You filming yourself, trying to pronounce all those difficult words and phrases takes a lot of courage. The way you aren’t scared to “embarrass yourself” while making mistakes is really inspirational 👍👍👍
that's really kind of you to say Diana, thanks so much🤗 if it helps somebody else to push past their comfort zone with a language they're working on, then I guess that's a job well done :D hope you have a great day!
The first word preskriberat is not prescribed as I think you said. If you commit a crime then after a certain time you will no longer be able to get arrested for that crime. I believe its called Statute of limitations in USA. And you did really good on those toungtwisters :)
oh really? interesting! just goes to show that sometimes Google Translate fails you if you're not writing in context😆 thanks so much for putting me right though! and I'm glad to hear that you think I did a decent job😅
Ynnest isn't really favour, it's more like privileged favour. "Det är en ynnest att hjälpa dig med dina barn" would be like "It's my privilege to help you with your kids". And preskriberat are not right, a crime is "preskriberat" after a certain length of time. There are several words that seem to mean the same in english and swedish, but they mean something completely different.
I’ve been learning Swedish and Norwegian for only a few months, though I’ve been learning Danish for several years.I know a lot of people say Danish is hardest to pronounce, but I think Swedish is really hard too-especially putting the stress in the correct syllable-so I’m impressed!
Thanks so much Allen! Interesting to hear your perspective as a Danish speaker, my impression has also been that Danish is much harder so it’s interesting to learn that hasn’t been your experience! Thanks so much for checking out the video though and best of luck with your studies!
@@JustaBritAbroad Do you watch Swedish lad's language challenge, who comes from a southern region in Sweden called Skåne? Duolingo isn't the best way to learn languages by the way.
You did great!!!! Every pronunciation spot on :) I mean, the chosen "tungvrickare" is hard for even us Swedes. One thing about the word preskribera though. I don't think I often use that word for medicine prescribed by the doctor, I'd rather say "läkarn skrev ut det" =) Of course it's correct but somewhat old-fashioned maybe. But however when it comes to crime, for example a case of a violent robbery's committed years ago is preskriberat, the guilty can no longer be convicted.
thank you🤗🤩and thanks for explaining to me how best to use preskriberat! I'll bear that in mind for the future. then again, hopefully I wont have to be describing crime contexts that often, I hope🤞🏻😅tack så mycket!!
@@JustaBritAbroad Well, you can use the word if you have been or done something naughty in - maybe - your younger days and say "Det där är preskriberat nu" Hi, hi
@@JustaBritAbroad We don't use ynnest in everyday speech either, it is a very old way of speaking. Nowadays you would use the phrase "göra någon en tjänst". Or just ask "Kan du göra något för mig?"
@@JustaBritAbroad Ynnest is more formal or poetic register, so you might use it in elegant language, or to indicate a great favour which you feel privileged to receive, rather than, say, picking up a carton of milk on the way home.
Your pronunciation of the Swedish sounds is really good, I think. Stress and pitch accent seems to be a bit harder for you. But I struggle NOT to get pitch accent into English, which I started to learn 50 years ago, so please don't feel bad about that. :-) Btw, when you feel ready for the next level, try 'västkustskt' . _That's_ a challenge, even for a native speaker!
thanks for your feedback Kata! you're certainly right about stress and intonation, that's something I've noticed when I'm speaking Swedish too, getting into the rhythm is the hardest part, because you all speak with such a lovely, flowing rhythm that us foreigners aren't used to, but I'd love to be able to pick it up one day!! such a good point about västkustskt though haha I'm not even sure where to START with that one😅😅I was fine until the double st-skt! haha p.s. thanks so much for watching!
@@JustaBritAbroad I remember when I decided that it MUST be possible to learn to say 'västkustskt' many times at at least a normal talking speed without stumbling on all the consonants. It took days of hard practice, starting veeery slowly and speeding up a little at a time.
When I was reading the swedish news on Madeira Radio I was struggeling with the word "buskskogsavverkning". We were sending directly and I had to try three times😀
LOL Västkustskt... I wouldn't use that.... My default mode is set to refrase a sentence with such a word. And I live there... on the bestcoast oh sry. westcoast... but same same... :-P ;-) That is really tricky to say and if one starts to think about it it's even more impossible.
I know several people that moved to Sweden "complain" that they never get to use Swedish because the second we find out someone is from abroad, we switch to English. And well,aren't I living proof? I know you know Swedish.. but for me it's more like "omg, I get to use my English!" :P The only drawback working for a municipality in Sweden, is you seldom get to use your English. But I also get that this makes it harder to learn Swedish, since you don't get to use it as often as you might want
haha I know exactly what you mean Andrea! You want to practise and they want to practise so you end up with this mish mash of English and Swedish😅😅 but you're right about working for a municipality not meaning you get to practise so much. that's why you talk to me here instead :) hehe
Its a constant conversation for Morgan (American) to learn Swedish from everyone in Sweden and it can be quite frustrating. Doesn't make it any easier when everyone speaks english! But I guess its like you've done, just gotta to it as often as you can in everyday life. Great video, and can't wait to see more Swedish videos (No pressure though)! //M&W
thanks so much! I can't imagine its easier to pronounce than Japanese though?! those characters look really hard to pronounce, kudos to you for committing to learning it!
@@JustaBritAbroad Japanese isn't that difficult to pronounce. The tonality of Japanese doesn't change as a rule. Unlike Sweden that goes up and down a lot. I learned Japanese many years ago, to a degree. I'd say the best way to get the sounds right is pretending you are doing ventriloquism, barely moving your lips and keep you mouth as still as possible. Swedish is the other way around, opening your mouth makes it easier to get the right pronounciation.
Tongue twisters är enormt elaka saker, nästan sadistiska! Jag vet att du kan svenska och det gör det ännu intressantare att höra dig prata språket! Ha en fin vecka!
De är inte så lätt i mans modersmål så de är ännu svårare på ett andra språk😆 men tusen tack du är så snäll! och kul att du vill se lite mer innehåll på svenska på min kanal det här året. jag får fundera över vad jag kommer prata om😆hoppas du har en bra vecka med - och en trevlig trettondagarsjul!
Well done! You especially pronounced the word sjuksköterska perfect and managed the tongue twisters! I can hear an English accent but it’s not very strong. You’re intonation is really good. Learning a new language is not easy. 🙂🌸💗
Remember, when you say "Y" like in ynnest och flyg the mouth should be as small, when you say it with a wide mouth it becomes "flig" and "innest". Practice in front of a mirror.
Preskriberat isn't something that's prescribed. It's "barred by the statute of limitation" according to my old dictionary. Had to get that one of the shelf since google translate had it wrong too.
You did really great. From these examples I can only hear a need to improve one Swedish sound which is very different from the English alphabet: Y - you could easily learn the difference by exaggerating the contrast between example-pairs like: tycka - ticka; sy - si; by - bi; ynka - inka; lyfta - lifta - and maybe also give these a contrasting pronunciation: lucka - lycka; unge - yngel; rusa - rysa; bugga - bygga; mus - mys. As these words mean different things you could confuse listeners who first might guess wrong and then have to correct their interpretation. Look very closely at your girl-friends cute mouth when she says these sounds - you will like y much better than i (because to produce y one hast to round the lips) 🙂- but i is nice, too, i resembles a smile in Swedish. I suggest you'll get a kiss for every Swedish Y - ha det så kul!
@@JustaBritAbroad väldigt långsamt. min svenska är hemsk! I hope that this year it will get a lot better! I need to practice more ! It can be difficult when you're not around it every day.
Hej! Jag pratar gärna engelska, men jag hoppas att du tycker att det är en bra utmaning att läsa en kommentar på svenska. Jag är svensk och jag är imponerad! Du har ett väldigt bra uttal! Det är riktigt svårt att säga sj, sk och liknande ljud. Och ditt uttal av ö är så bra! Ofta har personer med engelska som modersmål svårt att lära sig att säga å, ä och ö, men du har lyckats.
tack så jättemycket Ninni! så kul att höra att du tycker att jag gjorde bra! jag tycker inte att min ö är så bra så det var så otroligt skönt att läsa din kommentar! tack för dina snäll ord, mycket uppskattat!
Keep up the good work! try the Swedish word for SLYLY which is SKÄLMSKT. It proves the rule that in Swedish you can have five consonants at the end of a word (the rule for the beginning is three consonants as in STJÄRNA).
@@JustaBritAbroad My dad was a Swedish and English teacher and we talked a lot about langugages..... In terms of "rules" these have evolved over centuries. It is similar to a Finnish person not being able to start a word with ST and thus Stockholm is Tukholma or that a Spannish person cannot hav ST at the begining of the word and pronounces it Estocolmo. Both you and I as English and Swedish speakers can pronounce words beginning with ST but not if you are Finnish or Spannish... It just gets curiouser and curiouser.....
It's so fun to see all this, you say everything that my husband does regarding Sweden and Swedish. We are moving to Sweden in about 2/3 years and we both can't wait!
Swedish genre is not as much "swedishified" as it is inspired by old French pronunciation. So it's one of those (pretty few) french loans that never got transcribed to the swedish system.
@@JustaBritAbroad French and Hawaiian. I’m Hawaiian and Filipino (they’re adding Tagalog this year!). So naturally I’m learning my home language. French… I just love it!
@@ButacuPpucatuB ooh fun! I've been to the Philippines, but I'm yet to experience Hawaii, must be beautiful. Good luck with learning your home language!
A thought! Preskriberat does not equal prescribed anymore, allthough I know google says so - that is not the meaning of it unless you live in the 50's. A prescription or something prescribed to you is called a "recept" or "ordinering" Usually from a doctor to pick up meds or do an activity. Preskriberat is a crime that has gone over the limitation period in 99% of the times someone uses that word. Great video!
Well stockholm mentality is not typical swedish mentality. Just goto Norrtälje in the stockholm region and you will find that is more close to british mentality! Stockholm is the worst example in fact. Swedes are negative, afraid of conflicts and in general has no temper. In Rimbo 56 km you will discover how direct people are compared with stockholm in general. I will dare you to come here and you will see?
Vad säger dina vänner i England om Brexit? Hur påverkas deras vardagsliv av Brexit? Sämre eller bättre! Tack, roligt att se hur en icke svensk upplever/tycker om Sverige.
Interesting with skånska sj-ljud. It's like the inverted* 'sjooo' that people say is a "Norrländsk thing". *With inverted I mean that the skåne-sj is on the way out and sjooo is a sound while you breathe in.
Wow very impressive and I take everyone else’s comments about how good your Swedish is as I have no clue. But am going to crack on with Duolingo Spanish now!
@@lhulugren5309 The Mandarin Chinese sound at the start of 'Shanghai' doesn't really exist in English or Swedish. It is more or less a retroflex sound, the closest in Swedish might be be the final 'rs' sound in 'fors' as said by somebody North of Stockholm, but the tongue is curled back even a little more than that.
Att något är preskriberat är en juridisk term. En preskriptionstid innebär att det finns en viss tid att agera och om tiden har löpt ut så kan man inte vidta rättsliga åtgärder längre.
Grattis Du är duktig , alla kan lära sig nytt språk om man vill. Jag kan rekommendera dig att läsa en saga . Koka soppa på en spik den är på på lätt svenska.
Gosh! Brave! Tbh. I'm not sure I'd do that in English. You've (the English language)got many words that's pretty hard to pronounce. :-) Not to mention spelling... but that's a whole another story. I reckon Swedish is rather tricky too... Far, får får får Nej, får får inte får, får får lamm.
"Preskriberat" in Swedish means "time-barred" in English. It's a legal term which means that you can no longer enforce a claim. Has nothing to do with writers or prescriptions.
You should try to work on the Rolling R: ”Tag en Redig Rasp och Riv dig i Röven, så får du stoRa Röda Ränder” (Take a proper rasp and scratch yourself in the bottom, then you will get big red stripes).
The word "skön" (as in "sjuttiosju sköna sjuksköterskor") is more properly translated as "beautiful" or "fair". It's the word traditionally used in Swedish to describe Helen of Troy. It can also mean "nice" or "comfortable", but generally not when talking about people. Unless you're talking about someone who has a nice vibe, in which case they can be described as "skön" without referring to their physical appearance. Klart som korvspad.
Sje-ljudet. It is very different in different varieties of Swedish. In East Swedish spoken in Finland, it is exactly the same as the English sound normally spelt with 'sh'. There is (or was) also something called "fruntimmers sje". And if you hear one of the news presenters of SVT (Katarina Sandström) speak, you will notice that her "sje" is something quite different from a southern Swedish one. To me, it sounds very elegant, but that's just me.
The swedish reminds me so much of Tony Erving and it’s amazing (altough it makes sense since you’re both from England) But the swedish is so amazing!! Good job👏👏 but the difficult words are difficult for a reason, I was tempted to say the first word in english ”preprescribed” (I think ??😅) but if you roll the r’s it might sound more accurate? Just a tips från mig! Also I just noticed the owl in the background… not scary at all😭✋
"Sju sjösjuka sjömen skötes av sjuttiosju skutskötestor på sjunkande skeppet Shanghai", Seven seasick seamen treated by seventy seven nurces on the sinking ship Shanghai. It is somewhat hard in english as well but not as hard as in Swedish.
Hmmm. _Preskriberat_ isnt that when, if you have committed a crime and havent been caught, the handling / act of your crime will be _preskriberat_ (taken of the record) after a certain time of years (depending on the degree of your crime) Thus you can confess without any _påföljder_ Or is it _Preskription_ *s* - tiden...
Jättebra Gregg! Du är fantastiskt duktig och som vanligt god och glad😀 Be din flickvän säja preskriberat så blir uttalet perfekt på slutet av ordet. T ex verben fotografera och prenumerera har samma böjning och uttal. God fortsättning till er båda!
I am impressed that you got the Swedish 'u' sound correct. Most foreigners pronounce it like a long oo in English. Like Swedish 'sju' (7) will be schoo for so many. :) Also that you have got a hang of the Swedish accents, both grave and acute. So differ between 'anden' (definite form of 'and' = duck) which has acute accent and 'anden' (definite form of 'ande' = spirit) with grave accent. This is almost impossible to learn for many foreigners as their languages are not accent dependent. I live close to Falun, the "capital" in Dalarna. It is 'Faalun, not Fal'un /Faloon/ :)
I would never tell you to pick up the pace, I've been learning Swedish for over a year and I suck. I feel like I should be better by now, but I'm terrible.
Im sure that you’re way better than you think Herk, we’re always harder on ourselves - from my experience at least. Any updates on when you’ll be moving scandi side?
Swedish isn't the easiest language. And as a Swede, I'm bilingual. Technically i do speak four languages, Swedish, English, Norwegian and Danish. I do understand Icelandic too, but i don't really speak it
I feel you. Im currently trying to learn Filippino And at this moment im stuck trying to learn the words . Nga nge ngi ngo and ngu. Looks supereasy. But saying them is so hard :)
Wow I wouldn’t even have any idea where to start with Filipino Håkan, kudos to you! Though I’ve spent some time in the Philippines and I have to say that the language sounds 👌🏻🤩 good luck!!
Do you think Sweden is Swedish ? Well you don't know ... You have no idea how much the country has changed during the last decade.. But your Swedish is good, congratulations
I think you should look up the meaning of words on Wiktionary rather than Google Translate. "Preskriberat" CAN mean "prescribed", but it's essentially never used in that way, I would say a better and more general translation would be "revoked". I also have a tip on how to pronounce the letter Y in Swedish, you pronounce the Ys in a very English way. When you say Y in Swedish you have to pout with your lips, think duckface selfie.
@@JustaBritAbroad Portuguese or Spanish, I have reason to regularly visit both countries but I'm becoming increasingly interested in Portugese histroy.👍
You do great actually! Ant thanks for the tip! I created a Duolingo account right away and ended up spending the better part of three hours wiping of my dusty german. :D
Das ist sehr toll! Ich versuche auch mit Duolingo deutsch zu lernen, aber ich habe es nie früher studiert. (And I probably just made about 9 mistakes just in those two sentences, but hey, no extra charge.)
🇸🇪👨🍳❤❤🎆Hello, Warm wishes on New Year to all of our wonderful and very special family and friend. ❤ ❤🎉May you have a meaningful and successful year 2022 that brings you many joys and great big smiles!😊❤
oh you have? fun!! how's it going!! :D I learned Spanish for a bit too, its a beautiful language. but I have to agree with you, the rhythm of Swedish is fantastic!
The "original", if you can say so, on the seasick sailors goes as follows: "Sju sjösjuka sjömän sköljde sina skitiga skjortor i sjön". Not only a tongue twister, also an introduction to Swedish spelling...
You did well, some of those word-twisters are even hard for sweds. can´t resist to throw in one myself: "Sju djupa sjöar" spoiler below "Seven deep lakes"
