Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Speaking Swedish, French, German, English...

Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau answers the internet's most searched questions about himself and his character from Game of Thrones, Jaime Lannister.
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[@TheGaMePlAyEcKe]

Ngl that German was pretty clean

[@pvpminer9007]

His German was flawless well maybe more on the casual side but I have a friend who sounds alot like this and he is 100% german so as we say in Germany Hut ab.

[@Laittth]

it was alright but definitely not "flawless". he pronounced the s in "spreche" and "verstehe" as s when they should sound like "sh" and said biss-shen instead of bisschen

[@psl109]

Yeah, it might've been flawless gramatically, but his pronunciation has room for improvement

[@SolusDarkcoat]

Scandinavian languages are very similar to german, grammatically, so its an easy transition

[@folded_pizza]

True, I'm not a native speaker, but I understood it

[@annil1163]

His German is pretty good 👍

[@Undercoverbat95]

JESUS LOVES YOU ❤️🙏🏻

[@valentinapastore]

Surprisingly for me, his French was better than his Swedish

[@Undercoverbat95]

JESUS LOVES YOU ❤️🙏🏻

[@tommototo]

I speak French and barely recognised that as french

[@oooooooooo123]

French is easier than Swedish when in comes to the accent in my experience.

[@trickers24]

@@oooooooooo123probably depends what your first language is. As an English speaker German is way easier to pronounce than French

[@oooooooooo123]

@@trickers24 That's true, but Swedish pronunciation is much more difficult. I know quite a bit of German and French, I am fully fluent in Swedish, but my native language is English. I personally found that German was the easiest to pronounce, followed by French and then Swedish. Swedish accent is SUPER difficult.

[@enriquepelenato4956]

Underrated actor

[@hicturbaest]

For apparently not being able to speak German that was insanely good… like I know people, who moved here 20 years ago with worse accents

[@GeldtheGelded]

Er ist ein Däne, der tut sich da erheblich leichter als ein Ami oder ein Engländer

[@anikadelabajo759]

He might have a good accent, but not able to use German very well

[@Ghaltouni]

Die lernen es in der Schule

[@cardinalfox1176]

​@@anikadelabajo759no because they learn mostly grammar in school not conversational

[@vanefreja86]

​@@cardinalfox1176indeed, such a shame. I have same level as him in German...I was learning it for 9 years. That grammar is stopping me. Learning English was easier, the grammar, but also because ir is everywhere..films music etc. We do not dub anything into Danish - we use subtitles.

[@exposingproxystalkingorgan4164]

Ah, Jaime Lannister is a fairly smart guy! 😂

[@Undercoverbat95]

JESUS LOVES YOU ❤️🙏🏻

[@ishak3]

His french accent was neat!

[@crowbartender]

This is getting ridiculous, all of the comments are just the same 2 comments repeated by bots

[@giblets4510]

I’ve noticed it on a few of wired’s shorts… pretty sure they use them to boost interaction then delete them, because they’re all gone now

[@ProuvaireJean]

This is getting ridiculous, all of the comments are just the same 2 comments repeated by bots

[@miguelzavaleta1911]

​@@giblets4510Either that, or maybe KZbin's bot detection could be getting better.

[@genericineverything7619]

That sounded more like norwegian than swedish

[@TheAlkochef]

bokmål

[@HeyPaulhasopinions]

Everyone would understand his German. Most people who learn the language are way more difficult to understand.

[@Martin-gx2kq]

Nah, it wasn't that great. I've been to germany and if you don't pronounce words correctly they don't know what you are saying

[@Undercoverbat95]

JESUS LOVES YOU ❤️🙏🏻

[@maxfullerton5228]

​@@Martin-gx2kqYou are not a native speaker. Trust me. His German is on point. He is even speaking the Hannoveraner Dialect.

[@zyzzsdisciples6707]

As a Danish person, his Swedish was perfect

[@Undercoverbat95]

JESUS LOVES YOU ❤️🙏🏻

[@salaminsa]

well as a swede, it sounded kinda Norwegian or the accent was kinda lacking but yk it was still good.

[@nidhogg_]

As a swede, no

[@FallahPladasque]

As a Swedish person, his Scandinavian was perfect

[@TheAlkochef]

@@FallahPladasqueSee this comment is what its all about.

[@pierrevezina4062]

Love the guy, great actor

[@u.a1952]

He's brilliant. For sure underrated.

[@IrishPikeHunter]

Fun fact... A Lannister always pays his debts!

[@grandmaster510]

Searching for this comment

[@Undercoverbat95]

JESUS LOVES YOU ❤️🙏🏻

[@socloseno]

This is someone who keeps putting points into their handsome skill tree as they get older.

[@chrismichael6048]

" By what right the wolf could judge the lion? " - Jaime

[@istrala]

Smoking hot in any language

[@soullessangel207]

the german was pretty good.

[@prageruwu69]

he was so close to being good at swedish

[@randomthoughts6625]

He is pretty cool guy actually

[@iulianirimia611]

love u jaime

[@RoyLevan]

Get this man a bilingual role NOW

[@bobanyfingelf]

Bro - loved you in "BLACK HAWK DOWN"

[@debtraveltohi6817]

I love him. He’s my celeb crush. My husband was Austrian & Nikolai resembles him❤️❤️

[@gurke2702]

He spoke better german than some germans

[@cognitiveconnectionss]

I like this guy

[@FernandaLopez-lh5hw]

jaime forever ❤

[@poppysensei3858]

He just got 100x hotter 😂

[@schwurbelhobel4371]

His german was actually pretty good

[@Martin-gx2kq]

It wasn't, sorry

[@schwurbelhobel4371]

@@Martin-gx2kq besser als bei vielen anderen

[@r3stl3ss]

how did he grow his hand back

[@pHD77]

He got in touch with the guy, who worked on Luke Skywalker 😏

[@theonenamedhaze]

Shotcaller

[@belaytriks]

Danish people understand scandinavian languages in general it is supper usefull...

[@JohnSmedberg]

He’s Swedish was terrible but he would probably understand my Swedish better than his Danish.

[@zyzzsdisciples6707]

Swedish is useless anyway

[@gameon2000]

The King Slayer is one sly mofo! 🤣

[@kalebhenkel9410]

This guy was in that movie about alcoholism what a danish movie

[@Najahfreeman]

The French was very good when he was retelling the director's words!

[@oliverkarlsson1653]

his swedish is on point.

[@missmong12]

I know he would sound like a native in all of those languages. I mean his Jaime Lannister's English accent was on point 💯

[@JHaras]

Just because he changes Danish “snakker” to Swedish “pratar”, it doesn’t mean he speaks Swedish. The appropriate verb would also have been “talar”.

[@daved2352]

I can say "I'm sorry I don't speak [language] in most european languages" though thinking about it I do need to relearn it in Polish, I'll have to ask my sister in law again.

[@waitup-5198]

Nice

[@matthewfarmer9500]

The French send their regards

[@jasperraine1616]

The King Slayer. And The Shot Caller

[@louisemolina2565]

Hello Horus!

[@idontuploadanym0re]

kingslayer!

[@liljackypaper]

Fake it til you make it

[@BBakira1031]

HIS HAND GREW BACK!!!!!!!

[@scottyplug]

He's not British?!? What the What?

[@alexandertsamourlidis646]

I mean, he doesn't sound British does he?

[@user-go8pz1gr8w]

I believe he also speaks the "Oh my God you are so unbelievably gorgeous I just flooded my basement and I live on the 6th floor" language:)

[@user-ol4we4iw3t]

thats jaime fookin lannister

[@Jaime.Lannister]

My High Valyrian is pretty rusty though

[@AlexYBITW]

He looks so much like Joel

[@nickyboy22071989]

I was confident in my straightness until a second ago.

[@heinedenmark]

Pretty much the same as I..

[@germanrobles9469]

Auxilio mi heterosexualidad!!!!

[@PrinceOfNoodles655]

"👌niiikolaj"

[@swiftly_produced2694]

Bro can speak every langauge around the Netherlands, but he can't speak dutch

[@Morsning]

👏👏

[@luciaceba4640]

the only french anyone can speak is saying that exact line

[@VoidDragon82]

As someone who’s mother speaks 5 languages, yet only speaks the other 4 when giving me a bollocking, I unfortunately understand 5 languages but speak 1 😂 P.s and yes, as a kid I was a mischievous and naughty little bugger, that’s why I was exposed to multiple languages so frequently that I started understanding them 😂

[@Layow.]

The Swedish felt a bit off but still understandable

[@Smaakakor]

Bajskorv?

[@carlfranz6805]

Swedish with a French accent. Interesting.

[@ElectroIsMyReligion]

Not at all lol

[@bigmike4337]

Money

[@toiletsponge]

Joel Miller

[@danialvitamin1646]

wow

[@regitasalsabila9351]

Does everyone in Denmark speak english?

[@kins1894]

The french is enough...

[@berriat]

So 2

[@UnalLuna]

It is Svenska inte svensk

[@pemagurung2325]

can survive in German😂

[@this_is_chycanthropy]

Nnff ❤

[@mavenfrankeus7287]

So he failed miserably speaking Swedish.

[@dennisalexanderson6975]

The swedish was nice ❤

[@vauhtihirnuCOLA]

Tbf the swedish didn't sound great 😅

[@jbnelson]

Yeaaaa, especially saying svensk instead of svenska (something being Swedish vs the language Swedish)

[@wolfsbane1991]

@@jbnelson But Swedish is really hard for us Danes! Lol. I worked in Sundsvall for 7 months and definitely learnt to speak okay-ish Swedish, but for some reason I think it will never fall to us naturally, despite the similarities :) Swedish is hard ok! I can attest to that. Similarly, my colleagues were totally lost when I spoke Danish on the phone :)

[@athenachakraborty851]

OMG..a ploygot

[@chrisgrom]

Polyglot

[@katlamb4606]

He is a walking EU.

[@sasquatch4361]

I love Pedro Pascal but YOU SHOULD BE JOEL IN THE LAST OF US

[@abhijeetroy1411]

Wow he got a hand replacement surgery it seems

[@marchauchler1622]

He has a German last name. Maybe he has some German speakibg relatives that he was exosed to

[@TheBrownLamb]

Daddy

[@acsburstangel]

krass wusst ich gar nicht

[@hazzmati]

Ok so he basically speaks Danish and English that's about it

[@1963Bonde]

Well, that's two more than most Americans.

[@andersjackson4014]

Actually, his Swedish was not bad at all. Not perfect, but still good. Yes, understand Danish when you know Swedish can be made, but not speaking Danish. They are quite different to speak.

[@Omnilatent]

His German was also solid.

[@antotheja251]

His German was good

[@CMV314]

@@1963Bonde TWO more than most Americans? Your math skills are terrible.

[@lassef3692]

Most danes can 4-5 languages

[@timswabb]

Louis XIV was a strong king but he overspent on wars, which left his heirs in a precarious financial position. This led to the French Revolution two kings later, during the reign of Louis XVI, who was executed.

[@sebbetjorn9367]

French dont know,german - bad , swedish- tragedy

[@deBeersbitch]

Fudge meee

[@larry2281]

Money