Swedish - The #1 North Germanic language!

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As a German speaker, Swedish is like Danish, but more normal.

Textbook: "Nej, det gör han inte." Me, a Swede: "Aedegöante." Edit: Smålänning

When he said "'Öl är dyrare i Norge än i Sverige", I felt that.

I agree with you about how enjoyable the process of learning Swedish is. It took me two years to master the language. The pronunciation is sometimes a challenge but the language is fairly easy to learn. The hardest part is not the language, it's finding people to talk Swedish to. It's hard to make friends in Sweden.

me, a swede: watches the whole video in awe, thinking swedish seems difficult

-I have never been to Norway. -Why not? -Beer is more expensive in Norway than in Sweden. That's a pretty good reason actually.

As Spanish speaker it was more like a “walk in the park” to learn Swedish from English than if I had learned it from Spanish. The challenge has been to manage to go from a 5 vowel sound language to a 12 vowel sound language. You have to learn to differentiate long from short vowel sounds and to pry vowel sounds in between two that you are not able to differentiate. And the last problem is the “singing” sooo important! If someone would speak to me in Spanish with that Swedish singing I would have to “recompile” the phrase, flat it out and the repeat it in my head without the “melody”. The same thing happens to the Swedish people when listening to a Spanish native speaking Swedish. We speak so “flat” and “fast” that they need to recompile the phrase, put the melody and slow down the rpm from 45 to 33.

I’m a Japanese but one of my friends is a Swede so I’m trying to learn Swedish language. Its sounds are so beautiful.

As a Swede, I speak: 60% standard Swedish, 30% Östgötska and 10% Gibberish.

I'm a native Swedish speaker, but you taught me a new word: boken, meaning overripe or spoiled (of fruit). Never heard before. ☺️

I am Swedish and have never heard the word "boken" as in overripe, spoiled. I wondered if it was a dialect word. After searching it seems to be a word that is used in northern Sweden? Being from the southern half I have never come across it. Interesting. Edit: I thought I was alone, but looking through the comments lots of other Swedes had not heard of "boken" as overripe either. 😄We all learnt a new word. Thanks for the video.

All English speakers be like: “so easy!” Me, Spanish speaker: “kill meeeeee” xD

This video reminded me of my French teacher, Jean. He was a Swede who taught French in Mexico Lol

Danish: potato in mouth Norwegian: drunk Swedish: tonal Icelandic: modern Vikings

Swedish sounds so musical. It's really pleasant to the ears ❤️

Me, also a Swede: Using 90% Rikssvenska with norrländsk dialekt and 10% "Asså"

I'm a swede and would say I'm using about 20 percent local dialect and 90 percent standard Swedish because we're quite lousy at math up here.

Knowing now that “wherefore” means why, it suddenly makes me see “therefore” differently! Wherefore ... therefore! It’s the question and answer that reflect each other!!

As a native latinamerican it has been a hard experience to learn swedish. However after many years of sacrifice I could say I speak and writte swedish properly now. I love this language and this country. I really feel proud of speaking swedish. I studied at the university too and that helped me a lot.