Can Nordic Countries Understand Each Other? (Finnish, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian)
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Published 2023-04-04
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All Comments (21)
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Hello! It’s Sofia 🌼 thank you for watching~ it was so lovely filing with my lovely Nordic sisters ♡ please be kind in the comments ❤️
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Finnish is a completely different language from the other three. Might as well ask a Canadian, a Belgian, and a French person if they understand Hungarian.
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Guys, no one said that Finnish would be similar to Scandinavian languages....I think the point of the video was just to compare the languages of the Nordic countries because despite the language differences Finland is also a Nordic country! And I think it was actually pretty cool because Finland is often excluded and many people probably didn't know what Finnish sounds like or how different it is from these other languages. Next time we need Icelandic and Faeroese included as well :)
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Interesting how all these Nordic people are so mellow / chill / relaxed 😄 Demonstrates the character of the region :)
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This was such a cool video! As a Finn, I was surprised I could understand 80% of what our Nordic friends said. It helped to have learned Swedish and Norwegian a long time ago so that may explain it. More of these, please!
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Hi this is Lotta! Thank you everyone for watching and commenting ❤ This video was so much fun to film, realized I should have studied Swedish more when I had the chance 😅
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If you want to do something similar in the future, I'd suggest you choose a person from the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland. They speak Swedish (finlandssvenska), but they have their own dialect with some differences in vocabulary and grammar. I think that would make more sense in this context.
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That was the softest and easiest Danish dialect to understand i've ever heard, and i'm Norwegian. understood everything perfectly. Norwegian is Danish words pronounced as if spoken by swedish people, so generally we understand the other two easiest and they each understand us better than each other
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Swedish, Norwegian, Danish are Germanic languages from Indo-European language family. Finnish is from Uralic language family. They are completely different. I do love finnish pronunciation. It's so beautiful.
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I was born (and raised) on the west coast of Finland, so my native languages are both Finnish and Swedish. Now, living in Germany for multiple years, I had no troubles understanding each one of the nordic people speaking. I enjoyed this episode a lot. Thanks, tack, tak & kiitos!
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I learned Swedish in university and have a pretty good grasp of it. I’m heading to Denmark in a couple weeks so started looking at Danish…reading common phrases I was like “oh looks familiar, I have a chance!” Then I heard those phrases pronounced and I said “I’m sorry…what!?” It’s crazy how they can look similar (to no native speakers at least) and sound so wildly different!
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i relate to the Danish girl lmao "I think so, I just have a problem memorizing everything."
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It's so embarrassing for me as a German not being able to understand more than just a few words. Just a tiny little bit of Swedish but that's it. Finnish sounds absolutely stunning by the way, really enjoyed hearing it. 😊
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I am a native Finnish speaker. I understood almost everything in Swedish, and this time I was surprised that I understood almost everything in Norwegian too. But Danish... no way.
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I really like this group of people! Quite amazing how intelligent they're when it comes to analysis languages and accents ❤
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Nordic people, you’re all incredible I love you ! ❤ I’m learning Finnish and it is still hard for me to understand the language perfectly… In that video it was the first time that I understood everything from a Finnish native speaker I’m so happy ! Kiitos paljon Lottalle ❤🇫🇮
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It was nice to see a Finn in here :D At some point there were so many people around here interested in Korean culture that I wondered why I hadn't seen this country represented on this show before :D
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My two favorite parts in the video were the facial expressions of the lovely Danish lady trying to understand what the lovely Finnish lady was saying, and comparing side-by-side the phrases of each language. They are all similar except when it gets to Finnish, it's something completely different which made me chuckle. I understand Finnish comes from a different family of languages so that makes sense that it is so different.
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As someone who is learning Norwegian because i'm moving to Norway, i am impressed with how i understood some Swedish and a little Danish! Learning one language really does open up doors for other languages!
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I liked that they also included finnish - and altough the language is of course super different from other languages included, finnish does also have lots of words that were originally loan words from swedish, so with some luck it is actually kinda possible to figure out SOME of what is said, though very little, if one knows swedish, danish or norwegian.
