How Are The Nordic Countries Different (Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland vs Sweden)
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- In this episode I share my thoughts on each of the Nordic countries based on what I have heard about them during my time living in Sweden.
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Which of the Nordic countries is your favorite and why?
Tough choice. But I will pick Sweden because I like Stockholm so much.
Sweden because I live there
Finland because we have best Sauna's and over 100k lakes xD
Wow, no norwegians yet.. You should really try to go to Norway (Oslo) on 17th of May. That's something special to see. Probably the closest thing you'll get to a Rio de Janeiro Carnival in the nordic countries. :D
I'm also from Sweden, but if i had to choose one of the other nordic countries i would have to say Norway. This is because I have lived in both Oslo and Bergen, and I have also travelled around Norway - and I really liked it! Such beautiful nature and surroundings!
The people are also very friendly :)
It's been said that Finnish people are becoming less reserved. So instead of looking at their shoes while speaking to you, they now look at your shoes.
😂😂
Actually Finns look into your eyes. That's what many foreigners wonder and ask why Finns stare. The Swedes for example do not look strangers into eyes, if they meet them on the street or a stranger enters the room.
That Finns respects privacy might be a reason why they look into your eyes. Finns don't ask how are you, nor do Finns keep social smile on their face to message they aren't a threat, but instead they look at your eyes and face to scan your intent.
HJAHAHAHAAH
The original joke is: How do you spot an extrovert Finn? Instead of his shoes, he’s stareing at yours.
Aurinkohirvi Bullshit that finns don't "social smile" etc we behave just like everyone else just slightly toned down and we are more introvert as a people compared to for example extrovert americans.
Well, as a Finn who has made lots of trips to Norway and Sweden I can say that Finland really isn't that different. All the Nordics are culturally so similar that going from one country to the other is basically like playing the same videogame but changing the language.
i think finns are more similar to russians and baltic people than what they are to Nordic countries.
Finland is its own thing. But that isn't bad, I don't understand why they want to sell their own heritage and culture, in favor of the Scandinavian one.
@@patrickanderson9023 That's just plain wrong though. Western Russians and the Baltic peoples absorbed many Finnic tribes, so people in those areas do have Finnic ancestry and cultural features, not to mention the Estonians who are completely Finnic. BUT, when it comes to Finland, genetic analysis shows around 60% of Finns are closer to Swedes than they are to the remaining 40% of finns. The country is split between the more-Scandinavian western half and the more-Finnic eastern half. Slavic influence in Finland is practically non-existent, and even the famous Uralic genes are limited to less than 5% of the genome.
In terms of culture, Finland is just copy-paste Sweden. (but don't say that out loud, they get mad about it xD)
@@user-oo8oj1hl8k EXCUSE MEHHH?? NO were not a copypaste of Sweden. We were a part of Sweden what did u expect?
Suomalaisia!!!
Im Canadian, but my grandpa is a Finn, and Ive always been fascinated about their country.
Yo perkele
Do you speak finish?? If you see these comments, translate!!
Ei se haittaa. Ysiluokal äikkä 9-10 mulla.wi mitää hävettävää!!
Juu. Mul on joku pakkomielle kattoo tälläsii videoi.
Finn is a name so is his name finn?
About Finland: Swedish is the second official language in Finland, thats because Finland was a part of Sweden for 600 years. Only about 5% of Finns speak Swedish as their first language but it still has a notable role in Finland, all Finns learn the basics of Swedish at school. The Finnish language is related to Estonian and remotely to Hungarian but not to the other languages in Eastern Europe. Finnish is not a a Slavic language.
About 300 years, not 600. Finland was part of Sweden actually from the reign of Gustav Vasa. Before that it was the Calmar Union and before that the influence of Sweden was really thin in Finland. But 300 years is still a long time.
mikrokupu is right, Finland was part of Sweden for 600 years or over, check your facts aurinkohirvi
No he isn't right. 1397 - 1523 was Calmar's Union, which was run by the Danish. 1808 Finland became the Czar's Grand Duchy. Between that is 285 years. There was no Sweden, and definately not in Finland, over 300 years before the Calmar Union started! The earliest point you could say Sweden existed in Finland, was when the bishopy of Turku was transferred from the Pope's legate under Upsala archbishopy, which was 1245: that would make 437 years as part of Sweden. Before that Sweden wasn't a proper kingdom itself: the king's rule was weak and basically what he had was the ledung summer time raid navy, and Swedish king barely governed in Sweden, definately nothing outside of Sweden.
If you believe that the 1st crusade into Finland was made about 1150AD, then you will be crushed, it's no more considered at all believable. The 2nd crusade made alledgedly Birger Jarl is almost as much in doubt, and even if you thought it was made, then that would be around 1220 - 1240. That would make about 170 years before the Calmar Union, totalling about 445 years, not much difference if one counts from Bishop Thomas. Although that was the Swedish archibishopy that had rule over Finnish bishopy.
You two doods, aurinkohirvi and mikrokupu, are commenting in almost every video about Finland I watch XD
mikrokupu faktiskt 10%
As a Finn living in Sweden i can say that Sweden and Finland are extremely similiar just with a different language pack installed. Finland has a bit more masculine national persona and Sweden a bit more feminine national persona.
Val This interesting. I’d like to know the stereotypes they have for each other.
@@amberkelly3187 As a half-Swede half-Finn I could say that there are many stereotypes, such as Swedes being soft and funny (but also forward-thinking), and Finns being alcoholic criminals (yet grounded in reality), but generally speaking, the people in both countries are very similar and the stereotypes are, well, just stereotypes. If you travel from Stockholm to Helsinki, at a quick glance you could think that you just moved to another city in Sweden, apart from the language of course.
Fellow Thank you.
Well Finland is support to LGBT right but just behind Sweden. So this 2 countries are similar. Nordic countries are being so generous and liberal that's the same.
My experience of Finland as a Swede, is that it’s a bit like the uncanny valley. You feel like you are home in sweden but all you hear is people speaking Finnish.
How are siblings different from each other?
Basically we all share a culture that has been intertwined for more than a thousand years.
You can find the same archeological remnants of culture dating back to the bronze age in all of the Nordic countries.
The same engraving on stones; the same patterns, the same themes, the same runes from the viking age and so on.
We bitch about each other constantly but the truth is that our differences are miniscule and unimportant.
We are all the same,- love it or hate it.
Except of course for the Swedes.
They are really strange.
I´m Danish of course.:)
Ulf Danielsen skål my norse brother.
Svensker er rare
LONG LIVE:
Sweden 🇸🇪
Denmark 🇩🇰
Finland 🇫🇮
Norway 🇳🇴
Iceland 🇮🇸
R.I.P. Baltic states
@@only_james only Estonia is a tryhard Nordic country
@@Svensk_Person well you see...... greenland is denmark
NOT lock at this link! ... Nothing happend in Sweden, the police did NOT runaway, the police do NOT need to fix their cars.... th-cam.com/video/DzXYkiPRI_c/w-d-xo.html
We also speak Swedish in Finland. The so called ”swedish speaking finns” or ”finlandssvenskar” are a minority though
In Finland kids learn swedish already in school, because swedish is the second offical language. So you don't have to be a finnish swed if you speak swedish.omg
@@blackcoffeebeans6100 I don’t want to speak Swedish in a country called Finland.
Finlandssvensk här👍
As a Finn who has visited all those countries except Iceland i would say we are not very different from each other. Stockholm - people are perhaps more fashionable (or fashion-aware) than other Nordic capitols, Oslo - most expensive regular lager beers that i have ever bought ad most expensive pretty much everything, Copenhagen - most similar to Helsinki from all the capitols both sceneries and people.
I think the nordic countrys are good at diferent things ex Finland has a good education system, Norway has a good economy, Denmark has the happiest people in the world and Sweden has invented most things and started the most companies.
This comment is spot on! I have heard those things before and it seems like each country has their own unique strengths
Stefan Thyron 👍;)
This was the exact comment I was gonna write. :)
Add to that Iceland being the safest and most equal.
The World Happiness Report 2018, Top 10.
10. Australia
9. Sweden
8. New Zealand
7. Canada
6. Netherlands
5. Switzerland
4. Iceland
3. Denmark
2. Norway
1. Finland
Ok, but wasn't Denmark on the top before?
Even though I am from Sweden you definetly have to go to Norway. It's fantastic. Expensive yes, no I don't want to live there. But for a vacation... it must be one of the most beautiful countries in the world. Highly recommend it!
I’m from Sweden,but I treat and love Norway,Denmark,Iceland,Greenland, and Finland as same as my own country
Here's what I know about the other nordic countries:
Danes talk weird.
Norweigans are slightly nicer than swedes.
Finnish people are angry.
Nobody knows anything about Iceland.
Viktor Von fuling I think Iceland is awesome!😠
😂😂
Totally not true Finnish people are Friendly but shy af
It's not that the nation is shy. It's that people respect each others' personal space and avoid invading it. From kids Finns are taught not to disturb the next person. It's similar to other Northern Eurasian and Northen American native cultures, although in Japan the personal space is much smaller range, due the high population.
We are not angry or shy, we just dont care about you and we respect your personal space. And we find it bit weird if you just start talking to us in a bus or at shopping line.
It's a little funny that you describe Denmark's location as south of Sweden, because I live so far south in Sweden that most of Denmark is to the north of me - well, northwest, actually.
As a Finn who also speaks Swedish and Danish, who has had many Swedish friends and lived nad studied in Denmark, I would say Finns and Danes are not so different from each other. The languages ofcourse are different, but the mentality is not so different. Maybe Danes know a bit better how to enjoy the life, while we Finns are more serious - but I think that has reasons in our history, the wars with Russia etc. Anyway, I love both countries and I feel like home in both of them. And I usually say I am a Finn, with a small Dane living inside of me :) !!!
Fuck you, traitor. Estonia is our brother nation.
think i agree, Im a swed and i feel Sweds and norweigan are more close, they are more reserved. Finns and Danes are more similar in behavior but i think the finnish people overall have the highest temperament in the Scandinavian countries, not in a bad way but still.
LAXEN9003 Finns are not Scandinavian, Finns are not Norse, Finns are not Nordic.
The Finnish people do not speak Danish, but they may speak Swedish
@@finnicpatriot6399 Finns are not Scandinavian or Norse but we are Nordic, get your facts right, although that may be difficult when your ideology tells you what to think whether it's true or not. I like our brother nation Estonia but I also like the Nordic countries...
This dane feels very nordic, and I love my neighbour countries, their nature, which is different from Denmarks, my fellow norsemen and our small charming diffencies!
- and if we one day combine in a nordic political/military/monetarian union, it would please my heart! 💙😊
Congratulation, Swedes, in coming so far in Russia (Football) 😊
Same, as a Norwegian I wouldn't mind Norway, Denmark and Sweden to become one nation some day, i'd rather have less borders tbh. Sweden just have to clean up some shit going on in their country atm.
Maybe Iceland as well? They'd have to learn a third language though, since they already teach english in Icelandic schools. I think Finland could too, but it's still the language barrier, either we would have to invent a new scandi language that suits all of us, or we'd have to start using english. I wouldn't mind either tbh
Andreas Møller as a swede i couldn’t agree more. We have some shit that we need to fix but with the right politicians we could do that in no time. And when that is done we could create the best country/ union in the world.
this has been fascinating to read!
@@shen1801 I'm not sure, but I actually think iceland teaches danish in schools already. Every person from Iceland I have met, could speak danish.
I once witnessed a dispute between a Dutch guy and a Danish guy about who's language was uglier and I feel like they were both right because they sound similar so I'd say that Danish is closer to Dutch then German.
Danish and Dutch are the most funny languages of Europe but also my favourite countries besides my own country of Finland ;)
@Niek Warnas Wow, I'm very surpriced with that. I'm danish by the way. I always thought dutch sounded a lot like a mixture of english, german and then also a part of a language of it's own, so I actually thought you might understand quite a bit of german. So I'm glad I finally figured out, that my theory was wrong :P I have had german in school, so I'm of course better at that, than dutch. But I actually think it comes very natural to me, how dutch words are suposed to sound like when you read them. I often guess right, and german is really hard, so if I learned both languages, I think I would have learned dutch much faster.
What a funny joke. Try coming up with an actual original joke.
@@ElectroIsMyReligion This is a retelling of an actual event, not a joke.
@@SlofSi As a Dane I agree. Danish, Dutch and Finnish are some of the most ugly languages in the world...oh sorry, forgot greenlandic and mongolian..!
Actually language-wise you could say that Norwegian is a bit of a middle-point between Danish and Swedish, but that all three are very closely related to one another. Just because Denmark shares a border with Germany doesn't mean they share a language, though Danish, alongside Norwegian and Swedish are germanic languages.
Danish has some similar words with German like potatoes = Swedish potatis = Danish kartofler = German kartoffeln. Also the numbers in Danish have the same structure as in German = 21 en og tyve/31 en og tredive/41 en og fyrre etc. In Swedish the numbers are 21 tjugo ett/31 trettio ett/41 fyrttio ett etc. (Sorry, if some words were spelled wrong, I am Finnish, so sometimes I make mistakes in writing..)
Of course Danish shares some words with German, I never said it didn't. It's a germanic language, just like Norwegian and Swedish, and you mightvery well be right that Danish share more for all I know. I never took German as my third language (I chose French). Though with your point on numbers, Norwegian actually uses both structures with our numbers, both "tjue-en" and "en og tyve", and we more or less do so interchangably, which again correlates with my point of Norwegian being the middle between Swedish and Danish in many respects.
Mkitten: I agree, Norwegian being in the middle of Danish and Swedish. I am Finnish, but I speak both Danish and Swedish (I have lived in Denmark too) and it is difficult for me to understand the spoken Norwegian, but in written it is quite easy because of it indeed has vocabulary both from Danish and Swedish, and I have been in Norway few times and noticed that in Norway, both ways with the numbers were used :)
That's interesting, I wonder how much of an influence german has had on danish being in close proximity vs Swedish because I know the germans and swedes have traded a lot throughout the past 500-1000 years
kpt75: Another reason you could be struggling with spoken Norwegian coming from knowing Swedish/Danish is that our dialects can be extremely different from one another stemming from how the high mountains and tons of fjords kept groupings fairly isolated from one another over a long, long period of time. Immigrants to Norway generally experience that if they come and learn Norwegian in Oslo and are later relocated to a different part of the country, they more or less have to relearn the spoken language.
4:42 iceland is not the most north of the nordic countries. The top of both Sweden and norway are more north.
He probably means that Iceland goes rhe least south.
I went to Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland. I prefered the landscape of Norway. It was magical, I did a roadtrip there... One of the best memory. I loved Denmark (I only saw Copenhagen though), the only thing I noticed is that the way Danes speak is (and the alcohol was not cheap at all)... Particular. Iceland was cold. And my favorite was Sweden (granted that I lived there for 4 months haha, I am biased) I really want to see Finland. I love nordic countries and I can see myself living there in the future.
Samantha Julien
*lucky*
denmark and Norway is the most north country if you count Svalbard and Greenland
Norway is my favorite country. They have extremely beautiful nature, you really have to visit Norway. Atb/Jonas
I definitely want to do this soon! :)
Joones Adventures
*I like Norway too, 🇳🇴🏴*
Shit prices
Iceland isn't that cold to be honest. As a Finn who has been in Iceland in october it was suprisingly warm.
Iceland has a very coastal climate - Finland is so very close to Sibiria, so totally makes sense! I guess the Finnish summer might get warmer than the Icelandic summer as well
Denmark has the same language as Sweden.
Has nothing to do with the German language except that it belongs to the German languages.
Danish, Norwegian and Swedish languages (partly Iceland) are basically the same language.
Denmark and Norway have retained the old Scandinavian language.
Sweden has been in trading for nearly 400 years with Germany.
This has meant that the Swedish language contains many German words.
It's easier for a Swede to understand Norwegian but can largely read Danish.
In the old Scandinavian language spoken in Denmark contains
many words used in the english language. Don't forget that Denmark occupied a large part of England and Scotland during the Viking era. You use daily many words that come from the vikings. Tex, eat, go, neighbor. husband,
knife, board, stump, house, arm, hand, head, fingers, hair, sky, etc.
In German, there are many words similar to the Nordic language (not Finnish).
It is the same language group. English language is the youngest language in the world and probably the language most structured in other languages.
While I do agree with most of what you are saying, what I have learnt in school is slightly different. For example: Sweden has been trading with Germany for way more than 400 years. In the 1300s, Sweden acquired many new words from the German language while they traded at Gotland (If you are Swedish as your name suggests, then you probably know about the hansa). Some of these words are köpa, paenningar, skomakare, frukt, krydhe, mur, källare and skraeddare.
That said, I totally agree on your reasoning about the Nordic languages (except Finnish) being similar, and I admire how much you know about how English was influenced by other languages.
I hope you are not interpreting my reply as hate, because I don't intend any harm and just wanted to contribute to your comment.
Kjell Eson How can you say that danish is the same language as Swedish? Im from sweden and i dont understand a Word of danish
Moa0107 Det är inte så konstigt att du inte förstår Danska talet. Det gör inte jag heller när dom pratar fort eller normalt. Från början så fanns ingen befolkning förutom Samer i Norra Sverige. Sverige fanns inte utan det var Götar, Svear, Goter, och Nordmen (Norge) samt Danner. Danner (Danskar) bodde i Hela Halland, Skåne och Blekinge. På 1500 talet var även Gotland Danskt. Alla talade samma språk Även i Dagens Danmark. Moa0107, om du hade träffat en släkting till dig från så sent som 1800 talet, så hade den släktingen talat så att du hade haft svårt att förstå alla ord. Om du reser i Sverige i dag så möter du många dialekter som varken du eller jag förstår.
Danska och Norska är bevarade Skandinaviska dialekter medan Svenska är förändrad pga att vi har så många influenser från andra Europeiska språk. Observera att detta är på Riksnivå. Alltså Rikssvenskan är påverkad inte den dialekttala Svenskan. Hade vi fortfarande talat som på 1800 talet och bakåt, så hade vi förstått Danskan i det närmaste rakt av. Jag kan ta två ord som du använder ofta, "pojke" och "Hej". Pojke kommer från finskan och Hej från Amerikanska filmer. Pojke och hej började användas i Svenska språket så sent som i mitten av 1950 talet och då mest i Uppland och Södermanland Med utgångspunkt på Stockholm. Om du ser en gammal Svensk film så säger man God Dag samt Gosse. Värre är det med ordet Flicka som kommer av Flik och och Fleikja som betyder tex öppna en rock etc och fick betydelsen lättsinnig, löst kvinnofolk. Flickslänga där slänga kommer av Slyna som i sin tur är dialektalt med Slyngja vilket är det samma som det nyare ordet "fnask". Piga är det gamla betydelsen för det egentligen Nedsättande Flicka. Piga heter det i Danmark och Norge. Så alla "nya" ord har inte så lustig bakgrund. I Danskan (gäller även västra dialektala delar av Sverige är ändelsen ett "e" . Även på Gotland. Äte, vandre tex. En spis som du förmodligen har hemma kommer av Spisa (äta) och är på Danska Spise vilket är det ordet som fortfarande används. För att avsluta med en lieten lustighet, så hade ordet Gosse (Pojke) från början betydelse "tjock käpp". Dräng (dreng på Danska betydelse Pojke) kommer av ordet dreng eller svensk stavning dräng som betyder Arbetsam man :0)
Kjell Eson, svenska och danska är samma språk säger du?
Hur kan det då vara att tex Dator på danska heter Computer?
Finns "Æ" och "Ø" i ditt alfabet?
Det är inte samma språk, snarare en blandning..
Dator tillhör inte språket utan är ett tekniskt låneord. Språk uppkommer inte i grunden av ett tekniskt ord eller överhuvud taget inte av ett tekniskt ord. Ja "Æ" och "Ø" finns i mitt alfabet. Jag skall försöka förklara. "Æ" består av A och E. Danskarna satte ihop A och E medan vi satte ett E ovan ett A som med tiden blev tre streck och senare två streck för att till slut bli två prickar. Ø skrevs från början lika dant. Ett O och ett E. I Danmark flyttade man E och la det på tvären i ett O med tiden så blev bokstaven E ett streck för att förenkla. Samma sak gjordes i Sverige och Danmark fast på olika sätt. Bokstaven Å är A och O där O flyttades upp ovan A. Så ringen ovanför Å är ett O. Emil Nilsson Swe, blanda aldrig ihop tekniska ord med ett språk. Ordet Dator är en svensk formulering av "Data" som kommer av latinets "Dare" som betyder skänka bort eller ge bort något. I svenska språkformuleringen kunde vi i bestämd form Singularis inte säga "Datar" utan förenklades för att passat språkformuleringen till Dator. Samma sak som tex Byxa heter byxor. Svenskan ändrades gramatiskt under 1600 talet. Den, det och dessa ändrades i Rikssvenskan men det tar en A4 att förklara. Byxor är pluralis tills vi sätter dit "dessa" eller " Det är, var är mina (dina), även "ett par" fast det är pluralis att säga ett par och blanda det med singularis "byxor. Du har hört folk säga "Datan eller hur? Det beror ofta på att det är naturligt att säga efter som ordet "data" redan finns medan " dator" är konstruerat av tekniker under 1950 talet.
the reason Norway and Sweden sound similar is because Norway used to be a part of Sweden until we got our independence from Sweden (like US and Britain). so the reason we sound similar is because we had the same language.
Fun Fact:
Norway has two types of languages, "Bokmål" and "Nynorsk". Both is Norwegian but one is more based on the time they where in "union" and the other is more based on the independence. It comes down to taste and comfort on which they want to use.
It has been years since I learned this so don't quote me on this
Norway and Sweden have not had the same language and the union had very little impact on the language, if any at all. The similarites are part of a dialect continuum that is independent of political circumstances.
It got me a little sad that you mentioned almost nothing about Finland.
But hey, great video tho! in general.
Humberto Rocha that’s what I was waiting for too
Work atmosphere is also different in Norway. It's more laid back than in Sweden.
Hmm that's interesting as well
that is totally true, thats why norweigans want swedish workers....
@@StefanThyron We norwegians like to chill while working, the more you stress, the more you fuck up. If you're calm and composed, you barely do mistakes, and with time you learn to do it quick and effienctly while being calm. It creates a much more lax work atmosphere.
At my workplace, we had a guy come from germany to start working with us, it was a manager position. The first 2 years was fucking hell, because he rode everyone like pack mules, and that's the worst way you can ever treat a norwegian.
After 2 years he mellowed down, and actually admitted that the way norwegians work was very efficient, because he was able to relax at work, while getting it done at good phase. Maybe he was just used to people slacking off and not doing squat whenever they had the chance too.
In norway it's common to be taught, that you should treat everyone with the same level of respect, no matter status. Which means, if I were to meet the king, and his servant would be there. I'd greet the servant just as much as the king. Because they're both just humans.
The german guy had to go trough alot of shit with the bosses, since no one liked him at the start, and he got complains weekly. Hell, people barely dared to call in sick, because of how angry he would get. After he started chillin, he became one of my best bosses ever, lol
I have been to Iceland for a couple of weeks and if you would visit Iceland I think that you should try going for a horseback riding tour with the icelandic horses both because it's so much fun and because you get to see some amazing nature.
Hope you visited the others by now, love em all!
If I’m planning to move to one of this country (Finland, Sweden or Norway) which is one better? I mean more cheaper and a lot of partime job
Come to Denmark, i would love to like where you are in life right now
Sounds like more content for future videos can’t wait till you visit them and make video
"I've never been to any of these countries and don't know anything about them so I decided to just guess and make a video about it. Welcome to my Channel."
Dude...why?
P.s. I can see a lot of people are interested so gratz for you :P.
I followed you on 6 different friends accounts now :)
But now Its My own :)
If you like reading comics, check out Scandinavia and the World. ;)
Well, we have Cold Hawaii (Klitmøller) here in Denmark. It's an amazing place in Jutland, where surfers from all over the world travel to.
I'm danish but a thing I like about Norway is, that they don't use so many english words/terms as we do in Denmark. Seems like they are protecting their language better than we do in Denmark. I guess the same goes for Finland too because I never recognize any words when I see a text in finnish :-)
They should protect their language and culture. It is ancient and valuable. It may be all it will be left when English and Spanish speaking countries self imploded. They should import as little as possible from troubled countries.
Lol, do you think an average Finnish person knows what England is?
What is the best among all of them to live? In terms of Salary, education, life style?
Iceland is definitely a weird foggy place with crazy weather! :P
And you are right about Icelandic and Old Norse, we can read the old saga scripts pretty much without any problems, as the language hasn't changed that much over the years. Also, as Iceland was part of Denmark until 1944, we are forced to learn Danish at school, you know so we could talk to ALL the other Nordic people ;) But as I live in Denmark now, I don't complain! :P
Lastly, I would like to point out these comics to you if you aren't familiar with them. It's mainly about Scandinavia, Finland and Iceland, and is built upon a lot of Nordic humour and facts as well as stories from other countries!
satwcomic.com/
I warmly recommend hiking and experience the nature on Iceland. Love Sweden but Iceland is amazing. You and your girlfriend could go just for 5 days and see a lot.
English : Batman
Icelandic : Leðurblökumaðurinn
omg yeah english: thats so true
icelandic: það er svo satt
Finnish: Lepakkomies
okay, i am from iceland and when you said that you think that it´s very cold here, it´s the 19th of december and we´ve only had a little bit of snow from october to december soo...
Danish is actually the language most closely related to Swedish, even though Norwegian is much easier to understand for a swede. It can be hard understanding Danish because of outside influences on the language (mainly French and German), which has caused the melody and pronunciation to differ a lot from Swedish and Norwegian. Norway does have major dialectal variation, so some Norwegian dialects are almost completely unintelligible for the average swede. The dialect spoken around Oslo and just west of the border is pretty much Swedish to me though, it can even be easier for me to understand than some Swedish dialects.
Happytown Danish and Norwegian have a lot more in common than Danish and Swedish. Both lexicon and syntactically they (dk, no) share a lot, although some grammatical aspects are more alike between no and swe
Matwok, I would assume that has to do with Denmark's political and cultural influence on Norway over hundreds of years, and not because they're more closely related. Swedish and Danish are part of the East Nordic language branch, while Norwegian is a West Nordic language, together with Icelandic and Faroese.
However, I was merely discussing intelligibility in my initial comment and nothing else.
Danish and swedish have more in common than norwegian for sure historicly norway has been a different language all the way back to the viking age however we do have the danish. Written vocabulary since runes went out of fashion
Im sorry but how is Danish closer to Swedish then Norwegian? Norwegian is bassicly a simplified version of Danish with more Swedish put in from the union from 1814 to 1905....
@@PokePresto that's not really true from an historical perspective Danish or Swedish never changed the language but the written language was changed the reason we basically speak Swedish is because we always basicly spoke Swedish but yes Norwegian and swedish is very close obviously they are right there
I've noticed that the mens last names in Sweden and Iceland are spelt with sson on the end such as Andersson but in Norway and Denmark its sen like Andersen while in Finland its usually nen on the end like Huttunen or Litmanen
In Iceland they still use the same old system as was used in the Nordics in the past. So every males last name is the first name of their father with -son added to it. Family names are basicly not used in Iceland.
So if Jón (John in English) has a father by the name of Gunnar then his name will be Jón Gunnarsson. The double S is simply like in English - as in "He is Gunnars son" (son of Gunnar) and therefore becomes Gunnarsson. Same applies to women, ff Gunnar has a daughter by the name of Anna she will be Anna Gunnarsdóttir - dóttir means daughter.
But women/girls can also have their mothers name as a last name. If Gunnar had children with Guðrún (Gudrun) and the children wanted to use their mothers name insteand as a last name then it would become like this: Jón Guðrúnarson and Anna Guðrúnardóttir.
Finnish last names are the names of the houses/land the family lives in/at but nowadays the Finnish last name system works similarly to all other western last names. The ending -nen is more common in eastern Finland and -la in western Finland. There are also lots of last names that do not use any endings
About Loan-words!
Did you know that Window is a loan-word from Old Norse(vindauga Wind eye)?
But way do we not see any familiarity in the Swedish word for window (Fönster)?
Because Sweden use a German loan-word Fenster (sv Fönster)!
Why Sweden is so special
They have PewDiePie
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Amazing
Growing up in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪 I had to learn Finn in school. I have been to Finland 🇫🇮 a couple of times and I have a couple of friends there and sometimes I would forget to speak Finn but they could still understand me because they had to learn Swedish in school. I have been to Denmark 🇩🇰 and Iceland 🇮🇸. I could understand a little of vocabulary in Dutch. I was adopted by a family, who wasn’t from Europe. It was hard to learn two new languages but I managed to get through them. Sorry for whoever is reading this.
I began learning Swedish. I'd like a Swedish pen-pal.
Hasn’t been somewhere... makes a descriptive video about the place 🤯
Since i live far up north and close to Finland and my girlfriend is half finnish.. we've been visiting there allmost every summer and i can recommend you to visit Finalnd :) And by the way... you and you gf should take a road trip around Sweden, visit up north you should :) you have a new subscriber here now.
Din svenska är riktigt bra för att ha bott mindre än ett år, du har gjort det riktigt bra :)
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During the winter, in some parts of Sweden it does get considerably colder than in Iceland.
I know It’s kinda weird to comment to a video a year after it being uploaded but I am moving to Scandinavia (I didn’t choose the country yet) so this is pretty helpful but I still couldn’t decide lol
How were you able to pull that off
Bro your are heavy 😎
Iceland isn’t an “extremely” cold country. The winters are colder in northern Norway and Sweden. In the summer it averages between 10 and 20 degrees (it does get close to 30 degrees in some places) and in the winter between -5 and 10
Everything is basicly cheaper in Sweden then in the rest of the northern countries.
Finland has cheaper
Thank you for your feelings although I expected actual facts....
Yeah, I stopped the video after he said he’d never been to any of the countries and didn’t really know 🙃 ?!?! Got value from the comments though
When people say that Sweden, Norway and Denmark can understand each other, they are kinda wrong. As a Dane myself I met both Swedish and Norwegian people. One time a Swedish man came up to me, and began talking. I didn’t understand a thing about what he said? I think danish is kinda different from Swedish and Norwegian, because of the accent.
Swedish and Norwegian is similar on pronunciation. But Norwegian and Danish are very similar in words. But 3 of them are similar. You're right about Finland. Icelandic is so different in my experience but you might be right.
My favorite is Norway - everywhere you go is a panoramic scenery. You should go to the Northwest part of Norway to enjoy most of its boasting view of nature.
I did a 3-day tour from the East and back and that was an experience of a life time.
We went to Trollstigen, Geirangerfjord, Jotunheimen Natural Park and nature experience was just overwhelming.
I used to work on farm in Jotunheimen, I had 1-3 hours trips there everyday for 6 months, sometimes horseback riding. And it was amazing, even though im from Norway xD
I’m from Norway🇳🇴
And by the way I feel like every video here on TH-cam where people talk about Norway they say that they think it’s very expensive, OR that they have heard that it’s very expensive😂 Many Norwegians travel to Sweden once in a while to buy groceries or beer or candy etc just because it’s more cheap
If you live in north you can buy from Finland too (Kilpisjärvi). My wild guess is that around 80% of customers in Kilpisjärvi are from Norway.
Danish are good at speaking English too
U should totally make a video about movie and tv shows in sweden and us comparison
The danes are often called the northern latinos. Because we have a little more temper, drink a little more than our northern neighbours and also party a lot. I have been to sweden a couple of times, and i love sweden. I am from denmark.
A question danes hate swedes?
If you're interested in language history and the Old Norse language, I'd highly recommend the youtube channel by Dr. Jackson Crawford. He's a language professor, specialising in old norse.
and about Iceland, it is from what i hear the most expensive country in Europe, being about 66% more expensive from European average.
Most of the time Toronto, Canada is colder then Reykjavik, Iceland
I'm Canadian but I've been there twice @Lolire14199
Iceland isn't tbat cold idk what yall mean by that its pretty similar to sweden the winter is just a bit longer but the actual temperature through out the winter is similar and in the summer sweden is just a few degrees warmer
Old Norse has a lot in common with all the Scandinavian languages. However, Icelandic has kept more or less the same alphabet. :)
Faroese*
Yeah Norway has much house hold stuff and food that are more expensive but they have lower taxes and you see more often people in Norway have 1 - 2 cars 1 boat, nice house and sometimes even a motorcycle. You're often really lucky or work your ass off if you can afford two of those things together in Sweden. So yeah even if Sweden and Norway are very similar on the outside, it has kinda a big difference in peoples standards between the countries. Danmark are not to different either the language is a little bit harder for a swed to understand sometimes, but if it's to hard you can always use the language and understand eachother that way so it's never a problem. Finland I don't know to much about because I never visited it yet at least. But I imagine it's pretty much the same and they actually has an area in Finland that speaks Swedish in the vest side of Finland and they do rarely know Finish in that part of the country. Don't really know how that came to be, but it's probably a historical explanation for that, in the 16 and 17 century Finland and most of Europe was concerd by the sweds when Sweden was a big military power and everyone in Europe, Russia was kinda afraid of us sweds. Now when you live in Sweden you should really look up the history of Sweden, is much to learn and much you will see that has changed since then. And it's quite a lot that has changed. I'm a swed I'm proud of our history but I can't say I'm proud of where we are going. But an election is coming up. Are you able to vote? Are you a Swedish citizen? If so, I wish you good luck and vote on whatever you believe in. I mistrust most political parties this last mandate and no one has regained that trust so it's a hard election for me, but I will do my part and right as a citizen and vote.
You now Denmark have the oldest flag in the world and also Norway and Sweden was not a country yet they where Denmark in a long time before they came there own country and also danish and Norwegian is way closer than Swedish and Norwegian
I want to move to a nordic country soooo badly but dont know anyone or have any kind of knowledge for a job there. But i would leave in a heartbeat if i had a job waiting there.
I went to Denmark last year and yeah.... they like to party hard lmfao
Nah, it's just the rest of the world that doesn't know how to party at all :D
I’m Italian and I wish so bad I was danish, I love Denmark so much, I hope one day I’ll be able to move there
You are welcome here, from 🇩🇰
saying germans and danes are close culturly is wrong
In the western part of Finland they speak Swedish with an accent/dialect known as Finlandssvenska, which means Finnish-Swedish. Finland was part of Sweden until 1808 when we lost Finland to Russia. In 1917 Finland became independent.
It's only on the Åland islands / tiny areas on the coast of Finland, in general a very small amount of people
Norway is definitely my favorite. Then Iceland. Then Finland.
I've been recently starting to learn Swedish. My lord is challenging, I'm trying to find swedish shows in Netflix but I have no luck so swedish vlogs I've been watching
Ismael A. Was "The Bridge" not shot in Swedish?
nigel Mc Hugh yes but sadly. It can't found in Netflix, well not in my Netflix
Ismael A. Buy the box set's on DVD?
Also search for anything made by "Yellow Bird" films. They made the "Beck" series etc.( set in Malmo)
nigel Mc Hugh okay I will. Thanks for the help :)
I can relate to that struggle! When I was back in the states I pretty much watched swedish vlogs to try to learn
Who are considered the wacky ones, the serious ones etc in terms of Norway, Sweden and Finland?
Danish have commonalities with English more than German, probably due to trading in historic times. E.g., they use the following construction: "I've never seen so big an apple." that is not used in Swedish; Danish have the word "frø" for frog but Swedish do no longer have the same word ("seed", "grodd", "groda" as the shape of the tadpole). Norwegian is almost the same as Danish. Finland and Sweden are, if any, the closest culturally.
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Iceland , Sweden , Denmark , Norway , Finland. We all ser broders and sisters!
I am half Filipino half Hungarian but full blooded American. Even though it's not in my known family tree, I feel like I have Nordic blood in my veins. I am 6'3" and no one else in my immediate family is as tall as I am. My great grandfather (who was actually English in heritage moved from Kentucky to the Philippines post Spanish American War), he was 6'3". I believe somewhere along his lineage, there is some Nordic heritage. I also used to drive a non-GM Saab. It was one of the best cars I ever had. Skol!
Finland
Do you live in Norrkoping
?? I do
I know when you are in doubt in ANY other nordic country restaurant, you can say: Kötbullar and Kaffe.
All of the Nordic countries are heavy coffee drinkers! Getting up on a winter morning you just need a little something extra 🤭
What are your thoughts on Swedish politics compared to America?
I honestly don't know a whole ton about swedish politics but I like how you guys vote for parties rather than candidates from what I understand
Danish are crazy and awesome people. Extremely interesting things coming out of that country.
Norwegians are very nature driven. Also they always sound happy. :D
Finnish people are very proud and honest, it's a good mix of nordics and the good side of Russia.
Iceland is the fairytale country.
Finland has got nothing to do with Russia. Omg.
I have to choose as a international student, please suggest 😇
Yeah its every thing in iceland is like more exspensive but its not that cold
Ever been to Gotland? if not i really recommend it!
I have not but I've seen pictures, and I am dying to go!
On a nice day it almost feels like you are on a greece island
The Swedish language is closer related to Hindi than Finnish.
As a dane I do agree that Denmark has more in common with Germany and I would also say the Netherlands than the other Scandinavian countries. In the past Denmark was more Scandinavian but has turned more European with time also especially due to the poor danish / swedish relationship.
Scandinavia is in Europe....
Can anyone tell me the difference between Sweden and Switzerland?
Switzerland🇨🇭 is the one with the flag that looks kinda like the Danish🇩🇰 flag. The Swedish flag is Ikea coloured 🇸🇪
@@jakobraahauge7299 ohh thanks 👍🏻
There's also Faroese from the Faroe Island :)
What about aland islands
I understand Norwegian and a Norwegian understand us more than Swedes.
Not exactly true
this guy looks stoned, just look at his eyes
Like most countries there are many good and bad things to say about Denmark but here in southern Sweden we feel very close to that country, sometimes even more so than we do to Stockholm.
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