American should know these Swedish Brand pronunciation ! (Ikea, Sportify, Volvo)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 พ.ค. 2022
- Swedish language feels somewhat similar to English but has its attributes.
It makes us to wanna dig more !
What should we try next? and what combination is your fave?
Leave your thoughts in comment !
🇺🇸 Sky
/ sky_tyson
🇸🇪 Oskar
/ oskar.zillen - บันเทิง
As a car guy, it hurt a bit that she mixed up Volkswagen and Volvo.
I'm not even a car guy and it bugged me to (no pun intended)
Well thats american for you
@@asd5139 not necessarily, I’m American and had a do double “like did she really just messed that up?” It’s more like that’s her boo boo.
hurt? really? bahahahah
@@asd5139 More like that's someone who doesn't know cars especially since the Japanese, Korean, and of course US market dominates here.
I like Oskar's personality, the intro of the video already showed it all, he is very friendly and funny 🇸🇪
Majority of the Swedish populations is like him. They're a very welcoming country overall.
And cute
@@karc9768 Yes, they're super nice, but they don't really socialise outside their small set groups. So you don't actually get to experience their niceness.
@@REDnBLACKnRED As one myself, we sometimes meet Americans who are very confident and social and then we idk maybe get a little scared?
Swedes are learned by the “Jantelagen” (law of Jante). It’s not a real law but it means “don’t think your special or better than someone else and most of all don’t take up to much space”
He’s kinda fine too 🥵
As a norwegian I really appriciate how international IKEA have become cuz that meant I could get knekkebrød and nice cheese whereever I go haha
Love your name!
@@scenoxx Thank you!
do they not have that at normal stores in other countries??
@@fredhasopinions I have found it very hard to find knekkebrød and pre-slized cheese that is not American cheese, but this is just after my own experience though! Might be different compared to the country and city you are in.
Haha samma
Minecraft is Swedish. Electrolux and Husqvarna are both Swedish! So many things!
(Linux is Finnish, but the inventor is a Swedish Finn!)
@@dubiousqualityvideos9346 It's one of the biggest in europe but we have a small population for the size.
For clarification Linus Torvalds is a Swedish-speaking Finn
I only recently learned about Electrolux being Swedish, so now I have to only pronounce it as a Swede would. Also, TetraPak is Swedish (think juice boxes, and boxes of broths and shelf-stable milk)... also have to say it with Swedish pronunciation now. Hah!
It is hilarious hearing US americans trying to pronounce Husqvarna!
Swedish-speaking finns are still finnish rather than swedish!
I think we all fell in love with Oskar's personality, he's so charismatic, cute and upbeat 😊
He knows the answers on how to pronounce the words.
Yet he's humble, and dont accuse the American of being an ignorant SOB for not knowing how to pronounce it.
Even though her pronounciation was quite good.
I am 100% sure you use a Swedish discovery, product, invention or something from a Swedish brand every day. From the IKEA furniture, Astra medication, Tetra pack packaging products, SKF bearings, Saab military equipment, spotify music app, Mojang Minecraft, Dice battle field, Max martin music producer of all your favorite music. Inventions like the zipper, pacemaker, the refrigerator and discoveries like Kobalt that are in batteries and oxygen that you breed.
The list of Swedish influences around the world is massive but mostly unknown.
Honourable mention for the three-point seatbelt!
Oxygen that you breed 😂😂😂
Dont forget companies as Bacho, Sandviken Coromant, Ericsson, Atlas Copco, Autoliv etc
And inventors as Håkan Lans who invented the computer color graphics
Carl von Linneo, sin el, como habría sido la biología antes 😱
Yeah I was really hoping for a 240 shout out or maybe station wagon story. But she butchered it.
There are so many more Swedish things like the zipper, the dynamite (Alfred Nobel), SAAB, Oatly, in games We have Minecraft and a couple of more.
Oatly is Swedish!? Really! The others I knew. But I am Swedish I should know these things😂
I buy Oatly pretty frequently as well XD
@@liamskarhed6068 Oatly tillverkas i Malmö
Paradox Interactive
SvenskaAeroplanAktieBolaget. whoopwhoop. Dead brand but still kinda nice cars.
@@sigridvanosch1990 SAAB is far from a dead brand. They make fighter jets, submarines and state of the art weapons used alla over the world.
Assa Abloy is Swedish company that was formed 1994 when Swedish company Assa and Finnish company Abloy merged together. The Finnish Company name Abloy came from words Aktiebolag Låsfabriken-Lukkotehdas Osakeyhtiö and has evolved to form short version of Abloy. Both Aktiebolag (Ab) and Osakeyhtiö (Oy) means stock company in Swedish and in Finnish. Words Låsfabriken and Lukkotehdas are Swedish and Finnish versions for lock factory represented as single L in the middle.
Didn't know the story behind the Abloy part, thanks for telling us!
I was just about to comment on this, I'm happy someone already had :D
ASSA stands for August Stenman Stenman August. The founder of ASSA.
My family build an swedish Älvsbyhus in 1973, it has the half circle Abloy keys, very neat!
@@The970709 looks like the Swedish like symmetrical patterns :) ASSA, ABBA, SAAB ...
I believe Fjällräven is actually the Swedish name for the Arctic fox.
Also fjäll has an English counterpart in the word fell wich is the kind of mountain you find in Scandinavia and also Scotland.
I don’t believe you because of your username
@@swedishbloke good point 🤣
That is not true it’s mountain fox in English ☺️🇸🇪 arctic in Swedish is antarktisk ☺️
@@maartinaal6930 No its arktisk…
@@maartinaal6930 "fjällräv" literally means "arctic fox". It's even on Fjällräven's website.
PD, seriously? From all the Swedish names you could spell wrong you went with "SpoRtify"?!
I like how World Friends is actually about people from around the world. Need different countries with their own version, like World Friends International.
I thought Spotify was American. That explains why Fear Factory's post-2000 albums pre-Genexus weren't available until Mechanize and Industrialist. Archetype and Transgression are still missing.
Swedish brands and things among others: Spotify, Volvo, Saab, Ikea, H&M, Skype, Koenigsegg, Absolut Vodka, Acne, Fjällräven, Ericsson, Electrolux, Essity, The Pirate Bay, Minecraft, DICE (Battlefield), Valheim, Morakniv, Gränsfors, Hasselblad, and obviously artists like Avicii, Sabaton, Inflames, Swedish House Mafia .. and so on.. then there a lot of Swedish inventions like Dynamite, pacemaker, modern refrigiator, the wrench, the zipper, bolt cutter, propeller, styrofoam, tetrapak, flatscreen, gps and so on...
made me realise how useless my country is 🤣🤣
Seat belts
it bugs me talked about fjällräven as the backpack brand, because its really not just a backpack brand at all, even though kånken is so iconic as it is..
(im probably just iritated because im not a fan of their backpacks, but generally really like their clothes)
ikr! their hat and jacket are some of the best i own (but pricey ow)
The thing is, Kånken sucks. It sucked in the 70's and it sucked on relaunch. They made it slightly better by adding removable padding to the sholder straps. But when full, those straps used to hurt my itty-bitty shoulder as a kid.
Love the trousers though, which is why I wear them almost dayly.
Yeah. Backpacks the smallest part I would say. It's a outdoor hiking brand
The most well-known swedish brand in Indonesia or any other southeast Asia countries is arguably Electrolux. Too bad it didn't get mentioned in the video. Great content, anyway
It used to be electrolux, now it's ikea, everywhere
What is Electrolux? I’ve never heard of it before. Is it like a technology company?
@@rachelcookie321 washing machine, refrigerator, kitchen set, etc
Nothing sux like...
I live in Sweden and i have like never heard of that instead we have MediaMarkt and Elgiganten
Anyone else realise the mistake in the corner when Spotify came up? Then misspelled it as “sportify” lmao
Spotify's lesser known sister app, letting you stream sports to your heart's content haha 😂😂
It's spelled also wrong in the title 😅
It's not the first time that words are misspelled on this channel. It's often quite noticable lol
ASSA makes key locks too, they'v just been pushing to market & sell digital lock systems of late.
Lots of American homes have ASSA locks, it's just something you dont think of too often.
Check your home key what brand it is.
It's the biggest lock manufacturer in the world.
Yes. And the Abloy was originally an old Finnish lock company (originally Ab Låsfabriken-Lukkotehdas Oy, later Ab Lukko Oy now known as Abloy dating back to 1918) that Assa bought in 1994. Their patented systems were first invented in 1907.
Both these people have good personalities. Very entertaining to watch.
Swedish design has often been trend setting. And it was interesting to learn about the nationwide technology push, which explains recent Swedish tech innovators.
Another factor is how early we pushed wide-spread internet connectivity and usage. We are usually among the top in the world for percentage of population that uses the internet (currently standing at 94 %, 4th highest in the world) and I believe we have been since at least the 2000s.
Our music to… people from abroad who say they hate us in Eurovision often say it’s because we send songs that we think will win… that’s the whole point of the competition.
@@swedishbloke They also say it's just radio music or copied etc. Meanwhile the ethnic folk songs copy themselves for thousands of years but right now it's "totally original" because what they usually hear on the radio for the past 30 years is swedish written pop. And yet they still listen to it hmmmmmmmmmmm. Also the music from Mello/ESC isn't actually as fit for radio as they think anyway.
Let someone try to pronounce the ikea furniture and have this Swedish guy correct them
That would be so painful
That would make me cry. It's hilarious allready with my bfs family saying the names and me trying to understand what they actually got🤣 they from Netherlands
I'm not sure if it the same in the states, but in Canada we call it punch buggy, and it refers to VW beetles. I think she may have been confused between VW and Volvo.
I think she was maybe confused. All the way.
In Swedish thay are called: Bubbla. I Think it's the car you're looking for.
I love these two together! They have great energy and Sky is great at pronouncing the Swedish stuff! Well done. :)
Also, I was kinda thrown off by Assa Abloy coming up at the end haha, I didn't think it was that well known. I know it pretty well since my dad is a locksmith so I do know the origin of the name though! The Assa part comes from the capital letters of the founder's name (much like Ikea comes from the founder's name and hometown), and the Abloy part is basically a mix of the Swedish (AB) and Finnish (OY) ways of saying "corp", as in a company name (for example, H&M's proper name is H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB). So it's not really a Swedish word, it's just sort of made up and therefore the English and Swedish pronounciations are pretty much the same.
Yes, Swedish Assa and Finnish Abloy joined together in 1994. The original company name for Abloy was "Ab Låsfabriken-Lukkotehdas Oy" that is literally "Lock factory Ltd." first in Swedish and then in Finnish. Abloy was originally founded in 1918.
Even more info (unnecessary) on H&M: 'Hennes' is the word for 'hers' and 'Mauritz' is a male name, so it's a reference to the fact that they sell clothes for both men an women!
Hennes and Mauritz was 2 different store. Hennes bought Mauritz and became Hennes & Maurits and later HM. But Hennes mean hers in Swedish and Mauritz is a Swedish name. The name of the starter of that company. So has everything with Sweden to do. Even the name
Oh Oskar, you sweet summer child. Heres some facts:
IKEA = Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd och Agunnaryd, thats the villages in Småland where he grew up.
Volvo = Latin for "I roll" (Jag rullar). Volvo was an offshoot from SKF (Svenska Kullager förening) who made bearings and is internationally known.
Fjällräven = Arctic fox. I love foxes and this one is a very cute, white-furred fox living above the arctic circle.
Spotify = Why you write "spo-R-tify"?
Acne = We only say Acne, not the studios.
It's Sveriges Kullagerfabrik (Sweden's ball-bearing factory). I live in Gothenburg and I was part of the choir at their 100 year jubilee, so I should know.
Also Assa is not only digital locks, is it? I've had many normal keys throughout my life with the word ASSA on them
@@zupergurkan Yes, "regular" locks as well.
Good to point out "Fjäll doesn't mean Arctic". Even if that is the correct way to translate the name of the animal for english speakers. It's a different name for the same animal. Fjäll means (snowy) mountain like he says.
@@MrZeuz666 vad är fjällen på sommaren när det inte är snö då? Fjäll har ingenting med snö att göra nödvändigtvis. Både fjällräv och arctic fox syftar på Vulpes Lagopus och är alltså exakt samma sak.
3:16 I think she confused Volvo with Volkswagen....😅
Sky has very uplifting energy,, it makes me smile
It actually makes total sense to mix up Nordic aesthetics to Korean and Japanese aesthetics. So no shame there really. Finnish has even more surprising cultural similarity to these Asian cultures and the japanise language can look and sound similar. And Japanese people especially love Finnish stuff and wise versa.
Finnish people also have shared genetics with Asian countries way more than other European countries. Reason is that people from Asian countries traveled to Finland early times but didn't really go much further. Other European countries are more germanic for example. It's somewhat unique position and basically explain why Finland is similar to other Nordic countries, but has this weird twist that makes them bit different.
ASSA Abloy is a fusion of the Swedish company ASSA and the Finnish company Abloy, both very big at the European market for door locks and padlocks, especially in the nordic nations. After the fusion (1994) it has been larger at the European and international market.
Love these two together. Sky does an awesome job with the pronunciation. I would have no clue how to say these properly! She makes it fun!
She really butchered fjällräven tho, very American pronunciation
That’s what I thought I really liked these two and them together
Abloy was originally a Finnish company. "Assa" comes from August Stenman Stenman August and "Abloy" comes from Ab Lukko Oy.
Aktiebolag lukko Osakeyhtiö, lol
AB = OY 😆
This one was fun too watch! Seen a bunch of americans from diffrent videos pronounce the brand "Husqvarna" (chainsaws, robot grasstrimmers etc.), and it sounds like... Husk-a-Varna. Always cracks me up.
Like can‘t they read properly? Same with Fjällräven
I sometimes wonder how many people in the US know that the english language "evolved" to pronounce vowels differently than related languages in Europe, linguists call it "the Great Vowel Shift". So if you try to pronounce european words as if they were written in English then you will most likely pronounce it wrong.
the more of these videos (not only on this channel) i see, the less i expect us-americans to know about this
I really enjoyed watching these two. Would love to see them both together in more videos
Here in Catalonia we do the punch game with yellow cars and Minis, so a yellow Mini means a double punch.
About Swedish bands, there's one pretty important that you didn't mention: Roxette😊🙌🏽
Punching friends when you meet a Volvo in Sweden would mean emergency room visits every time you hit the road! 🤣
@@Bratfalken 🤦🏽♀️😅 I mean, we don't really punch each other with the game, we do a soft punch anyway...
her pronounciation was amazing, i was blown away.
Fjällraven in particular!
Assa Abloy AB as a whole might be Swedish but the Abloy part of the company is still very much a Finnish lock manufacturer 🇫🇮
Muistuttaa siitä kun tajusin et Abloy nimi tulee vaa siitä et alkuperänen nimi oli Ab Låsfabriken-Lukkotehdas Oy -> Abloy ja sit se olikin Ab Abloy Oy :D
AktieBolag Lukko OsakeYhtiö to be precise 😊
I really like how Sky bows with her hands placed together or in Thai it's called 'Wai'. You do it so beautifully.
Loved this post. Thanks for sharing.
Assa Abloy also makes the motors and sensors for the photocell doors commonly seen in supermarkets and shops..etc. I've seen a ton of those.
The Abloy, in Assa Abloy, is from Finland (but it was sold to Assa a couple years ago). The name ”Abloy” actually mean ”Ab Lås Oy” or ”Aktiebolag Lås Osakeyhtiö” (Ab and Oy is the Swedish and Finnish shortenings for Corporation, Corp).
Y in Finnish is pronounced like ü so this "mixed word" is really strange to me
It's a diphtong with vowel sounds; oo and then an ii-sound but with a round mouth, ASSA ABLOOYY.
I love seeing these videos of people from different countries meeting, and it’s nice to be almost represented, since I’m danish lol
It does have a meaning. Assa Abloy is a fusion of two different companies; Swedish Assa (which was a spinoff from the Swedish company security company Securitas) who later merged with the Finnish(!) high security lock manufacturer ABLOY. The name ABLOY is actually an acronym. AB Lukkoset Oy, AB = Aktiebolaget (aktie = stock, bolag = company, i.e. a publicly traded company), Lukkoset (Finnish word for locks) and OY = Osakeyhtiö (same as AB but in Finnish, so Osake = stock and Yhtiö = company). You will see this naming convention for most Finnish companies as it's a bilingual country (Swedish and Finnish), so for instance you could call Nokia (which is a Finnish brand) AB Nokia OY, or OY Nokia AB, or even Nokia AB OY or Nokia OY AB.
I don't think ASSA could be a spinoff of Securitas, as ASSA was founded in 1881 and Securitas 50 years later in 1934..? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What I like the most about IKEA's food ? absolutely the meatballs, here in Indonesia they actually have chicken meatballs and beef meatballs , because I dont eat beef the chicken one save me lol. The most part that i like the most is the lingonberry, is that right ?
and for IKEA, while there furniture is somehow "pricey" lol, but the quality is absolutely worth the price. I have 2 cabinets from IKEA for more then 6 years and it is still looks like new
In Egypt we pronounce 'Spotify' just like the Swedish pronunciation
I pronounce 'IKEA' like him, not sure if that's how also the people in my country pronounce it, because first time reading it was written in Arabic and the first Arabic letter 'إ' sounds like the English letter 'e'
Jag tycker du gjorde ett riktigt bra jobb att guida henne i uttalen Oskar!
(translation: Oskar, I think you did a really great job guiding her thorugh the pronounciations!)
I fell in loooveeee with Oskar!!!!
my duolingo swedish skills def paid off when it came to pronouncing some of these correctly, especially fjällräven lmao. i'm australian and decided to learn it because why the hell not, it may be useless considering i'm literally in australia but its fun lol.
Do you know of that aussie guy who has a yt-channel? "Days of learning Swedish and French", something like that.
Oskar is my new favorite 😊
mine too. He is full of charisma....
Assa Abloy makes more than just door locks. They make loading docks for trucks at goods terminals, for example.
Autoliv is also a Swedish company. They make safety features for most leading car brands. Autoliv, as we know it today, was founded in 1997, by merging Autoliv AB with Morton ASP. Their first factory was built in Vårgårda. The company later invented curtain side airbags, active seatbelt (automatically locks before it thinks it will crash), Night Vision in BMWs, pedestrian airbags under the hood, etc.
The inventor for the adjustable wrench and pipe wrench was also born in Vårgårda. He founded Enköpings Mekaniska Verkstad. B.A. Hjort & Company was the distributer for the tools he made under the trademark Bahco.
SAAB even has it's country of origin in its name: Svenska Aeroplan AB (Swedish Aeroplane AB). These madlads made the first jet fighter with a swept back wing (SAAB J29 Tunnan/Barrel aka Flygande Tunnan/Flying Barrel). Later on they decided to try their hand on car manufacturing and they were really good at it, even using the experience they had making fighter jets to make the cars. Night mode in later SAABs are actually a feature first introduced into fighter jets as to not blind the pilot and make flying at night easier. SAABs car business was then run into the ground by GM. Sadly, Konkurrensverket (Swedish Competition Authority) did not allow Christian Von Koenigsegg to buy SAABs car production.
I LOVE THEM BOTH SO MUCH
Lmao she was thinking of Volkswagen 😂
Very good video very funny! I love Ikea and H&M too, but both don't exist here in Brazil. So, I used to shop in these places when I lived in Portugal.
I heard ikea was going to try to expand into South America so you could be lucky
We have H&M in my country but no IKEA sadly. They’re gonna open a store here in a couple years but it will be on the other side of the country and I would have to fly there so no IKEA for me until they come to my city.
Here for my weekly dose of Oskar 🎉he’s adorable
The way she pronounced IKEA at 3:00 was FLAWLESS
Indeed.
Sky seems so genuine and open-minded!
She does not seem genuine.
Here in Indonesia, we say IKEA, Volvo and Spotify like Swedish.
H&M eitch and em or Ha and Em cuz we pronounce H (Ha) in Indonesia
Slug bugs were the original Volkswagen. My first car was a Volvo 122S (A.K.A. Amazon) To this day I love classic RWD Volvos (up through 240 series and maybe 740). Not a fan of the SAABs.
Sounds like you'd like Fredrik Bachman book A man called Ove.
@@LJBSullivan Well I liked Gran Torino. :D
I feel happy after watching this! 😍
My dad was one of the guys that pushed the unions to help households to buy/rent their own computers. He ordered over 100 thousand Hewlett-Packard's/Compaq PC’s.
The girl is so cool and friendly
And the guy is so cute🥲
Good chemistry with these two
As a swede I find this video very interesting to watch.. thank you. x
Lol she meant the 😆 🤣 the Volkswagen for the beetle punch buggie
Hi, I’m Sweden from Oskar
Another video with the lovely sky
Hiii i'm also from sweden and i'm also very proud of all the big companies we have made ^^
Assa Abloy is not a brand it is a company name like Meta. Brands are Assa, Abloy and many other global security brands owned by Assa Abloy. Abloy for instance stands for Aktiebolaget Låsfabriken-Lukkotehdas Osakeytiö and is orginally a Finnish company
Great video. you've remind me of what someone once said❤️ "The mind is the man, the poor is in it and the rich is it too". This sentence is the secret of most successful investors. I once attended similar and ever since then i been waxing strong financially, and i most tell you the truth....
Your way to say fjällräven is soooo funny🤣
Omg, yess the game where you push eachother when we see yellow cars. I had no idea there was a a similar one but for buggy types of cars.
The Abloy part of Assa-Abloy is actually Finnish.
I was surprised that some of the brands (like H&M) were Swedish brands
Hennes&Mauritz
Minifact about H&M: 'hennes' means 'hers' and 'Mauritz' is a male name so 'Hennes & Mauritz' really alludes to the fact that H&M sells clothes for both women and men!
Digital locks are popular in VGR in small cities or villa areas 🙂
Fjällräven is a jacket brand tho, they just kinda made backpacks to brand out. but its a clothing company
Where are they finding these American girls? They are all somewhat clueless, but this gal takes the cake.
Kinda entertaining pair tbh. She's very youthful and clueless, but open-minded, and he comes across as calm, collected, and intelligent. I personally like the contrast between their vibes lol
Americans living in Korea ..
I don’t want to be mean, but her pronunciation of Fjällräven was shameful. She was throwing in letters that aren’t there. Just sound the word out. Even if you don’t know how to deal with umlauts, you can get close.
@@MrBallistico Yeah. Especially when she mentioned on the other video that she took an interest on Swedish culture early on, at least having general an idea of the Swedish language would be given and I was assuming that wouldn't be that big of a challenge for her in guessing Swedish pronunciation. She is pretty clueless lol But that's ok! At least this is a learning situation for her...I'd hope so.
Just regular Americans
Oskar got disappointed that she only knew ikea, but the happy when he realised she goes there to eat meatballs😂
Here, Oskar is very charismatic, charming and likeable.
Great vid as a swede it is really funny to wach! Miss spelled spotify btw!
Sky has to have some swedish genes or something cause her pronunciation was spot on
I use Spotify everyday all day lol and I never knew it's a Swedish brand. Haha Awesome!!! 🇸🇪💗
Husqvarna, Securitas, Ericsson, Tetra Pak, Electrolux, Paradox, Absolut, AstraZeneca, DICE, SCA (look around in bathrooms and you're likely to find paper towels from SCA), Mojäng... there are a lot of big brands/companies out there that people don't necessarily associate with Sweden.
This is fun to watch
The most famous in Brazil are Volvo, Spotify and SAAB, because of the Gripen E!
acording to them its sportify
Ericsson. Perhaps not any longer since there are no more Ericsson Cellphones, but they used to be pretty big in Brazil. Had a few plants in Brazil back in the day at least.
I would like to hear him speaker swedish for more than one word, because to me his accent sounded kinda weird compared ro what i’m used to hearing. (I’m Norwegian so i’ve heard some but not a lot)
Assa is formed from the founder August Stenman. Abloy is a finnish company, originally called "Ab Låsfabriken-Lukkotehdas Oy", where AB means Inc (or Ltd) in Swedish and OY means the same in finnish. The double name in the middle mean "Lock factory" in first swedish, then finnish. This is common practise in Finland, literally it is "Inc Lock factory-lock factory Inc". It was then shortened to AB Lukko OY and shortened again to ABLOY.
Jag älskar hur hon uttalar fjällräven I love it
In German we pronounce H&M in our language, so the "m" sound is like the Swedish and "h" is like "Ha", as if you would laugh, and we speak the & as "und" or shorten it, so it becomes Ha nd Em
The reason why "&" disappears in Swedish is that "och" (and) often is abbreviated into the same sound as in the letter h. Hå-em (hō) and hå-å-em are too similar.
Funny M!
Why is Oskar so cute?? Those eyes are so beautiful.
One of the most used swedish inventions world wide every day is Nils Bolins 3-point seatbelt in cars. Nils was an engineer at Volvo and made an open patent on the belt so everyone can use the design since 1959. It’s called Volvos gift to the world! They could have made BILLIONS but gave it away for free.
The game-studio DICE (Now EA DICE), which develops Battlefield is Swedish. Also have game studios such as Paradox Interactive, Ghost Games (Now EA Gothenburg), Starbreeze Studios behind the Payday franchise, Massive Entertainment.. the list goes on, and on, and on...
I speak Swedish. Guess I'm just here for Oskar haha
Isn't Ericsson (the phone company) also a Swedish brand? Swedish surnames commonly have -son (male) and -dotter (female) in the end, right?
Yea. It is. Ericsson is indeed a Swedish company.
About the names though. Son is a very common ending in Swedish surnames. Dotter (meaning daughter) was used until the big name shift that we had a little more than hundred years ago. Nowadays it’s not or less only found in Iceland. The TH-camr K Klein has a really good video where he talks about it.
Ericsson does not make phones anymore. They provide stuff that enable usage of phones. Telekom.
3:00 is the best pronunciation of "IKEA" I have ever heard from a non-Swedish person.
She was seriously impressive at pronouncing the names.
Swedish is a Germanic language like English , but it is Northern / Nordic like Danish and Norwegian , bring people from Nordic countries to the channel
Ironically, English should technically be Northern Germanic since it's closer linguistically than West Germanic.
@@ThatDamnPandaKai That's not how linguistics works... English is considered a Western Germanic language because its core vocabulary and origins belong to that branch. All the similarities to Northern Germanic languages are due to the influence and loanwords from Vikings who used England as their pillaging playground.
@@ThatDamnPandaKai Exactly.
@@J.o.s.h.u.a. That's an old taxonomy that has stuck, despite proven pretty arbitrary. The original English in the 400s was also Scandinavian, whether we classify it as "west" or "north". It was proto Danes, called Angles and Jutes (after Jylland in Denmark) together with the Saxons (their immediate neigbour, long before any Germany existed) that brough the original "Anglish" language to England. Then in the 800s, an updated version of the language influenced the old, via the Danelaw in the south as well as Norwegian "Viking" settlements in the north.
@@herrbonk3635 I know this, but back when Jutes and Angles were a thing, there were no Northern Germanic languages. If we have to classify English as a Northern Germanic language just because Anglo-Saxons came from Denmark/Northern Germany, then why isn't German considered a Northern Germanic language? Genuine question.
I have most of them down, but fjällräven is pretty difficult for non-Swedes. I know some Danish and Norwegian, so I recognize that the word means “mountain fox,” but the e with umlaut throws English speakers off a bit, and I have been incorrectly pronouncing the “v” like in Danish, I think.
The dots in Swedish letters aren't actually umlauts... in fact if you use that term, a lot of Swedes will look at you confused. Both ö and ä (and also å) are separate letters. They come at the end of the alphabet (so, X Y Z Å Ä Ö). I think what adds to the difficulty for English speakers in this word particularly (in addition to the fj sound) is that the ä in the first half is pronounced differently that the ä in second half. The first sounds more like the e in 'egg' and the second sounds more like the a in 'bat' (due to the first being followed by 2 consonants and the second one being followed by only 1 consonant). I taught a friend to say this word by saying it's like the word 'fell' with a y sound stuck in the middle... and then think of a Toyota RAV 4.
Thanks, Erica! That is very helpful! I knew about the extra letters since I know a little Danish, but Swedish apparently has more of them! (“A” with umlaut was just easier to explain). I didn’t know that the vowel sounded different in the second half than in the first half though, so you have definitely taught me something! For some reason, I find Swedish much more difficult than the other Scandinavian languages. I just can’t seem to get either the pronunciation or the rhythm of it right.
@@allenculpepper9553 I have learned a lot from TH-cam channels like "Fun Swedish" and Peter SFI... also a little from Say It in Swedish (but not as much). Swedish might have more letters, but Danish makes up for it with its 3700 vowel sounds haha! I always called it an umlaut (I'm 1/4 German and 1/4 Swedish), but my Swedish niece always looked at me funny and then I found out that it's not an accent (diacritic) but its own letter. I find ö to be the hardest to say on its own. I can say öl, but just the letter itself is confusing. I've found that I can somewhat read Norwegian as my Swedish has gotten better. I watch a lot of Danish TV, and I can often pick out what they're saying... can definitely hear their accent and know it's Danish!
@@EricaGamet Swedish doesn't have more letters? It has the same amount as both Danish and Norwegian, it's just that Swedish has Ä Ö Å, and the other two have Æ Ø Å, but they are essentially the same, just look different.
@@allenculpepper9553 Danish 'v' is No different from Swedish 'v'. And ö is exactly the same vowel as Danish ø.
Im proud to be a swede. We have very many other big companies and brands too, like Minecraft and Husqvarna. The dynamite was founded by a swede too! His name was Alfred Nobel.
And the Nobel price right?
I think it went kind wrong with Assa Abloy, they are not the biggest in digital door locks, the are still more or less only known for the traditional keys and locks. In Sweden Yale is the most comon private digital lock brand and RCO for companys and comercial use
Yale is a part of Assa Abloy
Only Swedish music I care for is their metal scene. Melodic death metal and Meshuggah. Amon Amarth is cool, haven't listened to much Arch Enemy, and I just got into Soilwork, but Meshuggah is the shit being in my top 5 bands. Wish Opeth stayed in the metal lane, not even having to do death metal, but just keep that heaviness. Candlemass's doom metal song "Solitude" is probably one of the best first-album-first-track introductions to a band I've ever heard.
Swedish metal is the best! Don't forget Sabaton, Brothers of Metal and Hammerfall!
Meanwhile if Singapore hadn't banned Swedish death metal band Watain's concert there in 2019 I probably would've never known that that band existed (the concert was originally allowed with restrictions but the decision was reversed just a few hrs before the concert, with some accusing the gov't of succumbing to pressure from Christian organizations accusing the band/concert of blasphemy/sacrilege)
Ah… a man of culture I see. Yup, melodic death is a Swedish genre with bands like Arch Enemy, Amon Amarth, At the Gates and in Flames. Meshuggah is insanely good but Opeth is my favourite. Blackwater Park is an insane album. Pretty proud to be Swedish when it comes to metal because of how much influence our
@@Basih those bands are whole different category tho. I like Sabaton but power metal isn’t what Sweden excels in, it’s melodic death and progressive stuff.
Skype is not really Swedish! It was developed by one Swede (Niklas Zennström), one Dane (Janus Friis) and 4 Estonians (Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Jaan Tallinn and I believe the fourth was Toivo Annus). Most of the development team and about 45% of Skype's employees are based in Estonia! (Estonia is a very small country that borders Russia to the East, Finland across the Gulf of Finland to the North, Sweden across the Baltic sea to the West and Latvia to the South)
You're really explaining where Estonia is. 😆
proud of our baltic sister
Stolen valor! The Idea of Skype was Danish where Janus Friis had already developed KaZaA. The development was primarily Estonian and Finnish. The Swedish guy was meh just paddling as a co-developper.
I always knew my country had done a lot of good stuff, but it was way more than I thought, especially things that are known worldwide. I'm impressed tbh. I actually started to think that the US was half made by Swedish people since our stuff can be easily popular in us, either that or it is magic in my head😂
Another thing that is Swedish, that is known in the US too, is a candy called Polkagris, or candy canes in English. When I was a kid and saw a lot of Disney cartoons of Santa-loving candy canes, and I thought it was an American candy, but then, when I grew up, I learned it was actually invented by a widowed mother in Sweden during the 1800. And that impressed me the most tbh😳
Assa Abloy - is huge and do actually have a meaning, but it is an abbrevation. The last part, Abloy comes from the finnish part which was merged into the swedish company.