It's crazy how honest they are, a lot of people in some countries tend to say they speak multiple languages, but instead they barely speak it well, whereas in Sweden they openly say, they speak 2 fluently and the others not in a very dissent level
Bragging, especially if done in a brazen or open way, is a much worse sin in Sweden than in many other places. When I have visited the USA that is something that has been glaringly obvious.
That is nice to read as it bothers me when people aren't more clear and honest. If I got the question I know I would have said 1 (Swedish) or maybe if being more exact 1.5 just because I am not used to speaking English and get very uncomfortable... I pretty much panic... there is no way I could ever claim to speak English fluently when my speaking skills are lacking. Comprehension and typing isn't enough...
Respect to the girl who talked about sign language! I agree! More people should learn it and we all mighy lose our hearing as we age anyway so it would be extremely convenient to aleady know it.
might also lose your hands though 💀 But on a serious note I actually thought of learning sign language a few times. I've learned the alfabet letters in my youth when I used to hang around with a guy with very poor hearing. Which was very useful already because you can form words (and read them from the other person) pretty quickly with the letter signs when you get the hang of it :)
A basque speaker here. I didn't expect anybody to mention our isolate language in this video. Nice! Swedish people seem to be very open to foreign languages btw
Literally more than half of the people interviewed, said the same sh, Spanish, French, Italian, French and Spanish. Like why do people focus only on these 3 specific languages? Just because many people speak them and they sound "beautiful"?? There are many cooler and more uniqe underrated languages out there.
@@spedupaudios5225because French and Spanish (as well as German) are the languages that the Swedish students can choose between in school to learn. It’s as simple as that. Also a lot, and I mean a lot Swedes go to Spain on vacations and also many retired Swedes move there. 😊
I was in Sweden and I can say that absolute majority speak English - bus drivers, any shop assistant, etc. Including small towns. Only elderly people don't speak English.
I used to work with a guy from London. He said that during his 11 years in Sweden he had only stumbled upon one Swedish person that didn't understand English at all. Not saying all swedes are perfectly fluid in English, but you can have a meaningful conversation and get answers to your questions from ~98% of all swedes. The downside when English is your mother tongue is that us swedes tend to switch to English when we hear that. So they have a much tougher time and it takes much longer for them to learn Swedish.
swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Färöisch, Icelandic are North Germanic languages. Together with west Germanic languages (German, Dutch, Flemish, Luxemburgish. I'm not sure with Jüdisch) they build Germanic languages. I've lived in Denmark 20 years ago. Because so lang time ago I've forgotten almost all of Danish. I remember just 3 things about this language: 1) there is difference between "hans" and "sin" which both would be translated into English as "his" or German "sein" French "son" or Chinese (my mother tongue) "tade". At the beginning I couldn't distinguish these two words. After long time I finally understood the difference. 2) determinant is some times behind (not in front of) the noun, for example "huset", which would be translated into English as "house the" instead of "the house" ("et hus" would have another meaning). 3) the 3rd point is a little complicated so that I would write a very long comment in order to formulate it
@@aramisone7198 You can understand Danish if they just try to talk a little slower and clearer. 😉 And if you hear it for a few days you pretty quickly start to understand when they talk faster as well... at least enough to make by.
Dont they understand norwegian and danish? Or do they take it for granted, or simply forget they understand both danish and norwegian beside swedish and english?
I'm Italian, very happy to know that many of these people want to learn my native language ❤ if you want speak Italian I would be glad to practise and to learn Swedish in change!😊
I wanted to learn another, I chose Italian because I love both the people, the place and the language. Sono andato a perugia..veramente una bella citta che mi manca.
@@MerlinaTheFriendlyGhost Hi Merlina!I studied foreign languages (autodidacte in English), French and Spanish. If you want communicate in Italian, I'm very happy to help you 😁 can we change the address email if you want, but I don't know how 😅
I’ve been living in Sweden for 1,5 years know and completely agree. It’s a really nice country with very friendly people,who do their best to be nice. It helps a great deal if you learn Swedish, it is definitely not necessary, but very much appreciated.
But saying that it's something that everyone should know is just extremely unrealistic. Most people go their entire lives without ever having to interact with someone who can only speak in sign language. The closest most people ever come to sign language is seeing some random person sign once on the other side of the bus
@@MarcusH... My interpretation of her tone and knowing my/our common culture, I'd say she isn't putting this on people to learn but rather say it's something to think about and it should be awareness in the public eye. Forcing people to learn isn't very effective in my opinion. I'd love to try learning it myself because my sister knows it but I keep finding other languages more compelling because of their many other usages.
Interesting I love the way it sounds, I am English, learning Swedish but I’m happy to know it’s similar somewhat to German as I already hear some familiarity through English
@@-db4rfGerman and Dutch may be closer than German and Swedish, but German and Swedish are pretty close. I’m Swedish and never studied German in school but I still understand a fair bit, and could “speak German” when I met people in Germany who didn’t speak English. Wouldn’t have been possible if our languages weren’t related.
I never thought anything about the swedish language but then I got introduced to a rapper Sarettii from Sweden and the language really intrigued me, now I am starting to learn it haha
Interesting that almost none of the younger people speak German anymore. However, many of those over 50 still speak German, including in Denmark and the Netherlands. In the past, German books and the German language were also used in science in Sweden.
In Denmark, we are still taught German beginning in around 6th grade. Most Danes speak a little bit. Some, like me, speak it at basic conversation level and there is probably a higher percentage of Danes that speak it fluently compared to Swedes because of Denmarks geographical location. Unfortunately a lot of Danish kids give up on German because the grammar is a nightmare. It also just feels a bit unnecessary since you can get by with English most places in Germany anyway, sadly.
typically you get to pick either german, french or spanish. Not many kids pick german these days, i studied spanish while i was in school. However since i now work in the forest industry i regret not studying german since it would've been more useful for me to know.
Scandinavians are practical people, and they love to travel. English is widely spoken in Germany (and other German speaking countries), so not a pressing need to learn it. Not so in Latin America - you would need to have a basic understanding of Spanish. Spanish is more utilitarian. Same with Mandarin.
@@fleromeco345 I should tell you more of the sins the Swedes commit against the Italian cuisine, we break spaghetti in half to cook it, we put banana and curry on pizza, we but kebab on pizza, we put ketchup on alot of the Italian dishes we do alot more but I can't think of any more at this current time.
@8:22 I am hearing but know Swedish sign language. It's really neat in some situations, like you can talk through a window or when you're in a really noisy place it's so much more convenient to sign! All though sign language is problematic when carrying stuff but wanna talk and a bit tricky to walk and talk at the same time. But I do recommend everyone to try i out, it's an amazing language!
In sweden every kid gets to choose between learning french, spanish or german in school. We all know english (and understand norwegian and a little danish).
Itäs a blight on our country (that we only speak Australian) that is why I am teaching myself Swedish (my Gradfather was Swedish) and I have friends there, I would like to be able to understand them if I ever get to go back there.
Cool, 🫶I was not expecting Chinese was mentioned so many times. I thought Japanese maybe more popular. 😂 I used to worry that the Swedish official media had too much of a negative tendency to report on China, and worried whether I should go to Sweden for a PhD (I've always been very impressed with Sweden's welfare policy, but learning Swedish requires quite a bit of commitment). Guess the public opinion is shifting recent years.❤
Many people are kinda suspisous of the chinese goverment, but not of the people! Most are very accepting of other cultures and interested so I think you would like it here!
It switches between generations which east asian culture is seen as cool, if they were asking middle aged people it'd be Japanese, younger adults it'd be Korean, but these are mostly teenagers.
This is interview is ine like the very liberal leftist part of Sweden. I say stay out, cause we already have massive prolbems with migrants. But we don't hate everyone from any country, there are good and bad from all countries. As long as Sweden gets to stay Swedish, which it doesn't atm.. then I don't care. China is an interesting country.
When we are 13 years old, we can choose to study either French, German or Spanish in school. English is taught to everyone since we’re about 9 years old.
Not all Swedish people understand spoken Danish (It's really hard unless you are from southern Sweden.) but we understand it in writing. Norwegian is usually easier for us to understand. I don't think the people in the video thought about the other Scandinavian languages when asked. They probably just forgot to mention them, but we actually don't speak Norwegian and/or Danish even if some of us can understand them depending on the dialect. :)
Should have done the interview in Finland since we have mandatory 3 languages here in school so 1 more than Sweden 😂 And most of people pick extra languages as well, the same way in Sweden.
@@staffan144 I think she meant 3 mandatory languages other than the mother tongue, so they have one more mandatory language in Finland which is Swedish.
I'm from norway, and I'm lowkey jealous of swedes cause they can also understand us and danes to a high extent. I can understand swedish well enough but reading it is a bit tough and they spam "ä" alot hahah. On the other hand tho, reading danish is pretty easy since our bokmål is extremely similar to written danish but once a dane opens their mouth I have to strain my ears lollll love my neighbors tho, we all chill
@@FreezeMathias Jeg er mye i Stockholm, og de fleste svenskene der forstår meg veldig godt tbhh. Du har sikkert rett tho, men jeg vet at svenskene fra Skåne forstår dansk veldig godt.
Norwegian has so many dialects tho. We might be able to understand the Oslo dialect. No you see, you guys are the ones spamming except you're spamming "æ"!!
I'm guessing they didn't add subtitles cause the guy was sort of just thinking out loud until he got to his actual answer, but here's what he said: "Some other language? Hmm not really... I tried learning a bit of Spanish but that wasn't very fun, but some other language... Maybe French?"
wow, both the men and women in Sweden are good-looking.I'm American but I speak German and Swedish. I got suspended from work because of a guy making fun of Sweden, I yelled at him.
I can mostly write many phrases in many different languages than speak, completely memorized in my head and in my memory. I also have some acquaintances from Essen in Germany with whom I speak a little German sometimes in Sweden in the summer who have a summer cottage. I like to write phrases in different languages in letters and emails to share and make many people happy. Have a nice day! (ENGLISH) - Ha en bra dag! (SWEDISH) - İyi günler! (TURKISH) - Roja te xweş be! (KURDISH) - Hav ein góðan dag! (FAROESE) Maalin wanaagsan! (SOMALI) - Kalofshi një ditë të mbarë! (ALBANIAN) - Imej lep dan! (SLOVENIAN) - Te ovel tut laćho dĭves! (ROMANI) - Leygen szép napod! (HUNGARIAN) - Kia pai tō rā! (MAORI) - Egun ona izan dezazula! (BASQUE) - Gözəl gün eylə! (AZERBAIJANI) - Хорошего дня! (RUSSIAN) - ! أتمنى لك يوم جيد (ARABIC) - ! ﺭﻭﺯ ﺧﻮﺑﻰ ﺩﺍﺷﺘﻪ ﺑﺎﺷﻴﺪ (PERSIAN) - Hyvää päivänjatkoa! (FINNISH) - Καλή σας μέρα! (GREEK) - Hezký den! (CZECH) - Latha math dhut! (GAELIC) - Miłego dnia! (POLISH) - O zi plăcută! (ROMANIAN) - Ugodan dan! (CROATIAN) - ¡Que tenga un buen día! (SPANISH) - Een goede dag verder! (DUTCH) - E schéinen Dag nach! (LUXEMBOURGISH) - Haben Sie einen schönen Tag! (GERMAN) - Eigðu góðan dag! (ICELANDIC) - Hav en dejlig dag! (DANISH) - Ha en flott dag! (NORWEGIAN) - Bonne journée! (FRENCH). 🙂
Salut les gars c'est super cool que vous soyez autant a vous intéresser à la langue Française en Suède, ici en France c'est pas évident de s'intéresser à la langue Suédoise dans le but de l'apprendre 🇨🇵🤜🤛🇸🇪
Mon expérience est que ceux qui étudient le français s’intéressent plus à la langue que ceux qui étudient l’espagnol. L’espagnol, on le choisit parce que tous les amis le font également, mais le français, c’est plus d’une choix consciente et souvent liée à une passion pour la culture française.
@@elinbranting ça me touche en tant que français de savoir ça ! Je m'intéresse aussi a la langue Suédoise parce que j'apprécie beaucoup la culture Scandinave, et j'envisage de faire un road-trip de plusieurs semaines en Scandinavie qui se déroulerait majoritairement en Suède et j'aimerais maîtriser quelques notions de languages afin de témoigner du respect aux locaux. La base du respect dans un pays étranger c'est de s'intéresser un minimum à la langue et a la culture de son interlocuteur ! 💙💛
@@si.2110 normal, le suédois et l'anglais sont des langues issues du groupe germanique, à partir de là la base de leur langue maternelle se retrouve en grande partie dans la langue anglaise ... Le français est une langue latine, nous quand on passe du français a l'anglais on doit passer de différentes logiques et structures grammaticales, sans parler des conjugaisons des verbes pour se faire comprendre. On part de plus loin qu'eux dans une quête d'arriver au même résultat, et surtout l'apprentissage scolaire de l'anglais en France est complètement à revoir, le niveau scolaire général est médiocre par rapport aux attendus des programmes scolaires donc, oui malheureusement
It's common for Swedes to speak at least three langauges. We study two foreign languages or more at school and we understand Norwegian and Danish well (spoken Danish is tricky though, but written Danish is easy to comprehend). Swedes really love traveling and enjoy studying/working abroad. As we are highly aware of the advantages of being a respectful visitor to another country, we try and adopt by learning the language of the nation hosting us as their guests. Let's have a look at the langauge skills of a typical Swede like Zlatan Ibrahimovic 🙂. Zlatan speaks Swedish, Bosnian, Croatian, English, Dutch, Italian, (some) Spanish, (some) French and on top of that he understands the other Slavic languages spoken in former Yugoslavia, Norwegian and Danish. That's at least 10 languages! Not extreme for being a European. One of my former girlfriends was a native speaker of Swedish, Hungarian and Serbian, knew English and German really well, understood all of the Slavic languages in former Yugoslavia and also Norwegian and Danish. Another ex of mine was a native speaker of Italian and also knew English, German, Latin, Arabic, Greek and had studied several other languages at university level (I have forgotten which they were).
It's true that we study two foreign languages or more at school, and yes some Swedish people speak three languages or more fluently, but I don't think it is very common. Most people speak Swedish and English well and they have learned a third language at school so they might have a basic knowledge of that third language or possibly an intermediate level but they usually can't speak it fluently unless they have for example lived abroad. Most Swedish people don't speak languages like Bosnian, Croatian or Dutch. If they speak Bosnian, Croatian or Serbian it is usually because they or their parents originally came from former Yugoslavia or for example from Croatia.
@@IMKAPPAA no, per favore. Non esistono " migliori al mondo" soprattutto ultimamente. Ovviamente mi fa piacere che siano interessati ad imparare l'italiano, dato che vivo in Svezia
Big respect to the people who wanted to learn Chinese in this current climate where there is so much Sinophobia. I did learn a bit of Swedish a while back but didn't have time to continue. I did find it to be one of the less difficult languages, but alas, it still has genders! I loved the fact that verbs don't conjugate with the person. Tak.
I'm indian but i love china and really respect them im also learning mandarin and hope to visit china in near future. Sadly many people hate china due to ccp and western propaganda.
Nothing against the chinese people. It's the government we hate. They have supressed their population with social credit scores and violent crackdowns like Tiananmen square. They oppress Uyghurs and claim land that isn't theirs to please Xi Jinping's vanity. I have much love for the chinese, not for Xi.
I used to think Sweden was a bilingual country we would get missionaries here in Africa and surprisingly all of them spoke very good and nice English the young and old ones
@@petergustafsson1670 I just learned it little bit in school since it is required as swedish is official language here. But since the resemblance to some finnish words that have swedish origin and english words it is more so understandable for me than I actually know how to speak.
det är helt roligt och härligt att många svenskar vill lära sig kinesiska. XD alltså det känndes inte att svenskar var för mycket intresserade på kinesiska för mycket när jag fortfarande befann mig där i Sverige XD
Sen är dom också på Södermalm, så det påverkar nog lite. Hade de frågat på Östermalm hade de nog fått färre som svarat kinesiska. Men det har absolut förändrat sig en del. Överlag tror jag de flesta gillar kineser men är misstänksamma mot staten.
As a Vietnamese, I find that Chinese is very easy when it comes to pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. But the writing system is the entire opposite thing
Hard for you to judge if it is your mother tongue. I have studied some Korean, Japanese and Mandarin, and Mandarin is by far the hardest to get started with among those three due to the difficult pronounciation.
Just a fun fact about sign language. I have learned different alphabets so I can spell whatever I want if I need to, and everyone is surprised that the language is different from country to country. Plus there’s slangs and dialects too. So if you didn’t know, then now you know👍
You should come and ask South Africa people, becouse we have 11 official languages, on top of that you have different dialog from province to province within some of the languages.
Well even though Swedes likely understand them, they cannot speak or write in Danish and Norwegian. Sure as a Swede I could likely fake an accent that may fool non Scandinavians. But that's about it.
Most Scandinavians can read and understand eachother's languages but they are so close it is difficult to speak. My sister who is Swedish but lived and went to school in Norway for example never know if it's pensionär or pensionist in Swedish and Norwegian respectively.
@@tovep9573 yessss, so similar that it's difficult is a good way to put it. Finding the right words is difficult when you have to second guess if the translation really is that simple or you're forgetting something.
That's because they often don't speak each others languages. They speak their own to each other and hope for the best. And most Swedes don't understand much of what Danes are saying.
I think young Swedes between 13-34 yrs can speak English pretty good about 77% of them after this older people over+40 yrs can understand Norwegian bokmål and Danish about 64% of them.
@@oskich Yes but my point is you don't understand the other languages automatically, just because you speak one of them. You still need to learn them, because they still are different languages.
Hi! I have a question for Swedes. I'm from Argentina and I am learning Norwegian. I've read everywhere that Swedes and Norwegians can understand each other, and I even watched a Swedish movie once and could understand some phrases, they sounded really similar to norwegian. So, how come no one in this video mentioned Norwegian as a language they speak or at least understand a little?
As someone else mentioned, it's likely because the languages are so similar that they forget or take it for granted. When asked what languages you speak or understand the first thought is usually a language that is very different from your own. One that you've had to study to learn. :) /A Swede
Flesta svenskar förstår norska men kan inte tala norska... Tror jag. I think most swedes understad norwegian but they don't speak it(active vocabularly).
@@fluidnarrative Jeg forstår nå, tusen takk for svar! Jeg kan lese kommentaren din, svensk og norsk er veldig like språk! I'm just writing in norwegian to practice, lol. Good channel, good content, greetings from Argentina :)
That girl whoms parents are from Chile and Finland is soooo beauteful, I can't! She's born in Sweden so despite you can tell shes not fully Sweden she do melts in the crowd and nobody would question her not being ethnic Swede. If I'd meet her I would simply by curiousity ask her "you are not fully Swedish arent you?" Because I am intrested in culture. However once I would hear her speak I would think she is just like all other Swedes.
A better way to ask is asking what her ethnicity is, as someone who gets that question quite often it's really annoying. I am fully swedish as I've lived here my whole life and my nationality is simply swedish. It's like you have to prove yourself just because you don't have light hair and eyes Just tips ❤️
I want to give a tip to the Swedish people, who are very practical, affectionate, smart, curious, affectionate and fun, the Swedes are honest, they love all the Neo-Latin languages, they don't know which one to start with or which one to end with, as there are many languages, even I get lost, I recommend learning occidental (Interlingue), novial, Interlingua, language Nova Franca because this is how they communicate with all Latin peoples using languages common among them all. Regarding Asian languages, it would be good for them to learn Wutun/Wutum, a language that mixes Tibetan, Chinese and a little Mongolian, I say this because Swedes love Chinese culture and language and Chinese and Tibetan culture together are the bases of other Asian cultures. Of the Austronesian languages, the best language for Swedes to love and enjoy is Indonesian and Malay, which are dialects of the same ancestral language and there are plenty of materials in English and Dutch. These 2 languages are sisters of Swedish, plus Dutch and Afrikaans, which have a very similar sound. to Swedish and you can study everything and the materials in English help the Swedes because English is the second language of the Swedes who today are one of the best English speakers in the world, even better than many native English speakers. Kisses to the Swedish girls, always cool and beautiful.🥂👍🌹💋😊😊🎇🎁😍❤️🦋🫂🌍💙
Thanks. English in Sweden is a foreigner lang that Swedes only adopted for international life. And Sweden speaks in half native level or native level, it's a facts. Thanks for the appreciation.🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂 🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂
Why you only asked young people? This is Södermalm, Stockholm. Södermalm, Östermalm, Kungsholmen and similar districts should have middle age couples 40-50+ and older people 70+. Some of these might be wealthy, intellectual and experienced - especially since they tend to actually own flats in these areas. More wealth and life experience might also include more travels and more language skills.
I'm half Chilean and I was pleasantly surprised that so many people wanted to learn Spanish or used to learn Spanish. Is Spanish often taught in Swedish schools and, if so, what is the reason behind it?
In Sweden you start learning English from first grade, but when you start 6th grade you get to choose between having more English classes or learning Spanish, French or German. Why Spanish is the most popular is probably because it's spoken in so many countries around the world and that's why people want to learn it.
Average Swede can speak swedish, english and some Norwegian bokmål (with a little effort), some spanish/french/german. Knows a few important words in Finnish or Danish (usually it's one or the other.) And many people in Sweden who have foreign background speaks one extra language atop on that. So I would say average is three and a half.
"Most Swedes" whatever that means understands Danish and Norwegian and all three can talk their own respective language and the others can understand them ... kind of haha! Danish is much easier to read than to hear for Swedes and I guess for Norwegians as well. Norwegian is almost the other way around and you get lost in all the differences if you read it in a way. Having that said ... on more than one occasions I've reverted to English when speaking to Danes and as Norway have TWO languages one of them is much more different than the other to a Swede. For the sake of completeness I have some limited understanding of German and maybe French and would like to learn Spanish as it's so widespread.
I went to Sweden this year in June and got a tattoo from a Bolivian man, we spoke in English Swedish and Spanish together and is definitely the peak of my life thusfar Edit: ADD SWEDISH SUBTITLES
None of them said Norwegian. I bet they know more norwegian than spanish, german and french :P.. maybe some of them know some danish too.. basicly same words, but spoken differently.
As a Swede, I can't speak nor write in Norwegian and Danish, but I can understand them. I don't know if the Scandinavian languages count as seperate languages as they are very similar to one another, sometimes feeling like dialects, especially Norwegian and Swedish.
Skulle inte säga att jag pratar så bra norska men man förstår ju nästan 100% 😄 Och ni förstår ju oftast svenska till och med bättre än vi förstår er! 😁
@@mholm4962 Ingen aning var du bor, men här i Värmland har jag aldrig hört det. Och även om dessa folk finns så är det alltid en pytteliten grupp-99% av all svenskar talar ej så där.
1:45 Haha då kommer du ju inte från Irak. To ask a Swede what languages they speak when they say two (even when speaking Swedish) is funny. You're probably never gonna find some odd maybe old person who speaks another language that isn't English. Yay finally a guy said he would wanna learn Japanese. Chinese is nice too- I speak Japanese, but not very much and I really wanna learn American Sign Language and Old Norse.
We understand Bokmål Norwegian 95% overall and Danish maybe 90% in text and 60-70% listening (if they go slow) - but we don’t speak it. We just respond in Swedish back, so it’s does not really count as “speaking the language” and we have no need to actually learn it unless we want to move there - and then it’s super easy for us to learn those languages because it’s so similar to swedish
@@Fluxwux it's the same here, I'm a Russian native speaker, so, Ukrainian and Belarusian are very similar and we don't need to learn them. We can speak our own languages with each other.
@@Mediaflashmob I wonder if Russian and Ukrainian are like Portuguese and Spanish (I am brazilian) or even closer to each other comparted to portuguese and spanish
@Pedroramossss yes, generally Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian are close to each other like Portuguese, Spanish and Italian or like Norwegian, Swedish and Danish. More exact about Ukrainian, the intelligibility depends on the dialect. The eastern one is similar to the Russian southern dialect, we can understand about 95-99%. The western dialect is closer to Polish, so we can understand it about 30-40%.
The Swedish language has a charming and beautiful sound and a sing-song language. I think the Swedish language is beautiful and the three Swedish girls are model babes, the German Swedish girl is a total charmer. The Eueco people in terms of Germanic languages and fluent in English, a worldwide native and almost native level, of the other Germanic languages that Swedes need to learn are German, Afrikaans, Dutch and Swiss German. As they love painting and music, Swedes should be conlang solresol, the international sign language for social inclusion and the languages of emojis. The Swedes are notorious lovers and friends of all Neo-Latin languages, it awakens passion and love in them, the Swedes must study Ido, novial, interlingua and interlingue (occidental) and the Occitan that underlies all Western Neo-Latin poetry to this day. As Swedes today love Chinese culture, they should study the Hokkien language and classical Chinese, Hokkien and the direct descendant of the classical and ancient Chinese language. Swedes are not perfect but at least they are honest, they are humanized and when they trust a foreign person they are loving, trustworthy and try to be loyal and nice. They have their madness, xenophobia and depressions, but at least they try to love and understand different cultures similar to theirs, which they like in Sweden.
It's crazy how honest they are, a lot of people in some countries tend to say they speak multiple languages, but instead they barely speak it well, whereas in Sweden they openly say, they speak 2 fluently and the others not in a very dissent level
Bragging, especially if done in a brazen or open way, is a much worse sin in Sweden than in many other places. When I have visited the USA that is something that has been glaringly obvious.
That is nice to read as it bothers me when people aren't more clear and honest. If I got the question I know I would have said 1 (Swedish) or maybe if being more exact 1.5 just because I am not used to speaking English and get very uncomfortable... I pretty much panic... there is no way I could ever claim to speak English fluently when my speaking skills are lacking. Comprehension and typing isn't enough...
@@petergustafsson1670 I used to live in Sweden (I'm American). I encountered just as much bragging there than here in the US.
There's a difference between being fluent and learning a language.
We only lie on the resumé/curriculum vitae
Respect to the girl who talked about sign language! I agree! More people should learn it and we all mighy lose our hearing as we age anyway so it would be extremely convenient to aleady know it.
might also lose your hands though 💀 But on a serious note I actually thought of learning sign language a few times. I've learned the alfabet letters in my youth when I used to hang around with a guy with very poor hearing. Which was very useful already because you can form words (and read them from the other person) pretty quickly with the letter signs when you get the hang of it :)
@@B0K1T0that first sentence! Damn. Dark thinking
@@B0K1T0 losing your hearing is more probable than losing your limbs
I don't care about deaf people.
@@ShortContent853 Well thank God you are irrelevant in the world! If you dont care at all no use to be here them!
A basque speaker here. I didn't expect anybody to mention our isolate language in this video. Nice! Swedish people seem to be very open to foreign languages btw
Well, he speaks a little Basque because his father is Basque.
@@inotoni6148 yes, of course. I've understood it but between so many languages it is surprising to menton the basque/euskara
Literally more than half of the people interviewed, said the same sh, Spanish, French, Italian, French and Spanish. Like why do people focus only on these 3 specific languages? Just because many people speak them and they sound "beautiful"?? There are many cooler and more uniqe underrated languages out there.
@@spedupaudios5225because French and Spanish (as well as German) are the languages that the Swedish students can choose between in school to learn. It’s as simple as that. Also a lot, and I mean a lot Swedes go to Spain on vacations and also many retired Swedes move there. 😊
I was in Sweden and I can say that absolute majority speak English - bus drivers, any shop assistant, etc. Including small towns. Only elderly people don't speak English.
I used to work with a guy from London. He said that during his 11 years in Sweden he had only stumbled upon one Swedish person that didn't understand English at all. Not saying all swedes are perfectly fluid in English, but you can have a meaningful conversation and get answers to your questions from ~98% of all swedes. The downside when English is your mother tongue is that us swedes tend to switch to English when we hear that. So they have a much tougher time and it takes much longer for them to learn Swedish.
@@rogerdanblad this is why in abroad i pretend to understand zero English, even tho i speak it at least on level B2
Most forget that they understand most of the Norwegian and Danish language as well. :)
Jag håller med...men är Norska och Danska verkligen utrikiska...🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭
Noweigan yes but Danish no its different from Swedish and Norway.
swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Färöisch, Icelandic are North Germanic languages. Together with west Germanic languages (German, Dutch, Flemish, Luxemburgish. I'm not sure with Jüdisch) they build Germanic languages.
I've lived in Denmark 20 years ago. Because so lang time ago I've forgotten almost all of Danish. I remember just 3 things about this language:
1) there is difference between "hans" and "sin" which both would be translated into English as "his" or German "sein" French "son" or Chinese (my mother tongue) "tade". At the beginning I couldn't distinguish these two words. After long time I finally understood the difference.
2) determinant is some times behind (not in front of) the noun, for example "huset", which would be translated into English as "house the" instead of "the house" ("et hus" would have another meaning).
3) the 3rd point is a little complicated so that I would write a very long comment in order to formulate it
@@aramisone7198 You can understand Danish if they just try to talk a little slower and clearer. 😉 And if you hear it for a few days you pretty quickly start to understand when they talk faster as well... at least enough to make by.
Dont they understand norwegian and danish?
Or do they take it for granted, or simply forget they understand both danish and norwegian beside swedish and english?
I'm Italian, very happy to know that many of these people want to learn my native language ❤ if you want speak Italian I would be glad to practise and to learn Swedish in change!😊
I'm Swedish also. Would also love to learn Italian. Beautiful language. Latin would be cool also!
I wanted to learn another, I chose Italian because I love both the people, the place and the language. Sono andato a perugia..veramente una bella citta che mi manca.
i would love to learn italian :)@@ale.d.3812
@@ale.d.3812 Hi I’m Spanish and would love to learn Italian any tips?
@@MerlinaTheFriendlyGhost Hi Merlina!I studied foreign languages (autodidacte in English), French and Spanish. If you want communicate in Italian, I'm very happy to help you 😁 can we change the address email if you want, but I don't know how 😅
lived in sweden for three years. welcoming ppl, inclusive society, it's an amazing country and i miss it so much.
cringey comment
@@alessbritish228 Yup your comment is definitely cringey
@@AtomicMushroomz no u
TU ❤
I’ve been living in Sweden for 1,5 years know and completely agree. It’s a really nice country with very friendly people,who do their best to be nice. It helps a great deal if you learn Swedish, it is definitely not necessary, but very much appreciated.
the girl at the end is totally right about sign language,
i can see it being very useful, also outside of the deaf community.
That last girl is a real one! She wanted to learn sign language! 🙏🏾
But saying that it's something that everyone should know is just extremely unrealistic. Most people go their entire lives without ever having to interact with someone who can only speak in sign language. The closest most people ever come to sign language is seeing some random person sign once on the other side of the bus
@@MarcusH... There are also hundreds of different sign languages, which consequently makes each relatively small.
@@fastertove True, if you learn swedish sign language and meet someone who uses american sign languages it'll just be confusing
@@MarcusH... My interpretation of her tone and knowing my/our common culture, I'd say she isn't putting this on people to learn but rather say it's something to think about and it should be awareness in the public eye. Forcing people to learn isn't very effective in my opinion. I'd love to try learning it myself because my sister knows it but I keep finding other languages more compelling because of their many other usages.
She's also a real one, because she didn't repeat the same sh everyone else said, spanish, french and italian.
I'm Italian, nice to hear so many swedes would like to speak Italian!
Davvero, non me lo aspettavo
Poi oh sono anche carino quindi meglio
They would like, but they will never put in the work required
Forza Italia! Pizza, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Pasta, Spaghetti, Capeesh, and Cosa Nostra. I´m Swedish, I know why!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what about Portuguese? it's maybe the most sensuous of the Roman stock languages.
figata infatti, faccio le valigie
I like the sound of Swedish. I'm always happy when I naturally understand it because it's so close to German.
Interesting I love the way it sounds, I am English, learning Swedish but I’m happy to know it’s similar somewhat to German as I already hear some familiarity through English
i speak norwegian… swedish is like a fever dream
Deutsch is close to Dutch bro Deutsch is nowhere near Swedish what are you saying mate..??!!
@@kieranlowrieGerman and Dutch are close toe ach other but nor swedish thats wrong info mate..
@@-db4rfGerman and Dutch may be closer than German and Swedish, but German and Swedish are pretty close. I’m Swedish and never studied German in school but I still understand a fair bit, and could “speak German” when I met people in Germany who didn’t speak English. Wouldn’t have been possible if our languages weren’t related.
I never thought anything about the swedish language but then I got introduced to a rapper Sarettii from Sweden and the language really intrigued me, now I am starting to learn it haha
Really remarkable that two specific languages - Italian and Chinese - are mentioned most among those Swedes want to learn
Also spanish
Hahaha😂. Probably I could go to there to teach them both of Italian and Chinese. I am a Sino-Italian who speaks 4 languages.
It's because we think italian sounds beautiful, and chinese is the most spoken language in the world.
Swedes love Italy and Italian food. And statistically it is the language that most Swedes think is the most beautiful.
I can't believe how many people speak English ❤ and the amount of people that said that they would like to learn Italian is lovely 😍
Interesting that almost none of the younger people speak German anymore. However, many of those over 50 still speak German, including in Denmark and the Netherlands. In the past, German books and the German language were also used in science in Sweden.
In Denmark, we are still taught German beginning in around 6th grade. Most Danes speak a little bit. Some, like me, speak it at basic conversation level and there is probably a higher percentage of Danes that speak it fluently compared to Swedes because of Denmarks geographical location. Unfortunately a lot of Danish kids give up on German because the grammar is a nightmare. It also just feels a bit unnecessary since you can get by with English most places in Germany anyway, sadly.
Well obviously it’s getting less, English now is even stronger than it was at the end of WW2. German was at it’s peak before WW1
typically you get to pick either german, french or spanish. Not many kids pick german these days, i studied spanish while i was in school. However since i now work in the forest industry i regret not studying german since it would've been more useful for me to know.
Danish still speak German.
Scandinavians are practical people, and they love to travel. English is widely spoken in Germany (and other German speaking countries), so not a pressing need to learn it. Not so in Latin America - you would need to have a basic understanding of Spanish. Spanish is more utilitarian. Same with Mandarin.
5:39 LoL...The Spanish guy was really in a hurry. 😂
Walking and Interviewing is a lot harder than it seems but I liked how the interview turned out.
He was late for his siesta.
come to Italy, dear Swedish friends, you're all welcome!
You don't want us there, we put ketchup on spaghetti.
🇸🇪🇸🇪♥️🇮🇹🇮🇹
@swedenisthemotherland3952
He just wants your women , n@sty italian
@swedenisthemotherland3952 ahahahaha, no worries we can make elk meatballs with spaghetti together ;)
@@fleromeco345 I should tell you more of the sins the Swedes commit against the Italian cuisine, we break spaghetti in half to cook it, we put banana and curry on pizza, we but kebab on pizza, we put ketchup on alot of the Italian dishes we do alot more but I can't think of any more at this current time.
The woman who is Finnish and Chilean is a beauty.
Agree 😮
Happens when you mix latin and nordic genes
Best looking girl I've seen in a very long time 😍
Simps
I still agree.❤
Nice video, thank you!😊 I love Sweden. They seem very interested in Italia, my country. It makes me so happy❤😊
Swedes love Italy and Italian food. And statistically it is the language that most Swedes think is the most beautiful.
@8:22 I am hearing but know Swedish sign language. It's really neat in some situations, like you can talk through a window or when you're in a really noisy place it's so much more convenient to sign! All though sign language is problematic when carrying stuff but wanna talk and a bit tricky to walk and talk at the same time. But I do recommend everyone to try i out, it's an amazing language!
In sweden every kid gets to choose between learning french, spanish or german in school. We all know english (and understand norwegian and a little danish).
Italian is very popular. Nice to hear that :))
im from Chile, really lovely the Swedish accent. now try to learn some words, es medio cantadíto jaja
Eso es lo que había escuchado, que cantan mucho al hablar
😮Tiene razón 😊
@@caracolcaracolito6279 Hej 😊
@@paulpopaul Hola. 😊
Beautiful language,beautiful country
Yep, agree that Chinese is a pretty cool one to learn! There is a shock effect too if you look western and can communicate in Chinese!
I am brazilian and currently studying Mandarin
@Pedroramossss Wow great! Best wishes on your studies!
Everyone is soo beautiful, it's amazing
swedish are smarter and prettier than the rest of the world
Everyone is so beautiful in Sweden, what the hell
Its a mystery 🤔😊
Itäs a blight on our country (that we only speak Australian) that is why I am teaching myself Swedish (my Gradfather was Swedish) and I have friends there, I would like to be able to understand them if I ever get to go back there.
First girl was gorgeous
Why didn't anybody mention other Scandinavian languages? Is it perhaps because they consider them to be dialects?
It's cheating to call them a separate language. Just too similar. Perhaps Danish to get a pass.
I wouldn’t say I speak Danish and Norweign, because I speak Swedish when talking to other Scandinavians with some words changed to avoid confusion.
That’s mostly because we only understand them, but generally can’t write or speak in their languages.
@@genoric4094 so would, for example, a Swede and a Norwegian each talk to each other in their own language or are they reduced to speaking English?
@@fintonmainz7845Yes, usually they would talk to each other in their own languages.
Cool, 🫶I was not expecting Chinese was mentioned so many times. I thought Japanese maybe more popular. 😂
I used to worry that the Swedish official media had too much of a negative tendency to report on China, and worried whether I should go to Sweden for a PhD (I've always been very impressed with Sweden's welfare policy, but learning Swedish requires quite a bit of commitment). Guess the public opinion is shifting recent years.❤
Many people are kinda suspisous of the chinese goverment, but not of the people! Most are very accepting of other cultures and interested so I think you would like it here!
I really don’t like the Chinese government though
I would say we Swedes likes chinese PEOPLE , but we do not like the chinese GOVERNMENT. If you want to travel here you are most welcome.
It switches between generations which east asian culture is seen as cool, if they were asking middle aged people it'd be Japanese, younger adults it'd be Korean, but these are mostly teenagers.
This is interview is ine like the very liberal leftist part of Sweden. I say stay out, cause we already have massive prolbems with migrants. But we don't hate everyone from any country, there are good and bad from all countries. As long as Sweden gets to stay Swedish, which it doesn't atm.. then I don't care. China is an interesting country.
As a French , nice to learn several got French classes in their schools. French greetings Sveska.
When we are 13 years old, we can choose to study either French, German or Spanish in school. English is taught to everyone since we’re about 9 years old.
I'm a French teacher in Siberia (Russia)😊
I have lots of students who learn French at schools or just for pleasure❤
If asked this question, I would absolutely mention that I understand danish and swedish very well 😅 swedes are too humble
No one understand danish, not even the danish people! 😉 😂😂
@volvodashcam well at least written Danish is easier to understand than spoken Danish lol
Not all Swedish people understand spoken Danish (It's really hard unless you are from southern Sweden.) but we understand it in writing. Norwegian is usually easier for us to understand. I don't think the people in the video thought about the other Scandinavian languages when asked. They probably just forgot to mention them, but we actually don't speak Norwegian and/or Danish even if some of us can understand them depending on the dialect. :)
Can I just say the girls are gergeous!
Should have done the interview in Finland since we have mandatory 3 languages here in school so 1 more than Sweden 😂 And most of people pick extra languages as well, the same way in Sweden.
On behalf of all of Sweden I'm sorry you have to learn our language in your schools!
@@John-Is-My-Name Hahah 😂 I think it's easier to study Swedish than any other Scandinavian language ;)
Thats false we also have 3 languages as mandatory here in Sweden
3 languages are mandatory in Swedish schools too. (apart from Swedish and English, you must choose one of usually French, German or Spanish)
@@staffan144 I think she meant 3 mandatory languages other than the mother tongue, so they have one more mandatory language in Finland which is Swedish.
I'm from norway, and I'm lowkey jealous of swedes cause they can also understand us and danes to a high extent. I can understand swedish well enough but reading it is a bit tough and they spam "ä" alot hahah. On the other hand tho, reading danish is pretty easy since our bokmål is extremely similar to written danish but once a dane opens their mouth I have to strain my ears lollll love my neighbors tho, we all chill
Nei, svensker forstår ikke dansk + de har problemer å forstå oss nordmenn også
@@FreezeMathias Jeg er mye i Stockholm, og de fleste svenskene der forstår meg veldig godt tbhh. Du har sikkert rett tho, men jeg vet at svenskene fra Skåne forstår dansk veldig godt.
@@FreezeMathiasNäää har inga problem att förstå er norrbaggar! Danska är helt hopplöst dock
Norwegian has so many dialects tho. We might be able to understand the Oslo dialect. No you see, you guys are the ones spamming except you're spamming "æ"!!
@@Rebelgoose hahah fair enough. also I'm indeed from oslo so that maybe why swedes can understand my shi
2:20 No subtitles for this part 😮😮😅
I'm guessing they didn't add subtitles cause the guy was sort of just thinking out loud until he got to his actual answer, but here's what he said:
"Some other language? Hmm not really... I tried learning a bit of Spanish but that wasn't very fun, but some other language... Maybe French?"
wow, both the men and women in Sweden are good-looking.I'm American but I speak German and Swedish. I got suspended from work because of a guy making fun of Sweden, I yelled at him.
Let him, we make fun of America all the time 🤣
I can mostly write many phrases in many different languages than speak, completely memorized in my head and in my memory. I also have some acquaintances from Essen in Germany with whom I speak a little German sometimes in Sweden in the summer who have a summer cottage. I like to write phrases in different languages in letters and emails to share and make many people happy. Have a nice day! (ENGLISH) - Ha en bra dag! (SWEDISH) - İyi günler! (TURKISH) - Roja te xweş be! (KURDISH) - Hav ein góðan dag! (FAROESE) Maalin wanaagsan! (SOMALI) - Kalofshi një ditë të mbarë! (ALBANIAN) - Imej lep dan! (SLOVENIAN) - Te ovel tut laćho dĭves! (ROMANI) - Leygen szép napod! (HUNGARIAN) - Kia pai tō rā! (MAORI) - Egun ona izan dezazula! (BASQUE) - Gözəl gün eylə! (AZERBAIJANI) - Хорошего дня! (RUSSIAN) - ! أتمنى لك يوم جيد (ARABIC) - ! ﺭﻭﺯ ﺧﻮﺑﻰ ﺩﺍﺷﺘﻪ ﺑﺎﺷﻴﺪ (PERSIAN) - Hyvää päivänjatkoa! (FINNISH) - Καλή σας μέρα! (GREEK) - Hezký den! (CZECH) - Latha math dhut! (GAELIC) - Miłego dnia! (POLISH) - O zi plăcută! (ROMANIAN) - Ugodan dan! (CROATIAN) - ¡Que tenga un buen día! (SPANISH) - Een goede dag verder! (DUTCH) - E schéinen Dag nach! (LUXEMBOURGISH) - Haben Sie einen schönen Tag! (GERMAN) - Eigðu góðan dag! (ICELANDIC) - Hav en dejlig dag! (DANISH) - Ha en flott dag! (NORWEGIAN) - Bonne journée! (FRENCH). 🙂
Swedish girls are beautiful ❤❤❤
Salut les gars c'est super cool que vous soyez autant a vous intéresser à la langue Française en Suède, ici en France c'est pas évident de s'intéresser à la langue Suédoise dans le but de l'apprendre
🇨🇵🤜🤛🇸🇪
One cool thing is that our royal family is french - house of Bernadotte🇫🇷
Mon expérience est que ceux qui étudient le français s’intéressent plus à la langue que ceux qui étudient l’espagnol. L’espagnol, on le choisit parce que tous les amis le font également, mais le français, c’est plus d’une choix consciente et souvent liée à une passion pour la culture française.
@@elinbranting ça me touche en tant que français de savoir ça ! Je m'intéresse aussi a la langue Suédoise parce que j'apprécie beaucoup la culture Scandinave, et j'envisage de faire un road-trip de plusieurs semaines en Scandinavie qui se déroulerait majoritairement en Suède et j'aimerais maîtriser quelques notions de languages afin de témoigner du respect aux locaux. La base du respect dans un pays étranger c'est de s'intéresser un minimum à la langue et a la culture de son interlocuteur ! 💙💛
Ils sont tous bilingue anglais, alors que nous on le parle à peine
@@si.2110 normal, le suédois et l'anglais sont des langues issues du groupe germanique, à partir de là la base de leur langue maternelle se retrouve en grande partie dans la langue anglaise ... Le français est une langue latine, nous quand on passe du français a l'anglais on doit passer de différentes logiques et structures grammaticales, sans parler des conjugaisons des verbes pour se faire comprendre. On part de plus loin qu'eux dans une quête d'arriver au même résultat, et surtout l'apprentissage scolaire de l'anglais en France est complètement à revoir, le niveau scolaire général est médiocre par rapport aux attendus des programmes scolaires donc, oui malheureusement
It's common for Swedes to speak at least three langauges. We study two foreign languages or more at school and we understand Norwegian and Danish well (spoken Danish is tricky though, but written Danish is easy to comprehend).
Swedes really love traveling and enjoy studying/working abroad. As we are highly aware of the advantages of being a respectful visitor to another country, we try and adopt by learning the language of the nation hosting us as their guests.
Let's have a look at the langauge skills of a typical Swede like Zlatan Ibrahimovic 🙂. Zlatan speaks Swedish, Bosnian, Croatian, English, Dutch, Italian, (some) Spanish, (some) French and on top of that he understands the other Slavic languages spoken in former Yugoslavia, Norwegian and Danish. That's at least 10 languages! Not extreme for being a European.
One of my former girlfriends was a native speaker of Swedish, Hungarian and Serbian, knew English and German really well, understood all of the Slavic languages in former Yugoslavia and also Norwegian and Danish. Another ex of mine was a native speaker of Italian and also knew English, German, Latin, Arabic, Greek and had studied several other languages at university level (I have forgotten which they were).
It's true that we study two foreign languages or more at school, and yes some Swedish people speak three languages or more fluently, but I don't think it is very common. Most people speak Swedish and English well and they have learned a third language at school so they might have a basic knowledge of that third language or possibly an intermediate level but they usually can't speak it fluently unless they have for example lived abroad. Most Swedish people don't speak languages like Bosnian, Croatian or Dutch. If they speak Bosnian, Croatian or Serbian it is usually because they or their parents originally came from former Yugoslavia or for example from Croatia.
Khmer heter väl språket i Kambodja?
Wow, grazie from an Italian girl:)
Siamo i migliori al mondo 🇮🇹
@@IMKAPPAA no, per favore. Non esistono " migliori al mondo" soprattutto ultimamente. Ovviamente mi fa piacere che siano interessati ad imparare l'italiano, dato che vivo in Svezia
6 Gesù gli disse: *Io sono la via, la verità e la vita; nessuno viene al Padre se non per mezzo di me.*
Giovanni 14:6
@@auroradeja-vu8763 siamo i migliori al mondo , se vai in giro all’estero un Italiano lo riconosci subito 😂🇮🇹
Big respect to the people who wanted to learn Chinese in this current climate where there is so much Sinophobia. I did learn a bit of Swedish a while back but didn't have time to continue. I did find it to be one of the less difficult languages, but alas, it still has genders! I loved the fact that verbs don't conjugate with the person. Tak.
I'm indian but i love china and really respect them im also learning mandarin and hope to visit china in near future. Sadly many people hate china due to ccp and western propaganda.
"Tak" is thanks in Danish, in Norwegian is "takk" and in Swedish is "tack"
@@cooltechnician Tack så mycket.
@@bizzarefam8122it is not because of western thing i hate that term, it is because they never put themselves in peoples shoes
Nothing against the chinese people. It's the government we hate. They have supressed their population with social credit scores and violent crackdowns like Tiananmen square. They oppress Uyghurs and claim land that isn't theirs to please Xi Jinping's vanity. I have much love for the chinese, not for Xi.
I used to think Sweden was a bilingual country we would get missionaries here in Africa and surprisingly all of them spoke very good and nice English the young and old ones
6:19 Italian close to Catalan ? Even closer to Spanish.
The guy at 5:56 is also known as ”Kuffe”, a legend in the music industri!
I'm from Finland and I speak finnish and english fluently, swedish and korean little bit. I understand more swedish than I can speak.
Are you from a place with a significant amount of Swedish-speaking people (Åbo, Ekenäs/Tammisaari, etc.) or from a place like Jyväskylä?
@@petergustafsson1670 I just learned it little bit in school since it is required as swedish is official language here. But since the resemblance to some finnish words that have swedish origin and english words it is more so understandable for me than I actually know how to speak.
@soplalinge 감사합니다 😊
I am from brazil, I speak portuguese, english, now studying mandarin
det är helt roligt och härligt att många svenskar vill lära sig kinesiska. XD alltså det känndes inte att svenskar var för mycket intresserade på kinesiska för mycket när jag fortfarande befann mig där i Sverige XD
Sen är dom också på Södermalm, så det påverkar nog lite. Hade de frågat på Östermalm hade de nog fått färre som svarat kinesiska.
Men det har absolut förändrat sig en del. Överlag tror jag de flesta gillar kineser men är misstänksamma mot staten.
I'm from China, Chinese Mandarin is not as hard as people suppose. 节目不错，加油。
As a Vietnamese, I find that Chinese is very easy when it comes to pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. But the writing system is the entire opposite thing
im learning chinese now and the hardest part is learning handwriting and remembering all the charachters
Same, im chinese and I didn't find Vietnamese hard vice versa
Hard for you to judge if it is your mother tongue. I have studied some Korean, Japanese and Mandarin, and Mandarin is by far the hardest to get started with among those three due to the difficult pronounciation.
I live in Latin America and I was in a Chinese high school, mandarin is the most difficult language. Till this day I just remember like 3 phrases.
I literally fall in love with the guy at 5:55 everyone is so beautiful in Sweden
Makes sense, because of your pfp lol.
excuse me? wdym@@pickelhaubert3730
@@pickelhaubert3730 excuse me, wdym?
@@Selokondri Didn’t mean to be rude, just thought it was funny.
@@pickelhaubert3730 ohh, alright 👍
Just a fun fact about sign language. I have learned different alphabets so I can spell whatever I want if I need to, and everyone is surprised that the language is different from country to country. Plus there’s slangs and dialects too. So if you didn’t know, then now you know👍
Many attractive people 😍
You should come and ask South Africa people, becouse we have 11 official languages, on top of that you have different dialog from province to province within some of the languages.
Interesting that Danish and Norwegian was not even mentioned in this video…
Well even though Swedes likely understand them, they cannot speak or write in Danish and Norwegian. Sure as a Swede I could likely fake an accent that may fool non Scandinavians.
But that's about it.
That's because it's a bit "cheating" since they are so similar to each other.
Most Scandinavians can read and understand eachother's languages but they are so close it is difficult to speak. My sister who is Swedish but lived and went to school in Norway for example never know if it's pensionär or pensionist in Swedish and Norwegian respectively.
@@tovep9573 yessss, so similar that it's difficult is a good way to put it. Finding the right words is difficult when you have to second guess if the translation really is that simple or you're forgetting something.
That's because they often don't speak each others languages. They speak their own to each other and hope for the best. And most Swedes don't understand much of what Danes are saying.
Weird how nobody mentioned Norwegian or Danish?
the guy in 6:20 looks and sounds similar to a youtube called "the sailing Frenchmen" :)
I must say, Swedish people are beautiful.
I think young Swedes between 13-34 yrs can speak English pretty good about 77% of them after this older people over+40 yrs can understand Norwegian bokmål and Danish about 64% of them.
If you speak one Scandinavian language you will not have problems understanding the other two.
@@oskich Not true, I'm native Danish and don't understand spoken Norwegian or Swedish, only written.
@@GlobDaSon Well I'm Swedish and understand both Danish and Norwegian without much trouble. It's just about exposure :-)
@@oskich Yes but my point is you don't understand the other languages automatically, just because you speak one of them. You still need to learn them, because they still are different languages.
I suppose they also understand Danish and Norwegian to some extent ?
Hi! I have a question for Swedes. I'm from Argentina and I am learning Norwegian. I've read everywhere that Swedes and Norwegians can understand each other, and I even watched a Swedish movie once and could understand some phrases, they sounded really similar to norwegian. So, how come no one in this video mentioned Norwegian as a language they speak or at least understand a little?
As someone else mentioned, it's likely because the languages are so similar that they forget or take it for granted. When asked what languages you speak or understand the first thought is usually a language that is very different from your own. One that you've had to study to learn. :)
/A Swede
Flesta svenskar förstår norska men kan inte tala norska... Tror jag.
I think most swedes understad norwegian but they don't speak it(active vocabularly).
@@Gogootz Oh, I understand, that makes a lot of sense... muchas gracias :)
@@fluidnarrative Jeg forstår nå, tusen takk for svar! Jeg kan lese kommentaren din, svensk og norsk er veldig like språk!
I'm just writing in norwegian to practice, lol. Good channel, good content, greetings from Argentina :)
I wonder why they aren't mentioning norsk but I can see they all can speak it because it's very similar to svensk.
vad heter kameran du filma med?
That girl whoms parents are from Chile and Finland is soooo beauteful, I can't! She's born in Sweden so despite you can tell shes not fully Sweden she do melts in the crowd and nobody would question her not being ethnic Swede. If I'd meet her I would simply by curiousity ask her "you are not fully Swedish arent you?" Because I am intrested in culture. However once I would hear her speak I would think she is just like all other Swedes.
A better way to ask is asking what her ethnicity is, as someone who gets that question quite often it's really annoying. I am fully swedish as I've lived here my whole life and my nationality is simply swedish.
It's like you have to prove yourself just because you don't have light hair and eyes
Just tips ❤️
@@Iris-ee9jp and your ancestors come from what country?
@@Pedroramossss Sweden and South Korea
@@Iris-ee9jpSwedish genes are recessive, therefore you are just South Korean.
8:07 Dakota Fanning... gotcha! 😂🤣🤣😂
I want to give a tip to the Swedish people, who are very practical, affectionate, smart, curious, affectionate and fun, the Swedes are honest, they love all the Neo-Latin languages, they don't know which one to start with or which one to end with, as there are many languages, even I get lost, I recommend learning occidental (Interlingue), novial, Interlingua, language
Nova Franca because this is how they communicate with all Latin peoples using languages common among them all.
Regarding Asian languages, it would be good for them to learn Wutun/Wutum, a language that mixes Tibetan, Chinese and a little Mongolian, I say this because Swedes love Chinese culture and language and Chinese and Tibetan culture together are the bases of other Asian cultures.
Of the Austronesian languages, the best language for Swedes to love and enjoy is Indonesian and Malay, which are dialects of the same ancestral language and there are plenty of materials in English and Dutch. These 2 languages are sisters of Swedish, plus Dutch and Afrikaans, which have a very similar sound. to Swedish and you can study everything and the materials in English help the Swedes because English is the second language of the Swedes who today are one of the best English speakers in the world, even better than many native English speakers.
Kisses to the Swedish girls, always cool and beautiful.🥂👍🌹💋😊😊🎇🎁😍❤️🦋🫂🌍💙
English has no official status I Sweden. Other then that your comment was interesting
Thanks. English in Sweden is a foreigner lang that Swedes only adopted for international life.
And Sweden speaks in half native level or native level, it's a facts.
Thanks for the appreciation.🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂
🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂
I am Swedish and I speak Swedish and English fluent, plus German pretty good. I also know some Portuguese, Spanish and Finnish
Why you only asked young people? This is Södermalm, Stockholm. Södermalm, Östermalm, Kungsholmen and similar districts should have middle age couples 40-50+ and older people 70+. Some of these might be wealthy, intellectual and experienced - especially since they tend to actually own flats in these areas. More wealth and life experience might also include more travels and more language skills.
Surprised over how no one is really saying that they understand Norwegian (and Danish)
I kinda think everyone don’t think it counts to mention if you haven’t been studying it in school.
1:12 She's so sweet and beautiful!
We are very much waiting the two ladies best friends with open arms here in Italy ❤
I'm half Chilean and I was pleasantly surprised that so many people wanted to learn Spanish or used to learn Spanish. Is Spanish often taught in Swedish schools and, if so, what is the reason behind it?
In Sweden you start learning English from first grade, but when you start 6th grade you get to choose between having more English classes or learning Spanish, French or German. Why Spanish is the most popular is probably because it's spoken in so many countries around the world and that's why people want to learn it.
@@alfonsblabar3718 That's very interesting, thank you.
Because it's a trendy/sexy language to learn, also Swedish people travel a lot to Canary Island, Mallorca etc. 😂
Many Americans are studying or speaking Spanish which I think is also a reason for it's popularity here since many trends come from the USA.
Average Swede can speak swedish, english and some Norwegian bokmål (with a little effort), some spanish/french/german. Knows a few important words in Finnish or Danish (usually it's one or the other.) And many people in Sweden who have foreign background speaks one extra language atop on that. So I would say average is three and a half.
"Most Swedes" whatever that means understands Danish and Norwegian and all three can talk their own respective language and the others can understand them ... kind of haha! Danish is much easier to read than to hear for Swedes and I guess for Norwegians as well. Norwegian is almost the other way around and you get lost in all the differences if you read it in a way.
Having that said ... on more than one occasions I've reverted to English when speaking to Danes and as Norway have TWO languages one of them is much more different than the other to a Swede. For the sake of completeness I have some limited understanding of German and maybe French and would like to learn Spanish as it's so widespread.
love finland and chili ❤
Omg how the swedish girls are very cute and very beautiful.. i love the blonde hair and the charming eyes.. they are like angels❤
I went to Sweden this year in June and got a tattoo from a Bolivian man, we spoke in English Swedish and Spanish together and is definitely the peak of my life thusfar
Edit: ADD SWEDISH SUBTITLES
Was his name Gerson, by any chance?!
Haha
The more I listened the more I could understand. It sounds so similar to German to me now.
Interestingly, in the US Italian language is not that popular! People got too obsessed with being originated from West and North Europe like Sweden!
sista tjejen var super gullig 💖
The first brunette is so pretty
Какие люди красивые!😍
Шведский язык так необычно звучит.
great watch this deserves more views
We usually speak a mix of swedish and english, but neither that well
Shes a Finlean: half Finnish half Chilean
None of them said Norwegian. I bet they know more norwegian than spanish, german and french :P.. maybe some of them know some danish too.. basicly same words, but spoken differently.
As a Swede, I can't speak nor write in Norwegian and Danish, but I can understand them. I don't know if the Scandinavian languages count as seperate languages as they are very similar to one another, sometimes feeling like dialects, especially Norwegian and Swedish.
Ingen kan norsk?
Fusk.
Alle kan snakke med dere. Så klart. Vi älskar er.
Skulle inte säga att jag pratar så bra norska men man förstår ju nästan 100% 😄 Och ni förstår ju oftast svenska till och med bättre än vi förstår er! 😁
1:50 the first dude that i've ever heard in sweden thats not speaking the orten language! and has a clean accent creeds to him
The vast majority of Swedes aren't speaking what you are referring to as "orten language".
@@ludwig2345 you have to go outside more.
@@mholm4962 By Swedes speaking the 'Orten language' you mean immigrants, yes? Swede-Swedes do not speak like that. But yeah, creds to the dude!
@@rullvardi a few Swede-Swedes speaks 'orten language' aswell. Yea, creds to the dude.
@@mholm4962 Ingen aning var du bor, men här i Värmland har jag aldrig hört det. Och även om dessa folk finns så är det alltid en pytteliten grupp-99% av all svenskar talar ej så där.
Swedes can understad norwegian/norse, and som danis (its easier to understad written danish than spoken)
Hur många språk kan du
När hon sa teckenspråk jag bara svenskt, engelskt spanskt mm teckenspråk för de är så olika
Finnland=The end of the Earth
Chile= The end of the Earth
1:45 Haha då kommer du ju inte från Irak.
To ask a Swede what languages they speak when they say two (even when speaking Swedish) is funny. You're probably never gonna find some odd maybe old person who speaks another language that isn't English.
Yay finally a guy said he would wanna learn Japanese. Chinese is nice too-
I speak Japanese, but not very much and I really wanna learn American Sign Language and Old Norse.
I like the first girls/jag gillar de första tjejerna. They look good/De ser bra ut.
The guy at 2:45 😍
No one told about Norwegian and Danish...
We understand Bokmål Norwegian 95% overall and Danish maybe 90% in text and 60-70% listening (if they go slow) - but we don’t speak it. We just respond in Swedish back, so it’s does not really count as “speaking the language” and we have no need to actually learn it unless we want to move there - and then it’s super easy for us to learn those languages because it’s so similar to swedish
@@Fluxwux it's the same here, I'm a Russian native speaker, so, Ukrainian and Belarusian are very similar and we don't need to learn them. We can speak our own languages with each other.
@@Mediaflashmob I wonder if Russian and Ukrainian are like Portuguese and Spanish (I am brazilian) or even closer to each other comparted to portuguese and spanish
@Pedroramossss yes, generally Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian are close to each other like Portuguese, Spanish and Italian or like Norwegian, Swedish and Danish.
More exact about Ukrainian, the intelligibility depends on the dialect. The eastern one is similar to the Russian southern dialect, we can understand about 95-99%. The western dialect is closer to Polish, so we can understand it about 30-40%.
The Swedish language has a charming and beautiful sound and a sing-song language.
I think the Swedish language is beautiful and the three Swedish girls are model babes, the German Swedish girl is a total charmer.
The Eueco people in terms of Germanic languages and fluent in English, a worldwide native and almost native level, of the other Germanic languages that Swedes need to learn are German, Afrikaans, Dutch and Swiss German.
As they love painting and music, Swedes should be conlang solresol, the international sign language for social inclusion and the languages of emojis.
The Swedes are notorious lovers and friends of all Neo-Latin languages, it awakens passion and love in them, the Swedes must study Ido, novial, interlingua and interlingue (occidental) and the Occitan that underlies all Western Neo-Latin poetry to this day.
As Swedes today love Chinese culture, they should study the Hokkien language and classical Chinese, Hokkien and the direct descendant of the classical and ancient Chinese language.
Swedes are not perfect but at least they are honest, they are humanized and when they trust a foreign person they are loving, trustworthy and try to be loyal and nice.
They have their madness, xenophobia and depressions, but at least they try to love and understand different cultures similar to theirs, which they like in Sweden.
lol I’m learning Swedish and now I found this!