Swedish girl tries to speak Danish - Danish boy tries to speak Swedish 1 

The difference between a swede and a dane is 20 beers

Danish and Swedish sound similar enough. For a Swede it's probably like pronouncing drunk Swedish.

Me as a slavic person (Slovakia) what I can hear is that Swedish is much more "concrete" (more articulated) and much more "singing-like" (many ups and downs tones) whereas danish guy sound much more "relaxed/vague" in pronunciation of the words (like he is "eating" the last letters of each word) - to me swedish language seems to be easier, but still LEGO is the best toy ever! :-D

The Danish guy has an obvious advantage over the Swedish girl... Danish is hard for foreigners to pronounce (including Swedes), but Swedish isn't too difficult for foreigners...

Now when I visit Sweden I have to find a way to squeeze, " Din häst har ett fint skägg;" into every conversation.

Danish is like drunk Swedish Of course all of these sentences are just gibberish to an Icelander like myself

Danish is harder than Swedish

I just wanna clear this up :) When she Said "my horse has a nice beard" The first time she accidently said: min häst har en fin "man". In swedish, "Man" with a low key pronounciation means "mane", the long fluffy hair on the horses neck, while "man" with the slightly higher octave translates to an actual man as in a person. So she wasnt THAT far off :]

Swedish seems much more easier to pronounce. Swedish vowels are just one short sound, while individual danish vowels are like oeo etc..

Swedish is not hard to learn....even kids in Sweden speaks it =D =D

I'm Swiss (who speaks german) and this video is very interesting. Didn't know Danish and Swedish sounded so much alike. I'd like to see a Dutch & Danish comparison. As these 2 languages sound very similar to me.

Reading some of the different comments here I feel like adding my 2 (very long) cents. :D It's true that our languages are damn near identical and it takes very little practice for us to understand each other just fine, but since both countries became very good at speaking English we tend to just use that which is a real shame. It's no wonder we're getting worse at understanding each other in Scandinavia. We don't get any practice anymore. We used to speak Danish/Swedish/Norwegian to each other all the time. Now we speak English. I think the main problem for us is the "rhythm" of the languages. For a Dane like me, Swedes sound like they're almost "singing". (It sounds adorable btw. :P) There's something melodic about the rhythm of the language. Very up and down in tone etc. Danish is flat. Really flat. It's almost like Danish is the most basic way of speaking "Scandinavian" (If that was a language). There's no tones or melody to learn. It's just "blah blah blah blah" mumbling along. It's like we write as our northern neighbors but speak like our southern neighbors which sort of makes sense since we've had a lot of trade, immigration etc. with Germany and the Netherlands. Two countries that don't "sing" either. The Swedes are obviously used to the Swedish "singing" so they have a hard time hearing the different words in Danish I've been told. We don't separate the words in the same way as they're used to tone-wise. It just sort of melts together as a long mumbling stream. And we have the same problem when listening to Swedish. We're obviously used to the Danish flat way of speaking so when we hear the Swedes' "singing" it can be hard to tell where one word ends and where the next word begins. If you had a Dane or a Swede slowly say each and every word it would instantly become 100 times easier to get it but that's obviously not how people speak in the real world. One interesting (Well, I think so) thing I've notice is that Finnish people speaking Swedes are *much* easier to understand for me. I first noticed when the Finnish football player Tim Sparv joined the Danish club FC Midtjylland. He used to play in Sweden so he obviously spoke Swedish, but because Finns don't "sing" it's so much easier for me to hear the different words. It's almost like he spoke Swedish like a Dane would. Just Swedish words in a flat rhythm. Here's an interview with him after having been in Denmark for a week: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NC8MXW0kYTI.html I understand everything he says perfectly fine. Notice how there's no Swedish "melody" at all. He just speaks in a flat tone like we're used to. The guy hasn't even settled in and doesn't know Danish at all but they're just talking Danish/Swedish to each other. That dialect of Danish is from the middle of Jutland (FC Midtjylland. Duh) btw. Sort of known as a rural part of Denmark. I think most Swedes typically think of 'Københavnsk' when they think about the Danish language. :) A Swedish example is the football player Kristoffer Olsson (Also from FC Midtjylland). He is much easier for me to understand today than when he first arrived. He's still not speaking Danish at all but from being around Danish people and living in Denmark he has just learned to make small adjustments and avoid certain words that are completely different in Danish/Swedish. That kinda goes to show you that the languages really are very similar. He doesn't even have to learn Danish. From his debut: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X3TK4GcwwDM.html One and a half year later: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BjqGkLstAg8.html

a Swede also can say "flott skägg". it would transelate more like "fancy beard", then" nice beard".

"Kamelåså"

It seems like Danish only sounds like someone is throwing up, when non-Danish people try to pronounce it though

Accurate representation of reality. Danes are good at swedish/understand it. Swedes suck at danish. XD

The Danish boy did really well. I'm amazed that they can speak that clearly :DSentences were awful, though.

To make something clear, flott have the same meaning in Swedish as danish, Yes it is not as common in Swedish, but still it is Swedish. One another example is vansklig or Spörsmål. Yes, they are not so common in Swedish but you can use it, and no one can correctly say that it is not Swedish.

Please make a longer video with them... I would love to see a part ll of this, I love and want to learn both languages :) ♡

what a lot of fun, you guys looked like you had a blast making this. Bravo!!

Hahah, oh my god that was so much harder than it should have been. I CLEARLY need to work on my danish! :D

Danish sound harder

This was a freaking gem. Thank you for this.

I don't get it, these languages are so similar, they are often virtually the same in written form, yet she acts like he's talking Japanese. She often just uses different words in Swedish, like Mama instead of mor, which is the same as in Danish.

Danish and Swedish are very similar, even supposedly closer to each other than any are to Norwegian, if you follow the traditional division of nordic languages into east and west. A few years ago me and a friend spend a weekend in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, we are swedes btw. When we checked in at the hostel we talked to the danish owner, a very nice guy, and were suprised at how well we understood him. Danish was far from as hard as we had both assumed earlier and even though it was a bit hard directly in the beginning we got used to it quickly and after a while we understood nearly all he said with only minor need for repeats. Enbolded by this sudden revelation that danish wasn't a weird gibberish no one could understand we quickly went out into the streets of Copenhagen. Searching for a map of the city we entered a tourist info place and started a conversation with the personnel in there... ...And walked straight into a wall of uncomprehensible gibberish that made Scanian sound like the clearest of Swedish tounges in comparison. After coming back to our senses from battling verbally with this supposedly closely related Scandinavian language the revelation hit us again... the Hostel-dane had spoken Swedish with us... with only a weak danish accent. Wtf. It is in text ridiclously similar but the pronounciation is ridicoulously different,

As someone who is half Danish and half Swedish, this is awkward and funny AF, both ways xD

That danish guy is actually super good at imitating, damn.

As a person learning Danish, those are some interesting sentences to practice. Can't wait to tell my Danish friend "I fart when I eat meatballs"

The title of this video cut of at the end, so for me it seemed to say "Swede tries to speak Danish - Dane tries to speak"

I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!!

I love this, the sentences are hilarious and the people so sweet! Good job :D

Riktigt bra!

Haha😂I'm from Denmark so this is really funny

Wow he's really good at swedish and here's a mind blow my grandmother's dad was swedish and im danish btw🇩🇰🇸🇪 i kinda understod what she said😂 but with the swedish writing i was lost lol

I love videos that compare different languages, but this is definitely the funniest one I have ever seen!

do more of these!!

kan dere ikke inkluderer en norske?

To a Swede, danish sounds like Swedish/Norwegian but with a mouth full of food. It mostly has to do with the danish way of pronouncing words and what letters they use/don't use and how to pronounce those letters in sentences. Swedish is more straightforward to learn and more closely related to the other age old germanic languages where as Danish is more like a weird wildcard language that sounds like it would be more closely related to Dutch.

Legendariskt!! Meget sjovt!!

Speaking as an Icelander here... In my opinion it is just like two dialects of the same language. All the Nordic scandi-languages are just slight variations of each other.

The ending of "hoved" sounds so hypnotizing.

Swedish is easier because its much more clear. And of course more beautiful. I find that Danish is impossible to pronounce

Det var så roligt! Flera videor som den här,tack :P

"jeg så en ko på taget" låter som "jag såg en cool potät (alltså potatis)"

Jag sauuuuu en koooouuu på täääääää.

Before the end of the 17th century the south part of Sweden belonged to Denmark. And even today many Swedes find it difficult to understand the dialect they speak down there...

I'm french and I'm living in Malmö, (near Copenhagen) so I'm really happy because I don't have to learn danish!

It's so much easier to speak swedish or norwegian as a dane, than it is to speak danish as a swede or norwegian person lol

tak for videoen, hahaha! :) ah, sætningen i 01:25 er „Min mor har et stort vandmelonhoved“ ;)

Haha! Can't wait to see the rest!!

I love her sweater!

Woooww at 1:18 he really took humour to another level!!!

haha, helt underbart! :D

I have the impression that people in the Viking age from different regions had an easier time understanding each back then than they do now.

this was fun to watch! greetings from norway

1. "Ech hunn eng Kou um Daach gesinn." 2. "Ech fuerze wann ech Bouletten iessen." 3. "Meng Mamm huet e grousse Waassermelounekapp." 4. "Däi Päerd huet e schéine Baart."

Swedish are hardest from me. I come from denmark🇩🇰 (writing?)

Mastering danish is like mastering eating soup while on a roller coaster while having a sussage stuck down your throat.

I have a friend from Lund, he says it is easier for him to understand Danish than many other regions of Sweden. Unfortunately my grandparents stopped speaking Danish when they arrived in American in the 30's.

It's harder for the swedish people to talk danish, i think. Idk I'm from DK sooo, but I think it was easy to talk swedish🇩🇰🇸🇪

I feel like, as a Dane, that I actually am pretty good at pronouncing other languages (even the non-scandinavian), and I always thought it was because I'm Danish. Maybe I'm wrong but doesn't the fact that we are able to pronounce æ, ø (I know it's basically the same sound as ä and ö), å and a lot of other sounds (with a potato in our throat - I personally don't agree with that..) make it easier for Danes to pronounce words from another language? (Or maybe it's just me..?)

My Northern German grandma told me, that she dated a Danish guy after the war. She thought,that she could understand him really good. "Wenn du Dänisch sprechen willst, musst du nur eine heiße Kartoffel in den Mund nehmen."/"If you want to speak Danish, you just have to put a hot potato in your mouth" She always said. In the end she had to choose between the Danish guy and my lower German speaking Grandpa. But when the Danish guy finally came to her to proclaim his love, he was so drunk, that neither she could understand him, so she send him home and stayed with my grandfather till he died in 2005.

Hahaha you nailed it really good !

Danish people are sooo beautiful. 😍

To speak danish as a swede is simple. Just eat a big bowl porridge then talk.

very interesting! for a non swedish/danish speaker it's useful to see how they compare for native speakers.

They keep giggling but the grammar of both languages and sound both sound the same to me!

Kukbollar xD

Min mor har et stort vandmelonhoved. :)

Those sentences were definitely taken from Duolingo. I love how Swedish sounds.

one thing to note is that a lot of danish people can speak swedish but very few swedes can speak danish. that's because sweden is much bigger than denmark so inn the southern part of Sweden many people can speak danish

Det svenska ordet "flott" betyder "stilig", "fin" så det fungerar att använda i sammanhanget.

This girl is so funny and beautiful. Swedish girls sound so lovely

Experienced this first hand .. My Swedish friend talked to this Danish girl and they were just basically speaking the same language as far as what I was observing although they're not my native tongue

The “issue” in danish is often our different dialects and oh boy we got quite a few 😂

"Min mor har en stor vandmelon hoved" er grammatisk forkert "Min mor har ET STORT vandmelon hoved" FUCK SAKE xD

0:29 *I FART WHEN I EAT MEATBALLS*

Beautiful Sweden

I'm from Denmark, and people outside the country have told, that it's one of the hardest languages to speak. Mostly because of the pronounce. And the 3 extra letters, haha. "ÆØÅ" when i grew up and started understanding other languanges and i found out, that not every alphabet has 29 letters, my mind was blown, ahahha

The fact that I, an American, have better Danish pronunciation than a Swede pleases me to no end.

1:25 Min mor har et stort vandmelon hoved*

I love that.

this is brilliant

I’m from Denmark btw. xD

Both Danes and Swedish are decendence of the Vikings​!! 🇸🇪🇩🇰

Its so fun to see people ''try'' to speak danish! And its funny to see them fail when i am danish!

So funny I love this video.

im danish and i think she was good to danish but try to say fem flade flødeboller på et fladt flødebolle fad

Do Danish people, like...open their mouths when they talk? I thought French was bad with the pronunciation.

The one thing keeping any foreigner from learning danish fluently. Is our gutteral R sound. I have yet to hear anyone but a true dane say "remoulade" 100% spot on :) I dont think you can be taught to get our deep tongue and the R sounds right :)

I love the sweater she's wearing! Entertaining vid tho

The girl is talking "Rikssvenska". Like the "capital swedish" or something. The dialect they use in the capital city and in that area. But if she spoke "Skånska", or how you pronounce it "skanska", with a low octave on the A, they would understand each other alot easier. with both the pronounciations and words. Becouse Skåne is the southern part of Sweden, and was once a part of Denmark, instead of Sweden for hundred years ago, so the danish dialect occurs sometimes in small words in the southern Swedish. Note; Skånska is not a language by it's self, it's just the name for dialect that is spoken in Skåne, the southern part of Sweden. It got this more "farmer" toung, than the more "city folk" toung. Why is wrote this is becouse I'm on a train and this would maybe interest someone.

Danmark

Tjejen påminner mig så sjukt mycket om Ruby Bentall. Inte bara till utseendet, men även i rösten.

I love it!

Ok, he's not that good. They compliment him too much.

This guy has really no hurmor..

this is why it's so good that we have brige from sweden to danmark

the easy sentence to follow in Danish was only the last. The last sentence of the Swedish was harder, yet I could manage to understand how to pronounce Skägg. It's like ch in ich (German), and when too much pressure it becomes like ch in ich (Schweizerdeutsch). For pronunciation, I'd go with Swedish(however, I thought the Swedes also used the soft D) , for challenge I'd go with Danish(I've managed to pronounce the soft D though). Both are beautiful though.

Swedish is like a drunk karaoke version of danish.