A SWEDE TRYING TO SPEAK NORWEGIAN

Hear as I attempt to speak Norwegian.
A big thank you goes out to the people at /r/Norway and @ScandiFreckles (Twitter) who helped out with sentences!
Have a splendid day!
You can find me on Twitter: @nackagubben

[@annves]

RAI RAI

[@overjee]

You're great at speaking like a norwegian from Oslo. You hit the accent and dialect almost pitch perfect. There are so many diffrent dialects of norway though. Northern norwegians (nordlenninger) find the oslos sounding too cute aswell and not able to take them seriously when they speak

[@Aslaugarson]

Here too, i speak closer to old Norwegian that EASTERN dislect

[@Mob-tq7gv]

Yah I’m from Oslo to soo heiii hva skjer

[@SindreEide93]

I'm Norwegian and when I go to Sweeden I understand swedish just fine, but if I speak Norwegian Swedish people just do not understand it so I have to speak English or put in some swedish words. I was in Sweden for 5days at a festival talking to hundreds of different people and I just learned the sweedish words and language while there because it was easyer to get people to understand me. The last day some swedish girls thought I was swedish XD

[@Starkardur]

I never understood why Icelanders are forced to learn Danish when Norwegian is more similar, easier to read and comprehend.

[@mollymoon4183]

😂I’m Norwegian and I hardly understand any of those sentences!😂

[@lvrsira]

Molly Moon Same

[@meltwire]

Molly Moon ur mom gey

[@Leafsmix]

Same 😂

[@WOEEW]

no u

[@nora9075]

Same 😅😂

[@maiaotaku]

"RAI RAI" i died

[@poertjt2]

This reminded me of the Danish sentence: "Æ E U Å Æ Ø U I Æ Å" which actually means "I am out on the island out in the stream" if you speak with a heavy Jutlandic dialect :D Or in normal Danish: "jeg er ude på øen ude i åen"

[@norastorm99]

Åh herre Jesus 😂👌❤

[@norastorm99]

@William Johnsen spør du meg??

[@gorgioarmanioso151]

same in many swedish dialects but Nacke duden is from Nacka Stockholm hahaha

[@cterjesen]

"Æ e i a. æ å" and other variants, could mean "I am in A, too" or... "I am in her, too." Lewd! Not a bad attempt, but I kinda expected better from Söta Bror.

[@Nackagubben]

+cterjesen Haha! I knew I was your cute brother :D

[@DillaryHuff]

Your pronounciation is really good, but almost all of the words and phrases that were suggested to you were in dialects that, from my perspective as an Eastern, Oslo-area Norwegian, find more difficult to understand than Swedish :P Come to think of it, I suppose that could be an explanation as to why some of your friends find Norwegian difficult to understand. Danish football player, Nicklas Bendtner signed for the Norwegian club, Rosenborg thinking he wouldn't have any problems communicating. He said in an interview that he had Norwegian friends, and he didn't think he would have any problems with it. Little did he know, that people from Trondheim have a distinctive dialect, and words like "jeg/jag/I" is simply written and pronounced "æ", and "er/är/is" is written and pronounced "e" in Trondheim 😂

[@SamieLorraine]

I'm jealous I wish I knew multiple languages. I tried taking a Norwegian language session but I failed through. I'm sorry I feel like I'm spamming your comments... Lol GREAT VIDEO :)

[@Nackagubben]

Well, talking Norwegian would be almost as if you were to attempt British English :) So I guess I have some advantage there. Then I reckon it is difficult to motivate a second language when everyone speaks English. We pretty much need at least English :)

[@Magst3r1]

Hello what are you doing=du er veldig stygg

[@bluetitle-273]

@@Magst3r1 cringe

[@pachonman95]

Dude you crack me up 😂

[@SamieLorraine]

"So cute so cute cuuuute" 😂 fucking dead

[@LS-oq3qh]

I find Swedish language to be singing like language. I am saying this as a french speaker.

[@galadriel2586]

You're truly the cutest human being. Keep uploading the new videos

[@IaMmeMilly]

Tusen, tusen takk!!! That made me laugh so, so much!

[@Nackagubben]

+IaMmeMilly Takk! That's awesome to hear :D

[@Paradize.]

Hah, norwegians are that for swedes, what netherlands are for germans :D Cool stuff! :D

[@linajurgensen4698]

Nah I wouldn’t say so.

[@linajurgensen4698]

Robin Mangala same other way around. We often make fun of the Netherlands.

[@lmatt88]

Not really. Dutch is not mutually intelligible with German

[@728.-_.._.--.]

@Robin Mangala who does

[@imnotgaybut6408]

I'm a Dane watching a Swede speak Norwegian *_Mr. Worldwide_*

[@viktorskold9593]

Some Vikings kidnapped your ancestors from Ireland back in the day buddy

[@f0gl3t]

Haha, we think Swedish is cute

[@Peter_1986]

Hah, I am from Sweden and I think that the Gotland accent is one of the cutest Swedish accents. There are also several cool accents in Dalarna that sound really cheerful, especially the rather unique accent from Älvdalen.

[@gurob9263]

No we don’t

[@yoursweetboymike373]

no we dont

[@adnemuri7220]

hers one from my area, "daoe saoe mæ mæ raoe aoe, penje fenje venje ao". translates to dead sheep with red eyes, now their getting wings aswell- roughly

[@DillaryHuff]

Some of these sentences were hard to pronounce and understand the meaning of, even for a Norwegian, simply because they were in rural town dialects :P

[@Kovukingsrod]

Du skal få for innsatsen👏🏼

[@jacobgrimstad7423]

In Norway you have to stand up when you hear the nasjonal antem so when you put on the antem i had to get uot of bed

[@nilseo1]

Some of my ancestors came from the city of Grimstad.

[@Nabium]

In Thailand you really gotta stand up, it's required by law. I remember the Thai anthem came on once, and none stood up, so I got up as a joke and all the Thais got a scared look in their eyes and instantly got up after me :D

[@Carlium]

nilseo1, my neighbor town!

[@Hana-wx8gz]

Love your energy!!! Epic

[@tijana5616]

I'm laughing so hard like i would be any better😂 But still great video, will you continue this series? Maybe try with some Slavic language?

[@Nackagubben]

I want to attempt more languages, yes! I did put it on hold for a while because it felt like people over at Reddit saw the threads as self-advertising. But maybe I could ask the people watching here for sentences instead :D

[@tijana5616]

I would recommend asking people on twitter and facebook for sentances as well :) Keep the good work, I hope you'll grow even more in the future!

[@sigridfalkenhaug9862]

Norsken din er helt fantastisk👌🏻 Your Norwegian is great!

[@Nackagubben]

Takk!

[@paruratv9191]

Sigrid Falkenhaug it is not

[@駅新宿]

I am from Oslo, Norway, and your pronounciation is Good in Norwegian. I can read it but this is spoken in Northern Norway that I barely understand

[@hildcit]

駅新宿 western Norwegian too some.

[@evamarievognstlen3678]

most of these were in a dialect, but you did good, a lot better then me if I were to try to speak Swedish!

[@wildflxwrr0628]

This was so fun to watch

[@RaymondHng]

When you swear, you sound like an American.

[@Nackagubben]

+RaymondHng I am secretly from Oregon

[@RaymondHng]

Ha! Waiting for the video where you try to swallow your vowels like they do in Denmark.

[@Nackagubben]

+RaymondHng One day I will attempt Danish. It will be my doom

[@RaymondHng]

_Rødgrød med fløde_ sounds like someone gagging while gargling with water.

[@Relikvien]

Can you try the dialects of Norway? Hahah this is so entertaining xD

[@Musica-xo3uv]

Lol you are very funny. I laughed a lot. I think North and East Norwegian sounds very similar to Swedish, but South and West Norwegian is more similar to Danish

[@IRedfordI]

Asså jag dör här hahahah, natthumor at its finest xD

[@nora826]

Dont cuddle us. We bite.

[@JonathanReite]

haha i love how most of these are written in dialects aswell

[@Peter_1986]

Some Norwegian accents are extremely easy to understand and almost indistinguishable from Swedish, whereas some other accents are like "what?". =P I sometimes visit Norway when I hang out at my summer house in Malung, and the Norwegian accents there are really easy to understand.

[@pseudophd1073]

Enjoyed this. I'd like to get the norwegian accent down but it's hard!

[@Nackagubben]

+Pseudonymium thank you my friend! Where are you from? :)

[@pseudophd1073]

A norwegian brought up in England, so no norwegian accent. I'll see if I can get some pointers from this video =)

[@Nackagubben]

Pseudonymium haha I might not be the best norwegain teacher :) So you speak Norwegian?

[@FETTLOLY]

Funny thing about norwegian is that we do not all have the "happy" accent. Up north its more "normal" like you swedes and the rest of the world. (We also make fun of the southerners for this)

[@CleverNameTBD]

It also depends on location to the neighboring border, like with danmark or Norge. And generally interaction.

[@aularound]

In Sweden we have "i åa ä a ö" which is an abbriviated sentence that probably only works with a specific dialect :) It means "In the river there is an island" :-)

[@SC-rt7bq]

I wasn't expecting to find this a lot funny before watching, but it cracked me up! And I don't understand a word in those sentences...

[@richardblackhound1246]

Well done, but it would be interesting to hear you speak some actual Norwegian sentences rather than just tongue twisters. Maybe another video?

[@Nackagubben]

I spoke some extremely bad Norwegian in the latest videos :D

[@norwayexeprohtius2534]

"æ e i a æ å"= some schools have different classes lie 1a 1b 1c and stuff, so the people going in a can ssay that sentance with only vowels. and æ = I, e= am/are on dialects

[@rhbdpy]

Petter Northug, am i right?

[@KrissRacing]

this made me giggle

[@veraeriksen7560]

I am norwigen and you made me laugh!😂

[@brokennp666oof9]

5:00 5:01 5:02 wtf? Maybe a little over.

[@tildepedersen3873]

Jeg holdt på å DØ av latter da jeg så denne videoen her omg xD Jeg klarer ikke snakke ELLER skrive svenk det er jo SÅ vanskelig! XDD Jäg är frän sverige og jäg är väldigt glad! Idk if its right! XDD It's a LIKE from ME dude!

[@mikeylejan8849]

A lot of Norwegians have brown hair while Swedes have blonde hair

[@diegogarciadealba9641]

so, is norwegian for sweds similar to spanish speakers trying to understand portuguese?

[@monotremata44]

I think Norwegian and Swedish are much closer.

[@bob-the-butler]

Where I live we say "Ibsens ripsbusker og andre buskvekster"

[@tobiastranetellefsen4203]

This is only the Eastern Norway dialect. The dialects in southern and western Norway sound more like danish, german and malmø dialect. While trøndersk and north norwegian sounds a bit like japanese actually in my opinion.

[@canislunaticus]

You actually sounded norwegian ✨

[@SindreEide93]

3:50 Yes this is written in some kind of dialect and the correct way to write it would be "Jeg er helt nedi fjæra selv om det er flo" This basicly means: "I'm completely down the shore even though it's flood"

[@spookyjimforlife9640]

I m norwgian and i dont understand most of this so I think u did good

[@marteaasland4135]

the first one you tried is kind of a tounge twister

[@ljokjelrobloxandminecraft4196]

you nailed it on æ gidde ikke from Nikolai in Norway

[@CroXes]

You sounded good

[@Magsonio]

Try to say this: hei jeg er en person i verden jeg har en dokke i busken til ripsen

[@AnnaDolphin97]

most of this is like crazy dialects from norway wtf

[@saral1003]

I know!

[@tiarayokomichi3002]

Great!!

[@clement2780]

So swedish, norwegian, danish, icelandic, would you speak your own languages and understand each other, or english, dutch, icelandic, german?

[@Nackagubben]

+Clement Ng I personally would speak Swedish with Norwegians and possibly Danish as we could understand each other's languages pretty well. Icelandic and German/Dutch are too far off Swedish and I'd speak English :)

[@F0NIX]

For me as a Norwegian I also understand Swedish and Danish good. But Icelandic is too far off, I can understand some words. There are off course some dialects in Denmark and Sweden that I have a hard time understanding, well there are actually some dialects in Norway that I have a hard time to understand :D Nackagubben I think you did a fine job, and as you said; you was not given some good sentences to show your norwegian language. It was mostly tongue twisters. It would also be fun to hear you try differnt dialects from Norway: northern part of norway, trønderdialect and some from west of norway. You did try mostly the dialect spoken in the south of Norway in this video...

[@Bjowolf2]

Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are very similar with 80 -90 % the same vocabularies - easily recogniseable words, just spelled slightly differently along fairly predictable lines - and with nearly identical grammars, so essentially they are in many ways just variants or dialects of the same base language. Therefore it's usually fairly easy for Scandinavians to understand the other two languages in writing without too much effort, because the words that we don't have or don't use any longer will still somehow make sense to us or be guessable, as they are often made up from basic familiar bricks. And then are of course some traps with words that don't exist in the other language(s) ( even though they "ought to" ;-) ) or have very different meanings, so they are always cause for much confusion and funny misunderstandings between us, just as probably know it between US and UK English. But in pronounciation they are rather different, so we really have to listen up and focus, when we talk to each others - a bit like a person from the South of England talking to someone from the North or from Scotland. But as long as it isn't any obscure dialects, we can usually manage ;-) Swedes and Norwegians with their melodic intonations typically have an easier time understanding each others at the spoken level than they have with Danes, who don't have a melodic accent, speak more sloppy and typically a good bit faster ( by 30% ! ). At the written level and with respect to vocabulary it's however Danish & Norwegian ( bokmål = book language ) that are more alike of the three for historic reasons ( part of a united kingdom for over 400 years. Icelandic is still fairly close to Old Norse, so we are unfortunately too far apart now to be able to understand it directly apart from a little word, a phrase or occassionally even a small sentence here and there. It's a bit like you trying to decipher Old or Early Middle English ;-) In the written form we can understand a little bit more of Icelandic though - maybe even 20 - 30% on a very good day ;-) - because many simple words can be guessed with a bit of effort, even if we can't catch them on the fly, when we hear them. So we are usually able to get some rough idea what a text in Icelandic is all about. Another reason for these difficulties is that Icelandic has kept its grammatical complexity ( highly inflicted with a full case system, verbs changing acc. to person and number etc. ) along the lines of German and Old English, whereas the Scandinavian languages have given up on a lot of that complexity ( no cases for nouns and their articles, verbs that are the same for everyone, no backward sentences a la German with the verb or verb compound at the end of a sentence ) - very much along parallel lines with modern English ( Middle E and onwards ) - and maybe even due to influences from it?

[@BoaLien]

''the great country of sweden they said'' it will be great they said.... (immigration came)

[@canislunaticus]

I'm norwegian so i understand a lot of swedish and i can even speak a little swedish. Danish is really hard to understand though ;-;

[@deddy9120]

jeg synes du gjorde en veldig god jobb kompis :D

[@robertberger4203]

Swedish and Norwegian sound almost like the same language to me . I know there are differences , but I find it difficult to tell them apart .

[@saftobulle]

They are similar enough (along with danish), that you could make the case that they are dialects of the same language, so you don't have to feel bad for not hearing the difference!

[@heeltsyktas867]

It's almost the same. I am a norwegian and I understand danish and swedish. To me it's easy. I don't even have to learn it, I just atomatically understand.

[@CleverNameTBD]

@@heeltsyktas867 norwegians really have it best when it comes to understanding swedish and Danish versus the other way around. I think much easier with icelandic also?

[@wereldvanriley7]

I’ve had that issue too. But I figured out strategies that you could use to tell them apart

[@meltwire]

I’ll give ya a 7/10

[@fsgamekam4889]

Heyy jeg er norsk

[@saral1003]

Jeg og

[@xldolphin9008]

Jeg å!

[@kristoffernymoen7978]

woow, your norwegian is better then mine:O

[@a11an72]

Oh you chose dialects from all over the country :D Would ve been alot easier to just speak bokmål which is the dialect spoken in Oslo and the east

[@Aslaugarson]

My Norwegian is closer too Old-Norwegian than EASTERN Dialect.

[@SamieLorraine]

HAHAHAHA WHAT DO THESE EVEN SAY. Fuck you crack me up haha

[@Patrick-vw5hd]

Ur from the great country of sweedeeen! and i come from the great NORWAYY

[@jajsbkdnd5538]

You are fkn good

[@SindreEide93]

3:18 This is something that makes sence, but the sentence is kinda bullshit. It's basicly just some sort of toung twister and it translates to: "Only Barbarians Shaves Rhubarb Well"

[@cathrineklodvik-loddengaar8186]

Jeg elsker at du tok nasjonal sangen i starten😂

[@tm0396]

Æ e i a å is the Trøndersk dialect

[@Glorbo_fIorbo]

I’m from Norway 🇳🇴

[@ZairaL03]

Old Norwegian is rlly darn hard. Even for me. I speak Bokmål tho. So. The newest of Norwegian.

[@salsa7012]

yeah, there's a lot of dialect there

[@erichani1]

Have you been to norway

[@Axesmed]

Hva er den dokke dokke greia?

[@Beaudehaas]

Omg Some of those sentences I had a hard time understanding, and I am Norwegian😂👌🏻

[@TheJamjam90]

isabeau hvitstein because of the sentence he was reading or because of his mispronunciation while reading them?

[@BoynamedMagnus183]

In Norway we have Three official languages , Bokmål,Nynorsk and the sami language Nynorsk doesn`t sound so cute but Bokmål does. I am a Nynorsk writer And i am a norwegian boy and i have a Nynorsk sentence for you: Eg kjem ifrå Noreg og likar å eta og Slappa av på kodden min leika diskutera politikk og eg tykkjer Svär J er teit og dei stjeler språkjet ifrå oss og øydeleggjer det å segjer at det er svensk når da er eigentleg berre øydelagt og forpult Nynorsk!!!!!!!!!! Fun Fact: konspirasjonsteorien om at Svär J er eit ekta land starta for fyrste gong vart i 2012 men sanninga er at der liksom Svär J liksom ska liggja er da berre Vatn.men detta er berre ein konspirasjonsteori eg trur på men kan vera gjedna vera feil sidan det er berre ein konspirasjonsteori.

[@Tasmanilieva]

NORGE! NORGE! NORGE! NORGE!

[@TheWildDeadHero]

How ward would it be for you to understand Elfdalian?

[@Nackagubben]

+TheWildDeadHero I have rarely heard it at all, but from what I remember it would be pretty difficult for me :D

[@shooks8166]

Hej Jag vet att du googlade detta, och om du kan läsa detta lämna en liknande.

[@gustavponten5877]

Are you from nacka? I'm from sweden,nacka

[@naudjacobvolders1152]

I can’t wait for you to do Icelandic 😂😂 Or Faroese

[@arkhamidiot4218]

Jeg snakker LIT norsk :"0 I also can understand some swedish because of my norwegian skills

[@annareister3953]

Some of these was a little tungue twist and i'm a Norwegain xD (sorry for my bad english;-;) NO ER DET LIV, RAI RAI! XD

[@BoynamedMagnus183]

Sorry for i was so bitchy in the comment Spot😭😰😪

[@vibeketronstad7476]

What did i say now: Du er pasleg god i norsk?

[@permagnusids5435]

I,m norwegian. I understand all that æøå

[@permagnusids5435]

So motch thing is wrong but also some few things is correkt👏👏👏

[@Mmmmmotoy]

4:05 on this part u make me laughing in a cafe everybody think that iam crazy psycho🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 shiiiiit what have u dont to me man 🤣 For me , i am learning Danish language its more difficult 😤

[@saoirse7167]

How mutually intelligible are they really? Is it like the difference between English and Scots?

[@arshadedlu3416]

And I thought learning Dutch was hard xD

[@UnicornsInUniforms]

4:34

[@SamieLorraine]

Hahahahaha LA DONKA DONKA DOKKA

[@henken100norway3]

This is funny as fuck!