Really liked this😃 I am from the Netherlands and can distinguish the (verbal) differences in the languages. Found this very humorous and educating at the same time👍🏼
How come so many finnish people speak swedish? As a truck driver i often load and unload at terminals around the route i drive and everytime i meet a finnish trucker or something we either greet in swedish or if he or i need help we speak swedish
My own experience with Danish English was very positive. I'm an American who loves languages but doesn't speak any Scandinavian language. Years ago I was in Copenhagen and needed to get something at the local convenience store near my hotel. So I got out my phrasebook and tried to figure out how to ask for what I wanted in Danish. (I hate the rude tourists who start speaking English to everyone, no matter what country they're in.) When I got to the store, there was a teenage guy behind the counter. As I tried out my attempt at Danish, he smiled and said, "Actually, I speak English." And we proceeded that way. The thing is, his English sounded as if he had been born a kilometer from where I live! I was astonished. I suppose it's possible he had lived abroad, but I encountered similar situations with other Danes as well. Needless to say, this level of English was not what I found in countries that speak "big" languages like France, Italy, and Germany.
I think he's speaking Finnish and only Finnish people understand Finnish. 🙂 Finnish is TOTALLY different from the other Nordic languages. It's related to Hungarian or something. But Finland has the same welfare system etc as the rest of us, and some of the Finns speak Swedish. (I'm not Finnish despite my 1st name.)
When Tolkien, an Oxford philologist, invented his _Quenya_ Elvish language for his _Lord of the Rings_ trilogy, _etal,_ he based it on Finnish. _Hmm. Makes a certain sense now._
Absolutely brilliant! As a Bosnian-Herzegovinian myself, I think I can totally relate to this, given the multitude of the "Balkan" ex-YU languages, and I'm quite sure there's similar stand-up here in the region, too. I must say I rwally enjoyed watching this particularly as I have had a chance/orivilege of working with all the Nordics except for Icelanders, so hearing them speak their respective languages was like music to my ears (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish, obviously).
@@Finnec123 "nordic languages" is a common name for the north germanic language family, which includes languages like swedish and norwegian, and all the ones that sound kinda similar
I know what you mean, but I just think that since Finland is a Nordic (though not a Scandinavian) country, their language is per definition a Nordic language. I don't look at the linguistic element. But that's a subjective choice. 👍🏻
I dated a Finnish girl. She taught me the word "perkele" which you can use to scare bears with. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z7_pVrIshxA.html&ab_channel=Vuusteri
Most languages has about 15 different sounds. The Danish language has about 40 different sounds. That's why it's so difficult to learn and why everyone else thinks it sounds terrible.
@@Finnec123 When you speak a language all letters and words are a combination of different sounds. Most languages uses the same 15 sounds. The Danish one has 40 sounds you combine to speak the language, which is why it's so difficult for foreigners to speak the language. They have to use sounds they've never used before. And it sounds funny to others because it's sounds they're not use to hearing.
It is ONLY in some parts of south east Norway they go up an octave at the end of a sentence and the rest of Norway make fun of them because it just sounds ridiculous...
