That's exacly what I say when I switch to danglish

why is it some much funnier when you write it out ahahaha

It's a thing. I asked this Slovak girl I went to school with where she was from. She told me (a Canadian anglophone) in fairly thickly accented English that it's strange that I knew she was from somewhere else because she doesn't have an accent. (I then shared that my dad was Czech and she angrily informed me they are not the same thing, but that's another story...)

Not gonna lie, I laughed for a solid 10 minutes at this comment.

"You þought..." :D

I can agree to that lol It’s so complicated!

Well, I'm a Finn. My mothertong, my native language is Finnish. And I have always been very interested of it. I got Laudatur from the Finnish language in my matriculation examination. I'm 47 years old now, and I feel like I learn more of this beautiful language of mine basically every week or so. I've never stopped learning and hopefully I never will!

@@guruchintanan5686 I'd say the most important thing in learning any language is to be patient and interested in the language. We like to joke about how difficult the finnish language is, but it's not actually harder than any other language, because all languages have their own difficulties. What you might find annoying about finnish is that you'll at first be taught the official, written version of Finnish that almost no Finnish person uses to speak (and there are also many different dialects in Finland so how different people talk can vary drastically). But don't panic, you'll learn with time if you persist.

@@guruchintanan5686 For the swedish part, you don't really have to learn it if you don't live in a swedish speaking area! but in a swedish speaking area it could be helpful

@@tuikkur.5655 mothertongue* (With best regards, a fluent 16 year old Finnish girl.)

well i think thats what everyone thinks when they meet Swiss :D

Or...polish people when they see germans

@Mathias Eggimann Then you're getting ripped off, a decent hot dog costs like 5.50 chf (55 sek)

Mostly they'd be right. I don't know what the definition of rich is but I think compared to most European the Swiss do pretty well for themselves.

@@derkateramabend This is the first time I've seen the words "decent" and "hotdog" in the same sentence. It's just a very linguistic night for me, I guess.

Haha

It's actually that everyone was drunk all the time. Then someone got sober and started messing around with languages, and here we are.

They actually all spoke the same language to begin with, Norse, an old danish “tongue” which came from Northern Germany/South Jutland, and can best be compared to the language of the Faroe Islands, and to some degree Iceland… 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇮🇸🇳🇴🇸🇪

😂😂😂😂

A Dane, a Norwegian, and a Swede walked into a bar?

He is gay*

and vice versa

It is because swedish men speak more like finnish women

Screw you we Finns are drunk.

*Finnish persu guy meeting a swedish guy

Well, he didn't mention sex but he did list a lot of stereotypes, so I don't get your point.

British standup: men in drag

Here come the anti-American comments. You clearly have never watched American standup.

@@juliaj7939 ukposts.info/have/v-deo/jpN1jYulgppoo30.html

icelandic comedy......no people of color allowed it seems

It reminds of the time I had a danish customer come in. I work in Malmö and this dude was talking to me. I responed, "sorry my danish is really bad, could we speak in english instead?". He got mad saying he was already speaking in english. bruh

@@Crimp476 I can easily imagine that lol

@@Crimp476 Hilarious. And I love your profile picture.

I haven't met anyone yet, who wasn't accutely aware of their Danish accent xP. Maybe it's a generational thing (I'm 32). Whenever an English-speaker has wanted to speak to me on mic, I've always warned them, that while my written English is fluent, my spoken English sounds like a German who just had a cavity filled and the anesthetic hasn't quite worn off yet.

I'm a finn living in Denmark and I actually thought that was the funniest part of the whole video xD The impression was spot on

because Japanese do not recognize swedish speaking Finns or Sami and karelians officially in Sendai there is well being Finland center and teach Finnish and a Finnish scret church group and Finnish xmas ironic he promotes Nordic using English but never mentions norn that is still spoken in North England Scotland

to japanese every european is the same or look the same like how europeans think of east asia

Fact.

I would say mine its slightly better - living in Great Britain for 2 years MUST have paid off in some way! :) :P

vanefreja86 believe me, it really doesn't

@@hugokarlen3510 well, my friends in England and Wales have applauded my english. But of course there will be a little accent left.

@@vanefreja86 Yeah, my canadian friends tell me that my english sounds like it's spoken from a native, but everytime I speak to a stranger they ask me where I'm from haha. I'm sami-swedish fyi.

no americans are 0,5 languages

Magellanic It’s .5 in America Not ,5 If you’re going to insult an entire culture at least say it in American

Or Australian...

That's why they ruled the world

@ibesweetp2 Mate, English isn't from the U.S.A. English is English

Is this some commentary about the Finnish love life perhaps?

Its Minä tapan sinut, but it depends on which kind of tone you say it in how scary it sounds.

On the other hand Minä tapaan sinut means I meet you, like your meeting guests, so anybody who cant speak finnish should be careful in how you say this to finnish person, that you meet in bar.

Not sure about that. Minä MURHAAN sinut or Minä rakastan sinua. I think Murhaan is much more brutal than rakastan. Maybe it's more that you say murhaan stronger than lightly saying rakastan

How often are you meeting someone and say "minä tapaan sinut" like yeah obviously I already realised@@jout738

Because all of them are drunkers hhhhhh

No u

as a finn who doesn't, can't and does not want to drink.. It's us

as another Finn who doesn't drink, it's us

All pretty drunk tbh

I met a health coach and teacher a week ago, and he told me that the chances of accidental inbreeding is so high there, that a specific mutation occurs more often on those islands than on the mainland: A couple of extra ribs.

Didn't Iceland itself have an anti-inbred app, where you can check if the person you're dating is related to you? I've read about that.

Sweeeeeet home Faroe Islands! Sorry, I'm not even Scandinavian, just a Russian on a lockdown.

@@Roozyj Yeah i'm from Iceland and i was pretty stressed when i checked if my date now my girlfriend was related to me, thankfully not.

@@nonburger1778 Honestly though, there's a few towns in the Netherlands that could use an app like that too xD

@@bjr8509 Yup both Uralic

I'm italian, my family is in the pizza truck outside lol

Please have a big plate of surströmming

Ikr? Vikings 😂🤣

I've actually been to family dinners in Denmark and Finland and the food was delicious. But living abroad has made me miss Russian food much more :(

Do you mean "Kööpenhamina"

Kimi Raikonnen is a big role model of mine :D ! Guy crashes in the monaco gp, instead of going back to the garage/team, 10 minutes later he is topless on his boat, with his friends, seemingly getting drunk.

True, there were probably no alcohol available at this event..

Yeah they only laugh at Finland xD

Polite golf claps

I thought it was appropriate. When you hear something funny, you don't normally scream like the Americans do.

So true, I went to a comedy show in Sweden and everyone was really quiet. It may have been in part due to the comedian constantly telling the audience that they were a bad audience....

I'm a finn aswell. Only thing i know in danish is "god røv" and i might use it when i'm drunk but don't know appropriate situation to use it..

Kaikki suomalaiset pähkinänkuoressa

+peltsi40 Being drunk *is* the appropriate situation to use it.

so you only speak danish

I actually think it's a good drinking-language, since the words are very long and slowly spoken. It fits the drunkenness 😅

Icelandic - Normal mode Danish - Hard mode Finnish - *Nightmare mode*

hahahahaha

Danish starts strong and just ends in a mumble. Like a spoken doctor’s signature.

good to know there are other non-native icelandic speakers out there :)

what i find funny is as an icelander speaking english he sounds irish! lmao (by the way i am irish)

Swedish, Norweigan, Danish and even Icelandic is about the same hardness. The languages are so similar. Finnish is another story tho

😂😂😂😂

interesting so i have to learn Swedish and Finnish

Spot on

@Blue Steel No most of us doesnt give a shit to learn Swedish.

"We don't speak indo-european here"

@Blue Steel do not slander moominsvenska like that in my presence

@Blue Steel ye the "finlandswedish" is called "Meänkieli" Basically an easier version of Swedish for Finnish people to understand

@@vilisalmi8359 No siis tää perkele

Enig

Enig. I agree.

Faroese people actually also have a weird Danish accent very similar to the Icelandic one, and it's the best way for communicating with norwegians and swedes

sant

The Icelandic pronunciation sounds a lot like the Finnish one, when speaking English or skandinavisk in general. A bit rough and very, very familiar. Intonation is different, though.

High five from a fellow Nordic mash up. 🖐️ I'm half Finnish and half Danish 😊

I'm fully Finnish but also speak fluent swedish (I went to a swedish speaking school)

Nu får vi se om du mestrer fars kødpølse

Man has all the infinity languages of the north

then you can't really have listened to a longe stretch of it an addition to 'rakastan'. It is possible to say it quite softly, not like he does at all. It is a bit like Italian, suitable for singing.

Klingon is not a national language.

Russian language looks Klingon 😂😂😂

Interesting that you would say so. If I am not mistaken, the pitch accent is used in neither Danish nor the dialect of Swedish spoken in Finland.

What makes the resemblance for me, is the subtle "harshness" and sharp consonants. Also the tone was quite monotonic, although the weigh was on different parts of the words.

+Chris The Swedish spoken in southern Finland is rather high pitched. The western dialects are based on older Swedish and sound more like standard Swedish.

Matias Kautto jeg kender mange der lyder præcist sådan når de snakker engelsk xD jeg gør også selv hvis jeg ikke koncentrerer mig ^^

My friend who lives in Norrland says I speak swedish like someone from Uppsala, I am from southern Finland but finnish is my first language.

I died

...and then polish guy came in.

@@natanlis8240 Lithuanian: can I join?

Czech: I got beer, want some?

New Orleanians: I got bourbon, a Sazerac, grenade, and Hurricane if anybody’s willing

The other one replied ''yeah can you pull it out of my bumhole now''

Hahahhahahahaha!!!

😂😂😂😂😂

Here's the original text: To svenskere sidder i en hytte og drikker, på et tidspunkt siger den ene: 'skål', hvortil den anden svarer: 'Fan, skal vi drycka eller prata skit'?

@@hassegreiner9675Inte Finska?

Go away Yank, this is the European side of UKposts. You're in the wrong hood.

@@Sirius1914 Ok. Just don't mention to Putin, that we are leaving.

Don't worry about it, we let anyone in, including ex-ISIL warriors.

Yeah but that has never stopped America has it.

@@smalltimer666 millions of Americans are from countries that either Europe or the U.S. itself have invaded babes 😩

😂😂😂😂 ei saatana

Oh my god 😄😄 That's just great

Hahhhaaaa 😂😂😂

Kansantauti!

Hahaha.

German isn't even that scary sounding 😂 Except for when you simply shout words, but that's equally true for Russian & Finnish.

It's funny how perception of language changes due to cultural and historical stuff. When Mark Twain wrote about German he found it too soft compared to English ))

@@JessicaMiller-pc4dj mmm... I can try to recall my impression of English from my past ) First, it's a bit high-pitched (typical for languages with rich vowels articulation). Also, it's kinda staccato... I mean, it's kinda more rhythmically prominent, like TA-ta-ta-TA-ta-ta-ta-TA-ta-TA, while my native language is more legato (some even call it monotonous). I guess, that's why rock and rap work well in English. Though American language sounds more relaxed for me.

Does this sound familiar. VOI JUMALAUTA, MITÄ VITTUA MENIT TEKEMÄÄN? Eikö järki yhtään päätäpakota vaiko ootko noin SAATANAN tyhmä? ai PErkele.......

@@JessicaMiller-pc4dj do you mean standard American English? Quite common, coz almost the entire world is constantly exposed to it. More or less the same with the British RP. But things change dramatically with regional accents. For me, cockney hardly can be considered as an accent of English language. Sometimes sounds like Chinese or javanese or else. Northern English accents seem as someone is just gibberishing all the time. Same for Scottish (with the addiction of lots of strongs "Rs".) Sometimes, I'm afraid if brits (non RPs) are really speaking a very different kind of English or if they are conjuring some terrible spelling in a certain demonic language. I feel much more comfortable with American regional accents, in general (with the exception of the Boston area). Canadians sound like typical Americans, but with some exotic pronunciation (house, mouse, about, etc). It's not usual to be in a hard time with English spoke by aussies, Jamaicans, kiwis and Indians, but, in general, you just identify that they simply are people who come from these countries, speaking with their strong but recognisable accent. No problems, because it's different, but still English. My issue, and the problem with lots of non-born English speaking people is really about the UK regional accents. Most part of the time, those accents and dialects sound like a mixture of several languages, with one or another English word. It seems a pidgin or something like that. Very strange.

That’s such a nice thing to say! Cheers dear Italian friend, from Sweden 🇸🇪

Kreikkalainen has to be the most badass way of saying a nationality I've ever seen. That just does something to make my brain happy

Release the kreikkalainen!

As a Finn I can't really say the same

We Finns love you too, but don't tell anyone, or we'll lose our reputation.

@@juhomantynen4638 If you would someone would try to invade Finland

Dont worry finns we still love you

No matter how much we tease you, we love you too. Nordic countries are these 5 siblings who keep teasing each other and I like it

Makkarainen

@@rykehuss3435 macarena

i made it, hope you like: finnish macarena song. it is on my channel now!

Those are all the Finnish words you will need to know ;)

*Mäkärainen

Finland isn't a part of Scandinavia, nor is Iceland ;) And the Finns speak Swedish as well...

@@MrPicky - They're considered part of Scandinavia culturally either way. The "cross flag countries". I'm Danish and whenever anyone I've known have talked about Scandinavia, that has included Iceland and Finland.

@@VelkanAngels well you must then be a part of the younger generation that is more influenced by English culture. I see this in the younger generation in Iceland as well. Many of them think we are a part of Scandinavia. Even though that we share similar culture, lifestyle and flags (the cross) that still does not make all of us Scandinavian. And technically then Denmark isn't even a part of Scandinavia but is included "for old times sake" 😉

There’s no good way to get kicked in the nuts

As a Dane, that's the best description of how I felt watching the video I've seen so far, despite the fact that I'm not even a man, lol.

​@@Smoove_Jthere are loads of great ways

Four times.

20 times

Lmaoooo

So this vidoe no longer requires a dating app that keeps track of who is related to who? (Like iceland does.)

😊

Stimmt.

Finish is badass

@@pirolocito Lopettaminen on pahaperse

@@user-pv7vc9kp9k 🤷🏻‍♂️

Now that is something I would love to hear XD

Fucking sausagelings >:(

Herkko Koskinen Kuolin XD

Ville san you write sausegeling... does that have anything to do with soup? either way I am hungry now xD

No, it has to do with those irritating flying sausage insects we have here in Finland that sting you full of itchy spots.

Ville san I'm still hungry though xD

PommdönerTV i guess we Are, but we keep it low when the swedes come

@@nuddeb.9185 thanks

SamuelSomFan youre welcome

That comment made me laugh out loud 😂

Finnish people are a mixture of DDR national sport team in 80s, raggare klub från Jämtland in 90s och Lordi in 00s.

Hah! We hungarians just hate each other. Like everyone on the train looks at each other angry/distant, but as soon as you ask if you could sit beside someone, they become very kind.

except the scandinavians are actually related to each other genetically. While "arabs" aren't. Arab speakers from the levant are completely different. Lebanese people are white. So you're not the same people by far.

The best part.

A swede here, thats true 💙

Can’t have a relationship without taking the piss every day ❤️

This! It's like some sibling rivalery going on

In Finland we have this phrase : "Vittuilu on välittämistä", roughly meaning "roasting is caring".

@@Analyytikko got a similar thing in Danish, "den man elsker, tugter man." It means, if you're being a little mean to somebody, it's because you love them.

I thought you learn spanish in school...

@@silviu7568 Spanish is an elective class here, not required to take.

And I would like to suggest that the second language you should be thaught should be ASL (American Sign Language)! (I think that should be done here in Sweden [but with Swedish Sign Language, of course] as well.) - Sign languages are cool!

Though, on second thoughts, I'm not sure this is such a good idea - just look at the tensions between the Finnish and Finnish-Swedish speaking populations, and how they are intensified because schools are required to teach "the other's" language. It's not super pretty. :/ And requirement like this would have to come from a deep desire within the community itself, and then - why make it a requirement?

@@silviu7568 In the US, at least where I live, if you want to go to college you need at least 3 (Recommended 4) years of math in High School, 2 years of foreign language or 1 year of an art, 4 years of English/Language Arts, 2 years (recommended 3) of science, 2 years (recommended 3) of history, 2 years of PE, and there are multiple available electives. There are also options for Advanced placement, AVID, and Honors. AP is the only one to give college credit before college the others just look good on a resumé.

Can finish people understand estonians and hungarians? I’m just a curious french guy…

@@maxrolland3148 Estonian a little, hungarian no chance. I've heard that estonians can understand finnish better than vice versa since to them finnish sounds like a weird ancient version of their own language.

@@ikkimi7745 Thanks

@@ikkimi7745 Interesting, that's a similar situation to Icelandic and Norwegian then, as I've heard Norwegians sometimes can struggle with the "Old Norse" vibe of Icelandic, but the Icelanders don't struggle so much in the opposite direction.

@@maxrolland3148 more estonian and less hungarian but there are suprisingly many words that sound the same. J’ai oublié quand je regardais cet video, Je parles français aussi.

American learning Finnish, seems like I'll fit right in.

@@me_irlg2413 You sure will

That explains Kimmi Raikkonen's "bwoah"

@@CrippleX89 and the fact you cant even spell his name properly

@@greatkali5866 Now now give the guy a break. There are no grammar nazis here among friends!

And when they speak English they sound like robots

There was a linguistic study that found that native Finns who don't speak Swedish as their first language speak Swedish in a higher register of voice.

I can and like to report, all the finnish guys and girls i met in Germany and Switzerland (just 4 persons) are speaking German like Germans. Fluently without accent. Very impressive!

It is Moomin swedish.

@@olivial5142 ayo dont give all our secrets away 😳😳

dane here. My absolute favorite place to visit is italy. Such rich culture and foods, and im not even a food guy - this changes when im in italy. People drive like crazy though :D

@@jonaswox happy to hear that you like my country. And yes, you are right, we drive like crazy.... especially in the South 😱

I'm a Finn and my favourite language is Italian and I speak some of it, it sounds so melodic. Our languages actually have some similarities like in the way words are pronunced. Saluti dalla Finlandia ❤

@@sonjass8657 saluti a te! I'd love to visit Finland!

​@@jonaswoxItaly has Art and beauty, more than food:). But unfortunately it's overcrowded

More practice?

clearly you've never heard native english speakers attempt finnish, this guy was perfectly understandable even at the start to me as a person who's heard australians give it a go lol

I think it was not about being understandable, ofcourse it was. But the swearing macarena was fluent :D

So your last name is Mosquito?

@@borderlinebae4010 "Black Fly" if we're specific.

Sukunimi Mäkäräinen? Sissos..

@@sami-9233 Etunimi Sami? Sissos..

Are you guys mocking each others names?

It’s because at 6, the sun goes down.

umm... no. We (Australians) don't feel a sense of "brotherhood" with the UK. with NZ (+Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, etc) and Americans maybe, that's it.

@@SocialDemocrat1789 you guys are literally brits tho (historically) how can you guys not be allied to us? why do you hate us? you have our system of government, our language, our scientific discoveries (well the whole world does but i digress), places and buildings over there are named after us, your comedy is like ours, you basically stole the london rap scene recently (as new age australian rap wouldn't exist without us, don't think we didn't notice) etc. we have so much in common why the hell would we not be brothers?

@@ugh4387 lmao it's funny to watch this all as an Indian

Johnathan Cauldwell, Leave us American's out of any squabblings. ...

@@ugh4387 look at a map

But they say the word Rakas meaning as "beloved" one more right?

😂

@@sami-9233 dude, the joke are the finns are so badass they dont say they love someone, but just show it like a badass warrior of old does

@@nfspbarrister5681 To us it carries so much weight that it is not a word you easily say.

The first thing I learned in Finnish was "Minä rakastan sinua." So I went around saying it to everyone.

Learning finnish is self-harm! Get help as quickly as possible!

I'm free as of yesterday. Congratulate me

pretty sure korean is still harder

@@Finlandpro1 I learned basic Korean and it wasn't so tough, although you have to learn their writing system (which is actually quite logical.) I have Finnish friends but learning the language seemed pointless because their English is so good

why are you so masochistic?

Miguel Sandels Eres español??? When finns happen to say "mina rakastan sinua" it does sound like they're gonna murder you while you sleep!!! Luckily, they say it like once every 3 years 😅 phew!

You know what it means in finnish right? xD It sounds like that to other people??? XD

pilorin ooommmgggg xdddd but true tho

So true. I was watching while in bed, with my headphones, but I started to laugh and I woke my wife ... and I’m Brazilian 🤣🤣🤣

🤣🤣🤣

Röd gröd med flöde

Kamelåså

EA Sport se on pelissä

@@Kornchipzzz YES

@@adryxele9080 KAMELÅÅÅÅÅSÅ

Well that’s because greek is not a romance language, unlike french, italian, spanish or portuguese. And I wouldn’t classify the french as southern europeans, they’re western european…

@@maxrolland3148 everyone (or mostly everyone anyway) knows Greek isn't Romance. Just like Hungarian, Romanian, Albanian or Lithuanian are not Slavic, to some people's surprise. Or when people realise Chinese, Japanese and Korean are actually rather different, or Arabic, Turkish and Persian. And yes, France is Western European, but it's also Southern European. Those two classifications aren't mutually exclusive, besides France is big enough, so depending on which region we talk about it can be more Western Europe or more Southern Europe. The same applies Italy (Northern Italy can very well be included in both Southern and Central Europe) as well as Spain and Portugal (again, Northern Spain and Northern Portugal is more Western than Southern, besides the Iberian peninsula is the Westernmost bit of mainland Europe). Even Greece can be classified as both Southern and Eastern, which is basically what the Balkan region is like.

The geography is somewhat irrelevant though. The point is that the first 4 languages you listed are all in the same language branch (derived from Latin), whereas the 5th is a language branch of its own with no connection to Latin, so obviously the language would be completely different. While the same holds true for the Scandinavian languages vs. Finnish, the joke still works, because Finland is a Scandinavian country like the others and is considered one of our "neighbours" same as the others. Finland is the one that stands out from its pack. That doesn't even remotely hold true for Greece in relation to Spanish, Portugue, Italian and French-speaking countries, cause Greece has nothing to do with any of those countries :l

Helgi and Erlend are pretty funny, although it's not stand up but still 😆

I'm from India lol and I still found it funny.

When Chinese people from elsewhere hear Taiwanese Hokkien they wonder if they've gone insane

Eestimaa!

yeah, sounds good, but listen to hungarian cursing, it is good too.

Meanwhile west slavic cursing be like: When in doubt, kurva it out

*laughs in slavic*

@@nomad963 I can curse in Russian, doesn't have the same umph.

Pronounciation is not that good

In Finland we don't use such expressions, except perhaps while being drunk. Minä rakastan sinua.

I mean he'll tell you he loves you all right. In English. :P

Haven't you heard? He will tell you that on the day he marries you. If that changes he will let you know.

@@JR-mr9td in Finland we don't really express any emotions, without being a few drinks in.

@@takoen_taotaan Just like Germans (That's why we really like beer)

Because it had consonants in it xD

So true!

Cause he pronounced all but 1 of the D's as hard D's like Norweigans, Swedes and... well, everyone else except Danes do (apparently), lol. He said "undskyld, hvor er Rådhuspladsen?". Both of the D's in "undskyld" are silent, so is the 2nd D in "Rådhuspladsen" (he got that one right), while the first is pronounced softly, kinda like the "th" in the English word "the", only a bit softer. Basically to get a soft Danish D, you say the English "th" without letting the tip of your tongue touch the upper part of your mouth at all xP. Fortunately that sound is only used in the middle of a word or at the end, or it'd sound even dumber. The first D in a Danish word will always be pronounced hard (words beginning with D, I mean), while D's preceded by a vocal will be soft and D's preceded by a consonant will be silent. That's not a grammatical fact I know about or anything, but I can't come up with a single Danish word involving a D, in which those rules don't hold true. If another Dane sees this and they can come up with one or more, please let me know! Only thing I can think of is maybe a few town names like "Hundige", but town names - same as people names - tend to not follow "rules" of pronunciation very strictly, so I don't count that. :l Also, I just realised "Hundige" might originally have been a compound word, combining "Hun" (she) and "dige" (dam), in which case such pronunciation rules wouldn't have applied anyway, as compound words are two seperate words, only with the space removed. I'm only still writing cause I'm bored at this point.

It's weird that nobody has politized this comment, but of course I've now jinxed it. There goes the comment section. Well done, me!

@@NuorvaJ Five months on and you're stil good!

@@NuorvaJ I'm really holding back here......

I hope you know that America is a continent

@@Eyepice Nope. North America and South America are continents, and Central America is a region of North America. There is no continent called America.

I know! Haha all my Danish friends sound exactly like that xD

It is absolutely spot on for - if they suck. Mostly my parents generation and the less educated.

The funny thing is, I have a Danish friend who once, many years ago, tried to convince me that when he went to England everyone thought he was a local. And he demonstrated his shitty English accent. I had no idea how to tackle that situation... so I just nodded.

Try having english classes with 30 other danes... Some people are so convinced they are rocking amazing british accents when they all in fact sound like in this video

Indeed, it's the Copenhagen accent though which is also the one Swedes always joke about when they mock our language. It's clear that most of them have only ever been to Copenhagen, which is understandable I suppose. I guess most people visiting France also just visit Paris etc. You can immediately identify the Copenhagen accent if you're from another part of Denmark as well. The Swedes always use the excessive use of 'soft D' from Copenhagen a lot when they make fun of the Danish language for example. It's true enough but it just doesn't go for other parts of the country. The word "meget" (a lot/very) is basically pronounced like "Maard" (soft D) in Copenhagen which it isn't elsewhere for example. You don't get people in Southern Jutland, the west coast etc. saying "maard" so the stereotype doesn't really go for them. They still have both an accent and a dialect of course but it's not at all like the Copenhagen one, not even close. :) There's something about his Danglish accent that screams Copenhagen to me but I'm not really sure what it is. Maybe it's the "rhythm" or something, but you wouldn't get that kind of sound in Aalborg, Aarhus, Esbjerg, Odense or whatever. It's very clearly Copenhagen-English.

Knott?

Joo on mäkäräinen, hyttynen ja kärpänen

Sääski.

@@suviniemisalo itikka

I live in Northern Ontario where we have loads of mäkäräinen and hyttynen. The local population is mostly French speaking (Franco-Ontarien, NOT to be confused with Quebecers. I will save those two Finnish pearls till the right moment.

Yeah they didn't handle the pandemic that well.. True that. I just watched an Danish/Swedish news about Sweden and Finland, they speaked about how/why Finland handled the pandemic so well compared to Sweden.

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That one is luckily gone sometime next year when the pandemic is dead, even in the US.

Dave Cullins We don’t know the time that this pandemic is gone

It sounds very similar to Swedish English imo

@@NotASummoner It does not.

Then you would not like my accent i go down an octave when I speak English and I don’t sound Icelandic anymore

We did have Icelandic Magnus Magnusson as the quizmaster on UK TV's Mastermind. Agree his accent in English was very clear and elegant. His catchphrase when the time was up was, "I've started, so I'll finish". We all wondered if that was what he said in the marital bed!

I'm from Mecklenburg and worked 10 Month in Netherland at the German border - learned the regional dialekt in 3 month - through my own low german dialect. Tried this in Sweden afterwards, by working there for 4 month. Could understand nearly 80% - Speak maybe 10%, by the end. Now I live in Switzerland for 5 Years, after 3 weeks I could understand nearly everything - can just speak 5 sentences today in this dialects... Can't really figure out, how this "learning germanic languages /dialects" really works... By the way: I still love The Netherlands, I have a lot of good memories of the time there!

That's rich coming from someone who's language sounds like having a constant seizure

@@elbruhmomentonumerodos9227 You mean Dutch? Id have to agree. I'm Dutch myself but when I switch back from English to Dutch it takes me a while to gather myself 😂

@@elbruhmomentonumerodos9227 Don't you dare insult the precious Dutch language. It's the sweetest thing to listen to ever! -- Sincerely, a German

as a danish person, the feeling is perfectly mutual

And for insider

Icelandic is relatively monotonic and tends to emphasize the first syllable of a word just like the not related at all finnish. Icelanders in the other nordic countries have a tendency to be mistaken for finns by non-speakers of either language. and this works the other way. once I had a finnish girl read me a passage from an Icelandic book. It was creepily accurate.

He may be a closet-Fingol

Icelandic and Finnish have a very similar phonology, we pronounce letter mostly the same way, and Icelandic also often has the stress on the first syllable, similar to Finnish.

Until he attempted to pronounce mäkäräinen.

Це і Макарена - топ)

Самое интерестное, что темпераменты наших и северных народов очень схожие, и много вещей , теже языки (Украина, Россия, Беларусь) тоже возникают смешные конфузы)

Lol.

hmm i dint even smirk

Estonians: 🤷🏻‍♂️

@@ariccua6101 Estonia isn't a nordic country tho

@@dasdasdaxzvea Yeah cause Estonia is Baltic.

@@dasdasdaxzvea It is in my heart 😌

@@dasdasdaxzvea Yeah but it embraces some Nordic heritage and takes part in Nordic events.

He sure did.

Judging from your comment Sweden is your little unmanly brother you are embarrassed to mention.

@Patridge Denmark is older.

Finland would actually be an adopted sister

Finland is like the adopted sibling who is supposed to shovel the shit.

Who is the weirder sibling, is it Iceland or Finland?

Actually there are lots of metal bands in Finland (like Nordic countries in general) though many of them sing in English. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/gnydint6bIx012w.html But they do metal versions of Christmas songs: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/sXuqm2qkaKd6sIU.html ukposts.info/have/v-deo/kYilhW1pkJiXpXU.html

Metal is huge in Finland, There's even a heavy metal band for children called hevisaurus which is pretty hilarious there are also a lot of popular internationally known Metal bands from Finland, like Nightwish and Stratovarius for example, but they do sing in english

Sleepy boi I heard a Bulgarian and a Serb do it.

Thats the power of roots

I love that. I'm an American who was studying Icelandic for a while and was able to understand my cousin when he texted me in Norwegian. It's so amazing how connected all the Nordic languages are.

I thought Icelandic and Faroese aren't quite as mutually intelligible with the other Nordic languages, but I guess they are after all.

@@diorossorozco9558 You mean that's the power of Amogus.

...wrong turn at the atlantic? :D

Migrationsverket

Globalists let you in

Probably through Sweden.

@@-RXB- aldrig har jag sett en sån bra kommentar som din

bjoern007 actually school children in Denmark have a pretty good accent. For the most...

Since I've lived in Britian for almost two years, I would hope the worst of my danglish have vanished ;) :)

If you are from Denmark then you would know plenty of Danes have lost a lot of their accent. Especially younger generations. I mean I haven't but I have a lot of friends with almost no accent what so ever. It is not like I can't hear Danish accent either, my parents sound really weird in English.

dÄnglish*

They are

I have no idea what that means but your comment still made me chuckle.

@@Lugmillord Saatana = Satan Perkele = Goddamnit Vittu = Literally translates to cunt, but in this context it means something more like fuck Mäkäräinen = Blackfly

@@lifeofabronovich7792 haha, Finnish swearing sounds badass

@@Lugmillord Haha, I don't even speak Finnish (I'm American), I just happen to know those few words

It’s because our languages are related :D

@@paju4140 ye, true, the Sámi language(s) and Finnish are both in the Finno-Ugric family after all

Yes, I speak Finnish and when I hear people speaking the Sami language it feels kinda weird in the sense that I feel that it sounds very familiar, my brain pick up the structure of the language, like it should make sense, but it doesn't!

You should check Finnish comedian Ismo, or swedish comedian Fredrik Andersson. The latter only have a few videos in english but really good, and Ismo have alot

@@andersmalmgren6528 What's the name of this comedian?

@@KatalinaKristina the islandic one in the video? Ari Eldjárn

Ari Eldjárn is on Netflix, too, I keep going back to his show there because he's so funny in it. He has worked on these jokes here since and the show is sooo good :)

Nasztrovjé!!!!!