How Swedish Sounds to Non-Swedish Speakers ㅣPoland, Norway, Korea l FT. EPEX

[@vinterglitter]

Hello it’s Sofia from Sweden! 🇸🇪🥰 thank you for watching! This was both fun to record and to watching it back myself. EPEX and all out friends form different countries did so well, Swedish is a hard language but they all did their best and in the end Hanna and I managed to guess the right answers! 🙌🎉 congratulations to EPEX new album release~ 🎉

[@thesexybeast1868]

Sofia om du kan, meddela den andra svenska tjejen att hon är nog en av de vackraste personerna jag sett. Hon borde ju representera svensk skönhet

[@mangoqrwslk92vina]

Så himla kul att få se mer svenska i koreanska videor som dessa, helt olika kulturer, och VÄLDIGT olika språk! Men som adopterad korean som bor i Sverige, är detta så kul!

[@vinterglitter]

@@mangoqrwslk92vina Ja det tycker jag också hahah 🙈 roligt att du gillade videon! Ha en fin dag. ^^

[@andreasnilsson7711]

Haha denna var bra. All respekt till alla inblandade. De var riktigt duktiga. 😊

[@nanamunetoh]

❤

[@Pineslong]

They really went from a basic sentence to a tounge twister😂

[@sedan4x]

I dont hear a basic sentence, every sentence sounds like tounge twist 😂

[@andreaskarlsson5251]

lvl 2 was def the hardest.

[@ShrekIsLoveShrekIsLif3]

Im swedish

[@alanbellas513]

@@sedan4x the first one, “Jag gillar att äta IKEA köttbullar” was a common, kind of everyday language. Then it went to mean tongue-breakers.

[@Chloe0965]

@@ShrekIsLoveShrekIsLif3JAG MED 🔥🔥🔥

[@daysees_]

Linnea from Norway here 🇳🇴 This was such a fun shoot! Definitely need to work some more on my Swedish skills after this 😅 but everyone did such a great job~ thanks for having me and congrats to EPEX on their album release! I really enjoyed it too 🥰

[@Kpop4life573]

I am😊 norwegian

[@Galaxy_dog_In_The_Space]

Jeg er også norsk

[@KingjulienXIV]

​@@Galaxy_dog_In_The_SpaceI started learning Norwegian a few days ago and I'm so happy I could understand what you said😁

[@Galaxy_dog_In_The_Space]

So cool @@KingjulienXIV

[@kajlonnroos5299]

Linnea so pretty❤❤❤❤❤

[@AnnaBanana_00]

The first guys "jag gillar" was really impressive!

[@andreaskarlsson5251]

Feel like he tried to find similar korean words to pronounce it with. xD but guess there's nothing in korea that sounds like IKEA köttbullar haha :D

[@Daniel05554]

YESS I THOUGHT THAT TOO

[@LesaaMoshsa]

Very pretty boys here, more of this❤️

[@kajlonnroos5299]

Ikea köttbullar ☺mmmmm

[@balamonika1671]

This is Monika from Poland, I had so much fun filming this :3

[@nanamunetoh]

You were so fun! You're so pretty ❤

[@Daniel05554]

You were so nice. I really liked you 😁👍🏼

[@SinilkMudilaSama]

💋💋💋💋

[@stevenliang3551]

Hahaha sure 😂😂😂

[@SkepticalCaveman]

It's actually easy to guess the answers when the sentences are very well knows tongue twisters that all Swedes know. Random sentences would actually be harder.

[@Robman92]

Ohhh giving them a Swedish tongue twister is just pure evil 😅

[@Templarofsteel88]

the second one is actually the shorter version of the tong twister. The longer one would be Sju sjösjuka sjömän sköttes av sjuttisju sköna sjuksköterskor på det sjunkande skeppet Shanghai.

[@johan.ohgren]

Dom skulle aldrig klara det.

[@marcsi05]

Somehow you missed the “skönsjungande” that was in the clip 😅 (too many variants of this tongue twister)

[@Templarofsteel88]

@@marcsi05 that is another version I have heard also with skönsjungande added to it.

[@johnnorthtribe]

The "sj"-sound and our sound for the letter "U" is unique to Sweden and Norway. We have the word "sju" which means "seven". Basically no foreigner can pronounce that word unless they have lived here for a while.

[@moondaughter1004]

I'm honestly still struggling with certain "s"-words a swede

[@iku6588]

Arabic foreigners can pronounce the word sju because they also have this word as a letter

[@juliaa5610]

​@@iku6588No the arabic sound is much harsher, so it's not the same as the swedish.

[@swestuff]

At least in Swedish the "sj"-sound isn't a connected to a single letter combination like "sj". The sound came to the Swedish language externally I believe and instead of creating a letter for it, it now depends on the letter combination or the word itself. Here are some common combination used: sk: skylt(sign) sj: sju(seven) skj: skjorta(shirt) stj: stjäla(steal) sch: schema(schedule) ch: chaufför(driver) g: geni(genius) si/ssi: explosion(explosion) ti: lektion(lesson) So that sound is something you have to learn and is not something you can find just by reading a text. One of the harder parts of the Swedish language!

[@rickardelimaa]

The difference in pronounciation between "kärna" and "stjärna" (sju)...

[@Dante84-t6w]

It's actually amazing how hard it can be to repeat something you have heard repeatedly

[@Lizille97]

As a new fan of EPEX I'm excited when I watch something of them. 😂

[@linadame4034]

Welcome to the fandom ✨

[@Lizille97]

@@linadame4034 thank you

[@jkeuphoria2656]

hi ! i am a swedish Zenith, thank you for making this! you all did a very good job! I know swedish is a very hard language but you still did very good ! congratulations to your new album i am going to listen and stream it and give it much love and support ! thank you for your hard work on the album as well, i know it needs alot of hard work making a whole album, i wish you good luck in the future stay well bye bye

[@wicked-jn9cm]

What is a Swedish zenith? What is zenith I tried translate but don’t understand

[@juliadahlstrom4108]

@@wicked-jn9cm zenith is epex's fandom name!

[@jkeuphoria2656]

@@wicked-jn9cm it is Epex´s fandomname ! ❤

[@abfleks]

This was so funny, and an awesome way to promote your album! I did not realize it was anything but a fun video until you told about it! Cool.

[@anttirytkonen11]

I immediately said that last one to myself in Finnish "Uusi albumi julkaistaan huhtikuussa", even though I've nearly forgotten my favourite language Swedish. 😜 I wonder how it would have been if a Finn had been involved in this. Especially, if a Swedish-speaking Finn (that is, a native Swedish speaker from Finland 🇫🇮) had said that "sjuttiosju sjönsjungande sjuksköteskor" because it sounds so different in Finland Swedish. 🙃

[@vinterglitter]

That would have been so fun I think! 😍👏 I hope next time~

[@agirlwithwifi]

Yes good idea!

[@Battouga]

I believe the big difference is that Swedish speaking Finns don't use the standard Swedish sj- or sk- sound (middle of the tongue like a hissing cat) but pronounce it more like the soft k- sound (front of the tongue like English sh- sound). Finland Swedish is kind of considered as a Swedish dialect in Sweden and some historians think it's close to very old Stockholm dialect.

[@MayaTheDecemberGirl]

I didn't know that Swedish is so difficult. I know German, but Swedish doesn't resemble it and sounds as much harder to repeat. The video was funny and interesting, how Swedish sounds.

[@herrkulor3771]

Swedish has many dialects. I a video from "Petter - pissar på dig" you can hear three dialects. Otherwise more melodical "Perikles - var ska vi sova i natt" if you want to hear southern swedish/scanian.

[@moondaughter1004]

We have a lot of dialects. Some harder to understand than others. We can understand some German though cause there are some similarities between our languages

[@MayaTheDecemberGirl]

@@herrkulor3771 I didn't know about these Swedish dialects earlier. And I've read in Internet that Swedish has characteristic melody because of some tonal (pitch) accents. But for foreigners not used to it, this is probably hard to learn.

[@MayaTheDecemberGirl]

@@moondaughter1004 And is Your grammar like in German? For instance do You also use articles to every noun (like German: der, die, das etc.)? So is Your grammar more difficult or easier than in German?

[@Sofeprop_]

@@MayaTheDecemberGirl It's fairly similar, but we only have 2 articles, en and ett. So in that sense I would say it's easier than german.

[@Elsa_H-123]

Im Swedish too

[@tjincken]

Samma här

[@vofff]

Vem?

[@AndreaDoesYoga]

🎧🌍 Interesting perspective on Swedish sounds, EPEX! 👏🇸🇪

[@corpsecoder_nw6746]

Written down you can pick out the roots of similar English words from Swedish or if they say it slowly. Especially subjects in a sentence, common verbs, but then some things just sound like an alien language. I've been trying to learn it.

[@vixikie]

The tongue twisters could be done humming and you would be able to guess the words as a Swede because you learn these as kids. These are basic ones that everyone know meanwhile it would be more difficult with random sentences but it was fun for the non Swedes to try them. There is another version the sentence with sju sound. "Sju sjösjuka sjömän på det sjunkande skäppet Shanghai" which basically translates to "seven seasick seamen on the sinking ship Shanghai".

[@I_am_innocent_guy]

I speak both Swedish and Korean fluently as a guy who was born and rasied in Sweden but still Korean. This was really intresting and fun to watch

[@MissMelody03]

When Baekseung tried to say the sentence "Nytt album släpps i april", he said "släcks" instead of "släpps", which means "It turns off"😂 This was very funny to watch. Good job guys.🥰 I'm from Finland and I'm actually Swedish speaking. Many people don't know this but some people here actually speak Swedish as their mother tongue, so Finland is a bilingual country. But the accent here sounds a bit different compared to the accent in Sweden. I believe our accent here is a bit easier to pronounce for most people because it's not as strong as the Sweden Swedish pronuncation.😄

[@Mahima006]

AHHH THANK YOU FOR BRINGING EPEX!! I watch almost all the videos but dont really comment sorry 😥 hehehehe ❤i really love this channel keep going ❣😍

[@planejanedaniels]

"Swedish sounds like a melody to me 🎶🌍"

[@loris-bismar]

Many people around the world seem to share your thoughts. I've heard it many times that it sounds like we're singing to one another 😅.

[@MayaTheDecemberGirl]

​@@loris-bismarI've read in Internet that in Swedish there are some special tonal (pitch) accents, and that's why it sounds so melodic. But it's probably hard for foreigners, not used to it, to learn.

[@loris-bismar]

@@MayaTheDecemberGirl haha, i first thought you meant our different dialects (accents) had different tonal pitch and that there were a special one that was hard for foreigners to learn 😅. But yes, you're correct. The words might be spelled the same but depending on how you emphasize the pitch it changes the meaning of the word. They actually did one of those perfect ones in the video. The "four four four". To them it all sounded exactly the same, to us, they all have a different pitch.

[@MayaTheDecemberGirl]

@@loris-bismar I didn't know this earlier about Swedish. So maybe it is also easier for You, unlike for other Europeans, to learn the pronounciation in such tonal languages as for instance Mandarin, that also has different tones. For those who don't have sth like this in their mother tongues, it's really hard to catch it.

[@loris-bismar]

@@MayaTheDecemberGirl it said so when I googled in the beginning of this conversation, but I'm not convinced. Can't agree on it until I've tried 😄. Me personally though, have always had an ease to find the flow or rhythm in any language I hear (which I've always called the melody btw), but I've always thought it was because I'm musical, not because I'm Swedish. Then again, music is Sweden's second largest export so it might just be something here.

[@MadeleineMedia16]

One of the guys was so good when he was reading the paper! So impressed!

[@charlieee07]

Aww this is such an awesome series

[@jkeuphoria2656]

안녕하세요 ! 저는 15 살 스웨덴 ZENITH 입니다. 이걸 만들어주셔서 감사합니다! 모두 아주 잘 했어요! 스웨덴어가 매우 어려운 언어인 건 알지만 그래도 정말 잘하셨어요! 새 앨범 축하드려요 꼭 듣고 스트리밍해서 많은 사랑과 응원 보내드릴게요! 앨범도 열심히 작업해주셔서 감사합니다, 앨범 전체를 만드는 데 많은 노력이 필요하다는 것을 알고 있습니다. 앞으로도 행운을 빕니다. 잘지내! 빠이 빠이💚

[@vixikie]

"Får får får?" "Do sheep get sheep?" "Får får inte får, får får lamm." "Sheep, does not get sheep, sheep get lamb." Basically the same words but all have diferent meanings haha. Får basically means both get something and sheep which is so random.

[@tabxtra7057]

As a Norwegian from the west coast of Norway, I would have struggled with most of these from number two forward.

[@NomN83]

well sjuttisjuskönsjunganandeskötersrkor var kanske i det värsta laget att ha med här! ge dom en chans i alla fall! haha

[@michellenilsson9103]

Håller med. Finns bättre så dem hade haft bättre chans

[@Elis_Nordgall]

Det var åtminstone inte hela ”sju skönsjungande sjuksköterskor sköter sjuttiosju sjösjuka sjömän på skeppet Shanghai”

[@therraxz]

i am from norway and we norwegians understand most swedish talk but these examples are very hard.

[@Cloud-dq1mr]

Norwegians are the masters of Scandinavian languages. Norwegian ranges from easy to semi hard to understand, while danish can only be understood in written form. When they open their mouth and porridge chewing sounds come out every swede goes ????. I will forever be impressed that so many norwegians understand both swedish and danish. And I'm happy that we're brothers 😁 /from a Swede

[@RebeccazROBLOX]

As a Swedish person, i cant even understand what word it is😂😂😂

[@ReiKakariki]

This chalala totally broke me!😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@RamyamHobbies]

The "Får får får, Får får inte får, får får lamm". (Although the usual saying also includes a "Far" & "Nej". Far, Får får får? Nej Får får inte får, Får får lamm. It translates to: Father, do sheep have sheep? no, Sheep doesn't get sheep, sheep gets lambs. Far = Father. Får = Sheep. Får = Get / Gets / Receive. Nej = No. Lamm = Lamb. Another funny word with multiple meanings in Swedish would be "Gift" Gift = Married. But also means: Gift = Poison / Venom English has some interesting dual meaning words too, it's called "Homonyms". Example: BAT (one you swing or the flying mouse kind?).

[@GreenUnicorn06]

The Norwegian girl should have understood this one. Swap/translate one single word (inte -> ikke) and it's a Norwegian sentence (a pretty weird and unusual one, but still...)

[@Cube930]

4 4 4, 4 3 into 4, 4 4 long

[@sadelouise]

Thank you for having me! It was so fun trying to figure out what we were saying in Swedish and it was a lovely time working with EPEX 💖🫶🏻✨ stay tuned for the next videos with them~ 🤭

[@oh2mp]

This was extremely fun to watch because I understand Swedish quite well. The third one was a hard tongue twister and I think it would be hard even for a native speaker.

[@juliadahlstrom4108]

omg as a swedish zenith this actually means everything to me

[@yassinsuleiman655]

Zenit?

[@juliadahlstrom4108]

@@yassinsuleiman655 yes zenith

[@jeonginhaha4827]

JA SAME

[@rickardelimaa]

What's a "Swedish zenith"?

[@juliadahlstrom4108]

@@rickardelimaa zenith is the fandomname of epex fans, and I am from sweden

[@MissMelody03]

I started listening to EPEX. Such a cool group❤

[@billigmad3720]

We have the same saying about the sheeps and lambs here in Denmark.

[@Yeyeyayayoyo]

As a norwegian i can understand swedish because, my dialect resembles the language but not even norwegians understand what im saying, lmfao.

[@Straykids_fan__]

EPEX!!😭😭💗💗 LOVE THEM SO MUCH 💋

[@__LALISA__WORLDWIDENUMBERONE]

Everyone is too cute ❤

[@SIXcentury]

jag svär de alltid denna killed me kort hår som fkar up haha grymt video

[@agirlwithwifi]

OMG Swedish is my mother tongue! This is going to be so fun

[@voyageur8208]

Poland ❤

[@fransz9812]

I am swedish and it's fun to watch this

[@Jag.älskar.er.super.mycket]

As a swed i loveeee this

[@LittleAnastasY]

The music background is amazing 😂

[@MrPicha79]

Gud det var roligt att se hur de trodde de var😂😂😂

[@lifeofsaffran]

I’m swedish and I still had to read the comments to understand the sheep one, like, I was like 44444 inte 444 lamm??? Like sheep sheep sheep, sheep sheep inte sheep, sheep sheep lamm??? My brain didn’t even conside different kinds of får.

[@fredrikjosefsson3373]

actually impressed by how well the "jag gillar" went through the chain. They pronounced it very well. Then the köttbullar...

[@chucknorriswontdies]

I feel so alone in English. I have been watching videos where people will speak Latin to Italians, French in Portugal, hell even Old English to Germans. Most people understand the basics of what someone is trying to say. Like giving directions or asking what they prefer EG. "do you like apples or oranges" As a person who only speaks English, I have no clue what other languages are trying to say to me (not counting Spanish just because I hear it a lot). Maybe I can get a few words here and there like some German words, but never full sentences like other languages can with each other. I know the romances languages are all connected through Latin so it makes it easier, but damn what happened with English lol.

[@vicolin6126]

English was a Germanic language that got kidnapped by French. Now it is strange :)

[@helenahsson1697]

Jay Foreman has an amazing video on it. I don't remember the name but it's something about why British place names are hard to pronounce. He does a great job explaining "what happened to English". Also, I don't think you're as bad as you think. Go watch Richard Osmans house of games, and find the segment of the show (I think it's once a week) called House der spiele or something similar. You'll see that you understand more than you think. 😊

[@choicezenith]

Yewang keum and Hyunwoo did so well 🫶🏻😭

[@Inniee_bread]

As a swede this was too funny to watch😂

[@Foreignmonk34]

These are the funniest videos (only after the legendary quiet library japanese videos)

[@MrZloodie]

please make more, super interesting way of exploring phonetics

[@rebeccaxx]

köttbullar är så gott asså haha, speciellt med makaroner

[@Puzzlerfromsweden]

😂😂👌🏻☺️❤️

[@A.Blomdahl]

I’m Swedish and this sjuttiosju skön sjungande sjuksköterskor is kinda difficult EVEN for me that’s talk SWEDISH omg 😆

[@Elis_Nordgall]

That wasn’t even the whole rhyme “sju skönsjungande sjuksköterskor sköter sjuttiosju sjösjuka sjömän på skeppet Shanghai”

[@MrGunnar69]

Impressive that so much went down to the last person.👍

[@Essi-n7n]

Even Swedes may find certain words difficult to pronounce sometimes. And we also have the letters Å Ä Ö too. And the dialects also make a big difference. As I speak Eastern Gothic. If I go away outside Östergötland. So people hear immediately. Where I come from. 😂 And this girls sound the are from Stockholm.

[@Wotan1032]

Får får får. Får får inte får, får får lamm -- Sheep have sheep. Sheep don't have sheep, sheep have lambs. Yeah, that's funny one :)

[@AdBlock-User]

This is so funny :D ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

[@Nicosshalagalanis]

Haha den asiatiske killen var verkligen härlig 😂

[@rali2207]

did the universe just call you weak

[@kilipaki87oritahiti]

Doesn’t work with fellow Scandinavian countries because we are all related and especially Norwegian and Swedish are very close.

[@einarkeyser1763]

omänskligt!

[@TwoClouds-rh3tq]

Jag är svensk och det var roligt att kolla på den här videon

[@renekravmaga8564]

The second one it's impossible, even reading I think I could not pronounce

[@nagelabaruma1395]

Wow, that was fun ❤❤

[@emrenpegoyan9409]

thanks to the participants for popping by - so every face becomes to a name. thx for your 'efforts' but at least for the >>fun

[@Joseph.Glvtch]

CAN You do a polish version !!!

[@upmagic]

blonde girl from Sweden is very pretty, American girl as well. I think Polish girl was confused at second sentence, because it sounded very close to really bad polish words. Nice episode though, cheers from Poland~

[@TornadoSaga]

As a Swedish person this is hilarious 😂😂

[@K-dramaSpecialClips]

😊

[@ahamli0805]

As a Swedish this was funny and cute to watch

[@ky3822]

KUEM, BAEK AND YEWANG!!!! Stan Epex guys.

[@henri191]

Swedish for me sounds like a Gerrman or Danish , i don't even studied neither of these two , Swedish and Danish , but sound similar 😂

[@johnnorthtribe]

Same language group

[@Onnarashi]

I can see why people outside of Nordic countries feel that way, but as a Norwegian I can tell there's a big difference between German, Danish and Swedish, particularly in the melody and consonants. Danish sounds like its swallowing half of its consonants and we say Danes talk with a potato in their mouth.

[@moondaughter1004]

How dare you compare us to the danes? They sound like drunkards with a potato stuck in their throats mixed with porridge. (Please note that I'm only doing my duty as a swede to take the piss out of Denmark)

[@Illadviced]

Well, I mean, most swedes and norweigians can at the very least read danish, because the spelling is very, very similar. The pronounciation isn't as similar though, spoken danish is much harder to understand. But in the end they're kinda close. If norwegian is a sibling, danish is the half-sibling. German however? Nope 😂 That's like the dude your aunt married after her divorce. He's nice and all, but it's only been a year and he isn't really family.

[@MayaTheDecemberGirl]

I know German. And Swedish sounds completely different for me. It's not similar. The pronounciation and generally the melody of language is so much different.

[@andreytsyganov7321]

I wonder if they had a Turkic or Arabic speaking person because I heard "inshallah" first instead of "sha la la" :) If they had a Russian speaking person they could not stop laughing at the second sentence :)

[@RedBanana_]

Oo, what does the second one sound like in Russian?

[@Appe07]

Fun video! Some of the cast was very stiff, so that’s a shame

[@PlayGames123Go]

Next arabischer please❤❤

[@LEGEND_THANOSS]

as a Swedish person this is so funny to watch

[@NovaMalmström]

nyt album sleps i april 😮🎉

[@Ananegm111]

Those headphones were really unnecessary 😭💀

[@debb7]

the clips of Baekseung 😭

[@theJonasKingdom]

the four four four one actually means`: get sheeps sheeps, no sheeps dont get sheeps, because sheeps get lambs (im danisk and that is pretty simular to swedish)

[@benin295]

i now sweden i am born in sweden i can speak hej hej jag är benin och jag vet inte korean

[@Cloud-dq1mr]

Swedish person: *speaks* Other nations: sharlarlarlarlarlar 😦???

[@sebastian-ny1sp]

This was really fun to watch as a swede but thats not how "hints" works.

[@ankra12]

I understood everything 😂

[@killlmsA]

i love swedish smmm i wish i could speak it

[@The_Meow4]

I’m come from sweden!🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪

[@n-oliviaa]

Polish liking in norway here 😭😭🩷🇳🇴🇵🇱

[@loka-chan6695]

Omg I want to do this!!!!

[@Happiness57.]

Swedish is my native language but on level 3 even I got lost 😭I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY WERE TRYING TO SAY 😭

[@alexdonger5816]

Får får får, nej får får inte får, får får lamm

[@RozinaMohammad]

I leave in Sweden so I know end I'm afghan

[@Macovic]

Man that was tough sentence. A normal sentence, but start with just one or two words would be good

[@letsbefreeletsbefree7183]

Im swedish and the second one was not fair even i have trubble saying that sentence 😅

[@happyswedishguy7951]

Could had done far får får får nej får får inte får får får lamm xD

[@SwedishNationalist]

I have been summoned

[@maxouilletm]

Norwegian please such a beautiful language ❤❤❤ like if you want NORWEGIAN MENTIONED 🇳🇴🇳🇴 🇳🇴 🇳🇴 👇