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[@volfgangtwins]

Very interesting 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@AlexLFallensLOL]

Man and i was thinking that counting in french is complicated.

[@abigailgutierrez260]

Major Zero Yeah, is related to German language because of the length of the names.

[@PolishBerserker]

It's pretty much the same format, but in the higher numbers starts sounding like common core math: 4 times 20 minus 3, ect.

[@shaunhamilton8217]

Shit, I speak Icelandic, and it's hard. I'll stick to English and Spanish, thanks!

[@ahuman6284]

@@shaunhamilton8217 ¿Eres islandés?

[@eamonn5020]

@@shaunhamilton8217 lmao same

[@life107familyfitnessboxing8]

Wow! When hearing and trying to understand a new language for the first time, it can feel like an impossible task because one is so unfamiliar with the language. But with practice and time it is a piece of cake. Thanks for sharing. I want to learn Faroese for my possible visit next year. Thanks for sharing. Subscribed

[@HeriJoensen]

Thank you 🙂

[@life107familyfitnessboxing8]

@@HeriJoensen You're welcome

[@FrozenMermaid666]

I’m learning the Nordic languages and the other Germanic languages, and I noticed that Faroese is very similar to Icelandic and Old Norse - the numbers in Danish are the most difficult, but I guess I’ll get used to them! I am beginner level in Faroese and Icelandic and Danish (and in the older languages like Old Norse and Gothic and Norn and and Burgundian and Old English etc) and intermediate level in Norwegian / Swedish / German and advanced level in Dutch! I’m trying to learn all the Germanic languages because they are all pretty with mostly pretty words, so language learning is my new hobby!

[@IvarTheBoneless40]

​​@@FrozenMermaid666Mooi zo, je spreekt onze taal😊

[@bongmendoza1424]

Awesome! I’ll pass this on to my family and friends, we are currently learning the Faroese language☺️ a million thanks to you Heri!😊

[@HeriJoensen]

Great, thanks :)

[@MrKyel17]

Love this. Thanks for the video! Hope the tour kicked off well!

[@katherineriedel63]

Very thoughtful of you to teach us part of your beautiful mother language. Very appreciated, thanks.

[@PolishBerserker]

This is awesome. Thanks for taking the time to make it.

[@IsraKaulitz]

What a great idea! Thanks Heri!

[@Metaltherebel92]

Didn't know you were a KZbinr, lol. You guys were great at Karmøygeddon, Norway this year. Rock on! Hope to see you guys here again. 🤘

[@shaunhamilton8217]

If you want an icebreaker with the ladies, here ya go!

[@HeriJoensen]

:D

[@lovelydiablerie]

I appreciate this very much. I love learning new languages. Also your music helps me alot, I'm very grateful!

[@rowcezarbrazil]

If you think it's difficult for you native English speaker, imagine for a guy like me a native portuguese speaker. It's even harder, although we have the best teacher ever!!!

[@ingmarbm]

Sera gott, Heri! Nú veit eg ikki, um onkur longu hevur sagt tað, men gamla 40 er ikki fýrati. Tað er fjøruti. Fjøruti er eina tíggjutalið, vit hava varðveitt í vanligari talu frá gomlu tølunum. T.e. tíggju, tjúgu (/tuttugu), tríati, fjøruti, fimmti, seksti, sjeyti, áttati, níti/níggjuti

[@HeriJoensen]

Takk fyri viðmerkingina. Ja, nú tú sigur tað, tað visti eg væl. Sløsut av mær.

[@ingmarbm]

Soleiðis gleppur hjá okkum viðhvørt ;)

[@pamrosser3643]

All I can say is ....😀 WOW.... beautiful language and would seem hard to learn. Very interesting.

[@MagnusMoerkoereJohannesen]

It's no problem at all! Why, I've spoken it ever since I was a baby ;D

[@pamrosser3643]

@@MagnusMoerkoereJohannesen 😀😉🤘

[@dan74695]

@@MagnusMoerkoereJohannesen Eg elskar målet dokkar.

[@BlatteSvartskallsson]

Eg eri eitt nummar, eg taki eitt nummar...

[@heathenalchemist8383]

I'm intrigued. I used to speak new standard German (the version taught in US schools, when you can find German language at all in schools here) reasonably well so this actually makes a tiny bit of sense. Cool! :)

[@violenceislife1987]

I appreciate it

[@HeriJoensen]

Thanks 🤘😀

[@UlrichVIII]

loving these videos! so amazing you can teach us and amaze us with your music!! please, teach us phonetics!

[@Massnerder69]

Great video! From a native English speaking perspective, these words seem like such a mouthful. hahaha A video about the alphabet would be interesting.

[@InnannasRainbow]

Yep, I'm lost.

[@HeriJoensen]

It’s difficult :-) But no worries. I’ll speak English to you ;-)

[@InnannasRainbow]

@@HeriJoensen You'd have to, darlin'.

[@HeinrichTsanov]

I really love your language videos

[@robjohnson1189]

I remember a fisherman from my village on Morecambe Bay said when he went to Iceland during the war on shore duty saying he could understand them and was able o hold conversations by just using our local dialect!

[@slymassi2000]

I love Morecambe 😍

[@ifer1280]

Except for the gender/case inclination and the "half fifth time twenty" (crazy Danes...) it's very similar to Dutch counting.

[@87in7]

I'm Danish, what does half fifth time twenty mean?

[@LiterallyRychter]

@@87in7 It's the translation of (I assume) Old Danish "halv femte sinds tyve", which is the origin of the faroese number 'hálvfems" (90). Since the fifth time you add 20, you just add the half of it (10), so 20+20+20+20+half 20 = 90

[@HeriJoensen]

Halv femte sinds tyve på gammeldansk, forkortet til halvfems.

[@runningoutofcountries573]

Excellent lesson Prof!

[@ivarszickus4570]

Excellent video! I absolutely love Germanic languages and grammar. I’m a native Dutch speaker and I have mostly studied the grammar of Gothic, Icelandic, Old English and Swedish. Faroese would be a great addition to that. From what I’ve seen so far Faroese grammar seems almost identical to Icelandic but the the differences in pronunciation are very interesting.

[@HeriJoensen]

That would be an accurate assessment, yes.

[@dan74695]

What about Norwegian and Danish?

[@gileratouring]

You should use the older counting system, the Other one comes from the german language.

[@robjohnson1189]

This counting thing is so easy for me. It is the same as what we have in Cumbria though the names of numbers are Cumbric or old Celtic. The system is the same.

[@HeriJoensen]

Thank you for the comment, that's very interesting.

[@アメ人]

And what if you are stating ages? Would you always use the neuter form of 1-3? For example, would I say: "Hann er eitt ára gamal." "Hann er tvey ára gamal." "Hann er trý ára gamal." Or would you use the masculine form of 1-3 since I'm talking about men? Takk!

[@HeriJoensen]

Neuter is the right one here, but that is because year is neuter in Faroese. If you would say how many winters someone is old, in stead of years, you would use the masculine, simply because winter is masculine.

[@HeriJoensen]

Gamal, on the other hand, needs to follow the gender of the subject. If it were a woman, she is gomul and a child, gamalt. Actually, masculine used to be gamalur, but that is seldom heard anymore.

[@abigailgutierrez260]

Wow, this is so interesting and the same time too much complicated 😂 I like your accent in Faroese language. And thank you for share and teach to us a little of your culture :)

[@MColvello]

I wonder if Faroese people understand each other lol. Nice video, it made my brain twist and turn in my skull!

[@scottinWV]

Intense!

[@Shallowwhisper]

Will you teach us more Faroese?? As someone who loves Scandinavian and Nordic languages I’d love to become fluent!

[@mihailssisovs6983]

"Hannem fulgte efter fjortenhundrede mand"

[@swevixeh]

I hear lots of similarities with both the Harstad (Norway) and Gutnish (Sweden) dialects, especially as concerns the pronunciation of the letter "R"

[@dan74695]

Hæ? Dei har den færøyske r-ljoden i Harstad?

[@SarahAParis]

This is really interesting! I will give it a shot.

[@drycheese3958]

Serstakligani spennandi, Heri góði mín

[@berrynovember5688]

I watched already the common faroese grettings..😊

[@mrtrainfreakdk]

So e.g. "hundrað" is an invariable number? If e.g. 100 horses "hundrað hestar" had to be in the dative case - would the correct form then be "hundrað hestum?

[@HeriJoensen]

That is correct.

[@johnhelms8226]

Seksogtretivu! Seksogtretivu!

[@HeriJoensen]

Sjeyogtretivu!

[@kallht2079]

These videos are gold for a language nerd like myself. Strange that you count in the neuter gender. I guess hálvtrýss and the likes facilitate learning Danish in school at least :p

[@arinaarnadottir]

Where are you from? Im from the faroe islands and you can ask me some stuff if you want to:)

[@kallht2079]

@@arinaarnadottir I'm from Jamtland, in Sweden. We have our own vernacular here called Jamtish which is more similar to Norwegian than Swedish. It's so interesting to see how all the western nordic languages are related. That's very nice to hear! I'm right now not very active in any Nordic language acquisition, but I'll keep you in mind:)

[@arinaarnadottir]

Ok! I understand

[@violentbob]

For me being dutch and speaking quite some swedish, the traditional faroese way of counting is so much more logical cus it's pretty much the same system as dutch/swedish. I've never understood the danish thing with the halfs, so unlogical

[@JBobjork]

So, if I go there (and I will some day), I would use the old system. Much closer to swedish That is, if the natives do understand it as well.

[@HeriJoensen]

People will understand, but think you're a bit weird :)

[@JBobjork]

@@HeriJoensen Good. I *am* a bit weird so :)

[@dan74695]

Eg òg; mykje lettare.

[@Queen7306]

❤ love it 👍

[@Mihai_EURO91]

Hello ! Interesting. I just learned to count over 1.000 in 🇫🇮FINNISH. Yes, in finnish. It's very logical, although it's hard for me to find the numbers quickly, I can do it 🙂 As a counting system from 40 to 100, I prefer the faroese norwegian counting system. I was very shocked when I discovered the danish counting system with 20 + 20 + 10 .... 🙄 I immediately realized why "60" in danish is "tres" as in spanish (3), and yet it seemed very strange 😰 Yes, I know that in french soixente-dix-huit also means "78" or quatre-vingt-dix-neuf means "99", but in danish it's really nonsense 😑

[@albertodominguez4106]

cómo puedo aprender a hablar feroés?

[@HeriJoensen]

Learning Faroese is very difficult. There are not adequate online ressources, as far as I know. Moving to the Faroes is probably the only realistic option.

[@johannes3948]

🎉 Wassup from Reykjavík 😈😈😈

[@kebman]

Interesting. A small island or reef in Norwegian is called an _odde._ It's so, umm, odd (no pun intended, maybe) to see that the word is _actually_ etymologically related to "isle" or "island" when you consider the palatalized version of the Faroese word.

[@HeriJoensen]

If you're comparing Faroese oyggj and Norwegian odde, then I'm afraid that's incorrect. I don't think it's the same word. Faroese "oyggj" comes from older "oy", same as Norwegian "øy". Norwegian "odde" is Faroese "tangi", "nes", "oddi" or "múli".

[@berrynovember5688]

Wow...my cousin husband is same your Family name..Joensen❤ i want to learn the faroese langguage

[@Maugrim76]

🇸🇪👋🇫🇴 That was very interesting. Älskar speciellt dina videos om Føroyar. Ég var í Føroym í 2003, vil koma áttur. First contact with Týr was with "Erik The Red". 😁

[@HeriJoensen]

Thank you, I'm glad you find it interesting :)

[@keithwald5349]

I often complain that unlike the case with the Scandinavian languages, or the Romance languages, or the Slavic languages, English has no "near neighbors", and so English is useless for understanding any other languages. While I still believe this is generally true, it is interesting that sometimes I do have to admit that English, for all its Romance and other loan words, is at its core still a Germanic language, and this shows up very clearly in the counting numbers and other core structures. But after that, we English-only folks get left behind, will still never know what it is like to be a Faroese person reading Icelandic text, a Swede conversing with a Norwegian, a Norwegian reading Danish text, etc.

[@LiterallyRychter]

Thanks for the video, Heri! Question: when counting Hundreds, should we use the "traditional" system (like in the example at 7:34)? Also, why is it tríhundraðogfjørutifimm, in stead of fimmogfjøruti / fýratifimm? Would it be wrong to use these latter forms? Thanks again

[@HeriJoensen]

Yes, I mixed the systems up a bit there. Some teachers recommend this with thirty and forty. If you want to talk everyday Faroese then the Danish system, if you want to learn more classic Faroese, it’s the traditional system.

[@LiterallyRychter]

@@HeriJoensen Interesting. Thank you, Heri

[@Dariusuzu]

Faroish wasnt a written tongue for so long time so theres no doubt that these kinda changes could take place nevertheless i like this tongue i have friends coming from Faroe Islands i play minecraft with them at times so i can speak it kinda bit and write.

[@flyingscotsmn2798]

It was a bit fast but it's actually exciting given I'm mono lingual in English

[@hanluther]

it´s like korean system. you have to learn both korean and chinese to make some sense

[@popcorn5866]

So how would you say the "Tiga skal millum tveggja vina" sentence nowadays?

[@HeriJoensen]

You'd probably use the accusative: "...millum tveir vinir"

[@ferninico1]

📚😳

[@allthingsnordic15]

And we thought that Danish numbers were a challenge! :o

[@Dunaiii]

Wooow, so interesting! I would love to learn Faroese!

[@brookwevans2207]

Hey eg eri fra Føroyar

[@HeriJoensen]

Gott við fleiri føroyingum :)

[@Lora_1113]

I especially support the random number that has 666 in it :):):)

[@mfledermauskonig8949]

Nice video. Perhaps there needs to be a discussion about a nyforosk? like the Nynorsk, to eliminate the Danish influence. Then, I believe the Faroese and Icelandic would be much closer. I have nothing against Danish, but I find it confusing to mix languages and the rules thereof. However, English is a crazy mix of languages, and there are a lot of weird things. English seems to have nothing in common with Anglo Saxon, so there’s no going back.

[@HeriJoensen]

There was a great effort to rejuvenate the Faroese language, starting in the late 1800s and great work was done. But for some reason they never got rid of the Danish numbers :D

[@jaroroytapel]

Hello Heri, I wanted to ask is there a place where when we buy the new album you get more money from it ? I mean if I'd go to a big shop like Media Market in Germay, I'm not sure you see much of that money.

[@HeriJoensen]

Thanks. If you buy our CD in any store, it is the best for us, financially. It doesn't really matter where. If you're talking about streaming or download, it's a lot harder to say. I guess all certified services that you pay for, or where you see ads, such as Spotify, Apple Music or Amazon. They should all be good, we get some money from all of them.

[@MrZarewna]

Damn Danish adaptations :D Always hated that way of counting.

[@arminiusherman4783]

アイスランド語

[@slymassi2000]

Takk fyri😁

[@kouzelna3295]

Ok but try learning Czech Heri 😉

[@HeriJoensen]

Mluvím trochu česky :-D

[@kouzelna3295]

@@HeriJoensen Ha ha I thought so! Maybe we can practice together in Zlin, see you guys soon! ;) (I love your instruction videos!)

[@gileratouring]

1-10 in Swedish Ett Två Tre Fyra Fem Sex Sju Åtta Nio Tio 🙂

[@dan74695]

In Norwegian: Ein, ei, eitt To Tre Fire Fem Seks Sju Åtte Ni Ti

[@jtr109]

And I thought English was complicated...

[@life107familyfitnessboxing8]

All languages are complicated in their own way but can all be learned if you have the interest and will to learn it. I don't believe that anything is hard, we are just unfamiliar with it that's all

[@jarocari_0693]

Oh, I didn't know also you're a KZbinr -besides being vocalist of Tyr-! 😀 Counting in Spanish also it's a little bit complicated 😉!