Swedish was Shocked by the Pronunciation of Swedish Brand Names in Nordic Countries!! 

lol that made me cringe nobody says ämmä, just äm

I say ämmä, ämmä@@fakelaw8123

Ite sanon aina herra et ämmä

Sillon ku kukaa ei kuule ni sanon Hotti Matti

​@@fakelaw8123They don't? I always say h et ämmä

HenkkaMaukka 😂

As a Swedish speaker who have studied Finnish. I asked someone "missä Hoo ja äm on?" They understood obviously, but it took a second😂

Sama täällä: Sanon "hoo et äm"

Ditto. "Hoo et äm".

@@Censeo That's pretty funny. I can imagine it would take a while for me to realize what you meant

I said hooämmä until so many complained about it

Never?

@@janitakauppinen9184yea same but i still say hooämmä often😁

I have never heard the hooämmä either.

I rarely hear anyone saying it with the at usually just hooäm

Im swedish and i sometimes call it the full thing too, kinda just to remind myself what the letters stand for but still.

I've never heard anyone in Norway call it "HM" or anything else but "Hennes og Mauritz". HM I associate more with "his majesty" lol ("hans Majestet") or something else

i hear hm quite frequently in norway

@@abagofdrag You're in the wrong crowd, buddy.

I'm swedish and ive never heard anyone say the full name ngl

At a time it was called Hans & Hennes in Norway ( His & hers).

Interesting, I never heard of Mauritz Widforss.

@@reineh3477 It's a very old company that has been around since 1729. There are still two different companies "Mauritz Widforss" that sells hunting rifles, has a shooting range and sells hunting equipment, and then another company called Widforss that sells hunting/hiking/fishing/camping equipment.

Soundcloud is swedish aswell

​@@lmao2351google says soundcloud is german

What can I say, we love our music@@lmao2351

Sweden is really big when it comes to etropenurs because of the social safety you get if you fail, and music production is massive in Sweden. That's also why Sweden has so many millioners.

everything good comes from sweden

Jag har fått upplevelsen av att det är olika huruvida svenskar förstår norska eller inte (nynorsk eller bokmål), även om språken är väldigt lika. När jag har pratat svenska med norrmän har det också varit varierat hur väl de förstår en eller inte. Jag skulle gissa på att det har att göra med hur exponerad man är för språken.

Så kan det ju vara, så klart. Och nu när du säger det, så minns jag när jag arbetade som receptionist och träffade några gäster från Bergen. Den dialekten hade jag väldigt svårt att förstå, trodde först de var från Nederländerna. Det var väldigt olikt den norska som man är "van vid" att höra. @@essp3688

Håller med

@@NickDeMJAU 200% Kommer ihåg en tid i barndomen man träffade norrmän men förstod på ett ungefär vad de pratade om. Kan inte säga detsamma med danskan, men det beror på hur ens öra är tränat.

@@supersuede6493 ja

Misä muka nui sanotaa ku ikkää kuullukkaa kenenkää sanova nui?

Yeah, I think in Finnish "Hennes & Mauritz" is also as "Henkka ja Mauri".

@@KolonE No joo, toi jälkimmäinen voi ollakin jokseenkin aluekohtainen, mutta suurin osa suomalaisista sanoo "Hoo et äm".

I was interested in hearing which way she would say H&M specifically since I think it's a brand that has several very popular pronunciations in Finland. The ones you mentioned are also the ones I've heard the most, and I would also pronounce it "Hoo et äm".

@@KolonE Villi veikkaus, että PK seudulla. Itse en muista kuulleeni muita kuin noi kaksi. "hooämmä":stä en ole kuullut tai sitten siitä on todella pitkä aika. En tosin pahemmin puhu arkijutuista suomeksi...

🤣😂 ...

Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas are pretty nordic

@@GenericUsername1388- I heard that Denmark is in Chicago. 😄

Nooo... the whole America is now a Nordic country. For Canada I'd agree, though...

@@module79l28 yes and Germany is in Alabama

Yeah, I'm surprised that they didn't point that out.

Spotify wasn't an actual english word, it was just something Daniel Ek came up with and thought sounded cool.

@@haga2519 Yes, but it COULD be an English word. It fits in nicely, that's what I meant, and that it doesn't fit well in Swedish.

They sound (those verbs) surprisingly enough, too Latin-y.

However, when said with an American accent, the Swedish pronunciation shows to be closer to proper English.

Actually yes

That makes sense in all regards, from that perspective, historically.

And Icelandic is basically Old Norse :D

Swedish and Finnish language pronounce the words more in a clean and hard way.

@@SabeximusActually, the closest to old norse is a specific finnish-swedish accent found in Ostrobothnia.

@@BADCOMMENTSCOMEFROME are you referring to elfdalian? Cause that is spoken in a small part of Dalarna, which borders Norway.

Wouldn't that be the opposite of interesting since it wouldn't really add anything? Every single round it would just be "The Icelandic one is basically the same as the Swedish one"

And get with a history of Danish there

They're similar, @@BurnBird1, but only in the way that Norwegian and Swedish are also very similar. I mean, Sweden ruled Finland for 700 years, was in union with (and ruled over) Norway for a century, controlled the area east of Finland (Rus) down through Rīga, conquered a chunk of the northern part of the Holy Roman Empire in what's now Germany,... lots of reasons for the accent to be similar!

Lmao, Im Norwegian

You think she lived in a country thinking it was another one for 9 years without realising? Yes that is definitely the most likely scenario!

@@seanlive6975 Thanks for clarifying that.

There are a lot of words in English from Old norse, which was spoken in all of scandinavia, from the viking settlers in the viking age. Like Bread for example, which was brot in old norse and bröd in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish today. Or forexample Ransack, which is from old norse Rannsaka and is the same today in Sweden, but has a different meaning

@@LordOfSwedenWhile that is true; for words from modern brands, and a lot of other modern words it is definitely the other way around. A big part probably due to we do learn English in school very early(I think it is like 2nd or 3rd grade already or something like that), and a LOT of television, computer games and that kind of stuff are also in English here, at best with Danish subtitles maybe, for some stuff, but not even that always. So yes while Old Norse effected Old English a LOT; Modern English is the one affecting Modern Danish for sure

I don't think the profound impact of Old Norse on English has much impact on modern pronunciation. English pronunciations have shifted VERY dramatically for the same words since then. Also, the impact was mostly during Old English, which is such a different language. We need translations to read Chaucer, who wrote in Middle English and have trouble with Shakespeare, in Early Modern English, written during the time of The Great Vowel Shift. There were huge influences from French and German that are more recent. While the words can be traced back that far sometimes, the pronunciations cannot.

@@Sam_on_RU-vidyeah isn’t 60% of english grammar from french

There are words in English that came from the Danes, but the pronunciation of words in modern English has not be influenced by danish at all. Both accents have changed so much. Old English is unintelligible to English speakers today

Danish also had a huge influence on English during the middle ages during e.g. Danelaw. There are still villages in northern England and Scotland that have distinctly Scandinavian names.

There is also the fact that Danes in general are very good at English. We are very used to the English language and the younger generation will very often pronounce something that look like English as English because we know how they pronounce that. In general if it sounds/looks English/American it’s easy to assume that is where it comes from because most of the time it is. And when it isn’t it will still feel like the way it was meant to. It’s mostly the older generations that Danisfy English words. But we all tend to do it with other words or names

​@@thedanishcatgirl3205 You're not wrong, but you aren't right either. As @mrwalter1049 mentioned, it's actually the English language, and their tendencies that seem to match with the Danish language, and not the other way around. During the Viking age, and the subsequent Norman Conquest of England, Old Norse had a notable influence on the English language. Danish-speaking Norsemen (The Vikings) settled in parts of England, and as mentioned, this was called Danelaw. Many of these Old Norse words and phrases were adopted into Old English, which transitioned into the language we know today, and the English spoken widely across the world. As an example, words like "Sky" "Egg" (Æg) "Window" (Vindue) were all, in some way or the other, taken and adapted by the English language. It doesn't stop there though, as certain Norse words and their pronunciation has also made quite an impact that's noticeable today and adapted in many English speaking countries. "Th" sounds, like in "this", "thing", "that" come from these old words, with many more examples if you're interested. There are also some patterns that we notice today, such as of articles, such as "the" and the use of "do" as an auxiliary verb in questions and negations, has also made a direct influence on the development of the English grammar. This can be seen, with the Norse articles system example of "inn" (Masculine), "in" (feminine) and "it" (neuter) as definite articles. For example; Old Norse: "Inn maðr" Old English (before the influence): "se mann" Middle English (after Norse influence) "the man" It should, however, be noted that Germanic languages obviously also played a role, and not entirely Danish (given the usage of Old Norse and not Danish). With all that said, though, if we take a step back from the theoretical, more practical examples and focus our attention on the Danes usage of more modern words, and close den Danske Ordbog, then you are correct when it comes to the newer generation of Danish speaking youth. Since the usage of social media, and the populations divulge into the digitalized world, many people have adapted newer English words, and adjust these pronunciations to a twisted Danish version of the English one. Focusing our attention on words that have been "created" or has had it's upbringing in this new world, the pronunciation of said word in Danish, is probably largely affected by how social media pronounces it. Given that the majority of the users on social media create content, write comments and discuss things in English, thereby mentioning the word in English, AND given that Danes (like you said) are actually quite sharp at English, they'll quickly pick this word up, and subconsciously create a Danish way of conveying the word when speaking in Danish (note that this does happened in other countries too though). Jeg undskylder hvis du er voldsomt ligeglad, det var bare mit objektive take på det (og også en rehearsal til min kvartårs eksamner)

@@sysofficial det var da meget godt forklaret. Den eksamen skal du nok naile. Og du har helt ret i dette tilfælde fokuserede jeg bare på det nyere da mrwalter allerede havde kort nævnt Danelaw så jeg valgte ikke at dykke ned i den halvdel af Dansk og Engelsk og deres ligheder

Yeah I am Swedish but I was surprised learning that Denmark have such a massive amount of english words in their language

Me and everyone I know say "hooämmä" or "henkkamaukka", probably a regional thing

​@@anttisaarilampiDefinitely a regional dialect thing. I've never heard it pronounced as Hoo-ämmä in the capital region where I'm from.

@anttisaarilampi Henkkamaukka I have heard about but I think most who I know use that ironically more than seriously 😄

@@Abiodun92 makes sense since I'm from the north

@@magicofshootingstar5825 yeah, it's a humorous nicknsme for sure

creí que Spotify era de EE.UU. o España

Sweden is like a mini Germany

That's a compliment to Sweden. Greetings from a Norwegian. @@lmatt88

We would be more proud if they knew they were Swedish though...

Swedes are not patriotic at all though.

Till tori!😄

We are a minority but we still exist! ❤️😊😊😊

No one cares about Finbogland

"spotifyä" not "spotifyta"

@@Metalmassacre07 And yet you cared enough to write a comment.

@@aefinn No omassa tuttavapiirissäni puhumme "spotifaista" ja kuuntelemme "spotifaita" emme "spotifyä". En usko, että tähän on Kotukselta mitään virallista ohjetta miten tämä tulee lausua.

Does not mean I care about your garbage bogfilled nation. Simply wanted to show one of you Piirkas that no one really cares what you have to say. We can turn this around on you, it is obviously infuriating for you that I wrote that comment since you cared enough to comment on it :)@@kpt002

learn to read perhaps?

She was not shocked by the English pronunciation

Imagine the Swedish Chef from the Muppets driving a Volvo or Saab car while blasting ABBA music on his way to IKEA to buy new kitchen furnishings after the kitchen fire that he started for being clumsy just incinerated his kitchen the evening before. 😜

To be fair, she wasn't surprised by how the American pronounced the names, but she was surprised by how her fellow Nordics did.

Some linguists consider English a Scandinavian language. I read that one tenth of our words are from Old Norse apparently

Well that’s the name of the shop

We say tonåring

Well. It\s kinda in the noth. A part of it atleast.

Don't forget Morakviv (Mora-puukko in Finnish), a Mora knife since 1891.

@@lucone2937 I didn't know that Morakniv was known outside of Sweden!

@@Asa...S You should have seen my face when I found a pretty solid selection of Mora knives in a hardware store in Osaka - Japan a few years ago. They even had Hultafors tools in there.

@@gundalfthelost1624 Wow! So Mora knifes is available abroad, I had no idea. I know that Swedish steel in general is well regarded though. I must admit, I've never heard of Hultafors tools.

@@Asa...S Hultafors is one of the oldest tool making companies in the country. Sadly these days you barely find them outside of Clas Ohlson, Bauhaus and various online stores. Still, they make some pretty solid tools at a budget friendly price.

Well Candy Crush and King is Swedish, Paradox entertainment, Ubi soft, Avalanche, DICE, Starbreeze, Toca Boca in even small Swedish towns there are gaming companies. I have Machine games in my hometown.

minecraft is not owned by a swedish company tho since its owned by microsoft

@@allaboutmika Mojang, the company that developed Minecraftaft, was Swedish and was later bought by Microsoft. As was Skype. Skype technology platform is now what is driving both Skype and Teams consumer as well as Teams for Work and School

@@allaboutmikaTechnically, Minecraft is owned by Mojang, which is a Swedish company. Mojang is owned by MicroSoft

@@hnorrstromUbisoft is french, not Swedish.

Yes. And here they are speaking about just a words but if they would compare grammatic structure no one of those anglo-saxics would understand finnish at all.

Depends on where you live in Sweden and were you live in norway im swedish norweigan and a bit danish lol, but if you live in skåne its more similair to denmark if you live in gothenburg it can be a mix by like åländska and norweigan so finish sweden accent, norweigan(dont know the english way to say it) and if you live in bohuslän like Lysekil, hunnebo its more norweigan since or dialekt can be norweigan and alot of norweigans come here

I know right

we are pretty much norwegians with a german accent

Isn´t Swedish more similair to German compared to Danish? 🤔

@@Hecpa no, it is similar to danish.

Interesting. As a German speaker from Switzerland I think the Norwegian pronunciation is a lot closer to how I would say the brand names. But it also makes sense. I mean even if we speak standard German one can usually clearly hear our Swiss accent, so it makes sense that there is a difference.

As a German who lived both in Denmark and Norway and I can assure you that Norwegian is more similar to German (especially the Western Norwegian dialects) :) Danish pronunciation is a mystery most of the time 😂 And I would say Swedish sounds the most different

Id agree, the Swedish representative did weird takes in my opinion, not what I'm used to hearing, n yes I can understand Skånska more than Danish

just take the norwegian guy as a Swedish representative, Since norwegians talk basically the same way, Like never heard a Swede say Volvo with an actual O sound, the Spotify she say spottifaj instead of spotifaj leaving a high t sound and so on

It is a northen country. Have you seen how up north Alaska is? It counts 😜

@@andersonandrighi4539 there is a huge number of people in the US who have nordic ancestry especially in the midwest of the US.

@@andersonandrighi4539 Really?😂 Common. Alaska is the only exception that can't change the fact that US isn't "nordic" сountry

​@@andersonandrighi4539northern and nordic are not the same

@@lmao2351 you don't say! I was being facetious.

plus, she's drop dead gorgeous. Got the whole package of brains and beauty.

@@thehoogardis that possible to go together?

@@kellymcbright5456 Yes?

Which one is sophia

@@mary-janereallynotsarah684 The American girl

clothing brand

It's like H&M's high end brand I think? Like more expensive and classy or whatever. I've never been in a store but I saw one in London just last week and was so surprised since I've only seen it in Stockholm before lol.

Same thing with Acne Studios.

There are 22 Arket stores in Sweden, UK, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Estonia, France, Netherlands, China and South Korea. In Sweden their stores are in Stockholm and Gothenburg.

Aldrig hört talas om arket eller acne studios ;)

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You are aware of the fact that dutch sounds goofy and horrible to all other speakers of germanic languages?

@@Metalmassacre07 as a swede with relatives in the Netherlands (but who doesn’t speak dutch), I disagree. To me, your description more accurately fits german and danish as they are more guttural and throaty. Pronounciation wise, dutch sounds like a mix between german and american english. Like a lighter version of german. Not the prettiest language, but certainly not fit to be described as ”horrible” compared to other germanic languages either

@@flexthetape7839the Flamish speak a prettier version of Dutch their accent makes it sound less harsh

@@Metalmassacre07 you are aware of the fact that your comment resembles your own personal opinion and you can’t speak for the rest of the Germanic community and therefore your sour reaction can be considered total nonsense.

I would also say hoo ät äm (H @ M)

only we old people :)

​@@zuotongqiit's hoo et äm (h&m)

Why? It's not even close to the real name?

Yes. When Swedes speaks English they adapt the pronounciation of Swedish names to better fit the English language (I guess this is true for anybody saying names in other languages). The problem English speakers have is that Swedish (and Norwegian too) has many vowel sounds that does not exists in English. Similar to a Chinese speakers that can have problem with L and R, English speakers have problems with differing e.g. swedish Y and I and swedish E and A. E.g. these words are difficult to differ for English speakers: Kylen, Kylan, Kilen and Kilan.

Oh that's funny 😄 "Hoo et äm" would be my first choice (I'm 34, so not that old). Henkkamaukka as a nickname, sure, why not.

Well I'm a Swede and have never used it, even though everyone seems to have.

I'm American and use it a lot. I always thought it came from the UK or US for some reason 😂

Why Swedish have everything

wicked fedt mand

I think she’s high and a little dumb that’s why 😂

I just want her ig she fine af

yeah im finnish and you're right, they so sound similiar :)

Dutch is hardly a language, just a goofy Rtard version of German

I understand, but it’s more genius to take the Scandinavian people and do that instead of put many other countries in

I don't think we have Gouda kaas in Scandinavia, what is it?

​@@kohZeeicheese

We do have Gouda, Kaas is just dutch for cheese and not part of the name, same as Danbo is a make of cheese.

Extremely. Is that US girl totally high or what?

The "ä" in Fjällräven is pronounced like "ai" in air" and "å" in Kånken is prounounced like "au" in Australia or "o" in "con". So if you say Kånken like "Con-Ken" (like a con man who's name is Ken) it's not exact, but pretty close. Our "j" is pronounced close to the English "y", so if you say like "Fyell" it's close, like "yell", with the f in front of it. Then you get a Southern swedish pronunciation, when we say "Fjäll" it's more like "Fjell". But if you want the Northern pronunciation you need to get more "ai" (like in air) in there. "Fyaill". And then use the "a" sound from a word like "rare" then it's close. Hope that made any sense. Otherwise you can just go to for instance "Forvo" and listen to how they say it. Or use Google translate English to Swedish, just write "The Arctic Fox" and it will be translated to "Fjällräven" (don't forget the "The") and click on the 🔉 to hear how she say it. The pronunciation in many "How to pronounce Fjällräven" videos on RU-vid is _wrong_ ! Don't say it like they do! Some even said "Fjällröven" which becomes pretty funny in Swedish, instead of "The arctic fox" (which fjällräven means) they say "The mountain butt"...

Dude, you seem to have said it in the last video😅

They probably don’t know who he is. But if they did he’s real name is Yngve Malmsten so it’s a bit different 😅

@@sunnivaigelfelt4541 Thank you! I got the difference 🙂

Denmark and Norway have the exact same vowels, we just use Æ and Ø instead.

@@theflyinggasmaskSince I'm Swedish I know that. Among other countries France has the same sounds but spelled different. That's why Sweden invented the letters Å, Ä and Ö in the neighborhood of the year 1500. We needed letters to write the sounds since French began to spread among the nobility. It's probably the same in Denmark and Norway, but we are the only country to have those specifik letters in our official alphabet. You know how us Swedes are, we always think we're so bloody special. 😂

@@peterbockholm3176 Oh, yeah, I missed your point, thought you meant the sounds and not literal letters... I actually don't know when DK/NO began using them. Some say it started as soon as the latin alphabet was used, at least Æ and Ø. Though Å actually first really began being used right after WW2, that's why older Danish buildings and writing uses two A's to depict Å (Like Aarhus and Aalborg) It has been used before that, but not very often and might have been due to Swedish influence. So, Sweden might as well have invented the letter Å :P

​@@peterbockholm3176well, we have them in our official alphabet, å is just called swedish o. But ä and ö are as much ours too. Greetings from finland!

The channel is based in Korea. It's not like they have a every country available to them. If there's no Romanianinfluencer there, they can't just arbitrarily include it.

There needs to be someone from Romania living there where the people who make the videos for the channel live, they probably don't have it yet and that's why they didn't put it.

@GuranPurin To my knowledge there are. It's just a suggestion of mine, maybe they haven't looked yet. When the opportunity becomes available they should include it.

They have a romance language right? So if they find someone we could compare them with Italy and France.

Korea does have a Romanian-Korean couple and they also have a RU-vid channel

Oh Jesus Christ, not this again...

Nordic, yes, but not Scandinavian.

@@jimmljammlz He :) I hear ya. But this channel has a lot of viewers from Asia, Europe and the Americas. So let's live and lean :)

So to clarify, YES, Finland is a nordic country and YES, Finnish is a nordic language it is not however Scandinavian.

ok, thanks a lot for clarifying@@jimmljammlz

We don't talk about Skånska

In some countries we'd say she's got horchata blood 🤣🤣🤣

Who cares?

@@VirtuellJo me

@@jkxmendr6633 Then Get a hobby…

i was literally about to comment this! it irks me so bad lolol it sounds forced

if you want to know about the vowel changes in English, search "great vowel shift" on Google. that'll probably explain it!