Introduction to the Swedish Language
2014 ж. 29 Қар.
116 203 Рет қаралды
This video presents the Swedish language and its surroundings, where it is spoken, how it is written, what its grammar looks like, what it sounds like, and more!
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One of the few videos about the Swedish language that mentions the Estonian Coastal Swedish minority. Hälsningar från Estland!
Swizz Jag visste inte ens att folk o Estland pratade svenska.
Dankmeme123 Förlåt, min svenska är inte så bra. Estland är historiskt mycket som Finland. Huvudskillnaden är i de 48 år av sovjetisk ockupation.
The areas shown are a bit incorrect though - I don't know of any former Swedish-speaking area on Saaremaa island.
Must be a very tiny minority
@@dankmeme1232 inte jag heller
Spoken Swedish sounds so beautiful, I may be considering to learn it in the future. Greetings from Italy
+Marta Profice Ne estas malbona ideo :)
Det är nog en ganska dum idé när man tänker på att det för det mesta bara pratas i Sverige
It's rather funny to choose Tove Jansson's text as an example. She was a Finnish Swede and the pronunciation is a little bit different in finlandssvenska than in rikssvenska.
I personally like finlandssvenska more than rs.
Marta Profice - Old English is also a really pretty language - but it is so different from modern English that it has to be studied as a foreign language now.
8:21 anyone also noticed "the birches" :D?
This video is 2yrs old. It's very informative, I can't believe I never found this channel before. :D
Well, you've found it now, that's what matters! :)
This comment is over 2yrs old!
6yrs now
"because for some reason the swedish government isn't interested in what language people speak at home" I LAUGHED :D
felt like that's such a swedish thing to say
Very interesting. And yes, I'm German and it's so cool to see so many similarities between German and Swedish. It makes it a lot easier to learn.
Thank you! I agree with you, connecting features of a new language with the ones you know already is incredibly helpful for the learning process :)
Learn Danish tho
As a Swede who studied German in school I can confirm. The difficulty is in learning the specific grammar rather than memorizing the words, which makes it a lot easier to get started.
Tack för att använda Mumin som en exempel till det svenska språket i aktion. Det varmar mitt hjärta varje gång när mitt kärä land blir nämnde av utlänningar :)
Germanic languages are my favourite branch of languages, thanks for making these videos.
Thank you! I'm glad that you enjoyed them!
Same here, with the Romance branch coming in at a close second for me, especially because of the often overlooked Romance languages Romanian and Catalan.
Thank you for reading some passages. There is a town near me in california, where people speak Swedish.
@Carl-Lars The city is called Kingsburg.
I'm living on the coast of the Gulf of Finland in Saint-Petersburg but I'm not yet fluently speak Swedish but I am going to mend this mistake soon!
I study Swedish, because as a Dane I find it really embarrassing that I'm not able to understand much Swedish xD I understand maybe 50% when listening to Swedish and maybe 80% when reading.. I live in the west of Denmark and most people I know over here don't understand Swedish very well, while people living in the Copenhagen area understands Swedish almost perfectly :) Swedish pronunciation is really difficult for me though! xD
Carina Regel Jag är svensk och försöker lära mig att prata danska haha. Jag förstår redan det mesta (när en köpenhamnare pratar iallafall) men era ord är så svåra att uttala
Jag har blivit mycket bättre sedan xD
Kan noen av dere forstå norsk?
+Donald Trump håll käften
va fan pratar du om
Jag tycker om det svenska språket.:-) Hälsningar från Finland! :-)
Eg tykker også om det, det er veldig vakkert.
Thanks! I'm studing Swedish. I know almost nothing because I've just started some days ago xD. For me, it makes sense that å, ä and ö are different letters for Swedish people and not a a and o with accents. Because in Spanish (my native language) ñ is a different letter. And we don't think it's an n with a mark. And swedish verbs are easier. I know spanish verbs are complicated, specially for foreigners. Besides, our verb conjugations are too specific that we usually don't say the personal pronoun. For example. Corro todas las mañanas which means I run every morning. We already know corro is for yo because there isn't another option xD
Yes i am a swede :D Jag är en svensk
soy un sueco que poder hablar un poco español, yo creo que verbos en español es dificil, especialemente en pasado, como "he hecho", "has hablando". pero me gusta la idioma mucho. puedo hablar mas que escribir y puedo tener conversationes
Puerto Rican learning Swedish and this super helpful! Hälsningar från Puerto Rico!!!
Excellent! That’s an amazingly complete introduction to a language, comprising history, phonetics, grammar and listening. Thank you very much!
Excellent introduction!!
Hablas español, inglés y sueco? Whoa, eres mi héroe, ojalá sea tan bueno en idiomas cuando sea adulto, yyyyyy gracias por este y los otros videos enseñando sueco, me ayudan un montón y hacen un gran cambio en mi rutina de aprendizaje. I think its normal to speak english when you learn swedish, even if you aint actually good at grammar or pronunciation. To study swedish at duolingo you need to speak english and there's no swedish teacher I know where I live. Knowing english basics is a handfull tool to learn swedish. Luego de 6 meses de estudio, gracias a videos, libros y duolingo siento que he aprendido bastante, pero se vé como una pizca cuando me doy cuenta de que mi peor enemigo es la "i" sueca.
Thank you! it's very helpful!
well done! that's very helpful thanks.
U R amazing, thank u so much for this series of vids! I've already started learning it. Greetings from China
Thank you for saying so!
I've been binging these videos and I'm a native Swedish speaker. Idk what I'm doing with my life.
I love this program so much
Great intro to languages!
Tack så mycket för den här video!! ♥ (Thank you so much for this video)....
This is good. Tack!
Tack für videon🥰
These videos are really great so thanks! So nice to have the sounds finally broken down, describing the technique in detail! Ive been trying to learn Swedish on and off for a while using different self taught methods and i think I got an OK foundation now. But my speaking and pronunciation needs some work as I haven't had much experience speaking with natives so these videos are excellent! I would love it if you could make a short video that breaks down the Swedish E sound in more detail with technique. This is the one I always heard when visiting and couldn't figure out how to move my mouth to make that sound it has a really strange throaty/nasally sound especially when females use it! Look forward to more videos!!
Your videos are amazing , Thanks man ! , you are doing great job ! Even i am not native english speaker but , thanks man for teaching , great job :) do some more videos :)
Man this is the best I am learning Swedish 2018 and made easy for me tack så mycket
I like that you compared with spanish, as I am an spanish speaker myself so it was easier. Loved your video, very informative, thank you!
Really interesting, thanks!
Very Helpful!
alliso n Thank you!
The Swedish -en Prefix sounds so much like a plural. My native Language is Dutch, and "Dogs" in Dutch is "Honden". "Cats" is "Katten". I'm going to make a ton of mistakes learning Swedish.
Frahamen One in Swedish is en or ett, which is why one dog is "Hund-en"
hello! thank you for these videos, i'm spanish & trying to learn swedish, i love the culture, the culture & the language itself. I really appreciate finding such a good explanation on YT, really, thank you (:
Thank you very much!
to be fair, the swedish language shares a lot of words with the dutch language, for example; all day = hela dagen = hele dagen, landscape = landskap = landschap, knapsack = ryggsäcken = rugzak, happy = lycklig = gelukkig, himself = själv = zelf, tomorrow = morgondagen = morgen
very nice, thank you
if you're a Swede visiting Estonia, then Aibolands museum in Haapsalu should be worth visiting. Also Ormsö is a small ferry ride away from there. I got here from a Danish video so... back to Danish. :I for now.
Thanks for the tip!
yeah i have been trying to learn Swedish and so far i have learned to try to connect things and i can be hard, but so far my best connection is with the swedish word mannen or the man so i think of it as john madden it helps me a ton when trying to translate from swedish to english
I’ve been learning Norwegian for about a year now and so it’s really interesting to see similarities in other languages. Because it occurred to me how little people speak Norwegian and I was wondering if it was even worth learning until now.
I like big playlists about things that I like to learn.
Tack!
Great channel -- very methodical an well paced. Volume is a tad low; not too bad, but cranking it up a bit would be nice.
I love that the passive aggressiveness in the explanation of how the letters å, ä and ö are just not some accented letters.
tack så mycket
I bet he is Swedish. I am norwegian but i understand swedish really well. He sounds like a native speaker. Love from Norway!
Vi snakkar det same språket.
I wish I had known this series existed when I began learning Swedish! I would've gotten it much faster. xD
I study Swedish, so I found this very interesting; one day I hope to visit Sweden.
Jag älskar Svenska. Hälsningar från Indonesien!
*clicks away the "birches"* I'm sorry I couldn't stop laughing
Well, they do say learning is supposed to be fun!
I absolutely lost it at that part! hahaha Nonetheless, this video was excellent. I learned a lot!
I am from Sweden!!!!!!!!!! I love it!!!!!!
This is actually good, anyone wishing to learn a North European langauge, they should totally watch this channel
Thank you for sharing this. A slight correction at around 8:20: "between the birches" instead of "bitches" :)
Woops! That's an unfortunate typo... Thank you for catching it!
There is this sound that you have in words like hej it sounds like how stitch in Lilo and stitch speaks and it's very hard to pronounce. Any tips on how to pronounce it or video recommendations? Thanks for the video btw!
I'm not quite sure what sound you're referring to here, could you be a bit more specific? :)
I am swedish and I can read dutch fairly well, but spoken is impossible except for a few words. German shares many words but accent and spoken is not similar or easy for us.
Jag lära mig Svenska och Nederländska ligger (är?) nästa på listan
I'm danish, so I was like, this should be easy enough to understand, but when you were reading the text aloud, I didn't understand at all, though I could follow along perfectly fine when reading it myself...
Omg the last paragraph saying "between the bitches" instead of "birches" haha, anyway, amazing video, thank you so much,your channel is fantastic!
I’m Swedish and I’m watching this
I am a german who learns swedish,It isn't really hard because the grammar is the same exept with the articel,and some words are so similar,that a german can read them,without any sweish knowledge for examble:In english:I choose. In german:Ich wähle.In swedish:Jag väljer. The letter v is has the same sound in swedish,as in german the letter w. It is really cool.
You didn't mention Faroese as a sister language... It's not big, but it exists.
It certainly does! But as this is supposed to be an introduction giving a brief overview only, I chose to keep to languages that are relatively well-known to a wide audience. A more thorough description of the Scandinavian languages would of course include Faroese, as well as other languages not mentioned here. :)
If all Germanic languages were to be listed, then languages like Frisian, Luxembourgish and Afrikaans should've been included as well but that would result in a very long video and too long to actually get to the main point of the video.
Great videos! How can I get in touch with you? Can't locate your contact info. Tack!
Thank you very much! You can find contact information on the channel's "About" page (click on the channel name "Academia Cervena" and then the "About" tab). :)
When you are a Swedish yourself and still finds this interesting xD gryma videos du har fortsätt med dem. Kan du inte berätta lite om Svenska stormakts tiden?
Tack så mycket! Det här är det närmsta jag har om det i nuläget, ifall det kan va av intresse: kzhead.info/sun/Y9uqqNVoeGWqaps/bejne.html
Grymma*
And you could have added how ett and en efffects the whole sentence and its meaning
I'm starting to learn Swedish 🙈
Как успехи?
omg you did say every word right thats really god. //from a swede
I am going to take a stab and say that he is swedish given that in danish and norwegian he used a recording for the passages, but in this he said it himself. Also, I just looked at the about page on his account and it says 'Details Location: Sweden '
do you provide skpe one on one sessions?
I'm sorry to say that I don't; I simply can't find the time for it! :(
thats really sad, cause your videos and way to you deliver is too good
genders in grammar is very confusing for English speakers, when you learn a new word how do you know if it's common or neuter? (or male/female)
In Swedish, it depends. In many cases you can look at what the word refers to (e.g. people are common gender) or if it ends in something typical for either gender (e.g. -are and -ing are common gender endings). For a lot of words though, you will simply have to learn its gender along with it!
You don't. There is no specific rule. You just have to learn if the word is male or female :) // A Swede
DuckBoy Although in Swedish, there is no grammatical masculine or feminine gender. The distinction is between _common_ _gender_ and _neuter_. And while they in most cases are impossible to predict, there are several rules to help determine them. As I said above, for example, if a word ends in _-ing_ it's always common gender.
There are some general rules regarding gender in swedish, with many exceptions. Overall, n-gender (common) is by far the most common. So if you must guess, guess "en".
6:51 Is there any system to whether a noun is common gender or neuter? In German (my language), whether a noun is masculine, feminine or neuter is completely random (Or rather based on cultural associations, not any grammatical logic).
Every (from my understanding) living thing is common gender, except for children (ett barn). Non living things can be either.
No, I think this is one of those things you just need to memorize, sadly. Perhaps you'll find some sort of "rules" or consistencies, but I am unaware of any such. I'm pretty sure the German system has a few rules, though I'm afraid I forgot what they are. One rule I definitely remember from school though, is that words ending in "chen" are always neuter. Which is why we get the rather awkward situation of the word for boy (Junge) being masculine while the word for girl (Mädchen) is neuter instead of the expected feminine.
Common gender is a merger of the old (and dialectal) masculine and feminine gender. Which means that the Swedish cognates of German masculine or feminine nouns will be common gender. der = -(e)n die = -(e)n das = -(e)t
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is it a european thing to use commas instead of dots to do decimals?
Yes, but also a half-of-the-world thing.
Most of the World use it like we Europeans do it.
It's a school night at 11 pm what am I doing?
Actually Mumintrollet spoke Finland Swedish :)
Åh nej! Momin-books should be read in their original language of moomintrolska (aka finlandssvenska/Finnish-Swedish) !
Bra kanal! Du kanske borde uttala platsnamn på svenska istället för att göra om dem till engelska. Ett exempel är Åland som du uttalade som en amerikan kanske skulle uttalat det.
Tack så mycket! I fallet Åland uttalade jag detta på engelska eftersom det är i en engelskspråkig kontext och dessutom ett såpass väletablerat namn även på engelska. Hade det varit en mindre ort hade jag kanske gjort en annan avvägning! :)
Please can you give me any advice to learn Swedish faster,😑😑 And I subscribed already
Some thoughts off the top of my head: - Listen to (preferably casual) spoken Swedish and imitate what you hear. Say it out loud. - Focus on learning whats essential to communicate. Start by learning the most important and common parts of grammar and vocabulary. Make sure you keep learning new words, and that those words are relevant. - Study and practice often and regularly. Use apps like Anki, Memrise and/or Duolingo. - Try to find a Swedish-speaking pen pal or skype partner to practice with.
Thank you so much and I will Keep up with your videos
Once my German gets better I would like to learn Swedish! I wish I knew a cool dialect to try out alongside standard, I have a feeling the Estonian dialects are very uncommon nowadays seeing as most of them moved back so I bet most speakers are academics :/
Hi thank you I know this sounds crazy but I wanna learn Swedish because pewdipie But I’m so glad I found you
EKRE!
That sample in the end does not sound like muminsvenska to me :D
Swedish has been on the list of my next new language for 45 years. :?(
what??? the verb ? No changes? Hooooooray!!!!
As a German I can understand not that less single words but no full sentences
Could you please explain why you have Estonian flag on all of the thumbnails when Swedish is not spoken in Estonia.
@@timoterava7108 I did and it still doesn't make sense. Never in my life have I met a Swedish speaking Estonian here.
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Hej
Tere
Isländska är dock något mer likt svenska än vad holländska och tyska är, och även färöiska som tyvärr saknades från filmen
Magnus Hans Petersson Det stämmer, och nämns också i filmen. Färöiska är inte med eftersom syftet är att ge en snabb överblick av svenskans förhållande till andra språk. En mer närgången beskrivning av de nordiska språkens släktskap får bli en annan film!
I have a question, why do you not say some of the words in swedish like "är" sometimes you don't say it... I probably didn't make any sense -_-
You always say it. But _är_ is usually pronounced without the final 'r', which means it's sometimes hard to hear, especially when a similar vowel comes before!
hey
du kanske förvirrar dina tittare när du säger bekymra, när det står bekymrade till exempel. tänkte låta dig veta det bara :)
Att uttala verbändelsen '-ade' som '-a' är snarast normaluttalet i Mellansverige, och i längden är det nog mer förvirrande att undvika sådana uttal eftersom det faktiskt är så man oftast pratar :)
aah jo det är ju ioförsig sant :)
Hörde också att du sa "dom" istället för "de", och "dan" istället för "dagen". Tycker att du gjorde rätt!
Is it me or does och sound like just and o? Is it just like how he pronounce and as n?
The k sound in _och_ is usually only ever present when the word is stressed or emphasized :)
The Icelandinc numbers were not that much more different from Norwegian/Danish than Swedish!
Yes yes also fun thing. Dutch people are more able too understand swedish. Then vice versa
Aland? Åland!
I've spoken with a Dane, she said that swedes don't understand Danish and they will often switch to English...
Yes, many swedes (but not all) do struggle with understanding spoken danish. The pronunciation is quite different. But if a swede and a dane spend some time together, it'll get easier and eventually they can communicate without issues :)
När han började prata svenska blev hans röst mindre taggad eller hur man skriver.
what do you mean less tagged?
Are you swedish? Ps jag är det/i am swedish
Ja, det är jag :)
Yes, it says in his about page.
I'm Finnish and I was often called out for pronouncing Tove Jansson's name as 'toove' and not 'tuuve', and then here's a native Swede pronouncing it like toby, wtf
In hindsight it was a poor attempt at pronouncing the name in English. If I made the video today I would say it differently. In Finnish, 'tuuve' is definitely closer to the original than 'toove'.
@@AcademiaCervena Yeah, toove is a very finnish way to pronounce it lol
"Correis" is "We run" in Spanish from Spain, the Vosotros form "Corremos" is "We run" in Spanish not from Spain, the Nosotros form Very nice video though. Very informative and helpful
I'm glad you liked it! As for the Spanish, "we run" is in both European and American Spanish. "You (pl.) run" is in European Spanish, and in American.
"Swedish is not too closely related to German." >Hund >Katt ????????
So yes, the more simple a word is the more likely it is going to be the exact same, not only among germanic languages, but even indo european languages as a whole. I think what he was saying is swedish is related to german but not as much as it is to danish and norwegian
Ruotsi