American Reacts Swedish vs Danish - Language Challenge in Copenhagen
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2022
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The Swedish guy has a very pronounced southern accent which the rest of the country associates with Danish. To me they basically sound the same 😂😂
thats stupid
I’m from Skåne and I seriously don’t understand danish, I have to speak English when I go to Copenhagen 😂 But when I go to Stockholm people ask me if I’m danish 😂 And I’m from Lund, so it’s not a thick accent at all 😂 But yeah, the rest of Sweden are really sensitive to Skånska.
You are actually really good at this, and your observations of the differences between the languages is correct.
As a Swede I think your Danish pronunciation is really good hahah, way better than mine tbh. I think what you're struggling with in Swedish is the diphthongs of the Scanian dialect. Most Swedish dialects don't have such pronounced diphthongs, I think you would have an easier time repeating the sentences if it was a guy from Stockholm.
The reason he reacted to the Danish word "runken", is because the Swedish word "runka" means "to wank".
Norwegian also has "runka".
@@dan74695 Yes, it's fornnordiskt.
6:30 _"Er du klar?"_ means "Are you clear [=ready]?"
Yes, it means “Are you ready” :)
I'm Swedish and you impressed me here. I've met quite a few Americans who've lived in Sweden for many years and none of them had the pronunciation down as well as you did
after only.....an instant! What usually trips them over is when they try to roll their R's. Using the American "errr" when speaking Swedish makes people sound drunk and out of it.
I remember a lady I met at the post office once who wanted to buy some stamps. Stamp, in Swedish, is "frimärke". Or "free mark" if you translate it directly.
But she kept saying "freemerrkaaa" which sounded more like "free America" and got her nowhere. People were staring at her, like, "What in god's holy bubble wrap are you saying???". 😂
as a norwegian this was fun to watch. Danish is more similar to us in written language but when speaking, swedish is closer(or rather more easy to understand)
No, written Norwegian is closer to Swedish. What most Norwegians write is modified Danish.
Are you talking about Nynorsk or Bokmål?
@@arya_1503_fancade I mean Nynorsk, because Bokmål isn't Norwegian, it's Norwegian Danish.
@@dan74695 fuck Nynorsk. Should never have been invented. We should have only one language. So either that is bokmål which about 85% of the nation uses. Or we should have spoken the orgianal language of Norway which is Norse. The fact that we have to learn both bokmål and nynorsk just makes it so that we ain't proficient in neither.
On top of that Nynorsk just sounds awful aswell.
@@Black3ight Fuck Bokmål, we should not write Danish we should write Norwegian, which is what Nynorsk is. Nynorsk is actually based on Norwegian. You're saying "fuck Norwegian". You don't care about it or its dialects if you want us to write Bokmål instead.
I'm a Brit. But my married name means Danish settler. My husband has all the classic Viking traits and our kids have auburn hair. I'm personally of Germanic/ French/Welsh and Anglo Saxon heritage. I find the Swedish words easier to grasp than the Danish.
But to me all Scandinavians sound like they are singing/ with a very sweet tone. Very rhythmic. When I try copying the sounds, I try to copy the flow of the words. So intriguing. So want to learn other languages again.
By the way, I'm from Yorkshire, born in York. Up here in the North, a lot of people here are descended from the Vikings 😉
Skånska vs Danska. We need some proper Norrbotten or Österbotten Swedish examples as well.
Why not proper Swedish? ;)
But they already have Swedish from the best region.
The Swedish guy is not speaking normal Swedish. He speaks a dialect from the south that is hard for everyone else in Sweden to understand.
He speaks Scanian dialect. There is no such things as a normal Swedish.
Yes, it's hard... if you can't be arsed to familiarise yourself with one of the most common dialects in the country.
@@erikeriksson1660 I know that. I was oversimplifying, but it is a fact that many swedes sometimes find it hard to understand a person from Scania. There is nothing wrong with dialects.
@@erikeriksson1660 It was though, and that was called Rikssvenska. But after postmodern ideological trends growing strong in the 1970s, it was no longer a requisite for jobs in media, government, and so on. And during the 1980s, it became a taboo subject to even talk about.
@@AndersWallenberg We don't have many proper dialects left. Most of them were almost eradicated by our state controlled schools during the 1900s. Or at least strongly affected by Rikssvenska, for good and for bad. Skånska and other variants on the standard language are mostly just accents today, technically speaking.
I really enjoy your videos. You're so curious and I love it. 🙂
You should check out the pronunciation of Å, Ä and Ö.
(in Danish its aa, æ and ø)
Also he's speaking Skånska. Not the most common, nor the easiest, dialect of Swedish. 😄
Not the most common? Skåne has nearly 1.4 million inhabitants. I would say it's at least one of the most common dialects.
@@Griexxt I think you know what I mean. It's a large dialect area with lots of variations, but it's quite different from mainstream Swedish and 8 something million people does not speak Skånska.
@@kullikullan Most of those 8 million Swedes don't speak "mainstream Swedish" either.
@@Griexxt Not in media, and that's what counts... ;)
The interesting thing is that the swedish guy has a super thick accent which is very similar to Danish. He's from Southern Sweden. It's really funny to hear you try to mimmick his accent. You actually did a pretty good job. I'm Swedish and I can barely do his accent.
Hi from Denmark.. your sure your not a bit danish 😄? The Way you pronounce the words are really good.. I would understand you if you talked danish like that
Connor just made my day. Danish= hmm ok. Swedish= NO for you.. SO FUN.
This made me smile thanks I needed that
1. Danish is really difficult to pronounce because there is a glottal stop, basically meaning you are speaking danish like you have a potato in mouth.
2. Danish and swedish are similar with regard to the written form of words (not pronunciation tho lol), so the guy might understand and say it directly in swedish.
3. In Swedish one particular thing about the pronunciation is that words are mostly stressed in one or two syllables, which makes Swedish very rhythmic. (and so is Norwegian)
But you are doing absolutely great considering that you dont have any knowledge about them!
😉
This swedish dialect uses alot of the rolling R´s. So this shouldnt be your go to swedish to learn by sound alone. Only by text.
He actually does NOT use the rolling r but the guttural r. The rolling r is predominant in Gothenburg and northen Norrland, for instance.
It’s more a throat sound than “guttural”.
And we do roll our r's with our tongue, it depends on where in Scania you’re from.
I’m from Malmö, best city in Sweden, and most people here roll with their tongue.
The Swedish guy speaks a special dialect from the southern part of Sweden. Far more difficult to pronounce than average Swedish, even for native Swedes. 😂 And difficult to understand.
It's not that hard to understand, Dalarna and Norrland have way more difficult dialects.
No it's not difficult to understand. You are just repeating a trope. Stop doing that when it comes to language and when other people are trying to actually learn things. 5 Counties in Sweden has grating R's just like Skåne. It doesn't make it difficult to understand at all. Danes don't pronounce their consonants or end vowels (from a swedish perspective), that's why it's difficult to understand, not the grating R's. It's way worse trying to understand a person from local communities in Dalarna, Southern Östergötland or Jämtland than a person från Lund. It's all cheek and fun until you give false information to others who are trying to educate themselves (as this channel is all about). Just stop that old boring ass trope please.
@@brickan2 thank you
@@brickan2 Correct. Scanian has a thick pronunciation, but it's not hard to understand, while some parts of Sweden have "dialects" that are more like other languages. Elfdalian is even considered another language by linguists.
@@francisdec1615 But it's basically just elfdalian today, spoken by very few people. The rest of Sweden is very uniform compared to other countries and languages.
Haha this was so entertaining to see you try to pronounce the sentences. To my Norwegian ears it sounded like you nailed Danish, and Swedish not so much. You should’ve included Norwegian in here though. Would be cool if you reacted to «Swedish vs Norwegian vs Danish How similar are they?». Cheers and keep up the good work.
Dude you nailed the danish pronunciation. Props to you, i love your videos
Your danish accent is awsome 😊 good job 👍
*er du klar* ? means *are you ready*
im danish, and i can tell you that you actually did extremely good !
"Rynklig"? Is that Scania dialectal influenced by Danish? Similar to "Röllebör"
No, I think he meant to say "rynkig".
Er du klar? = are you ready?
lol those are 3 german words aswell, but it doesnt make any sense. Its like :'' him you clear'' xD
A more proper translation would be...are you done?
@@9529jake In the context of the video "are you prepared/ready?" makes more sense though.
@@9529jake The correct translation is “are you ready?” just like B F states. :)
If your wondering why the Swedish guy is having so much fun at the word “runken” in Danish and “rynklig” in Swedish (which is actually wrong and supposed to be “rynkig”), it’s because he is referencing the act of men pleasuring themselves. The word is very similar.
But you are doing a super good job at this, it is so entertaining to watch you 👍👏
Connor I am sure that there is a bit of Dane in you 😀
Yes! His pronunciation is really good!
Vikings came a long way 😅😂
Every swede will describe danish as someone speaking swedish while being really drunk and that they have their mouths full of porridge/oatmeal.
Thats what it sounds like to us. xD
Thats why we in the nordics understand each other, depending from where they are from in their countries and their accents make a huge diffrence if its hard or easy to understand. :P
Good job!
I see why you would fint his Swedish diffust. He is from Skåne in southern Sweden and as such, speaks with a heavy dialect.
Well, Imho, understand "eastern" parts of daninish ok, but having more difficulties with the most southern of Sweden, and consider myself kind of fluent in English and German... I'll leave it at that...
Greetings from Sweden
First of all, your pronounciation is relatively, really good. I'm Norwegian, and I actually think your danish pronounciation is better than mine. The Swedish Skåne accent is tricky to replicate, even for Swedes 😅
The Swedish guy reacted to the Danish use of the word "runk" for wrinkly, because it means 'masturbate' in Swedish in Norwegian. Evidently, it means something else in Danish lol.
No, your danish wasn't even close, I could actually hear what you said. :)
Just a few weeks ago I spoke to a customer and he told me when he did a job in Denmark, there were two danish people there, one from eastern, close to Sweden, and one from southwestern, close to Germany. They spoke english to eachother... And Denmark is a tiny country.
Would be interesting to know if the one from the south spoke in a way that would be easier for Swedes to understand. I once saw an old interview with an man who had fought in WWI, he was from the south. His brother chose to fight for the Germans. I don't remember if they lived in Germany or Denmark, that border has been going back and forth. Anyway, I could understand him perfectly, as a Swedish speaker, even though he was from the part that is the furthest from Sweden and he was born so long ago. Without being an expert I think that Danish used to sound more like Swedish, their writing tells us that much. So maybe that is why I understood him or maybe the long distance from central Denmark/Copenhagen, where most likely the development of Danish into what it is today, happened.
Did you mean it was close. You wrote he wasn’t even close. And I thing, for someone who’s just checking out a RUclips video from curiosity and trying to speak one of the hardest languages to learn, he did extremely well. In take in average about 3-5 years to learn danish at least
@@antonlb143 I thought he did very well. I could understand what he was saying, that means he forgot that potato he should have had in his mouth for it to sound like normal danish. :)
The thing is, the Swede is a skåning. So he sounds a bit Danish. You shouldn't learn too much from his pronunciation. XD
6:55 It's the opposite cause Danish is way harder.
I am Dutch and sometimes I understand her better than he does. I need no English there. Other sentences are more difficult though. Written Danish is a lot easier. Still the Far far far sentence completely alluded me.
Jag säger som Ernst-Hugo Järegård - Danskjävlar!😉
Your danish is better than my immigrant friends haha
The challenge is to say the word "nurse" & the number; 777, in Swedish. Greetings from Denmark.
swedish Skåne-dialekt 😅
As i Norwegian, I prepere swedish 😊
But for reading, danish i 98% identisk to Norwegian 😀
Rynklig in Scanian and rynkig in swedish.
No, it´s rynkig in Scania too.
@@pialindh8716 Not according to the person in this video who says rynklig. Many words I’m Scania are not really Swedish since of the danish influence.
The Portuguese can understand Spanish, but not vice versa.
"Omg if I'm having this much trouble pronouncing in the Danish, then I'm... Swedish I'm just screwed" -Me a Dane salute you. I think your Danish pronunciation is amazing. Also the fake Swedish you did is exactly right and it does sound pretty Swedish to me.
_"Far för för för? ... "_ To understand his Skånska dialect, just replace all å with ö, and vice versa! :)
(It's actually more accurate than you might belive.)
Mannen vi säger också å, inte ö.
@@Elis_Gallacher Skånskt å låter snarlikt rikssvenskt ö, och skånskt ö ganska låter ganska likt rikssvenskt å.
@@herrbonk3635 Vi säger å, och till skillnad från Stockholmarna så säger vi inte ä när vi ska säga e. Det heter inte chäfen, utan chefen.
I'm glad I opted to learn Norwegian. Swedish is a mess. :-)
His dialect is not really representative for Swedish since he is from Scania, a region that used to be danish speaking. Even many swedes have difficulties understanding the scanian Swedish dialect.
@@Jonsson474 its not hard to understand scanian but it is not ”normal” swedish if you are from Mälardalen.
RUNKEN!
Norwegian is confused, around Oslo they speak a dialect more influenced by Danish.
He is not really speaking Swedish. Is is from Scania. 😉
First 😄
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Hey he's from Skåne so don't speak good Swedish. if can even be called Swedish . hehehe