So many negative comments towards Finland being represented in this clip. As a Norwegian, Finns are our Nordic brothers and sisters. They are part of our group, no matter their language have a different root than ours. They will always be welcome in anything relating to the Nordic, just as much as Norwegians, Swedes, Danes and Icelanders. They are our family, period. And if you can't accept that, then fu... off
"If you don't think like I think then you can f off" you are a mad man 😄 finns are much braver and honorable than most scandinavian countries so I'm not hating on them, I'm just stating the fact that they are not the same. The fact is that nobody in that room can understand her because she is too far different, linguistically.
The point of this video is to have slightly different Germanic languages and see how much do they understand about each other. Sure, we're a Nordic country as well, but as a Finn I just don't see the reason why Finnish is included in this video. Finnish is not a Germanic language like Swedish, Norwegian and Danish so it makes zero sense to include Finnish in this context. Wouldn't it be silly to have a video about how much can a Finn and a Swede understand about Estonian, right?
Most Swedish speaking Finns speak perfect Finnish if they need to, but usually stick to their own language. But once I had the weirdest experience on a train: I thought there was a group of three Swedish speakers and one Finn, as they switched the language as if one of them could not understand Swedish. But then I realized that every one of them, four young women, could switch the language in the middle of the conversation, possibly as there was a better phrase in either of the languages. They were all totally at home with both of our national languages and it made no difference to them what they were using. I had never heard anything like that before, it was quite amazing.
A few years ago, I had a similar kind of experience at the airports in 🇨🇦 Toronto and 🇩🇰 Copenhagen on my way back to 🇫🇮 Finland after a trip across Canada with my sister: two elderly women were talking English, when we were waiting for boarding in Toronto. Once we had landed at Copenhagen and we were sitting by the gate for our flight to Helsinki, I heard they spoke Finnish instead, but all of a sudden they reverted back to English. I don't remember one hundred percent, but they might have even spoken Swedish as well. It was baffling. I started chatting in Finnish with them, and it turned out that they were siblings of whom one was a naturalized Canadian citizen and the other was a Finnish citizen, and who were seeing each other after a long time. It was so cool. 🤓
@@Basheez No doubt and you are awesome. I am from a totally Finnish speaking area and struggle with Swedish, but it is so cool that we have people who master both of our languages. For me starting my studies at the university of technology was the first time I met people that were Swedish speaking Finns. It is our strength to have two languages and should do everything to promote them both.
Swede here, loved the vid and love all my Finish, Norwegian and Danish siblings!
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hii. kurze frage! i want to learn a scandinavian language so which one would be better to understand to the others easily. i have heard norwegian is the best but i just wanted to ask again
@ Just pick whichever language you like the most. You'll easily be able to understand the other languages with some practice and experience. Most of us rarely if ever interact with our neighbors, which is why it is sometimes hard for us to understand each other. Also, some dialects are hard for even native speakers to understand!
@Then it's between norwegian swedish and danish. Personally I have a bias towards swedish due to me being a native speaker but norwegian is arguably simpler grammatically. Danish is just a no-go and finnish isnt scandinavian
@@valizeth4073 Geographical history Finland is not Scandinavia. But they been with us for so long and are part of the general Nordic that ... hell .... I see them as Scandinavians. Im Swede btw.
As a Finnish speaking Finn 🇫🇮, it's sad to see so many negative comments that Finnish is included in this video. Let's enjoy what those languages have in common and how they are different, please. 🤗
@@kecleonboi Well, I have a BA degree in Spanish and English, so yeah... I feel offended by those comments, sorry. 😢A fun fact: the Legal Finnish (legalese) was developed using the grammar of Swedish as its base in order to ensure that everything is said unambiguously. That was told on the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation YLE's history documentary "Suomi on ruotsalainen" (Finland is Swedish).
@@kecleonboiFinland🇫🇮 is a Nordic country with Sweden 🇸🇪 Norway 🇸🇯 Denmark 🇩🇰 and Iceland 🇮🇸 politically, geographically economically, religiously, culturally and economically. They are all prosperous countries with high standards of living with high standards of living. Finland was ranked the happiest country 2018-2023 and the other Nordic countries are among the ten happiest countries. The other Nordic countries really don't need to be ashamed of Finland.
@@cinderellaandstepsisters it doestn't change the fact that Finland is the western outskirts of the Uralic world lol Finns, Karelians, Northern Russians, Komi, Udmurts, Mansi. Smooth transition.
Kutoa is to knit but also weave and neuloa is to knit only. How do you know if someone is weaving or knitting? 🤣 They also pronounced crochet wrong in English as the t at the end is silent.
For a channel named "World Friends", there sure is quite a lot animosity in the comment section for finland not belonging here because their language differs so much from others nordic countries without them even understanding the point of this video. This is not a video of how countries with same language family can understand each other but how geologically nordic natives can understand each other, and Finland is by the fact a nordic country like the rest of them, even if you might not like it. Maybe if video would have been about scandinavian countries alone then I would have understood to why not include finland in it. But it would have been interesting to see Icelandic represented in the video because they belong with other nordic countries.
Definitely. Its a completely different thing to understand Scandi language when you're in a completely different language group. Swe, nor & dan are super similar.
@@cognomen9142 what do you mean? Sweden taking over Finland? I guess more people moved to Finland from Sweden back then, but also other way around. After ww2 then it was finns going to Sweden.
It kind of is to be expected. The difference is that all (Finnish speaking) Finns study Swedish for multiple years during their school education, and English is also closely related to the Scandinavian languages.
Its because we have obligatory swedish from 6th grade until 9th unless you go to high school, then you must do a couple courses. Wouldnt be surprised if universities also taught swedish as obligatory. And like she said we have slangs that are so similar to swedish. It all tbf depends on whete you're from. I could definitely understand better than her, but the dialect spoken where I live is more swedishy
Native Dutch speaker here! I did understand the word for rain, rabbit and I almost got wet tissue. In Dutch it is regen, konijn and natte doekjes (we use 'servet' too, but that will be like a napkin for us). I also did understand the description of the giraffe. Again in Dutch it will be: Het dier heeft een lange nek (we can use 'hals' too) met vlekken op zijn lichaam. Het leeft in Afrika. Funny to see the similarities 😂🇳🇱
Yea same to me haha I understood the description about the giraffe I literally didn’t know there were still so much similarities in Swedish so I was really shocked
"Het dier heeft een lange nek (we can use 'hals' too)" in swedish the word nek (or neck in english) would be nacke but the swedish word nacke refers specifically to the backside part whereas hals can be the front or the whole thing
I’m from Åland which is an island between Sweden and Finland. We speak Swedish even though we belong to Finland and we don’t have the accent either, just a small difference from swedes. So the thing about Finnish people sounding pretty depressed is worse for us. If you have the accent people can tell you’re from Finland but if you don’t you will just sound like a depressed swede.
Guys, yes Finnish is way differnet, but that doesn't change the fact that many Finnish people have a basic understanding of Swedish, since it is a madatory school subject, and as the girl in points out in the video, the native speakers (finlandssvensk)
Exactly. I invite everyone that thinks there is nothing scandinavian about Finland to visit Åland and Svenskfinland. Join us for a crayfish party or sail in a clinker built sailboat. Visit the swedish-speaking countryside/hembygd/heimat filled with nearly identical houses and identical gärdsgårdar to the Swedish countryside, painted with the same falun red and ocher yellow colours so common to both Sweden and Norway. This weird modern compulsory need to completely disinclude Finland from Scandinavia stems from the Swedish national trauma of losing Finland to Russia in 1809, "didn't want it anyways", "we have lost our identity and we need to find a new one quickly - let there be vikings (that no one had given a single crap about previously)".
As a Dane living in Copenhagen, 30 minutes drive from Sweden, this was very easy. Also Danish and Swedish, though prnounced rather differently, are basically very similar.
Reading Danish is pretty easy, but spoken Danish is quite hard to understand for a Swede (perhaps easier for those living in Skåne (Scania) though. Like if I watch a Danish movie or TV-series without subtitles I would say I pick up like perhaps one word in a sentence, but if there are Danish subtitles, then I "hear" what they say. If a Norwegian on the other hand, it's much easier, I usually don't need subtitles at all, and just miss a word here and there.
@@Asa...S Even in Denmark it's been noticed that the language used in many new Danish tv series is based on youthful Copenhagen 'street language', which can be very unclear and the distinction between the words can be very difficult to identify. Even elderly Danes are said to use subtitles whe watching new Danish tv drama. But in one to one conversations with Swedes, mostly it's very easy to make oneself understood. But it's true that even though written Norwegian and Danish (at least when it comes to bokmål) are almost identical, and Swedish is a bit further away, spoken Swedish and Norwegian seem to be more similar. I love all those similarities and differences bweteen our languages, which at the core are very similar, but in practice sometimes a bit challenging.
@@nielsulriksrensen9818 Yeah, it's really interresting! Also, there are so many different dialects in all of the Scandinavian languages that is easier or more difficult to understand. I checked out "Danske dialekter: Knud Erik fra Midt & Vestjylland", and I just hear a word here and there that I understand, but I don't understand what he's talking about, but when I watched "Danske dialekter: Charlotte fra Rønne på Bornholm" I probably understood 95 % of what she said. Some dialects are hard to understand even in our own countries.
The dialect in southern sweden sounds a lot more like danish than if you're from stockholm, göteborg, dalarna or the north. But I guess that makes sense, right? They don't use hard "R's" in the south for example.
The thing about Norwegian sounding so "happy/up and down" is very much a dialect thing. The majority of Swedes are more exposed to the Oslo area dialect either through media or having been/lived there, that's usually why they tend to think like that. Both languages have a ton of dialects . As a Norwegian I have a lot of Danish family, so I usually pick up most of it very easily unless it's very extreme. It's very much about training your ears and getting used to it with all the Scandinavian languages . Finnish just sounds cool :)
@@lmatt88 I believe @CM-ey7nq was talking about dialects within Norway (and which one(s) Swedes are exposed to). My dialect from Northern Norway is definitely *not* of the "sing-songy" type. More like Finnish, intonation wise. (Of course words are completely different).
@@lmatt88 I know a page of Swedish dialect samples if you think so! The most famous is Älvdalska, which is incomprehensible even to Swedes, it's almost like a different language. But there are plenty of northern dialects which are very hard for us Norwegians anyway.
@@Mnnvint yeah it's a minority which are very distinct though, Swedish encourages a national standard and all dialects are evolving towards that. In Norway it's different as dialects are heavily encouraged.
This was a clip about Nordic languages. Finland is Nordic so why is it so difficult for some people. Finnish is different but it is still Nordic. Lets compare central American languages. Spanish and English.
There's a good chance the creators of this video thought all Nordic languages were the same, so they brought in Finland, instead of just focusing on Scandinavian languages, which would've been more fun to see.
We have not similar languges at all what are you saying? And sweden’s best friend is norway they r much more similar to you in everything like finland’s best friend is Estonia because we have similar language and people. Swedes and Finns are so different at everything scandinavians are much more similar and have many common things together
@@neelia1982 I am not speaking about the language. However, I can agree on some things you are mentioned. Here is the thing. Norway, Sweden and Finland do have Sami people and they speak a language with a lot of different dialects. Denmark does not have it. Swedish is taught at school in Finland and Finnish is a minority language in Sweden with some status, this is not the case for Norway and Denmark. Åland which belongs to Finland has Swedish as their official language. In the towns Haparanda and Övertorneå, many people speak both Swedish and Finnish. Finnish and Swedish have some words in common, which is loanwoards. Culturally, language and stuff, yes Estonia and Finland are closest to each other. Sweden is a big country, Finland too if we look to the size. F.ex people from the south of Sweden might feel closer to Denmark, Meanwhile people from the west might feel closer to Norway etc... Look at the Nato process... It explains a lot. I have friends from Finland, and they feel the same as I do. We both are secular, progressive countries, we have a quite long history together. Why do you get offended? Many Swedes, at least my friends and when I am reading articles about Finland, is always, at least almost always positive. We like what you've achieved. Estonia is nice to but they are further away, and it is true, Estonians and Finns are culturally very close to each other. There have been more Swedish spoken Estonians but now... Idk. Norway and Denmark are best friends I would say. Their languages are pretty much the same in the written form, Swedish is very similar but Norwegian and Danish are even more similar and they do understand each other better than a Swede and a Dane talking to each other. God natt vännen, Hyvää yötä ystävä!
Great video! The Finish girl is so charming :) greatings from Denmark. Happy we have so many good neighbors to the north. Love you all and Sweden a little less :P
In reality, when these four Nordic people communicate as a group they speak English. As every one of their national languages is a small language with 5 - 11 million speakers, they all learn English to be able to communicate with the rest of the world. Practically everyone in the Nordic countries can speak English at least at a basic level; the younger generations quite well. In Finland the English classes start from grade 1 and continue all through primary and secondary education.
No I speak Swedish with Danes and Norwegians. Finnish-speaking Finns switch to English if you try to speak Swedish with them even though they're supposed to be bilingual. But that's fair as all the Finnish I know are what I gleaned while watching Finnish children's shows on the telly as a kid. Moi mukulatti, yksi, kaksi, kolme and so on.
Children don't need English lessons, all they need are cartoons. Saying that Norwegians and Danes have to learn English... Maybe you should inform yourself about origin of Bokmal
A bokmal is the same as a bookworm. I guess you mean Bokmål? The "å" can also be written like "aa", and "ä" can be written like "ae" if you don't have a Scandinavian keyboard. @@BojanPeric-kq9et
@@tovep9573do you have óüöúőűáéí set on your keyboard? Or čćšđž? If no, why not? Please, don't say that č and ć are the same sign, or that a and á are same because sounds are totally different...
@@BojanPeric-kq9et It is a fact that the younger generation of Finns speak better English than the old as their formal education of the language now starts earlier. We should also start the formal education of Swedish earlier to improve the results. Due to the proximity of Sweden, companies functioning in both countries and co-operation at all levels, Swedish is the next after English in the order of importance of languages.
Too many Captains Obvious in the comments talking about different language groups. The same was about Arabic and Turkish. Just chillax, this information is really redundant.
Russian language is completely different from finnish. Russian language is a subgroup in the indoeuropian family. The Scandinavian languages and other europian languages are in this group. Scandinavian languages are closer to Russian than finnish.
They are all (except Finnish, that is) North Germanic languages, so we share a lot of words with German. I had German in school, but didn't really pay attention. Still I can understand a lot when I read German. Funny story: I attended a course, and everyone were Dutch besides me. I was also the only one attending over video call. In the breaks they all switched to Dutch, but left the audio on, so during the week I got used to the sound and structure of the language. When the instructor started a session on one of the last days, he forgot to switch back to English, and I didn't even notice before another student made him aware of it. I could basically understand everything by picking out some words and guessing at the rest. I'm thinking Dutch and German have about the same differences as Norwegian and Swedish.
@@BobWitlox I basically grew up with Swedish. We had more Swedish TV channels than Norwegian ones, I live only 10 miles from the border, and a lot of swedes move here for work.
@@AudunWangen If you can speak swedish (or norwegian), english and german, you can pretty much understand everything in dutch. I don't speak fluent german so I have some trouble understanding spoken dutch, unless they speak slowly, but I can read it pretty much perfectly. And I have a friend who speaks all three languages fluently, he has no problems at all understanding spoken dutch. Even if it's a bunch of dutch people speaking normally to eachother. I also think it's quite fun. :)
as an icelander it’s super easy for me to understand swedish and norwegian, danish is a bit confusing sounding, and obviously i would not be able to understand finnish at all 😂😂
@@saerunofarc That´s hilarious, and yes I´m Swedish. Also, interesting that you understand Swedish. I don´t understand anything Icelandic. But I have tried to listen to it. I think I heard sometime that it is like a lot of ancient Swedish in Icelandic (?).
Sæll! Gaman að hitta þig! Ég er að læra íslensku. Great to meet Icelanders online and at least someone from there watching this. Too bad there's no one to take part in the video, though
As a Finn I wouldn't care less if we're part of Scandinavia; also very weird if someone here does actually care about it. The fact is: it's not, move on. Same goes for the Nordics, if some Nationalist from Norway wants to think it's not; let him think that way, who cares. They are not Nordic country since they suck at hockey and floorball (joking). I'm not concerned at all if my country is part of some area or not since it has zero affect to my life and probably to your life also. I remember maybe a few words of Swedish from school since I've never needed it and it's pretty common in Finland that people just "survive" through Swedish lessons and before they turn 20 they've forgot everything. I'm at my 40s and Jag heter Peter is everything I can say these days, even that is incorrect since afaik I'm not Peter. I did customer service for 20 years, yet I actually never needed to know Swedish and I live in Helsinki area where big part of the "finlandssvensk" live. I just wanted to add that because I find this video funny and entertaining but yet it's pretty silly to compare Finnish to other Nordic languages, it's there just for the fun factor so don't take everything so seriously. We're good neighbors and I like swedes, danes, norweigans and icelanders and even if our languages are different, I have never had any problems getting along with people from those countries. I would swap russia to north pole (or to the moon) and take Norway, Denmark or Iceland to our other side any day.
Of course, it belongs to the same family as the Estonian language, although Finnish speakers have been in contact with the Swedish language for a long time and are familiar with it.
@@VeryClearLanguages And they also learn it at school, which was said in the video. I'm proud of the Finnish girl for remembering that much, because most Finns I know just forget most of it once they stop learning it lol.
I'm Frysk, I got rain, wet tissue and rabbit. which is Rein, wiet doekje, knyn. I love the similarities. i did understand the first and last story, struggled with the hobbies.
Doekje must have common roots with Norwegian "duk", which normally refers to a table cloth, but with a bit of good will (not always or necessarily) it can also be used in a broader sense. "Teltduk" simply means "tent fabric". Fallskjermduk, the fabric of a parachute. Glassfiberduk. Although fabric in Norwegian is "stoff". And the Swedes have their näsduk and handduk, probably among other words too. But did you know that the Danish word "viskestykke" means a kitchen cloth? Sort of logical, as it directly translated means "wipe piece"😂
as a finn, i only understood what the swede said because of the loan words (kanin, virka), and it's still mandatory for us to learn swedish in school, even though only 5% of our population speaks it as their first language. some people are against learning swedish due to our history or because they consider it 'useless,' as many finns will not become even close to fluent in swedish. their knowledge often extends to just 'hej jag heter...' and that's it.
Should embrace it more :) We're all like brothers up here, and if World were to be fucked up, we 5 (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland) could be a nice little super world power :) And we all kinda understand eachother except the finnish language :P So if you can speak atleast a lil swedish and understand, it will go long with all countrys :)
Now, do the same video but let the Dane be the speaker and no one will understand a thing. It´s a similar language to Swedish and Norwegian, but the pronunciation is complete gibberish to the others.
Not for all! I studied at University of Copenhagen together with some norweigans and some swedes, and they didn't have many problems. They would understand me just fine most of the time when i spoke to them in danish (and the other way around). I see many people calling danish pronounciation gibberish, but in practice, my experience is, that it's not as hard as people make it sound like.
Here in Norway we often say that it's easier for us to understand spoken swedish than spoken Danish, but it's easier to understand written Danish than written Swedish. Finnish is in its own world, and it would be very tough for us to understand anything unless they used Swedish or other foreign loanwords.
Yep. I´m Swedish and have no problem with Norwegian. But I really have a hard time with spoken Danish. I get that you understand each other in written form. It´s pretty easy for me to understand both, and as a matter of fact I think written Danish and Norwegian looks exactly the same.
@@michaelheimbrand5424 The differences between Danish and Norwegian Bokmål could often be fairly subtle if you don't have any voiced final consonants to look for....
I think it could work with someone from Finland if s/he came from the swedish speaking parts. That version of swedish has changed into something that I, as a swede, would have to concentrate as much as I’d have to with danish and norwegian. It’s so cool, word for word it is swedish (and often old version) but the way sentenses are put together makes it totally different. 👌🏼
@@gellawella What do you mean? Some traditional, rural dialect? The standard "High Swedish" Finland Swedish is rarely that difficult to understand, once you get the hang of the different melody.
It's interesting that i can pick up on some words like beef, soup, and promenade (walk in french). I speak english, french, and greek, and it's kind of cool to vaguely understand a bit from a language so far from the ones I know
They all speak perfect English - have the dumb Americans commenting against these videos noticed how good their grammar is and how extensive their English vocabulary is? - When I visited the Netherlands back in the 90s as a kid, I was surprised to learn the Dutch are taught THREE languages at School - Dutch, German, and English. - And here you have so-called “Native English Speakers” in the US and UK struggling with even basic English grammar, pronunciation, punctuation, and vocubulary and routinely flunking English standardized tests that students from all over the world including Africa, West Indies, South Asia, Europe, and the Far East routinely ace as a matter of course.😄😄
In Denmark we are also taught 3 languages in school. Danish, English from grade 1 and German or French from grade 5 (except southern Denmark near the German border, where they have chosen to teach german from grade 1). In High school we then continue with danish and english, and choose between continuing with german/french or start beginner level of a new language (e.g. spanish).
I speak German and it was quite easy with the words, butnthe sentences were pretty difficult to understand. Except the giraffe, I immediately got that.
What r people crying here about Finland being included here? The point of this video was to guess what she's saying in Swedish. Most of the Finns know basic level Swedish. Even I understood most of it even tho it has been over 10 years since I learned it in school. And many Finnish words are similar to Swedish words, as that Finnish girl said in this video. Then I would understand the complains if others had to guess the Finnish language.
Not only Helsinki slang but in western Finland there is so many loan words from Swedish. Like one episode you were talking about Sand and in Finnish it's 'hiekka' but here we also say 'santa'
I can see that the Sweden is from like sileshåret in the westcoast bc you hear the accent and i remember Another video when she Said the city whatever the city was
@@Armenia.Europe Nope, I have seen many animals in Africa, yet never seen a giraffe. The only word I got though was "Africa" from her, since I don't know any Swedish, Norse, Finnish or Danish :)
Gotta say the Danish lady looks kinda like a mix between Monica Barbaro from Top Gun:Maverick and Alicia Vikander. The Norwegian guy looks like a Nordic Theo James
About the animal, Dutch people would understand it to because hals is the same it means neck and vleks is similar to vlekjes what means little spots and the born in Africa we understand it to
Interesting. I’m Indonesian who’s learning German atm, and I can definitely see some similarities. Nice to see a gentleman among the ladies. Please bring in more guys to balance it out.
"Virka" is "hekle" in Danish and Norwegian, if I remember correctly. The Danish and Norwegian words are borrowed from Middle Low German, while I guess virka is related to the word for work. (Danish and Norwegian "virke" would mean seem/ appear or work and wouldn't fit in this context, here...)
In german we say häkeln, but I also can see the relation to the not anymore so common phrase of einen Stoff wirken, which means something like to loop or sling threads to a textile.
@@juwen7908 I guess it's possible that Swedish and Danish could have borrowed the term from different (Low) German varieties. Seems to have happened on a few other occasions, such as Swedish arbeta vis-a-vis Danish arbejde...
Finland is part of the Nordic countries (They are not Scandinavia as such, though). The Nordic countries are Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, and the autonomous regions of Åland, Faroe Islands, and Greenland. I definitely consider Finns my distant brothers and sisters (I'm Swedish). I also found that most Swedish people from the south understand Norwegian and Danish perfectly well but people further up country can't understand anyone except the ones in their own city.
Guys we get it. Finnish isn’t in the same language group. But it has similar words and/or shared history with Swedish so it was included. Don’t forget that Tagalog was also put in an episode with Spanish and Portuguese. EDIT: Stop commenting things I didn't say. Having similar words doesn't mean I'm saying they're similar languages. I'm very clearly not saying that, which is why I mentioned Tagalog being included with Spanish and Portuguese. Spanish and Portuguese are similar languages. Tagalog is not, HOWEVER, it does have many similar words with these languages.
Sorry but no, Finnish may have a lot of loanwords as Sweden had colonized it centuries before, but in no way are they similar languages. Completely different families with different grammar and history.
They do have similar words. I think you're probably confusing me saying they have similar words to them being similar languages. That's not what I'm saying. Tagalog and Spanish are not similar languages at all but they do in fact have a lot of similar words.@@TheHungarianOak
@@mateuszjozefiak4388 Faroese is very similar to Icelandic. On the other hand, Faroese, Greenlandic, Sumi are local languages, they are not considered an official country. Since Iceland is a country, I would have liked to see it next to these four🥺
In german we can do it good, when we work with just one word like 'kanin' we would guess it is a Kaninchen. But when it comes to whole sentences and we don't see it written down, we are mostly totally lost.🤓
@@ivanmatveyev13 oh no, has nothing to do with each each other. Actually in german we may could use the same word like the swedes, but we add the ending -chen, which means little and for some reason it stays like that. 😉 Probably cause they're all soo cute and tiny. 🐇
I love how french words in english are said as a frenchman. Chrochet the t is silent, however I'll let rhis pass considering yow natives say guillotine
@TheAlex29494 maybe I guess. Rain was the easiest to guess but not sure how I could make out wet wipes or giraffe or fish soup or her hobbies. It's baffling 😂
@@tomorrowtomorrow8525 hmm I guess, English is 2nd language but my native language is from Dravidian family group. Not sure how that's related. Anyways it's quite interesting.
Not to put on my “well, actually” glasses but the Swedish word Kanin would actually be more so “Rabbit” or “Bunny” while Hare in Swedish would be “Hare” (spelt the same but pronounced differently). But we use them pretty interchangeably, like for example “EasterBUNNY” in Swedish is “PåskHARE” and not “PåskKANIN” like you could understandably assume it would be from what I just said earlier (Edit: Had to really put on my glasses and edit fix this comment btw)
If you call rabbits hares, then what do you call the European hare? Is it also hare? How do you differentiate between the two species if you use the same word for both? Finnish has "rusakko" for the European hare and "jänis" for rabbit to make sure it is clear which animal we talk about. I think I'd be confused if there was just one word for two different animals. 😅
@@mitsusah2612 but we don’t have just one word for different animals, we have Kanin and Hare but both can be used interchangeably depending on context. Mostly we just call pet ones “kanin”, wild ones “hare”
@@Robman92 Yeah, we have a separate word for pet rabbits or bunnies too. I mean, you have hares and rabbits in wild, right? Two different animals. The European hare and the smaller rabbit. Do you use just one word for two different species? Because you have so far only meantioned words "kanin" (for pet/bunny) and "hare" (for rabbit) , but in English, we have now meantioned three different animals (bunny, rabbit and European hare). So, do you not have a third word for the third animal?
@@mitsusah2612 European hare is still a hare tho, just an other species of hare. We would call European Hare a “europeisk hare”. There’s Hare and Kanin with their sub-species ofc
@@butterflies655 I know, but the stereotype states that Finnish people are closed off, introverted, and socially retracted. I was making a humorous observation that took the knowledge of the stereotype as a presupposition.
@@papazataklaattiranimam some are some aren't. As a low german speaker from the border to Denmark I would have loved to be included in this video. I get around fine in Scandinavia, especially Norway, but fail to understand fellow germans and their respective dialects.
@@papazataklaattiranimam yes 😅 but I think the most dialects are "okay" to understand as a German. But for example an old Swabian talk to me I wouldn't understand, and I am living since 1999 in Germany in the Swabian part of Germany 😅 I think older people had a very strong dialect and it's pretty hard to understand. I never would be able to understand low German 😬 but I understand the most of Pennsylvania Dutch 🙈
im gonna go ahead and say norwegian is the bridge between germanic languages.... its old icelandic... old english... its been under danish rule.... its been under swedish rule.... its been ocupied by germany
As an English speaker I tend to understand Norwegian more frequently than the other Nordic languages. It’s not much, but every now and then, I can understand a word, or even a phrase or sentence.
I don't know how it is in Helsinki but she probably means sociolect, not "slang". There's a ton of those in southeastern Norway, where people who have never been away from their remote city think "everyone speak the same plain dialect" then are in for a rough one. Just in Oslo there's at least 2 sociolects (Eastern and Western). Anyone in the middle (phonetically) probably did not grow up in the city (and speak a perceived artificial "written" main form) or were born in another country altogether.
Helsinki dialect however is called slang in Finnish "Stadin slangi". It is a sociolect, but always referred by the word slang. It's very unique dialect in Finnish language with huge vocabulary of loan words. Almost all people in Helsinki speak "modern slang", but fewer speak and know "old slang".
I´m Swedish and don´t speak dutch. Although there are often some words or sentences that sounds crazy Swedish. My mother is fluent in Dutch and has given me some examples over the years. Not the best example but the only one I can think of: The atlantic wall in Holland is called something like "afsluitsdijk" (sorry for butching it). We call it "Atlantvallen". But "avslut" in Swedish is roughly translated to finish or stopping, and "dike" is ditch. So to me it looks like "avsluts-dike" or something like ditch that stops something. That was probably not so clear but anyway, I´m always fascinated in the Dutch language although I don´t understand it.
@@michaelheimbrand5424 That's cool! Though the Atlantikwall is not the Afsluitdijk. The Afsluitdijk was constructed in 1927 and is indeed a dike, connecting Noord-Holland and Friesland. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afsluitdijk
@@Tweeteketje Ahh! That makes sense, and yet another similarity between Dutch and Swedish. I must have seen a sign when I drove there some 15 years ago, and it stuck. Thanks for the update.
For me, as non-Germanic language speaking person, the pronunciation of some Danish words sometimes sounds to me more like German, maybe there will be some influence, after all, they are neighbors and the northern part of Germany used to belong to Denmark.
Me with my Slavic Mother tongue watching this:Damn it,why I understand nothing👺!? Honestly I had tried to learn Norwegian language,but it end up not very successful;(
If Norwegian is too hard, maybe consider learning a language more closely related to your mother tongue. I myself tried to learn French but it was too hard, so I tried Dutch instead and it’s been much easier since Dutch is related to English. I enjoy it a lot. 😊
I don’t speak Swedish at all but I know some German. I was able to guess the animal was giraffe because I heard “Africa” and “long neck” but back-engineered it from German. I’m English so our languages have shared ancestry (except Finnish), and I like it when that becomes apparent.
Given that Finnish got thousands of old loan words from Swedish and Low German (the latter from the Hansa in the middle ages), it actually has a form of shared ancestry even with English. Not in syntax and grammar of course, but in vocabulary and culture.
@@tomorrowtomorrow8525 In fancy vocabulary, yes. But not in grammar or basic vocabulary. The most spoken words are still germanic and/or scandinavian. Also, all germanic languages use french words (and french uses germanic words), although not to the extent of English. What's really special with English among germanic languages is that it never had a spelling reform, only some confused extra letters thrown in by printers and scholars early on. That makes words from different eras having very incompatible, unintuitive and hard to guess speellings.
So many negative comments towards Finland being represented in this clip. As a Norwegian, Finns are our Nordic brothers and sisters. They are part of our group, no matter their language have a different root than ours. They will always be welcome in anything relating to the Nordic, just as much as Norwegians, Swedes, Danes and Icelanders. They are our family, period. And if you can't accept that, then fu... off
The dogs are barking, but the caravan is moving on.
Just pure jealousy.
"If you don't think like I think then you can f off" you are a mad man 😄 finns are much braver and honorable than most scandinavian countries so I'm not hating on them, I'm just stating the fact that they are not the same. The fact is that nobody in that room can understand her because she is too far different, linguistically.
And yet you don't accept Estonians who are also culturally Nordic and dpeak a similar language...
@@eksiarvamus Estonia is part of the Baltic countries both geographically and culturally
The point of this video is to have slightly different Germanic languages and see how much do they understand about each other. Sure, we're a Nordic country as well, but as a Finn I just don't see the reason why Finnish is included in this video. Finnish is not a Germanic language like Swedish, Norwegian and Danish so it makes zero sense to include Finnish in this context. Wouldn't it be silly to have a video about how much can a Finn and a Swede understand about Estonian, right?
For Finnish people, Josefin talking sounds like Swedish listening comprehension in school
That might be why she said "this is basic", because she sees it as basic schoolwork task
Most Swedish speaking Finns speak perfect Finnish if they need to, but usually stick to their own language. But once I had the weirdest experience on a train: I thought there was a group of three Swedish speakers and one Finn, as they switched the language as if one of them could not understand Swedish. But then I realized that every one of them, four young women, could switch the language in the middle of the conversation, possibly as there was a better phrase in either of the languages. They were all totally at home with both of our national languages and it made no difference to them what they were using. I had never heard anything like that before, it was quite amazing.
That is impressive! To know both languages that well, to choose the language that expressed what they wanted to say the best … so cool!
A few years ago, I had a similar kind of experience at the airports in 🇨🇦 Toronto and 🇩🇰 Copenhagen on my way back to 🇫🇮 Finland after a trip across Canada with my sister: two elderly women were talking English, when we were waiting for boarding in Toronto. Once we had landed at Copenhagen and we were sitting by the gate for our flight to Helsinki, I heard they spoke Finnish instead, but all of a sudden they reverted back to English. I don't remember one hundred percent, but they might have even spoken Swedish as well. It was baffling. I started chatting in Finnish with them, and it turned out that they were siblings of whom one was a naturalized Canadian citizen and the other was a Finnish citizen, and who were seeing each other after a long time. It was so cool. 🤓
I am a Swedish speaking Finn and that's what we did in the train with my friends :P
@@Basheez No doubt and you are awesome. I am from a totally Finnish speaking area and struggle with Swedish, but it is so cool that we have people who master both of our languages. For me starting my studies at the university of technology was the first time I met people that were Swedish speaking Finns. It is our strength to have two languages and should do everything to promote them both.
I saw bunch of young guys in the train speaking Swedish, except of excess use of the Finnish word "v!ttu" 😂
*edited typo
Swede here, loved the vid and love all my Finish, Norwegian and Danish siblings!
hii. kurze frage! i want to learn a scandinavian language so which one would be better to understand to the others easily. i have heard norwegian is the best but i just wanted to ask again
@ Just pick whichever language you like the most. You'll easily be able to understand the other languages with some practice and experience. Most of us rarely if ever interact with our neighbors, which is why it is sometimes hard for us to understand each other. Also, some dialects are hard for even native speakers to understand!
@Then it's between norwegian swedish and danish. Personally I have a bias towards swedish due to me being a native speaker but norwegian is arguably simpler grammatically. Danish is just a no-go and finnish isnt scandinavian
@If you want people to understand you... don't pick Danish
@@valizeth4073 Geographical history Finland is not Scandinavia. But they been with us for so long and are part of the general Nordic that ... hell .... I see them as Scandinavians. Im Swede btw.
As a Finnish speaking Finn 🇫🇮, it's sad to see so many negative comments that Finnish is included in this video. Let's enjoy what those languages have in common and how they are different, please. 🤗
It’s in another language family. That’s why it shouldn’t be there. It’s not a personal attack
@@kecleonboi Well, I have a BA degree in Spanish and English, so yeah... I feel offended by those comments, sorry. 😢A fun fact: the Legal Finnish (legalese) was developed using the grammar of Swedish as its base in order to ensure that everything is said unambiguously. That was told on the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation YLE's history documentary "Suomi on ruotsalainen" (Finland is Swedish).
@@kecleonboiFinland🇫🇮 is a Nordic country with Sweden 🇸🇪 Norway 🇸🇯 Denmark 🇩🇰 and Iceland 🇮🇸 politically, geographically economically, religiously, culturally and economically. They are all prosperous countries with high standards of living with high standards of living. Finland was ranked the happiest country 2018-2023 and the other Nordic countries are among the ten happiest countries.
The other Nordic countries really don't need to be ashamed of Finland.
@@cinderellaandstepsisters it doestn't change the fact that Finland is the western outskirts of the Uralic world lol Finns, Karelians, Northern Russians, Komi, Udmurts, Mansi. Smooth transition.
@@anttirytkonen11man who cares about your BA degree?? Not even relevant 🤣
Virkata is (to) Crochet in Finnish. Kutoa is knitting. People who don't do yarn craft, don't really know the difference. Regardless of the language.
Kutoa is to knit but also weave and neuloa is to knit only. How do you know if someone is weaving or knitting? 🤣 They also pronounced crochet wrong in English as the t at the end is silent.
Hekling in Norwegian.
@@TheCoveta Haken in Dutch
Moi
For a channel named "World Friends", there sure is quite a lot animosity in the comment section for finland not belonging here because their language differs so much from others nordic countries without them even understanding the point of this video. This is not a video of how countries with same language family can understand each other but how geologically nordic natives can understand each other, and Finland is by the fact a nordic country like the rest of them, even if you might not like it. Maybe if video would have been about scandinavian countries alone then I would have understood to why not include finland in it.
But it would have been interesting to see Icelandic represented in the video because they belong with other nordic countries.
The finnish girl impressed me, imagine sweden norway and denmark guess finnish words instead
Definitely. Its a completely different thing to understand Scandi language when you're in a completely different language group. Swe, nor & dan are super similar.
It was Norse people who (re-)settled Finland after the Viking age, not the other way around.
@@cognomen9142 what do you mean? Sweden taking over Finland? I guess more people moved to Finland from Sweden back then, but also other way around. After ww2 then it was finns going to Sweden.
It kind of is to be expected. The difference is that all (Finnish speaking) Finns study Swedish for multiple years during their school education, and English is also closely related to the Scandinavian languages.
Its because we have obligatory swedish from 6th grade until 9th unless you go to high school, then you must do a couple courses. Wouldnt be surprised if universities also taught swedish as obligatory.
And like she said we have slangs that are so similar to swedish. It all tbf depends on whete you're from. I could definitely understand better than her, but the dialect spoken where I live is more swedishy
Native Dutch speaker here! I did understand the word for rain, rabbit and I almost got wet tissue. In Dutch it is regen, konijn and natte doekjes (we use 'servet' too, but that will be like a napkin for us). I also did understand the description of the giraffe. Again in Dutch it will be: Het dier heeft een lange nek (we can use 'hals' too) met vlekken op zijn lichaam. Het leeft in Afrika. Funny to see the similarities 😂🇳🇱
Yea same to me haha I understood the description about the giraffe I literally didn’t know there were still so much similarities in Swedish so I was really shocked
As Austrian I got your regen and natte doekjes. 😂
"Het dier heeft een lange nek (we can use 'hals' too)"
in swedish the word nek (or neck in english) would be nacke
but the swedish word nacke refers specifically to the backside part whereas hals can be the front or the whole thing
@@MarcusH... oh yeah same for us! 'Nek' for the front and 'hals' back
@@bastenkroodewell that's the opposite then lol
I’m from Åland which is an island between Sweden and Finland. We speak Swedish even though we belong to Finland and we don’t have the accent either, just a small difference from swedes. So the thing about Finnish people sounding pretty depressed is worse for us. If you have the accent people can tell you’re from Finland but if you don’t you will just sound like a depressed swede.
im a swedish speaker from östnyland (uusimaa) and our swedish sounds quite different from swedes
But Åland is Swedish or Finnish ?
Ålanders speaks perfect swedish buuut they have a heavy dialect. so you know they are from finland. Im 50/50 finnish/swedish but born in sweden
Iceland has left the chat , good see more male members , last time was a guy from the Netherlands and a Norwegian gentleman
People from Iceland are too hard to find 😭
Fs for Faroe Islands
Greenland?
@@CaptRexSkyEye118 Greenland is Native American
@@marcellomancini6646 OK.
Poor Iceland 😂 , always have left in Nordic country videos , must be hard to find someone from Iceland
The same goes for the Faroese language...
Yes!!! One day I’ll see my language here 🥲🥲❗️❗️
It is hard. Less than a million people live in Iceland 🇮🇸
Ja, det bor vel ikke så mange der. Tror det bare er sånn fem hundre tusen.
På Færøyene bor det enda færre. Dessuten er Færøyene en del av Danmark.
This was really interesting to watch. Being a native Spanish speaker, I have zero knowledge about any of these languages.
Guys, yes Finnish is way differnet, but that doesn't change the fact that many Finnish people have a basic understanding of Swedish, since it is a madatory school subject, and as the girl in points out in the video, the native speakers (finlandssvensk)
Exactly. I invite everyone that thinks there is nothing scandinavian about Finland to visit Åland and Svenskfinland. Join us for a crayfish party or sail in a clinker built sailboat. Visit the swedish-speaking countryside/hembygd/heimat filled with nearly identical houses and identical gärdsgårdar to the Swedish countryside, painted with the same falun red and ocher yellow colours so common to both Sweden and Norway.
This weird modern compulsory need to completely disinclude Finland from Scandinavia stems from the Swedish national trauma of losing Finland to Russia in 1809, "didn't want it anyways", "we have lost our identity and we need to find a new one quickly - let there be vikings (that no one had given a single crap about previously)".
@@Pythonizah It also has to do with Finnish nationalism, square autistic thinking, and people tending to emphasis shallow jeopardy knowledge.
@@Xzazashake So black and white thinking, oh the irony
@@XzazashakeNot true.
The language is different, but ppl are not.
As a Finn I understood most things she said.
As a Dane living in Copenhagen, 30 minutes drive from Sweden, this was very easy. Also Danish and Swedish, though prnounced rather differently, are basically very similar.
Reading Danish is pretty easy, but spoken Danish is quite hard to understand for a Swede (perhaps easier for those living in Skåne (Scania) though. Like if I watch a Danish movie or TV-series without subtitles I would say I pick up like perhaps one word in a sentence, but if there are Danish subtitles, then I "hear" what they say.
If a Norwegian on the other hand, it's much easier, I usually don't need subtitles at all, and just miss a word here and there.
@@Asa...S Even in Denmark it's been noticed that the language used in many new Danish tv series is based on youthful Copenhagen 'street language', which can be very unclear and the distinction between the words can be very difficult to identify. Even elderly Danes are said to use subtitles whe watching new Danish tv drama. But in one to one conversations with Swedes, mostly it's very easy to make oneself understood. But it's true that even though written Norwegian and Danish (at least when it comes to bokmål) are almost identical, and Swedish is a bit further away, spoken Swedish and Norwegian seem to be more similar. I love all those similarities and differences bweteen our languages, which at the core are very similar, but in practice sometimes a bit challenging.
@@nielsulriksrensen9818 Yeah, it's really interresting! Also, there are so many different dialects in all of the Scandinavian languages that is easier or more difficult to understand. I checked out "Danske dialekter: Knud Erik fra Midt & Vestjylland", and I just hear a word here and there that I understand, but I don't understand what he's talking about, but when I watched "Danske dialekter: Charlotte fra Rønne på Bornholm" I probably understood 95 % of what she said. Some dialects are hard to understand even in our own countries.
The dialect in southern sweden sounds a lot more like danish than if you're from stockholm, göteborg, dalarna or the north. But I guess that makes sense, right? They don't use hard "R's" in the south for example.
The Norwegian guy's English accent is almost indistinguishable from native.
The Finnish girl is so cute! and did amazingly well as well
The Finnish girl is absolutely beautiful. Like a LOTR elf princess or somethin.
Even as a German I understood quite a lot
Bis auf Finnisch sind das alles germanische Sprachen. Nah mit dem Deutschen verwandt.
swedish, norwegian and danish are germanic languages, so it is very similar to german, that might be why!
The thing about Norwegian sounding so "happy/up and down" is very much a dialect thing. The majority of Swedes are more exposed to the Oslo area dialect either through media or having been/lived there, that's usually why they tend to think like that. Both languages have a ton of dialects .
As a Norwegian I have a lot of Danish family, so I usually pick up most of it very easily unless it's very extreme. It's very much about training your ears and getting used to it with all the Scandinavian languages . Finnish just sounds cool :)
Not really Swedish is more similar nationwide as dialects were never encouraged.
@@lmatt88 I believe @CM-ey7nq was talking about dialects within Norway (and which one(s) Swedes are exposed to).
My dialect from Northern Norway is definitely *not* of the "sing-songy" type. More like Finnish, intonation wise. (Of course words are completely different).
Finnish is a FinnoUgric Uralic languages.
@@lmatt88 I know a page of Swedish dialect samples if you think so! The most famous is Älvdalska, which is incomprehensible even to Swedes, it's almost like a different language. But there are plenty of northern dialects which are very hard for us Norwegians anyway.
@@Mnnvint yeah it's a minority which are very distinct though, Swedish encourages a national standard and all dialects are evolving towards that. In Norway it's different as dialects are heavily encouraged.
Finnish is my favorite between all them. And Danish is the hardest for the pronunciation.
I love Finland more than others.🇺🇿🤝🇫🇮
They will enter Valhalla unlike Finland
0:16 props to the Finnish girl! All love 🇫🇮🇸🇪 - A Swedish-speaking Finn
The finnish girl must do audiobook narrations, id pay for that
The Finnish girl is so cute in both looks and personality!
My bisexual ass would do both her and Steinar. Lol 😂
This was a clip about Nordic languages. Finland is Nordic so why is it so difficult for some people. Finnish is different but it is still Nordic. Lets compare central American languages. Spanish and English.
There's a good chance the creators of this video thought all Nordic languages were the same, so they brought in Finland, instead of just focusing on Scandinavian languages, which would've been more fun to see.
The finnish language is not nordic
🇸🇪❤️🇫🇮 Our best neighbour! So much common history together. Hyvä!
Sveriges sak är vår.
We have not similar languges at all what are you saying? And sweden’s best friend is norway they r much more similar to you in everything like finland’s best friend is Estonia because we have similar language and people. Swedes and Finns are so different at everything scandinavians are much more similar and have many common things together
@@neelia1982 I am not speaking about the language. However, I can agree on some things you are mentioned. Here is the thing. Norway, Sweden and Finland do have Sami people and they speak a language with a lot of different dialects. Denmark does not have it. Swedish is taught at school in Finland and Finnish is a minority language in Sweden with some status, this is not the case for Norway and Denmark. Åland which belongs to Finland has Swedish as their official language. In the towns Haparanda and Övertorneå, many people speak both Swedish and Finnish. Finnish and Swedish have some words in common, which is loanwoards. Culturally, language and stuff, yes Estonia and Finland are closest to each other. Sweden is a big country, Finland too if we look to the size. F.ex people from the south of Sweden might feel closer to Denmark, Meanwhile people from the west might feel closer to Norway etc... Look at the Nato process... It explains a lot. I have friends from Finland, and they feel the same as I do. We both are secular, progressive countries, we have a quite long history together. Why do you get offended? Many Swedes, at least my friends and when I am reading articles about Finland, is always, at least almost always positive. We like what you've achieved. Estonia is nice to but they are further away, and it is true, Estonians and Finns are culturally very close to each other. There have been more Swedish spoken Estonians but now... Idk. Norway and Denmark are best friends I would say. Their languages are pretty much the same in the written form, Swedish is very similar but Norwegian and Danish are even more similar and they do understand each other better than a Swede and a Dane talking to each other. God natt vännen, Hyvää yötä ystävä!
@@neelia1982 Estonians have a totally different history than the Finns and we have practically nothing in common except a related language.
@@eliasnjetski1146Well said, det är sant. Glöm inte, att vi båda också har riktigt bra metal musik. 🤘
Hälsingarna från Finland.
Great video! The Finish girl is so charming :) greatings from Denmark. Happy we have so many good neighbors to the north. Love you all and Sweden a little less :P
In reality, when these four Nordic people communicate as a group they speak English. As every one of their national languages is a small language with 5 - 11 million speakers, they all learn English to be able to communicate with the rest of the world. Practically everyone in the Nordic countries can speak English at least at a basic level; the younger generations quite well. In Finland the English classes start from grade 1 and continue all through primary and secondary education.
No I speak Swedish with Danes and Norwegians. Finnish-speaking Finns switch to English if you try to speak Swedish with them even though they're supposed to be bilingual. But that's fair as all the Finnish I know are what I gleaned while watching Finnish children's shows on the telly as a kid. Moi mukulatti, yksi, kaksi, kolme and so on.
Children don't need English lessons, all they need are cartoons.
Saying that Norwegians and Danes have to learn English... Maybe you should inform yourself about origin of Bokmal
A bokmal is the same as a bookworm. I guess you mean Bokmål? The "å" can also be written like "aa", and "ä" can be written like "ae" if you don't have a Scandinavian keyboard. @@BojanPeric-kq9et
@@tovep9573do you have óüöúőűáéí set on your keyboard? Or čćšđž? If no, why not? Please, don't say that č and ć are the same sign, or that a and á are same because sounds are totally different...
@@BojanPeric-kq9et It is a fact that the younger generation of Finns speak better English than the old as their formal education of the language now starts earlier. We should also start the formal education of Swedish earlier to improve the results. Due to the proximity of Sweden, companies functioning in both countries and co-operation at all levels, Swedish is the next after English in the order of importance of languages.
As a Norwegian that was so easy to understand.
Too many Captains Obvious in the comments talking about different language groups. The same was about Arabic and Turkish. Just chillax, this information is really redundant.
Russian language is completely different from finnish. Russian language is a subgroup in the indoeuropian family. The Scandinavian languages and other europian languages are in this group. Scandinavian languages are closer to Russian than finnish.
True finnish is uralic like hungarian
Of course Norwegian is still much different from russian bt still has familiar stuff maybe
True. Russian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish & Icelandic are indo European languages. Finnish is an Uralic language.
@@stalker3839Scandinavian languages are in the Indoeuropian family. Just like Russia is.
finnish and russian have their similarities like no articles and loan words
@@fakelaw8123 Russian language is still in the Indoeuropian family.
6:17 “Denmark, what is that?” 😂😂😂
Being a Norwegian learner, I could understand this lol
Very interesting, as a German I understood way more than I expected 😊🇩🇪 Not every single word, but I was able to make sense of it 🤔
They are all (except Finnish, that is) North Germanic languages, so we share a lot of words with German. I had German in school, but didn't really pay attention. Still I can understand a lot when I read German.
Funny story: I attended a course, and everyone were Dutch besides me. I was also the only one attending over video call. In the breaks they all switched to Dutch, but left the audio on, so during the week I got used to the sound and structure of the language. When the instructor started a session on one of the last days, he forgot to switch back to English, and I didn't even notice before another student made him aware of it. I could basically understand everything by picking out some words and guessing at the rest. I'm thinking Dutch and German have about the same differences as Norwegian and Swedish.
I'm Dutch. I understood most of the Swedish too. Some parts were very easy, some parts I had to pay close attention, some parts I was lost.
@@BobWitlox I basically grew up with Swedish. We had more Swedish TV channels than Norwegian ones, I live only 10 miles from the border, and a lot of swedes move here for work.
@@AudunWangen If you can speak swedish (or norwegian), english and german, you can pretty much understand everything in dutch. I don't speak fluent german so I have some trouble understanding spoken dutch, unless they speak slowly, but I can read it pretty much perfectly. And I have a friend who speaks all three languages fluently, he has no problems at all understanding spoken dutch. Even if it's a bunch of dutch people speaking normally to eachother.
I also think it's quite fun. :)
German is the 3rd language I learned and I was able to understand a bit, so I figured a German would understand some
as an icelander it’s super easy for me to understand swedish and norwegian, danish is a bit confusing sounding, and obviously i would not be able to understand finnish at all 😂😂
Don't you learn Danish at school?
@@MrGunnar69 yes but i still do not understand it well 🥲
@@saerunofarc I don't think even the Danes understand Danish, at least not in spoken form.
@@saerunofarc That´s hilarious, and yes I´m Swedish. Also, interesting that you understand Swedish. I don´t understand anything Icelandic. But I have tried to listen to it. I think I heard sometime that it is like a lot of ancient Swedish in Icelandic (?).
Sæll! Gaman að hitta þig! Ég er að læra íslensku. Great to meet Icelanders online and at least someone from there watching this. Too bad there's no one to take part in the video, though
As a Finn I wouldn't care less if we're part of Scandinavia; also very weird if someone here does actually care about it. The fact is: it's not, move on. Same goes for the Nordics, if some Nationalist from Norway wants to think it's not; let him think that way, who cares. They are not Nordic country since they suck at hockey and floorball (joking). I'm not concerned at all if my country is part of some area or not since it has zero affect to my life and probably to your life also.
I remember maybe a few words of Swedish from school since I've never needed it and it's pretty common in Finland that people just "survive" through Swedish lessons and before they turn 20 they've forgot everything. I'm at my 40s and Jag heter Peter is everything I can say these days, even that is incorrect since afaik I'm not Peter. I did customer service for 20 years, yet I actually never needed to know Swedish and I live in Helsinki area where big part of the "finlandssvensk" live. I just wanted to add that because I find this video funny and entertaining but yet it's pretty silly to compare Finnish to other Nordic languages, it's there just for the fun factor so don't take everything so seriously.
We're good neighbors and I like swedes, danes, norweigans and icelanders and even if our languages are different, I have never had any problems getting along with people from those countries. I would swap russia to north pole (or to the moon) and take Norway, Denmark or Iceland to our other side any day.
Don‘t be this resentful, we haven‘t tried to conquer you for ages.
Finland may be Nordic , but it is not in the same family as these other three , Denmark , Norway and Sweden are Scandinavian and Finland is not
title says nordic not scandinavian
Of course, it belongs to the same family as the Estonian language, although Finnish speakers have been in contact with the Swedish language for a long time and are familiar with it.
@@VeryClearLanguages And they also learn it at school, which was said in the video. I'm proud of the Finnish girl for remembering that much, because most Finns I know just forget most of it once they stop learning it lol.
It’s Scandinavian. What you’re talking about is that they aren’t related linguistically
@@thespankmyfrank Yeah we all know English is more popular
I'm Frysk, I got rain, wet tissue and rabbit. which is Rein, wiet doekje, knyn. I love the similarities. i did understand the first and last story, struggled with the hobbies.
Doekje must have common roots with Norwegian "duk", which normally refers to a table cloth, but with a bit of good will (not always or necessarily) it can also be used in a broader sense. "Teltduk" simply means "tent fabric". Fallskjermduk, the fabric of a parachute. Glassfiberduk. Although fabric in Norwegian is "stoff". And the Swedes have their näsduk and handduk, probably among other words too. But did you know that the Danish word "viskestykke" means a kitchen cloth? Sort of logical, as it directly translated means "wipe piece"😂
as a finn, i only understood what the swede said because of the loan words (kanin, virka), and it's still mandatory for us to learn swedish in school, even though only 5% of our population speaks it as their first language. some people are against learning swedish due to our history or because they consider it 'useless,' as many finns will not become even close to fluent in swedish. their knowledge often extends to just 'hej jag heter...' and that's it.
I have heard almost all finns can say: jag är bög. Haha just to make fun of us. Is that true? (A swede)
@@birgerfurugard7259 The song 'Portion Boys feat. Åke från Team Sweden - Nej Nej' would indicate you might be correct...
@@hakanstorsater5090 hahaha thanks for that faboulus song
@@birgerfurugard7259 all finns can say "jag heter homo peter" i dont know why though lol 😁
Should embrace it more :) We're all like brothers up here, and if World were to be fucked up, we 5 (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland) could be a nice little super world power :) And we all kinda understand eachother except the finnish language :P So if you can speak atleast a lil swedish and understand, it will go long with all countrys :)
Now, do the same video but let the Dane be the speaker and no one will understand a thing. It´s a similar language to Swedish and Norwegian, but the pronunciation is complete gibberish to the others.
They would get the words that they could see how they were written. It is really easy to read danish.
Not for all! I studied at University of Copenhagen together with some norweigans and some swedes, and they didn't have many problems. They would understand me just fine most of the time when i spoke to them in danish (and the other way around).
I see many people calling danish pronounciation gibberish, but in practice, my experience is, that it's not as hard as people make it sound like.
The finnish girl is so beautiful
My fave thing here was the Norwegian’s biceps
Amen. He’s so gorgeous.
Here in Norway we often say that it's easier for us to understand spoken swedish than spoken Danish, but it's easier to understand written Danish than written Swedish.
Finnish is in its own world, and it would be very tough for us to understand anything unless they used Swedish or other foreign loanwords.
Yep. I´m Swedish and have no problem with Norwegian. But I really have a hard time with spoken Danish. I get that you understand each other in written form. It´s pretty easy for me to understand both, and as a matter of fact I think written Danish and Norwegian looks exactly the same.
@@michaelheimbrand5424 The differences between Danish and Norwegian Bokmål could often be fairly subtle if you don't have any voiced final consonants to look for....
@@hakanstorsater5090it's the same language, or at least as similar as Portuguese is to Galician
I think it could work with someone from Finland if s/he came from the swedish speaking parts. That version of swedish has changed into something that I, as a swede, would have to concentrate as much as I’d have to with danish and norwegian. It’s so cool, word for word it is swedish (and often old version) but the way sentenses are put together makes it totally different. 👌🏼
@@gellawella What do you mean? Some traditional, rural dialect? The standard "High Swedish" Finland Swedish is rarely that difficult to understand, once you get the hang of the different melody.
In Finnish: kani = rabbit, jänis = hare
I doubt the younger generations know the difference between the two.. Even people from other countries think both are the same animal.
Hey guys! It's Azemin ^^ 🇩🇰
Thank you for enjoying our little video🥰
So good see you again , Azemin from Denmark 🇩🇰 , hope see you more often 😊
@@Charl_es19 Thank you for the kind words☺️🙏🏼🙏🏼
Do you continue to make videos with world friends ;
It's interesting that i can pick up on some words like beef, soup, and promenade (walk in french). I speak english, french, and greek, and it's kind of cool to vaguely understand a bit from a language so far from the ones I know
They all speak perfect English - have the dumb Americans commenting against these videos noticed how good their grammar is and how extensive their English vocabulary is? - When I visited the Netherlands back in the 90s as a kid, I was surprised to learn the Dutch are taught THREE languages at School - Dutch, German, and English. - And here you have so-called “Native English Speakers” in the US and UK struggling with even basic English grammar, pronunciation, punctuation, and vocubulary and routinely flunking English standardized tests that students from all over the world including Africa, West Indies, South Asia, Europe, and the Far East routinely ace as a matter of course.😄😄
In Denmark we are also taught 3 languages in school. Danish, English from grade 1 and German or French from grade 5 (except southern Denmark near the German border, where they have chosen to teach german from grade 1). In High school we then continue with danish and english, and choose between continuing with german/french or start beginner level of a new language (e.g. spanish).
As an American I just physically crumpled up in shame after reading this comment
I speak German and it was quite easy with the words, butnthe sentences were pretty difficult to understand. Except the giraffe, I immediately got that.
What r people crying here about Finland being included here?
The point of this video was to guess what she's saying in Swedish. Most of the Finns know basic level Swedish. Even I understood most of it even tho it has been over 10 years since I learned it in school. And many Finnish words are similar to Swedish words, as that Finnish girl said in this video.
Then I would understand the complains if others had to guess the Finnish language.
And the second official language in Finland is Swedish.
Well, that settles it: I'm learning Norwegian! 🤤
Beautiful people, beautiful video.Thank you World Friends🙂🥰
Not only Helsinki slang but in western Finland there is so many loan words from Swedish.
Like one episode you were talking about Sand and in Finnish it's 'hiekka' but here we also say 'santa'
The Danish woman is gorgeous
I can see that the Sweden is from like sileshåret in the westcoast bc you hear the accent and i remember Another video when she Said the city whatever the city was
The fact that I’m Armenian who lived in Armenia only and guessed Giraffe 🇦🇲💀
The only word I got in the entire thing was "Africa" so you beat me :)
@@Wanderer_in_the_Desert_Winds do you think the only animal in Africa is giraffe? 😭😭
@@Armenia.Europe Nope, I have seen many animals in Africa, yet never seen a giraffe. The only word I got though was "Africa" from her, since I don't know any Swedish, Norse, Finnish or Danish :)
@@Wanderer_in_the_Desert_Winds AGGHH SORRY , I thought you said: (you got by the word “Africa”)
We dont deserve such a good neighbor like Finland
Well, maybe we don‘t.
The Norwegian guy is so hot!!❤
amazing!
The Norwegian guy is absolutely gorgeous. What a Viking god 👱🏻♂️❤
Gotta say the Danish lady looks kinda like a mix between Monica Barbaro from Top Gun:Maverick and Alicia Vikander. The Norwegian guy looks like a Nordic Theo James
In german 'regn' is Regen. So the pronounication is different, but you can see the similarity and then you probably guess the right thing😊
We are after all Nordic Brothers And Sisters
A lot of these comments of Finland are hurtful and sinister. How jealous arrogant and bad can the ppl be.
About the animal, Dutch people would understand it to because hals is the same it means neck and vleks is similar to vlekjes what means little spots and the born in Africa we understand it to
Interesting. I’m Indonesian who’s learning German atm, and I can definitely see some similarities. Nice to see a gentleman among the ladies. Please bring in more guys to balance it out.
there's ONE Scandinavian Country missing here. Iceland. AKA Anchient Norse/viking Language that's been modernized.
"Virka" is "hekle" in Danish and Norwegian, if I remember correctly. The Danish and Norwegian words are borrowed from Middle Low German, while I guess virka is related to the word for work. (Danish and Norwegian "virke" would mean seem/ appear or work and wouldn't fit in this context, here...)
In german we say häkeln, but I also can see the relation to the not anymore so common phrase of einen Stoff wirken, which means something like to loop or sling threads to a textile.
@@juwen7908 I guess it's possible that Swedish and Danish could have borrowed the term from different (Low) German varieties. Seems to have happened on a few other occasions, such as Swedish arbeta vis-a-vis Danish arbejde...
@@hakanstorsater5090yes virka is borrowed from german wirken
@@leob4403 Ah, still related to the verb "work", but with a very specific semantic evolution in Swedish, then...
@@juwen7908There you have it! The Swedish word is originally a loan word from Plattdeutsch: "wirken".
Finland is part of the Nordic countries (They are not Scandinavia as such, though). The Nordic countries are Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, and the autonomous regions of Åland, Faroe Islands, and Greenland. I definitely consider Finns my distant brothers and sisters (I'm Swedish).
I also found that most Swedish people from the south understand Norwegian and Danish perfectly well but people further up country can't understand anyone except the ones in their own city.
Waiting for comparing Finnish/Estonian/Hungarian
Hungarian is completely different from the other two, it's like Russian and Hindi or something similar...
@@hakanstorsater5090not entirely different , we share a very few similar core words like hand or ice and stuff.
@@SzilardPc Yeah, I know, but communication would probably be worse than for instance between a Spanish and a Russian speaker...
As a native English speaker I was somehow able to get the giraffe one just because I heard long something and lives in Africa.
A lot of things are long in Africa.
it'd be cool to include icelandic
They forgot Iceland
Guys we get it. Finnish isn’t in the same language group. But it has similar words and/or shared history with Swedish so it was included. Don’t forget that Tagalog was also put in an episode with Spanish and Portuguese.
EDIT: Stop commenting things I didn't say. Having similar words doesn't mean I'm saying they're similar languages. I'm very clearly not saying that, which is why I mentioned Tagalog being included with Spanish and Portuguese. Spanish and Portuguese are similar languages. Tagalog is not, HOWEVER, it does have many similar words with these languages.
Finnish doesnt have similar words with Swedish. Maybe because of the closeness and history they are using some words of Swedish origin, but thats it.
Sorry but no, Finnish may have a lot of loanwords as Sweden had colonized it centuries before, but in no way are they similar languages. Completely different families with different grammar and history.
@@TheHungarianOak I feel like finnish is closer to Magyar than any of the Nordic languages
@@empiraafy of course it is, and even so, we cannot understand a word of Finnish.
They do have similar words. I think you're probably confusing me saying they have similar words to them being similar languages. That's not what I'm saying. Tagalog and Spanish are not similar languages at all but they do in fact have a lot of similar words.@@TheHungarianOak
Next time do one with English to 😊
Next time, bring someone from Iceland so that we can see the difference of all the Nordic languages together.
Oh, actually of you want to hear all languages from Scandinavia it should be Suomi and Faroese too.
@@mateuszjozefiak4388 Faroese is very similar to Icelandic. On the other hand, Faroese, Greenlandic, Sumi are local languages, they are not considered an official country. Since Iceland is a country, I would have liked to see it next to these four🥺
@@Mehrab_Azimi Well good luck in finding someone who speaks icelandic or faroese in south korea
@@mateuszjozefiak4388Suomi means Finland. Are you talking about sami?
You should compare numbers and counting, i imagine danish would stick out then and finnish ofcourse.
In german we can do it good, when we work with just one word like 'kanin' we would guess it is a Kaninchen. But when it comes to whole sentences and we don't see it written down, we are mostly totally lost.🤓
So you thought it’s Kaninchen and not Hund?
Why should it be Hund?
@@juwen7908 it sounds like it's related to canis.
@@ivanmatveyev13 oh no, has nothing to do with each each other. Actually in german we may could use the same word like the swedes, but we add the ending -chen, which means little and for some reason it stays like that. 😉 Probably cause they're all soo cute and tiny. 🐇
@@juwen7908 have you heard older people use the old version?
I love how french words in english are said as a frenchman. Chrochet the t is silent, however I'll let rhis pass considering yow natives say guillotine
Why the fuck can I understand this ? Even though I am a South Indian . I could guess what they were saying . Weird 😂
you can guess a little bit if you know english because they both have germanic roots
@TheAlex29494 maybe I guess. Rain was the easiest to guess but not sure how I could make out wet wipes or giraffe or fish soup or her hobbies. It's baffling 😂
Maybe because you Indians speak English, many words in the British language are derived from European Germanic languages
@@tomorrowtomorrow8525 hmm I guess, English is 2nd language but my native language is from Dravidian family group. Not sure how that's related. Anyways it's quite interesting.
Not to put on my “well, actually” glasses but the Swedish word Kanin would actually be more so “Rabbit” or “Bunny” while Hare in Swedish would be “Hare” (spelt the same but pronounced differently). But we use them pretty interchangeably, like for example “EasterBUNNY” in Swedish is “PåskHARE” and not “PåskKANIN” like you could understandably assume it would be from what I just said earlier
(Edit: Had to really put on my glasses and edit fix this comment btw)
If you call rabbits hares, then what do you call the European hare? Is it also hare? How do you differentiate between the two species if you use the same word for both? Finnish has "rusakko" for the European hare and "jänis" for rabbit to make sure it is clear which animal we talk about. I think I'd be confused if there was just one word for two different animals. 😅
@@mitsusah2612 but we don’t have just one word for different animals, we have Kanin and Hare but both can be used interchangeably depending on context. Mostly we just call pet ones “kanin”, wild ones “hare”
@@Robman92 Yeah, we have a separate word for pet rabbits or bunnies too. I mean, you have hares and rabbits in wild, right? Two different animals. The European hare and the smaller rabbit. Do you use just one word for two different species? Because you have so far only meantioned words "kanin" (for pet/bunny) and "hare" (for rabbit) , but in English, we have now meantioned three different animals (bunny, rabbit and European hare). So, do you not have a third word for the third animal?
@@mitsusah2612 European hare is still a hare tho, just an other species of hare. We would call European Hare a “europeisk hare”. There’s Hare and Kanin with their sub-species ofc
@@Robman92 So, if you hear someone says "Det finns en hare där" there is no way to know if it is a wild rabbit or a hare? How very odd.
I’m Mexican and I don’t speak Scandinavian languages, but since I know a little German, I could get the giraffe one
FYI, the word "crochet" is pronounced "crow-shay" in English ;) It's a French word that means hook!
I speak German and understand as much as they did.
I am German and understood almost nothing. But it was nice to listen to them. 😊
@@GoodOldErin Really?
@@daseteam Yes, for me it was difficult to understand. I'm better in understanding Roman languages.
As soon as she said a word that sounded like "long", I guessed Giraffe. Then I heard "Africa" and doubled down.
It's so weird that the Finnish one is the most outgoing, hahaha.
Not weird at all. A lot of ppl like that in Finland.
@@butterflies655 I know, but the stereotype states that Finnish people are closed off, introverted, and socially retracted. I was making a humorous observation that took the knowledge of the stereotype as a presupposition.
@@sortingoutmyclothes8131actually they tell the same of other Nordic countries as well.
@@sortingoutmyclothes8131I think they wouldnt put a typical finnish weirdo in a video like this, they put the most social one they could find😂
@@leob4403 The most introverted and socially retracted Finns would also be among the least likely to move to South Korea...
Thank you guys! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Me as a German I can understand a little bit😅
Is it true that many German dialects are mutually unintelligible?
@@papazataklaattiranimamyes. hard to understand or unintelligible
@@papazataklaattiranimam some are some aren't. As a low german speaker from the border to Denmark I would have loved to be included in this video. I get around fine in Scandinavia, especially Norway, but fail to understand fellow germans and their respective dialects.
@@papazataklaattiranimam yes 😅 but I think the most dialects are "okay" to understand as a German. But for example an old Swabian talk to me I wouldn't understand, and I am living since 1999 in Germany in the Swabian part of Germany 😅 I think older people had a very strong dialect and it's pretty hard to understand. I never would be able to understand low German 😬 but I understand the most of Pennsylvania Dutch 🙈
Our Scandinavian languages sounds so much more beautiful than your annoying mono tone German language!
im gonna go ahead and say norwegian is the bridge between germanic languages.... its old icelandic... old english... its been under danish rule.... its been under swedish rule.... its been ocupied by germany
As an English speaker I tend to understand Norwegian more frequently than the other Nordic languages. It’s not much, but every now and then, I can understand a word, or even a phrase or sentence.
@@isaachester8475 i bet you understand more then you realise..
I don't know how it is in Helsinki but she probably means sociolect, not "slang".
There's a ton of those in southeastern Norway, where people who have never been away from their remote city think "everyone speak the same plain dialect" then are in for a rough one.
Just in Oslo there's at least 2 sociolects (Eastern and Western). Anyone in the middle (phonetically) probably did not grow up in the city (and speak a perceived artificial "written" main form) or were born in another country altogether.
Helsinki dialect however is called slang in Finnish "Stadin slangi". It is a sociolect, but always referred by the word slang. It's very unique dialect in Finnish language with huge vocabulary of loan words. Almost all people in Helsinki speak "modern slang", but fewer speak and know "old slang".
Inn the next video have an Icelander in the video and that will change everything
I am Dutch and have lived in Sweden for a couple of months, and I understood most of what Josefin said!
I´m Swedish and don´t speak dutch. Although there are often some words or sentences that sounds crazy Swedish. My mother is fluent in Dutch and has given me some examples over the years. Not the best example but the only one I can think of: The atlantic wall in Holland is called something like "afsluitsdijk" (sorry for butching it). We call it "Atlantvallen". But "avslut" in Swedish is roughly translated to finish or stopping, and "dike" is ditch. So to me it looks like "avsluts-dike" or something like ditch that stops something. That was probably not so clear but anyway, I´m always fascinated in the Dutch language although I don´t understand it.
@@michaelheimbrand5424 That's cool! Though the Atlantikwall is not the Afsluitdijk. The Afsluitdijk was constructed in 1927 and is indeed a dike, connecting Noord-Holland and Friesland. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afsluitdijk
@@Tweeteketje Ahh! That makes sense, and yet another similarity between Dutch and Swedish. I must have seen a sign when I drove there some 15 years ago, and it stuck. Thanks for the update.
Soljuu enkku kivasti Eloveenal. Siinähän yritätte kääntää. Ei ole onnistumassa. Toivottavasti en loukannut ketään...😂
Si può tradurre tutto anche qui direttamente su TH-cam 😄
For me, as non-Germanic language speaking person, the pronunciation of some Danish words sometimes sounds to me more like German, maybe there will be some influence, after all, they are neighbors and the northern part of Germany used to belong to Denmark.
Me with my Slavic Mother tongue watching this:Damn it,why I understand nothing👺!?
Honestly I had tried to learn Norwegian language,but it end up not very successful;(
Keep trying. I’m sure you’ll get the hang of it if you keep practicing. Learning a new language takes time but it is worth it.
If Norwegian is too hard, maybe consider learning a language more closely related to your mother tongue. I myself tried to learn French but it was too hard, so I tried Dutch instead and it’s been much easier since Dutch is related to English. I enjoy it a lot. 😊
I don’t speak Swedish at all but I know some German. I was able to guess the animal was giraffe because I heard “Africa” and “long neck” but back-engineered it from German. I’m English so our languages have shared ancestry (except Finnish), and I like it when that becomes apparent.
Given that Finnish got thousands of old loan words from Swedish and Low German (the latter from the Hansa in the middle ages), it actually has a form of shared ancestry even with English. Not in syntax and grammar of course, but in vocabulary and culture.
English is an impure Germanic language compared to other Germanic languages. . . English is more of a French-German mix
@@tomorrowtomorrow8525 In fancy vocabulary, yes. But not in grammar or basic vocabulary. The most spoken words are still germanic and/or scandinavian.
Also, all germanic languages use french words (and french uses germanic words), although not to the extent of English.
What's really special with English among germanic languages is that it never had a spelling reform, only some confused extra letters thrown in by printers and scholars early on. That makes words from different eras having very incompatible, unintuitive and hard to guess speellings.
I love the Finnish lady. Familj ❤
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They had to separate the Swedish chick further away from the guy for some reason.