Have A Conversation With A Swedish Person | Full Task | Taskmaster

From Series 2, Doc Brown, Joe Wilkinson, Jon Richardson, Katherine Ryan, and Richard Osman attempt to get information from a Swedish person who will only respond in Swedish.
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In this Broadcast Award-winning, BAFTA and Emmy Award-nominated entertainment show, Taskmaster tyrant Greg Davies (Man Down, Cuckoo), with the help of his loyal assistant Alex Horne (The Horne Section and the show’s creator), sets out to test the wiles, wit and wisdom of five hyper-competitive comedians.
Comedians that have risked life, limb, and dignity in the hope of making the Taskmaster proud so far include: Frank Skinner (The Frank Skinner Show), Mel Giedroyc (The Great British Bake Off), Romesh Ranganathan (Asian Provocateur), Hugh Dennis (Outnumbered), Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones’ Diary), Rose Matafeo (Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner 2018), and Russell Howard (The Russell Howard Hour). Unaware of what awaits them in each wax-sealed envelope, only one competitor can become the victorious owner of His Royal Task-ness’ golden head and be crowned the next Taskmaster Champion.

[@neponepo8349]

As a Finn, I like how having a conversation with a Swede is considered "a task".

[@pandemicaunt6341]

Trust me, from our point of view, it is one of the hardest tasks possible.

[@MademoiselleLottchen]

As a German I agree :D

[@thespankmyfrank]

As a Swede, I agree. We're awkward, don't talk to us.

[@joanneaugust6611]

In the Norwegian version, it's a conversation with a Finn :)

[@vasilip]

@@joanneaugust6611 I bet that wasn't easy :D Finnish version had conversation with Estonian.

[@shmookins]

Joe leaning in over the table thinking if he got closer to the Swede he would understand him better.

[@vanefreja86]

My thought exactly!

[@Asa...S]

I´m surprised the Swede stayed in his seat and not backed away. I think he thought that was really creepy, we don´t get that close to strangers. Even touching him.

[@clarahallgren705]

@@Asa...S when he touched him I cringed so hard 😂 Swedes have a very big personal bubble.

[@FredrikFolkeryd]

Surprised that no one tried shouting to get through :)

[@herrbonk3635]

@@clarahallgren705 I cannot relate to that stereotype much. I often touch people to say, "no hard feelings", "sorry" or "understand me right here". No one gets upset, rather the contrary. I know many women that does the same, although not as many men, I must admit.

[@xionmemoria]

"Danish is just Swedish spoken while drunk" -My Norwegian grandmother

[@maikamikaela3144]

Haha as a Danish and Norwegian person, I was always told that Norwegian was drunk danish, Danish was Norwegian with a potato in your mouth and Swedish was like trying to speak both Danish and Norwegian while being drunk and having a potato in your mouth

[@ZakhadWOW]

you forgot the hot potato in the mouth

[@DansuB4nsu03]

@@maikamikaela3144 What about Finnish? Is it a Valhalla language? Asking for a friend :D

[@ZyXxOmAn]

As a swede danish sounds like a drunk person with a potato in his mouth. Norweigan sounds like a happy drunk person who speaks fast

[@Wilda295]

A Canadian friend said Danish sounds like Swedish spoken under water 😄

[@lkrnpk]

I like how the Swedish guy turned on his ''Swedish for neighbors'' when the Danish woman listened to him, with words being pronounced slower and almost syllable by syllable

[@outdateduser7036]

Is this like a conscious thing or does it happen frequently enough that one might not think about slipping in to it when appropriate?

[@KlaverKatten]

@@outdateduser7036 I think that it's intentional, but I still don't understand Swedish anyway lol (I'm Danish)

[@sebastianlavallee706]

@@outdateduser7036 Used to work with a lot of tourists - whenever I heard Swedish I would switch to a pseudo-Swedish pronunciation of Danish words on reflex. It's more normal for people less used to it to try once or twice then switch to English though.

[@Sisterlisk]

@@sebastianlavallee706 I use a more simple English at work because I work with immigrants who don't understand my English. I even sorta slip into their accent to help even more. It's ridiculous. Then, some people think I wasn't born here, either, and it's a whole misunderstanding.

[@kaldo_kaldo]

@@Sisterlisk I'm American. I was once told by a Kuwaiti that I'm obviously an Arab with a fake American accent.

[@klaudia6057]

The poor Swedish guy who had to sit through all this frustration 😂

[@jonatandjurachkovitch460]

I'm so impressed by him

[@joelformica8344]

@@jonatandjurachkovitch460 i like your profile picture

[@wilda.9826]

I would have had so hard to refrain from laughing.

[@Vendis_J]

It would be so hard for me to not switch to english hehe Im proud of him(:

[@novaintemittnamn]

I would feel bad if i were not a terrible peeson

[@hannahwhite5442]

What amuses me the most is his offended look when she says the languages are pretty much the same doesn't come close to how amused he looks when he realises the dane can actually understand him

[@woogieonaboogie928]

Well, we swedes dont like when anything swedish is compared to anything danish. Then there is the rivalry between our two peoples. Most swedes want to one up all the danes and so when she understands him he is probably getting disappointed because he himself could not do the same if the roles were reversed and he had to translate danish. Thus he feels one upped by the dane which is very very grave.

[@Haan22]

@@woogieonaboogie928 He essentially lost to the danes, the King has sentenced him to a month of no fika and no whining about the weather. He will also have to rewatch this year's Eurovision Song Contest's semifinals.

[@ejemima]

Well, we do actually understand most Swedish and Norwegian, as Danes 😉 I never considered they had more difficulty understanding us though... I once heard someone talk about, if you wanna be able to understand the Scandinavian languages, learning Danish is a good place to start 😉 our potato talk 😜

[@ejemima]

@@woogieonaboogie928 But we love our Swedish neighbors 🤗 It's only some friendly rivalry 😉😊

[@ThatOneToucan]

Well they are the same, their kind all sound the same.

[@SnakeEyeJJ]

Swedish guy is visibly disappointed when he has to speak with a Dane.

[@TainDK]

ROFL - Yeah thats what it is - not at all the comparison for teh 2 languages being the same =P

[@catika505]

@@TainDK you type like you came out of a time machine straight from 2009

[@TainDK]

@@catika505 aww thank you

[@holliswilliams8426]

I can sympathise.

[@infantiltinferno]

It's actually terror. Speaking with Danish people is the same embarrassing routine every time: They understand you perfectly, you only hear the guttural sounds of someone dying of alcohol poisoning and eventually they realize you're just pretending to understand and switch to English.

[@bewing77]

They really managed to find the most archetypical Swedish looking guy ever.

[@eken81]

As a swede, I would have had a such a hard time to not switch to english if I were the swede in this task.

[@loxem2668]

Same here. I would just automatically switch to english.

[@lavrentivs9891]

Was thinking the same thing^^

[@allimac4]

As a Dane, I would be fucked to be the one translating swedish 😂😂 .. Unless I was drunk (witch I often am, since I am a Dane 😉), because then we sound almost the same 😂😝

[@lavrentivs9891]

@@allimac4 Unless you're from Jylland, then no one would understand what you said, even if you understood us =P

[@allimac4]

@@lavrentivs9891 I am from Jylland 😂😂😂

[@DragOnDani01]

I think it's a comedy boost for me who is a Swede and actually understands both sides.

[@theuniversewithin74]

Being Norwegian, equally so. I only wish I didn't understand our languages, so I could hear what it sounds like if you didn't speak it.

[@veronikamaier3605]

I'm from Austria and I think Swedish sounds quite attractive. Not as melodic as French or Italian, but not as harsh as Russian or probably German. Just the perfect middle.

[@theuniversewithin74]

@@veronikamaier3605 Swedish is a really beautiful language, even more so if you understand it. It has so many wonderful sounds and expressions that are candy to my ears. Norwegian is also very beautiful, although I'm a bit biased as a Norwegian. Danish on the other hand is evil, just evil, lol.

[@jonnamakkonen]

I think my Swedish is terrible but I still managed to understand but I guess Fred just spoke very clearly

[@HermanVonPetri]

@@theuniversewithin74 My only experience with Norwegian comes from recordings of Grieg's works. But I can personally say that his songs stand among some of the most beautiful in the romantic repertoire.

[@Naev0w0]

Honestly really expected it to just be "survive a conversation with a Swede" where the Swedish man is just speaking English and the participants just have to overcome their crippling racism and be able to stand a conversation for more than 5 min. Like something straight out of old SNL.

[@kiyoms]

I know I would die

[@judeedee5402]

I think you mean xenophobia

[@peggedyourdad9560]

@@judeedee5402 Yeah, people get the two mixed up a lot. Racism is based on skin color while xenophobia is based on ethnicity/nationality. Obviously, this is a super oversimplification of both but this should be enough to not mistake the 2.

[@wfcoaker1398]

Ah, "racism", a word that often just means "I can explain this as racism based on my culture. I don't need to try to understand what they're doing in their culture. After all, they look like me, their culture MUST be exactly like mine."

[@99vongola99]

@@peggedyourdad9560 Since when is racism based on skin color? Is Asian a skin color? Is Mexican a skin color? Racism isn't just black and white. Xenophobia is the “fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners”. While xenophobia is similar to racism, racism is prejudiced thoughts and discriminatory actions based on differences in race or ethnicity. A person can be both racist and xenophobic.

[@AageKush]

The audience laughed when she called her Danish friend, but Danes can deduce Swedish very well while some understand it perfectly. Especially when it's not full sentences, but just single word answers to English questions.

[@Kat-mu8wq]

I thought it was because they hated each other.. 🤷‍♀️

[@Greksallad]

@@Kat-mu8wq We don't really hate each other (although we used to lol) we just have a friendly rivalry nowadays. It's kind of an ongoing meme because of our violent rivalry throughout history. I love my southern neighbors, we are very similar people. But Sweden is still a lot better.

[@Kat-mu8wq]

@@Greksallad I know. Its the same with Sweden and Norway if I'm not mistaken? They take the piss out of each other with jokes and such but don't actually hate each other. ...Or so my Norwegian friend tells me. 🤣 I hate to be the barer of bad news to Sweden though.. Danish cookies are 👌🤣 What Sweden has that Denmark doesn't.. Really beautiful but expensive saddle pad sets.. Equestrian Stockholm. 🤣

[@Joricardes]

As a Dutch person, I could pretty much understand the Swede without any major issues. Mislukas sounds like mislukken en painter sounds like the German word mahler (or something). A Finnish guy would be more problematic;)

[@Greksallad]

@@Joricardes The words were "misslyckas" and "målare" and yes I can see how a Dutch person would be able to understand that. I find it a bit hard to understand spoken Dutch but written Dutch is fairly easy. Though I guess it helps that I know English and basic German :p

[@K000H]

Katherine: "Yeah. It's the same i think." Swedish guy: Offended smile. Me, a Norwegian: "Hehe, you tell em!"

[@KoriEmerson]

Yup me too.

[@samuelhedenskog9980]

Lol, Norwegian is more similar to Danish than Swedish is

[@BasilLecher]

He would but she wouldn’t understand.

[@Neophema]

@@samuelhedenskog9980 Not really, and it depends on the dialect. This is spoken language, not written conservative bokmål. Phonetically speaking, Danish is absolutely the outlier.

[@samuelhedenskog9980]

@@Neophema Huh?

[@ampersandcastle1091]

“You got the number wrong” incredible

[@FreezingmoonDSBM]

Lol yeah

[@jimash1672]

Ikr 🤣

[@runem5429]

Epic comeback and counter: "got his number"..."you got the number wrong" Thats the kind of wit we all wish we had and it happens twice in an instant :)

[@Pippis78]

I'm Finnish and have studied both Swedish and English, but my english is stronger. Once met a swedish guy in Ireland. He was really happy to get to talk swedish with someone after a long while. But I kept accidentally switching into english (because swedish and english are actually very similar!) So we ended up discussing so that he spoke swedish and I spoke english. The confusion of the people hearing our conversation was hilarious.

[@ironwar8501]

oh my hahahahaha

[@janeeyre1990]

I took a class in Old English at school, and it helped me understand quite a few words while watching Bäst i Test. The branches all grew from the same Proto-Germanic tree.

[@Pippis78]

​@@janeeyre1990 Yes, they have the same origin but also later "mixing". It's not a popular interpretation in Britain, but many linguists think english is actually at least a bit a creole language. There was a huge influx of settlers from especially from what now is Denmark but from other "Viking" areas too to Britain. The english language didn't only get some vocabulary from the "vikings" but there were changes to grammar. Also I suspect a lot of words that get attributed to the common ancestry or as loan words from dutch may actually come from old norse. I feel like the pre-viking english is actually less intelligible to someone who knows swedish than modern english even though it should be the other way round if the similarity is (only) because of the common ancestry of the languages. Except there are a lot of words that used to be similar before especially french replaced them. I may be wrong though or maybe it's just very complicated 😅 I haven't studied old english nor old norse, I'm just interested in linguistics and etymology and know both english and swedish.

[@Crudeliciousbops]

The similarity Swedish share with English and French is the inconsistency I’d say

[@rossplendent]

For someone who is truly fluent in a foreign language (which we've seen Frederick is), your brain physically skips the pathway of translating foreign words into your native tongue. This makes it really hard to continuously switch back and forth between hearing someone speak in English, then responding in Swedish. Kudos, Fred!

[@sophie7780]

the pained look in his face when katherine says "it's the same i think" re: swedish and danish lmao

[@GhostBear3067]

*Rage from centuries of multiple wars rising!!!*

[@_Ciaran_Maher]

It was so subtle too, like barely suppressed fury.

[@freedpeeb]

Well to be fair, if you speak one, you can figure the other out but I imagine it's like saying a Canadian is like an American. We do not like this.

[@exessex3522]

I've spoken Swedish to both Danes and Norwegians, mostly successfully. Linguistically, they are not really separate languages but, of course, culturally and politically each country feels the need for its own language.

[@stefanejegod8644]

As a danish person, I have to uphold the front of us not liking swedes, but in the end, we really don't care. In general, swedish, danish and norwegian are somewhat alike and I understand most in casual and somewhat professional conversation. Swedish is a little tricky as some words in danish and swedish are somewhat alike but have COMPLETELY different meanings in each language. So every once in a while I might be confused by thinking the conversation goes somewhere it really doesn't.

[@Aiko2-26-9]

Obviously Katherine has never had lunch at IKEA or she would know what a lingonberry is.

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

Honestly only small children and grandparents have lunch at IKEA, oh wait 😁

[@Lisa-bu6nc]

@@CyberBeep_kenshi As a Swede, I’m insulted

[@EterPuralis]

@@Lisa-bu6nc well, the food *is* terrible. Gekås is much better.

[@mmooii97]

@@EterPuralis I thought they had the same kind of menu

[@poilboiler]

@@mmooii97 They kinda do. Might be a difference in quality but not sure.

[@edvardekhem8467]

As a Swedish person, I sometimes forget that they’re speaking different languages so I’m like, how are they not understanding each other??? I need some sleep

[@notmyfullname598]

do you still need some sleep?

[@fishcomeback]

wake up

[@mixup2216]

2:10 He could have done something easy like spiders but instead he chose one of the most philosophical and abstract fear that exists.

[@kesooo575]

That's very in-character for a swede though

[@Gatrehs]

Honestly mine's pretty philosophical too? Basically the only thing I'm afraid of is pain... And the imagined pain should I wall down a 5 floor building.. Usually imagined pain, but that also means if I think I'll die instantly I'm not afraid of it.

[@L_Martin]

@@Gatrehs That is actually pretty profound that your biggest fear is IMAGINED pain. My mind is spinning.

[@QuantumFeldspar]

Great observation, he did say that. Brilliant

[@sweden]

Everyone gets A+ for effort. Much love from SWEDEN. 😁

[@aquietgirlcalledsoph739]

Massor av kärlek från England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jag älskar Sverige 🇸🇪

[@sweden]

@@aquietgirlcalledsoph739 We're thrilled to hear that!

[@kumarvikramaditya9636]

@@sweden what do you learn or think of India?

[@sweden]

@@kumarvikramaditya9636 It's not our business to have opinions about other nations! But, our King and Queen visited Indien not too long ago. They only had good things to say!

[@beesree39]

I can't believe Sweden itself is sentient. With this new knowledge, Sweden. Will you marry me?

[@lucasnicholson9443]

They didn’t need the answers in English, they just needed the right answers. I would have had the Swedish guy write the answers in Swedish on the paper and hand that in

[@ajallen212]

That......huh. That woulda been good.

[@michaelccozens]

Not a bad idea, but the instructions said they had to "find out" the information. I'm not sure you could say that they'd "found out" the info if they didn't understand it. Definitely arguable, though!

[@etcetc1]

my first thought was to ask if he could write it in english-adjacent pigpen, or ask him to spell everything slightly wrong -

[@RikatittarOfSkryre]

and that would have been for some incredible boring television.

[@sodafeet]

Fredrik fick inte skriva, they said so in the instructions. Visst, de sa "på engelska" men it stands to reason you should avoid both sötnos 😉

[@iliketrains3495]

"The sigh as soon as he found out the gentleman was Swedish was... bordering on racist" "I don't like them" I've replayed this bit an unhealthy amount of times

[@othc44]

Joe didn't even try to deny it 😂

[@thefunkyJ]

I thought he said "I don't like him"

[@iliketrains3495]

@@thefunkyJ listening back, yeah he probably did

[@SteveBennett1]

If you're allowed to use your phone you could just bust open Google Translate and have him speak into it.

[@KaizokuSencho]

Unless the Swede was from Scania, then no AI could understand.

[@anthonybanderas9930]

Ask him to type the answer in, translate it, done

[@Dwarfi01]

Hahaha 😂 ​@@KaizokuSencho

[@Knight-nu3yl]

@@KaizokuSenchoScania is a truck or do you mean Skåne?

[@samanthalaine8064]

Even though I've seen this task many, many times, "Oh he's a croupier!" still gets me

[@CallMeProm]

For me, it's the muttered, "I really gotta change my lifestyle" after that. Cracks me up.

[@theworldsworstleagueoflege6633]

Ha, I was just about to comment that my favourite part of this task is the awed enthusiasm in his voice when he says that.

[@Francis...]

What's a croupier?

[@JamesG208]

@@Francis... The dealer at a casino.

[@AmokBR]

Funniest moment

[@johanneriisbjerg9988]

Being Danish I'm really impressed with Frederik's ability to say "ja" and "nej" instead of yes and no 😅

[@BasicModelling]

Yes, they are such complicated words... ;)

[@johanneriisbjerg9988]

@@BasicModelling it's hard because he's probably fluent in English as most Swedes are, which makes it hard to answer in a different language, even if it's your own language.

[@aularound]

Tänkte precis likadant. Det måste ju va skitsvårt att inte skifta till engelska!

[@joeriandries]

@@aularound ow cool, now I get to play the game a bit... (native dutch speaker, also pretty fluent in english and french), so what you said was something like... I think exactly the same. It must ... switch to english! I'll be honest, from there I can only guess from context and say the "ju va skitsva°rt att inte" means something like "be difficult not to" So how close am I? :p

[@aularound]

@@joeriandries Yes, you got the gist. "ju" is just an auxilary word which doesn't really mean anything, it kind of makes the statement into a question (which doesn't need to be answered). Sort of like adding ", right?" in the end of a sentence in english. va (short for vara) = is/to be, skit = shit, svårt = hard/difficult, att = to, inte = not. First part is Tänkte = Thought, precis = precisely, likadant = likewise

[@Thunderhawk51]

"If I pay you money, will you speak English?" "Nej." As a Finnish person, I felt that! 🤣

[@alexanderschwab6408]

As a swede, I think it would be horribly difficult to answer in swedish to english questions. He did a brilliant job Also… when she said that danish is the same as swedish you can see his soul crumble, as did mine..

[@Envy_May]

sometimes my swedish father will respond to swedish questions in english and then when you switch to english he switches to swedish and vice versa

[@cmdone11]

I'm from Denmark and mine did the exact same thing! We are better up here in the North though!

[@LaMortDeLaMusique]

Nordic languages (save for Finnish) have a lot of similarities, much like French and Spanish as Romance languages. Though apparently Swedish to a Dane can be gathered from context, whereas Danish to a Swede sounds like someone being very drunk. Dunno how Icelandic, Norwegian and Faroese rank though (although Icelandic and Faroese is apparently mutually intelligible)

[@pippaowen8276]

I swear this gets funnier every time

[@jimash1672]

FR😂😂😂😂

[@user-xs4kv3rb3y]

@say sorry for breathing hyunjins air jeg er en dansk ARMY!! xD

[@user-xs4kv3rb3y]

@say sorry for breathing hyunjins air århh man skal jo se den første 😂 det er heller ikke tit jeg ser svenske ARMY’s ☺️

[@user-xs4kv3rb3y]

@say sorry for breathing hyunjins air håber du får en god dag! 🤍🥺

[@user-xs4kv3rb3y]

@say sorry for breathing hyunjins air ej det er skidt! :( har det heller ikke super godt mentalt men har haft en okay dag indtil videre. tror jeg vil sætte mig og se en film 🥺💜

[@curiousdave]

As a swede I felt the need to back away when the bearded guy leaned in over the table. To close man xD

[@askthepizzaguy]

I'm an American, and we're culturally almost the opposite on this point, and this is too close for ME. So I feel your pain.

[@simonhenry7867]

The fact he actually took part in this "conversation" thing...he's been out country a while...gone native.

[@ChristinaChrisR]

Waaaay too close! Horror

[@Nocure92]

yep lol

[@cla_rence]

As a French person I wouldn't even notice that he got closer, that's just the regular distance to speak to someone 😂

[@lxathu]

The "croupier" interpretation was huge. It gained my audience vote.

[@GuruishMike]

I thought this was going to be "try to make small talk with a Swedish person".

[@AageKush]

Now that's just impossible.

[@eva1585]

@@AageKush Fr swedes dont small-talk past "how are you?"

[@brittanytenhage3655]

“Ah, he’s a croupier!” is my favourite taskmaster moment of all time

[@sam4330]

Lucky it was a Swede and a Danish friend and not the other way around.

[@musicianwren9248]

... why?

[@leneyah87]

@@musicianwren9248 I’m guessing swedes don’t understand danish. At least I don’t 😄

[@amandaandersson4983]

@@musicianwren9248 Danish is so much harder to understand for a swede than the other way around weird but true

[@Olivia-tz8rl]

@@leneyah87 yeah I can’t understand what they say at all. I can understand a little bit when I read danish but when they start speaking...😬 what did you say..?

[@desteny1393]

@@musicianwren9248 as a Swede we have more of a clear speach while danish people have a harsher more hard to understand kind of accent so danish people can understand swedes while us Swedes can barely understand danish, as a Swede myself I would need danish subtitles as well to be able to understand 😅

[@simtexa]

Funnily, in Sweden we also have a variation of this show (it even has the same theme!) called "Best in Test". Even this task is in that show, but instead the participants try to talk to an Icelandic person.

[@jalfd1]

In the Danish version of the show, it's a Russian person :)

[@Tarmorman]

In Norwegian's Kongen Befaler, they have to talk to a finnish person lol

[@LaMortDeLaMusique]

Did they have someone call a Faroe Islander to translate for them?

[@DashCat9]

Lingon "Oh it's a berry?" Ja "Strawberry?" Lingon "Blueberry" ....lingon

[@BeardslapRadio]

Joe’s frustration is delicious.

[@Dr.Death8520]

"Father's job?" (Swedish response) "Yeah, no chance."

[@StanleyKubick1]

I've never seen a man as much out of his element.

[@stefanejegod8644]

@@StanleyKubick1 To be fair, that's pretty much Joe in anything he does...

[@janeredcliff1550]

My first language is german and I was surprised how good I could understand him when he spoke slowly...

[@emilmattsson615]

I am Swedish and I understand German fairly well when spoken slowly too! (No previous knowledge of German).

[@mattiasolander1038]

Brits in general have no or little knowledge of other germanic languages! (english is also a germanic laguage, but also got more french and latin influence than other germanic languages) Even if the words sound similar, brits have a hard time understanding the swede! If you read old english, it's closer to swedish. Swedish in the viking era through the middle ages was hugely influenced by "Low german"= Plattdeutsch! (I think that is why you could understand the swede)

[@sjones1957]

Ich kann Deutsch und Swedisch sprechen. Hej på dej Emil hahaha

[@QuiteFranklyFrank]

Yeah, we understand some German too. Some of our writing rules are the same as well, like we both different words together to create new words.

[@BasicModelling]

@@mattiasolander1038 English has a lot of Danish words in it, such as husband, window etc.. and parts of Britain were ruled by the Danes for some time. When you think of it, Britain has been conquered quite a few times.. it was probably only Napoleon and Hitler that failed, where the Romans, Saxons, Vikings and Normans succeded.. :) No wonder they have this fear of foreigners..

[@TheBehm08]

The Swede seemed like such a nice guy 😂 imagine getting this role for TV

[@unoki99]

"failure" in Swedish is "misslyckas" literally: "to miss-luck", it really does make sense, you just need to twist le brain a little bit hahaha

[@annikaerf]

Exactly what I thought too!

[@swunt10]

We have the same word in german, missglückt.

[@mojcamesko9597]

Katherine always has the most ingenious and clever solutions

[@exessex3522]

And luckily knew a Scandinavian to phone...

[@TheKeebster1]

Calling someone who speaks a "similar" language is at least being somewhat resourceful - using Google Translate is just outright cheating, and she should have been docked for that.

[@archemides1517]

@@TheKeebster1 the task never stated you could not use your phone. i had a couple ideasask the crew there if someone speaks Swedish

[@j0llibeetch]

@@TheKeebster1 omg, you’re really going to all comments about Katherine’s ingenuity for using her resources while not breaking any rules and saying she cheated huh? Hate Katherine that much or hate that she was too smart for this task?

[@theenglishbornable]

@@TheKeebster1 it wasn't cheating from this series. However the lack of phones seen since suggest a ban on phones in series that came after.

[@lenaakesson2610]

We have taskmaster in sweden as well, but our version of it was ”having a conversation with an Icelander”

[@AnakinSkywalker-hr2rb]

I guess the Swedish task master is bäst I test

[@spacemaker8760]

@@AnakinSkywalker-hr2rb Correct

[@lkrnpk]

A drunk Finn would maybe be better

[@KyroDragon]

@@lkrnpk But surely that'd just end in stab wounds!

[@kaldo_kaldo]

@@KyroDragon Just do the task in a sauna

[@godhasgas]

The sloow blink of disapproval when she called a DANE of all people. The OFFENCE, then followed up with overly articulated CONDESENDENCE. Yes ❤️

[@Finderup16]

I'm Danish and I understood him just fine. But it was hilarious how she called a Danish friend to help translate. 🤣🤣

[@goldenchild6202]

as a norwegian who gets the same comments all the time, I felt the pain in his eyes when she said "I think its the same anyway"

[@Brakvash]

As a Swede I feel your pain Sanna - however anyone who listens to a Swede talk to a Norwegian in their own languages usually hear some difference (or perhaps they don't cause they dont have the ear). I know I can understand both Danska and Norska but it takes some time to get used to it as we have different "melodies" and sounds in each language as well.

[@askthepizzaguy]

I went through years of French and Spanish, can't understand any of it. Learned like 400 words of Norsk and I'm reading and understanding Swedish and can read some Danish. It's not the same, but man. It's a little easier to hop from one language to the other, and I'm bad at learning new languages.

[@goldenchild6202]

@@askthepizzaguy yes, they're similar but definitely not the same

[@musicfan189]

When she said Danish and Swedish were the same language, I actually went 'ooh, no she didn't!' out loud... I am very impressed with Fred's pokerface at that point, because as a temperamental Dane, I'm not sure I would have been able to not react somehow... XD Swedes seem a little more mellow to me, for some reason, when it comes to general average personalitiea I've met...

[@noxtrin1878]

But you could see on his face that he died inside

[@williamloel]

Yeah it is basically the same as saying all asian languages is the same, like I hear that a lot and then just because we live in Europe it’s okay to say our languages are the same? Kinda weird.

[@DissectingThoughts]

@@williamloel aaah, it's not quite the same, though, is it? Not all Asian language are even closely related, whereas we Nordic people can converse with one another in "Blandinavian" and be mutually intelligible. I'm from the Faroe Islands, and in addition to Faroese speak fluent Danish, and can hold a rudimentary conversation in Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish. When I lived in Denmark it always surprised me that Danes and Swedes weren't better at understanding each other than they are. I understand almost everything said in Swedish even though I've never studied the language.

[@williamloel]

@@DissectingThoughts First off, I said that because I usually hear people say all asians are chinese. Like ”oh look a chinese dude” when they’re actually from another asian country. So yah, it’s basically the same thing. Also it’s the same sentence ”all asians speak chinese” ”all nordic people sound the same”. It’s mostly where you’re from that makes it harder to understand certain languages. So I think you have a different scenario. And second I’d like to say that most danish people actually understand swedish, but for swedes it’s hard to understand danish because, well... it sounds like it sounds 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@Latsaab]

Det er veldig likt da🤷‍♂️ Fårstår nesten alt som er Danks eller svensk.

[@jacobcannon1124]

7:50 Definitely the inspiration for the “embarrass a Swede” task

[@janLilin]

Hi, I'm Swedish, and I can confirm, talking with Swedish people is a task unlike any other.

[@ivanajuraga6746]

Whenever I watch this I wonder if Jon checked whether Fred spoke any Spanish, that would have been such a great workaround. The task only said that Fred wasn’t allowed to speak or write in English, it didn’t mention other languages.

[@okokitsme]

Debajo de la mesa.

[@exessex3522]

Does Richardson speak Spanish?

[@ylvarasmussen625]

Si

[@glockenrein]

And Katherine speaks French, I’ve always wondered the same.

[@PokerAttack21]

It's close to a 1/3 chance that a Swede knows either a little Spanish, French or German as almost every student read a third language in school from 6th to 9th school year and those are the three languages that are available at every school.

[@christopherx7428]

This was rather funny, when you do understand Swedish - not easy for native English speakers! I am mostly impressed that he did not at any time slip into answering anything in English, which would have been so easy to do.

[@kiiturii]

fr he must have practiced some prepared answers to the questions, it's so hard to reply to someone in another language than what they were using

[@mace8873]

Yeah, me being Danish I would've simply just answered in English without thinking about it. Granted, I do work with a couple of people from other parts of the world, and I speak English daily, but it's impressive that he could _not_ slip into English.

[@Unlike_Monster]

This was such a wonderful watch. Tack så mycket.

[@vop4813]

8:23 the pain in his blå ögon

[@cheap1549]

Är du från sverige?

[@issy2496]

Not me expecting someone to find a common non English language between them and speaking in that hahaha

[@suoun6938]

You do know only 11% of English speakers speak more than 1 language right?

[@dreamingofthemoon]

Same, I thought they would try some Spanish or French

[@henriikkak2091]

​@@dreamingofthemoon Swedes don't speak much French. I would pay to see an Englishman and Swedish man try to converse in German, though 😂

[@cooki522]

As a Brit/Swede I found this whole challenge hilarious. Growing up in Britain whilst also being Swedish made this a unique experience. The Brit side of me understood how hard this was but my Swede side was shouting at the TV at how obvious the answers were. 😂😂

[@HerculesBallsInc]

I lolled for a while at the whole 'lingonberry' thing.

[@unclear6055]

Sounds like an interesting experience. Did you learn both languages early in your life or did you learn Swedish later down the line?

[@MrCarlBackhausen]

Så bra! Åhhh, jag älskar det här! I love this so much! What a good idea!

[@stormthrush37]

10:37 "...she got them all right." Well, her _friend_ did, anyway. Lol

[@eva1585]

I would've given it to the gent with the glasses

[@jonatandjurachkovitch460]

I'm so impressed by the swede, splitting understanding with expressing into two languages.

[@spacemaker8760]

No problem. We Swedes learn english from an early age.

[@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug]

@@spacemaker8760 Jo, men det er vanskelig å ikke bytte til engelsk

[@peepeetrain8755]

@@spacemaker8760 yeah but being able to not accidently say an english word is pretty impressive, musta been hard having to understand one language but having to speak the other language simultaneously aye

[@bonbon_1729]

@@spacemaker8760 I definitely would have accidentally slipped out an English word in the midst of it all. The guy juggled the languages well. 🤣

[@himfromscandinavian5354]

@@bonbon_1729 i would have flexed not being monolingual 😉

[@hassanmualla4911]

As someone who lives in Sweden, talking to a random swede is (usually) much harder than that

[@ZakhadWOW]

SRSLY. Petra Mede did a brillaint job of pointing out many Swedish weirdnesses in the interval act for ESC 2013 in Malmo, "Swedish Smorgasbord". NEVER EVER TALK ON A TRAIN, Love to stand in line for no reason, and many house husbands

[@User-wr5qz]

@@ZakhadWOW I usually talk on the train, people are actually doing this and wishing eachother a good day but it doesn't happen if one or them is like that lol

[@widar1plays645]

then dont just leave people be bro

[@kevindavidson8281]

Aw man, this channel got me through the early days of the pandemic. Now almost 2 years later this was in my recommended. Takes me back.

[@purple_monkey_x3812]

As a Norwegian it was soooooo funny, since I understood both sides. I don’t know how many times I have rewatch this…😂

[@samuelhedenskog9980]

As a Swede, I got really offended when she said that Danish were the same as Swedish. We don't have potatoes constantly in our mouths!

[@HiiAnniie]

Don’t worry, we feel the same way about you 🙃

[@halenthatperson6850]

We also don’t like Denmark

[@samuelhedenskog9980]

@@halenthatperson6850 I don't have anything against Denmark as a country but I feel like Danish may be one of the ugliest language that exists

[@HiiAnniie]

@@samuelhedenskog9980 I feel personally attacked

[@samuelhedenskog9980]

@@HiiAnniie Oh, you were from Denmark. Whoopsie

[@xonx3056]

The real task would be Finnish 😂 has almost no words that can be traced from english

[@KO-vb4tg]

Wasn’t the task on Swedish Taskmaster to speak to a Finn?

[@GhostBear3067]

Yeah but then you have to get the Finn to sit close to another person outside of a sauna and that is challenge on its own.

[@patriciaatkinson2435]

@@GhostBear3067 Aren't the Scandinavian languages based on the Germanic?

[@GhostBear3067]

@@patriciaatkinson2435 not Finnish, a lot of linguists have no idea where that garbled mess came from but it is definitely NOT a Germanic language.

[@merilahna]

@@patriciaatkinson2435 scandinavian, sure, but finland isnt a part of scandinavia, and finnish is a part of its own language group

[@crit7514]

As a dane, I'm genuinely impressed the other dane actually understood some of what he said, I had no clue

[@verloser]

as a Englishman living in the Netherlands i find it quite funny to understand certain words he is using since they are similar to the Dutch variant spoken.

[@jesperkihlberg6939]

As a Swede, I'd love to see every contestants full task 😂

[@MugenKitsune]

5:54 "Attractive" Swedish guys: I'm sorry mate.

[@linn3014]

As a Dutch person, I love Swedish. Words I understand keep popping up unexpectedly, so delightful to listen to. For example, 'failure' in Dutch is 'mislukking' so that one was surprisingly easy!

[@rocykel]

As a Swedish person who knows both English and German, Dutch feels like what you'd end up with if you took 45 % German, 35 % "Scandinavian" and 20 % English and put it all in a blender. I can usually read Dutch without much trouble. Spoken Dutch is a lot harder to understand unless it's spoken slowly and clearly.

[@Hamstovitch]

You can see the pain in the Swedish guys heart when she says Danish and Swedish is the same at 08:24

[@Keston1302]

"Oh he's a Croupier" Lol 😂

[@flala2261]

😅😂😂

[@halothefluffyderg]

Det här var hysteriskt kul This was hilarious Also I would not have been able to stick to swedish that strictly, would have automatically have switched to english

[@felixkjornsberg]

Samma

[@TainDK]

I love the Nordic talks here - love the rivalry but also how we defend each other towards outsiders =D

[@solamano7239]

I really loved this Swede's discreet smile. I would learn some of the language for him :)

[@zpitzer]

In the swedish version of this show they had to interview a man from Iceland.

[@radiusbecka1799]

8:38 Catherine representing how all the zoomers would do this talk. Just Google translate.

[@Mosern1977]

@qopoy dnon - naah, its pretty much like a dialect of Norwegian. There are Norwegian dialects that are further from standard Norwegian than Swedish is.

[@Neophema]

@@Mosern1977 Yes, it's like a dialect continuum of the same language, just divided by a border.

[@VivaCohen]

and millennials to be honest

[@ultimaterealist1377]

Good to see this fella back again in series 13!

[@heidimeigs5192]

As an American who has lived in Sweden I found this hilarious. Love Sweden and wish I could go back. 🇺🇸❤️🇸🇪. I was affectionately (I think) referred to as “ that crazy American “. My neighbors were wonderful and quite welcoming.

[@abimopectore6859]

I miss Fred, hope he's alright

[@11Kralle]

If only Fred were a dane and Katherine's friend swedish...

[@TheHexan94]

Bwahahah. Would love to see that.

[@eaaeeeea]

9:05 her reaction to the long list was absolutely hilarious!

[@arleequinn5524]

This was the task that sold the show to me, it’s a core memory now.

[@meiji4785]

7:43 probably one of my favorite Taskmaster moments of all time

[@twitchyabigtree9691]

Literally clicked on this video just to watch that part!

[@user-dc7nn3fy8f]

Swede: Lingon Katherine: LiN-gOn?! Swede: L-Lingon..

[@LittleRedRubberDuck]

Understanding both sides of the conversation was such a great time, some of the guessing was amazing :D

[@ZakhadWOW]

as someone with a Swedish GreAT gRANNY, AND having spent ttime there in 1988 and 2011, and slowly pickin up things from SVT, and other channels, and matching Mello every year, THIS WAS HILARIOUS

[@BudBonkerson]

If you guys could upload the “find the Finn” live task then that would be lovely. More people need to be asked if they have ever seen, or eaten, a wind dried puffin

[@PaulA-zp7hn]

If phones were allowed why didn't everyone use one? You could just translate the speech directly to text.

[@rebeccaconlon9743]

They didn't think about it

[@williamlindroos2250]

porbebly thought it was cheating

[@LoveProWrestling]

In this show you can do anything you can think of as long as it hasnt been specifically banned.

[@cuileth3369]

As a swedish learner, this is a very interesting exercise, and it just makes it so much funnier xD I just wonder as well, did the showrunners know the participants dont know the language? Imagine one of them having had lessons and just going „lite långsammare, tack, en gång till?“ (a bit slower, please, one more time?) and acing the task :D

[@holliswilliams8426]

No, they don't know. If they speak the language, they can win.

[@tuney7319]

She’s the only one who thought outside the box

[@andym5173]

As a Norwegian this is fun to watch It comes easy to us tho

[@KoriEmerson]

I’m sooo happy I’m not the only one.

[@auntlynnie]

I remember my Swedish grandmother and my Norwegian grandmother speaking to each other.

[@wilma2317]

As a Swede, Norwegian is much closer to Swedish than Danish, for sure!

[@drake4638]

*Have a conversation with the most Swedish person you can imagine*

[@jf8442]

3:03 „am I missing something obvious here, Alex?“ „Sort of“ 😂😂

[@claudiatoderean]

this is the most entertaining thing I've seen in a long time. I wanna do this with a Romanian speaker!

[@Lilolindiriel]

😂 The face of the swede when she said my language was the same as his....Understand the pain, we get the same pain the other way around... Always a Joy to hear and see one from the brother nations.

[@azarghasemi5875]

After the episode where they had to make him blush i fell in love with him 😆😆😆im glad hes back 😆😆😆

[@piccalillies]

So funny to see Richard Osman here. I had forgotten all about him since leaving Holland but I adored a couple of his game shows.

[@holliswilliams8426]

Since leaving Holland??

[@AmogusSusAmongusSussyBakaAmogg]

Fun fact this show exist in sweden too and it is called "bäst i test" (best in test)

[@solveigdjupegot7447]

Katherine is the definition of work smart, not hard

[@engagingathena9965]

katherine ryan is a bloody genius

[@TheKeebster1]

Calling someone who speaks a "similar" language is at least being somewhat resourceful - using Google Translate is just outright cheating, and she should have been docked for that.

[@simontay4851]

No, shes a bloody cheat. She should've worked it out on her own like the others did. Using your phone is cheating.

[@j0llibeetch]

@@simontay4851 but did the task say “using phone is cheating”. It’s all about working around the task and finding the loopholes. Katherine was very resourceful, as she has always been during this whole series and Champion of Champions.

[@nevergiveupdearfriend7289]

@@simontay4851 it is not cheating.the first thing that comes to my mind was that as well. The point of the taskmaster is to find loopholes sometimes

[@NiPeMiRecenziiFilme]

@@TheKeebster1 What a patethic sad little man you are if you feel the need to repeat the same comment over and over like you dont get this is not an actual contest, but a comic show. Relax dude.

[@sgiiprizz7510]

Bro y’all are making the Swedish guy seem like a lab test 😂😂😂

[@Sof_rha]

As a Finn and Norwegian I LOVE how a convo w a swede is «a task» because YES I AGREE. Also, understanding both sides is so much fun lol