Swedish VS Norwegian - Language Challenge with Halla.Helle

Swedish guy tries to speak Norwegian while HelleMyLady, a girl from Norway tries to speak Swedish in a language challenge.
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[@MinMinn192]

The cucumber has cancer. It is terminal. It is uncurable. The sadness is real. Best piece of writing of all time, 12/10 -New York Times

[@12061988]

still better than the fake news they are actually spewing...

[@filip.v]

Still better story than Twilight.

[@Megnanus]

Haha she speaks better swedish than him. I'm not even joking.

[@minyoonji8699]

That's because of his skånska accent

[@elinegangster7097]

Nääää

[@MrFasho123]

Then you don't got a idea how to speak swedish and neither do you know how languages works like.

[@emmiemagnusson517]

Its because he got a skåns accent southern sweden

[@footballkid6387]

He. Is form Skåne in sweden

[@ferdisauditore1469]

This girl is very pretty

[@jordyderaedt8741]

I know right? He always get's beautiful girls to do it! How?

[@casparmethi2.088]

because she is from Norway

[@MikKhaim]

Yeaah!)

[@neptune.2566]

It's cuz she's Scandinavian

[@larsborgeryd934]

Shes preaty avreage for Scandinavian

[@par-albinpersson4860]

i love the fact that she speaks better swedish than him

[@SaturnineXTS]

Well the dude speaks Scanian, which is a very particular dialect and quite different from Standard Swedish, so this isn't very informative to people who have never heard Swedish or Norwegian before. Standard Swedish is way more similar still to the Norwegian that the girl is speaking.

[@bamxaus8158]

Agreed, heck I remember a couple of years ago SVT or TV4 subtitled Skånska for the rest of the Swedish audience. The guy talking English on the other hand had a more standard Swedish dialect (riksvenska).

[@jordyderaedt8741]

+Kamboh 1991 +saturnineXTS that's because the danish, swedish and norwegian languages are more like different dialects of a same language, seperated into three different languages due to politics. Actually it's more like a continuum of dialects. For instance: someone who speaks a certain norwegian dualect, will understand a swede better than another norwegian who speaks a different dialect, even when they simply never heard eachother's dialect before. Also, swedish and danish have a standardised language while in norwegian there's simply no such thing as a 'formal, standard language', everybody just speaks a dialect, even tv channels and politicians.

[@SaturnineXTS]

Actually I wouldn't say Ru/Be/Ukr are anything as similar to each other as Swe/No/Dk are. You can understand them, sure, but so can Poles, especially with Belarusian. The Slavic languages could be treated as a dialect continuum all the same, but the differences are somewhat bigger than with the three Scandinavian languages (though still not as big as between certain dialects of German. go figure)

[@HisNeverland]

SaturnineXTS skåne is still a part of swedish so it's still swedish

[@HisNeverland]

i meant part of sweden, haha

[@rymaly]

Moar Swedish VS Norwegian!!

[@TheSwedishLad]

+Larisa Elena Yes! Ja!

[@elderexploration542]

+TheSwedishLad swede vs German?

[@SaturnineXTS]

Ja, ge oss mer :D

[@jpersonen98]

+Александрович Александр we are basicly the same ppl. And btw i think he understands dat swedish and norweiga are very simular since hes fkin swedish. u dont have 2 write dat

[@mamarvelousnessboy6138]

Or Them with Danish!!

[@the1inAmillionSPERM]

This was Norwegian vs Danish.

[@roryangott8187]

tyst du

[@roryangott8187]

***** Skånska yes but i am a skåning so skånskt swedish is best swedish

[@roryangott8187]

***** Haha ja. Jag önskar jag talade norska!

[@roryangott8187]

Ja kanske xD. Norska är bara annorlunda så jag tycker det är roligt att höra. haha

[@rantianhan]

Nei wtf

[@mq46312]

This is not much of a challenge they are very similar anyway.

[@saramarika5726]

I'm swedish and live in Bergen. I love the bergen accent! BTW: I'm also from Skåne, from the same region as Martin.

[@saramarika5726]

***** Well you're right about that there are some similarities, cause the languages are actually in the same language group. But except for that, they are completely different. It's a common mistake..many people think that german and swedish sound the same , and has a similar vocabulary, but they don't.

[@Dovenpeis]

Both German and Swedish, like English, belong to the Germanic language group. So naturally there are many similarities. And yes, phonetically Danish is the one closest to German. The Danes do not sing, like Norwegians and Swedes. As for Germans and Dutch, I do not know enough to say anything educated about it, but as I understand a German and a Dutch can understand a lot of what the other is saying and/or writing from the get go.

[@linneaholmberg6735]

jag är också från skåne :) Heeeja lomma!!!

[@Dovenpeis]

Linnea holmberg You do not sing when you talk.

[@skrivbok]

I have cousins in Bergen (born and raised in Västerbotten, Sweden) :)

[@herrfriberger5]

Den tjejen har koll på svenskt uttal. (That girl know swedish pronunciation well.)

[@knutgarvik5019]

Jeg tror det er lettere for nordmenn å prate svensk med svensk aksent, enn det er for dere svensker å prate norsk med norsk aksent.

[@jubmelahtes]

Nim Boo jeg elsker svensk det høres så rolig ut. norsk er et hardere språk sammenlignet med svensk

[@Dovenpeis]

Olav Wiik Moland Få svensker forstår hva vi norske mener med ordet "rolig". I Sverige har det ordet en helt annen og nærmest motsatt betydning. "Rolig" på svensk betyr gøy/morsomt.

[@jubmelahtes]

Dovenpeis æ veit. Æ har bodd i Stockholm. Men æ ghar ærfaring me at svænska ikke a førr jævli i å førstå nårsk sån såm mange normenn trur.

[@anastasiadunbar5246]

Den tjejen har koll på svenskt uttal. (That girl knows Swedish pronunciation well.) ((Den jenta har et øye på svensk uttale.)) (((Эта девушка хорошо знает шведское произношение.))) ((((O kız İsveççe telaffuzunu iyi bilir.)))) (((((その女の子はスウェーデンの発音をよく知っています。))))) ((((((batang babae na alam Suweko pagbigkas rin.)))))) (((((((Това момиче знае шведското произношение добре.))))))) skoja bara

[@katrin896]

Norwegian; Sorgen er ekte. Swedish; Sorgen är äkta. Icelandic; Sorgin er raunveruleg.

[@mrmatt1165]

Katrin- Kommer du från Island? Jag kommer från Amerika men kan tala svenska.

[@Sunthe1st420]

Jag är svensk

[@rds7516]

hahaha "The cucumber has cancer" I'm a horrible person for laughing at that sentence

[@Scorpioide]

Just spent 6 months in Norway, and I was really surprised about the similarities of the 3 scandinavian languages (sorry Icelandic), like... reading swedish or danish is quite ok for me, and even speaking with Swedes ! It's really almost the same, which is uncommon for a french man, considering that even spanish and italian is far from being that similar to french (altough we can read it pretty much). Although, I dunno why, I think Norwegian sounds a bit better !

[@ReiKakariki]

Norwergian, sounds better cos its preserves the origins of nordic germanic, old norse, old jutish and old saxon together ,also norwegian its the base for danish, faroese, swedish and icelandic etc. Danish and norwegian are brothers they form the bokmal lang daninorwegian lang today.

[@IOXY3]

She's so pretty. Stole my heart

[@zuzanna6468]

Loved it. When she spoke in the bergen accent, I immediately felt like I was listening to Eva from Skam ;)

[@TheSwedishLad]

ha ha

[@Ercarret]

Haha. It's always funny to see you make videos with our dear Nordic neighbors. :)

[@bananaborz1]

Both are pretty languages but I think I prefer the sound of Norwegian more, even if Swedish is the more practical choice (number of speakers, etc). I speak French and German natively and want to learn Norwegian soon!

[@TheSwedishLad]

You can do it!!

[@Oxyte]

It would be interesting to see Swedish, Norwegian and Danish together! (Maybe with some happier sentences?) I love how similar the languages are, but how different they sound! And I love the variations in accents too.

[@mikael5743]

Sven (or Martin) please do more Swedish vs Norwegian but with longer phrases and that makes sense lol Thank you

[@MegaJohn144]

She is delightful and her Swedish is perfectly beautiful to my ears, anyway.

[@MonkeysTucasTV]

Shes speaking norwegian the man is speaking swedish

[@MegaJohn144]

She is also speaking Swedish when she tries to imitate Martin, and she is also speaking Norwegian.

[@killerrockssm]

I liked this one. I think your Norwegian friend did a pretty convincing Skånska if I do say so myself. I would love more videos highlighting the subtle similarities/differences in Scandinavian languages. oh, and if you are taking suggestions for video topics, I would like one about bicycle infrastructure (bike path, bike parking, bike traffic signal, bicycle underpass) just to see your take on this as you are from a region where biking is an everyday mode of transport. Or if that is too specific a topic, maybe you can explain in the comments your opinion the difference between a cykelvag and a cykelbana? They seem interchangeable to me.

[@FifaTheGameHD]

This should be called Danish vs Norwegian since he is from Skåne

[@solid7468]

exactly

[@tarunr5751]

Scanian

[@kalin83]

@Itickleapplestodeath not if u ask any swede thats not from there.. most of us just want to give it back to Denmark.

[@kalin83]

@Itickleapplestodeath i wouldnt call it a lie. more of an exaduration. but from my part of sweden when we talk about skåne thats pretty much what it sounds like.things like "Denmark should had kept it" is not very uncommon. Doubt that we accually mean it tough but i think it comes down to all the shootings and imigration problems in malmö.

[@imnotgaybut6408]

GI' OS SKÅNE TILBAGE!

[@fairyfair6395]

As a dane this was hilarious to watch.

[@Hippyboo]

I love the cameraman's accent and laugh lol

[@dmcstation3552]

Wow the girl is so beautiful

[@neptune.2566]

Cuz she's Scandinavian

[@v3g627]

FHRITP!

[@dan74695]

@@v3g627 ?

[@nicoleflo]

I aced it all. A shame nobody witnessed it.

[@Ogur1981]

Well that explains why your pronunciation is a bit different from what I'm being taught in my language course. Influences from Skåne. I can hear differences in pronunciation, but can't attach that to the different regions yet. I think that will take me several years of living in Sweden. Not to mention the really localized dialects...

[@HelleMyLady]

I was in Copenhagen just a couple of weeks ago and "understood" "everything" "perfectly" ;)

[@Ceabrus74]

I'm a Spanish American looking to learn a Nordic language. I've decided against Danish (at least for now) but can't decide between Swedish or Norwegian. Could you guys tell me which one would be easier and/or more beneficial to learn in the long run? I love the cultures, history, and languages and would like to visit one day.

[@exelentation1]

It´s like comparing Spanish with Portuguese.

[@saoirse7167]

So, Swedish is tonal and they have different accents and words for some things... It seems to me that there is more difference between rp English and Scots or hoch Deutsch (High German) and Austrian German.

[@dan74695]

Norwegian also has pitch accent.

[@anjajacobsen9739]

I'm from Denmark and I understand swedish and Norweigan/jeg forstår både norsk og svensk.

[@eugenederry343]

Norwegian and Swedish is like comparing Russian and Ukrainian languages and nationality.

[@user-bk1nn9ne4d]

Eugene Derry Russians and ukrainians are the same nation

[@greatsarmatae]

@@user-bk1nn9ne4d lol, what a bull*hit. Also no, Ukrainian is quite different from Russian. The proper comparison would be Belarus and Ukrainian.

[@greatsarmatae]

@Lars what are u taling about "fuu", Ukrainians are brothers with Russians in now way, why would you even compare them? Ukrainians and Belarusian have the some origin instead.

[@interdimensionalsteve8172]

she is friggin' GORGEOUS.

[@valkhii]

When You said Drammen, I had a sudden nostalgia hit me. I lived there for 6 years. Now I am back in Hungary. Thank You for the feels ☺️

[@rashedalsuwaidi3648]

So when did the Scandinavian language/ norse split into Swedish, Norwegian and danish

[@BIV332]

Could you guys understand each other speaking everybody your own languages?

[@rasmusaskjr9956]

Yes. I am from Denmark, as long as they don't speak fast or have a heavy dialect it is rather easy

[@Mdx]

no it is not

[@Mdx]

***** well i never go to sweden or denmark,,, and did i say that i equal the poplutation

[@Mdx]

***** no

[@SwompyGaming]

swedes and norwegians understand eachother but have trouble understanding danes. No one understand icelandic or finnish :P

[@12061988]

Sønderjysk VS Svensk!!!!! Gør det nu!^^

[@waheed4648]

Both languages are almost the same if I'm not mistaken at least this is how I found in this video

[@moviesync3131]

Camera man's audio keeps switching from left to right..

[@justalostcause4425]

I'm half Swedish half Norwegian. So which side should I choose

[@blessedone6337]

both

[@mvv1408]

Language continuum with arbitrary dividing line.

[@saiien2]

Difference between Swedish and Norwegian is like difference between Czech and Slovak or Czech and Polish. It sounds very similar :)

[@minecraft0724]

Officially, as a lithuanian living in Norway 30 km away from sweden i laughed my ass off XD

[@user-bk1nn9ne4d]

Dovydas Guzulaitis is your ass beautiful?

[@b0ss626]

wow Swedish is very similar to Norwegian

[@efcpl]

Its pretty much the same but as a swede hearing norwegian its like hearing a child speak. Guess the same applies vice versa.

[@b0ss626]

efcpl If you have like a conversation, you would understand each other, right?

[@efcpl]

Sure and no need for subtitles when watching each others TV. Then offcourse there are more difficult dialects in parts of both Norway and Sweden that makes it harder to understand.

[@b0ss626]

efcpl That's so cool I didn't know that thanks for the info

[@jgroenveld1268]

The Norwegian will have a better understanding for both Danish and Swedish. The Danes... well let's say they got drunk and never sobered up.

[@t-mag3004]

Is she from eastern norway or something?

[@Asidders]

Yep, probably from Oslo or around there.

[@surnamismandatory7602]

she just speek normal norwegian

[@t-mag3004]

You do know there is no such thing as Normal Norwegian right?

[@knutgarvik5019]

She is from Bærum

[@mamarvelousnessboy6138]

+T-Mag 3004 but I think he meant Bokmål

[@Sinfel133]

Wait...was that Niclas from ROSMT behind the camera?

[@TheSwedishLad]

+David “Einherjar133” Mužík Who else could it possibly have been? ;)

[@thestreamer1481]

Please.. More videos with halla

[@texastea5686]

I have no idea how to speak any language other than English (American) and Spanish. But I love reading Swedish mystery novels (and Danish, Finnish, Norwegian etc) I'm currently reading a great book and one quick question. Does the name or word Mällvik mean anything? In this story the main character was bullied and his last name was "easy to make fun of". So what does it mean? If anything? Thanks

[@user-el5mg4it9t]

Norwegian: *_SINGS FREEZING MOON BY MAYHEM_*

[@ratte8633]

Rip Dead

[@TheStarkman123]

Why do the short sentences for the languages that are practically dialects but do long sentences for the languages that don't even come from the same language group???

[@kimjongun7734]

what...?

[@youssef_117_]

Hiii, where did you say you are from man, from which city in Sweden ? your Swedish accent is awesome!

[@David-uy8ot]

It's funny how sometimes they look like puzzled by what they have to say in the other language, like it was super weird, and then when they say the counterpart in their own language... it's basically the same!

[@MM-wz5lk]

Are the two languages are the same ? Can swedish persone anderstand the nervigian with out study?

[@TheSwedishLad]

If the Norwegian is from Oslo then it's no problem at all for a Swede. As soon as it goes more dialektal, it gets trickier, but they're still very close.

[@zalaegerszeg9527]

I speak some Swedish and I can understand a decent amount of Norwegian

[@albertsombreiro3865]

They don't need English for communication. They can keep speaking their native languages and understand each other pretty good.

[@robertodimarino9761]

Very Interessting. Basicly it is more a matter of grammatical than sound differrences between Bokmal and Swedish, right? (If I may dar to suggest... )

[@loican861]

They should compare Skåne's Swedish and Bergen's Norwegian.

[@pontus3018]

I doesn't really work when a Swedish Person is from like Skåne.

[@aletheran8590]

The sadness IS real! Poor cucumber :(

[@mrunalturalkar8405]

This is just a guess, but is the guy reading the cards Nackagubben?

[@emilangen1076]

I'm From Norway

[@AlanKetzer]

Sweden vs Spanish !!!!

[@aronshafizadeh2348]

Som svensk, förstår jag norska mer än skånska (As a Swede, I understand Norwegian more than Scanian).

[@MrFasho123]

I got a hard time believing you. Scanian uses the exact same language as you do, while norwegian doesn't. I think you are just messing around like a lot of swedish people do when it comes to the scanian accent.

[@lmatt88]

@@MrFasho123 Not really. They understand East Norwegian better, but probably not the rest.

[@MrFasho123]

@@lmatt88 I know because I live in Sweden and most people claiming they dont understand scanian just say it to mock scanian people and when they actually talk with scanians either by scanians being at where they live or if they visit scania (which ALOT of swedes do) they have no issues with scanian accent. The only scanian I can see that they can have issues with is people with very old and broad scanian that is from the country and they barely exist these days.

[@lmatt88]

@@MrFasho123 Yes they do joke about it. But eastern Norwegian dialects are easier to understand for a central Swede than Scanian.

[@dan74695]

@@MrFasho123 Norwegian and Swedish are basically the same language.

[@kilipaki87oritahiti]

These are not fun as we are so similar and close genetically, linguistically and culturally being Scandinavian/Germanic and we all grow up being fluent by default in each other’s languages. I was never taught neither Danish or Swedish, but due to the exposure through media, music and TV shows/movies, I understand. Norwegian is closer to Swedish, and the majority of us has Swedes in our family, my aunt and my 3rd cousin’s husband is a Swede as well. Written wise, we’re basically Danish, but Norwegianified. Norway was also under both Swedish and Danish rule. We have over 100, if not thousands of dialects, and some was influenced by German/Dutch, and others Danish, Swedish, Finnish and Russian.

[@meliscnar3161]

Are These languages The dialects of Norse (Viking) Language?

[@TheSwedishLad]

Only descendants of them-

[@clasdavid5450]

sometimes the languages are the same but you choose words that is different. I mean, you can say ”kräftan är dödlig” in swedish too.

[@septimus381]

Without the black and grey, his sweater would be a colour template from which all the Nordic flags can be made.

[@mikeylejan8849]

Norwegian seems to be bridge of Danish and Swedish

[@mrmatt1165]

Yo Mikey! Yup, it's basically pretty much a mix of Danish and Swedish. I speak Swedish, so I'd know.

[@mikeylejan8849]

@@mrmatt1165 are you Swedish?

[@mrmatt1165]

@@mikeylejan8849 American, unfortunately, but I can speak the language pretty well.

[@billyriedel6449]

Jag lär mig svenska och jag tycker om den här videon.

[@blackfalcon1324]

So terminal means deadly. Incurable would be chronic.

[@dukio-03]

I think “dødelig” and “dödligt” have the same origin as the world “deadly”. All three kind of sound alike and the Nordic words have similar meaning to “deadly” in this context

[@thestreamer1481]

Bring her again Martin.. Its realy nice to here Norwegian vs Norwegian !!! (KOFO??)

[@thespecial]

It's so similar no comparison it's the same

[@jaymylotto8134]

She is stunning.

[@Essah15]

hvorfor har en svensker og en nordmand brug for at tale engelsk til hinanden? Helt ærligt, så svært er det ikke at forstå

[@vitaliygalganets8943]

Interesting video. I noticed some similarities there. Similar diference between Ukrainian and Belarusian (84% of common lexicology). According to the official data, Ukrainian is more similar to Belarusian, Polish (70% of common lexicology), Slovakian (68%). Ukrainian and russian languages have 62% of common lexicology, it's less, but not strange. Because Ukrainian and Belarusian languages came from East Slavic, but the russian did not. The russian is more similar to Bulgarian (73-74% of common lexicology).

[@aaa-cz9zu]

We all know why NIclas is holding the camera with just one hand: he's having some PRE-DINNER MAYONNAISE

[@EnglishSofaidiomas]

really nice video, thanks.

[@exentr]

Swedish has lots of dialects as well. It is everything from the islands that once were Danish, Åland, Gotland, Skåne, Dalarna, Stockholm, Lappland and all along the Norwegian border (influenced by Norwegian) + more. Norwegian has 8-10 main dialect areas. Danish also has more dialect areas than you would think. At least Denmark had. They're now dying because they're so different from the most productive dialect which is the Copenhagen dialect. The most interesting thing about Danish dialects is the infamous "artikkel-grænsen" on Jutland which is where you find the frontier for the continental and British prefixed definite article. das Haus and the house. In South West Jutish they say/said 'a hus'. The same prefixed definite article as in continental European and British. In Scandinavian it is postfixed definite article 'huset'. 'Det bor en familje i a hus.'

[@dr.meerkat2641]

Do they teach Bokmål in Sweden

[@icko8886]

I'm Norwegian!!

[@dan74695]

🇳🇴

[@Mediaflashmob]

Both are similar languages

[@sigynfoxy69]

*shakes in Norwegian and half Swedish*

[@esperanza945]

My grandfather was Norwegian so I'm biased I guess but I love both languages

[@eetuhartikainen7223]

why these texts are in finnish...

[@thenorseman79]

alltid roligt att se dessa klipp. og Helle er så utrolig pen ;)

[@jayya1]

Swedish are best people in this planet

[@bella5543]

D låter fan som tjejen e svensk när hon försöker prata svenska ahaha

[@boldhoe5557]

oi dere snakker veldig bra norsk

[@jeffmorse645]

Had a coworker from Denmark and she told me that the Scandinavian languages are mutually intelligible if the people speak slowly and don't use a lot of slang.

[@Peter_1986]

Yes, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are very similar, however Swedes and Norwegians often find it hard to understand spoken Danish. =P I would say that Swedish and Norwegian are more similar in speech, whereas Norwegian and Danish are more similar in writing. However, Finnish is NOT similar at all to any of those languages, since it belongs to a completely different language family. Sweden and Finland have a close social relation to each other, and a lot of Finnish people understand some Swedish since they have Swedish as a school subject because Finland used to be a part of Sweden, but other than that those languages are completely different.

[@tusenbensen334]

Laurelindo You are correct

[@richard3765]

Her Swedish is so good

[@kiraschii5629]

press f for cucumber

[@margotdenise5091]

I’m belgian & this was very funny

[@CannibalFetusRobbery]

Veldig bra!

[@hoseoksbabygirlavqustina9985]

So they are similar?

[@TheSwedishLad]

Yes, especially in writing but then you add dialects on top of that. Mine for example is southern Swedish.

[@johannamogaard6068]

Should be renamed "swedish people laughing at norwegian pronunciations"

[@SashaboxEntertainment]

Swedish and Norwegian are Germanic languages, just like English.

[@angstrom1187]

except english is west germanic so they are little similiar

[@angstrom1187]

swedish norwegian and danish is north germanic nordic languages

[@pedraoculta]

I'm brazilian and I see that both languages are very close

[@orange6946]

I just wish it had been more diversified. There were fewer words than usual. But I want moooore

[@SingleButHappy]

Helle pronounced the Swedish "sorgen" wrong; she said [sorgen] whereas she should have said [sorjen = soryen].