
Så många gånger man har sett hennes filmer i över 30 år
Ok wow... this gave me chills. Not so much that she knows Swedish though it was suprising but more of WHERE she learnt it. Pretty much the town over from where I currently live XD and here I thought it was gonna be Stockholm or something... nope. Sandviken.
Sounds like the Swedish version of Ariel for the Little mermaid. When the voice actor was from Norway
Also sounds a little Östergötskt
Excellent Swedish indeed! Otroligt imponerande, särskilt som det var så länge sen hon lärde sig svenska.
Ja verkligen
Ja, verkligen! Och hon är så söt!
Haha va lite oväntat o höra henne prata Svenska 😂
@@uranusismightybig5111 hortensia henne tidigare. Hon känner sig obekväm me svenska.... hon är lite svensk....hon är svensk....ja
@@Jens-tc5yzvad är det för fyllespråk du talar 😂
she was in sweden for just one year, lived in the us for over a decade before this interview and still remembered enough swedish to speak fluently. No wonder she's got a mensa level iq
Depends a lot on how willing you are to learn another language as well, though.
A lot of people rely too much on English, and this never really leads anywhere.
She probably insisted on trying to learn Swedish and stick to that language as much as possible, and probably also checked Swedish/English dictionaries a lot.
You can learn a lot in just a couple weeks that way.
The fact that she only spoke Swedish for one year and still remebers after what, like 20 years of probably never saying a Swedish word is pretty impressive to say the least. I dont remember anything from my German classes and i finnished school 2 years ago.
+toby
It largely depends on how willing you are to actually use the language yourself.
One mistake that I often see foreigners make in Sweden is that they use English all the time - they know that we are really good at English in Sweden, so they kinda take advantage of that, and I consider that a big mistake.
Geena Davis most likely tried her best to understand the Swedish language instead of just relying on English, and this can have amazing results and really help with long-term memory as well.
You can learn a foreign language very quickly if you always try using it while you live in the country where it's spoken.
Geena Davis was also married to a Finnish guy (and that's probably why she speaks Swedish with a Finnish accent in this video), and Finnish people tend to know at least a little Swedish since they learn it in school, and some parts of Finland even have Swedish as their official language.
Laurelindo I am Swedish so i know all that already. Im not talking about how fast a person learns a language, im saying that it's amazing that she still remembers it after probably 20+ years of not saying a Swedish word at all.
She doesn't speak it fluently. Far from it.
I am Swedish and I have to say that I did not see this coming. Americans usually have terrible accents but hers is very good, especially for an American who only spent a year in Sweden.
Snälla hon sade EN mening....jag låter spansktalande när jag också säger EN meningen....
@@flormariarennerstam4886 det faktum att hon valde "jamen" säger allt. Jag är helt övertygad om att hon talar betydligt bättre svenska än du talar spanska och antagligen engelska också. Och det var 3 meningar.
Hennes accent kändes väldigt "Svensk 50-tals film", helt underbar.
@@BosisofSwedenis the word "sentence" translated as "mening" in Swedish? Doesn't "mening" mean "opinion" or "meaning"?
@@AlphaChinoz’Mening’ is sentence. ’Menar’ is meaning. ’Meningen’ is the intention or the sentence
That's really good Swedish! Very easy to understand.
I took swedish for 3 years and tbh I know more latin than swedish nowadays. Swedish is tough to learn.
@@kuuttinen Not really. Latin was much more difficult. I lived in Sweden for nine months.
@@paulinek9764Swedish is absolutely not easy to learn. I am born here so it’s not difficult to me but we have so many special rules.
"Jamen, jag kan inte. Det var så länge sen. Jag kommer inte ihåg nånting."
She uses the word "jamen", which is a filler word. It's super difficult for a non-native speaker of any language to use filler words correctly and effortlessly. She knows way more than she lets on, she is very talented!
"Ja men" is technically equivalent to "yes but", although I believe that "Ja men" is used a bit more as filler words compared to in English.
In this situation, it is more like "well actually".
tror faktiskt hon säger nämen, jag kan inte.
@@basseman4239 Jepp, hon säger "nämen".
Minsann i allsindar!
It's the way she pronounce "nämen" too. I'm impressed.
Haha she almost sounds like a Finnish person speaking Swedish 😂
kolla beskrivningen (y)
Kanske för att hon var ihop men finnen Rennie Harlen.....eller vad han hette?
Dissaa du Finland? 😑
Jag tyckte hon lät lite som drottning silvia när hon snackade svenska 😀
@@kebabman1968 The Famous RENNY HARLIN of Finland ! He is The Best known Finnish born - Self made Man at Hollywood ! After His 1st Movie Born American - still in Finland - He had to move to Hollywood ! Harlin made Movies like CLIFFHANGER with Sylvester " Rocky " Stallone & Long Kiss Good Night with just Davies ! Year 2020 He moved back to Finland - and Now is working with Mika WALTARI Books - Komisario PALMU ! He plans to refilm The Whole Serie of PALMU - who was Chasing " wrong doers " already at 50s & 60s Helsinki !
People say she sounds like a fin, but honestly she sounds a bit like the Queen (who doesn't have Swedish as a native language). Finnish Swedish has much "rounder" and slower vowels.
i would think its swedish with a finnish twang thru a finnish filter. Im swedish but my fathers side of the family is from österbotten - the north of Finland were swedish is prevelant in some parts. Meaning swedish is their native tounge, just a different accent.
I don’t think that I have ever heard a member of the monarchy speak. Konstigt.
I think she sounds like Astrid Lindgren's storytelling voice. KONSTIGT!
Her Swedish sounds neither Finnish Accented nor Finland-Swedish.
I though she sounded very "Swedish 50s movie", this very correct swedish with a slight twang.
Much like the Queen.
I too spent a year in Sweden (Gothenburg) as a student, teaching English. I am from the north of England. Her Swedish sounds very good to me. How lovely to hear it!
Hvitfeldtska?
A hell of a lot better Swedish than the embarrassing sauna scene in Umbrella Academy
That's what brought me here !!
On the other hand, pretty much anything in the history of cinema is better Swedish than that scene :D
I don't think she sounds like a finnish speaking swedish at all, she sounds like swedish people used to speak in older movies, back in the 50's when we actually pronounced every word instead of just clumping everything together and rushing it or using slang. Very good Swedish.
This is true, nobody speaks the language properly anymore, kind of sad.
I agree that´s what I thought too She sounds like swedish people in older movies she does not sound finnish at all.
Yes, that's what I thought as well -- she sounded like one of my charming, elderly Swedish relatives. :-)
Yes, I agree with you.
well nobody really speaks any language properly beqause it takes too much effort i mean whats properly..there are different dialects aswell then we must only have one way to pronounce things, its a very human thing to not pronounce everything. - could you with all the kindness of your`re heart pass me the salt over their to your right my dearest human fellow man friend...thank you i am forever in debt and will try my best to repay you as soon as possible - pass me da sawt...fank you mai. The shorter and easier to pronounce the better, that literally goes for all languages, In russian o’s turns to a’s alot of the time cuz most of the time ist faster and easier, winteeerrr vs winta... so much easier, Är vs E/Ä, va är problemet instead? of vad är problemet? if we dont do these kind of things we are not being efficient, and we would be very slow when communicating, but slang though... if its only slang then it kind of becomes a whole other language, but britain is no stranger to that with the cockney rhyming slang, there was actually a thyming slang culture in Stockholm waaay back where they had a similar thing where they could talk with only slang (Söderslang) and that was in the 1940s but sure i can agree on when theres too much slang it doesnt sound good but as i said spoken language is more effecient when leaving stuff out and choosing easier and faster pronounciation, speaking like a book is not how most people speak and for a reason. If this was a reality then it would be one dialect per language and that would be boring for alot of people which i dare to think is a majority, but then there are preferneces ofcourse and i cant argue against what you think beqause its what you like, i myself like Skånska, Cockney for example, actually if you want to learn a language where there isnt much variation where the dialects arent that shockingly different from each other than russian is a good pick but still, the spoken language still simplify spoken speach and shorten words to make it more effecient like any other language, alot of european languages actually are more consistant from how their sounds matches their writing, so english is actually really confusing beqause of this.
She sounds like the swedish Queen.
no she sounds better
High EvulMe, Yes she really sounds like Queen Silvia when she speaks Swedish.
@@bjornsundberg1947 I'm not Swedish, but I've heard enough Swedish to detect an accent in Queen Silvia's Swedish.
So what? Sylvia learned Swedish comparatively late in life. During school years its way easier to learn
Her foreign accent has a hint of Swedish...@@RaymondHng
She speaks good understandable swedish, with an accent but still good. Didn't know she was an exchange student her senior year... Makes me wonder: why sweden?
renni harlin
varför inte?
I hear no accent. Sounds like a Finland-Swedish dialect though.
@@syntaxerror8955 That's an accent
Syntax Error Yes?
Haha, hon låter som drottning Silvia!
No, Queen Silvia is not at all as good talking Swedish.
Silvia är den bästa läraren, om du vill lära dig svenska på 35 år.
Sounds very clear and easy to understand. There is a slight mix of Finnish accent and the elderly way of speaking Swedish from the black and white era movies.
PERFECT accent in what we call "Rikssvenska" aka the most common accent.
Me “nothing”
RUclips Algorithm 7 years later “Geena Davis speaking Swedish”
I'm swedish, myself and I'm fully aware how diffficult my native language is. Even if english and swedish share the same language tribe, they are still very different. So color me impressed.
English and swedish? i mean any similarity at all?
De tillhör den germanska språkstammen.
I am Finnish and I don't think it's hard , it's really simple compared to Finnish.
Swedish is kind of easy?
@@liina000 Definitely easier than Finnish for English speakers
That was really good!
That was really good, I've met people who have lived like 30 years in Sweden and still can't speak proper...
Like the Swedish Queen..
She did an interview with a swedish journalist she spoke swedish and she sounded really good, languages are like muscles, if you don't use them every now and then you will lose it, one has to maintain it by speaking reading listening to music watch movies etc.
As a swede she has a very good swedish, with a very slight accent. If i met her I would guess she was a german that liver here for like 10 years or more, without knowing anything, and based on her accent
I’m a Swede and that was awesome swedish from Geena if you ask me! To Geena: Jag tycker att du kom ihåg väldigt många ord. Bra jobbat!
I'm from sweden and she speaks perfect swedish. Sounds almost like Ingrid Bergman.
My english friends who lives in Sweden complains. It is difficult for me to learn Swedish, when everyone wants to speak English with me.
As an American, I have to say your friend is right. It took me 6 years to say my first word in Swedish. Then 4 more years to actually understand what people are actually saying. All together it took me 10 years to understand and speak this language. I also read a bit and write in Swedish. The Swedish language is hard.
😄Wow haha! Her Swedish accent sounds like it came from an 1940´s movie, or from an old grandmother. It´s pretty.
that was so perfect Swedish dialect. words were so clear
Hon är en riktig muminmamma ;)
She spent one year here in her high school days and still got everything down like that? She's smart.
That was actually pretty decent!
I read somewhere that Swedish was the easiest language for native English speakers to learn.
Really hard were Mandarin and Farsi, and the very hardest was Japanese. Hungarian and Euskara(Basque) are also a nightmare.
I am from Sweden and she says "Well yeah but I can't, it was such a long time ago, I don't remember anything".
Nice! Good Swedish! :D
That doesn’t sound like someone who spent a year here, more like 15 years. There’s an accent but she sounds like it comes naturally
I'm Swedish (born in Finland). Imagine how much I've wanted to marry Geena for the last 30 years...
Super impressed. She didn't only speak it good, she also got the emotions right. Listening to her was like experiencing the old Sweden again without massmigration.
👍 Yes, indeed, Geena CAN speak swedish! No doubt about that! 🇸🇪
Funny she sounds just like our queen, voice and accent ^^
James - I assume you speak swedish?
Geena - yes fluently
a mili second later
Geena - i can’t anymore
She tapped out really quickly haha. (He broke the cardinal rule: You praise the actor for the ability without making him/her prove it.)
Better Swedish than most SFI teachers I have been in contact with.
😂
0:10 What exactly was funny?
Hi! So i don’t know! Hope this helps!
Yeah so the funny thing was like something funny or something idk
I think he kept surprising her with a bunch of facts about her during the interview, so she was referring to this if I'm not mistaken
@@ozanyapisan5965 Thanks, that makes sense.
Wow, Geena.Come back here.
Too dangerous with all the bombs going off.
"Jamen, I can't. It was so long ago."
As others have mentioned, Jamen is a filler word. The melody was very accurate as well.
That’s perfectly understandable Swedish. Dont sell yourself short!
Hon talar väldigt bra svenska...med rätt melodi.❤
Many actors got a real feeling for languages and accents. It sounded fenomenal !!!
She do it well and different from other people, just amazing after only one year and so long has passed sense than. You can tell she is very smart woman.
That was...neat! Out of that short sentence like others have mentioned, great intonation. You can hear a dialect, meaning I can at least place she's not south with us wonky southern speakers xD
She is really Good at Swedish!
I did not know that about her.
That was much better than I expected 😲. Easy to understand, and actually good.
sounds pretty good to me!
Holy crap, she is good. She is is making it in her very own lovable accent.
Check out Richie Faulkner speaking Swedish. There's an English speaker that nails the (Stockholm) accent.
She sounds like the Queen of Sweden with a little touch of Finnish in there
Hey! Ha ha. Sounds like our Queen. A bit German-Swedish or maybe finnish-Swedish to the tone
I think she was married to a man from Finland.
@@rmskold1292 There you go…! Surprisingly good pronunciation in any case!
She's so fuckin beautiful.
Being in another country, living and studying there and actively learning a language because you are interested, in 1 year you do get really far. It seems commenters here are so astounded to hear "in only 1 year".
Wow!! That is honestly amazing. If I didn't know she was American and only heard her speak in Swedish, I would honestly guess that she came from Finland or Estonia or something like that. Not the US. At least just based off of this. I could barely hear any of the "typical" American/English accent that most people from English speaking countries usually has. I'm truly so impressed!
One year, long ago? Wow, that’s impressive.
That was not a rehearsed interpretation of Swedish. That was Swedish. Impressive
Vaya, eligió las palabras correctas en sueco y su pronunciación impecable!!!
The accent is pretty much perfect. Super impressed.
she lowkey sounds like drottning Silvia
Sounds like a finnish (?) accent, but very well pronounced and understandable
I honestly have no clue who she is (sorry!) but as a Swede this amazes me. She speak with the right rhythm something most English speakers never do. She even speaks in a dialect of sorts, almost like a Swedish speaking Finnish person. And that’s what she learnt after one year here. Very impressive I must say!
I must say i'm impressed.. My british friend (now swedish) has been living here well over 10 years now, and this sounded better.
they spoke swedish in a swedish school..how strange, not sure thats correct anyway, she sounds nothing like the swedish chef
That HA was Swedish without a doubt, if you know you know.
Her accent is more like Ingrid Bergmans accent than a Finnish accent in my opinion. Compare to Ingrid in "Murder on the Orient Express" if you get the chance.
In the film, Ingrid Bergman exaggerates her Swedish accent very much. The role she plays required a strong Swedish accent. Irl Bergmans English was not perfect but ok. She never mastered the voiced s sound and also had problems separating v and w
Perfect Swedish to my Norwegian ear. Impressive!
She definitely has the native "melody" nailed so would imagine it sounds quite perfectly Swedish to other Scandinavians.
Wow, that was really good, she sounds very much like a Swede. I'm from Sweden myself.
her Swedish is actually quite impressive, no grammar errors and accurate pronunciation, albeit with a Finnish-like accent. I've seen various figures for her IQ online, ranging from 140 to 158, which is genius level, either way she's obviously really smart, and hot too! Also, a very underrated actress!
That was sooo good!
She was married to a Finnish director for five years. That's like twenty years in Hollywood time
She sounds like a mix of Astrid Lindgren and the swedish queen
"Nämen jag KAN inte.." So accurately said hahaha
Wow,she speaks Swedish good !!! Sounds like our Queen Silvia,
Her Swedish is good enough that I can approximate when and where she learned!
The school is in my home town Sandviken.
Ser sounded like our queen (who is braziluan, german)
I got it. I love that she had the flow!
I was in Sweden for six months, and it was difficult to learn Swedish because everyone speaks perfect English!
Doesn't remember huh? That was perfect.
Wow! That was VERY good, but as alot of you said, it is with a FInnish accent :)
Sound like she was a bit up north in Sweden.
As a Swedish bassplayer I will give this beauty 9.9/10 🇸🇪
Im swedish and she sounds like a finnish person speaking swedish actually, but very good
Wow that was really impressive! sounded great. Clearly for a Swede that its not her mothers toungue but VERY good.
You can hear that he was from Finland, she still has a swedish spoken by finnish people in it.
There are so many surprising things about Geena Davis… for example: plays the flute and piano extremely well, her first job after college was as a mannequin model, speaks fluent Swedish, placed 24th out of 300 in the tryouts for the US Olympic Archery team.
her accent is so cute!
"Jag kan inte, det var så länge sen, jag kommer inte ihåg nånting"
I dont know how, it was so long ago, I dont remember any [Swedish, implied]
Was not disappointed,
Im from Norway that sounded great
im blown away.its just 10 million speakers..
Great Swedish!! My native language so I know - and I miss seeing Geena!! Fuck Hollywood in the 90s for thinking women over 40 were too old to act. Geena is so likeable, I know she's doing great things in life but seems like Hollywood turned their back on her which pisses me off.
I´m Swedish and impressed. :-) Very cute accent too, Finnish, yes.
Super! You sound fantastic, you're swedish was perfect!
All the best from Bert in Sweden.
Impressive, but she is exceptionally intelligent and in my opinion charming and beautiful.