Guys - what language or languages do you want to learn? P.S. Don't let the -lack- of fluency in this video put you off; Skype is not particularly good for generating flow in the moment. When I talk in the real world, it sounds a lot more natural than this (and it will for you too).
Well, it doesn't sound remotely natural... but still, I speak Swedish and English fluently. Well I'm not learning a new language at the moment, I do plan to learn at least one or two more languages in the future, I think Spanish would be quite easy to learn, perhaps Russian or Polish for the challenge, maybe a Chinese dialect, after all, having to deal with no grammar seems kind of nice.
This video has made me incredibly hopeful and motivated to learn Swedish. I've been chipping away at the language ever so slightly for a few months now through music and a few apps and this video has really excited me. I love the way you get straight to the point, no bullishit, languages take time and patience and I reckon that's something I'm prepared to do. Thanks!!
It's interesting that you found French easier than Swedish in terms of vocabulary, as a French I find a lot of similarities between Swedish and English, I only translate Sw. to English to keep it as close as possible as when I translate in French it looks very different, if you know what I mean... Your French was great, very impressive! I think learning languages is a skill in itself, and what one learned with Swedish can be applied to French in a certain degree, etc, that's why your videos about language learning are so interesting to me! Thank you :)
Sorry, I never thanked you for making this comment! Yeah, I actually record the sessions to revise with them later, and I seriously think that if one had the focus to watch a lesson back twice every time they had a lesson, and took 2 lessons a week (therefore 6 sessions of actually being in or watching the lesson) then you'd become seriously fluent really fast, but I don't really have the willpower for that haha.
@@daysandwords I thank you, for recording no-nonsense videos about language learning. I really like how you keep it 100% real (unlike many self-proclaimed language guru youtubers). I tried the recording method here and there, but I never regularly, although I'm sure it'd have huge benefits. It's actually quite hard to listen back to those recordings, because you find yourself doing so many basic cringeworthy mistakes, and it hurts your ego XD... Still, that's no excuse, I should start recording and analysing my skype sessions as well.
My whole reason in learning Czech at least to the level I have is simply the pure joy and pleasure that comes from seeing the shock on peoples faces. So far however I have only met Slovaks where I live and they are stunned. I cant imagine what it will be like when I meet a real czech person.
Yeah, I get that a lot in Swedish too. Especially these days when they ask me where in Sweden I'm from or whether my parents are Swedish, and I tell them I am not and my parents are not Swedish... I know exactly what you mean!
It was so encouraging to see your lengthy journey in learning swedish. From the broad road of basic language, to the tiny crevices of nuance and communication of complex ideas. Definitely gives me a boost. Thank you for making a superb and honest video mate!
Hey! It's so weird to find your channel for me because I'm also learning Swedish (for about a year now) and just started French! I used to study German at my university as well, although I wouldn't claim to be fluent in it. But those were not my first languages to learn, English was, with Russian being my native language. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I'm really glad to find someone who has a different, more practical approach to language learning and hope to see more of your journey in the future.
Hey there - thanks for watching and for your comment! Great to hear from another Swedish and French learner (and Russian is on my short list of 4th languages to start, maybe in 2022.)
Hey, this is so motivating. I am learning Italian and have been for almost 2 years, it is going good. Sometimes when I am running low on motivation I pull up your videos and they always help. I am a native Czech speaker, so Italian is actually my second foreign language and I find it so fun and rewarding being able to speak, read and listen to an authentic italian material. I am sort of already thinking about what language I wanna delve into next, but i know i have a long way to go before even entertaining that possibility for real. Have a wonderful day :))
I know I can do it (learn french) because I'm fluent af in english lmao. I took french in school but had to quit so now I'm starting again. Thanks for the motivation!
My French learning experience started with evening classes for eight weeks at a local uni 22 years ago. I hated it, learned nothing and will never get those 8 weeks back. So at least I now know what doesn't work for me. You have inspired me to get back into Swedish, so tusen tack för det!
I've been learning Norwegian since February 2019 and have recently begun to learn Swedish as well, because these two languages are so close and similar to each other. I also experience that talking in Skype has not much flow, but that depends on the persons I talk with as well.
Great job! Your goals are your goals of course, but if I were you I would work on your Norwegian until it's very very good (particularly your spoken Norwegian) and then just work on UNDERSTANDING both Swedish and Danish, at least the parts that you don't yet understand. There's really no need to learn the other two, because as a Norwegian speaker you'll be understood by both of the others, you will just need to learn to understand them. One of my errors in Swedish was to think that I should be understanding the other two much earlier than I could, it actually slows you down as an all round Scandinavian speaker.
I've been learning Norwegian for a year now and can say that I probably speak it to the standard you did at the same point. I'm possibly not quite as advanced as I don't think I've been quite as committed as you, but not far off. What was also interesting to me as a learner of Norwegian was how much Swedish I could understand in this video!
Honestly my Swedish would have been a lot better if I had done more immersion and less speaking and studying. But definitely well done on the Norwegian!
@@daysandwords No, really, I've been studying french for 9 months now and your pronunciation was already pretty darn decent, you had a decent grasp of the language, too. Kudoz man,
Absolutely a cool journey! I had no idea you were a photographer and that's super cool! I'm a photographer as well, currently learning Russian but hoping to move into Swedish soon once I become more comfortable. I love your videos and thanks so much for sharing your experiences!
I can tell you have spent a lot of time to get the intonation and sound of Swedish right, already from the start. Usually, native English speakers who apprehend Swedish later in life have a distinct English accent, but it's non-existent here, as far as I can tell. There's still a slight, slight quirkiness to your accent based on your 'AUSTRALIAN Rants about SWEDISH People' video, but you shouldn't be too hard on yourself, you have done an amazing work!
Hi, greetings from Finland, I practice also swedish language, could you tell how did you practice your swedish accent? Or could you do a video about this topics? Did you practice with shadowing or how? Best regards Päivi
Kiitos! Honestly my Swedish is pretty bad in this video. It's much better now (better STILL when I am not recording but anyway) - the Swedish part of my interview with Steve was a bit better: ruclips.net/video/s0i4xzGg1Vk/видео.html Honestly I don't really shadow. I'd like to do more but I find it quite tedious. I just hear how the natural way that I speak does not sound at all like other people, I hear what people ACTUALLY say versus what we think they say, e.g. in a Scottish accent, people often try to "change" the sound of their vowels, but a better approach is to imagine that they are saying entirely different vowels, like "Mee huus is on feer" (instead of "My house is on fire.")
It's very interesting and motivating to see your progress! Yes, it takes time but it's so worth it. Now that I'm officially done with my exams, I want to go back to studying French. Btw, I also met a Swedish ambassador once.
Haha, awesome! Maybe they've all signed some agreement to meet small RUclipsrs from that country. I actually got away with only speaking Swedish to him; it was a noisy environment and I just had to say "We're going to take some photos" and a few other things, so he was never any the wiser. I could be a spy haha.
@@Tomanita Oh, sorry, the point about the noisy environment was like, he couldn't hear how bad my Swedish was haha. Plus, at a lot of those kinds of events, people just kind of assume you are Swedish, which is a huge advantage if you are going for the sake of languages.
The Reykjavik Review Yes, that makes it much easier. I can't pretend to be from somewhere else (than the Balkans). Even if I say that I'm from Switzerland or meet new Swiss people they always ask where I'm "originally" from😬
@@Tomanita I remember you saying "as you can probably see, my background is not Swiss" - but honestly I wouldn't have known. The camera hides some of it, but also I'm just not that familiar with what Germans and Swiss etc look like. My blue eyes and the fact that I'm at least a little bit tall (not as tall as most male Swedes but tall enough) make it plausible that I'm Swedish, but it's generally just "Well you are here and speaking Swedish to me", so they don't think of the possibility that I just got it in my head one day to learn Swedish haha.
Any recommendations for students who keep encountering tutors who either talk too much during class which results in students barely getting a word in, and on the opposite end of the spectrum, teachers who can be a bit boring? How do we keep online lessons fun, dynamic, and ensure that we are getting our speaking time in? What are some good topics to talk about?
Snyggt jobbat! Ett par tips: Läs serietidningar. Bilderna hjälper till att driva handlingen framåt. Se svenska filmer (kanske med svenska subbar på). Lyssna på svensk musik och följ med i texterna. :-) Lycka till!
Tack... men om man inte bryr sig om nåt så ska man inte tvinga sig att göra det. Det är det viktigaste med att bi bra på nåt. Idag så läser jag ungerfär två timmar varje dag för att jag gillar att läsa... fast, nu läser jag på svenska. Serietidningar bryr jag mig inte om... svenska filmer har jag sett nog fler än de flesta svenskar haha.
I have an observation to make that I hope you’ll take with the goodwill in which it’s made. You’re incredibly hard on yourself. As someone who is the same, the question comes to mind, when do we know it’s enough? That we know enough to move on to another language? My thought for me is to establish in advance (no take backsies) what level I want to achieve on the European scale. B2, C1, C2? I’m just learning my first 2nd language. I want to reach C1. I’ll take the practice tests periodically (or take the real ones) to keep track of my progress. When I get to C1, I’m going to accept that I’ve met my goal and can speak fluently. I’m not going to change the goal to C2 (this is where the no take backsies come in) because I’ve been reviewing past lesson tapes and only notice my mistakes, and therefore think I need to get better. Does that make sense? I don’t know about you, but I’m the type that keeps moving the goalpost because I want to be perfect. We’re not perfect in our native languages, why expect that of a second language? If I keep moving the goalpost, how will I ever experience the joy of knowing I’m fluent in another language? I take learning another language waaay too seriously but that’s a personality trait and it’s not going to change. What I can change is letting someone else take the measurement of where I am and not argue about it - do I really think I know better than the people who designed these tests? I bet if you had been able to watch yourself speaking so fluently 2 1/2 years ago, you would have been absolutely thrilled. Be thrilled now. Be impressed with yourself. We are! 😊
That's true. But at the same time, my Swedish really isn't that good. It's a certain B2 but not a C1. I don't want a C1 to say I'm a C1, I want it because of the hard work that getting there represents. It would be suuuuper easy to just stop now at a definite B2 and the ability to read books in Swedish etc., but I want to show myself that I can take the hard road and go higher.
You're so lucky,how do you even find people that wanna talk to you and help you improve your language. I'm also learning Swedish and would love to have a mate to practice my swedish with 😃
At 1:22 when that guy corrected you on how you pronounce "så mycket" it was just a small melodic difference, but what's funny is that in my accent of swedish you were actually saying it right, so at first I was so confused when he corrected you. But in general your accent (accept for your australian accent that is shining through of course) kinda sounds like you're from Stockholm or somewhere around there, definitely nothing northern!
Hi Rebecca - Nah, he's not correcting me, he's just making me say it heaps of times. The entire conversation is too long and boring to show but he actually says to just repeat what he's saying until he stops repeating it. I remember him even saying "Om jag repeterar så betyder det inte att du har sagt fel... Bara att det är bra att repetera." That's what I meant by the text "This guy took his time to teach me Swedish". He was a great friend (still a friend though it's Brenda while since we've spoken). My Australian accent is almost gone now, the last of these clips is from over a year ago.
I would greatly appreciate if you could explain me how do you practice spelling? I mean when I speak swedish it's so different from what I'm used to that I often catch myself on mumbling the words rather than speaking, it's so hard :/
Du pratar jättebra svenska, du pratar bättre svenska än många av dem invandrare som bott i Sverige i 10+ år. Du ska också komma ihåg att svenskan har en hel del ord som är lånade ifrån franskan, som till exempel garage och entreprenör, osv
used iTalki (just for free in the beginning). Using this link will give us both $10 if you ever do decide to hire a tutor: www.italki.com/i/CHfEEb?hl=en-us
Thank you. 😀 Ah, sorry, I bought it at a shop here where they get overstock of brands and stuff, so most of my "nice" clothes come from that shop, and the brand is "ICE AND POP" I think. It shrunk a bit in the wash actually so I don't think I can wear it over a long sleeved shirt anymore. 🙄
Very well done :) And for the people that don't have the feeling that they actually improve, I can only recommend taking videos of you speaking. Then you start seeing these small differences that make the progress happen. Additionally I tried to be more precise about my progress tracking. So I actually wrote down how many hours I spent with the language so far. This is my playlist for different weeks and months (currently I am at learning Russian for 6 months). The first few weeks are just stumbling around with a few words. ruclips.net/p/PLWGmD5aVvbhZaQSP3XussxBDLUqN5FGKv
Oh yeah, the air conditioning guy was probably my favourite one. He and I even got a beer a few weeks later but unfortunately the whole c19 business kind of stunted the flourishing of our friendship haha.
Damn that’s tough, I’ve had some funny interactions as a white person who speaks Spanish not at a crazy high level but I learned from my friends so I speak with a Colombian-Venezuelan accent but Spanish is such a common language in the states it cnat even compare to Swedish in Australia😂
Fair question haha. Well, there were some parts I cut out of the video (for time) and one of them was saying that I did this entire thing without leaving Australia, which is probably the most linguistically isolated country in the world (maybe New Zealand actually, then Australia) and also about as far away as you can get from Sweden without leaving Earth.
Tack. Enligt mig är det faktiskt inte bra i den här videon. Det har förbättrats mycket under det senaste året. Den här videon är lite bätte men nu för tiden är ännu lite bättre: ruclips.net/video/RnIFia_wgyk/видео.html
I've been using Duolingo for about a year and still can't understand Swedes when they speak Swedish. I listen to my Swedish boyfriend and it seems like he is speaking a different type of Swedish than I have been learning. Like he is speaking a more simple Swedish where I have been learning a more sophisticated type of Swedish.
You've gotta start listening to Swedish spoken by Swedes FOR Swedes. In other words, stuff like Kalifat, Björnstad, Kärlek och Anarki and Young Royals, with no subtitles or with Swedish subtitles.
@@daysandwords I've tried Swedish television, but can't follow it either. After a year, you would think I would be great, but seems like Duolingo screwed me over.
I wouldn't expect you to be great after a year. I would expect you to be QUITE GOOD after a year of watching Swedish TV with Swedish subtitles. Still quite good, not great. After about two years of this, I can understand Swedish TV basically no problems. But a year of any learning program like Duolingo or SwedishPod101? Nup, you would suck after ten years of that, letalone one.
Haha, jo, jag är definitivt lite udda. Kanske lite mer än 'lite'. Jan kan faktiskt inte lära mig något på riktigt om det FINNS direkt anledning. Det får livet lite svårt för att alla säger 'Lamont, du borde lära dig den här saken för att det är bra för jobbet och chanser i livet.' och jag kan inte svara utan att säga "Nej tack... det är tråkigt." Men som min vän sa, det betyder att jag kan inte köpas. Om jag vill göra någonting så ska jag göra det. Tack för kommentaren! ('a', inte 'ä' ;-)
@@daysandwords haha, bra inställning, jagkänner igen, inte för att nån säger nåt men jag inser själv att det hade varit bättre för karriären karriären lägga 1000 timmar på nåt jobbrelaterat 🤪
@@falashyst5970 I'll tell you guys a funny story. I was in a small beach town in Australia, about 2 hours from Melbourne, and they had a second hand book store. In the store was a shelf dedicated to Foreign Language Books and my wife said "They don't have Swedish but they have Norwegian", so I started looking through the books and ALL of them were Swedish, NOT Norwegian. I bought one of them and the owner of the store, who had made the label for the shelf was like "That's eight dollars... By the way, do you know what language this is?"
Yep, French vocabulary is indeed closer to English than Swedish vocab is. Swedish grammar is closer, but at the start, it's vocab that really gets you going, so French is much easier for a native English speaker AT THE START (but not necessarily after that). English being a "Germanic" language is really only a formal label, like a "Red Panda" is not actually a panda at all, and is in fact more closely related to the raccoon. The French and the English fought while France occupied England for centuries MUCH MORE RECENTLY than English had anything to do with German or Norse languages. So it'd be like having a child in America, and then when they were 7 years old, moving them to Mexico, and then at 20 years old, asking them "Hey, you're an American... how come you speak Spanish!?" English and French are so similar that in some sentences, you can recognise every word that's more than 3 letters. If you take 100 random sentences and look at a French translation and a Swedish translation, I guarantee the French sentences more closely resemble the English ON AVERAGE. Cheers for your comment.
Nah it's just while someone is taking a whole minute to say 10 words, there's not much to do other than wait. It always looks as though they're bored but they're just being polite by not butting in.
Jag är klart imponerad av att man inte hör så mycket av din brytning. Eller i alla fall inte så mycket som man brukar höra från personer med engelska som modersmål. Jag tycker det låter som att du har en svensk dialekt också. Kanske Lidingö eller Bohuslän? Eller så inbillar jag mig bara.
Jag hatar mitt eget uttal. Det har minskat ganska mycket sen jag gjorde den här videon, men det finns en brytning kvar som jag kan höra. En ny video på svenska: ruclips.net/video/RnIFia_wgyk/видео.html
Days of French 'n' Swedish Ja. Det är jättesvårt att bli av med all brytning. Nästan omöjligt. Men du har kommit längre än de flesta. Jag hade en lärare på universitet som var amerikan. Han bröt nästan inget. Men det var ändå uppenbart för alla i klassen att han var amerikan. Han blev förvånad.
@@PontusWelin Ja, men jag har inte ens försökt någon riktig metod än, som 'shadowing' eller nåt sånt. Det här är bara genom att "försöka låta svensk" och så är det med min nya video. 'Shadowing' är väldigt jobbigt att göra men det är effektivt, så du kommer se (eller, höra) hur min svenska förbättras om några månader. :-)
Hahaha, I was like "lobb" isn't a word that I'm aware of. "Jobb" is, yes. Although it generally means like your occupation. To say "good job" they say "Bra jobbat!" which is more like "well done".
Your swedish is very okay..people can understand what you’re saying but its very hard and kind of annoying to listen to. But there are always room for improvements
Guys - what language or languages do you want to learn?
P.S. Don't let the -lack- of fluency in this video put you off; Skype is not particularly good for generating flow in the moment. When I talk in the real world, it sounds a lot more natural than this (and it will for you too).
Days of French 'n' Swedish swedish :)
currently Russian and I try to keep my Finnish afloat :D
Well, it doesn't sound remotely natural... but still, I speak Swedish and English fluently. Well I'm not learning a new language at the moment, I do plan to learn at least one or two more languages in the future, I think Spanish would be quite easy to learn, perhaps Russian or Polish for the challenge, maybe a Chinese dialect, after all, having to deal with no grammar seems kind of nice.
@@livedandletdie With the attitude you've shown in all your comments, I'd be amazed if you ever succeeded at anything beyond trolling.
Russian and German
This video has made me incredibly hopeful and motivated to learn Swedish. I've been chipping away at the language ever so slightly for a few months now through music and a few apps and this video has really excited me. I love the way you get straight to the point, no bullishit, languages take time and patience and I reckon that's something I'm prepared to do. Thanks!!
Tack! Kör på!
Roligt jag är svensk det är ett coolt språk att lära sig!
@@gwensfanfic_book4363 hmmm roligt in swedish means funny and rolig in norwegian means calm, false cognate?
Hej, checking in 3 years later, hows the Swedish coming along?
It's interesting that you found French easier than Swedish in terms of vocabulary, as a French I find a lot of similarities between Swedish and English, I only translate Sw. to English to keep it as close as possible as when I translate in French it looks very different, if you know what I mean... Your French was great, very impressive! I think learning languages is a skill in itself, and what one learned with Swedish can be applied to French in a certain degree, etc, that's why your videos about language learning are so interesting to me! Thank you :)
Ok, now I see, it's up already:). It's great that you recorded these session - one can really see how you progressed over time!
Sorry, I never thanked you for making this comment!
Yeah, I actually record the sessions to revise with them later, and I seriously think that if one had the focus to watch a lesson back twice every time they had a lesson, and took 2 lessons a week (therefore 6 sessions of actually being in or watching the lesson) then you'd become seriously fluent really fast, but I don't really have the willpower for that haha.
@@daysandwords I thank you, for recording no-nonsense videos about language learning. I really like how you keep it 100% real (unlike many self-proclaimed language guru youtubers).
I tried the recording method here and there, but I never regularly, although I'm sure it'd have huge benefits. It's actually quite hard to listen back to those recordings, because you find yourself doing so many basic cringeworthy mistakes, and it hurts your ego XD... Still, that's no excuse, I should start recording and analysing my skype sessions as well.
My whole reason in learning Czech at least to the level I have is simply the pure joy and pleasure that comes from seeing the shock on peoples faces.
So far however I have only met Slovaks where I live and they are stunned. I cant imagine what it will be like when I meet a real czech person.
Yeah, I get that a lot in Swedish too. Especially these days when they ask me where in Sweden I'm from or whether my parents are Swedish, and I tell them I am not and my parents are not Swedish...
I know exactly what you mean!
It was so encouraging to see your lengthy journey in learning swedish. From the broad road of basic language, to the tiny crevices of nuance and communication of complex ideas.
Definitely gives me a boost. Thank you for making a superb and honest video mate!
Thanks for this comment, sorry I didn't reply earlier, but yeah these kinds of comments are really encouraging!
Wow, this is awesome to see the progression. Bra gjort!!
I would say you are probably the best Swedish speaking foreigner i have ever seen no cap like its almost completely perfect. (I happen to be a Swede)
Oh my faaannn... Tack vad schysst men det här var länge sen när jag var inte lika bra som nu... inte i närheten!
I'm teaching myself Swedish. It all started a few years ago, when I watched Wallander. Since then I am hooked by Scani Noir. Its the nicest language.
Hey! It's so weird to find your channel for me because I'm also learning Swedish (for about a year now) and just started French! I used to study German at my university as well, although I wouldn't claim to be fluent in it. But those were not my first languages to learn, English was, with Russian being my native language. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I'm really glad to find someone who has a different, more practical approach to language learning and hope to see more of your journey in the future.
Hey there - thanks for watching and for your comment! Great to hear from another Swedish and French learner (and Russian is on my short list of 4th languages to start, maybe in 2022.)
Hey, this is so motivating. I am learning Italian and have been for almost 2 years, it is going good. Sometimes when I am running low on motivation I pull up your videos and they always help. I am a native Czech speaker, so Italian is actually my second foreign language and I find it so fun and rewarding being able to speak, read and listen to an authentic italian material. I am sort of already thinking about what language I wanna delve into next, but i know i have a long way to go before even entertaining that possibility for real. Have a wonderful day :))
I know I can do it (learn french) because I'm fluent af in english lmao. I took french in school but had to quit so now I'm starting again. Thanks for the motivation!
My French learning experience started with evening classes for eight weeks at a local uni 22 years ago. I hated it, learned nothing and will never get those 8 weeks back. So at least I now know what doesn't work for me. You have inspired me to get back into Swedish, so tusen tack för det!
I've been learning Norwegian since February 2019 and have recently begun to learn Swedish as well, because these two languages are so close and similar to each other.
I also experience that talking in Skype has not much flow, but that depends on the persons I talk with as well.
Great job!
Your goals are your goals of course, but if I were you I would work on your Norwegian until it's very very good (particularly your spoken Norwegian) and then just work on UNDERSTANDING both Swedish and Danish, at least the parts that you don't yet understand. There's really no need to learn the other two, because as a Norwegian speaker you'll be understood by both of the others, you will just need to learn to understand them. One of my errors in Swedish was to think that I should be understanding the other two much earlier than I could, it actually slows you down as an all round Scandinavian speaker.
I've been learning Norwegian for a year now and can say that I probably speak it to the standard you did at the same point. I'm possibly not quite as advanced as I don't think I've been quite as committed as you, but not far off. What was also interesting to me as a learner of Norwegian was how much Swedish I could understand in this video!
Honestly my Swedish would have been a lot better if I had done more immersion and less speaking and studying.
But definitely well done on the Norwegian!
Bra jobbat!
Tack så mycket.
As a native French speaker, I can tell you that within 10 weeks your French was already really amazing I think !
Thanks heaps!
@@daysandwords No, really, I've been studying french for 9 months now and your pronunciation was already pretty darn decent, you had a decent grasp of the language, too. Kudoz man,
Absolutely a cool journey! I had no idea you were a photographer and that's super cool! I'm a photographer as well, currently learning Russian but hoping to move into Swedish soon once I become more comfortable. I love your videos and thanks so much for sharing your experiences!
I can tell you have spent a lot of time to get the intonation and sound of Swedish right, already from the start. Usually, native English speakers who apprehend Swedish later in life have a distinct English accent, but it's non-existent here, as far as I can tell. There's still a slight, slight quirkiness to your accent based on your 'AUSTRALIAN Rants about SWEDISH People' video, but you shouldn't be too hard on yourself, you have done an amazing work!
Hi, greetings from Finland, I practice also swedish language, could you tell how did you practice your swedish accent? Or could you do a video about this topics? Did you practice with shadowing or how?
Best regards Päivi
And thanks for sharing your videos😊 I like your swedish accent
Kiitos!
Honestly my Swedish is pretty bad in this video. It's much better now (better STILL when I am not recording but anyway) - the Swedish part of my interview with Steve was a bit better:
ruclips.net/video/s0i4xzGg1Vk/видео.html
Honestly I don't really shadow. I'd like to do more but I find it quite tedious. I just hear how the natural way that I speak does not sound at all like other people, I hear what people ACTUALLY say versus what we think they say, e.g. in a Scottish accent, people often try to "change" the sound of their vowels, but a better approach is to imagine that they are saying entirely different vowels, like "Mee huus is on feer" (instead of "My house is on fire.")
The accent of a finnish person speaking swedish is so pleasing, its soft but clear. One of the best accents in my opinion. 💙fi
It's very interesting and motivating to see your progress! Yes, it takes time but it's so worth it. Now that I'm officially done with my exams, I want to go back to studying French. Btw, I also met a Swedish ambassador once.
Haha, awesome!
Maybe they've all signed some agreement to meet small RUclipsrs from that country.
I actually got away with only speaking Swedish to him; it was a noisy environment and I just had to say "We're going to take some photos" and a few other things, so he was never any the wiser. I could be a spy haha.
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Haha, yes, maybe they did😄 Oh, that's amazing!
@@Tomanita Oh, sorry, the point about the noisy environment was like, he couldn't hear how bad my Swedish was haha. Plus, at a lot of those kinds of events, people just kind of assume you are Swedish, which is a huge advantage if you are going for the sake of languages.
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Yes, that makes it much easier. I can't pretend to be from somewhere else (than the Balkans). Even if I say that I'm from Switzerland or meet new Swiss people they always ask where I'm "originally" from😬
@@Tomanita I remember you saying "as you can probably see, my background is not Swiss" - but honestly I wouldn't have known. The camera hides some of it, but also I'm just not that familiar with what Germans and Swiss etc look like.
My blue eyes and the fact that I'm at least a little bit tall (not as tall as most male Swedes but tall enough) make it plausible that I'm Swedish, but it's generally just "Well you are here and speaking Swedish to me", so they don't think of the possibility that I just got it in my head one day to learn Swedish haha.
Any recommendations for students who keep encountering tutors who either talk too much during class which results in students barely getting a word in, and on the opposite end of the spectrum, teachers who can be a bit boring? How do we keep online lessons fun, dynamic, and ensure that we are getting our speaking time in? What are some good topics to talk about?
Du har gett mig mycket hopp att förbättra min svenska. Jag är ifrån Australien och lär mig svenska också. Tack så mycket för videon!
Finns en aldelles ny video:
ruclips.net/video/RnIFia_wgyk/видео.html
Hahaha det är jätteroligt! Tack!
Imponerande! Riktigt bra uttal!
Snyggt jobbat! Ett par tips:
Läs serietidningar. Bilderna hjälper till att driva handlingen framåt. Se svenska filmer (kanske med svenska subbar på). Lyssna på svensk musik och följ med i texterna. :-)
Lycka till!
Tack... men om man inte bryr sig om nåt så ska man inte tvinga sig att göra det. Det är det viktigaste med att bi bra på nåt.
Idag så läser jag ungerfär två timmar varje dag för att jag gillar att läsa... fast, nu läser jag på svenska. Serietidningar bryr jag mig inte om... svenska filmer har jag sett nog fler än de flesta svenskar haha.
Bravo 👏
I have an observation to make that I hope you’ll take with the goodwill in which it’s made. You’re incredibly hard on yourself. As someone who is the same, the question comes to mind, when do we know it’s enough? That we know enough to move on to another language? My thought for me is to establish in advance (no take backsies) what level I want to achieve on the European scale. B2, C1, C2? I’m just learning my first 2nd language. I want to reach C1. I’ll take the practice tests periodically (or take the real ones) to keep track of my progress. When I get to C1, I’m going to accept that I’ve met my goal and can speak fluently. I’m not going to change the goal to C2 (this is where the no take backsies come in) because I’ve been reviewing past lesson tapes and only notice my mistakes, and therefore think I need to get better. Does that make sense? I don’t know about you, but I’m the type that keeps moving the goalpost because I want to be perfect. We’re not perfect in our native languages, why expect that of a second language? If I keep moving the goalpost, how will I ever experience the joy of knowing I’m fluent in another language? I take learning another language waaay too seriously but that’s a personality trait and it’s not going to change. What I can change is letting someone else take the measurement of where I am and not argue about it - do I really think I know better than the people who designed these tests? I bet if you had been able to watch yourself speaking so fluently 2 1/2 years ago, you would have been absolutely thrilled. Be thrilled now. Be impressed with yourself. We are! 😊
That's true. But at the same time, my Swedish really isn't that good. It's a certain B2 but not a C1. I don't want a C1 to say I'm a C1, I want it because of the hard work that getting there represents. It would be suuuuper easy to just stop now at a definite B2 and the ability to read books in Swedish etc., but I want to show myself that I can take the hard road and go higher.
You're so lucky,how do you even find people that wanna talk to you and help you improve your language. I'm also learning Swedish and would love to have a mate to practice my swedish with 😃
they are not mates, they are paid tutors. Hod didn't you get that?
@@twoblocksdown5464 He said that one of them did it for free.
@@elha9674 my bad, maybe he's just his subscriber :D why not
@@twoblocksdown5464 ok,nevermind. But if you speak swedish you could be my mate, even tho I'm a female,why not? 😂
Sorry, unfortunately I dont speak any Swedish. I only speak some broken English and Russian And listen to HardBass and play CS GO
At 1:22 when that guy corrected you on how you pronounce "så mycket" it was just a small melodic difference, but what's funny is that in my accent of swedish you were actually saying it right, so at first I was so confused when he corrected you. But in general your accent (accept for your australian accent that is shining through of course) kinda sounds like you're from Stockholm or somewhere around there, definitely nothing northern!
Hi Rebecca - Nah, he's not correcting me, he's just making me say it heaps of times. The entire conversation is too long and boring to show but he actually says to just repeat what he's saying until he stops repeating it. I remember him even saying "Om jag repeterar så betyder det inte att du har sagt fel... Bara att det är bra att repetera." That's what I meant by the text "This guy took his time to teach me Swedish". He was a great friend (still a friend though it's Brenda while since we've spoken). My Australian accent is almost gone now, the last of these clips is from over a year ago.
Please,review "learn 50 languages app",I have used it quite a while to learn Portuguese and it has been very helpful.
Thanks Dave!
I am familiar with the 50 Languages website but not the app - I will definitely have a look at that, thank you!
@@daysandwords thanks for replying,I love your channel,keep up the good work,man!
Du är jättebra på svenska! Jag är svensk och förstod allt du sa :)
I keep saying I will go and listen to Garmarna or Nordman pr something ... and then I'm back to this channel 😋
Yewwww! Well done Lamont
Thank you sir!
I would greatly appreciate if you could explain me how do you practice spelling? I mean when I speak swedish it's so different from what I'm used to that I often catch myself on mumbling the words rather than speaking, it's so hard :/
Hi - do you mean spelling or pronunciation? Spelling is basically a matter of reading and writing a lot.
@@daysandwords I meant pronunciation of course, my mistake
Du pratar jättebra svenska, du pratar bättre svenska än många av dem invandrare som bott i Sverige i 10+ år. Du ska också komma ihåg att svenskan har en hel del ord som är lånade ifrån franskan, som till exempel garage och entreprenör, osv
Which content do you use to learn Swedish? It is hard to find youtube channels, movies or series
Quick list:
IJustWantToBeCool2
Clara Henry
Series:
Bonusfamiljen
Kalifat
Movies:
The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed out of a Window
As It is In Heaven
Days of French 'n' Swedish tack så mycket min vän!!! Väldigt bra
How did you come in contact with these people helping you in your video?
used iTalki (just for free in the beginning).
Using this link will give us both $10 if you ever do decide to hire a tutor:
www.italki.com/i/CHfEEb?hl=en-us
How did you meet these other people to talk too? Which program is your hands down favorite to learn with?
Samma här. Det var bara ett skämt i början! Det var faktiskt ett fantastiskt beslut
Du pratar en bra Svenska!Utan så mycket engelsk bakrunds accent!Ja du behöver prata med svenskar varje dag!Så jag vill ge dig mycket beröm!
Nice video m8, if you need any practice with Swedish and Arabic, i'm here :)
btw. where can I get a fishing t-shirt like the one you wearing?
Thank you. 😀
Ah, sorry, I bought it at a shop here where they get overstock of brands and stuff, so most of my "nice" clothes come from that shop, and the brand is "ICE AND POP" I think. It shrunk a bit in the wash actually so I don't think I can wear it over a long sleeved shirt anymore. 🙄
I would love to learn Swedish so if any Swedish native wants to help me practise that would be great !!
Very well done :)
And for the people that don't have the feeling that they actually improve, I can only recommend taking videos of you speaking.
Then you start seeing these small differences that make the progress happen.
Additionally I tried to be more precise about my progress tracking. So I actually wrote down how many hours I spent with the language so far.
This is my playlist for different weeks and months (currently I am at learning Russian for 6 months).
The first few weeks are just stumbling around with a few words.
ruclips.net/p/PLWGmD5aVvbhZaQSP3XussxBDLUqN5FGKv
I’d love to see a Swedish persons reaction to an Australian speaking Swedish to them in Australia randomly😂😂😂
Oh yeah, the air conditioning guy was probably my favourite one. He and I even got a beer a few weeks later but unfortunately the whole c19 business kind of stunted the flourishing of our friendship haha.
Damn that’s tough, I’ve had some funny interactions as a white person who speaks Spanish not at a crazy high level but I learned from my friends so I speak with a Colombian-Venezuelan accent but Spanish is such a common language in the states it cnat even compare to Swedish in Australia😂
Why is the Swedish flag on Australia?
Fair question haha. Well, there were some parts I cut out of the video (for time) and one of them was saying that I did this entire thing without leaving Australia, which is probably the most linguistically isolated country in the world (maybe New Zealand actually, then Australia) and also about as far away as you can get from Sweden without leaving Earth.
Nah. In New Zealand they know some Maori.
You pretty look Swedish yourself. 🙂
It's weird how people say that, but only once they know I'm learning Swedish.
I'm Scottish/Croatian heritage.
Hey man, your Swedish is pretty damn good, don't disparage! (I am Swedish)
Tack. Enligt mig är det faktiskt inte bra i den här videon. Det har förbättrats mycket under det senaste året.
Den här videon är lite bätte men nu för tiden är ännu lite bättre: ruclips.net/video/RnIFia_wgyk/видео.html
Now you know Sweedish it's easy to also learn Norwegian (My mother-tounge/mother-language)
I've been using Duolingo for about a year and still can't understand Swedes when they speak Swedish. I listen to my Swedish boyfriend and it seems like he is speaking a different type of Swedish than I have been learning. Like he is speaking a more simple Swedish where I have been learning a more sophisticated type of Swedish.
You've gotta start listening to Swedish spoken by Swedes FOR Swedes. In other words, stuff like Kalifat, Björnstad, Kärlek och Anarki and Young Royals, with no subtitles or with Swedish subtitles.
@@daysandwords I've tried Swedish television, but can't follow it either. After a year, you would think I would be great, but seems like Duolingo screwed me over.
I wouldn't expect you to be great after a year. I would expect you to be QUITE GOOD after a year of watching Swedish TV with Swedish subtitles. Still quite good, not great.
After about two years of this, I can understand Swedish TV basically no problems. But a year of any learning program like Duolingo or SwedishPod101? Nup, you would suck after ten years of that, letalone one.
but how did you find these people to talk to? Is there an app or something?
www.italki.com/i/CHfEEb?hl=en-us
@@daysandwords Thank you! :)
Alla vi som lägger tid på att lära sig ett främmande språk utan direkt vettig anledning är nog lite udda 🤣
Haha, jo, jag är definitivt lite udda. Kanske lite mer än 'lite'.
Jan kan faktiskt inte lära mig något på riktigt om det FINNS direkt anledning. Det får livet lite svårt för att alla säger 'Lamont, du borde lära dig den här saken för att det är bra för jobbet och chanser i livet.' och jag kan inte svara utan att säga "Nej tack... det är tråkigt."
Men som min vän sa, det betyder att jag kan inte köpas. Om jag vill göra någonting så ska jag göra det.
Tack för kommentaren! ('a', inte 'ä' ;-)
@@daysandwords haha, bra inställning, jagkänner igen, inte för att nån säger nåt men jag inser själv att det hade varit bättre för karriären karriären lägga 1000 timmar på nåt jobbrelaterat 🤪
Jäg er norska, men det her var jettebra!
Jag såg aldrig den här kommentaren! Tack för att du sa det och ha det bra!
@@ForestBeingHelena Jo jo, men jag forsöker 😂
@@falashyst5970 I'll tell you guys a funny story. I was in a small beach town in Australia, about 2 hours from Melbourne, and they had a second hand book store. In the store was a shelf dedicated to Foreign Language Books and my wife said "They don't have Swedish but they have Norwegian", so I started looking through the books and ALL of them were Swedish, NOT Norwegian. I bought one of them and the owner of the store, who had made the label for the shelf was like "That's eight dollars... By the way, do you know what language this is?"
@@daysandwords Haha, what a confusing store
Bro ive been trying to learn swedish for years and still cant speak a word :(
Is french closer to english tan swedish? Seems off.
Yep, French vocabulary is indeed closer to English than Swedish vocab is. Swedish grammar is closer, but at the start, it's vocab that really gets you going, so French is much easier for a native English speaker AT THE START (but not necessarily after that).
English being a "Germanic" language is really only a formal label, like a "Red Panda" is not actually a panda at all, and is in fact more closely related to the raccoon.
The French and the English fought while France occupied England for centuries MUCH MORE RECENTLY than English had anything to do with German or Norse languages. So it'd be like having a child in America, and then when they were 7 years old, moving them to Mexico, and then at 20 years old, asking them "Hey, you're an American... how come you speak Spanish!?"
English and French are so similar that in some sentences, you can recognise every word that's more than 3 letters.
If you take 100 random sentences and look at a French translation and a Swedish translation, I guarantee the French sentences more closely resemble the English ON AVERAGE.
Cheers for your comment.
Swedish is an easy language in 3 mouths I was fluent
Haha, säkert. Jag tror dig.
Noticed so many people just had no emotions at all and obviously being bored while listening. Hope it’s not like that
Nah it's just while someone is taking a whole minute to say 10 words, there's not much to do other than wait. It always looks as though they're bored but they're just being polite by not butting in.
Jag är klart imponerad av att man inte hör så mycket av din brytning. Eller i alla fall inte så mycket som man brukar höra från personer med engelska som modersmål.
Jag tycker det låter som att du har en svensk dialekt också. Kanske Lidingö eller Bohuslän? Eller så inbillar jag mig bara.
Jag hatar mitt eget uttal. Det har minskat ganska mycket sen jag gjorde den här videon, men det finns en brytning kvar som jag kan höra.
En ny video på svenska:
ruclips.net/video/RnIFia_wgyk/видео.html
Days of French 'n' Swedish Ja. Det är jättesvårt att bli av med all brytning. Nästan omöjligt. Men du har kommit längre än de flesta. Jag hade en lärare på universitet som var amerikan. Han bröt nästan inget. Men det var ändå uppenbart för alla i klassen att han var amerikan. Han blev förvånad.
@@PontusWelin Ja, men jag har inte ens försökt någon riktig metod än, som 'shadowing' eller nåt sånt. Det här är bara genom att "försöka låta svensk" och så är det med min nya video. 'Shadowing' är väldigt jobbigt att göra men det är effektivt, så du kommer se (eller, höra) hur min svenska förbättras om några månader. :-)
Swedish sounds like English in rewind
Norwegian even more so because they reverse our intonation almost perfectly.
8:23 bahaha that's a good'n
Gute lobb!!!
Never mind; spell check has struck again.
Hahaha, I was like "lobb" isn't a word that I'm aware of.
"Jobb" is, yes. Although it generally means like your occupation. To say "good job" they say "Bra jobbat!" which is more like "well done".
Your swedish is very okay..people can understand what you’re saying but its very hard and kind of annoying to listen to. But there are always room for improvements