"Dark A" is not really uncommon. I regularly hear it in French, Southern German dialects, Austrian German, New York accent, Standard Persian, and of course other Scandinavian languages.

the saxonian guy said something like "it comes...but i dont have to vomit" followed by the first gag 2 seconds later :D

This is probably going to be the most practice thing I will have to do to learn Swedish

Danish looks like dutch

its like 4 am and idk why i am watching this but all my brain heard was " NO AND DEN " in an ashton kutcher accent

Icelandic is the one for me, the one I wanna do after much consideration

I absolutely love how practical and fun your lessons are! Thank you for making language learning enjoyable. Keep up the good work! 🙂

The best nordic language is Icelandic, because it is very close to old viking language.

Same, read and write Danish if you know Swedish is easy. But man they eat letters during pronunciation I can't understand what they're saying lol. Like English trying to understand the heavy Irish accent.

4:15 One or two words, _TOPS_ 🗣🗣🗣

i feel like im fighting my german pronounciation lmao

ABCDE😂åäö

I’m guessing the case of Anden and Anden is kinda singular because it’s also the example that literally everyone brings up

That is not true. Danish and Norwegian are similar, but Swedish is not.

And if you understand German *and* English, Swedish may be the best choice. Imho Swedish is a mix of both these two languages. Compared to Norwegian which is more similary to Danish and v.v as far as I know.

Love your videos. Just wondering if you ever use the expression "Tack det samma"? Seems like another good one. Thanks!

11:13 jokes on you, I used to study German in high school (which was a year ago lol), nothing can frighten me

hmm, I think Swedes are in the wrong when they pronounce French J with an H-like sound, it's really not the same sound as how French pronounce "journaliste", in my opinion it's not even close... The closest sound I can think of from my own language is the Hungarian "ZS" sound.

"Det är mat här... i badrummet?" HowToBasic enters the chat.

I was looking for a pronunciation video I could watch multiple times, because like you said - it all comes to practice. And honestly, your video so far is the only one I could watch and rewatch again and again until I get my pronunciation level on a sub-optimal par!!! Thanks to that commentator, we got a really nice video from you

A = The "A" in "Carl" or "Car" Å = The "O" in "No" Ä = The "A" in "Man" or "Care" Ö = The "I" in "Bird", "U" in "Turtle" or "E" in "Earth" Still not sure how to describe the difference between O and Å for a non native other than O (similarly to A) always being pronounced hard while Å has a more soft tone. O here is more close to U (or the roblox Oof sound) while Å is closer to O in a english or seductive accent. Maybe the word "Always" is a good reminder. A here is always (lol) said like the first A in the word while Ä is said like the A in "ways". Almost like a E sound but not quite there yet.

What a young lad you were. (or younger xD you're definitely not old)

In Black culture that’s rude asf

You're wrong about Norwegian not having German though. We have a ton of it, but I think it overlaps enough with Danish's selection of german words that it might appear that way. Also, more of it in Bokmål than in Nynorsk. But honestly, never ever suggest to anyone other than a crazy lingophile that they should ever touch Nynorsk.

Standard Norwegian (bokmål) has the pronunciation closest to Swedish while having the dictionary of Danish (to the point that most international food products will just merge the Danish and Norwegian ingredient list because there's so much overlap). Thus, if you learn Norwegian, you will only need to learn a few key differences in what words are used in Norwegian vs Swedish (e.g. "rolig" means calm in Norwegian, but means fun/funny in Swedish), and you still will struggle to understand wtf danes are saying because they have a potato in their mouth when they speak, but at least the vocabulary is so close that you're much more likely to understand them than a swede would. BUT! You need to completely abandon any idea of learning the dialects or the second written form. That stuff is nonsense and trust me, no one in Norway will ever judge a foreigner for not knowing the dialects.

As for a german / russian, the norwegian language is the easiest for me to pronounce, but having partly swedish heritage, I decided to learn swedish (also to be able to understand most of the scans) also the swedish course was a bit cheaper than the norwegian 😂

Trixie could never haah

As a Swede who’s insecure about my accent when speaking English, these comments fill me with so much joy <3

I admire all the nordics langs, ancient and modern norse are good to use in all nordics regions culturally. Bökmal Norwegian is for east Scandinavian regions, Nynorsk is for west Scandinavian regions. Norwegian leads cos it's highly flexible and smart. But if you love nordic lirism, arts, passion, joyness, fun, games, tricks, pranks, inventivity, Swedish by far, cos it's very emotional, dengous and cherishful of all Nordic family. 🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻💛💛💛💛

You explained it where I could do it!

Thank you for allowing for good humor while we are learning. 😁

You are a very bad teacher.

Name of person is noun basically! It doesn't make any sense to use verb as I understood which I learned ..dont get me wrong.

I guess it would make sense to learn Norwegian if your out to learn them all :P You already gotten over half the way if you learn it hehe

I think Swedish becomes 10 times easier to speak when drunk! Just blur the words, easy peasy!

Don't teach us pronouns if y'all ain't gonna use them, I say :D!

If little girls use this, then I have bad news for you (and this news is not bad in general, but specifically for you, judging by your reaction to this). The thing is that linguistic changes in the language are set by urban teenage girls, this is a linguistic fact. Adult non-urban men have the least influence on the language. It seems to me that this is connected with the love of a mother and a child, when a child unconditionally trusts the mother and adopts her speech himself (if it does not differ radically from the rest of society, as a separate dialect (in general). Plus, girls communicate more freely and experiment, while men are conservative. Of course, this is a trend in general, there is no need to look for exceptions that do not change anything globally. This is as far as I understand the reasons. But a fact about girls is a fact.

What funny guy 😂

"shhvenska"???

This Swedish guy is not biased at all. Clearly Danish and Norwegian is close to the same language, just pronounced differently, Add the two and you have 10 million people speaking it. So it is a tie. Norwegian is not to far away from German in many ways . Norwegians understand Danes and Swedes - sort of illustrating if you understand Norwegian - you understand all three languages - this is not the cases the other way around. Danes do not fully understand Norwegians and some Swedes also struggle. So given I do not believe we Norwegians are much more intelligent - I will assume that once you know Norwegian - both of the others are easy peasy.

What TF do I have to do to hear swedes talk?

great video! What about the iiih sound like in spiiihk-ing (speaking), or fika? It seems to appear often in Swedish accents

As a half Swede, I can confirm these translations are real 😂

BRO WHERE'S H ON THE THUMBNAIL???

7:09 From the way you explain it, it sounds like a type of pronunciation that is socially regarded similarly to how some Italians perceive the ‘r’ pronounced in the back of the throat in Italian, similar to the French ‘r.’ Some people use it, but others might mock it as well.

HEJ...tack för hjälpet..is it Umlaut or Ablaut?

If you could manage to explain how on earth to make the Swedish "i" sound (I think it's the Viby-i or the Lidingö-i), you would be the first. No one can describe what you have to do with your mouth, but it colors every single Swedish vowel. It's almost like helium voice. I can hear it in your accent too. I cannot for the life of me imitate this sound.

Give him a swedish banana!

vad sägs om för all del?

Tack sa mycket. Im learning swedish