ENGLISH VS SWEDISH - Language Challenge feat. icklenellierose 

The thing about Swedish, is that it's a fox dressed as a sheep dressed as a fox. The first layer, to anyone not familiar with learning foreign languages, is difficult. In Swedish, there is no difference in conjugation for the various groups of people a verb relates to. In English, he runs, I run, they run, etc. In German, Ich laufe, du läufst, er lauft. In Swedish, jag springer, han springer, ni springer, etc. Then, the next layer is easy. The conjugation is simpler than English, the spelling makes more sense than English, and the pronunciation is just a bit difficult. I think when people say Swedish is a category one language, this is where they end. But then comes the final layer. The fiendishly hard one, where the differences between a native speaker and a second language learner become painfully apparent. The things that are almost right but hit the uncanny valley. Where the speaker understands that jag is pronounced more like "yah", which was a very Swedish adaptation to allow faster speech, while leaving a small gap between it and the next word. Or when a speaker pronounces Sverige as "Sve -ri- ye" with distinct syllables, instead of "Sveryeh". And then there's the emphasis. There's no wrong emphAsis on the wrong syllAble, because there's emphasis on every syllable, which is really hard for people who speak any reasonable languages.

It's bo'le of wa'er. lol

Fun!!! I love hearing your Swedish Martin!!!!

I love english people it is so nice seeing them speaking english❤️

He's been learning English since he was five. She's never even opened a Swedish book. Not really a fair challenge tbh.

She sounds Danish😂😂

I want to hear more of that song about the streets of Stockholm (Stockholms gator). I always thought the way the Skånsk pronounce the word “gå“ sounds exactly the way the English say “go“. The rest of Sweden pronounces it roughly the way the Americans say it.

Skånsk pronunciation is the best, greetings from Norway :)

Yay for Geordie! I'm guessing you meant Ant and Dec… Newcastle is my hometown :D ;)

She is so cute!!!!

That cute girl.

The song is so beautiful! Is it available in full length somewhere? I can't seem to find it on Sunny Bear's channel.

its so funny seeing a person from britain/england pronouncing/saying swedish words

She is very good in swedish I will have no probleme understand her. Very good song by the way =)

You'll notice the sentence structure is very very similar.

I'm glad I'm fluent in one of the hardest languages in the world.

Shit bullar. LOL

Your version of "I'd like a bottle of water" is giving me New York vibes on the accent

Martin iso funny i support him

I'm British and English is my first language but I've been learning Swedish for 11 ish months and I love it. So earlier, my friend wanted to say I hate (insert name of person she hates) in Swedish so basically no one would understand her. So I told her 'jag hatar (insert name of person she hates) and then she tried to repeat it. She said 'ig heter (insert name of person she hates). I don't know how she got ig and heter is the verb to be called or something like that. She got there eventually but it's amazing how hard repeating a language you don't know is.

Hahahahahah jag dör😂😂

Hahaha, I see you finally found someone who you had the upper hand on. :P The translation of the lyrics made it seem (to me, anyway) as if you picked her up in your hand, and didn't just take her hand. :)

The English girl was so good in copy the Swedish word's. Very surprising 🇬🇧🇸🇪❤️👫

Do this with French!!!

Ellen??? It’s Ellen!!

Stolt svensk här!

"Lund'n" xD

Swedish x Portuguese!

Hey Martin you know it is "Suomi" not "Soumi" as you spelt it in the icklenellierose comment from her video from yesterday?

så jäkla roligt när man hör engelska säga det :P

kudos to ellen for her attempt, I would have been seriously stumped.

Haha en sån där flummig proggtröja har jag också :)

Can she say , who ever heard of a snozberry? 😜

How many languages can a person learn ?

Who is from sweden too?🙃🇸🇪👋

Hon låter litte full.

What is the meaning of the intro of this channel? What is Sven? Who is Martin?

My name is not, Martin. It is Sven, ja Vilket mysigt intro...

SKÅNE

Jag är svensk

en smukke øjeblik :'(

Martin, explain to me how you always manage to get beautiful women to work with you... Pleeeeeeaaaase?

But how is this challenging? Everybody already speaks English

actually this challenge is pointless coz English is an international language.

that's not swedish. It's some danish dialect...

jag driker vatten

Swedish is hard