Brit Reacts to SWEDISH VS FINNISH Language Challenge
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ต.ค. 2024
- Who can understand who more? Sweden or Finland?
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The reason the guy in the video does not seem to have the classic swedish rolling "r" sound, is because he is from Skåne. The reason they talk like that in Skåne is beacause Denmark is really close by.
Yes, thank you for pointing this out. Don't emulate his way of pronouncing words too much, or you will end up sounding like our reserve-Danes in the Skåne-region 🤣 (which is not a good thing, mind you hehe)
They were closer than they thought. "Pesukarhu" and "tvättbjörn" both literally translate to "washing bear" or "washer bear". For raccoons can wash their food in water.
Finland has two official languages, finnish and swedish. It is mandatory to learn swedish in school.
Shouldnt have
@@NakkisesonkiWhy not? (Rhetorical question, since you clearly haven't paid attention to your mandatory English classes.. learning one Germanic language gives you an upper hand learning another.) Weak sauce, you.
Yeah but we learn it like the Americans learn Mexican. We don't want to, but it is a compulsary language inherited from the colonial times.
@@LebowskiDudeful "Mexican" as a language sounds nice, in a way... 😹
Yea, they speak spanish(hispañol) at in most Central and Southern American countries.
@@LebowskiDudeful There were no "colonial times". Finland *was* eastern Sweden for many hundreds of years. Just like say Norrland or Götaland were part of Sweden.
Finland didn't become a country and state of its own until about 1917-19, after the Finnish civil war and the Russian bolshevik revolution.
the finnish sentences are in wrong tense quite often in many of these like ""pesurkarhu söi" means a raccoon ate; instead of is eating ("pesurkarhu syö"), pony= poni whereas a horse = hevonen etc.
Definitely that Finns understand Swedish better than the other way around. Finns learn Swedish at school, in the past during the 60s-70s and 80s many Finns also came to Sweden to work, so there was much more integration from the Finnish side to Sweden than the other way around. In addition, you have parts of Finland that are Swedish-speaking (we also have Finnish-speaking parts in Sweden but these are very small), but also those that are mixed, so even if you are not Finno-Swedish (he obviously did not include these but I wonder if maybe the first girls weren't, or at least had a parent who was because their Swedish was a little too good), so if you come from certain parts of Finland, you probably have a friend who is and you pick up a little of the language. Another thing is that Finns know English very well and it is, as you said, easier to understand Swedish as well.
As an Englishman, it is definitely easier for you to learn Swedish compared to Finnish.
It is nice to look at you having fun with languages! I am Finnish and fluent in several languages but at the moment studying basics of Japanese and Korean on my own. And I get these similar kind of feelings while listening and trying to pronounce Japanese and Korean words/sentences myself. And I am so happy when I get right even a word or two! 🙂
In the end of the video you asked about studying languages here in Finland. Most of us have began to study English from the 3rd grade and Swedish from the 7th, so that's one reason our English is usually much better than Swedish. Of course there are other things like internet,. movies etc. that cause English to be everyday foreign language.
Some of those people translated the sentences a little too complicated way. Eg. one of them translated "alien" as "avaruusolio" which is literally a "space creature" which is not short in English either. She could have used word "muukalainen" for alien.
Finns often learn Swedish in school, I think that's why this challenge was easier for them :)
Not often. Always. That is mandatory unless you are native Swedish speaker and then you need to learn Finnish :)
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@@Nakkisesonki ..miksi?
@@-Agis- Sortajat
this swede got a very heavy accent that is more like danish than swedish
Because he is from Skåne..
That finnish sentence ''Mustan kissan paksut posket'' is actually a thing here! It's like test ppl to say it that sentence several times in a row and get good laughs when they get it wrong saying as quickly as possible, I heard you also have a sentence ''she sells sea shells by the sea shore'' thats a tongue twister to me lol
Ahh yes we do have a few tongue twister that does makes sense now you’ve mentioned that sentence. “Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers” is another one LOL!
@@dwaynesviewomg 😂😂
Estonians don't speak Swedish. That's why the girl couldn't really repeat the Swedish sentences unlike the Finns.
I am from Sweden and I think you are doing Great!!
We started learning english in school in Sweden when I was 9 years old, I am 57
Now it feels like my second language!!
Best wishes ❤️
Awesome, as usual. You're the best. Have a pint/coffee, mate!
I will do thank you 😊
His dialect made everything much more difficult, but many Finns speak good Swedish.
seen and heard in this video too, we can swedish
We (Sweden) learn a bit of Finnish in school, but not much.
I know yksi, kaksi, kolemi, neili. And I know that a pint is a Yks Pitke (a long). And of course Voi Vitto, Ruotso, Sauna, Suomi, Perkele, and some other random words.
Finns, because of history have mandatory classes of Swedish, but many don't remember much, much like my skills at German and French
Yksi, kaksi, kolme, neljä..yks pitkä, voi vittu, Ruotsi.. otherwise quite right ❤
@@-Agis- Kinda proves my point though. We have a tiny bit of knowlege of Finnish, but not near the knowlege Finns have of Swedish.
And I know that my spelling is bad, it's because I've only heard the words
True. Probably due to historical reasons, too. Finns often tend to ignore, dismiss or succumb to ignorace when faced with the facts that what we call "Finland" today was not that that long ago actually Sweden's eastern backyard..for more than half a millennium. Then came the Russians, made us their western backyard.
I don't care, you're all welcome. Come speaking English, Finnish, Swedish..Swahili or just flailing your arms, door's open, but come with bad intentions and attitude and you'll end up not enjoying your day very much.
That's our lagom, our sisu, our jäntelagen (sorry Danish people if I butchered the word..)
Point is, we are all brothers..like it or not ❤
@@-Agis- I believe it's Jantelaven in Danish, Jantelagen in Swedish.
But yeah, we love you too, even though you suck at Ice Hockey ;)
That wasnt reaally fare ...😂 we are all learning at least some basics of swedish at school... 😅
Hi! Funny video!
At school in Sweden (40 years ago for me 😂) we had to learn english quite early, but in seventh grade we had to choose between german or french as a third language. I choosed german but can't remember a word...
But in Finland they are learning swedish in school 👍
The German phrase was “I have a big TH-cam channel” 😅
😂 I thought he would say TH-cam. I only hear I have a big … lol
It gets a little wrong when the guy with the mic is from the Skåne region in Sweden. In Skåne, rolling R is not used, so it will be a little difficult for the Finns to understand
This was fun to watch! I'm actually really bad at Swedish but I'm really good at English, sometimes even better than Finnish lol even if it's my language , we learn Swedish in school and English too but I was always so bad at Swedish lol, I know some words and can imitate the accent but can't talk properl it lol , I think this challenge was so easy for Finns cos it looked like a lot that they filmed this in Helsinki! Can't wait to see you learn more Finnish :) There's also funny British guy oin youtube called Dave Cad, he moved to Finland and has done a lot Finnish sayings reactions like there's book called matti kukkarossa, it shows finnish funny sayings and then them to english, that is funny :) I recommend to watch some of his vids, it's great that i have now 2 fav youtubers who likes Finland and also are english speakers :) thanks for another awesome vid :)
That las sentence is really "Marssissa on elämää". There was also some other miss translations, but close. U had nice pronunciation!
Finnish must be the hardest language to learn. And I played in a band that sung in finnish, I had no clue what we sang about. I'm Swedish
LOL so you were singing in a language you didn’t know. That’s interesting 😂
Maybe its just me 😀 we were punkrockers. I was the drummer and we all know about the drummers 😆
@@pvakt I always thought someone should name a punkband aivokuume.
It's certainly among the hardest European languages, especially for the majority of Europeans whose native language is Indo-European. Finnish is nothing much for a native Estonian, though, so it's always relative. I have heard Polish or Czech, for example, are very challenging as well. If you go outside of Europe, Finnish is nothing special. Funnily enough the pronunciation/spelling in Finnish is actually infinitely easier than in English, and a lot easier than in Swedish as well, despite English and also Swedish generally speaking being much easier languages to learn. So, it's not like everything about Finnish would be difficult (just most of it).
@@SorbusAucubaria We were close to that name =)
Swedish has prepositions like English. Finnish has postpositions.
Swedish uses some postfix grammar too (even English do, although much less).
Like dam = lady, damen = the lady, damer = ladies, damerna = the ladies, damernas = the ladies'.
Prepositions aren't unknown to Finnish either. For example "ennen" = "before".
"Tule ennen kolmea." = Come before three o'clock.
Swedish and english are not only related, a huge number of "vikings" especially danes settled in england and actually changed the english language. English is basically partially a creole language (also mixed with gaelic and dutch and lots of words with french origin).
Not sure why it's not talked about more. On the contrary, it's downplayed.
Some of the Finnish sentences were written incorrectly, such as "Mustan kissan paksut posket" and "Marsissa on elämää". 🤷♂️
I had a Finnish-Swedish friend in my youth. If she was in a bad mood or depressed, there was a perfect and simple way to help her.
I said to her: If I don't get a smile soon, I will start speaking Finnish. The thing is, it's practically impossible for a Swede to get the pronunciation right in Finnish. Every time I tried, she laughed so hard she almost peed herself.
A lot of finns can speak swedish as it was a part of sweden before.
It is mandatory at school.
Heh, he didn't probably know that finnish people are learning swedish in school😂
Many Finns and also some Swedes get the common history of the two countries a bit wrong. No doubt there were Swedish colonies in Finland starting from the 1200's - there is even an entire region still existing, Uusimaa, in Swedish Nyland and in English literally New Land, which has gotten its name in the same way as New York.
However, these colonies were formed in areas that had been uninhabited before. Finland is still 75% forest and in the Viking ages the figure must have been around 99%. The country was so thinly populated it is difficult to understand nowadays. It was a frontier; anyone could claim hunting land in the remote regions and then settle there.
Before the Swedish colonies appeared on the mainland, Åland islands had long been Swedish. However, how Finland became Sweden was not through the colonies but the church. Before the colonies, Finland had turned to Christianity and the congregations that were formed were under the same bishop as Sweden; Finland got its own bishop only later in Turku. In 1249 in an agreement between the bishop of Turku and the kingdom of Sweden, part of the church tax was donated to the Swedish state. This made every Christian Finn a Swedish citizen overnight, if that had not been clear before.
There is no sign of any kind of battles or fundamental disagreements between the Swedes and the Finns at that time, before or after. (The Norwegian Vikings tried to conquer Finland around the year 1008 without any success, but there is no such information of any battles agains the Swedes.) From 1249 until 1809 Finland was an integral part of Sweden, with the right to vote for the king as long as Sweden had elected kings, and with every right for the Finns that the Swedes had. Finland was Sweden.
Hi Dwayne! You're much better at pronouncing the words than the participants! 👍
It is off course easier for the finish. Swedish is second language in Finland. But in Sweden we dont know mutch finnish. Sweden was collonized Finland and have for long time seen finish people kind of under the swedish.
I'm here for the Finnish content
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Last one should've been a fiver, my bad..
Thank you so much for the support! That’s so kind of you. I really appreciate it :)
Soumi is very close to Eesti, but also Magyar.
I had 2 friends actually having a conversation, one spoke Soumi and the other Magyar, and they understood eachother quite ok.
Sure they used Svenska and English and maybe some Deutch as a crutch.
The Finnish and Estonian national anthems are actually the same song, but different lyrics, it also has Swedish lyrics (known as kungssången/the Kings sång).
I'm surprised by that because Finnish and Hungarian are reeeeaally different, despite the common roots.
Hungary is a completely different country politically, economically, religiously, culturally and geographically.
Every Finn need to learn some Swedish. Second girl have skipped the classes. Perhaps she is from the Eastern Finland when coastal and Northern Finnish understands Swedish the mist people can speak ok.
good stuff
Swedish and Finnish language do not share a common ancestry, which is why they are so different even though they're neighbors.
Finish belongs to the Uralic languages. Together with Hungarian, Estonian and many smaller languages. There are 38 living Uralic languages.
Swedish is part of the North-Germanic branch, of the Indo-European family-tree. There are about 445 Indo-European languages. Including English, Spanish, Russian, Hindi, Bengali, Persian and many others.
Oh-no, I have gotten myself interested in languages now. But there are over 7000 current languages today.😵💫
To ease you on Finish languae another Nordic language, its a totaly different language!
Our history, is that Finland was conquerd and was Swedens east part, for at least 700 years!
Another topic that nobody tell you is thats now northen sweden, was the land of finns and Samis!
They got assimilated.. they was put in Swedish schollar system.. to become swedish speaking citicens!
However, after we lost finland to Russia, they become a Grand dutchy of Russia, the elite was still swedish, they actualy increse there trade to sweden in that period!
In anyway, Finish language is an finno-ugrian languege, (sami fits in there to, but with 3000 years behind), its no conection to germanic or slavic languages, there cousins is Estonia, and there long lost ancestry is Hungarian!
Its easy to learn a Finish words.. the problem is, one have to learn all the 14-15 causes of that word!
In English and swedish (norse languages) we use 3 causes, sometimes a fourth for old words!
However, there is a lot finns living in sweden and they altso have there own comunitys/clubs.. most of them is "swedish speakers", and at Åland, all of ther population is "Swedes", but finnish citicens!
Its this, in finish its get a lot of letters, becuse of there 14-15 causes, they put at the end of words, so it means somthing!
In English you use "The" in swedish and Norse, we put it in the end of words, still tre causes sometimes four!
But Finns use 14-15 causes at the end!
I wish people would stop saying Finland was conquered by Sweden. What is now Finland was mostly wilderness back in the viking times and the villages that were near the shore often got raided by vikings from Sweden and Denmark. Finland eventually grew to be a part of Sweden and stayed that way for 700 years. What Russia did to Finland in the war that literally ripped it away from Sweden, THAT was conquering - with full-on mass murder, raping and the likes. Even if Finns like to complain about "the old Swedish days", being under Russia's heel for however brief was way worse.
Dwayne is such a dope ass name. Dave and Wayne is kinda meh, but combine the two to Dwayne and it sounds cool.
Finish is like Estonia and hungary
I love finland an and The girls 🇸🇪🇫🇮
The young girl said she is Estonian
Dwayne, just so you know; this can be a very sensitive/volatile subject. Tread carefully 😅
😂 I know I can see some of the comments 👀. It’s a tender subject lol! Both countries are proud of their language.
@@dwaynesview It goes both ways. There have been times when people from Finland have been prohibited from speaking their native tongue in Swedish schools, and living in fear and having to wear an armband marking you as a Swede in Finland. Truth is, we've shared this land since pre-historical times, long before colonialism, kingdoms or republics...
Generally we still manage to keep it civil..and we all have the same blood on our hands what Sami people concern. That litte inconvenient truth very few people consider.. almost all of northern Fennoscandia was inhabited by Sami people before written history.
The first recorded historical facts mentioning Finland probably refer to lands inhabited by Sami people. To the south-west was the Swedes/Nords, to the south-east the Fenno-Ugric tribes..
This is borderlands 🇫🇮🖖🏻
that "tosi" on the sweaty part should have been "erittäin" cause it might be a spoken version but its the same as saying "wacha name?" instead of "what is your name"
that pony part it should actually be "ponilla" not "hevosella" cause hevonen is a horse not a pony
lol you said what translates to "foam poop" when you tried to say "vaahtokarkki"
the cat part was a Finnish tongue twister but the word "paksut" is actually thick and not big
mars bit was written wrong it should be "marssissa on elämää"
Dave cad english dude living in finland have some 😊
You deserve it 😉
Thank you so much, I’m happy you like the videos Agaton 😊
Think again. Finnish word are spelled as written / written as spelled....not so in swedish. As one swedish teacher in sweden said it " spell the swedish words as it feels better because it is different from time to time , the alphbet is not followed. " In other words learn swedish as a parrot by mimicing the others or be laughed at......LOL true
Vi ska ha fest ikväll ( "fest" fisit = farted )
Vi ska ha fässt ikväll ( fässt = tie up )
Pidämme illalla juhlat
... Vi är hjältar i vår tid ( vår = spring )
... Vi är jälltar i vår tid
... Olemme aikamme sankareita ...... tid=aika , hjälte= sankari , i vår tid= ajassamme , vi är = olemme , du är = olet
Jag är väldigt svettig
Jag är väldit svätti
Olen tosi hikinen
... Den där hästen har ett horn
... Dänn där hässtän har ätt horn ...................... ( ätt = familyline )
... Tuolla hevosella on sarvi
En mördare är bakom dig .................................( en = juniper tree )
Änn mördarä är bakam dei
Takanasi on murhaaja.
... Vi kommer definitivt vinna Sverige - Finland landskampen
... Vi kammär däfinitivt vinna Svärrjä - Finnland landskamppän
... Me todellakin voitetaan Ruotsi - Suomi maaottelu
Jag skulle vilja hoppa som en groda
Jag skullä villja happa samm än groda
Haluaisin hypätä kuin sammakko
... Pizza med ananas är bättre
... Pizza med annanas är bätträ
... Pitsa ananeksella on parempi
Du har något i dina tänder ................................( tänder = lightens , ignites )
Du har någåt i dina tänndär
Sinulla on jotain hampaissasi
... Du har något mellan tänderna
... Du har någåt mällan tänndärna
... Sinulla on jotain hampaitten välissä
En spindel äter en kopp jordnötssmör
Änn spinndäl äter änn kapp jordnötssmör
Hämähäkki syö kupin maapähkinävoita
... Min katt har ett långt skägg .............................. min = face expression
... Minn katt har ätt långt chägg
... Kissalani on pitkä parta
En tvättbjörn äter en marshmallow i ett träd .................. ( träd in = go in , träd fram = step forth )
Änn tvättbjörn äter änn marshmallow i ätt träd
Pesukarhu syö marshmallowia puussa
... Svart katts stora kinder
... Svaddh katts stora chinndärr
... Mustan kissan isot posket
En utomjording gick till ett flygplan .... flygplan = flying plane /etage
Änn utamjording jikk till ätt flykplan
Avaruusolio meni lentokoneelle
... En utomjording åkte till ett flygplan
... Änn uyomjording åkte till ätt flygplan
... Avaruusolio kulki lentokoneelle
Det liv på mars
Det är liiv på massh
Marsilla on elämää
... Det är liv inuti marsh
... Det är liiv innuti massh
... Marsissa on elämää
Swedish sounds easy because English language is as close to Swedish as Finnish to it’s closest relative Estonian lamguage
I do not like that Swedish guy because he sounds racist
No wondering, becourse Finnish people has to learn so called Swedish in school, but its not common Swedish, its Swedish/ Finnish, not same you talk in Sweden.
In Sweden you has right to read Finnish, only if it talked in your home, not forcering , like they do in Finland whit "Swedish" langues..
This is biggest reason Finnish people doesnt want to talk Swedish, even they can...
Very hard language
Oh you are from a Nordic country, almost. Swedish is very closely related to English, Finnish to Sámi, you inow, the European Indians, the indigenous.
😂
Moi moi its hai
Finnish subtitles were wrong..