@@naurbrannon I've never heard "å" being used instead of "att". It's common to say "å" instead of "och" and "ja" instead of "jag" and "dej/mej/sej" instead of "dig/mig/sig"." Ja ska gå å bada med dej" is spelled "Jag ska gå och bada med dig"
Learning a language in theory is far different than how you use it in practice! That’s why it’s important to meet native speakers because they’ll help you adopt the everyday or, as you aptly said, “street” version of the language.
When I was in Sweden I couldn't practice my language with locals, as they would hear the accent and immediately switch to english 😅 I couple of times though I replicated the accent so well that they would start responding in swedish, but it was sooo fast that I had to ask them myself to switch to english, cause I couldn't understand them at all
Jag bor i Norge, men jag förstår svenska, svenska är för svårt att uttala för mig, jag råkar säga de flesta orden på norska. Det irriterar mig så mycket, men jag försöker prata bort honom, men det funkar tyvärr inte för mig. Du är en riktigt bra person att lära dig svenska.
To make it more confusing, there are dialectal differences: Written Swedish: Jag är Stockholm dialect: Ja e Some other dialects: Ja ä Written Swedish: Vad är det? Stockholm dialect: Va e de? Some other dialects: Va ä dä? You can say a whole sentence and only using vowels in "spoken Swedish": "I åa ä e ö" - which means something like "In the creek there is an island". If we spell it correctly (but with somewhat flawed grammar) the sentence is: "I ån är en ö".
Written Swedish: Bilder Archaic Swedish: Bilæter Scanian: Bilder Written Swedish: Det är Archaic Swedish: Det væra Scanian: Dä Written Swedish: Min älskling Archaic Swedish: Min unna Scanian: Min kääaste Trust me, I hate that I can give countless examples of this. As a speaker of a Scanian dialect known as Jyŋe, which only have 2 living spoken relatives, Listerländska in Blekinge and Morupekanska in Halland. In Swedish my Dialect is known as Göingska. I use words like yvon(ögon) or ygsa(yxa), haw(Hav), hawe(Hage), hvo/hvim(Vem), gæda(gissa), gida(orka), gyda(gjuta), maðk(mask), etc. It's not weird for me to have to talk Standard Swedish to people who don't speak like me, some Scanian words everyone understands, such as rullebör, but as soon as I say, træa de har rødnad sá mød ad hiwar mann ygsan sá gár den gønom. And voilà I lost everyone. Han ær leðer mod meg og jag ær redigt trætter å ham. I understand why Danish people hate old Scanian. And why Swedes find it impossible to understand. I finge ygsor i huweðana sina(They got axes in their heads).
@@livedandletdie Interesting! I was totally unawere of this. Gida = orka seems to have a cognate in Norwegian. I think a phrase like "Jeg gidder ikke" means "Jag orkar inte" or "Jag ids inte" . In English something like "I don't bother..."
And it can be expanded upon even further, for example. Written Swedish: Vad är det? My dialect, emphasis 1: Va ä de? (Va ä DE?) My dialect, emphasis 2: Va ärä? (Va Ärä?)
Written Swedish: Jag är Stockholm dialect: Ja e Some other dialects: Ja ä Jamsk dialect : Je e Written Swedish: Vad är det? Stockholm dialect: Va e de? Some other dialects: Va ä dä? Jamsk dialect: Va e´n denn
In Finland we are taught muminsvenska at school and I didn't want to learn it when I was a teen. I learned to love Swedish when I started to watch svenska movies. The culture as well as the language. 😍 Now I try to learn the language and it's nice that we have everything in our country in both languages. For example all the food packages, signs, literally everything. I've also watched Paradise Hotell Sverige to learn. 😀 So the words I know are those on the series like " Brev!!! " and " Pandora's ask." 🙈 There are like 13 seasons to watch so. 😎😀 In Finnish we have so many Swedish related words for example " ask " is " aski " in Finnish so this should be easy... Right...?
As a French person who has been learning Swedish for about 14 years now, I've actually gotten pretty good at this! In French, we do this a LOT. Lol. Some letters when in certain spots are even meant not to be pronounced, etc.
I've lost my pronunciation skill but when I return to study the swedish language again it'll be a priority. Because the swedish language spoken it's really nice to hear!
@@FunSwedish Also, when I went looking for Swedish songs to exercise my listening skills, I looked for old Swedish military songs, yes it's my unusual musical taste :v, and listened to them, I found them one of the most beautiful to listen to among the military songs of all countries, especially for the voice of the choir and of course how the Swedish language sounds in this musical style. The pitch of the language is formidable and heroic to listen to.
What confuses people a lot is when we just kind of suck in some air to say yes 😂 in the north of Sweden we just kind of inhale sharply while mouthing “ja”. Some say it as ja some say it as jå some say it as jo 😂
Essentially what I get from this is to relax your mouth and let the words flow out without too much concern for proper pronunciation. Makes sense.....I don't speak perfect English all day.
Really good! I'm looking forward to learning more. I'm a Swedish-American who is trying to get back in touch with the language of my recent relatives. 🇺🇲 & 🇸🇪.
I watched this because I grew up in Minnesota in United States which was heavily settled by Swedish and Norwegians... so I KNEW I would hear a similarity in how we pronounce vowel sounds, even though I am speaking English!! Making them all so loooonngg haha. Made me smile:) Thanks!
@@FunSwedish What the movie "Fargo". The Swedish actor Peter Stormare is in it. Then you can hear the MinnesOOOtan's dialekt. A lot of "Ya you betcha" and such. Probably getting the "Ya" from Swedish word for "yes" = Ja..
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For once in my life I found a list of 10 things I actually knew already. This is up there with getting 100/100 in a maths test when I was 10. I'm going to need 10 different ones when you have time please Fun Swedish. And thank you SO much for the unintended confidence boost; I was just what I needed during a difficult time! Warmest wishes to you!
Legendary Swedish pop band ABBA is the reason that I started taking interest in learning Swedish language. I already speak German and see similarities between the two languages, both belong to Germanic language family. Despite the tricky pronunciation, Swedish is easier and sounds so beautiful.
A fun shortcut to a sentence that becomes completely understandable in some Swedish regions is "I ån så finns det en ö" ,(In the river there is an island) which can be pronounced as a single word with only vowels "iåaäeö" .. My music teacher taught me that many years ago :)
Thanks for this! ❤️My cousin is going to be very impress the next time we video chat! I’m a native English speaker trying to learn Swedish to be able to speak to them!
Finally found a channel to help me with Swedish. Just started a few days ago and getting some grammar books soon has right now I am practicing with Duolingo but I want to incorporate other learning techniques for it. jag tycker om detta videon en mycket ( super bad swedish lol ) tack så mycket för videon
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Weirdly, I learned the 'och' becoming an 'o' from being at the current Women's Euros football (even more weirdly it's one of the first things I learned in Swedish). Sweden have played 2 games in my city and I have been to both (some of the best experiences of my life and what has made me now want to learn Swedish). Talking to some fans they taught me the "gul och blå" chant as "gul o blå." When I searched yellow and blue it came up as gul och blå and I realised that it gets shortened to o.
This channel is great! I’m a native Swede with a Spanish-speaking fiancé, so I tend to check all videos for accuracy before linking them to him. The only thing in this video I feel might be slightly irrelevant to him, is the “är = é”, since I’m from Gothenburg and think that one mostly applies to the Stockholm region. ☺️ Over here on the west coast, we would use more of an open ”ä”. ”Dä-ä bra”. (Probably better to learn your east coast version. 😅) Verkligen en suverän TH-cam channel, ser fram emot fler videos! 👌👍
Åh vad fint! Vi känner oss hedrade och blir jätteglada att du godkänner oss och visar för din fiancé (trots stockholmskan). Tusen tack! P.S. Förstår "kritiken". Vi önskar att vi också pratade göteborska! Vi älskar dialekten! Tur att din fiancé har dig i alla fall för att få den dialekten ;)
Tack så mycket!!! Very useful video! Oh and there are so many dialects in Sweden! Some people speaks so clear and understandable but, for example, some Swedes from the North do it completely opposite 😂
LOL... I am from the north of sweden and for me it is very difficult to understand people in the far south (skåne). I sometimes wish they would speak english so I could understand what they are saying.
Glad it was helpful! There are quite a few dialects in Swedish. We will do a video talking about the differences between them at some point in the future 😁
I feel like many of these examples are very "Stockholmska" or from around that region. For example, I would never pronounce "är" like "é" or "det" like "dé". In my part of Sweden I'm pretty sure most people say "ä" and "dä", i.e. we prononuce "de (they)" and "det (it)" differently ("De" and "dä" respectively). Also, the shortened form of "något" is spelled "nåt". "Nått" is the past form of "nå", which means "reach" or "arrive at".
wikipedia has a page on stockholm-e which also mentions stockholmsrim some examples are like 100 years old though. or maybe specific parts of stockholm
Just started learning Svenska, what an amazing language, there's nothing in Portuguese (My mother language) that helps me in it, but a lot of similarities in English
Arbetar du som lärare? Tycker du gör ett väldigt bra jobb på att lära ut. När man ser andra lära ut saker än de lärare man själv hade under skoltiden förstår man vikten av att ha lite flyt och få en bra engagerad lärare. Kan vara skillnaden på att inte lära sig nått och bli riktigt duktig.
Tack så jättemycket. Kul att höra att du tycker det. Det är vår metod. Jobbar för språkskolan ELANS där alla lärare lägger mycket fokus på att det ska kännas roligt att lära sig något nytt. Håller med dig att det kan göra stor skillnad om man har en engagerad lärare eller inte. elansutbildning.com/sprakkurser-for-foretag/
And here I am speaking Spanish, a language that does not shorten any word but can always lengthen and lengthen in thousands of sentences something that can be said with 5 words (and in Swedish with 1 letter 🤣🤣)
Thank you for your lessons. I thought I should tell you in English the word “letter” doesn’t have a pause between the syllables and has no hard or thick t sound but has a very soft d-ish sound.
I went Down the rabbit hole...anyway...i found 1 thing she was missing infront of her hehe. She said ett roligt barn.. listen to her saying it again and again, she say like we other swedes, ett rol-it barn
Wow, that was a really nice compliment because Lucy is awesome (I think I am not as good as her) but very kind of you to say it. Vad kul att du gillade lektionen!
The RS thing in the video is mostly not applicable for the southern parts of Sweden. In the south we usually pronounce the name Anders with an R and a S. Actually it's pronounced like AndORS where the E has changed into an O. Not Ander-SH or Ande-SH. In some parts in the southern of Sweden there are a mute R and then the name is pronouned like AndeS. Don't worry. There are no spoken standard Swedish. Only written standard Swedish. "Fun Swedish" is good. Don't try to develop your own accent. Just stick to the teacher, she is really good if you want to learn Swedish.
Ja is pronounced very different due to the many dialects. Many people in southern Sweden says ja, as in written Swedish, and in northern Sweden it’s more common to hear jo - instead of ja.
Exactly! The look a lot alike but we say it differently. It takes extra brain power to say it diferently when it is so similar to a word you already are used to 😅
It’s a very big difference how people speak in Sweden due to dialect. Northern swedes and southern swedes can have a really hard time to understand each other sometimes.
You say ”When we speak really, really fast...” I’d say we skip these words and letters almost always. ”Jag är hungrig” becomes ”Ja’e hungri” even when I speak slow or normal.
I used to practice Norwegian on memrize. They have a section of their lessons called learn with locals. Some of those people who say things talk so fast you have no idea what they're saying. Even though the thing they are saying is supposed to be something you are learning in that very lesson!
The jump to spoken language is always rough 😅 In any language I think. But necessary. Otherwise its hard to communicate in real life. But hopefully this rules make it easier 😁
It's an amazing video, really!! It helps a lot to be in contact with the way people really speaks when we are so stuck in pronouncing every silable while we're learning. Some doubts came to my mind: the sentence "vad är det?" can be "vad är den?" in some cases? And the answer to both can be "det är" or "den är" depending to the question? It has something to do with the "ett ord / en ord" rule?
Well... for the question in this specific case its limited to "Vad är det?" Because your dont know what the thing is :P So you cant decide if its "en" or "ett". So it defaults to "det". For the answer yes! Depending on what the thing is, it might be "Det är..." or "Den är...". "Det är" for ett words. And "Den är" for en words.
@@FunSwedish oh thank you very much for the answer. It was so helpful! Can I make another question then? When you don't know what you're talking about is always "det"? Someone said once in duolingo that when you're presenting something, like "det är kvinnans tidning" (from duolingo), you always use "det" as well. Is that correct? I can't understand this example...
@@FunSwedish I think we normally start the answer of a "Vad är det?"-question with a "Det är ..." also when the thing is an "en"-thing. "Det är en grönsak". After that we can start talking about it as "den".
Thank you! :) We are a group of people behind the instagram page so I should not have the whole credit but I am glad you like our content and that it helps you learn Swedish
Haha, ops! 😂 Of course, the plural "you" Sorry about that. Anyway, thank YOU for the nice comments. It really makes us happy and inspire us to do more content for you. Have a great day! ❤
Also, the word ATT is mostly pronounced as O or actually Å. Jag ska ringa (för) att fråga/Jag ska gå (för) att handla. Many Swedes make this mistake in writing, because they think it is OCH, but in fact it is "för att" = to that is being used in abbreviated form.
4:28 - "Vad. Sa. Du." ... that actually sounds a bit threating. When somebody says it just like that, either apologize real quick (if it is your spouse) or run (if it is a stranger).
Ahh so they're doing the cheeky blending technique too. As a Brit, I can say "what are you doing?" But say it like "whatcha doin'?" And the "How are you doing?" Probably just ends up being "you alright?"/"How's it been?" Or just other typical bits
Does "r" get dropped from "var" in the same manner as "d" disappears from "vad"? If yes, how do we know the difference between "Vad är det? (what is it) and "Var är det" (where is it) in spoken Swedish?
@@FunSwedish That was my impression as well, I almost never hear whole "vad", just "va", however I think I hear the "r" in the end of "var" more often. Thank you!
I wondering about the dropping of ending "g" sounds. I was at Riksarkivet in Visby, investigating my family. When the attendant pronounced one of my family names, "Sandberg," it sounded more like "Sandberi," like the g was not dropped but was a barely-there y sound. Is that similar, is it another dynamic, or did I mis-hear? These are so helpful, by the way!
Somtimes G sounds like J like in "berg". Many family names end with "berg". Berg is actually "mountain". In "stege" (ladder) the G sounds like G as in the English "give"
I’ve been using Duolingo to start learning Swedish (English speaker) and I am frustrated by Duolingo (probably not a surprise). But I was on the questions lessons, and specifically am having trouble with the word Which. To my understanding Vilka =singular/en, Vilket =singular/ett, and Vilken= plural. However, in the lesson, the “correct” translation for “Which plate is mine?” Was ”Vilken tallrik är min?”, but the translation for “Which books are you reading?” Was “Vilka böcker läser du?” And to me this makes no sense. In the first sentence, plate is a singular en word, so the answer should be Vilka. And in the second, books is plural so the answer should be Vilken. Am I just not grasping the grammar or is Duolingo wrong? Also your videos are amazing thank you for sharing your knowledge with the internet!!!
For clarification 😊. VilkeN is for singular (en-words). VilkeT is for singular (ett-words). VilkA is for plural. A good way to remember is that the -n and -t in the end come from the "gender". The "-t" from "Ett" also gets attached to adjective Fin -> FinT. More detailed explanations on that in this video th-cam.com/video/w_Yrfx1nHLw/w-d-xo.html
@@FunSwedish Ahhhh! Of course 🤦 No wonder nothing made sense. That’s the think about Duolingo I’ve been frustrated with, there are no “lessons” that actually explain the grammar rules, you just learn as you go and have to figure out the rules via noticing the patterns. Thanks for your help!
@@jessiweaver8139 yeah, that is the negative side of Duolingo 😅. A combination of both, some of the rules and the repetition for sure speeds up your learning like x10 rather than only having the repetition part. Maybe you could try out our video courses. Those have all the "structure" of a lesson you need with some funny and useful examples as well 😁. elans.teachable.com/
Interesting video! I dont really agree with your "att-example" though. I'ts more like we cut off the first letter of the next word. "Att du" becomes "attu" and "att hon" becomes "atton". At least I think that "a hon" (from "att hon") sounds wierd :)
Good point! In those words you mention it is more like a "attu". I agree. Some of our students say that they hear an "a" or example in the sentence "Ja' tycke' a' de' e' bra (Jag tycker att det är bra). But it can also be a dialectal thing :)
@@FunSwedish Hello! Good video overall. :) I came to leave a similar nerdy comment. It may seem like the T is silent, but it actually molds with/is pronounced together with the following consonant in these examples. Like in "att ni", T and N have the tounge in the same position, and for "att du", the D actually loses its tone and becomes a T (just like tisdag is pronounced "tista" because the D is next to an S which doesn't have a tone). So the T in att doesn't disappear, if you have a word with a vowel after it absolutely doesn't. Like "Jag tycker att ostron är gott" (i think that oyster is tasty) you HAVE to say the T. Bästa hälsningar, Language nerd and teacher in Swedish as a second language
@@FunSwedish An even nerdier point - the reason why we say tista and not tisDa is because it's hard to pronounce a consonant with tone (like D) next to a consonant without tone (like S), so we skip the tone in D and say "st". Some languages fix the problem the other way around and ADD a tone so the S becomes Z. That's why some people learning Swedish may say "tiZDa" instead of "tiSTa". Both of them are easier to pronounce than "tiSDa" anyway where you add a tone mid-consonant. I love phonetics. :D
Which one has confused you the most before?
De!! That drives me nuts! I cannot wrap my head around it being pronounced “dom”.
My friends use "å" instead of "att" while writing, is it also spoken like that in some places?
Någon något is super confusing
@@naurbrannon I've never heard "å" being used instead of "att". It's common to say "å" instead of "och" and "ja" instead of "jag" and "dej/mej/sej" instead of "dig/mig/sig"." Ja ska gå å bada med dej" is spelled "Jag ska gå och bada med dig"
@@goldynn1 same, I was so surprised when I first came across it because I had previously figured that Swedish was a pretty phonetic language
Learning a language in theory is far different than how you use it in practice! That’s why it’s important to meet native speakers because they’ll help you adopt the everyday or, as you aptly said, “street” version of the language.
Very true!
Agree !
Thats why I like this content.
you dont need to meet natives just watch TH-cam
When I was in Sweden I couldn't practice my language with locals, as they would hear the accent and immediately switch to english 😅 I couple of times though I replicated the accent so well that they would start responding in swedish, but it was sooo fast that I had to ask them myself to switch to english, cause I couldn't understand them at all
Jag bor i Norge, men jag förstår svenska, svenska är för svårt att uttala för mig, jag råkar säga de flesta orden på norska. Det irriterar mig så mycket, men jag försöker prata bort honom, men det funkar tyvärr inte för mig. Du är en riktigt bra person att lära dig svenska.
I have so much respect for individuals who are fluent in more than one language. I hope one day I will consider myself bilingual.
Stick with it and you will!
My sister speaks 7 languages. I speak 3 . We learned them at a very young age.
To make it more confusing, there are dialectal differences:
Written Swedish: Jag är
Stockholm dialect: Ja e
Some other dialects: Ja ä
Written Swedish: Vad är det?
Stockholm dialect: Va e de?
Some other dialects: Va ä dä?
You can say a whole sentence and only using vowels in "spoken Swedish": "I åa ä e ö" - which means something like "In the creek there is an island". If we spell it correctly (but with somewhat flawed grammar) the sentence is: "I ån är en ö".
Written Swedish: Bilder
Archaic Swedish: Bilæter
Scanian: Bilder
Written Swedish: Det är
Archaic Swedish: Det væra
Scanian: Dä
Written Swedish: Min älskling
Archaic Swedish: Min unna
Scanian: Min kääaste
Trust me, I hate that I can give countless examples of this.
As a speaker of a Scanian dialect known as Jyŋe, which only have 2 living spoken relatives, Listerländska in Blekinge and Morupekanska in Halland. In Swedish my Dialect is known as Göingska.
I use words like yvon(ögon) or ygsa(yxa), haw(Hav), hawe(Hage), hvo/hvim(Vem), gæda(gissa), gida(orka), gyda(gjuta), maðk(mask), etc.
It's not weird for me to have to talk Standard Swedish to people who don't speak like me, some Scanian words everyone understands, such as rullebör, but as soon as I say, træa de har rødnad sá mød ad hiwar mann ygsan sá gár den gønom. And voilà I lost everyone. Han ær leðer mod meg og jag ær redigt trætter å ham. I understand why Danish people hate old Scanian. And why Swedes find it impossible to understand. I finge ygsor i huweðana sina(They got axes in their heads).
@@livedandletdie Interesting! I was totally unawere of this. Gida = orka seems to have a cognate in Norwegian. I think a phrase like "Jeg gidder ikke" means "Jag orkar inte" or "Jag ids inte" . In English something like "I don't bother..."
And it can be expanded upon even further, for example.
Written Swedish: Vad är det?
My dialect, emphasis 1: Va ä de? (Va ä DE?)
My dialect, emphasis 2: Va ärä? (Va Ärä?)
Wish Duolingo include this, lol.
Written Swedish: Jag är
Stockholm dialect: Ja e
Some other dialects: Ja ä
Jamsk dialect : Je e
Written Swedish: Vad är det?
Stockholm dialect: Va e de?
Some other dialects: Va ä dä?
Jamsk dialect: Va e´n denn
Once we know something exists, we can hear and understand it! Tack så mycket for revealing those little secrets! 😄
That's true! Hope it helps in the future :)
In Finland we are taught muminsvenska at school and I didn't want to learn it when I was a teen. I learned to love Swedish when I started to watch svenska movies. The culture as well as the language. 😍 Now I try to learn the language and it's nice that we have everything in our country in both languages. For example all the food packages, signs, literally everything. I've also watched Paradise Hotell Sverige to learn. 😀 So the words I know are those on the series like " Brev!!! " and " Pandora's ask." 🙈 There are like 13 seasons to watch so. 😎😀 In Finnish we have so many Swedish related words for example " ask " is " aski " in Finnish so this should be easy... Right...?
As a French person who has been learning Swedish for about 14 years now, I've actually gotten pretty good at this! In French, we do this a LOT. Lol. Some letters when in certain spots are even meant not to be pronounced, etc.
I don't want to be rude, but honestly, French is a headache 😂
I've lost my pronunciation skill but when I return to study the swedish language again it'll be a priority. Because the swedish language spoken it's really nice to hear!
Happy to hear that at least someone likes to hear spoken Swedish :D
It’s a beautiful language!
@@FunSwedish Also, when I went looking for Swedish songs to exercise my listening skills, I looked for old Swedish military songs, yes it's my unusual musical taste :v, and listened to them, I found them one of the most beautiful to listen to among the military songs of all countries, especially for the voice of the choir and of course how the Swedish language sounds in this musical style.
The pitch of the language is formidable and heroic to listen to.
What confuses people a lot is when we just kind of suck in some air to say yes 😂 in the north of Sweden we just kind of inhale sharply while mouthing “ja”. Some say it as ja some say it as jå some say it as jo 😂
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I noticed that when I visited relatives in Luleå
Essentially what I get from this is to relax your mouth and let the words flow out without too much concern for proper pronunciation. Makes sense.....I don't speak perfect English all day.
Really good! I'm looking forward to learning more.
I'm a Swedish-American who is trying to get back in touch with the language of my recent relatives. 🇺🇲 & 🇸🇪.
Happy to help!
I watched this because I grew up in Minnesota in United States which was heavily settled by Swedish and Norwegians... so I KNEW I would hear a similarity in how we pronounce vowel sounds, even though I am speaking English!! Making them all so loooonngg haha. Made me smile:) Thanks!
How interesting! I need to go to Minnesota someday and listen myself to your accent :)
@@FunSwedish What the movie "Fargo". The Swedish actor Peter Stormare is in it. Then you can hear the MinnesOOOtan's dialekt. A lot of "Ya you betcha" and such. Probably getting the "Ya" from Swedish word for "yes" = Ja..
This honestly made learning so much more fun and easier! Tack så mycket!
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For once in my life I found a list of 10 things I actually knew already. This is up there with getting 100/100 in a maths test when I was 10. I'm going to need 10 different ones when you have time please Fun Swedish. And thank you SO much for the unintended confidence boost; I was just what I needed during a difficult time! Warmest wishes to you!
Wow, thanks!
Legendary Swedish pop band ABBA is the reason that I started taking interest in learning Swedish language. I already speak German and see similarities between the two languages, both belong to Germanic language family. Despite the tricky pronunciation, Swedish is easier and sounds so beautiful.
ABBA are really legendary!
Happy to hear that you are enjoying the language as well 😊
A fun shortcut to a sentence that becomes completely understandable in some Swedish regions is "I ån så finns det en ö" ,(In the river there is an island) which can be pronounced as a single word with only vowels "iåaäeö" ..
My music teacher taught me that many years ago :)
Didn't you know that before? That's how many older people in western Sweden speak.
I have learn lot of swedish from here . Not only words but I have learn the dialect to understand. Jättebra . tack för det 😊
I am glad to hear
Thanks for this! ❤️My cousin is going to be very impress the next time we video chat! I’m a native English speaker trying to learn Swedish to be able to speak to them!
I am sure he will!
Let us know how that goes!
Super. It was extremely useful. I am learning Swedish..So many of my questions were answered..Thanks a lot!
I am glad it helped :) Good luck with your Swedish studies!
So grateful to have found your channel!
Thank you for sharing the Swedish language in this way ❤
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Finally found a channel to help me with Swedish. Just started a few days ago and getting some grammar books soon has right now I am practicing with Duolingo but I want to incorporate other learning techniques for it. jag tycker om detta videon en mycket ( super bad swedish lol ) tack så mycket för videon
Welcome aboard!
Hope the videos really help. We have at least 70 you can watch (lost count at this point 😅)
I'm just starting to learn swedish and rolling r's is a big problem for me, so it's such a great news to be able to cut those r's with é! Tack ! 😊
Grattis (congrats!) for starting your Swedish journey! Yes, exactly. And if you can't say those rolling R's its ok. You just will have a Swedish accent from the South :P
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I love your work. You are a cute teacher. Sen har du charm och man vill lyssna mer på dig. I would be thankful if i were an english speaking person. 🙂
Very important lesson! Thank you! Please continue more vardags svedish. 👍👏👏👏
Tack! I'm trying to learn myself a bit of Swedish from the dutch language. Your lesson was very usefull 👍👍
Jättebra undervisning! Du har gett oss bra nycklar för att förbättra uttalet. Tack så mycket!
Kul att höra att det hjälper! :)
Weirdly, I learned the 'och' becoming an 'o' from being at the current Women's Euros football (even more weirdly it's one of the first things I learned in Swedish). Sweden have played 2 games in my city and I have been to both (some of the best experiences of my life and what has made me now want to learn Swedish). Talking to some fans they taught me the "gul och blå" chant as "gul o blå." When I searched yellow and blue it came up as gul och blå and I realised that it gets shortened to o.
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I'm new here in Sweden. I'm planning to enroll for SFI. Hoping my teacher would be fun just like you.
Aw thank you!
This channel is great!
I’m a native Swede with a Spanish-speaking fiancé, so I tend to check all videos for accuracy before linking them to him.
The only thing in this video I feel might be slightly irrelevant to him, is the “är = é”, since I’m from Gothenburg and think that one mostly applies to the Stockholm region. ☺️ Over here on the west coast, we would use more of an open ”ä”. ”Dä-ä bra”. (Probably better to learn your east coast version. 😅)
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Åh vad fint! Vi känner oss hedrade och blir jätteglada att du godkänner oss och visar för din fiancé (trots stockholmskan). Tusen tack!
P.S. Förstår "kritiken". Vi önskar att vi också pratade göteborska! Vi älskar dialekten!
Tur att din fiancé har dig i alla fall för att få den dialekten ;)
Muchas gracias. Me caes muy bien. Eres bonita, dulce e inteligentisima. Sere tu nuevo alumno porque tu pedagogia es incomparable.
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Muchas gracias por el comentario tan bonito 💙
Tack så mycket!!! Very useful video!
Oh and there are so many dialects in Sweden! Some people speaks so clear and understandable but, for example, some Swedes from the North do it completely opposite 😂
LOL... I am from the north of sweden and for me it is very difficult to understand people in the far south (skåne). I sometimes wish they would speak english so I could understand what they are saying.
Glad it was helpful! There are quite a few dialects in Swedish. We will do a video talking about the differences between them at some point in the future 😁
@@evawettergren7492 ja och ni PRATAR ju mycket bättre upp I norrland. Fan ingen som fattar norrlänska
Masterclass in Swedish: saying nothing. :)
Nonono, that's Finnish master class! 🤪
@@nyyminuolivaara is it i’m half finnish
So I was right in some of these words with RS thanks for the explanation…..
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I feel like many of these examples are very "Stockholmska" or from around that region. For example, I would never pronounce "är" like "é" or "det" like "dé". In my part of Sweden I'm pretty sure most people say "ä" and "dä", i.e. we prononuce "de (they)" and "det (it)" differently ("De" and "dä" respectively).
Also, the shortened form of "något" is spelled "nåt". "Nått" is the past form of "nå", which means "reach" or "arrive at".
Gävlemål?
my boyfriend is from southern sweden and i found the way he pronounces the words extremely tough
wikipedia has a page on stockholm-e which also mentions stockholmsrim
some examples are like 100 years old though. or maybe specific parts of stockholm
@@smievil what are you talking about specifically?
Same here. i live in Småland
The best ever explanations on svenska👌👌👌
Tack!
Your channel is SO good. ❤
You are so kind ❤
Tack, mycket förståeligt och jag förstod vad du sa.😀
Very important and interested vedio. I love swedish. I intend to come to Sweden next year with my family.
Happy you liked it
Finally! Finally I met You in YT who explain this! Nobody does!
I have almost 200 days learning Swedish on Duolingo and I feel like this 10 minute video just undid everything I thought I learned XD
Just started learning Svenska, what an amazing language, there's nothing in Portuguese (My mother language) that helps me in it, but a lot of similarities in English
Happy to hear that you are finding the similarities with English!
It will make it so much easier that way 😁
Tack! Jättebra undervisning som vanligt!
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du är fantastisk. Jag gillade sättet att förklara.
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"Hur mår'u?" is common too.
True!
Å 'hur e re?'
@@inglishhomeandgarden8386 Yeah. "Hur ä re".
Hu mådu? in some regions
Or hu je d..
Arbetar du som lärare? Tycker du gör ett väldigt bra jobb på att lära ut.
När man ser andra lära ut saker än de lärare man själv hade under skoltiden förstår man vikten av att ha lite flyt och få en bra engagerad lärare. Kan vara skillnaden på att inte lära sig nått och bli riktigt duktig.
Tack så jättemycket. Kul att höra att du tycker det. Det är vår metod. Jobbar för språkskolan ELANS där alla lärare lägger mycket fokus på att det ska kännas roligt att lära sig något nytt. Håller med dig att det kan göra stor skillnad om man har en engagerad lärare eller inte. elansutbildning.com/sprakkurser-for-foretag/
Thank so much! I really like you use one sentence at the end, just to conclude everything you taught! It helps!
Happy to hear that!😍
And here I am speaking Spanish, a language that does not shorten any word but can always lengthen and lengthen in thousands of sentences something that can be said with 5 words (and in Swedish with 1 letter 🤣🤣)
Haha, es verdad :P
Like how what did you say is : wahsaah dude🤙🏼
adorable.. you inspire me to learn Swedish
You can do it!
I love when there's the swatting sound with the letters being crossed out 😂
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Thank you Daniella my teacher
Thank you for your lessons. I thought I should tell you in English the word “letter” doesn’t have a pause between the syllables and has no hard or thick t sound but has a very soft d-ish sound.
Thanks for the tip!
Tjena! Really enjoy your videos! The 'Vad sa du' often sounds like 'Va sa ru' for me :)
Glad you like them! Yes, you are right! It sounds a lot like "va sa ru" as well :)
I went Down the rabbit hole...anyway...i found 1 thing she was missing infront of her hehe.
She said ett roligt barn.. listen to her saying it again and again, she say like we other swedes, ett rol-it barn
Subscribed! Love from India! Tack så mycket! Keep making more vids! I'll share ur vids!
Thank you for your nice comment!
@@FunSwedish Ingen fara!
Yapp! Dä ä så 're låter. :)
Roligt och bra.
(Att tt blir tyst i 'att', har jag aldrig hört.
Däremot att g blir tyst i 'jag'.)
Tack så mycket! I'm absolutely in love for your videos and for you as well. 😍
Glad you like them!
That's interesting. It looks like Swedish people do to consonants what we do to vowels, which is to eat some(😂)! Thank you for the video! :)
👏👏👏 Mycket bra lektion! Du är ju Sveriges motsvarighet till Lucy i "English with Lucy". 👍
Wow, that was a really nice compliment because Lucy is awesome (I think I am not as good as her) but very kind of you to say it. Vad kul att du gillade lektionen!
Så fint Din Video är så bra för mig ,jag lära mig mycket från det tack så mycket
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In northern Sweden it's really never é for är, insted it's ä. For example Jag är hemma = Ja ä hemma
Tack så mycket. This helps me a lot :)
The RS thing in the video is mostly not applicable for the southern parts of Sweden. In the south we usually pronounce the name Anders with an R and a S. Actually it's pronounced like AndORS where the E has changed into an O. Not Ander-SH or Ande-SH. In some parts in the southern of Sweden there are a mute R and then the name is pronouned like AndeS.
Don't worry. There are no spoken standard Swedish. Only written standard Swedish. "Fun Swedish" is good. Don't try to develop your own accent. Just stick to the teacher, she is really good if you want to learn Swedish.
Very useful, thank you very much for making such good videos 👏😊
Glad you like them!
Ja is pronounced very different due to the many dialects. Many people in southern Sweden says ja, as in written Swedish, and in northern Sweden it’s more common to hear jo - instead of ja.
Good tips! I speak German, so I recognize lots of words… but pronunciation is a different animal entirely! As my teacher said “det är inte tyska”
Exactly! The look a lot alike but we say it differently.
It takes extra brain power to say it diferently when it is so similar to a word you already are used to 😅
@@FunSwedish trying to get my brain into the super gear…😉
Tack så mycket underbara lärare
Tack! 😍
It’s a very big difference how people speak in Sweden due to dialect. Northern swedes and southern swedes can have a really hard time to understand each other sometimes.
I found the southern Sweden way of speaking toughest
@Ren Rose No one understands "skånska"😆😂
You say ”When we speak really, really fast...” I’d say we skip these words and letters almost always. ”Jag är hungrig” becomes ”Ja’e hungri” even when I speak slow or normal.
I used to practice Norwegian on memrize. They have a section of their lessons called learn with locals. Some of those people who say things talk so fast you have no idea what they're saying. Even though the thing they are saying is supposed to be something you are learning in that very lesson!
The jump to spoken language is always rough 😅
In any language I think.
But necessary. Otherwise its hard to communicate in real life.
But hopefully this rules make it easier 😁
Best Swedish tutorial on youtube!!👏🙏
Glad you think so!🙂
It's an amazing video, really!! It helps a lot to be in contact with the way people really speaks when we are so stuck in pronouncing every silable while we're learning.
Some doubts came to my mind: the sentence "vad är det?" can be "vad är den?" in some cases? And the answer to both can be "det är" or "den är" depending to the question? It has something to do with the "ett ord / en ord" rule?
Well... for the question in this specific case its limited to "Vad är det?"
Because your dont know what the thing is :P
So you cant decide if its "en" or "ett". So it defaults to "det".
For the answer yes! Depending on what the thing is, it might be "Det är..." or "Den är...".
"Det är" for ett words.
And "Den är" for en words.
@@FunSwedish oh thank you very much for the answer. It was so helpful!
Can I make another question then? When you don't know what you're talking about is always "det"? Someone said once in duolingo that when you're presenting something, like "det är kvinnans tidning" (from duolingo), you always use "det" as well. Is that correct? I can't understand this example...
@@LeticiaMirandaF I believe so yes.
@@FunSwedish I think we normally start the answer of a "Vad är det?"-question with a "Det är ..." also when the thing is an "en"-thing. "Det är en grönsak". After that we can start talking about it as "den".
Grattis!!! Tack!!
Is there something like RP Swedish? Very proper and pouncing everything?
Your videos and your instagram page is really helpful for me to learn swedish properly, thank you❤
Thank you! :) We are a group of people behind the instagram page so I should not have the whole credit but I am glad you like our content and that it helps you learn Swedish
@@FunSwedish i am aware that you are a group, meant the plural "you"😂Keep up the good content, it's very helpful❤
Haha, ops! 😂 Of course, the plural "you" Sorry about that. Anyway, thank YOU for the nice comments. It really makes us happy and inspire us to do more content for you. Have a great day! ❤
Also, the word ATT is mostly pronounced as O or actually Å.
Jag ska ringa (för) att fråga/Jag ska gå (för) att handla.
Many Swedes make this mistake in writing, because they think it is OCH, but in fact it is "för att" = to that is being used in abbreviated form.
4:28 - "Vad. Sa. Du." ... that actually sounds a bit threating. When somebody says it just like that, either apologize real quick (if it is your spouse) or run (if it is a stranger).
youre an amazing teacher!!
Thank you 😍
This is very helpful! also I love this top, the colour looks great on you!
This video is great! I loved Swedish in the beginning but when I talk Swedish nobody understands me. I am not trying to speak Swedish anymore!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you
Tack!
So Fun and interesting I like ur way to learn 🤩
Glad to hear that 🤩
The way I am Swedish and I’m looking this up
Than u fo è beaul vio lessns (thank you for the beautiful video lessons) 🤓
Glad you liked it!
Ahh so they're doing the cheeky blending technique too. As a Brit, I can say "what are you doing?" But say it like "whatcha doin'?"
And the "How are you doing?" Probably just ends up being "you alright?"/"How's it been?" Or just other typical bits
”De är bra” *shows abba*
Yes I quite agree 😅
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Thanx! Great advice! 😊❤
va sa du ?? 😮 easy but hard! Thanks for the videos!
My grandparents from Gothenburg talked like this:
E de de de e?
Ah de e de.
E de la itte?
E de la!?
Haha, älskar Göteborgdialekten!
Very nice! Congretulations!!!!
Thanks!!
Very useful, thank you. Some resources (mentioning no names, Duolingo) don’t give the whole picture!
Glad it was helpful!
Very helpful, thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Super interesting and useful
Does "r" get dropped from "var" in the same manner as "d" disappears from "vad"? If yes, how do we know the difference between "Vad är det? (what is it) and "Var är det" (where is it) in spoken Swedish?
Great question! Yes, sometimes it does but a bit less I think and if we do you would understand by the context what you are refering to.
@@FunSwedish That was my impression as well, I almost never hear whole "vad", just "va", however I think I hear the "r" in the end of "var" more often.
Thank you!
I wondering about the dropping of ending "g" sounds. I was at Riksarkivet in Visby, investigating my family. When the attendant pronounced one of my family names, "Sandberg," it sounded more like "Sandberi," like the g was not dropped but was a barely-there y sound. Is that similar, is it another dynamic, or did I mis-hear? These are so helpful, by the way!
Somtimes G sounds like J like in "berg". Many family names end with "berg". Berg is actually "mountain". In "stege" (ladder) the G sounds like G as in the English "give"
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I’ve been using Duolingo to start learning Swedish (English speaker) and I am frustrated by Duolingo (probably not a surprise). But I was on the questions lessons, and specifically am having trouble with the word Which. To my understanding Vilka =singular/en, Vilket =singular/ett, and Vilken= plural. However, in the lesson, the “correct” translation for “Which plate is mine?” Was ”Vilken tallrik är min?”, but the translation for “Which books are you reading?” Was “Vilka böcker läser du?” And to me this makes no sense. In the first sentence, plate is a singular en word, so the answer should be Vilka. And in the second, books is plural so the answer should be Vilken. Am I just not grasping the grammar or is Duolingo wrong? Also your videos are amazing thank you for sharing your knowledge with the internet!!!
For clarification 😊.
VilkeN is for singular (en-words).
VilkeT is for singular (ett-words).
VilkA is for plural.
A good way to remember is that the -n and -t in the end come from the "gender".
The "-t" from "Ett" also gets attached to adjective Fin -> FinT.
More detailed explanations on that in this video th-cam.com/video/w_Yrfx1nHLw/w-d-xo.html
@@FunSwedish Ahhhh! Of course 🤦 No wonder nothing made sense. That’s the think about Duolingo I’ve been frustrated with, there are no “lessons” that actually explain the grammar rules, you just learn as you go and have to figure out the rules via noticing the patterns. Thanks for your help!
@@jessiweaver8139 yeah, that is the negative side of Duolingo 😅. A combination of both, some of the rules and the repetition for sure speeds up your learning like x10 rather than only having the repetition part.
Maybe you could try out our video courses. Those have all the "structure" of a lesson you need with some funny and useful examples as well 😁.
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@@FunSwedish Cool, I didn’t know you had courses! I will definitely look into that!
Tack så jättemycket ❤️
Interesting video! I dont really agree with your "att-example" though. I'ts more like we cut off the first letter of the next word. "Att du" becomes "attu" and "att hon" becomes "atton". At least I think that "a hon" (from "att hon") sounds wierd :)
Good point! In those words you mention it is more like a "attu". I agree. Some of our students say that they hear an "a" or example in the sentence "Ja' tycke' a' de' e' bra (Jag tycker att det är bra). But it can also be a dialectal thing :)
@@FunSwedish Hello! Good video overall. :) I came to leave a similar nerdy comment. It may seem like the T is silent, but it actually molds with/is pronounced together with the following consonant in these examples. Like in "att ni", T and N have the tounge in the same position, and for "att du", the D actually loses its tone and becomes a T (just like tisdag is pronounced "tista" because the D is next to an S which doesn't have a tone). So the T in att doesn't disappear, if you have a word with a vowel after it absolutely doesn't. Like "Jag tycker att ostron är gott" (i think that oyster is tasty) you HAVE to say the T.
Bästa hälsningar,
Language nerd and teacher in Swedish as a second language
@@FunSwedish An even nerdier point - the reason why we say tista and not tisDa is because it's hard to pronounce a consonant with tone (like D) next to a consonant without tone (like S), so we skip the tone in D and say "st". Some languages fix the problem the other way around and ADD a tone so the S becomes Z. That's why some people learning Swedish may say "tiZDa" instead of "tiSTa". Both of them are easier to pronounce than "tiSDa" anyway where you add a tone mid-consonant. I love phonetics. :D