Finally a proper video on how Norwegians say Bjørn. Been looking for this. I particularly liked the part of the video where different Norwegians were saying "Bjørn"
This is probably the best RU-vid recommendation I have ever received even though I hadn't searched Norway or anything Norwegian, RU-vid just knew. They knew I would love it.
probably because the question it was asked in, did not even come close to the rightful pronounciation. Btw im swedish and the swedish variant of it is Björn and it sounds more beautiful in Swedish. Just saying.
my surname derives from Asbjorn - so you can literally see how the English language has been doing this over the course of more than 1,400 years so don't worry it's not just Americans!
Why did this popped into my recoommendations right after Felix and Marzia had their first son and named him Björn? Does RU-vid know? Is this a sign from god?
Exactly right - in fact in IPA (the International Phonetic Alphabet) German _ö_ is transcribed as [ø], borrowed from Danish. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-mid_front_rounded_vowel
I love how this guy must have just waltz into the World Showcase’s “Norway” and thought to himself, “ah yes I should ask the Norwegian bakery workers how to pronounce Bjørn.” And their awkward smiles tell you how odd a request that is, like a local asking a group of American tourists how to pronounce Bob. 😆
@@bjornwad I did my ICP around this time and I remember having kind of a crush on this guy omg. Me and a friend used to waltz into Norway just to see him 👀
Regardless where you live, if the name Bjørn is common, however that local area pronounce it is correct, because they was given it with that exact pronounce, so an American naming their child Bjorn, would regardless be correct.
@@nose-bleed The TV series Vikings is 90% made up or changed to cater to the great masses. Kattegat is the name of the ocean between Denmark and Sweden, NOT a small village in western Norway. It sounds so extremely stupid. It's like making a TV series about native americans from New Mexico and calling the village they live in "Caribbean Sea".
Yeah agreed this is a special one. Next thing you know one of us will make videos of getting lit on mary jane and yelling Bjorn in public with ugly cargo shorts that look like my ass after one too many cannonballs at the lake. Fuk me right
I wonder if this popped up because of ABBA just released a new song and the fact they have a Björn in the band. Otherwise this is definitely a random recommendation.
He just walks into a bakery next door and asks the employees, as well as the customers to say Bjørnto the internet. What a legend you are Bjørn. Next time go to starbucks, they will absolutely fail to pronounce Bjørn.
The thing is the RU-vid algorithm literally knows us better than we know ourselves. It knew we wanted to watch this for some effed up reason, before we even did ourselves. I still don't know why I wanted to watch it, but RU-vid does.
No, its more clickbaity. Clickbait works and so youtube recommends it. It would be AWESOME if youtube would actually recommend me stuff that I give a LIKE, because other people who give LIKES to the same stuff as me have LIKED it before. By doing that you might actually get interesting recommendations.
Americans, the one guy isn’t saying “bjorn”, he just has a southern Norwegian accent that makes it harder to distinguish between ø and o for non-native speakers. Edit: Why are everyone saying that not everyone is American? The reason I said “Americans” is because I am referring to comments by Americans. Everyone else, my comment doesn’t apply to you.
@@VanGugenhiemer Depends on who you’re asking. In my opinion, many southern dialects in Norway are quite charming (and they’re not “thick” dialects like you would consider southern dialects in the US), but they do speak with a different type of “melody” and emphasis on certain words and pronunciations. Northern dialects would be considered “thicker” and somewhat more difficult to understand. However, the first and last person in this video both speak a dialect that might be considered more “by-the-book”.
yea and i love how americans was first people chilling in america then great conquerers took over and breed and the results today are overly obese people u dont see anywhere else on the globe except for in america
@@raymondqiu8202 would've happened eventually anyway. Survival of the fittest. Every country on this planet has a dark and violent history at some point, and a lot of them are far darker than America's.
Great, the algorithm has offered this up to me like a billion times in the last month. I finally watched and I was not disappointed. Action packed from the very beginning I was hooked. And now the added bonus of the algorithm offering up endless streams of Norwegian based content. My favorite!
This is so strange. One of my students in my class today that I met for the first time, had the name "bjørn". And I though "huh, that's so cool, first Bjorn I've ever met". Fast forward about 9 hours later, and this video gets recommend to me!?! Wtf? So interesting how the universe works.
@@OLBastholm I don't like those "anglicized" spellings of Nordic names, to please international audience or cooperatives... Like Anna Salin writes her last name now "Sahlene" Gosh 🤦🏽♂️
Im from denmark. When i try to explain how to pronounce it, i tell people its Bj[ear]n with the [ear] sound in early. Norwegian and danish is very alike - So #2 and #3 are like danes say Bjørn.
@@senchaholic First of all, you realize the comment you responded to is two years old? Secondly, the original comment clearly said to use the first part of early.
That is like 4 different ways of saying "Bjørn", each a different pronunciation no doubt influenced by the regional accents of each person. As an American-Mexican, having never set foot in or near Norway or Norwegian people, I am pleasantly surprised to learn of the variety of people from Norway!
The first and last is pretty similar, both from eastern part of Norway. We don’t have a lot of rules for phonetics in Norwegian, so ending a word or a vowel “up” or “down” etc. is kind of individual and random. The second and third have accents from Western/South-Western Norway, with a distinct “rolling” on the R-sound. We call it skarre-R :) this also results in different vowel-sounds, depending on where the person grew up. Norway has a lot of fjords and valleys, which historically restricted the population to minor settlements, and a lot of different accents developed. Even places that are pretty much adjacent, can have quite distinctive differences.
@@hurrdurrpothead5250 Awesome! Could you clarify what you mean by "up" or "down"? Do you mean the pitch? Do regional dialects or other Scandinavian languages have rules for pitch? (Because you mention it.)
@@CulusMagnus yeah, I’m talking about the difference of pitch of the first and last person, beacause they have the same dialect but just pronounce it a bit differently. I was just thinking about a lot of Latin languages, with the à,á,é,ê etc., we don’t really have those in Norway. Norwegian and Danish are very similar in writing, as Norwegian Bokmål (the most used of the two official written languages in Norway), is largely derived from Danish from when Denmark ruled over Norway for several hundred years. Orally Danish is quite different, and a lot of Norwegians have a hard time understanding it. Swedes and Danes hardly understand each other at all:)
Yes, it is many different accents/dialects in Norway. Northern Norwegian dialect vs southern Norwegian is like 2 different languages. And the dialects is also very different in both the north parts and south parts. I live in a small village in northern Norway, you just need to drive 20 kilometers and the dialect is a little bit different.
Here's a three and a half minute spinning banana: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-B03NzkiNORw.html Here's another banana spinning for an hour: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9oreWlj2d-4.html They're not the same banana. There are also rotating bananas, but those are disgusting.
I know two twin brothers named Shaun and John, and when they get drunk they call each other "Shern n Jern." This has been a local family meme for 20 years, maybe this whole time they've been right. They are Scandinavian after all. lol
@@possibly_ben Well yeah they are the same letters, but they are not pronounced the same since they are different languages. Björn and Bjørn are not pronounced the same
The good and the bad thing about Norwegian is that there isn't really a right way to speak it. This short video alone demonstrates a snippet of the humongous variety of Norwegian dialects: The second and third speakers speak with the guttural ''R'' found on the western coast, while the last speaker has the rolling ''R'' as well as the upwards inflection of someone from the urban east.
@@DS-ej9wm Depends in the dialect. In the northern swedish dialects it's pronounced just like the 1st and 4th person in that video. Then, the southern dialects from Uppsala latitude to south are pronounced like you have 15 marbles in your mouth *mumblegumble*
@@DS-ej9wm No, the second and third pronunciation in this video is exactly like the Swedish one. I'd go as far as to guess that those two are actually Swedish and not Norweigan.
I dreamed of asking a guy named Byörn if I was pronouncing it right last night. Now I get recommended this. My life is a fucking joke to some simulation admins.
English professors be like, "Now don't you see how the author tackles the abstraction of time itself through this masterpiece of a video?" -- Thank you, for such an important and needed video in today's day in age.
