So quick joke: Went to a customer’s house and he looks at me and says “Are you Finnish?” I said “No, I haven’t even started yet” 😆 He didn’t laugh. He was Finnish.
As a Finn, I LOVE this series! : D It's a great deal of fun to see some quirks of nordic languages in general, but yeah, nothing beats laughing at the jokes made about my wonderful and weird native language.
@@chaosofagoose The word is two part, "korva" (=ear) and "puusti". "Puusti" is an old Finnish word meaning "hit, strike" etc. but it's not really used in that context nowadays. Also a similar word "korvatillikka" is used as a word to describe hitting someone. For an added bonus, there's a phrase in Finnish meaning beating someone up, that literally translates to "pull/hit (someone) across the ears" Why have we named a pastry in a way that loosely means "ear hit", I have no idea. Then again, you know the saying that something "fits like a glove?" Our version of it is "fits like a fist on the eye"😅 Edit: Okay, so apparently, long story short and simplified, "korvapuusti" a translated loan word from Swedish. In "Finnish Swedish" the same word was used for a pastry as well as the more violent meaning, but Sweden's Swedish doesn't use it like that. Again, no idea why the word has this kind of double meaning in any language, but this is more or less what five minute googling offered me^^' If someone knows linquistics better, feel free to correct me.
@@Paperiahma ahh alright, thanks SM :) I have experience with Germanic and romance languages so I can understand those jokes more easily. But I have no experience with the uralic languages 😅
I'm here once again and I've probably commented before but I just have to comment again. As an Icelander, I just can't stop laughing! 😂😂😂 This is so accurate! Denmark, we love you but why are you so weird??? I love this sibling relationship between the Nordic nations!
OMG this was the funniest thing I have watched in a while. You always seem to kill it....Well It looks like I need to catch up with the times and start watching TIK-TOK....
From the U.S. and living in Copenhagen for the past seven years now...Danish is getting better every day...and regularly speaking with people from these other countries, but I can't always understand them in their language. This video literally has me laughing my ass off until I can't breathe. I'm sure my husband...who is trying to sleep...is loving it. lmao Thanks!! (Now I try in Danish lmao) Har boet i København for 7 år siden. Dansk bliver bedre hver dag. Normalt taler jeg med mennesker der kommer fra alle disse lande, men kan ikke altid forstår dem i deres sprog. Videoen...(I can't say the rest of that in danish. lol) Jeg er helt sikkert på, at min mand...som prøver at sove...elsker det! (I try to do my best at Danish. :P Tak for hilarious videoen! lol)
This is so good - when you do more of those, please upload them here as well, loved it. Congratulations on that follower count over on TikTok, though! On two of the Denmark oddities, I have a hunch. Fifty-five, in German, is also said five-fifty (although German doesn't have any weird 2 1/2 times twenty going on - it's fünfundfünfzig, literally fiveandfifty) and the cinnamon roll is called a "cinnamon snail" (Zimtschnecke) in German, too. Denmark does share a border with Germany, so maybe those are some of those influences.
I've been reading a comic called Scandinavia and the World, and it's characters are similar to this (Finland is surly, barely ever talks, and carries a knife.) Though similar, you guys both knock it out of the park.
I absolutely love these videos Louise. I don’t use Tiktok but I follow you here on RU-vid, and Instagram. Sending a big hug from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺. We are in lockdown 🔒😷
Id love if you had Iceland talk more in between words like when Denmark says something weird and the other countries like it and start talking a bit about it.
I`m German and we start our numbers with the last digit (tow-and-twenty), we call a rolled up sweet bun a "snail" and share a lot of other "funny and inexplicable" words with the Danish :D So, we are officially weird, too! But then again...we call a "glove" a hand-shoe (ok, the Danish call them hand-spoons...not much better) and a somersault a tumbling-tree. So, yes. We ARE weird :D
At Summer Solstice, Finns also hang by the water with their alcohol which has resulted in betting games about how many will ...drown.... or die in some other way.... any way you should see the weird shit they use for decoration at Åland xD
Hahaha OMG nothing breaks this corona chaos 'boredom' like you do, I found myself laughing so hard, I think I disturbed my fiancée's Discord conversiation XD That Lollipop bit REALLY got to me. You are a queeen and you are genius
Im a brazilian living in Finland and struggling with finnish language... of course but i have SO MUCH FUN in this series. But the other day i had laughing crise about the video that FINLAND disappeared... Ohh and also with the "Women arent fun... this is not a drill" youre the best!!!!
I'm an American (and English is my 1st language). I decided to try out all the available Nordic languages on Duolingo because my husband's family's heritage is Norwegian (his great grandfather was from Norway), and we thought maybe we'd visit (plus the other various Nordic countries near Norway) one day. I was curious how learning them (I tried Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish) would go. I thought, "I'll see which one I seem best at, and go with it." It was Danish. What does that say about me? 🤣
Det er meget godt My danish ist also better than the rest but that's simply because it's the only one I really learned with Duolingo. Thanks to DK I understand some NO and SE
I’d love the word butterfly.. No idea what other Nordics say but I’ve always found sommerbird funny (Also we can attack English as well since they say smørflue)
Jeg er så glad for, at du laver en opsamling her. Vil du fortsætte med det, af og til? Jeg er for gammel og ikke cool nok for Tik Tok men jeg vil gerne se flere af de her!
I hate tiktok so much because it's cringy people, I won't download Tiktok but, these videos are actually good. Congratulations on getting better there !
Thank you! I will have to say that your view on TikTok is wrong. It has an amazing algorithm which detects what you like to watch very quickly both through likes, comments and which videos you watch until the end - and also through a "not interested" button you can use if you get something you don't like :)
@@KellyLouiseKilljoy Oh well, also in my lovely country, Turkey, Turkish people does extremely and even more cringy videos than most of the Europe and North America. It might show me Turkish/Arabic/Indian videos, so i won't download it.
@@lee.everett I get content from all over the world since that's what I like. I rarely get videos in Danish because I don't watch them. That's what a good algorithm does. Of course, you shouldn't download it if you don't want to - I'm just saying that you view on how the app works is wrong :)
