It's interesting thinking about how this happens in English as well. I once had a teacher demonstrate it by writing something like "welmadonals cantake yerder?" and explaining that we can easily understand this quickly-spoken gibberish as "welcome to McDonald's, can i take your order?" because food service workers have all said something similar a million times and we've all heard it a million times.
@@sniperwolf50 haha I’m German and I speak 2andahalf other languages and I think German sounds like English plus Swedish times a pendel divided by Bratwurst.
I love the swedish language! I'm a Brazilian English teacher and love learning beautiful languages!! I think swedish is a bit challenging but it's worth the struggle!! 🇸🇪💛😉
Finally! You nailed it. For the last few days I was really enjoying your slow swedish videos while thinking on this issue of the dropped syllables/word/vowels and then you come out with this video! You just can't imagine how frustrating is to learn a new language and its gtammar, just to realise that the spoken language has nothing to do with it!
I thought that this would make a nice addition to the slow videos just to emphasis on what the problem is. When speaking slowly, the words are pronounced somewhat normally but reduction between words cannot happen.
I'm from sweden and are still living in sweden, I have all my life lived in Norrland, Sweden in a border town (that means that i can go to finland whenewer the fck i want) and i think we here have so toneless swedish accent and over 50% over us can ofc speak finnish. And tbh stockholm swedeish accents and stuff like that is sometimes for a lot of us even teenagers and adults hard to understand because they have so much more tone's xD
Probably all languages have instances like this. For example, in my corner of the English-speaking world, you might hear /hauz'go'n/ ("How is it going?"), /w'chudu'n/ ("What are you doing?"), /hizga'nom/ ("He has gone home."), etc.
Coming as a portuguese/italian native speaker, this is quite tricky!! We literally pronounce every word separately LOL. But the slow swedish has been very helpful!
It's like with many american-english words and pronunciations. Like; `y'all´ (you all), or; `fo sho´ (for sure), or `kinda`(kind of) etc. Another thing, that English speaking folks have a hard time with, is the letters Å, Ä, and Ö in Swedish words and syllables. I dont know how many times I have tried to explain to Englishmen and Americans that; if you can say/pronounce the words; `SHORE´, `FAIR´, and `BURN´ in English you can also pronounce the letters Å, Ä and Ö in Swedish words. The word SHORE, for instance, the letter pronunciation of Å comes where the letter O is in SHORE. So, to make it in writing (to explain where in the word the pronunciation of Å, Ä and Ö is placed in the english word) it would be; SHÅRE, for the word SHORE. Same thing with FAIR. The pronunciation of Ä in FAIR makes it look like; FÄR, and BURN would look like BÖRN. Kinda hard to explain in writing. Much easier when you tell it to someone. :)
Having studied Swedish and Norwegian, I can understand Norwegian much easier for this exact reason. It's difficult at times to hear word separation in Swedish. This is probably why I find spoken Japanese easier as well because every syllable is usually audible.
I think all natives do this kind of reductions in their respective languages. Your explanations are very helpful, especially for beginners. Tack så mycket!
Hearing the spoken sentences and the reasons behind them, and I say this with lots of respect, it feels like a prank or something. Like learning this is so difficult when I hear it because it just flies by in a mush and I just need to sit there like hold on let me think about what I just heard
I think you're a very good teacher. Your sense of humor comes across and that helps me. I have AWFUL pronunciation because I started to learn without repeating the words out loud, so I have to go back and relearn now. (I joke that my pronunciation is so bad that even my computer turns its speakers off in disgust!) Swedish uses contractions in a way that I am not used to. (Language programs don't give differing ways to pronounce or use a word, and I get confused sometimes at the way vowels are pronounced in Swedish.) I would ask you to give some examples in an actual conversation. I just find the way you give examples to be a bit confusing sometimes. It's like English; it seems that there's at least ONE exception for every rule. When you pronounce them all together, that's where you lose me. I'm stuck on verb tenses in Babbel for the same reason and I find their conversation examples to be most helpful. I am MORTIFIED because all of my friends who don't live in the US speak English like a first language...and I can remember 'sengangare'...which I have actually used more than I ever thought possible.
Understanding this takes practice of course. Now, this video is here to make you aware of the concept and give you a few pointers and not to make you experts in understanding Swedish. You'll have to listen to a lot of Swedish for that. A 10 minute video won't be of any help. Thanks for your compliments 🤗 Made my day.
As some growing up in dalarna that last example would be "vaffö få'nt'ja de da"? because in dalarna the spoken language will usually put the "inte" contraction after the verb even if the written ´sentence would have another word order. It's really a thing everywhere north of Stockholm. And the absolutely most essential reduction to know if you happen to listen to any swede from anywhere north of Stockholm: is "änte" which is "är inte det" contracted into one thing. But written the word order would usually be "är det inte", so the word order is changed basically in order to maximally shorten three words into just two syllables.
We do contract "är inte" in the Stockholm and central Swedish area to "ente" or "änte". Adding "det", however would probably result in "ärente" instead. We also have the word order you're speaking of but I think it's even more common norröver.
One of our writers , Fröding, once joked about this in a special dialect , and the result was only vowels: " å i åa e a ö". This means " och i ån är en ö" ( =and inte the river there is an island)
I think it how you pronounce the words depends on where in Sweden you live. I myself live in Östergötland and here people tend to use the letter ä and ö more often. So I wouldn’t say “Va e hon” (where is she?). I would rather say “Var-ä-on?”
I'm going to watch all your's films few times. They are "trevliga" and important in lerning, to understand Swedes better and speak swedish better. Thank you very much. 👍🏆👏
Id say its pretty easy to understand, way easier than French, there you have to first learn it and second learn how to understand the speakers as they have countless slangs and abbreviations and words that sound the same. I never had this problem w Swedish
I like the Swedish language and find that Swedish music especially that of the 80's is pretty easy to understand. I have always noticed from the beginning that certain words and phrases are smashed together when spoken.
Watching some Ingmar Bergman movies a person can hear Swedish a little slower, I've noticed. Maybe try Wild Strawberries or Smiles of a Summers Night (Sommarnattenslende ?) or The Seventh Seal.
Many years ago me and my parents visited the island of Gotland and we wanted to rent a car but my parents didn't understand one single word the guy at the car rental place said so my father being from Burträsk in Norland (north of Sweden ) replied in Burträsk dialect so the guy could not understand what he said either LOL so then they both started to speak more "riks-svenska" so that we finally got our self a car
Ich bin Deutscher und lerne seit ein paar Jahren nebenzu Schwedisch und versteh inzwischen 90% wenn ich Schwedisch lese, aber gesprochenes Schwedisch klingt sooo anders 💀 danke für das Video! Hälsningar från Tyskland!
Ich hab echt dasselbe Problem und finde das zum Teil so frustrierend :D Ich verstehe echt viel was ich lese aber wenn jemand mit mir redet... meistens krieg ich nur ein paar Wörter mit
Besides understanding that I feel that in some point my ears can get bit use to some reduction the problem is also speaking in that way and don't sound weird but well 😓😓😂 what we can do just try our best. Tack for your video!
Like I said in the video, the reduction is there but it happens inconsistently, thus you can get by fine without it. It doesn't change the meaning or anything. Good luck!
Man, this happens in lots of languages, even mine. Have you ever heard of french? I succedeed understanding it orally, and it's my sixth anguage. Never say never. You'll discourage many, but you encourage me by saying this forbidden word. By the way, jag lerar svenska språket. Let's go!
I think one of the problems in most Germanic languages is speech can be slurred. As a native English speaker some people I still can’t understand. However, in noticed in a lot of Slavic languages pronunciation must be clear and vowels a long with tones are stressed or relaxed like in Russian because it can change the meaning of a word entirely.
When I hear a lecture or film and I can hear it slowly, I can understand a lot. But when I hear Swedes who talking near by me, very quickly, I don't understand what they are talking about.
Swedish people speak swedish so fast and lost lots of vowel not as English. For example, i asked way on street, they said "fomemi" (Like some sheep shout), actually is "Följa med mig”. English people maybe just will say "Fo(llow) with me". Jag tror att det är orsak att det är hårt for utlandskar förstår svenska.
I say lot of times like "va menaru" and it's actually "vad menar du". And "va fan" is actually "vad fan" ( fan = satan, but not a lot of people think bout that or know, it's just the most regual swearword in swedish) And "Kommeru" = "Kommer du"
For my dialect and more south just switch the e to ä in pronunciation with the examples. E seems like the Stockholm dialect. Well, you don't have to in order to speak Sweden well enough and correctly. But you won't sound native unless you somehow learn a dialect, and that's fine too. But I'd want to sound natural as possible.
Also, I'm a twin in America of Swedish descent, so often people think we're speaking another language... even though we're both born Americans speaking English. Granted, we speak English fast and combine works. Like, "Did you eat?" We change it, like many of us Utahns, to, "guh eeet?" That means, "Did you eat?" Lol
@@sayitinswedish My great great grandpa Ruben Unander moved here in like 1890. Lol so a while ago. I'm also of Dutch descent, the DeWilde family came here around the same time. I'm surprised you responded, so thanks.
My grandparents always said shit weird. They'd say, goooms instead of gums and they'd always say ja instead of yeah. I wish they'd have taught us Dutch or Swedish. They seemed resentful of their ancestry. Also a better way of putting, "did you eat" is jeet. Like my friend Caleson would say, "Jeet?" No jew? (No did you?) Sorry if this is random, but it gives you a peak into Utah European ancestry. Hahaa
Side note: I thank my Swedish and Dutch ancestors for my height, lol... I'm not that tall but I'm. 6'1" or 185 cm, which is tall compared to all of the beautiful Mexicans in my state. I often feel giant even though my grandpa and uncle were taller. Lol 6'4" and 6'8". I also thank them for my ice blue eyes which the latinas love. Lmao Everyone in my family has blonde hair except my twin and me...we have dark brown hair and blue eyes. It pisses me off when everyone assumes that Americans of Swedish descent have blonde hair. ..
My dialect of French is like this too. And people from Quebec are even worse with it lol. But yeah like the other person said. Much easier than spoken Danish, even at a snail's pace.
@@vil4038 its not only after an r. When you say some thing like vad då då? which means something close to why. you say it like " vadårå?" this is atleast in stockholm.
@@vil4038 its hard to explain it since it just comes naturally for me. Its just an easier whay of saying some words when you talk fast. I didnt even think about it before i saw this video 🤪
There's a song I was trying to translate, but got hung up on a couple words, and now I wonder if it's because they were mashed-up? One sounds like "belyter" or "belyder" (the sentence is "om (belyter) tror på att det vet"), and the other is "chanslor" or "shanslor" ("allting är (chanslor) vander"). Does anyone know what the words could mean?
Thank you for the help! The song is "Kom Till Mig" by Jessica Folker, and the lyrics are nowhere to be found online, that's why I was trying to translate them. I've been studying more since the last time I tried working on the song, and I wonder if "om be lite är tror på att det vet" makes sense? I may have been hearing multiple words as one.
I'm like: I don't care, just speak more slowly, will you? :D It helps for like 5 minutes and then my Swedish friends start to talk like a chatterbox again. Oh well. :D
living for 10 years in sweden i still cant speak and understand a single word except tack, hej and hej du :( tried every method to learn it but its impossible and that is affecting my life in a bad way. any tips or suggestion??
I cannot imagine that it's so hard for you, so that you couldn't learn anything besides "hej". Take a look at my website and my free audio lessons: www.sayitinswedish.com for another take on learning.
Speaking Swedish is not the same as written Swedish and that's why most none Swedish speakers have trouble learning Swedish bwcause the two versions of Swedish cause malfunctions in the connection between the eyes and ears..
Hi !! are these contractions informal Swedish?? or are they the normal way to speak? is there any pronunciation difference when you give a formal speech, for example??
This is basically just regular Swedish. No one really pays attention to these contractions. A Swede would probably don't know what you're talking about when mentioning them. They are just there.
Sometimes d sound turns to r sound... Now what-do-you know, I regognise that! That's what sometimes happens in my native dialegt... of western finnish! I didn't know you swedish could do that too :D - if you tell me that's an eastern swedish thing... ... I'm gonna make some conclusions of that!
I grew up in Turku! My older aunts speak like that! :D I haven't ever noticed that with swedish, but I guess I just haven't heard this type of person speaking swedish.
My spontaneous thought is that it might be borrowed from Swedish (or the other way around), since Turku was a big Swedish city a long time ago, and pretty close to Stockholm by ship, and as far as I know, this is characterizing for the Stockholm accent.
Ha! Eastern swedish! Exactly that thing from which I said I "would make conclusions of" (in my first comment ;) And that conclusion being, as you said, that this d-r-thing must be somehow connected to the western finnish dialegts. Very interesting indeed! Somehow our shared past never ceases to surprise me!
It is said that Swedish is one of the easiest languages for native English speakers. I disagree. The grammar isn’t the problem for me, it’s understanding the spoken language. I never had this problem with Brazilian Portuguese or French. I think I’m shocked because every ‘Language Expert’ ranks Swedish (and Norwegian) as the easiest!
The thing is that pronunciation isn't constant. Some dialects reduce less for instance, so it can't really be added to the calculation as a static thing.
@@sayitinswedish Yes I agree. I've just started learning swedish and I can't produce the sounds of some letters especially because of the greek language, my mother tongue. Bro you are really helpful, keep up the good work!
It's interesting thinking about how this happens in English as well. I once had a teacher demonstrate it by writing something like "welmadonals cantake yerder?" and explaining that we can easily understand this quickly-spoken gibberish as "welcome to McDonald's, can i take your order?" because food service workers have all said something similar a million times and we've all heard it a million times.
This is a great video. Still, I find spoken Swedish is a piece of a cake in comparison to spoken Danish .
True
I speak Swedish Danish and Hebrew it takes practice and getting off the sofa to learn any language
Danish sounds like a Swede speaking bad German
@@sniperwolf50 haha I’m German and I speak 2andahalf other languages and I think German sounds like English plus Swedish times a pendel divided by Bratwurst.
Ever heard finnish? Written: käytäisiinkö olohuoneessa? Spoken: Käytöiskö olkkaris? (Could we visit the livingroom)
I love the swedish language! I'm a Brazilian English teacher and love learning beautiful languages!! I think swedish is a bit challenging but it's worth the struggle!! 🇸🇪💛😉
It is!
Izabela Franco get out of here teacher
"nej, jag är inte hungrig"
-nääaante hunri
It sounds as if your dentist injected anesthesia in your lips. Hahaha
Änte hongrier.
Finally! You nailed it. For the last few days I was really enjoying your slow swedish videos while thinking on this issue of the dropped syllables/word/vowels and then you come out with this video!
You just can't imagine how frustrating is to learn a new language and its gtammar, just to realise that the spoken language has nothing to do with it!
I thought that this would make a nice addition to the slow videos just to emphasis on what the problem is. When speaking slowly, the words are pronounced somewhat normally but reduction between words cannot happen.
Just want to add that it's (usually) not _wrong_ to pronounce every letter, it just more common to not do it. Kind of like I'm/I am in English.
This is the kind of stuff you'll never learn with Duolingo or even more "professional" courses. Thanks!
I'm from sweden and are still living in sweden, I have all my life lived in Norrland, Sweden in a border town (that means that i can go to finland whenewer the fck i want) and i think we here have so toneless swedish accent and over 50% over us can ofc speak finnish. And tbh stockholm swedeish accents and stuff like that is sometimes for a lot of us even teenagers and adults hard to understand because they have so much more tone's xD
No wonder I am struggling to understand Swedish. LOL
It's all about practice listening!
I'm so impressed by all people that can.
And many people do learn.
Yeah what I do is pratice Swedish on Duolingo
And watch random Swedish videos
This is stockholm dialect.... not all of sweden speaks this bad
@@NeophyteNr1 Yeah, some are much worse... Skåne for instance, where I was born and grew up, yet barely understand the neighbors.
Probably all languages have instances like this. For example, in my corner of the English-speaking world, you might hear /hauz'go'n/ ("How is it going?"), /w'chudu'n/ ("What are you doing?"), /hizga'nom/ ("He has gone home."), etc.
Yes but some more than others
Coming as a portuguese/italian native speaker, this is quite tricky!! We literally pronounce every word separately LOL. But the slow swedish has been very helpful!
Hmmm interesting. We kinda do that too. Who are we, fuck it.
I’m trying to learn Swedish but it’s very difficult for me as a English speaker however, Swedish is a beautiful language ❤️
Hang in there!
Say It In Swedish Thanks!
@@spongebob-qu6sn Ge inte upp ;) (don't give up)
This is incredibly frustrating 😂😭
To comment on your second example, I'd say that it's more common to hear "vaähon?" rather than "varéhon?" but I suppose that's dialectal.
That's dialectal for sure. I'm from the Stockholm area and would prefer varéon, but vaäon is a possibility as well.
It's like with many american-english words and pronunciations. Like; `y'all´ (you all), or; `fo sho´ (for sure), or `kinda`(kind of) etc. Another thing, that English speaking folks have a hard time with, is the letters Å, Ä, and Ö in Swedish words and syllables. I dont know how many times I have tried to explain to Englishmen and Americans that; if you can say/pronounce the words; `SHORE´, `FAIR´, and `BURN´ in English you can also pronounce the letters Å, Ä and Ö in Swedish words. The word SHORE, for instance, the letter pronunciation of Å comes where the letter O is in SHORE. So, to make it in writing (to explain where in the word the pronunciation of Å, Ä and Ö is placed in the english word) it would be; SHÅRE, for the word SHORE. Same thing with FAIR. The pronunciation of Ä in FAIR makes it look like; FÄR, and BURN would look like BÖRN. Kinda hard to explain in writing. Much easier when you tell it to someone. :)
*Helt rätt*
Having studied Swedish and Norwegian, I can understand Norwegian much easier for this exact reason. It's difficult at times to hear word separation in Swedish. This is probably why I find spoken Japanese easier as well because every syllable is usually audible.
This is sooo helpful!! Tack så mycket!
I think all natives do this kind of reductions in their respective languages. Your explanations are very helpful, especially for beginners. Tack så mycket!
Yes but some languages do it more than others.
Hearing the spoken sentences and the reasons behind them, and I say this with lots of respect, it feels like a prank or something. Like learning this is so difficult when I hear it because it just flies by in a mush and I just need to sit there like hold on let me think about what I just heard
I think you're a very good teacher. Your sense of humor comes across and that helps me. I have AWFUL pronunciation because I started to learn without repeating the words out loud, so I have to go back and relearn now. (I joke that my pronunciation is so bad that even my computer turns its speakers off in disgust!) Swedish uses contractions in a way that I am not used to. (Language programs don't give differing ways to pronounce or use a word, and I get confused sometimes at the way vowels are pronounced in Swedish.) I would ask you to give some examples in an actual conversation. I just find the way you give examples to be a bit confusing sometimes. It's like English; it seems that there's at least ONE exception for every rule. When you pronounce them all together, that's where you lose me. I'm stuck on verb tenses in Babbel for the same reason and I find their conversation examples to be most helpful. I am MORTIFIED because all of my friends who don't live in the US speak English like a first language...and I can remember 'sengangare'...which I have actually used more than I ever thought possible.
Understanding this takes practice of course. Now, this video is here to make you aware of the concept and give you a few pointers and not to make you experts in understanding Swedish. You'll have to listen to a lot of Swedish for that. A 10 minute video won't be of any help. Thanks for your compliments 🤗 Made my day.
Very helpful! Hoping to get back there, so good tips!
As some growing up in dalarna that last example would be "vaffö få'nt'ja de da"? because in dalarna the spoken language will usually put the "inte" contraction after the verb even if the written ´sentence would have another word order. It's really a thing everywhere north of Stockholm. And the absolutely most essential reduction to know if you happen to listen to any swede from anywhere north of Stockholm: is "änte" which is "är inte det" contracted into one thing. But written the word order would usually be "är det inte", so the word order is changed basically in order to maximally shorten three words into just two syllables.
We do contract "är inte" in the Stockholm and central Swedish area to "ente" or "änte". Adding "det", however would probably result in "ärente" instead. We also have the word order you're speaking of but I think it's even more common norröver.
One of our writers , Fröding, once joked about this in a special dialect , and the result was only vowels: " å i åa e a ö". This means " och i ån är en ö" ( =and inte the river there is an island)
I think it how you pronounce the words depends on where in Sweden you live. I myself live in Östergötland and here people tend to use the letter ä and ö more often. So I wouldn’t say “Va e hon” (where is she?). I would rather say “Var-ä-on?”
Yes of course. But reductions exist to different degrees in all dialects. Less so in Finland though.
Tack så mycket för din hjälp!😊 jag gillar din lexikon!😊
I'm going to watch all your's films few times. They are "trevliga" and important in lerning, to understand Swedes better and speak swedish better. Thank you very much. 👍🏆👏
Thank you :D
I am learning Swedish because I would like to communicate with my Swedish husband in his mother tongue. Swedish is not that easy as I expected...
Swedish can be as easy you want it to be!
Id say its pretty easy to understand, way easier than French, there you have to first learn it and second learn how to understand the speakers as they have countless slangs and abbreviations and words that sound the same. I never had this problem w Swedish
That's an interesting comparison!
I like the Swedish language and find that Swedish music especially that of the 80's is pretty easy to understand. I have always noticed from the beginning that certain words and phrases are smashed together when spoken.
Watching some Ingmar Bergman movies a person can hear Swedish a little slower, I've noticed. Maybe try Wild Strawberries or Smiles of a Summers Night (Sommarnattenslende ?) or The Seventh Seal.
Yes, older movies tend to have a kind of theatrical Swedish.
Many years ago me and my parents visited the island of Gotland and we wanted to rent a car but my parents didn't understand one single word the guy at the car rental place said so my father being from Burträsk in Norland (north of Sweden ) replied in Burträsk dialect so the guy could not understand what he said either LOL
so then they both started to speak more "riks-svenska" so that we finally got our self a car
Same with the English language. Each area have their own English language.
Ich bin Deutscher und lerne seit ein paar Jahren nebenzu Schwedisch und versteh inzwischen 90% wenn ich Schwedisch lese, aber gesprochenes Schwedisch klingt sooo anders 💀 danke für das Video! Hälsningar från Tyskland!
Ich hab echt dasselbe Problem und finde das zum Teil so frustrierend :D Ich verstehe echt viel was ich lese aber wenn jemand mit mir redet... meistens krieg ich nur ein paar Wörter mit
Thank you so much - this helps tremendously!!! Mycket bra!
Im from the rural areas of Värmland, and ppl from for ex Stockholm dont event know what im saying because my dialect. "va-fåja itna därå"
😁
I like ur teaching style
Thank you :)
canadian french we shorten our sentences like that too
Tack att hjalpa mig med min svenska.Du ar en bra svensklarare
Tack Christopher.
@@sayitinswedish var skulle Jag Prata svenska med nagra svenskapratare?Jag hitter inte nagon svenska manniskor I italien
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For me "listening"is the most difficult part learning swedish doesnt matter how many swedish words I know 😭
I'm Peruvian and I live in Sweden now, and sometimes I feel in another world when I try to understand the Swedish language.
Är vi ett skämt till dig?
Besides understanding that I feel that in some point my ears can get bit use to some reduction the problem is also speaking in that way and don't sound weird but well 😓😓😂 what we can do just try our best. Tack for your video!
Like I said in the video, the reduction is there but it happens inconsistently, thus you can get by fine without it. It doesn't change the meaning or anything. Good luck!
In Chilean Spanish we say "Pa onde vai" instead of "¿Para dónde vas"? (Where are you going?)
I'm sometimes struggelin with swedish and i talk swedish everyday.
lol the fast paced varfor sounds like the dutch waarvoor which means the same thing
Man, this happens in lots of languages, even mine. Have you ever heard of french? I succedeed understanding it orally, and it's my sixth anguage. Never say never. You'll discourage many, but you encourage me by saying this forbidden word. By the way, jag lerar svenska språket. Let's go!
That is the spirit my boy.
It is hard n im in SFI c now 😵💫😵💫😵💫😭❤️ tack så mycket 🙏
Just want to add that it's (usually) not _wrong_ to pronounce every letter, it just more common to not do it. Kind of like I'm/I am in English.
Correct
I think one of the problems in most Germanic languages is speech can be slurred. As a native English speaker some people I still can’t understand. However, in noticed in a lot of Slavic languages pronunciation must be clear and vowels a long with tones are stressed or relaxed like in Russian because it can change the meaning of a word entirely.
Tbh, swedish is really fast, but listen sometime when here in sweden my classmates and mee too speaks finnish, eheh.
No nii
When I hear a lecture or film and I can hear it slowly, I can understand a lot. But when I hear Swedes who talking near by me, very quickly, I don't understand what they are talking about.
Swedish people speak swedish so fast and lost lots of vowel not as English. For example, i asked way on street, they said "fomemi" (Like some sheep shout), actually is "Följa med mig”. English people maybe just will say "Fo(llow) with me".
Jag tror att det är orsak att det är hårt for utlandskar förstår svenska.
I think a language always sound fast if you don't really understand it.
I say lot of times like "va menaru" and it's actually "vad menar du".
And "va fan" is actually "vad fan" ( fan = satan, but not a lot of people think bout that or know, it's just the most regual swearword in swedish)
And "Kommeru" = "Kommer du"
For my dialect and more south just switch the e to ä in pronunciation with the examples. E seems like the Stockholm dialect.
Well, you don't have to in order to speak Sweden well enough and correctly. But you won't sound native unless you somehow learn a dialect, and that's fine too. But I'd want to sound natural as possible.
Sure but other dialects also reduce a lot, it's not just a Stockholm thing.
@@sayitinswedish I don’t know what you mean. orz
Also, I'm a twin in America of Swedish descent, so often people think we're speaking another language... even though we're both born Americans speaking English. Granted, we speak English fast and combine works. Like, "Did you eat?" We change it, like many of us Utahns, to, "guh eeet?" That means, "Did you eat?" Lol
That's super interesting! Both the reductions and that you are of Swedish descent. How far back?
@@sayitinswedish My great great grandpa Ruben Unander moved here in like 1890. Lol so a while ago. I'm also of Dutch descent, the DeWilde family came here around the same time. I'm surprised you responded, so thanks.
My grandparents always said shit weird. They'd say, goooms instead of gums and they'd always say ja instead of yeah. I wish they'd have taught us Dutch or Swedish. They seemed resentful of their ancestry. Also a better way of putting, "did you eat" is jeet. Like my friend Caleson would say, "Jeet?" No jew? (No did you?) Sorry if this is random, but it gives you a peak into Utah European ancestry. Hahaa
Side note: I thank my Swedish and Dutch ancestors for my height, lol... I'm not that tall but I'm. 6'1" or 185 cm, which is tall compared to all of the beautiful Mexicans in my state. I often feel giant even though my grandpa and uncle were taller. Lol 6'4" and 6'8". I also thank them for my ice blue eyes which the latinas love. Lmao Everyone in my family has blonde hair except my twin and me...we have dark brown hair and blue eyes. It pisses me off when everyone assumes that Americans of Swedish descent have blonde hair. ..
My dialect of French is like this too. And people from Quebec are even worse with it lol. But yeah like the other person said. Much easier than spoken Danish, even at a snail's pace.
Great video..Thanks.
Thanks :)
Du is sometimes pronounced ru... Vad gör du? Vagöru?
If it’s after an r
@@vil4038 its not only after an r. When you say some thing like vad då då? which means something close to why. you say it like " vadårå?" this is atleast in stockholm.
@@Limerone oh then it must be after a d cause that’s the same for jaelskerei
@@vil4038 its hard to explain it since it just comes naturally for me. Its just an easier whay of saying some words when you talk fast. I didnt even think about it before i saw this video 🤪
There's a song I was trying to translate, but got hung up on a couple words, and now I wonder if it's because they were mashed-up? One sounds like "belyter" or "belyder" (the sentence is "om (belyter) tror på att det vet"), and the other is "chanslor" or "shanslor" ("allting är (chanslor) vander"). Does anyone know what the words could mean?
You could just search for the lyrics online. Shanslor is probably känslor, nothing mashed-up there, but the rest I cannot figure out. What's the song?
Thank you for the help! The song is "Kom Till Mig" by Jessica Folker, and the lyrics are nowhere to be found online, that's why I was trying to translate them.
I've been studying more since the last time I tried working on the song, and I wonder if "om be lite är tror på att det vet" makes sense? I may have been hearing multiple words as one.
daphnie816 it doesn't make sense. I'll have a listen for you.
Is it this one? th-cam.com/video/wUwBp1c1KXE/w-d-xo.html
Because you have the lyrics in the description of the video... Ha det bra.
No, it's "Kom Till Mig". It's not on youtube. It was hard to even find the song anywhere on the internet.
Im russian, and learning English and swedish, tack!
привет 👋
This one is fun: "Vad är det med dig då"
varemererå :D
Спасибо)
I'm like: I don't care, just speak more slowly, will you? :D It helps for like 5 minutes and then my Swedish friends start to talk like a chatterbox again. Oh well. :D
Practice, practice, practice! Listen to the radio all day, immerse yourself.
living for 10 years in sweden i still cant speak and understand a single word except tack, hej and hej du :( tried every method to learn it but its impossible and that is affecting my life in a bad way. any tips or suggestion??
I cannot imagine that it's so hard for you, so that you couldn't learn anything besides "hej". Take a look at my website and my free audio lessons: www.sayitinswedish.com for another take on learning.
Where are you from ???
Djeet yet? = Did ya eat yet?
var kan jag hitta en lista av så kraftfulla fraser?
Vad menar du?
@@sayitinswedish i will switch to English. I mean where can I find more examples of such tremendous truncations. I hope it is a short list ))
Speaking Swedish is not the same as written Swedish and that's why most none Swedish speakers have trouble learning Swedish bwcause the two versions of Swedish cause malfunctions in the connection between the eyes and ears..
3:47 polish "cześć"? :D
Hi !! are these contractions informal Swedish?? or are they the normal way to speak? is there any pronunciation difference when you give a formal speech, for example??
This is basically just regular Swedish. No one really pays attention to these contractions. A Swede would probably don't know what you're talking about when mentioning them. They are just there.
all right, and if I say word by word (speaking slower than a native), would it be awkward??
A little bit, yeah. If you speak slowly and contact it becomes more obvious and sounds weird.
Now there are some ways of saying ''NO'' or ''you are not allowed to'' in a sentences, for example !
* Nej
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* Ej
* icke
* inte
Zweeds... opgeement hejedoor. (Zweeds: op een gegeven moment heb je het door / Svenska... en dag fattar man det)
Where are you from?
I think Swedish becomes 10 times easier to speak when drunk! Just blur the words, easy peasy!
hemma hade man sagt
fåntja'däråe?
Får inte jag det då, va? (
Precis! Fåntjankörv!
Varma hälsningar från Brasilien!
Hur är de me dig då ? :D
Hur står det till me dig då ?
ureeremerejrå?
Remember that he overexaggerated to make it easier to understand the diffrence
Mjaaa
Ä,Ö,Å that's all i gotta say..
å,ä,ö pesent’s
Sometimes the sentence "I don't know" is shortened to "aéinne".
Kinda, yeah.
Varför skriver du inte ut de svenska talspråket/förkortningarna?
Nu blev det inte så.
Sometimes d sound turns to r sound... Now what-do-you know, I regognise that! That's what sometimes happens in my native dialegt... of western finnish! I didn't know you swedish could do that too :D - if you tell me that's an eastern swedish thing...
... I'm gonna make some conclusions of that!
Yes! They do that in Turku for instance In Finnish! Which is very, very interesting. I learned that a couple of months ago and I was flabbergasted.
I grew up in Turku! My older aunts speak like that! :D
I haven't ever noticed that with swedish, but I guess I just haven't heard this type of person speaking swedish.
My spontaneous thought is that it might be borrowed from Swedish (or the other way around), since Turku was a big Swedish city a long time ago, and pretty close to Stockholm by ship, and as far as I know, this is characterizing for the Stockholm accent.
Ha! Eastern swedish! Exactly that thing from which I said I "would make conclusions of" (in my first comment ;)
And that conclusion being, as you said, that this d-r-thing must be somehow connected to the western finnish dialegts. Very interesting indeed! Somehow our shared past never ceases to surprise me!
Dude, how do you understand each other?
No problem at all, since these are common reductions.
I could say the same with turkish, how do yall understand each other, thats the next language I want to learn
Is it me or Swedes use a lot more contractions than Norwegians?
I have no idea
A, de va ja de (yeah, that was me)
Is actually
Ja, det var jag det
YES!
You know it's bad when google-trans on a Bergman movie is getting maybe 5% of the words right. THEY MUMBLE.
Aj då
It is said that Swedish is one of the easiest languages for native English speakers. I disagree. The grammar isn’t the problem for me, it’s understanding the spoken language. I never had this problem with Brazilian Portuguese or French. I think I’m shocked because every ‘Language Expert’ ranks Swedish (and Norwegian) as the easiest!
The thing is that pronunciation isn't constant. Some dialects reduce less for instance, so it can't really be added to the calculation as a static thing.
Helps you understand people that can't speak properly. Joking! No but seriously, don't overuse.
This is completely normal and not considered sloppy speech.
So you never heard anyone getting annoyed by that shit and replied ''kan du inte plata lent?''
Cries in spanish*
Spanish speaking people speak super fast and reduce v and b! You're worse :P
@@sayitinswedish but we have less vowels :v
Not that hard to learn and understand when your Grandmother was from Sweden LOL
The grandmother index. If you can understand a proper granny, then you're fluent.
@@sayitinswedish Sure can it was a big family that moved here , Thanks Mr .
And they say it's hard to learn greek.. ok try to learn swedish 😂 (Greek guy here 🖐)
You really need to tune your ears to Swedish, it's not really impossible but you need a lot of practise listening.
@@sayitinswedish Yes I agree. I've just started learning swedish and I can't produce the sounds of some letters especially because of the greek language, my mother tongue. Bro you are really helpful, keep up the good work!
And varför somtimes becomes vaffö
that's right
Glad första advent!
Detsamma!
Det är inte svårt kanshe begrund av att jag är en swensk
Är du svensk? Då borde du veta att det stavas *kanske, *på grund, *svensk
@@reineh3477 sorry i dont talk or spell good i type super fast
@@VeryAutistikMonolith Gör inget, mina föräldrar är från Australien fast jag är bättre på svenska än engelska och känner igen din situation :)
Its far easier than Danish
I'd say so, yeah ;)
Förbovelen...ja!
va ä ho ( var är hon )😂
Irish is even worse.
Great, tack, but please skip those musical sounds. Please.
What musical sounds.
”Swedish people” är vi ett skämt till er?
Vad menar du?
Don't teach us pronouns if y'all ain't gonna use them, I say :D!
Kasta stockholmsdialekt
Reduktioner förekommer inte bara i Stockholm :)
@@sayitinswedish nä det är sant, men detta var extremt stockholm.
I pronounce the 'h', but otherwise it's correct.
Reductions are of course something very dynamic which varies between people, regions, and even within the same sentence.