Guy Surprises Teacher with Fluent Swedish

My Swedish teacher's reaction when I go from being a complete beginner to speaking completely fluent Swedish in the space of 10 seconds.
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One of the annotations in the video said that beginners to Swedish often confuse "year" and "hour". This should really have said that English speakers learning Swedish will do this. Why would beginners to Swedish do this (if they already speak English)?

[@daysandwords]

Immersion based learning is counter intuitive to a lot of people. If you're not sold on it, watch this playlist with videos from various creators on why it works and how to do it effectively: kzbin.info/aero/PLgV-XQEW93i3_glHGehUC7nYZLkn0PK_4

[@caller145]

I think the reason why it my seem counter intuitive is because at first it might seem like there is no results. Of corse that's not true but often language ability is measured in what you can produce and not by what you can understand. Also if you make a lot of mistakes people will start to view your skill level negatively, even if you could express a lot of thoughts and understand a lot. Of corse skill seems to build slowly at first with immersion based tactic but once it gains speed it will quickly outperform more 'traditional' learning methods

[@jamesmccloud7535]

@@caller145 Yep, immersing for a week and it felt like I didn't really achieve anything, maybe just learned a few words. Compared to learning a specific grammar topic, and when you learn it and understand it, it feels satisfying because you feel like you achieved something. Input is still the key to fluency though but you really need to have some motivation and commitment.

[@caller145]

@@jamesmccloud7535 True. Also with input the speed of learning will eventually increase. At first you are gathering a libary of phrases in your head but can't do anything with those. Only after this library is big enough you will start to learn and when that happens it will be fast! At this stage grammar learners are gonna be left behind

[@rthj6446]

What I would like to know is how many none Swedes watch your channel. Also, how many non Swedeophones watch. I suspect that a massive majority watching these kinds of channels are Swedes. But I hope I am wrong.

[@caller145]

@@rthj6446 At least one non swede here! I have learned some swedish because I had to in school but it's not my passion by any means. I get more general ideas from these videos and use them with other languages

[@ceciBA1]

I am the tutor/teacher who got surprised by Lamont. Lamont, once again, you do a great job! For people commenting on my accent, yes I am not a native, I came to Sweden as an adult. It's funny, we are used to people from all nationalities teaching English, French, I have Swedish colleagues teaching Spanish, and it's not so surprising, but a Spanish speaker teaching Swedish seems to be different. Well, it's more unusual for sure. But be careful in mistaking "great accent" with "great command of a language" or "good teacher", they are not synonyms. Lamont though has both a great accent and command of the language :) I won't be able to watch myself a second time, but I hope you all enjoy the video! :) Tack för samtalet, Lamont. Och lycka till!

[@autentyk5735]

Your reaction is comedy gold! Tack för att han fick använda det. Ta hand om dig!

[@ceciBA1]

@@autentyk5735 tack så mycket :) ta hand om dig du med. It's a good lesson to be able to laugh at oneself and let others also do it :)

[@bestchoice1370]

Cecilia, thanks for allowing him to post the video with you in it! There are so many nuances worth pondering on this topic, of which you noted a few important ones. / Härligt att du lät detta passera för just vad det var - illustrativt och roligt. Hoppas du trivs bra i Stockholm, min födelsestad. Din energi och glädje är ett bra bidrag till svenska samhället, nästan som om du kom från Värmland, där är man litet gladare och mer generösa än i de andra landskapen! Kram från Kalifornien!

[@ceciBA1]

@@bestchoice1370 detta meddelande verkligen värmde hjärtat, tack, fina du! Du lyfter fram viktiga saker. Jag ville inte "försvara" mig och mitt sätt att tala, prata om teorierna som visar hur svårt det är att låta som en infödd när man lär sig ett språk som vuxen, hur det inte är så viktigt egentligen, så länge man kan kommunicera, bl. annat. Men visst ett meddelande som ditt lyfter och värmer. Önskar att du är glad i den vackra Kalifornien. Varm kram till dig också, och tack igen.

[@viktorrisling6155]

För att ha bott här i tio år (timmar :p) så tycker jag att du inte har så mycket accent, jag känner folk som bott här i 25år som har mer. Jätteroligt att du ställde upp :)

[@mattvsjapan]

I tried this kind of thing when I was filming in New York with Xiaoma. The Japanese woman actually gave a great reaction to my broken Japanese, so when I switched to the way I normally speak, she didn't really give any additional reaction haha (since she was pretty much already at the peak of surprise right from the start)

[@daysandwords]

Yeah, I am kind of working on a theory that context forms 70-80% of perception in almost all areas of life. So when she doesn't expect you to speak any Japanese, then when you speak some, she's going to be surprised and as you wrote, it makes little difference after that. But in a lesson, they don't expect you to speak the language well, especially if you start like I did, that is, not even properly responding to "Good morning" haha. Also it helped immensely that this lady has a noticeable Argentinian accent, so to her, I basically sound Swedish - so, like she said, I went from 0 to 100. In reality I went from 5 to 75 but it seemed like "perfect" Swedish to her.

[@ndescruzur4378]

*sigh* japanese people... never too polite for them I guess

[@SomethingSomethingg]

I love your videos Matt!!! It's strange but for some reason I have found that Japanese is the easiest foreign language for me to learn because I can pronounce every syllable and there's no R rolling so you've been a big influence to me.

[@christopherevans1361]

You need to go into an IKEA, and SHOCK the employees with PERFECT SWEDISH!

[@daysandwords]

I actually tried this a few years ago with a blonde employee who had an accent. She was Dutch. 🤣

[@Klewie]

I can definitely confirm, not every Ikea worker speaks Swedish

[@daysandwords]

@@Klewie In Australia, IKEA would be one very unlikely place to find Swedes because a) the stores are not in the right suburbs and b) Swedes generally do more specialised or entrepreneurial work, rather than standing there scanning in $99 desks.

[@Klewie]

@@daysandwords You're definitely right, I'm natively Swedish speaking but live in Australia, it's up to me to make the change xD

[@livb6945]

Why would Swedes work at IKEA in other countries?!

[@AnnaKaunitz]

The number of “polyglots” I’ve seen “speaking” 400 languages they’ve casually picked up or learned in a week…yet they sound (obviously) like beginners so why just not be honest instead and have fun with it? It’s not a competition 🤔

[@Hwyadylaw]

It's not a bad thing unless they claim to be more advanced in those languages than they really are. You can have fun with learning a little bit of many languages just as well as learning much of one language. I have been learning Japanese to an upper intermediate / lower advanced level, but also enjoy studying a little of any language that catches my attention on the side.

[@hannahwalmer1124]

@@Hwyadylaw Not to be a dick, but Laoshu is who comes to mind everytime I see comments like this. He's notorious for repeating the same sentences and having the same conversations everytime in whichever language he chooses that day. Mainly consisting of "Hi" "How are you" "I study at home" "I love this language" "I have been studying for.." "I have never been to...". While some people just enjoy the reaction of the people, it does get redundant and entertainment value goes to the wayside because it's more or less the same video you watched last week and the week before that.

[@TheoDaJunk]

I read xioma in that sentence 😯

[@TheoDaJunk]

@@hannahwalmer1124 damn and I thought he's a legend 😔

[@aidanpeterbio]

I mean I can understand if people want to learn the basics of like 12 languages so that can be polite to waiters and book accommodation when travelling and shit, but if that's the extent of what you know its hard to say that you "speak" that language. which is what I feel a lot of these polyglots are doing. I started romanian less than 2 weeks ago and I could probably order food in a restaurant, but to say that I can speak romanian would be a complete lie lol.

[@Barrylyndon1234]

Fan vad förvånad man blev när "ha det så kult på restaurangen" kom upp! Älskar din kanal, keep it up :)

[@daysandwords]

Va åt ni förresten? 😂

[@julbombning4204]

Me too! Taking part of a country’s meme culture really is next level!

[@user-jd9sj1mq2b]

Dank memes

[@cobbomusic]

det kanske låter gott?

[@torstenstv]

Jag undrar vad ni äter😌

[@TheCudlitz]

I agree with you about the awkward part. It was funny when she realized it and everything, but the part where you were pretending to not know anything was so painful to watch, I was pittying her. She was probably like "oh Jesus how many more minutes of this?" LOL

[@daysandwords]

Actually, having been a teacher in that situation, I don't find it that awkward. I find it more awkward when their English is C1 and it's hard to know how to even help them. At least when the student is like me (in this video) you can be like "OK this is how we tell the time in English..."

[@TheCudlitz]

@@daysandwords Interesting. I didn't think of it that way.

[@futurez12]

@@daysandwords In that situation I'd just start throwing the most hardcore slang at them. See how they deal with that! 😂

[@daysandwords]

@@futurez12 I have done a bit of that but even that can be tough because sometimes they're like "Ok why am I learning the Aussie slang for "get up early"?"

[@dodgingcars]

@@daysandwords Even I don't know that, but I have to assume whatever it is, ends in "ie."

[@trasheaterpeter]

She was such a good sport! She deserves to get a good few lessons out of this.

[@johnkeatley4946]

My God, I clicked on this video thinking “Lamont has started using clickbait?” and when I watch it there’s a full explanation of why, total honesty about what happened, an admission that it wasn’t fun to make and an apology for the clickbait. This is why I feel this is one of if not the best language learning channel on KZbin. I 100% support using these tactics if it allows you to compete

[@daysandwords]

I don't even mind clickbait if there's an explanation as to how that title is justified but what I don't like is people just doing that video over and over again. "Perfect Chinese in VR chat / Perfect Chinese in a restaurant / Perfect Chinese in NYC" - like, we get it.

[@johnkeatley4946]

@@daysandwords I feel the same. I can accept clickbait in titles because it’s a necessary evil on KZbin and other social media and if it helps fund genuine, good content then fine. But in the actual content, if they just continue to imply that they did something superhuman, then it’s just people looking to have their ego stroked. Those VR videos are the same I feel, there’s no real advice in them. It’s just “look how great I am”. Why you’d want praise for something that you’re not being truthful about from people who don’t have sufficient knowledge to prove you wrong is beyond me but there you go.

[@nadiam926]

She had a good laugh 😂 this was funny

[@parasitius]

Massive props to the teacher that let you use the footage! I had this same "experiment" happen to me in real life, very much unintentionally, and to be honest it was a quite unpleasant experience. Basically what happened was that I "self-studied" Spanish by watching a TV series pain-stakingly over and over spending 600 or so hours in 4 months. It was only a 60 hour show, so that means I watched each episode about 3 times and spent about 7 hours on Google Translate or making notes. I told myself, I would get a tutor when I was done. At that point, I obviously didn't SPEAK any Spanish at all and had never tried to do so in my life. Nor had I ever learned any grammar. So I truthfully told the teacher I found that I was a beginner, 4 months of study, didn't know any grammar and had never spoken before. So he started out like I was a baby teaching in English and annoyingly repeating shit a million times. I could tell he was a quality teacher, but if I sucked so bad that he was going to treat me like that, I reckoned I needed it. But at the same time, it was pure torture. I needed for him to speak naturally like I was a full grown adult and to stop using English. I decided I would just take only 1 class a week until he got his shit together. Most other teacher figured this shit out in less than 1 hour. It took him like a month. Then all the sudden he seemed completely mind-fucked like... how was it that we just had a conversation comparing and contrasting economic policies and forms of government? I mean I wasn't good, but I could at least talk about shit and make sentences by time I had worked (simultaneously) with another teacher for 1 month. So finally he got his shit together and decided (now this part surprised me) there wasn't much point in going through grammar with me and we should just converse every day and get my error corrected.

[@lbb2rfarangkiinok]

Her face when u say "språket" and she's like "damn, his accent is more native sounding than mine" xD

[@Christensengarden]

Having watched your previous content, I didn't think it was going to be clickbaity. I super enjoyed this. I'm really glad you skipped over the awkward parts and basically, gave us enough to get the idea; and then ran with the fun full steam. Well done. Love your regular content as well. Thumbs up!

[@prestokrs1]

She had such a cute reaction.

[@flameriver5414]

Props to Cecilia for being so patient with you when she thought you were a complete beginner. Her reaction when you came clean was adorable!

[@pixiehollyhome6026]

Bra jobbat! Endast små detaljer skiljer dig från att få till det perfekt! Riktigt bra!!

[@Ihatemyusernamemore]

That's a good point, gotta compete with those fake ass "polyglots" who can count to ten and say hello in a billiongajillion languages so at least people are clickbaited onto a real language learning channel. Love that Dogen appeared in the footage at the end.

[@bigscarysteve]

I recognized Dogen and Luca Lampairello, but I don't know who the girl is.

[@daysandwords]

@@bigscarysteve Oh she is a Swedish learning channel. She's a Russian lady who speaks excellent Swedish. I can't even remember her channel name now.

[@brendon2462]

That was so funny she was stunned her mouth dropped.

[@csibibi2]

I think it's more difficult to catch on to a sudden improvement simply because people tend to speak worse when they're nervous and it take a bit of time to feel comfortable with a new teacher. And getting a strong reaction from a teacher is even more difficult. Like how she said at the end that she was even more surprised than she was letting on. Bra jobbat iallafall! Jag ser fram emot din nesta video!

[@SecreZ]

Damn, as an native Swede it's really cool to see someone learn the language but not only learn it but to speak fluently in it is insane! 😅 I'm currently studying Japanese and also learning how to speak the language and so far it's been really fun and exciting, but not only am I Swedish I'm also native in Serbian so I'm "hafu" as they say in Japan but not half Japanese unfortunately 😂 Fortsätt så, så kommer du snart låta som en "riktig" svenne😂

[@arnulfotorresvalladares9680]

You had me for a second there haha. I always find these "White guy surprises everyone with perfect XYZ language" or "Learned XYZ language in 24 hours" videos slightly annoying and presumptuous. Especially the former ones. It's like, this is a video that you recorded yourself about yourself speaking a language and uploaded it to your own channel, so why do you refer to yourself in the third person by calling yourself "white guy" or "american" like somebody was making a documentary about you or something? Even Dogen made a parody of those videos. But your content is always very honest and real so I couldn't believe that you were doing click-bait videos like those and I was relieved to find out that there was a secret reason behind it haha.

[@daysandwords]

The problem with the titles is that they're a huge part of what YT uses to recommend them to people, so if people have 50 videos called "white guy speaks..." and they do really well, then someone like Matt is just throwing money away to NOT call the video that. I almost called this "with perfect Swedish" but didn't because my Swedish is so far from perfect, and then I almost called it "speaks better Swedish than his teacher" because my accent is a lot more Swedish, but I felt it was mean to Cecilia who actually does speak it better than I do overall.

[@izzy1154]

I think the "american / british / australian white guy" thing just makes for a more clickable title. It emphasis the idea that a white person from an english-speaking country wouldn't exactly be expected to know any of these foreign languages fluently. So when people see that in the title, they are likely to be intrigued and click on the video (a lot more intrigued than if the title were something like "Bob surprises everyone with perfect XYZ language").

[@laggylife3353]

Woah! I'm from Sweden and I was really impressed! It can be very hard to nail the accent, but yours sound really good!

[@lookforjosh]

Thanks for including your honest thoughts and some of the background info on the creation of this video. Made it waaay more interesting than the usual template these type of videos from the click-bait creators run by. Great job as always, Lamont. Cheers from Sydney hotel quarantine and suffering from jet lag 😂

[@lucielou7745]

This is great!! I’m Australian and live in Brisbane. I’ve always felt drawn to sweden and it’s culture and language. I’m slowly learning bits and pieces but have a long way to go. Your videos are awesome Thankyou!!! Yes the first thing I did when I began was install the keyboard.. it’s not hard to do and makes things so much easier!!

[@bismuthblau216]

I have never been this early in my life to anything. It is an interesting idea pretending that you don't speak a language and then switching to being able to speak and understand it quite well. I don't think I could try to lower my German fluency ( which isn't much at the moment).Also you are probably one of my favourite youtubers because of your honesty and overall helpfulness.

[@petrosstefanidis6396]

Great video! It was a very pleasant surprise. 1. Great reaction from her - I really enjoyed it. 2. I noticed the unusual title from the very first moment but I didn't care. I thought "If this is what it takes to attract more people to such a great channel so be it. It's totally worth it."

[@soetgoete7295]

Haha roligt att se :) du är riktigt bra på svenska!

[@qajjan8815]

You have put in so much time in the accent, it's so cool. You would make a Swede confused since you Speak Swedish with no obvious accent. I would hear that you are not Swedish but I would have a really hard time to figure out where you are actually from. You are really on the right track here, if you continue to practice I'm sure your Swedish will be flawless. Keep up the good work!

[@christofferroslund2334]

Grymt jobbat 😁 tycker det är roligt att se personer som bor utanför Sverige lära sig svenska. Och håller med henne att din svenska är lika bra som en svensk

[@lucielou7745]

It’s particularly awesome to find your channel since we are in the same country snd so your recommendations for apps and website will all apply to me, hooray!!

[@ckpemac5268]

I love the title. I am a Russian learner and you have made me truly realize just how much of a nerd I am. I'm thinking of taking up Swedish too, so I subbed so I could potentially learn along with you.

[@unoki99]

It's really cool to see someone who mastered Swedish as an adult to be teaching the language! :D From this video it also came clear to me how specific the melody of Swedish is, since the girl's grammar was completely correct, same goes for the phonology, but the melody makes it clear that the language is something she mastered at adulthood I wonder if there are courses people could go to that are specifically focusing on the melody of the language, and I am really interested in what studies about the melody of Swedish would look like!

[@goosechasing]

Jag är sjukt imponerad av att du inte har en typisk utländsk dialekt. Grymt bra jobbat!

[@nyckelmannenspelar2314]

Du är väldigt duktig på svenska! Jag har bott i Sverige hela mitt liv och du är en av de bästa på svenska som inte kommer från Sverige.

[@davidh4379]

Love the spin you put on this video (and that 4th wall break haha)

[@That__non-binary_glitchGREG]

Detta va faktisk såå braaaa!!!! This were soo good!!!!

[@jacersalvatore]

Jäklar haha, ditt uttal är otroligt bra, är väldigt imponerad 😁

[@nikocuneo2589]

dude what you said at the end about bringing people in was so thoughtful and stuff

[@muskadobbit]

4:22 Love the Swedish with the Australian accent. Lamont, you make my day.

[@leoregino]

I think she was that cool to allow you use the footage and you got the reaction just because she's Argentinian :p

[@kakabudi]

Took way too long go find this comment. I don't think it was completely dependant on her being Argentinian, but one can make a generalization that Argentinians are more expressive in their emotions than the average swede. No offense, swedes. I know swedes have a full range of emotions. Comparatively speaking, people of south America wear their emotions right on their sleeves, while swedes tend to bring it out only when they have gotten to know you better. Or, you know, alcohol.

[@kerstin1719]

@@kakabudi I'm so offended. *drinks snaps* You are absolutely right.

[@TheZenytram]

@noromyxo as a Brazilian i'd say it is too much expressions and ppl talk too loudly. Not even joking, some times it seems as if some one are recording thosw youtube videos where ppl exaggerate every little thing. Unless it's Minas Gerais, ppl are too much chill there.

[@martinandersson3827]

Du har riktigt bra Svenska, bra jobbat. keep up the good work.

[@wrightjustin23]

I absolutely love this guy. He always cracks me up

[@funnypantshd150]

Måste erkänna, din svenska var bättre än förväntat. Väldigt roligt att du fick in ha det så kult på resturangen i videon också.! Toppen video!

[@ArgaAnders]

Alltså din dialekt är nästan helt perfekt! Låter som klassisk rikssvenska kryddad med litet stockholmska! Jag är imponerad!!😀

[@Tomanita]

This was perfect😂 And I knew there had to be a good reason for the title.

[@DavsGaming]

An excellent video as always! I'd say I'd do anything to never be in the situation where my German ability is lower than it truly is (especially as I live in a German-speaking country), but it was nonetheless cool to see how you did the video, the reaction of the tutor and what you said about those very superficial language channels you get on here.

[@pst659]

I like this guys honesty.

[@lauradehaan3690]

Off topic but I love the teacher. So encouraging, patient and positive regardless of how hopeless you were haha!

[@Jiant08]

Bra jobbat! ☺️

[@MisterNightGuy]

I haven't watched in a while, and something popped into my head today and I wanted to check back with the channel. I was truly disappointed to see the thumbnail and clickbaity title because I thought the whole thing had taken a turn for the worse. So happy to see you keeping your integrity whilst doing your level best to grow and fight against the rash of talented, but obviously clickbaity polyglots.

[@homoerectus5747]

Trodde inte det fanns folk från utlandet som ville lära sig det forna språket haha, Kul att se fortsätt så!

[@johangolster5164]

Jag är svensk och tycker att denna kanal är något av det bästa som finns på youtube! Fortsätt, din dialekt har blivit riktigt bra och tyckte inte ens denna video var clickbait…

[@carlrytterfalk4684]

Riktigt kul! 😁

[@Lia-sf6qc]

WOOOOW din svenska är helt otrolig! Svenska har en väldigt svår accent men du är på riiiiiiktigt väg att sätta den! Keep going😄😄

[@julesboslough5576]

I was learning swedish for about a year straight. Had to take a break from learning as I'm really busy, but I still practice what I know. I really need to pick it up again and learn more. Thankfully I have a few swedes that I'm friends with that I speak to on a daily basis so I won't lose what I've already learned.

[@totizedger]

Hoppas du får tid till att fortsätta plugga :) (Hope you will have time to continue learning Swedish)

[@Dos3R_]

Det här är så underhållande 👌🏼

[@ErikaLH]

I love... Wait, Jag älskar att du använder å istället för och som en riktig svensk från landsbygden =D // En från svenska landsbygden :P Vore kul att se om du förstod när jag pratar min dialekt. Den är väldigt grov och annorlunda.

[@chuckitaway466]

She looks like an engaged teacher. I would get lessons from her. I'm learning norwegian and i understood the swedish mostly. Cool. You blew her mind bro.

[@hannahansson972]

Vad sjukt när du verkligen försökte kunde man inte ens höra brytning, hon var också jätteduktig men man hörde absolut att det var hennes andraspråk eller liknande. Sjukt bra jobbat!

[@thsimpsonsguy]

Jag har åtminstone ingeting emot clickbaitandet om det betyder att din kanal växer! Fann dig för några veckor sedan och har kollat igenom alla dina videor både på denna kanal och på Reykjavik Reviews. Har alltid varit språkintresserad och håller själv på försöka lära mig tyska, och din kanal ger en väldigt unik inblick i språkinlärning då du håller på att lära dig ett språk som jag redan kan. Det är ju inte jättevanligt att youtubers väljer att lära sig svenska utav alla språk. Om du någon gång är i behov av att prata med nån som har svenska som sitt modersmål så hjälper jag gärna!

[@AnnaKaunitz]

Det är faktiskt vanligare än man tror.

[@thsimpsonsguy]

@@AnnaKaunitz Det är många videor som t.ex. "I learned Swedish in 2 weeks" men såna tycker jag inte räknas. Han på den här kanalen fördjupar sig verkligen i språket, istället för att bara skrapa på ytan och lära dig några enkla fraser.

[@daysandwords]

@@AnnaKaunitz Det är ganska vanligt som ETT av mans 5+ språk men enligt min upplevelse är det ovanligt att svenska är prioriterad. Själv känner jag inte till nån annan kanal där någon har lärt sig svenska (till en hyfsad nivå liksom) utan att bo i Sverige. Alltså jag tänkte göra en video som "I am the best at Swedish" och i videon skulle jag då förklara att jag menar utav de som inte ens har varit i Sverige haha 🤭

[@AnnaKaunitz]

@@thsimpsonsguy Det är dödsstraff på sånt ofog, usch 😚 Lamont däremot är en riktig dalahäst som kan prata svenska. Killen pratar tom svenska med sina barn (om jag minns rätt)

[@AnnaKaunitz]

@@daysandwords Det är därför du är vår speciella Pandoras ask dalahäst på speed, Lamont, plötsligt sjanghajad av svenskan. Resten är historia och kärlek ❤️

[@romanlarsson6125]

Man, you owned it!! I'm a Swedish Guy and you speak better than me that is native and raised there WTF, God bless you man 🙏🙏

[@keiths2902]

I've been studying Swedish for 13 years now - but on and off after the first few years. There is no one around me who can speak Swedish so I didn't have an easy way to practice. But, finally, last year I realized I could watch Twitch streamers who are streaming in Swedish (a seamless way to combine what I already did with the bonus of practicing Swedish). From there, which was the first time I had ever been in a Swedish conversation, I realized I could understand most of what was typed. From there I got a VPN so I could watch SVT. And just a month ago I watched a movie entirely in Swedish and understood almost all of it (with subtitles). So I now took the plunge and booked my first Italki lesson because I want to finally reach fluency after all these years. And someday, hopefully, move to Sweden. So uh, thanks I guess, for pushing me to do what I've been scared to do.

[@daysandwords]

If you've just been listening to and reading Swedish for 13 years then you probably won't need very much speaking before it's as good if not better than my own.

[@recmadness]

Im from sweden and that was super goodjob bro i liked this vid

[@FlashbackFoodshack]

Holy shit! Your Swedish is AMAZING! Fantastic job!

[@lanne9938]

bbro her jaw dropped when you started speaking fluently 😂

[@daysandwords]

Haha I found it funny when she admitted that she was more shocked than she showed. Like, damn that's pretty shocked then.

[@beauvance]

Love this channel and at least for myself, I do my best to avoid the "click-baity" language channels. It took me several years to learn to speak French competently. I know from that experience (again just speaking for me) that it's near impossible to learn to speak another language well in a week or 30 days- aside from learning perhaps basic pronunciation, counting, common words and phrases. Keep doing what you are doing! I would love to see more vids in Swedish.

[@mariahiller]

So true.

[@linguaEpassione]

Ciao Lamont, you made me smile, cringe and laugh within the space of a few minutes, so awesome job! You also made me think about how I could do the same trick in a few languages and how fun(??) or maybe weird(!!) it could/would be xD I totally get the feeling of weirdness you were describing in the video, I'm afraid I'm not sure if I could bear it :D But I'd probably get more views than with other "more serious" videos... Anyway, as always, a pleasure to watch! (maybe except for the first few awkward minutes, but you know why haha)

[@loth664]

What's crazy about this video to me is that I thought to myself as she was speaking Swedish (I speak no Swedish) that something about her gave me a either a Chilean/Argentinean vibe for lord knows why and it turned out to be true. I've been meaning to book to an Italki tutor from Argentina, glad I caught this!

[@eyeballscratch]

Wow I was actually pretty damn impressed when I heard your accent, right on spot !

[@daysandwords]

Haha tack tack men mitt uttal och svenska i allmänhet har förbättrat ganska mycket sen jag gjorde den här videon.

[@eyeballscratch]

@@daysandwords åhh kan inte vänta tills att få höra! Jag tyckte att det var galet imponerande att en australiensare kunde prata som en svensk eftersom många engelsk-talande personer som lär sig svenska har en speciell dialekt när de pratar svenska. Fast du lät ju som en 100% svensk. Kan typ inte fatta det hahaha

[@JordannGeorge]

yeah, that was painful haha. thanks for trying to make it more authentic and getting people's permission.

[@legan8140]

Best swedish i’ve ever heard from an english speaking person. Good job

[@daysandwords]

Thank you! I have heard better myself but they have always lived in Sweden.

[@nickekotevski9277]

Regardless how good you are at the moment, you can always learn more! ^^

[@Raxi._.]

I am swedish and you speak very good and The accent is awesome

[@philsmith7398]

I'm glad you felt awkward...these are always cringeworthy to me, so lame. Well done!

[@daysandwords]

Thank you for saying "cringeworthy" and not just "cringe" like it's a freakin adjective. It's not! Haha.

[@dutchy1121]

I am glad that yt showed your videos on my front page, you are very right about how watching a few videos will not help you become fluent in a language, nor will sites like duolingo, sure you can get the basics, but to actually speak in the language or understand what people are saying, they will not help. Sure you can say it is may 21st and understand when they ask you what the date is, but only if they ask it in a certain way that conforms to what you've learned, but if you understand the language it doesn't matter how they ask, maybe they ask, "what day of the week is it today?" "May 21st" would be a wrong answer as they are expecting a day of the week.

[@lololombardi2406]

what a beef to the big channels, love it jajajajaj greetings from Argentina too

[@1991beachboy]

Nice! The moment she realize you spoke just as fluently as her. If not even better imo. Like you can definitly hear her accent but yours is really good! I'm a new subscriber but have you ever tried to understand different Swedish accents? There's a lot so I understand but would be pretty fun to see, especially Älvdalska. Personally I'm from Västra Götaland so the Västgöta dialect is pretty distinct too but Älvdalska is definitly something else lol

[@daysandwords]

My accent is closer to a Swede's but overall her vocab, grammar and fluency is higher. I had to make some stuff up while I was on my "gotcha, I'm fluent" bit because I couldn't think of anything to say. Like, what does "det går ju..." even mean? It was just filler. She has an awesome Argentinian personality in her Swedish.

[@caller145]

Channels like yours are the reason why I still can't speak german xD I just find the process itself so interesting so I never actually get to practice. Though thanks to all the helpful information and a tiny bit of practice I already understand surprisingly much. I still can't speak german but it feels like with a little push I could get more comfortable with that. It's just that watching videos about how to learn a language is not the same as actually practicing... Well technically english is one of my target languages as well. I just don't want it to be my focus right now as I already feel comfortable enough with it. I don't want to put in the time to learn a perfect accent right now, first I wanna get my german on a similar level

[@daysandwords]

I totally get what you mean. I actually like making videos as much as I do improving my Swedish, probably even more. So I'm tempted to make lots but I also think this channel is useless if I'm not always working towards something language-related.

[@Lucdera]

I was reading a bit through your comments and it's quite funny that I just switch through every language while reading xD Because down there you will find a lot of English, Swedish, Portuguese and Spanish. To be honest: I just learned the very basics of Spanish and Swedish but my pronounciation is fine already, so I sometimes get confused while reading. Like how should I pronounce it in my head? :D

[@mymedia8785]

Nice ramble at the end, so true.

[@failbait3020]

Grym video och bra jobbat med att lära dig svenska! Stundtals låter du som en riktig Svensk, sen kryper det in lite aussie dialekt ;) Hör av dig om du vill ha en svensk pratkompis! Sitter mycket vid datorn :)

[@korpamoen]

du pratar med mindre brytning än vad hon gör...bra jobbat!

[@dnuma5852]

as a swede i just want to say your pronunciation of i is completely flawless 😊

[@mariahiller]

He has a noticable accent. Listen to how he says "pratar."

[@SparklesNJazz]

“three minutes of THE worst swedish i could muster” i’m cracking up. this is an incredible video. i’m gonna binge watch your whole channel now LOL

[@daysandwords]

Haha, a new fan! To save you time, my best videos are: - The movie Gravity but it's language learning - Learning a Language with Game of Thrones - 57 hours of Swedish in a week - Could you ever sound like a native speaker? And then basically any of the videos AFTER "Netflix for Language Learning" which is about the time I worked out how to make my videos better.

[@SparklesNJazz]

@@daysandwords awww that was so sweet of you! thank you!!!

[@andersforsberg9626]

Hej Lamont! Det som du förklarar vid 8.50 är verkligen synd, men jag är glad att du förklarar bakgrunden till den här videon. Det finns så mycket videor på KZbin numera som bara innehåller skräp (som exemplet med "I learned German in 5 days") och som ofta är de videor som blir prioriterade tack vare alla algoritmer. Jag är glad att det finns såna som dig som faktiskt vill skapa genuint och lärorikt innehåll istället för att bara jaga visningar. /Anders Hälsningar från Stockholm!

[@daysandwords]

Tack Anders!

[@maggsta3132]

man ypu broke my brain with the Australien accent creeping in. as I was reading the text and at the same time listening what you were saying. I understood all of it at the same time but my brain just broke so I had to rewatch it to really understand that you translated what you said and spoke swenglish omg 😅

[@doomictekken]

Som en svenne är det ganska kul att se folk som vill lära sig vårat språk skit bra video! -translation- As a swede this is really funny to watch and that people wanna learn our language!

[@gdzephyriac2766]

@@mariahiller Om du menar vårat, så är det väldigt vanligt i informell kommunikation, och om du menar särskrivningen av skitbra, får du leva med att alla inte alltid skriver perfekt

[@vilkor2680]

​​@@mariahilleratt han sa vårat istället för vårt är väl knappast något grammatiskt fel. Det är väl mest bara att han använde talspråk. Du behöver inte dra fram racism

[@helloimgarbage]

Yoo hon va spansklärare på min grundskola när jag gick där! Jag har kollat på din kanal tidigare så jag blev lite förvånad av att se ett bekant ansikte här :)

[@goosechasing]

This is really interesting. I've seen quite a lot of your Swedish video and often think about that you speak with people who talk the calssic stockholm dialect. Have you evet spoke to a southen Sweden and reflected over the differences? I'm from the very most southen part of Sweden and it'd be great to see some comparisons betweeen different swedish dialects. HMU if you want a chat. Perhaps you have a discord server or what not.

[@autentyk5735]

Love it!!!

[@fredskronk]

Hahaha. Fucking priceless though. Snyggt! Men förstår att det var hemskt att skapa den här videon. Stor cred till dig för att du faktiskt både kände dig awkward och beskrev det för oss som tittar. Snyggt jobbat!

[@hannesu8931]

Snyggt jobbat!! Imponerade.

[@SparklesNJazz]

also this poor teacher is so sweet

[@dinmamma696]

Holy shit man, your Swedish is amazing, you pronounce words better than the teacher 🤩

[@reynapr4574]

Can you review language transfer on KZbin ? My friend did the Spanish course and said it helped her tremendously but not sure if she’s just bugging or not lol

[@sosihaile6372]

I've done his spanish course too! his method is revolutionary (i'm not exaggerating i swear lol) his courses are a complete study of the target language presented in a very logical way that doesn't underestimate the student like most methods do. his courses helped me understand my native language way better too. if you're learning a language he has a course on definitely check him out :)

[@jamesmccloud7535]

Finished listening to it already and it's phenomenal. Didn't have to look up any grammar topic after that tbh and can just focus on input.

[@daysandwords]

From the little I heard, it basically just seemed like a newer version of Michel Thomas. But that's from very limited experience.

[@pronemanoldbutyoung5548]

Hallå, hej, kul video. Den sista lärarinnan talar svenska med en brytning. Är det något du lade märke till?

[@daysandwords]

Om jag inte kunde höra en så tydlig accent vore det omöjligt att prata som jag gör. Det går inte att härma det man inte ens kan höra. Alltså, ja, det märkte jag som om det vore en fågel som satt på min kopp kaffe. Ingenting fel med vare sig en accent eller en fågel, men både två är tydliga.

[@CobraTrainer]

really impressive Swedish, keep it up! :) Did you by any chance study for any time in northern sweden? It almost feels like you have kind of a northern swedish accent

[@daysandwords]

I think I'm gonna have to make a video about this because I am sick of being asked it haha. Nah I've never been to Sweden but I know why I sound like a northerner (sometimes).

[@Diabolus1978]

His Swedish range from Småland to Gothenburg Stockholm to norrländska. Detta är på vissa av hans ord i samma meningar ibland.

[@ShaneGodliman]

Her reaction was great haha!

[@juniroxbage2039]

Hahah, du pratar ju mycket bättre svenska än läraren 🙈 Riktigt imponerande!

[@shabbs15]

My man literally explained why he clickbaited lmao!