Going on a bit of a side tangent here but i remember reading in a newspaper, maybe like 20 years ago or smth, that the WHO decreased the span for what should be concidered normal or healthy BMI after pressure not from doctors but pharma companies. Can't swear it's true though but i don't think i've seen it debunked either. And honestly, these statistics that say this or that many are overweight or obese have always seemed a bit "overkill" imo.

I'm also a keen photographer and I have done a number of photosessions with very fit and athletic people. That's one way of promoting a healthy life style, even if some of them are/were obsessed with being at the gym. The flip side of the coin is that "regular" persons seldom want to stand in front of the camera, despite all the possibilities a studio gives when it comes to how to set the light, what backdrop to use, what clothes to wear etc. I don't know if it is because they are happy and content or just don't care. When doing fitness shoots, I always try to avoid the "meat market" kind of photos by adding a bit of portraiture and art in them. Hopefully, this also means that the photos will be worth looking at fifty years from now, even if they are outdated then. Fast food is a nuisance, I agree, but it can also be very handy when for example in a hurry, but I usually prefer to cook my own meals. Probably needless to say that one has to be interested in cooking and take the time and effort to spend an hour or so in the kitchen. There are healthy meals that don't take so long to cook and they are expensive either. Super healthy food, like the athletes prefer, isn't my cup of tea though. Have a semla when you come to Sweden (and consider it an order).

My BMI is 24, so I could definitely lose a few kilos, though I'm not overweight by any definition. I actually call them "trivselkilon" in Swedish.

Yeah man I'm a fatphobic so i work out, I do 50 strict form push up daily. Modern times turn people into snowflakes, especially the radical leftists. Their ideologies were garbage.

Nynorsk and bokmål are two official written standards for the same language. Imagine two written standards for e.g. German; high German written standard and low German written standard. Sami is a different language. Sami is not a Germanic language, but Sami is the language of the indigous Norwegian Sami people. Standard language refers to written. Every time I see and hear 'standard' regarding languages, I take it for granted it refers to written. If it doesn't, it is just wrong. The reason is that there are no standard spoken. The oral language is free. We go to school for many years to learn written standard. When we are 5-6 years old, our oral grammar is near perfectly developed. It's about the time we start studying written. When I say there are no oral standard, you may start wonder, because we usually speak our national language. Yes, sure, but then again, a national language is divided in dialects. Thus we speak dialects. The reason we speak dialects is a) it comes natural to us and b) we want to be understood. Why else should we communicate. Verbal and oral communication is inherent.

Sweden joined nato 😐 Parental leave for fathers, who wants that? 😂 I work about 2 hours a day 👍

Swiss mountains are painful to fall down and you can smell the cows. Bokmål is danish book language and nynorsk is peasant dialects. The reason "danes" went to America is because it was Denmark-Norway-Schleswig Holstein when a history book was written about norwegian icelanders.

Sweden also has somalians with machine guns and iraqis with hand grenades. Might define swedes as total liars.

"Jumpy" is an Eastern Norwegian (think Oslo-ish, to simplify) thing. More or less.

I'm not much into sports, but it was interesting to learn how it may affect the minds of the persons who do it. There are many differences, of course, and it depends on what sport you like, but there must be some similarities as well such as "vinnarskalle".

The first year of a child's life in Sweden it is possible to save on the parent leave days, and then after choose to have them less than 100% to make them last longer. Sure, you will get less money but the days lasts longer. The parent leaves days can be used until the day the child turns 12 or finishes 5th grade. For or first child I was not able to take out much of the parent leave since I was a student and then I was the one who got a job first, but for the other two we maxed out the system. When I grew up my father was not very present in the upbringing of me and my siblings. When I was very young I already had made up my mind that I would be a very present father. The few first years of a child's life are very important for their later development. And to be around them as much as possible is the greatest choice I've made in my life.

Finally a new video about Sweden

The flexible working day was suggested by the public transportation companies; they realised they couldn't cope with the number of passengers in large cities when all of them were expected to be at work or school at 8 o'clock sharp. The six hour workday is still very much a small scale experiment and is evaluated. It has its pros and cons. One thing that contradicts it is that Swedish companies tend to rationalize as much as possible. Let's say that one employee retires. His/her job may not be replaced with a successor; the job may be given to a couple of (former) colleagues instead. This causes loads of burnouts annually. The politicians want Sweden to be a super efficient country - on the other hand they are not too fond of the healthcare costs that comes with it and demand that the companies must have policies in place to prevent it. It sounds very contradictive to me. Still, I believe we have a good work-life balance here. I have seen some Swiss technicians occasionally working in Sweden. Yes, they do a great job, but I have also noticed that the younger ones seldom take lunchbreaks and if they do, they only nibble on a sausage together with some bread. They often stay for a week or so, but having a cooked meal for lunch would probably be healthier and give them more energy for the afternoon. One thing that Sweden is known for is our "fika culture". Fika is originally slang for having a cup of coffee. Many companies allow one or two short coffee breaks where the employees have a cup of coffee together, sometimes along with a cookie or pastry. This mini-pause kind of clears the mind and you go back to work with renewed energy.

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Bokmål and Nynorsk are the same language, as several have confirmed, but there are linguists who claim that all three Scandinavian languages ​​are actually the same language, but because they are different countries, different variants of Scandinavian have been standardized in the three countries. It is interesting, for example, that standardized Danish is the dialect spoken by the bourgeoisie in Copenhagen and Malmö (Sweden), and it is a dialect that is primarily based on Sjælland and (until 1658) Scanian (also Sweden). In Norwegian dialects you will sometimes find that it is more similar to Danish, and in other cases it is more similar to Swedish. Along the border between Norway and Sweden, there is a gradual transition between the languages, naturally enough. Regarding Sami, there are 10 surviving Sami languages, of which three are considered official in Norway. There is also a gradual transition between Sami languages ​​from north to south (the language boundaries in Norway and Sweden run mainly from west to east), and it is not a given that a Northern Sami can understand a Southern Sami and vice versa. When it comes to Norwegian food, it is the case that traditional Norwegian food is usually made in the home for the simple reason that the wage level is so high, even among the low paid, that when people go to a restaurant they want something different from what they eat at home. You must therefore find a restaurant that specializes in Norwegian food to get it. They exist, but are usually more expensive than others. Norwegian food is usually based on good ingredients, such as lamb or reindeer that has grazed in the Norwegian wilderness and where the meat has been flavored with nature's herbs, or fish from the clear and cool waters of the sea off the coast. The food is lightly spiced because we do not want to camouflage the natural taste of the ingredients. The exception is various preservation methods that flavor the food, such as salting, smoking and fermentation. These methods can give the food a distinctive taste that many Norwegians are used to, but which foreigners do not always like. People who are used to strongly spicy food might experience the food as boring for the simple reason that their taste buds are used to strongly spicy food. It's like smells - you get used to them and don't notice them. Many Norwegian chef's have received awards in Boco's doir. Several Norwegian cheeses have also received awards.

You are correct that its pretty much just two variation of the same language but, Important to note that bokmål and nynorsk is the written language for Norwegian. No people actually talk these "language". Nynorsk is based on the dialects across Norway and was made as a standard written language when Noreay wanted to distance them self from Denmark.

Both Nynorsk and Bokmål are equally standard written languages, the difference is that they are both purely written languages, and hence not considered spoken languages, like different dialects. No one can talk Bokmål or Nynorsk, even if some dialects seem closer to one or the other (there is a lot of variation inside both bokmål and nynorsk on how you choose to write them too). They are thus both equally standard.

I wonder when it comes to physical activity/excercise if some people are just more naturally inclined to enjoy it, like maybe they're more receptive to that kind of dopamin kicks and such, similarly to how some are deeply moved by say music or poetry and others don't really feel it as much? Then historically i guess besides from the food being healthier, back in the days many of those who weren't sporty still got excercise through physical labour, not driving everywhere and so on. So i don't think people were necessarily more sporty before, but they didn't need to be sporty to get excercise so to speak. That's a problem today i think, like if you have an office job and you're not really into the gym and what not, then excercise kind of becomes just another task. Just some thoughts.

Bokmål is basically Danish Norwegianfied. Nynorsk is how people in Norway actually speak, and its sort of an average of how everyone across the country says things.

I find it funny because, your question is one of the reason for why they made Nynorsk. They traveled around Norway to collect dialects and merge it in to a common language. So the way you are talking about different types of German languages, we found a way to merge it in to one. Both Bokmål and Nynorsk is equal even though Bokmål is the most used language. I am no Expert <3

Thank you P Helvetica for this video and as a Swede I LOVE THE Norwegian language as I understand our neighbours to 95%. Helvetica keep up the good work. Plus länge leve Sverige och Norge. 🙃🙂

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Your understanding is correct, bokmål and nynorsk are more like two different variations of Norwegian. They do have some vocabulary differences and different grammar rules (usually for young Oslo-people, nynorsk feels "old timey" and can be a little hard to understand). All in all, though, they're too connected to be considered distinct languages. So, I'm not sure why they're categorized as such. Could be in order to ensure nynorsk representation on documents and so on, which has been a political issue, but that's just a guess.

I hope that some Norwegian views give you some feedback on this topic; even if I understand Norwegian quite well the difference between nynorsk and bokmål are beyond my knowledge. I may have heard it in school, but that was long ago.

A long time ago I ask you to make a vídeo about Brazil

We love hockey! (DIF!!)

Välkommen tillbaka och god fortsättning på det nya året! I'd rather you release a video when you have something you want to share with us instead of releasing them just to follow some kind of schedule. You are, in other words, more than excused. Personally I'm interested in your Swedish language journey, but hey, it's a free world and I have no problem with you releasing sports related content here. If you are interested in it, then I think that you should also go for it now and then. Philosophy is a subject I'm more likely to be interested in, but I understand that some kind of condensation is necessary to keep it from flowing over. It's your channel and I find your content interesting and intelligent, so run your channel the way you want - I'll probably watch your icehockey content too and learn something about it.

Welcome back/Välkommen tillbaka Helvetica. 😀Wish you a wonderful 2025 and yes this amazing year is starting GREAT! I am listening to the amazing Benny JOHNSON now and it looks like Canada will be GREAT again. 😀😀😀 Stay safe. 👍👍👍

Fun fact, Most if not all Danish people I've met thinks that the Sockholm accent is easier to understand than the accents in the far south (Skåne/Scania, Blekinge). It's funny since the far south used to belong to Denmark, so the accents are influenced a lot by Danish.

And sauna is swedish? So many wrongs here....

Sauna is a finnish word, and Finland doesnt belong to Scandinavia, only the Nordics. In Swedish we call Sauna Bastu, which comes from Badstuga, litterally translated to bath cottage.

Stød is a way we pronounce vowels in some words. It's basically a glottal stop in the middle of the vowel followed by a lowered pitch and vocal fry for the last part of the vowel. It's kinda short sound but will get exaggerated when we pronounce words clearly and is dialect dependent. Clearly pronouncing it makes you sound old-timey. Also I struggle a lot with understanding Swedish and Norwegian lol, whether you find it easy or not differs quite a bit from person to person in my experience. An example lf stød is in the word "der", meaning "there". To pronounce it, substitute the vowel sound in "dear" with the the vowel sound from the English word "men". Then say the first half of the word, put in a glottal stop (think a tiny break in the sound, cut it off, thats the "stød"). And pronounce the r as an a kinda sound but lower outch and with creaky voice. In the end it should sound kinda like de'a, the a being just a short sound

Danish langue is hard to understand verbualy, Norwegian have to main dialects bokmål and nynorsk that can do it harder too read.

Written Norwegian is closer to Danish but spoken Norwegian is closer to Swedish. I can pick up shared or similar words in Danish from Swedish, Norwegian, and German ( I also learn) but that’s it. I can’t understand much Danish.

Neat video. I have been learning Swedish for five years now almost. However, I started learning Norwegian for the past two years. I didn’t want to study both to soon to limit confusion. Swedish has been on my list ever since I was maybe a pre-teen. I used to talk to Norwegians so it was more like why not? Danish I looked at in the past but never peaked my interest that much. Kanske lara mig danska someday.

A great video. - dane

I'm a swedish woman living in Stockholm and I feel very safe. Even Wall alone at night many times. The violence you hear avout are usually gang members shouting each other beacuse of conflicts about drug selling. As a tourist you will be vety safe. It rarely even happens in areas where tourists go. Apart from those shoutings we don't have much crime. If you search on KZbin you will fiind a lot of videos of people visiting sweden and they usually say that they feel safe. Then again I do hope thimgs will change and of course we don't want to have gang conflicts but you can surely visit.

You should visit asap. Thing will never be the same it's a downhill from here.

You did good, I'd rate it higher than 5/10. The main problem is the pronunciation. I would say Wind Turbines, not Windmills. You are totally correct about getting what is said from some key words, and learning more words from context, that's how I learned English, and to an extent French and German

Here's a clarifying talk!

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Got another one for ya': E i a, e a o å. å e o a, e a i o. Every vowel is a word in "Soldmålî". Spoken in Sollerön, Sweden. The sentence more or less reads as; "What I have, she also has. And what I have, she's also got."