Impression of Nordic languages - by one person

[@lassemanninen4750]

5 dudes, Finn, Swedish, Dane, Norsk, and Islandis walk to a bar. We all talk english. True story.

[@lindaakesson8403]

Except the finn, the swede and the norwegian...

[@lindaakesson8403]

(given that the finnish dude was good in school)

[@lassemanninen4750]

@@lindaakesson8403 It was ME ! And I use english all the time.

[@KoriEmerson]

I’m sorry but Finnish sounds NOTHING like the other languages. 🇳🇴

[@lassemanninen4750]

@@KoriEmerson Try Estonian.

[@tommy02897]

Your Swedish is great but I can hear that you're Swedish

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Tommaso Manno Fake News bruh

[@matthewhanson5634]

The twist is that he's actually Ethiopian.

[@behindyou666]

@@matthewhanson5634 No wtf, he's Gheg Albanian.

[@ratedpending]

@@behindyou666 you think so? I was thinking Nicaraguan but idk

[@IzabelleDahlmann]

Lmao

[@oseanian3834]

All the other Nordic countries while watching this video: *Hey that's my country* Faroese Islands: **cries in faroese**

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Haha!

[@runihammer1889]

True

[@williampetersen6377]

You guys have a difficult language. I understood give or take 2% of my friend speaking with his faroese parents

[@runihammer1889]

@@williampetersen6377 and those words were probably English slang words

[@bertramnielsen5023]

Do you mean Denmark

[@mariomember1]

I think your finnish was great actually! I'm from finland and I was even a bit surprised! 😄👏

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Rakentamisen Suola Haha thanks a lot :)

[@lateremortis6115]

Rakentamisen Suola His finnish was about 12% better than the usual rappakalja from a swedish mouth hahaha....good try though ;D

[@PaulVinonaama]

Gurra Official Just for information, your main problem is that you pronounce short vowels in first syllables too long. For example, your "heti" sounds like "heetti" to a Finnish ear. Otherwise rather good.

[@Atomkaerna]

+Rakentamisen Suola It sounded a lot like estonian tbh, haha. But I totally agree, he was a lot better than most swedes trying to speak finnish.

[@zoeblopaistinpannu5278]

you make some of the vowels too long otherwise it's nearly perfect

[@radunMARSHAL]

The trouble with Swedish is that it looks so easy and interesting and nice while learning, hey, Swedish grammar is easier than English. So, soon enough, you can read, write, you're coping well with the grammar, but then, you get blown away when you start listening to spoken Swedish on TV or in person. It's basically like: the narrator or TV anchor is speaking something on SVT, it's all nice, you understand everything, but then the guest starts talking and suddenly you have no idea what's going on.

[@hyemy8310]

That was like moving to Norway. Learned the language over a summer, and then I got to school...

[@DNA350ppm]

That's true in any country, because it's about a cultivated standard language (pronunciation), that everybody in that country learns to understand in school, versus everyday speech that you learn in a certain limited social and local setting. You need perhaps a week or two "in the field" and then you'll be comfortable with the difference, which is more systematic than it sounds. Always learn standard language before you learn dialects or slang, if you want to make it easier for yourself.

[@thenormann3773]

radunMARSHAL Swedish, Danish, and Bokmål, are basically the different standardizations of the same dialect continuum, Nynorsk is part of those to some extent but it is also a bridge connecting the west nordic languages, Faroese, Icelandic, and the now extinct Norn and Greenlandic, with the East ones. A dialect continuum is a phenomenon that happens when one language expands (in this case the culprit is Old Norse) and the different settlements formed out of this expansion don’t lose contact with each other, so the little changes in grammar and vocabulary are shared among the towns and cities that are closer to each other, so for example you can go to the neighboring town that speaks different from your own, and understand pretty much everything, but the farther away you go from your hometown the harder it gets to you to understand, at times the dialect continuum get broken and the people of that town cannot understand the people in the next, at this point we can talk about two new languages forming out of the previous one, or simply because of geographical distances it gets naturally broken (that’s why Icelandic and Faroese are not connected to the Scandinavian dialect continuum). Lets not confuse it with regional accent, that’s like the previous step, for example English in the UK is very diverse despite the small territory that it’s formed of, and that’s because they have coexisted in a dialect continuum since the middle ages when the Anglo-Saxon invaded Britain, but in the USA, where English has been spoken half that time, somebody from Texas has a different accent from somebody from NY, but the difference is negligible, there’s a difference as large as that one between the English in Manchester and in Liverpool. On that regard there’re places where then standardization has won over regional dialects, like in France, where the Langue d’Oil and Langue d’Oc dialect continua have been replaced almost entirely by Parisian French (which is the basis for the standard metropolitan French and part of the Langue d’Oil dialect continuum). What has happen in Scandinavia though, since the standardization of the nordic languages, is that the regional variations have transformed closer to the standard of their country than before, Scanian for example, that linguistically speaking is closer to standard Danish than to standard Swedish or perhaps better said is a bridge between them, cause i’m afraid of hurting national sentiments), adopts innovations from Swedish more often now, cause their speakers are proficient in Swedish but not in Danish, in fact Scanian and Bornholmsk (in Denmark) are linguistically closer to each other than they are to either Danish or Swedish, and just the fact the fact that they ended in different countries has separated them. This is similar to Jämtmål, in that is closer to the Norwegian dialects than it is to the Swedish ones. There’s also the case of Gotland, where Old Gutnish was already distinct from Old West Norse (Icelandic, Faroese and Nynorsk) and Old East Norse (Swedish, Danish, Bokmål) but the constant exposure to Swedish made it transform alongside Swedish, this is similar to what happened to Galician and Catalan, that despite being closer to Portuguese and Occitan (almost extinct by now) respectively than to Spanish, both have adopted features and vocabulary that are originally from Spanish, but unlike these two languages Gutnish has been replaced almost completely by Swedish, albeit with a Gutnish twist of course.

[@AndreasSweden]

A Swedish hello is hej. Actually spoken swedish hello: Tjena hallå Läget Nej men se goddag kära du Hej hej Haj ha h h hu (cough) Or if in the north: The sound of inhailing Or if in southern sweden Skåne: Haj haj hallå, hur e läget Haaalå för fan Dauws It would help if we Swedes stuck to using swedish lol

[@АлексейГриднев-и7р]

@@DNA350ppm that's not true for every country. In Russia, pretty much all language variability is gone, and I cannot tell if a person coming from Kaliningrad or Vladivostok or from anywhere in-between. Very-very rare local words or expressions can give it away, but not immediately

[@SonNguyen-cj6jv]

i like how you change your tie everytime you speak different languages.

[@Niobesnuppa]

Your Norwegian is pretty good, though I can hear a slight hint of a Swedish accent in there, sort of like a Norwegian person who's been living in Sweden for a few years.

[@zigge1989]

Niobesnuppa Helt enig ;D

[@SaturnineXTS]

Niobesnuppa Holy shit man, I would never be able to tell, with the languages being so similar. Mind listing some details you recognized that by?

[@lillkrull1161]

+SaturnineXTS If you live in the Scandivavian area it is not that hard. :p

[@lillkrull1161]

Scandinavian* xD

[@SaturnineXTS]

Sadly I don't. Not yet at least :P But his Norwegian sounded pretty much spot-on to my ears, according to what I've heard so far.

[@abcabcboy]

I think the Danish is the worst here. Even I as a Norwegian, can clearly hear that this is not how Danish really sounds.

[@djalphakay]

True, it was really hard to understand as a dane, but very impressive nonetheless

[@camefromthedragonsoli7571]

+Alpha Kay I understand how he has difficulty's with danish... It is a very difficult language. As a dane you can here the pronounce fails

[@pm71241]

yeah... it seems like he actually do know and try to get the correct pronunciation, but just speak so fast, that every second word gets a Swedish or Norwegian touch.

[@deadtempleknight.6332]

he should just remove all accent from his voice and speak slower and it would have been more understandable

[@JojoDaYoyo]

True

[@brittanymartin1980]

faroese is always left out of Nordic things :/

[@grevevondy8530]

Cuz u belong to Denmark :p

[@brittanymartin1980]

+Greve von Dy it is still a Nordic language though, lol. I feel like many people do not know that it exists.

[@jonnenne]

+Brittany Martin There is only one nordic language: Sami. So pls.

[@jonas3770]

+Freyja Svensdóttir what does Faroe Islands have their own language? I've totally missed that 😳

[@herrkalasbarn]

Sami is not a nordic language at all. Learn the definition.

[@blotski]

To all the people who are saying 'your pronunciation was great but you can tell you're not a native speaker' can I say - WTF? Don't you get it? Everyone, yes even YOU, has an accent no matter how slight when you speak a second learned language. It's really annoying when Nordic people tell you that you have an accent when you try to speak their language especially when they are telling you that in English with an accent. The lack of self-awareness is infuriating.

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Thanks a lot :)

[@laura-hr2rj]

You are right. Even inside one country there can be tens of different accents. I am Italian, and just in my small region I can tell if someone is from a city or from the countryside, from the Venice area or from the north.

[@roberth4395]

Your mentality is wrong. Before you even start to learn a language you should learn how to pronounce the sounds. If you are lazy and you halfass your language learning that is your call. However, you should not blame others for pointing out that you do not speak properly. No matter where you live as a native, if you cannot pronounce your language properly they will send you to a special class that helps you improving your speach. If you actually put in the time you can speak, think and sound like a native. There should be no participation awards for the weak minded. Grow up and learn the actual language.

[@a.westenholz4032]

@@roberth4395 While I agree that a person should strive to learn how to pronounce another language correctly, some people have better capabilities in that regard than others, so no matter how hard they try, their lack of an "ear" dooms them to an accent. As to native speakers having various dialects being the equivalent of not learning their own language "properly" and needing to be sent to a special class- WTF??? While many countries may have one standardized pronunciation that is used officially because there is too much divergence between the various dialects, this does not mean that those other dialects are not speaking properly.

[@roberth4395]

@@a.westenholz4032 Based on your surname, I presume you are german and speak mostly indo-european languages. The special class I mentioned is very common in my country. There are some sounds that are hard to pronounce for some people, like "r" s and there are some people who have other issues with their speech. Our schools provide free classes with a speech therapist. To help them learn how to speak properly. If you think this is a bad thing you should be ashamed of yourself and stay away from the education system as you are clearly not suited for the job. Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian etc are not indo-european languages. If you want to learn to speak a finno-ugric language, until you learn how to pronounce every character do not even try to proceed with learning. *In a finno-ugric language pronounciation is extremly critical as 99% of the words are pronounced as they are written.* Also the difference of words can be almost indistinguishable for the untrained non native speaker's ears. In finnish the difference between meeting and killing someone is 1 less double character. Tapan ( _to meet_ ), tapaan ( _to kill_ ). "I will meet your daughter tonight." Or "I will kill your daughter tonight." Kuusi ( _6_ ), kusi ( _piss_ ). "I would like to order 6 beer." or "I would like to order piss beer." Suddenly pronounciation matters. Hungarian is similar. If you pronounce a word incorrectly you can insult someone or for example örülök ≠ őrülök (first one means _I am glad_ , the second one means _I am literally going (asylum) insane_ ). I could go into a lenghty detailed comment, but if you want my time hire me and pay for it. Ps: excluding the nordic countries every european country have abismal language learning systems. Instead of going full pc "everyone is perfect the way they are" these countries should admit that they have no idea how to learn and teach languages and improve their ways. *Learning how to pronounce a sound perfectly is extremly easy. As long as you use the right methods to learn.*

[@wilsonsemilio1276]

As a Dane listening to his “Danish” I could hardly understand a word...

[@adi_ptm]

Samme her, lyder som om han er en svensker som taler svensk

[@eldiablo7371]

as a swede listening to every dane i can hardly understand a word.

[@DavidNorris440]

Synes nu han gjorde et godt forsøg. Det er virkelig svært at udtale dansk, da man udtaler ordene på en helt anden måde, og ligsom bruger ens "hals" forskelligt, i forhold til svensk og dansk

[@jensstalberg8968]

Det är klart ni inte förstår, ingen förstår danska, inte ens danskar...

[@Atzumou_]

I have no trouble understanding my Danish uncle and cousins. No I'm not Danish.

[@ankiking]

The Norwegian is a little «Svorsk», but still impressive.

[@aperson4826]

Enig. Måten han uttalte "er" og "landslaget" på var veldig svensk.

[@MrXBT2000]

And "levererte". Other than that I think he could have passed as a news reader from Østfold trying to hide his dialect.

[@geirronny2915]

@@aperson4826 haha enig

[@honda_prod_2145]

'' svorsk '' 😂😂😭😭

[@raanoooshh9296]

Did this suddenly pop up on everybody’s recommendations?

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

No, not in mine

[@tuntematonohikulkija2843]

I'm a simple person. I see Finland I click

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

I like your way of thinking!

[@willoncewas764]

The Scandinavians here understand how impressive this is. Even though I lived in Norway for 12 years I still sound danish..

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Thanks a lot William 🙏🏻

[@radioactivel1609]

The Icelandic is really off, it's like he's speaking a whole other language.

[@gummi8409]

I know right

[@beorlingo]

Well, he is, isn't he?

[@benni8057]

Þetta var ekki það slæmt

[@netsong2239]

One important thing when speaking finnish is to understand the difference between single and double letters. Your speech will sound a lot better and clearer if you concentrate on that more. There's no pronounciation in finnish. As an example when you said "osakseen" the first o was really long and sounded like if there were two os in the beginning like "oosakseen". Really good still.

[@christiani1774]

This is really good, i`m a danish person and your danish was really good too, you could hear a bit of the swedish accent, but it doesnt matter. You could basically travel in all the Nordic countries. Forsæt det gode arbejde!😄

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Thanks a lot :)

[@themondayguy]

His finnish is quite good..m

[@_mjbn_]

ϟhitlord is he speaking about slovakia? If yes, what? Please

[@Morkoo]

About a football match

[@ManicMindTrick]

Changing the tie to match the flag color is real dedication.

[@apot7158]

2:41 The best moment of this video :D

[@PrincessBlack04]

jep

[@NellasxElensar]

Antti Tennivaara Samaa mieltä! :D

[@imareallyneathater9180]

Simon Åkerström fuck off swede

[@iifatoiii7152]

Omg sweden is famous! Say something Famous about Denmark..

[@kristynacerna582]

Aleyna L Handsome guys 🤣 At least in København 😊 I am glad I have a postcard and I can write the right name of the city 😄 Btw in Czech it's Kodaň 🙂 I love Denmark and Sweden.

[@Vnttijust]

Wow your Finnish is good! I understood everything you said. Really cool video, hope to see more of these about Nordics! Heja alla nordiska bröder/systrar!

[@mikesaunders4775]

Danish.Swedish,Norwegian is a small step. Icelandic a bit of a challenge. Finnish is from a different world though,fantastic job.

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Thanks a lot sir :)

[@anni8456]

That finnish was hilarious

[@emilormasenvallersnes4016]

To me, as a Norwegian, icelandic is very trippy. It sounds like it is some sort of norwegian dialect, but I don't understand anything. It is like someone is speaking norwegian, but I suddenly forgot the language

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Hahaha!

[@jsaasjord]

the norwegian was really nice!! But i could hear a little swedish/icelandic accent when you were talking haha, but it was really good

[@Leo-kd1xy]

After reading some comments I see people don't know that 'Finnish' is the language and 'Finns' are the people. No hate but if you are from Finland stop saying 'hey I'm the finnish guy and I see you know nothing about my language' 😂😂 Greetings and love from finn, who lives in south-Finland :)

[@Magnus_Loov]

So you say that you want us to "Finnish" doing that? :) The twist also is that we as Swedes are told that you don't want us to say "Finns" (Finnar) and instead use the term "finlander"/"Finländare". What's up with that? I mean we have always said "Finnkampen" /"The finn match" about that yearly athletic competition between Sweden and Finland that I bet you say someting with "Ruotsi" in it!

[@Slaphappy1975]

I'm English and the comments section was just as enlightening as the video.

[@Viva-Cristo-Rey-]

The danish was a bit hard to understand since you did not put press on the words and it was a bit singing like swedish. But overall well done! It is a hard language!

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

+Andreas Bay thanks a lot :)

[@carey4186]

As someone who’s not Nordic and very uncultured - I spent half this video trying to remember which flags were which

[@JohnGaming97]

pretty good Finnish for a swede, I am also Swedish but my family only speak Finnish so I am fluent ;)

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Thanks a lot :)

[@Clean82]

Wait! How does that work? Youre a swede but your family only speaks finnish? In what country do you live?

[@stenpablo3045]

I love the subtle rolling of r’s when you talk danish

[@jamsandwich_gt]

If you are not a native Finnish speaker, your accent was pretty good.

[@thecookingceltic3720]

Can we take a moment to appreciate how HOT he is in that suit

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Hahaha!

[@yellowsparklefish337]

*all scandinavians have entered the chat

[@Dreinorh]

yellowsparklefish337 Scandinavia is only Norway, Sweden and Denmark. You could call them the nordic languages.

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Haha!

[@tamarrizkeldahr1288]

The amount of energy he has given to find the right tie for each country

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

I haven´t recovered yet.

[@dubiouswatermelon159]

Jeg elske norge!

[@filthygarbage]

Du er Norsk, ikke Norge

[@dubiouswatermelon159]

At også, men snakker om landet.

[@Dream-su8jm]

POTATO LAND er fra danmark men kan forstå jer

[@basicallyme8205]

*elsker

[@tombombadil8084]

Spartan Jon elsker både danmark og Norge men kan ikke lide Sverige

[@oskarlange7831]

Your accent when pronuncing danish vocals is actually pretty good, but it does Sound really swedish.

[@ILIKEARMYS]

My favourite: Norwegian, Danish and Finnish

[@kevinsundelin8639]

Why not Swedish?

[@ralfnyberg3264]

Thanks, спосибо :D

[@terasheephie465]

Norwegian is the best. It's smooth and Danish is like talking with a potato in ur throat

[@benj.am.x]

RUSA 101 Swedish and Norwegian is the best! Danish is just ugly!

[@terasheephie465]

Benjamin M. +1

[@kulturfreund6631]

My favorite is Finnish, which of course doesn't belong to the family.

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Thats right :)

[@saramarika5726]

Are you swedish? :)

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Ja :)

[@saramarika5726]

Gurra Official Ja jag kunde höra att det ändå var ditt modersmål. Men annars var alla språk helt på topp! :)

[@cubeoperatorgd20]

väldigt bra du, hur tusan kan man prata som om man kommer från alla nordiska länder??

[@Ragnar_Aevarsson]

That was very IKEA of you

[@laggylife3353]

At first I didn’t realize that you’re swedish and I was like: ”HOLY BLOODY DAMN YOUR SWEDISH IS SO GOOD, YOU HAVE NO ACCENT”... then I read the commments...

[@pyrrhocratic]

Your words are kind of correct 50% of the time but the accent is way off (Icelandic)

[@smilingaxolotl9576]

Skildi varla neitt

[@jxy_vbn8156]

I'm a native English speaker and oddly enough, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish all sound like languages I should understand when hearing them but my brain just can't quite put it together. Interesting how that works.

[@himfromscandinavian5354]

Pretty hard to understand languages not mutually intelligible with ones mother language.

[@arcticflower7223]

My only mental reference point for Finnish is Hevisaurus but he sounds a lot more Nordic to me than they do. As an English person, I can sort of hear the differences but if you told me these were just different dialects of Norwegian, I'd believe you.

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

All right :)

[@meh23p]

Your Danish intonation sounds good, vowels are okay but your consonants are completely scuffed. 😂

[@solla9486]

Your Icelandic pronunciation was pretty spot on for the actual words, the only problem I saw was in the rhythm of how you spoke which resembles Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish much more.

[@hi-tech-future]

Agree. It was super hard to hear what he said, even though my first language is Swedish (I'm fluent in Icelandic and he's a swede) :P

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Thanks anyway :)

[@milliinnila1611]

Rätt bra!!! 👍👍 Det är bara att jag som finskspråkig hör varje fel på det språket. 😅 Men säkert låter det perfekt för nån som inte kan finska - bara betonungsfel i många ord (alltid första stav i ordet) och dubbelkonsonanter/brist på dom i fel ställen. Men generellt bra gjort! 😀

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Amen så är det - tack så hjärtligt :)

[@milliinnila1611]

@@Gustavgurrakarlsson Gör gärna flera såna videos! 😀 👍

[@milliinnila1611]

@@Gustavgurrakarlsson Dina skandinaviska 'impressions' var också väldigt imponerande. 👍

[@laurajaeger6439]

My Finnish ass reading comments of how Finnish just sounds drunk language and "perkele" while nodding in silence.

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Hahaha!

[@herisimonsen2560]

Faroese is a unique nordic language. Why are we not included here?

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Sorry dude. I couldn´t find any videos where I could hear Faroese be spoken...

[@herisimonsen2560]

Gurra there are many on youtube

[@COYM_1908]

@@Gustavgurrakarlsson What? Did you even look?

[@lauralipinski_]

I missed the faroese part ;)

[@saandvi]

the description says "The five big languages"

[@randijohannesen3796]

I am faroese :)

[@DizzIlike]

Noone speaks that. ;D

[@johnhelms8226]

The Danish is incompressible and frightening. It sounds like someone is strangling him. It makes me want to run away in fear. I can understand the Finnish more easily.

[@rodholseth6354]

Jeg er Islandsk men forsto ikke mye av det du sa der. Bra forsøk da. :)

[@jackson5802]

I live in the US with the most discrete non-accent accent. I learned Mandarin for six years as a kid. I've been learning French for three months. I have absolutely no idea what's going on.

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Haha interesting though :)

[@TheAsoPeso]

Of course you can hear that Finnish here is not pure same way like Finns would speak it. But still, I was surprised how good it sounded. Was easy to understand everything he said.

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Well thanks a lot :)

[@missa2855]

when you understand the norwegian broadcast better than the danish broadcast, as a Dane.

[@Sososaure]

That’s poetry for my ears, as a french, I’m very fond of Nordic language (and Nordic culture in general), especially Norwegian, they sound so melodic and beautiful, a bit badass, I love them !! I tried to learn Norwegian and it’s an easy language and very pleasant to learn (no weird rules and traps, it’s very logical... unlike french...) I would love to live in a Scandinavian country...

[@c.g.b.spender4355]

It often seems too boring to live there...I love France and gourmet:)

[@Sososaure]

@@c.g.b.spender4355 wtf why boring ? Because there aren’t 15 millions ppl living in one city ? In Scandinavian countries I think ppl has a nicer and more healthy way to life 🤷‍♀️ they seem less stressed

[@c.g.b.spender4355]

@@Sososaure Hi Sophie!) why? Because I am originally from Saint Petersburg;) if you guess, what I am talking about 😉

[@Sososaure]

@@c.g.b.spender4355 yes you’re Russian... is Russian a boring country ? 🙀

[@c.g.b.spender4355]

@@Sososaure Living in Russia cannot be boring as every day you have to survive and what will be happened next day is unpredictable 😂

[@santerimyl]

Don't get fooled by his Finnish language. Even though he speaks it really well, his accent makes many words sound pretty different. Great video overall!

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Thanks a lot :)

[@thebosse-lassecultist1490]

I am swedish and I wouldn't even noticed that you weren't. That's really impressive.

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Tack så hjärtligt :)

[@thebosse-lassecultist1490]

Varsågod.

[@jifjifferson2790]

I am a simple Finnish person. I see my flag, I hear my call.

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

I like your way of thinking!

[@jifjifferson2790]

@@Gustavgurrakarlsson Thanks! That's the best compliment I've gotten in days.

[@sigridengvall4285]

Same, but i’m from Sweden

[@iCantMakeMovies]

As an American: Same

[@joonatanlindqvist900]

Suomi perkele

[@InternationalSongs]

"Welcome" in the Nordic languages: Swedish - Välkommen Norwegian - Velkommen Danish - Velkommen Icelandic - Velkominn Finnish - *TERVETULOA*

[@mickeyamf]

Yeah why is that is there more russian influence in finland?

[@ToastedCigar]

​@@mickeyamf It's not exactly Russian influence, since Finnish belongs to the same language group as Hungarian and Estonian, so called "Finno-Ugric" languages, whereas Russian is a Slavic language. But I get your point, Finnish is basically an Eastern language because the Finno-Ugric languages are derived from Uralic languages that were spoken somewhere in Middle-Russia, whereas the other Nordic languages belong to the Germanic family and are therefore more European.

[@alvawesterlund3562]

@@ToastedCigar yes!

[@Temujin1206]

Yep Grisnackh sort of says it but all the other "Nordic" languages are descended from Old Norse (the language spoken by the Vikings) and so are part of the Germanic group within the Indo-European family (most of the languages spoken in Europe and South/Central Asia) but Finnish (along with Estonian, Hungarian and a few other localised dialects/languages) comes from the Finno-Ugric family of languages spoken in the Ural mountain regions of Russia, it's part of a completely different language family and came to Europe through the migration of an Ugric people from the Urals into Europe.

[@SocialistFinn1]

@@mickeyamf wtf it has nothing to do with Russian. The world is not black and white, it doesn't have to be either Swedish or Russian influence, it's FINNO-UGRIC.

[@helvetejegfakkesove8381]

Your Norwegian is great but I can hear that you’re Swedish

[@JoakimTveter]

Yes, but the accent was not consistent. Some times very south east, some times Swedish and sometimes very TV like.

[@akehapkap6143]

He's not Danish either, but doing good. I wouldn't know about Finnish tho. I love Icelandic even I don't speak it, I understand much.

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Thanks a lot :)

[@znoop72]

@@Gustavgurrakarlsson Høres ut som Jan Hanvold

[@erikeggenbakstad]

For an Scandinavian yes. Not for a non nordic speaking though.

[@discretelycontinuous2059]

Icelandics, Norwegians, Danes and Finnish: "Hey, you do a reasonable job, but I can hear your Swedish accent"

[@decentgrocerybag4003]

Swedes: “I can’t believe you can do all these languages without a SINGLE distracting accent! Wow!”

[@annasimonsson]

True

[@juloskjulosk]

Decent Grocery Bag As a swede, I can 100% say this is true. I was very inpressed

[@SKULLCRUSHERnr1]

@@decentgrocerybag4003 nah, he is good but I recognised a fellow swede

[@ninokorander7997]

He is bad at finnish and when he ended the video that's when I understood he probably can only sound the same as in the news video and not actually speak because he couldn't at all pronounce words in finnish.

[@alistairt7544]

After reading the comments Me as a a non-Nordic person: Yeah, he still sounds Swedish

[@dr4c077]

Yeah, i am Nordic, still sounds either northern or swedish

[@aperson4826]

@@dr4c077 I'm Norwegian, and he definitely sounds Swedish.

[@dr4c077]

A Person im norwegian too

[@aperson4826]

@@dr4c077 Ka by?

[@dr4c077]

A Person føler egentlig ikke for å si det til en ukjent, men jeg kan si at jeg er fra fylket Vestfold og Telemark

[@jskyg2988]

Norway: hey guys our languages are pretty similar Iceland: Of course! They are Germanic languages after all Sweden: That's so amazing! Danish: Its so nice that we are able to at least understand a litt... Finland: *VIHDOIN VIHDOIN VIHDOIN*

[@luthfhamazi-salimi67]

Finland famous..pukki hyypia väisänen bottas & helsinki greetings from indonesian

[@juliushakala5148]

Why did you write finally finally finally?

[@juliushakala5148]

@@switchbladestrawberry4777 i realized it just now

[@Daan03]

But yeah, Finnish is not a Germanic language, but a Uralic language

[@freyexists.3657]

Finnish flies be like: Kato kattoon, mun kaveri tapettiin tapettiin.

[@0_0-g6u]

I think that your Finnish is great for a foreigner. The rhythm of the words was a little off but I could understand everything perfectly.

[@410ab]

Siin oli semmone vähä ehk venäläinen aksentti :D

[@anonanon8124]

By what metric was it great?

[@jokat872]

Did understand some of the Finnish. Mutta kyllä kuulosti että moneet lauseet oli "omia yhdyssanoja" Just started to laugh. Nice try though for a swedish guy. They have to try it like we finns learned in school. He-vo-nen Tark-ka 😅😅😂😂😂😂

[@sigridpettersson4764]

Yeah stress was off, like in "päävalmentaja" and the vowels were a little too Swedish-sounding, but I agree, good job for a Swede!

[@KaregoAt]

Yeah he's still got that Swedish cadence and emphasis to his words and sentences. Gotta make it much more monotone and slow it down a bit too.

[@marlyse3140]

Finnish just sounds like you’re speaking backwards

[@BenefitCounterbench]

because it belongs to a different language family than the others (Finno-Ugric)

[@ssbounce2799]

i thought Finnish was supposed to be backwards. sort of a secret code.

[@lumikatariinaa]

Finnish sounds very powerful language

[@freyexists.3657]

@@lumikatariinaa Nah bruh, as a Finn, our language is just drunk af-

[@lumikatariinaa]

@@freyexists.3657 i am a finn too but i still think it is super cool🤣🤣 moi

[@pfft954]

“Girls can’t maintain eye contact with persons they like” Girls talking to me:

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Hahahahaha

[@bjornhaforsson2108]

This is just sad... 😂

[@frst.4633]

Goddamn

[@VtheWizard]

your Finnish sounds like drunk Estonian

[@SuperVincenot]

lol

[@DuloxAndDaxixx]

XD

[@TurboThunderGaming]

hahhahaa

[@Genstafa]

Estonian is drunk Estonian.

[@TheDestructionGOD]

I die...hahahaha!

[@williampetersen6377]

Your danish is with heavy accent, but dude, cheers to you for understanding 5 different languages.

[@Miex5068]

Accent in the Danish language is so weird just drive two hours to one direction and you can’t even understand your own people anymore

[@deadcomet]

@@Miex5068 omg that's so true i moved 5 and a half years ago and i still don't understand what people are saying sometimes XD

[@alex_blues6172]

Having family on Jylland and growing up in Copenhagen. I can confirm that it is absolutely true lol. I feel like he was doing a Copenhagen style accent, but I somehow still didn’t understand what he was saying half of the time. It is a hard language to learn though, so props to him.

[@MaMastoast]

@@Miex5068 I dunno.. I don't really think that's true in the vast majority of cases. I've lived in copenhagen all my life but spent most of my summer vacations in various parts of denmark and I've never been to a place where most people spoke with such a heavy dialect that I had difficulty understanding them.. Mostly it's a few old people here and there.. But not really the norm..

[@8111thomas]

@@MaMastoast Agree. Virtually everybody can speak "Rigsdansk" unless you find yourself in the most remote parts of Denmark (Bornholm for instance). And in that case it would solely be elderly people, not the youth.

[@думатьиначе]

Scandinavia has five children but one was adopted. I’m talking about you, Finland

[@ingenide]

eeyup

[@MorganKing95]

Actually, Scandinavia only consists of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Finland and Iceland are Nordic countries just like the rest, but they're not Scandinavian

[@rhys5969]

Yup

[@jackson5802]

Estonia and England are the jealous cousins then?

[@думатьиначе]

@@MorganKing95 I know but that’s for the joke

[@yahomboi3014]

Everyone: *talking about the accuracy of the languages* Me a South east asian: *hmmm i agree*

[@RedExia]

Ahhh I wasnt the only southeast asian here 😂

[@_PutraSentana]

@@RedExia you're definitely not alone

[@drmmrptr]

SE Asia gang

[@alistairt7544]

Eyyyy SEA gang! But seriously, I can't tell much difference besides the accents 😅

[@ryhanzfx1641]

Yo! I'm here too!

[@jesucristoreyes1881]

I'm Mexican, I don't understand a single word of what he is saying, but it sounds epic, Scandinavian languages are beautiful

[@gabrielarodriguezasp4992]

En sueco dio la sección de deportes, así que no te perdiste de nada, pero eso sí, suena lindo. 😺

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Thank you Jesus!

[@NowCheckYourSound]

@@Gustavgurrakarlsson thank you Jesus! You died for our sins. Really thanks! 🙏

[@Veijo33]

@@NowCheckYourSound This cracked me up😂

[@jarocari_0693]

Indeed!

[@Anonymaeg]

I feel left out :( Sincerely, a faroese person lol

[@seronymus]

1. Nice avatar where is it from? 2. It is so cool to meet someone from a small nation like yours! I am just an American but also from an obscure folk. Do you like living there? It seems almost mystical...

[@0mn0m70]

@@lenar.5059 It sounds like Americans trying to speak icelandic

[@akehapkap6143]

Oh I thought you got a little icelandic? But he wasn't that good, think he's from Sweden 🇸🇪

[@akehapkap6143]

@@lenar.5059 Actually the pronounce words pretty different. My mom is Danish and she can't understand Norwegian. I live in Norway and understand also Swedish, I understand fareos better than Iceland.

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Sorry bruh

[@Sipu97]

To all people who still are wondering how Finnish is a Nordic language: because Finland is one of the Nordic countries. It has nothing to do with Scandinavia...

[@Dervarengang]

No no, Finnish is not a Nordic language at all, it's not even related to Nordic languages. Finnish is merely a language whitin the area of the Nordic countries, like Sami and Greenlandic.

[@Sipu97]

I might be wrong but I think there isn't a language group called the Nordic languages. There are the North Germanic language group and the Finno-Ugric language group. The Nordic languages are in either one. I think the term "Nordic language" simply means a language that is spoken in a Nordic country.

[@Dervarengang]

Yes, you are wrong. Nordic language is a group which consists of Norwegian, Faroese, Icelandic, Danish and Swedish. But yes, SOME times the term North Germanic is used as well. Finnish has nothing in common with these languages, just because you're geographically situated in the same area it doesn't mean you can take this very precise term away from us. It's like saying that French is an African language because it's spoken there. "I'm Finnish, I wanna join." Go play with Estonia or something....

[@Sipu97]

Yeah well that example was a little bit stupid. But North Germanic language group is the correct term to describe those languages you listed, not Nordic. Google a bit and you'll find that Finnish is included in Nordic languages. Nordic is like the cultural term that is not based on linguistic things. Like Scandinavian.

[@vincentpalmqvist6815]

Finnish is not regarded a Nordic language in Scandinavia. There's even an academic discipline called "nordiska språk/nordiske språk/nordiske sprog" which includes Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and even Icelandic and Faroese. It's just another term for "North Germanic languages" from a linguistic point of view. In the general language however it could mean "languages spoken in the Nordic countries", so even Sami, Finnish and Greenlandic would be seen as Nordic languages in that context, but I've never heard it being used in that way. Besides the term "Scandinavian" is a "linguistic thing" too , since it describes three more or less mutually intelligible languages.

[@0Quiwi0]

Not bad Finnish impression. You were actually understandable.

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

thanks a lot :)

[@DNA350ppm]

Har du lärt dig lite finska nu, för uttalet har du tydligen redan länge haft! Jag tyckte du missade på bara två ord, där den svenska betoningen slog igenom, när finskan ALLTID betonar första stavelsen, även i uppenbara lånord, så det heter SLOvakia och KRItiikki. Jag blev riktigt imponerad! Tro inte att finska är så svårt som det påstås. Alltför många försöker poängtera krångligheter som inte alls behövs för att klara sig i de flesta sammanhang.

[@personperson717]

DNA350ppm Jag är finlandssvensk, har bott hela mitt liv i Finland och studerat finska i nio år. Ändå kan jag inte finska ordentligt. Hur är det inte svårt?

[@juliushakala5148]

@@DNA350ppm Me ei vittu ymmärretä teitä svedupellejä! Miksi vitussa sää luulisit että meillä olisi älykkyysosamäärää ymmärtääkseen ruotsia sillä mehän asutaan metsässä meidän omissa mökeissämme kaukana muusta maailmasta. Mutta siis kuitenkin suurin osa meistä ei ymmärrä teitä tippaakaan mitä sanotte kuten te ette meitä jos ei lasketa suomenruotsalaisia.

[@DNA350ppm]

@@juliushakala5148 "Honkain keskellä mökkisi seisoo" ja onhan se ihanaa! Jos ei halua ymmärtää ja olla kavereita, eihän sitä tartte. Suomi on vapaa maa. Mutta mielestäni on vähän mälsää jos joku tahtoisi oppia vähän suomea ja jotkut "asiantuntijat" aina paasaa että suomenkieli on niin mahdoton oppia ettei kannata yrittää edes. Minusta kannattaa yrittää. Jokaisella saa olla mielipiteensä, minusta riikinruotsalaiselle helpon suomen oppiminen on suunnilleen yhtä aikaa vaativaa kuin helpon englannin oppiminen. Kaikki riippuu opettajasta, asenteesta ja tavoitteesta. Olen muuten huomannut että monet suomalaiset osaavat erinomaisen hyvin englantia - miten he ovat siihen pystyneet?

[@mimisart3162]

the feeling when I am from Slovakia and obsessed with Finnish and he used something related to Slovakia in Finnish

[@tobaccoworm2511]

I wonder what specifically he was talking about 😅

[@Kouhia123]

@@tobaccoworm2511 He is talking about football. Finland played against Slovakia and lost 2-1.

[@tobaccoworm2511]

@@Kouhia123 Thanks 😄

[@magentaMegi]

The truth of confusing Slovenia and Slovakia. Look it up. Also in same Slavic group 😉

[@sleepingrosess]

what has made you become obessed with finnish if I may ask? As a finn I find this interesting haha

[@pandabar9744]

How did i come here and why am i watching this i cant even understand anything hahah

[@slycloud1556]

Panda Bär But still your name has the letter "ä" :/ Wich means berry in swedish, so your comment doesn't make any sence

[@pandabar9744]

iamslycloud it means bear in german

[@boland73]

Panda Bär I feel you!! I'm English and know how to speak none of these languages lol

[@dariusnicolausheinen6732]

Michael Boland same

[@richman2601]

Panda Bär LÖL thought you were swedish with that name

[@Lemonz1989]

I understand your Danish, but the accent is very heavy. Too much "r", and too silent "t" for the most part. :)

[@spoe_]

É tho dé ohså

[@MilieNopeNotHere]

Lemonz1989 og udtalen af stumt d.

[@nagontingingenhar]

Lemonz1989 yea he should have put a potato in his mouth then it would have been a 100%👌👌

[@lassestorgaardjacobsen]

Meget enig. Der er noget med t- og s-erne, der ikke bliver udtalt kraftigt nok.

[@wai632]

All Nordic languages: *sound like german and is an indo-european language* Finnish: We don't do that here

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Haha

[@romuruotsalainen1903]

Maanantai, Tiistai Keskiviikko (german Mittwoch) Torstai Lauantai Sunnuntai Compare with Estonian: Esmaspäev Teispäev Kolmapäev Neljapäev And as my Estonian teacher said "The came the Swedes and ruined our fine system" Reede Laupäev Pühapäev (okay, this one is quite Balto-finnic) But yes, not counting a whole bunch of random words, Finnish is pretty much unintelligible for Indo-european outsiders

[@wulfila99]

"Sound like German"? Nope... I've been learning Norwegian for about 7 months now and it's not really all that close to German (I'm Swiss German, so I daresay I'm fairly familiar with German)

[@memeges5021]

The icelandic one sounds so much like faroese, so cute to hear :P

[@isoldmysoultohetaliaandnow6271]

*Queen Morges omg it's you*

[@MestisTheManiac]

Your Finnish accent is great, you just have a strange Swedish emphasis on some words.

[@iMusiccom-uy2qc]

Vitun on kaunis!

[@iMusiccom-uy2qc]

+Mestis oh...I didn't know that

[@TheHamiod]

+Mestis what? are you swedish? Han är förmodligen svensk, det hör man på när har pratar svenska, troligen stockholmare. There was no strange emphasis on words at all. Thats how you speak swedish.

[@MestisTheManiac]

***** That's not what I meant. His Swedish sounds fine to me. I meant that when he was talking in Finnish, he emphasized some syllables in a Swedish way.

[@TheHamiod]

OHH lol sorry XD

[@c.s.christopher5801]

As a Dane: There was a little too much of that lyricial Swedish/Norwegian influence in the accent. It needs to be steered more towards German. As in more stodgy / "labored". Like you have a hot potato in your mouth ;)

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

+C. S. Christopher haha I will think of that next time :)

[@empressofslavs8783]

Jag tycker hans svenska är bra. Han är ju väl svensk också loool

[@rosen9425]

+C. S. Christopher Exactly. We actually understood too much of it :D :D :D

[@trolden61]

Det danske stød er svært for udlændinge.

[@Rakafeth]

Yeah it sounds like Danish alright, but very difficult to understand. It sounds like a Norwegian speaking Danish (and making fun of us just a tiny bit).

[@solared]

"very difficult to understand" is one of the cornerstones of the danish language

[@Miex5068]

Maybe he learned to speak danish from a jyde

[@OlaMyran]

Sounds like danish to me -a Norwegian

[@thellamacorn8902]

Well he's Swedish, so of course he's making fun of the Danish, we have to!

[@Miex5068]

The Llamacorn XD

[@fillebeast]

Finnish always puts stress on the first syllable of every word. You never put stress on anything else than the first syllable, unlike the other nordic languages. For example, you said kriTIIKkiä when it should be KRItiikkiä. / / Finskan betonar alltid den första stavelsen i varje ord, till skillnad från Svenska där det kan variera.

[@GG-nl9oy]

Windir true

[@EchelonIV]

Absolutely! And also - everything spoken in Finnish makes a short sound unless if there are two vowels behind each other (like "aa") which makes it a long vowel, or two consonants where you hold a small pause in between. I've noticed that this is notoriously hard for Scandinavians to grasp even though it's a very strict rule. With Gurra you hear words like "alussa" become "aalusa". That initial a should be very short, and between the two s one should enlengthen the s sound for a very brief but meaningful moment. He nailed the tone of voice though. Monotonic af :D

[@suokkos]

If you want to be very strict about stressing syllables then stress is on every odd syllable unless it is a compound word. Basically long words have major stress on first syllable but also minor stress on 3rd and 5th syllables.

[@TheVLxx]

Danish has stress on first syllable too.

[@johntate6537]

Icelandic also has almost exclusively first-syllable stress I believe.

[@raapija]

Other nordic languages: 😇 Finnish: 🥴

[@LordDavid04]

@ That must explain Hungarian. It's branched off from Finnish, but totally different.

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Haha!

[@jonnejantteri948]

It do be from a different language family though.

[@kolmtriipu4888]

Ikr, btw I'm finnish xD

[@franr.3691]

Finnish sounds like japanese

[@edvardabelvik4045]

The Norwegian sounds like Norwegian With swedish accent....

[@benetekal1041]

It is ...

[@Greksallad]

Not very surprising considering that's literally what it is lol

[@brocklod3673]

Well considering Norwegian is basically Swedish (and a touch of Danish) with a singy songy accent, then he did it very well.

[@Vingul]

@@brocklod3673 Norwegian is basically Norwegian, dude.

[@mariavarjord4320]

@Michael Leech neei, ikke diss oss slik

[@darkmango1249]

pretty good finnish by a foreigner / aika hyvää suomea ulkomaalaiselta

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

thanks :)

[@ThorgeousThor]

I'm Icelandic and I barely understood the Icelandic 😂

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Icelandic is reeeeeeaaaaaally difficult.. :)

[@ThorgeousThor]

Gurra Official Haha 😅

[@raceregos]

Greetings! We don't have much chance to encounter with an Icelandic :)

[@SuperGamli]

nahh, it was not too bad. I got most of it. But you had sort of a Finnish rhythm to the syllables, I think that was the biggest problem.

[@benni8057]

I understood it.

[@Hege321]

His Finnish is very easily understandable, I am impressed! Some long vowels are pronounced short and the intonation is off at times which is why it sounds a bit funny. It's still fantastic.

[@kaljamaistuuperjantaisin]

:DDDDDDD

[@Mattesmush]

Din svenska var skit bra!!

[@jonasdalbakk7927]

Han ER svensk lol

[@mantis9104]

+Jonas Dalbakk jag tror han skämtade

[@SebiJarema]

+Jonas Dalbakk jag tror han kommer fran norge 😂 aftersom jag talar skånksa kanske

[@njsunnvoll94]

In almost every sentence he says in norwegian I can hear that he is not from Norway, but he was very close though

[@TheFantasyboss]

kanskje fordi han er Svensk

[@omenoid]

Your Finnish sounds otherwise good, but you are pronouncing vowels either too long or too short, which makes it harder to understand. Good try though! :)

[@думатьиначе]

I am French and I don’t speak neither Swedish nor Finnish but I do agree

[@blockbasher6475]

I’m a monolingual english speaker and I agree

[@GT-xp6bx]

I wonder if it ever gets easy

[@GT-xp6bx]

@@blockbasher6475 American, huh? Lol

[@blockbasher6475]

No, Australian

[@thomasmouritzen4667]

Damn, your danish is REALLY close. Only some of the endings on our words is a struggle to you. You basicly spell it correctly, but the swedish accent is taking over from time to time

[@jesperyoon]

yeah he knows how to put the points

[@nakkilama]

dang your finnish pronunciation is actually very good!!! it's really difficult and takes many many years to have perfect finnish but considering you don't even live in finland your finnish is really nice and i can understand everything very clearly

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

Thanks hell of a lot!!

[@michellepackman1484]

totally unrelated, I really like your channel name it made me laugh

[@nakkilama]

@@michellepackman1484 haha thanks :D

[@haraldfranck9]

You Sound like a swedish person when talking danish

[@alexanderstrindberg6516]

Harald Franck he is Swedish

[@haraldfranck9]

oh haha

[@lefe7444]

That's one of the most things you can say to a swede..

[@lefe7444]

Offensive*

[@averyserioushowtochannel4227]

thats not how swedish sounds XD

[@christiantmyhre]

Haha, your Norwegian sounds so weird. You sound like every Swede in Norway :) The others sounds really good though.

[@Gustavgurrakarlsson]

haha thanks!

[@Googlariboy]

The might sound good but finnish was not that good

[@almahansson7802]

His Swedish is very good!

[@TiqoEditHD]

han kommer ju från sverige så inte så konstigt

[@dasgafs6297]

Even so it had a distinct Swedish accent that most people here in eastern part of Norway just doesn't have.

[@just_another_random_viewer_]

Love how he even changes his tie to suit the country flag colors

[@osasunaitor]

I'm surprised nobody is talking about this

[@iirovaltonen4258]

Your Finnish is surprisingly good and the pronounciation is very solid although you definately wouldn't go for a native but every word was clearly understandable.

[@yourdudeleevi9344]

Yes it was wery solid maybe bit robotick if that makes sense

[@sami-9233]

Juuri näin. Vaikkei puheeltaan niinkään suomenkielinen mutta suuret propsit ruotsalaiselle joka onnistui kehittää näinkin tasokkaan kielitaidon

[@lukaskakify]

You're Danish sounds like a drunk Sønderjyske

[@skeptic781]

@ಠ_ಠ oooohh burned

[@Ohiorizzler1234lol]

ಠ_ಠ You sound like a salty Swede.

[@lhpl]

Æ æ synnejye, å do vi it ku forstoo et oe a va æ soj, hvis do høe mæ snakk. Å stau ka do it æ heller! Mojn!

[@hamster4768]

All sounds almot the same expect Finnish xD

[@Teamcashola]

That's because they are. Finnish is totally different.

[@flyinganvil1067]

That's because Finnish is ugro-finnic language, and the rest are Germanic. You can't compare Finnish to Hungarian, imagine this...

[@emanuelcoronato2239]

flyinganvil. i thought nobody told it

[@elpsanni]

I think he doesn't speak good Finnish i have just to say to be honest

[@elpsanni]

+Arthur Bill tavataan vaa