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Just wanted to answer your question about why the south of Sweden (as well as Denmark and southern Norway) isn't as could as it "should be", compared to other countries and places so far north: It is because of the so-called "Golf Stream". Which is a warn water-current flowing through the Atlantic from South America. So, that's why. Also, German is not in any way mutually intelligible to Scandinavians - and is not particularly easy for us to learn. They have a couple of letters and a lot of phonetics that we don't...although, at least I find it somewhat intelligible in written form though. Also - it is quite confirmed that Finland is 'the land of lakes', and Sweden is 'the land of Islands'...and yes - more than Canada as well! Thanks for a Great video. As a Swede it's always interesting to see anyone react to info from Sweden! ;-)
Got to say it does not taste that good... especially in the cities of malmö and lund(and smaller towns in skåne which is my home). I had filters that removed the taste of chlorine... if you compare to the water i have now, in our community water system, that takes water from a well without any refinement except rough filters, it is like day and night. I think most people are used to the chlorine-taste(not all uses chlorine tough but more expensive ways that don´t give a bad taste) and don´t know how good it is without. cheers
@@henriklarsson5221 theyre very different depending on where you live.. the water in and around Umeå for instance taste fantastic.. like REALLY good. the water in Gotland is filled with chalk and is kind of crap.. and so on
Same in Scotland but some bottled water is ok when I went to America the tap water and bottled water were disgusting also don’t drink English tap water
The reason for the temperate climate and that there's less snow in southern Sweden is because of the heating that the Gulf stream provides. It's a bit warmer compared to other places of the world at the same latitude.
45:45 its not really like any other country on earth. scandinavia is waaay diffrent. we have been together for thousends of years. we share history, family and blood. we will never part and will always help the other if need :)
Yes, it's pretty easy for Scandinavians to learn German (and English), but there's no intelligibility except for certain words. As a Swede, I can understand most Norwegians quite easily. Danish is very hard, but we can make it work if we speak slowly and super clear. Most of the time we'll opt for English. (Southern Swedes have a much easier time with Danish though). I can read both Norwegian and Danish without a problem. Icelandic on the other hand is too far off (but it is easy for Icelanders to pick up other Scandinavian languages).
And, just to be clear, Finnish is an entirely different language alltogether. (Luckily, the Swedish language receives special treatment in Finland. To some Finns' chagrin, I believe).
U forgot the detail that its just the newer words that is hard for us from iceland This is because that the newer they never took insperation from others but since we took iceland and gave them language
Jag har alltid tänkt Svenska och Norska: I princip samma språk Svenska och Danska: Vi kan typ förstå varandra Svenska och Tyska: Vad fan är det du säger?
I would like to add to that, that its easy to learn german words because they are simillar many times but the gramatics are a pain in the ass, therefore I think its pretty hard to form normal sentences but pretty easy to understand if you study it.
The thing about systembolaget and the ages for consuming alcohol at a bar vs buying and taking home is quite resonable actually. When you go to a bar, bartenders in sweden have to be educated in proper handling and care to be licenced to sell alcohol. So if you drink at the bar, the bartender is there to make sure you don't drink too much, i.e die from alcohol poisoning. When you hit 20, you have been drinking at bars and socially with family/friends for 2 years already so you can most likely handle your liqor by that point.
I don't get the argument about outlets being different everywhere in Europe, on the contrary due to EU regulations all eu members use the same outlet ( the C E/F outlets, which are the most widespread in the world by the way )
Many words are the same in german and swedish but the pronounciation is different. But we cant have a conversation talking swedish and german to each other, just understand a word here and there. Its different whit danes and norwegians where i can read a text and almost understand everything. When talking i guess most swedes understand norwegian more than danish.
Hey! I'm Mike from Sweden. Thanks for a good and entertaining video. To answer your mention of the Swedish chef from the Muppets: he wasn't mentioned at all because he has nothing at all to do with Sweden. He is an American invention altogether, and the gibberish language he speaks is an American's (Jim Henson) idea of what Swedish sounds like. To my knowledge he has never actually said a Swedish word. Ever.
If you love Metal, you'd love Sweden, Finland and Norway. Numerous styles originate from each, and despite our small populations, any one of the three alone can compare to the United States in terms of total number of Metal bands. That is crazy when you consider that the US has more than 10 times the population of all of Scandinavia combined. Melodic Death Metal originates from the city of Gothenburg in Sweden, Black Metal originates from Norway, and Symphonic Metal and Nightcore originates from Finland. In addition, Swedish bands were - and continue to be - extremely influential to the development of Death Metal and Progressive Metal. (Also, I was really happy to see Keith wearing the Opeth T-shirt. Not only was it Opeth, it was the album Orchid! FYI, I love Opeth and have seen them perform live in Stockholm.)
I think you are wrong about where the metal genres originates from. But Gothenburg had many melodic metal bands pop up in the 90s, and Norweigian black metal bands made headlines around the world in the 90s. But the genres existed before that.
@@alexbenhard Melodic Death unquestionably originates from the city of Gothenburg. The city dominated the genre for almost two decades, and the whole genre was literally referred to as "Gothenburg Metal" for almost a decade before it was redubbed with the more inclusive name "Melodic Death" as bands with a somewhat similar sound started popping up in other countries. The sound is so heavily associated with the city that some followers of the genre, not just in Sweden, still use the old name for the genre. I am personally not that big of a fan of the genre, as I much prefer Prog Metal and Prog Rock, but even with my extensive knowledge of metal, almost every Melodic Death band I can think of are Gothenburgers or from the same general area of Sweden. It is true that the ultimate origins of Black Metal are a bit blurred, but the genre is not massively produced/consumed in any other country than Norway. There are numerous, important Black Metal bands in Sweden and America, but the genre is so localized to Norway that you could just as well call it "Norwegian(-style) Death Metal" and everyone would still instantly know what you are referring to.
@@Tapio86 Elk is not wrong. From Wikipedia: "Alces alces is called a "moose" in North American English, but an "elk" in British English. The word "elk" in North American English refers to a completely different species of deer, Cervus canadensis, also called the wapiti." The name in some other languages :-) Swedish "Älg". Norwegian and Danish "Elg". German "Elch" Dutch "Eland" French "Élan" Italian, Spanish, Portuguese "Alce" Polish "Łoś" Slovenian "Los" Russian "лось" = "Los'" The word "moose" entered English by 1606 and is borrowed from the Algonquian languages (a subfamily of American indigenous languages). I dont know what country you are from Taipo 86. But it is not wrong to say "Elk" when talking about the animal you would call "Moose".
Pitch accent is basically the same as tones. Think Chinese. Some words are only distinguished by tone. Swedish and Norwegian are the only Indo-European languages that have tones.
14:50 yes I’m currently studying German actually and there are a ton of words similar to their Swedish counterparts which certainly makes it easier to learn German but it’s still not easy because not all the words have similarities to their Swedish counterparts. And we can’t communicate with Germans no it in Swedish any way the languages are too different.
Many students choose to study a third language in school. So many people are good at English (the second language taught in school) but will also at least understand and use a little bit of these languages; German, French, Spanish, Finnish or sign language.
I agree about the moose and how huge they are - that's why we call them king of the forest. The start of the moose hunt (there are certain dates when it is allowed to hunt), a lot of people use vacation days for like a week to go hunting. Also feel that they should have mentioned: Carl von Linné The Swedish gaming industry (Mojang, Dice etc.) Recycling Nudity and stuff back in the movies Great reaction! Thanks!
14:40 ignore Icelandic I know they said in a previous video all the Scandinavian countries can understand Iceland that is the one thing they got can’t because it’s the one language none of us can understand.
About Systembolaget and the age-difference in buying alcohol at a bar or to bring home. I've heard that the purpose is that at the Bar the Bartender is trained to not sell you too much, and the bouncers will not let you in at another place if you seem too drunk. The bar could literally lose their license to sell alcohol if they serve someone who "seems intoxicated" I believe the term is. So the goal is that if you can drink for 2 years in bars and learn your limitations with other people around you to save you if things go bad then when you can drink at home you know to not drink too much, get alcohol poisoning and risk dying.
Systembolaget is actually a result of, during the time when Swedes emigrated to America, there was a lot of alcohol problems with most workers. Sometimes workers were even paid with alcohol. So the government had to make changes, and therefore we have the state owned Systembolaget. However you are correct in what you’re writing about bar staff.
' = Feet, " = inch. Surprised you didn't know that. Love your videos :) Keep up the good work! Edit: If you didn't pause to ponder and give your thougts or ask questions, I could just watch the original video. And lagom( lag om, Eng: team around, or all around ) means that you want as much, but not more, so that every one around the table can have the same. At least that's how i understand it.
They are wrong about the "Allemansrätten" (Right of Public Access). You HAVE access to be on private land! This is how it works; "'the public has access to private land where no damage is likely to result and prohibition would be unreasonable'. You can camp anywhere you want....in Sweden for one or two nights. (Not caravans dough....that's not real camping anyway) ;-) You can pick berries in the woods, fishing, climbing or hiking etc. The nature is available for everybody. With a few exceptions like peoples gardens, military areas and suchlike of course and with these "right to roam" come responsibilities; that is, an obligation neither to harm, disturb, litter, nor to damage wildlife or crops'"
German shares a lot of vocabulary with them, but it is not at all mutually intelligible with the Sacandinavian languages. Moreover, Icelandic, Faroese and Elfdalian (a language spoken by less than 3K people in an isolated part of Dalarna, Sweden) are not mutually intelligible to the other Scandinavian languages. Icelandic and Elfdalian are particularly difficult to understand since they have remained mostly unchanged since the Viking Age while the other North Germanic languages have changed tremendously in vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. Except for numerous diphthongs and very minor changes in word order and grammar, Icelandic and Elfdalian are basically Old Norse.
You are allowed to travel freely through out forests that might be owned by a person as part or your allemansrätt but not on clearly developed land like a back yard.
The fair guy in the grey t-shirt says "Allemansrätten" is only valid on public land? No, on the contrary. As far as I know, the allemansrätt in Sweden is still exactly as in Norway (I had some discussions with Swedish friends about problems caused by some continentals who tried flying in in helicopters and devastating some areas of moss and plants). The land open to 'alleman' (= all men) is often privately owned, but the owner cannot prevent people from roaming, in his forest or on out-lying land, having picnics, bathing in lakes, picking wild berries, when it is 'untilled ground'. You do not have the right to trample over his fields planted with wheat, or with swedes for that matter! Nor do you have the right to walk into his tilled garden (or an unspecified area around his house qualifying as his yard). The large forest just north of Oslo in Norway is largely privately owned, and the owner has the sole right of taking out timber and of taking smaller trees, e.g for Christmas trees, but the forest is still the favourite recreational area of Oslo. - In winter when the snow covers the ground, the right to walk freely over private land extends also to what in summer are tilled fields, since skiing over them in winter does no damage to them. Many popular cross-country skiing tracks go over farm land, often fairly close to the farm houses.
13:35 Yes we get snow, but it may snow most of the time. But it may not be much and can melt away pretty fast. (WE dont always get snow, especially near the coasts)
10:22 yes we can own forest, And "allemansrätten" also apply to private owned forest. We can pick berries but not destroy, (breaking sticks from trees or setting up a camp for more than a day.)
There is usually snow in the whole country to some extent, just in recent years there has been some rather mild winters where the snow doesn't really last that much. One difference between Rhode Island and Europe is that Europs is generally warmed by the gulf stream carrying warm water from the caribbean.
I mean, he's a bit sloppy when he says that the South might not get any snow. That might be true for the southernmost tip, but most places in Southern Sweden will see A LOT of snow!
In southern Värmland we might get snow slush, and once every 3-4th year see a lot of snow. But the last 7-8 years have been abysmal, no real winter to speak of.
@@bjornandersson3698 we might not get the 1 meter snow but we always have snow every year, and temperatures around-5 to -17 coming from someone that lives 40 min from Göteborg,
Ahh i live about 40 min outside Gothenburg as well, Berghem , Marks kommun . Winter 2019 not even a week with snow , in fact i think i could count the days on one hand, 2020 was pretty much the same . So yes we do get snow and cold weather on occasions, but not often compared to the rest of the nation further inland usually gets more snow than the coastal regions , För att avsluta på svenska ida :) folk från andra kontinenter har ofta tron om att hela Sverige är som grönland eller nordpolen eller sibirien på vintern , vilket vi som bor här vet inte stämmer såklart :) det skiljer trots allt mycket mellan vinter i söder och vinter i norra delen , Sverige är avlångt geografiskt med varierande klimat därefter, det är därför vi har så många olika odlings-zoner t.ex . Men visst händer det att vi får smällkall lång vinter här i sydväst också men sist det hände var 2009 och 2010 , och då va de 20-25 minus på sina ställen runt Göteborg på nätterna i flera veckor , jag är yrkeschaufför o körde på nätterna de 2 vintrarna så därför jag minns :)
Swedes Understand Norweigans. Danes understands swedes, norweigans and to some extent Icelanders. German is very close too all theese languages which are considerd north germanic.
13:34 that is kinda true but not really I live in the south but not in the south south if you get what I mean and here we do get snow during winters it’s usually very late tho. lol
I've always called that whole scandi-mountain range 'the keel', kinda think it suits their Norse heritage. I think of Swedes as the Vikings that gave us a good name abroad lol They're the ones who became the Kievan Rus, travelled to Byzantium and traded with everyone along the way. I have an inclination that's why Swedish is, imo, the most intelligible of the Scandinavian languages. There's more shared and borrowed words from sources far from their own borders - just like English, Dutch and the colonial-types later on in history would be. Denmark and Norway were obsessed with a few islands to the west and the Baltic coast (for DK) but Swedes rolled through much of the East, down the Dnieper and Volga through to the Black Sea and beyond. That's a lotta different cultures and languages they met en route. I mean they named Russia after them (Rus) - that's a bit better than a Greenland island that's a USAF base and covered in snow or Iceland that's a soddin' volcano (love you crazy northern bastids but..). Faroe's aside - they're just stunning. But as a sorta weird Danglish mix, I gotta concede the lasting influence to the Swedes, not just their rebound in the last couple of centuries or ol' Gustavus.. The English and French speaking world got hit by the Norwegians and the Danes due to geography, so were generally the ones they met of the "Norsemen". Sweden created some shit that still holds today in much of eastern Europe - not so much of the pillaging but oft over-looked. Edit: one does not fuqaboutwit Elk.
About hadly any snow in southern Sweden. A lot of that is due to the Gulf stream. Which is a stream along the sea which transport warm water from the equator up north which affects the climate.
Good reaction man :) I think it would be nice if you also react to the Balkans starting with my country - Bulgaria. A lot of people don't know anything about the region.
See, the mindsets you are discussing at 34:00 is one of thereasons, why so many Syrian refugees ended up in countries like Sweden, France or Germany. Most of the other EU countrys that are closer to Syria just had the first mindset. Either the didn`t let the refugees in at all or aimply passed them on to the next state. There was nearly zero coordination and cooperation between the EU states to handle the crisis. It`s just my personal opinion, but if you ask me, the EU atm is struggeling to survive only, because the member states still don`t fully understand, what it means to be a part of a community of states. I won`t call out names, but alot of states prefer to take advantage of the good sides of EU but turn their back on it, once they have to give something to the community themselves.
Your Swedish pronounciation is actually quite good and would absolutely be passable to make yourself understood in Sweden - apart from the fact that everyone in Sweden also speaks English since at least fourth grade.
It's very common to see snowfall even in the very south but I guess there are areas that don't get any snow some winters. I live in Norrköping, about 160 km south of Stockholm and we've seen snow a few times this winter but right now (dec 22) it's about 4° C, no snow and a bit of rain. The coldest average month is January at 0° C or 32° F.
If someone owns a forestm you are generally allowed to walk there if you do not hurt it. Hurting a forest include but is not limited to: Burning it down, cutting down trees, injuring trees, hurting animals, throwing moss around, digging holes etc.
actually there are way more lakes in sweden than in finland as per definition. there are more bodies of water in finland but most are no bigger than a pond.
haha i just reflected on "aprill väder" before putting on this video, when i went to bed yesterday it was rainy but not a flec of snow in sight, when i woke up everything was covered in snow, cloudy sky and rain pouring down, now about 6h later it's clear skies, sunny and not a hint of snow to be found again..
5:06 From googling "how many lakes does XXX have" it said that Canada has ish 32 000 lakes, Sweden has roughly 100 000, and Finland has 188 000 lakes. Some studies though have a "high" minimum size for lakes to be recognized as lakes, and thus Finland is too far down because most of their lakes are very small / smaller that most studies register.
13:49 yes I live in Malmö (where sweden connects to denmark in the south through Öresund bridge) and some winters we get 2 weeks of snow in total during the winter months, the rest is just depressing rain and darkness. IKEA is marketed as Swedish but is headquartered in the Netherlands since the 1970s. just like Volvo is Chinese and Spotify fled to Manhattan while Skype is a swedish invention they were based in Estonia of all places. The depressing thing about mentioning taxes is that yes we do have high taxes. We used to have good schools, we used to have good health care. That's not the reality anymore but the taxes remain.... 22:47 in the US you can go to war at 18 but you can't drink until you're 21. Same brilliant logic!
Volvo is swedish, if you consider the important parts of Volvo. The car-manufacturing part is not the important part of the company, Volvo Penta, Volvo CE and Volvo Trucks are, and those parts are still Swedish. Less known than the car manufacturing part, but way larger. Also, the swedish tax burden has lessen significantly the last 30 years. One could make the arguement that that is the very reason for the decline (wich in it self is debateble, at least for health care. In general, people in Sweden are way better of health wise today than 30 years ago).
@@victorcapel2755 The ownership is no longer Swedish so i'd say that Volvo is no longer Swedish. my point remains. The tax burden may have lessen "significantly" (source on that btw? just curious since it's a pretty significant statement to say that) but it is amongst the highest if not the highest taxes in the world. this wouldn't be a problem if we had top notch society services like schools health care etc. because then it would be worth it. right now tax money is wasted significantly and change is needed. it's becoming clear that the state can't handle the money properly.
@@marcusberggren9241 Again, when you say "Volvo" you really mean "Volvo Personvagnar", the manufacturer of cars. That has never been Volvos main buisniess. Trucks and Construction Equipment, along with buses, boat- and industrial enginges is the main buisniess for Volvo. Always been. Volvo (the swedish company) has around 140 000 employees, Volvo PV (the car manufacurer with a chinese majority stake holder, it still has considerable swedish ownership through the AP-funds, Folksam and AMF) has about 40 000. So it is the smaller part of the brand and a separate company. The car manufacturer is not on Fortune500 lists, the maker of trucks and excavators are. You can really just google the swedish tax burden historically yourself. It peaked in 1990 and is now at the same level as 1976. But you expected the quality of welfare programs to increase with less funding?
@@marcusberggren9241 ownership has nothing to do with the nationality of a company. Volvo, both companies, is Swedish. Both are headquarterd and registred in Sweden and both are even traded on the Swedish stockmarket (not that that actually matters for nationality).
While the taxes remain but has been lowered both in percentage and in income adjusted by inflation by 300 billions a year. So the things you say used to be good lost funding adjusted by inflation.
14:47 It is quite easy to learn German if you speak Swedish, especially if you learn it in school from a young age (12+). But you do have to study German to understand it. From 12 yo swedes choose German, French or Spanish as their third language, and they have to learn this for several years, up to 7 years before university. I don't remember how many years are obligatory, but at least 2 or 4 years.
my uneducated thought on why systembolaget has a higher drinking age than bars is so we can get weaned into it. the bar can shut you off if youve had too much, so the first few times you go out you get that "first drunk" out of the way in a slightly more controlled/regulated way, then when you're old enough to buy it whenever you've grown a bit more and getting absolutely plastered isn't as big of a deal anymore. - Random swede's thoughts
17:12 Sweden has guns too and they are quite common however you must get a lisens to get one, aka you need to be fit to have a gun and do a corse on how to use them to get to own one so not like the US where every depressed teen has a gun store within 2 miles and can get guns without any controls
The grammar is quite simular between sweden and germany. The languages are based around "the nordic germanic" language. So all the nordic countries + germany and England is somewhat related. At the age of 9 you learn english in school and at the age of 12 you have the choice to pick german, spanish or french as a 2nd language in school.
You talked about the similarities between the languages. And yes, I understand a Norwegian almost perfectly, a Dane with some struggle but I wouldn't understand a German (maybe Danes would though). In Sweden everyone learns a third language in high school (I went for Spanish but don't remember anything) and what I've heard from my peers learning German the grammar and some words are pretty similar to Swedish so they thought it was pretty easy to learn.
No we get snow all over Sweden but if you compare to the northern part its basically nothing because the north get really much much snow, like canada I think.
The guy is wrong, it doesn't have to be public land. You can walk and camp and do almost everything even on private land, just not in the absolute vicinity of someones house and also as long as you don't do any permanent harm to the land.
Fun fact with the alcohol law in Sweden. There is no age limit for drinks with 2.25% or less alcohol, as it is considered as a light drink. between 2.25% - 3.5% you can drink at 18-20 years, and anything above 3.5% is 20 and up. Edit: and yes, Sweden does have embassies in the US. Three actually. New York, Washington and San Francisco. And practically one consulate per state.
Roads may be good in the south where more people is compressed but where there is need of road because of the distance between stores and whatever there is bad roads
Fun fact, or maybe not so fun. Lördagsgodis originated from the "vipeholmsexperimenten". An experiment where mentally handicapped people would be force fed a VERY sticky, sugary, toffee. And through various experiments and studies it was said that having a lot of candy once a week was better for your teeth than a little bit every day. Which is true. Sweden has contributed a lot to the dental science, sadly at the cost of peoples suffering but different times i suppose.
Pronunciation is as a non native 3/5.5 Dont buy bottled water in Sweden. Tap is good and even better when you have your own water supply/well. Great video! Your reaction to the whale mouth sex was funny
The reason why in the south part of Sweden snows less than in Rhode Island is the same reason why snows less in Sacramento that in Rhode Island, ocean currents. There is a global ocean current that flows from the south of Africa to the north pole running all acroos the west coast of Europe and then that current goes from the north pole running all across the esat coast of North and South America, turns up again when crosses the south of South America it goes up again running across the west coast of both South and North America. That current brings hot water from the equator to the west coast of Europe and cold water from the Artic Ocean to the east coast of North America. That affects a lot to the climate. For the same latitude, western Europe or west coast of North America will have a hotter climate than the east coast of US.
I went to the Priest's bathtub last year! The beach there is insane, jagged rocks everywhere as if an old norse god went berserk on the land with his axe.
Is it easy for a Scandinavian to learn German? Short answer: no. We are taught it in school so many of us can speak it (at least in Denmark) - but it's still one of the most hated languages here - like in general! Having to do German is like doing chores.... no strike that - I would rather do the dishes than speak German! 😀Aber ich kann es doch sprechen 😀I just chose not to! But yeah Swedes, Danes and Norwegians can sooorrttt of understand each other - especially if learn the words that are not at all the same. An example between Danish vs Swedish and Norwegian is the number 50. I Denmark it is "Halvtres" - but in Swedish it is "femtio" and in Norwegian it's "Femti". So basically in this example the Danes for some unexplainable reason decided to make a completely unique way of saying numbers - where the other Scandies chose - well the same as the English basically Fifty - or five tens, Femti - five tens... (Any non-Scandies can ignore this last part) Now before any of my Scandinavian brothers gets the chance to taunt us for this - remember that your languages are just as messed up - and we DID used to own you. 😀 P.S. If you want to identify "which Scandinavian language" you are hearing here you go (not 100% but for the most part it works): Danes sound very monotone in comparison. Also you are usually not in doubt when a Dane is speaking English - or Danelish as we affectionately call it. Just look it up on UA-cam 😀 The Swedes speak in tonal waves. They usually start in a fairly low tone, then goes up a pitch, and then goes back down at the end of the sentence. Again here - you almost can't miss hearing the accent when they speak English - Or Swenglish - and again - just look it up on YT - it's about as distinct as Danelish 😀 The Norwegian speak on a tonal up-curve. They start low and go up into higher tones. They match the amount of "beats" to the length of the sentence which is VERY distinct and VERY hard to replicate. When they speak English they are not as distinct though. To my ear they sound a good mix of Irish, German, Swenglish and Danelish. You can take a stab at this one yourself here. ua-cam.com/video/49CkgeQVh70/v-deo.html&ab_channel=HenrikBrodtkorb
a disturbing fact about "lördagsgodis": The decision to promote a one one day per week candy intake comes from the experiements conducted at the Vipeholm Institute where people with physical and mental disabilities were fed only candy to see how fast sugar would disintegrate teeth.
I live 2 min from arlanda, in order to drive to the city centre of stockholm in 45minutes you'd have to be going in reverse. Its 30min tops with traffic... Carry on. :)
Listening to you trying to speak swedish is quite intresting, altho i'd have to say you sound almost danish with the way you say things, So its close atleast ^^ skål!
as a swede who is learning german it's actually not that hard. Since we both are germanic languages and also share a fiew words the only hard thing is the way words connect with other words.
South Sweden (Not Danish) hade me in stitches. It is very common to joke about those living in Skåne is infact danish By the way, Finland is called The Land of a 1000 lakes sometimes, not sure how wide spread that is outside Scandinavia though. Allmäns rätten is kinda hard to explain on where it applies. Very short and simplified version is that all woods etc are fair go. Gardens etc is still offlimits. Most videos also dont explain that there is still rules, like you are not allowed to destroy anything, you have to leave things as when you got there (No littering etc), you are not allowed to cut down trees and so on and so forth. Swedish, Norwegian and Danish can sort of understand eachother. Some can understand a little german, and even dutch. But it is not as strange as it sounds, as they are all based on the same language (germanic). English is basicly a mash up from a lot of the ancient languages (latin, germanic etc etc), so that is why there are quite a few of similar words. I just want to point out, about health care, I dont doubt that america have the better health care, if not the best. Problem (from my point of view) is that you have to be insanly rich. Just a natural things as giving birth can cost up to 25k dollar... Sorry for the choice of words, but it should be fucking free. Healthcare should not be a reward, it is a human right. Well, ok, it is not really free here. We pay for it with our taxes. Our high taxes meen we have free healthcare. Free education, no matter on what level. Sometimes it is painted as "everything is free" while infact it is that everyone, the whole countries, helps eachother out to make sure we all have the same security and rights. Also, what is not mentioned, the private insurance thing, is still reglegated by the same rules as the national healthcare. So there is not really much difference, and no hospital or healthcare center may deny care, no matter what. So even if you dont have an "insurence", you can go to the same places and reseive the same help. About immegrants, it is a lot time angeled. We will take in fugetives from war, natural distaster, political refugees or what not, and give temporary citizenship. A lot of them get permenant, but a lot also have to leave as well. And also, the whole latin catalog of plants was written by a swede called Carl Von Linné. Which I think they should have mentioned, as it is used over the whole world. And one last thing that is not mention... Weapons. We export -a lot- of weapons. We manufacture and export the most used anti-tank weapons in the world (The AT4, and the Carl-Gustav), artillery, anti-air weapons. Not many even want do admit it here. We even supply the american military with thousands of weapons every year. Last Edit: Swedes have been called The Beautiful People, so of course we look good :P
About the immigrants - Sweden was one of the few countries that actually allowed refugees to enter its country, while many European countries did not. F.ex.we took in as many as Germany, that is a much larger country. We also already have a big community of ppl from the middle east, such as Syriens, so they ofc traveled here to be with their loved ones and friends, like any sane person would do. But some people also just come here since they hear stories about how they will get lots of money when they enter the country and get a bike so they can travel in the cities (not true :P)
Actually at 1:16, can you walk in someones backyard, no but you can pitch a tent on private land if it is just for 1 night, then it is ok if like it is in a forest owned by someone.. you have the right to camp for 1 night..
I have walked from the Sun to Mars three times, touching the effigies at each planet. Takes me five hours. Extending the walk to Jupiter feels impossible, it’s at Arlanda Airport which is 30 minutes by *high speed train*
Why did the norwegian crawl around in the store? He was searching for "low prices" *comical sound effects*. (u gotta love the jokes between us though!)
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Finland has the most rivers in the world, more then canada :P and sweden has the most islands in the world
Just wanted to answer your question about why the south of Sweden (as well as Denmark and southern Norway) isn't as could as it "should be", compared to other countries and places so far north: It is because of the so-called "Golf Stream". Which is a warn water-current flowing through the Atlantic from South America. So, that's why.
Also, German is not in any way mutually intelligible to Scandinavians - and is not particularly easy for us to learn. They have a couple of letters and a lot of phonetics that we don't...although, at least I find it somewhat intelligible in written form though.
Also - it is quite confirmed that Finland is 'the land of lakes', and Sweden is 'the land of Islands'...and yes - more than Canada as well!
Thanks for a Great video. As a Swede it's always interesting to see anyone react to info from Sweden! ;-)
When it comes to fresh water bodies Finland has nothing on Norway either, but Canada is king. 97k, 169k, 890k.
Never drink bottled water in scandinavia, the tap water is much cleaner and taste better
Agree
So true 😊
Got to say it does not taste that good... especially in the cities of malmö and lund(and smaller towns in skåne which is my home). I had filters that removed the taste of chlorine... if you compare to the water i have now, in our community water system, that takes water from a well without any refinement except rough filters, it is like day and night. I think most people are used to the chlorine-taste(not all uses chlorine tough but more expensive ways that don´t give a bad taste) and don´t know how good it is without.
cheers
@@henriklarsson5221 theyre very different depending on where you live.. the water in and around Umeå for instance taste fantastic.. like REALLY good. the water in Gotland is filled with chalk and is kind of crap.. and so on
Same in Scotland but some bottled water is ok when I went to America the tap water and bottled water were disgusting also don’t drink English tap water
Sweden has the most islands.. no competition.
You were right 😪 I thought Canada did but it’s not even close ☹️
The reason for the temperate climate and that there's less snow in southern Sweden is because of the heating that the Gulf stream provides. It's a bit warmer compared to other places of the world at the same latitude.
45:45 its not really like any other country on earth. scandinavia is waaay diffrent. we have been together for thousends of years. we share history, family and blood. we will never part and will always help the other if need :)
Yes, it's pretty easy for Scandinavians to learn German (and English), but there's no intelligibility except for certain words. As a Swede, I can understand most Norwegians quite easily. Danish is very hard, but we can make it work if we speak slowly and super clear. Most of the time we'll opt for English. (Southern Swedes have a much easier time with Danish though). I can read both Norwegian and Danish without a problem. Icelandic on the other hand is too far off (but it is easy for Icelanders to pick up other Scandinavian languages).
there are more english words that comes from Danish/Norwegian then germen
And, just to be clear, Finnish is an entirely different language alltogether. (Luckily, the Swedish language receives special treatment in Finland. To some Finns' chagrin, I believe).
U forgot the detail that its just the newer words that is hard for us from iceland
This is because that the newer they never took insperation from others but since we took iceland and gave them language
Jag har alltid tänkt
Svenska och Norska: I princip samma språk
Svenska och Danska: Vi kan typ förstå varandra
Svenska och Tyska: Vad fan är det du säger?
I would like to add to that, that its easy to learn german words because they are simillar many times but the gramatics are a pain in the ass, therefore I think its pretty hard to form normal sentences but pretty easy to understand if you study it.
The thing about systembolaget and the ages for consuming alcohol at a bar vs buying and taking home is quite resonable actually.
When you go to a bar, bartenders in sweden have to be educated in proper handling and care to be licenced to sell alcohol.
So if you drink at the bar, the bartender is there to make sure you don't drink too much, i.e die from alcohol poisoning.
When you hit 20, you have been drinking at bars and socially with family/friends for 2 years already so you can most likely handle your liqor by that point.
Also the whole thing with you being more prone to buying out alcohol to younger friends or siblings if there wasn’t that age limit.
SWEDES: We have free healthcare and school
MCjibbin: We have guns?
Haha I laughed so hard!
Not only that but we also get paid to go to school at least up to a certain point.
I don't get the argument about outlets being different everywhere in Europe, on the contrary due to EU regulations all eu members use the same outlet ( the C E/F outlets, which are the most widespread in the world by the way )
This! ^
Except in the UK where they use the big, clunky type G power plugs and sockets, but they have left the EU now. :)
@@Uncle_T our plugs and sockets though are ultra safe. 😃
Many words are the same in german and swedish but the pronounciation is different. But we cant have a conversation talking swedish and german to each other, just understand a word here and there.
Its different whit danes and norwegians where i can read a text and almost understand everything.
When talking i guess most swedes understand norwegian more than danish.
Both swedish and norwegian are pitch accent laguages.
Hey! I'm Mike from Sweden. Thanks for a good and entertaining video. To answer your mention of the Swedish chef from the Muppets: he wasn't mentioned at all because he has nothing at all to do with Sweden. He is an American invention altogether, and the gibberish language he speaks is an American's (Jim Henson) idea of what Swedish sounds like. To my knowledge he has never actually said a Swedish word. Ever.
If you love Metal, you'd love Sweden, Finland and Norway. Numerous styles originate from each, and despite our small populations, any one of the three alone can compare to the United States in terms of total number of Metal bands. That is crazy when you consider that the US has more than 10 times the population of all of Scandinavia combined.
Melodic Death Metal originates from the city of Gothenburg in Sweden, Black Metal originates from Norway, and Symphonic Metal and Nightcore originates from Finland. In addition, Swedish bands were - and continue to be - extremely influential to the development of Death Metal and Progressive Metal.
(Also, I was really happy to see Keith wearing the Opeth T-shirt. Not only was it Opeth, it was the album Orchid! FYI, I love Opeth and have seen them perform live in Stockholm.)
"Growls in Gothenburgian... RÄKMACKAAH!"
I think you are wrong about where the metal genres originates from. But Gothenburg had many melodic metal bands pop up in the 90s, and Norweigian black metal bands made headlines around the world in the 90s. But the genres existed before that.
@@alexbenhard Melodic Death unquestionably originates from the city of Gothenburg. The city dominated the genre for almost two decades, and the whole genre was literally referred to as "Gothenburg Metal" for almost a decade before it was redubbed with the more inclusive name "Melodic Death" as bands with a somewhat similar sound started popping up in other countries. The sound is so heavily associated with the city that some followers of the genre, not just in Sweden, still use the old name for the genre. I am personally not that big of a fan of the genre, as I much prefer Prog Metal and Prog Rock, but even with my extensive knowledge of metal, almost every Melodic Death band I can think of are Gothenburgers or from the same general area of Sweden.
It is true that the ultimate origins of Black Metal are a bit blurred, but the genre is not massively produced/consumed in any other country than Norway. There are numerous, important Black Metal bands in Sweden and America, but the genre is so localized to Norway that you could just as well call it "Norwegian(-style) Death Metal" and everyone would still instantly know what you are referring to.
Elk meat is quite lean and quite delicious!
Moose.
@@Tapio86 Elk is not wrong.
From Wikipedia:
"Alces alces is called a "moose" in North American English, but an "elk" in British English.
The word "elk" in North American English refers to a completely different species of deer, Cervus canadensis, also called the wapiti."
The name in some other languages :-)
Swedish "Älg".
Norwegian and Danish "Elg".
German "Elch"
Dutch "Eland"
French "Élan"
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese "Alce"
Polish "Łoś"
Slovenian "Los"
Russian "лось" = "Los'"
The word "moose" entered English by 1606 and is borrowed from the Algonquian languages (a subfamily of American indigenous languages).
I dont know what country you are from Taipo 86.
But it is not wrong to say "Elk" when talking about the animal you would call "Moose".
My mum loves to watch those Swedish crime dramas.
I've only seen one, and that was Wallander from 2005
Thank you 🇸🇪 for giving ABBA to the world 😍
Sweden: "Hey, world, could you give us ABBA back, please?"
The world: "No".
Sweden: "Then this means war".
Pitch accent is basically the same as tones. Think Chinese. Some words are only distinguished by tone. Swedish and Norwegian are the only Indo-European languages that have tones.
Punjabi has tones and is indo-european.
@@Divig Had to look it up, but that is actually true. Still highly unusual for Indo-European languages.
@@1Anime4you it was just a total fluke that I knew. I read about it today and was rather surprised, as it really is unusual, as you say.
Your pronunciations in Swedish were really good. And knowing a Peter Forsberg the hero of the 1994 olympic finals in ice hockey is great.
14:50 yes I’m currently studying German actually and there are a ton of words similar to their Swedish counterparts which certainly makes it easier to learn German but it’s still not easy because not all the words have similarities to their Swedish counterparts.
And we can’t communicate with Germans no it in Swedish any way the languages are too different.
Many students choose to study a third language in school. So many people are good at English (the second language taught in school) but will also at least understand and use a little bit of these languages; German, French, Spanish, Finnish or sign language.
Im half Swede and half German and there are many words which are the same. Many are also really similar. Take as example duscha and duschen.
I agree about the moose and how huge they are - that's why we call them king of the forest. The start of the moose hunt (there are certain dates when it is allowed to hunt), a lot of people use vacation days for like a week to go hunting.
Also feel that they should have mentioned:
Carl von Linné
The Swedish gaming industry (Mojang, Dice etc.)
Recycling
Nudity and stuff back in the movies
Great reaction! Thanks!
14:40 ignore Icelandic I know they said in a previous video all the Scandinavian countries can understand Iceland that is the one thing they got can’t because it’s the one language none of us can understand.
About Systembolaget and the age-difference in buying alcohol at a bar or to bring home.
I've heard that the purpose is that at the Bar the Bartender is trained to not sell you too much, and the bouncers will not let you in at another place if you seem too drunk. The bar could literally lose their license to sell alcohol if they serve someone who "seems intoxicated" I believe the term is. So the goal is that if you can drink for 2 years in bars and learn your limitations with other people around you to save you if things go bad then when you can drink at home you know to not drink too much, get alcohol poisoning and risk dying.
Systembolaget is actually a result of, during the time when Swedes emigrated to America, there was a lot of alcohol problems with most workers. Sometimes workers were even paid with alcohol. So the government had to make changes, and therefore we have the state owned Systembolaget. However you are correct in what you’re writing about bar staff.
' = Feet, " = inch. Surprised you didn't know that. Love your videos :) Keep up the good work!
Edit: If you didn't pause to ponder and give your thougts or ask questions, I could just watch the original video. And lagom( lag om, Eng: team around, or all around ) means that you want as much, but not more, so that every one around the table can have the same. At least that's how i understand it.
19:30 I’ve been inside the wale mouth a few times when I was younger. If I remember right it was open on Christmas and there was a Santa in it.
@McJibbin
It looks like Finland has a lot of lakes but Sweden has way more :P Nearly double :)
They are wrong about the "Allemansrätten" (Right of Public Access). You HAVE access to be on private land! This is how it works; "'the public has access to private land where no damage is likely to result and prohibition would be unreasonable'. You can camp anywhere you want....in Sweden for one or two nights. (Not caravans dough....that's not real camping anyway) ;-) You can pick berries in the woods, fishing, climbing or hiking etc. The nature is available for everybody.
With a few exceptions like peoples gardens, military areas and suchlike of course and with these "right to roam" come responsibilities; that is, an obligation neither to harm, disturb, litter, nor to damage wildlife or crops'"
German shares a lot of vocabulary with them, but it is not at all mutually intelligible with the Sacandinavian languages.
Moreover, Icelandic, Faroese and Elfdalian (a language spoken by less than 3K people in an isolated part of Dalarna, Sweden) are not mutually intelligible to the other Scandinavian languages. Icelandic and Elfdalian are particularly difficult to understand since they have remained mostly unchanged since the Viking Age while the other North Germanic languages have changed tremendously in vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. Except for numerous diphthongs and very minor changes in word order and grammar, Icelandic and Elfdalian are basically Old Norse.
You are allowed to travel freely through out forests that might be owned by a person as part or your allemansrätt but not on clearly developed land like a back yard.
The fair guy in the grey t-shirt says "Allemansrätten" is only valid on public land? No, on the contrary. As far as I know, the allemansrätt in Sweden is still exactly as in Norway (I had some discussions with Swedish friends about problems caused by some continentals who tried flying in in helicopters and devastating some areas of moss and plants).
The land open to 'alleman' (= all men) is often privately owned, but the owner cannot prevent people from roaming, in his forest or on out-lying land, having picnics, bathing in lakes, picking wild berries, when it is 'untilled ground'. You do not have the right to trample over his fields planted with wheat, or with swedes for that matter! Nor do you have the right to walk into his tilled garden (or an unspecified area around his house qualifying as his yard). The large forest just north of Oslo in Norway is largely privately owned, and the owner has the sole right of taking out timber and of taking smaller trees, e.g for Christmas trees, but the forest is still the favourite recreational area of Oslo. - In winter when the snow covers the ground, the right to walk freely over private land extends also to what in summer are tilled fields, since skiing over them in winter does no damage to them. Many popular cross-country skiing tracks go over farm land, often fairly close to the farm houses.
13:35 Yes we get snow, but it may snow most of the time. But it may not be much and can melt away pretty fast. (WE dont always get snow, especially near the coasts)
10:22 yes we can own forest, And "allemansrätten" also apply to private owned forest. We can pick berries but not destroy, (breaking sticks from trees or setting up a camp for more than a day.)
Peter Forsberg, Mats Sundin and Niklas Lidström(all tree in the hockey hall of fame) was in the team that won in 2006, what an all star team!
What about Börje Salming? Is he not in the hockey hall of fame?
@@TheStigOlsson Yeah but what does that have to do with 2006 ?
@@henriklarsson5221 Nothing... I was just thinking about the hall of fame... Didnt think of the sepecific year.
There is usually snow in the whole country to some extent, just in recent years there has been some rather mild winters where the snow doesn't really last that much. One difference between Rhode Island and Europe is that Europs is generally warmed by the gulf stream carrying warm water from the caribbean.
I mean, he's a bit sloppy when he says that the South might not get any snow. That might be true for the southernmost tip, but most places in Southern Sweden will see A LOT of snow!
A lot...?? 😂😂 No, you don't get a lot of snow. 😜 You get really depressing slush winters. 😜
In southern Värmland we might get snow slush, and once every 3-4th year see a lot of snow. But the last 7-8 years have been abysmal, no real winter to speak of.
Gothenburg region, snow is almost a rare thing
@@bjornandersson3698 we might not get the 1 meter snow but we always have snow every year, and temperatures around-5 to -17 coming from someone that lives 40 min from Göteborg,
Ahh i live about 40 min outside Gothenburg as well, Berghem , Marks kommun . Winter 2019 not even a week with snow , in fact i think i could count the days on one hand, 2020 was pretty much the same . So yes we do get snow and cold weather on occasions, but not often compared to the rest of the nation further inland usually gets more snow than the coastal regions ,
För att avsluta på svenska ida :) folk från andra kontinenter har ofta tron om att hela Sverige är som grönland eller nordpolen eller sibirien på vintern , vilket vi som bor här vet inte stämmer såklart :) det skiljer trots allt mycket mellan vinter i söder och vinter i norra delen , Sverige är avlångt geografiskt med varierande klimat därefter, det är därför vi har så många olika odlings-zoner t.ex . Men visst händer det att vi får smällkall lång vinter här i sydväst också men sist det hände var 2009 och 2010 , och då va de 20-25 minus på sina ställen runt Göteborg på nätterna i flera veckor , jag är yrkeschaufför o körde på nätterna de 2 vintrarna så därför jag minns :)
German Deutch and the scandinavian countires (except for Finland) comes from the same language tree so there are some familliarities between them.
Swedes Understand Norweigans. Danes understands swedes, norweigans and to some extent Icelanders. German is very close too all theese languages which are considerd north germanic.
13:34 that is kinda true but not really I live in the south but not in the south south if you get what I mean and here we do get snow during winters it’s usually very late tho. lol
I've always called that whole scandi-mountain range 'the keel', kinda think it suits their Norse heritage.
I think of Swedes as the Vikings that gave us a good name abroad lol They're the ones who became the Kievan Rus, travelled to Byzantium and traded with everyone along the way. I have an inclination that's why Swedish is, imo, the most intelligible of the Scandinavian languages. There's more shared and borrowed words from sources far from their own borders - just like English, Dutch and the colonial-types later on in history would be. Denmark and Norway were obsessed with a few islands to the west and the Baltic coast (for DK) but Swedes rolled through much of the East, down the Dnieper and Volga through to the Black Sea and beyond. That's a lotta different cultures and languages they met en route. I mean they named Russia after them (Rus) - that's a bit better than a Greenland island that's a USAF base and covered in snow or Iceland that's a soddin' volcano (love you crazy northern bastids but..). Faroe's aside - they're just stunning. But as a sorta weird Danglish mix, I gotta concede the lasting influence to the Swedes, not just their rebound in the last couple of centuries or ol' Gustavus.. The English and French speaking world got hit by the Norwegians and the Danes due to geography, so were generally the ones they met of the "Norsemen". Sweden created some shit that still holds today in much of eastern Europe - not so much of the pillaging but oft over-looked.
Edit: one does not fuqaboutwit Elk.
Deer ( aninmal ) , Dear ( expensive ) Dear ( endeerment ) Dere Straights ( pop group)...lol
About hadly any snow in southern Sweden.
A lot of that is due to the Gulf stream. Which is a stream along the sea which transport warm water from the equator up north which affects the climate.
8:56 all buildings and walls are the original but I'm sure they have added on to them so that they will stay many more years
Aleemansrätten does not only apply to public land but also privatly owned land. But not gardens etc.
Good reaction man :) I think it would be nice if you also react to the Balkans starting with my country - Bulgaria. A lot of people don't know anything about the region.
I’ll check it out Ivan thanks!
See, the mindsets you are discussing at 34:00 is one of thereasons, why so many Syrian refugees ended up in countries like Sweden, France or Germany. Most of the other EU countrys that are closer to Syria just had the first mindset. Either the didn`t let the refugees in at all or aimply passed them on to the next state. There was nearly zero coordination and cooperation between the EU states to handle the crisis. It`s just my personal opinion, but if you ask me, the EU atm is struggeling to survive only, because the member states still don`t fully understand, what it means to be a part of a community of states. I won`t call out names, but alot of states prefer to take advantage of the good sides of EU but turn their back on it, once they have to give something to the community themselves.
Swexit
You do not need to mention names, we know you mean Denmark.
Your Swedish pronounciation is actually quite good and would absolutely be passable to make yourself understood in Sweden - apart from the fact that everyone in Sweden also speaks English since at least fourth grade.
It's very common to see snowfall even in the very south but I guess there are areas that don't get any snow some winters. I live in Norrköping, about 160 km south of Stockholm and we've seen snow a few times this winter but right now (dec 22) it's about 4° C, no snow and a bit of rain. The coldest average month is January at 0° C or 32° F.
Canada "only" has some 50000 islands and 30000 lakes, Finland has over 180000 lakes.
If someone owns a forestm you are generally allowed to walk there if you do not hurt it.
Hurting a forest include but is not limited to: Burning it down, cutting down trees, injuring trees, hurting animals, throwing moss around, digging holes etc.
So-so is a bad translation of lagom.
If you say something is ”so-so” it’s bad, while calling something lagom means it is juuuust right
But not perfect 🙂 only just right.
Finland has roughly 188k lakes and Canada just above 30k, the lakes in Canada might be larger but not as many ;)
You’ve done so well will the pronunciation, 9/10
You asked about Kebnekaise, it's roughly 2100 meters. Climbed it some eight years ago. Bloody tough but so worth it.
actually there are way more lakes in sweden than in finland as per definition. there are more bodies of water in finland but most are no bigger than a pond.
I am born and raised on Åland island. I highly recommend looking into our history.
Ironically a LOT of Swedes do not even know what or where Åland is.
haha i just reflected on "aprill väder" before putting on this video, when i went to bed yesterday it was rainy but not a flec of snow in sight, when i woke up everything was covered in snow, cloudy sky and rain pouring down, now about 6h later it's clear skies, sunny and not a hint of snow to be found again..
5:06 From googling "how many lakes does XXX have" it said that Canada has ish 32 000 lakes, Sweden has roughly 100 000, and Finland has 188 000 lakes. Some studies though have a "high" minimum size for lakes to be recognized as lakes, and thus Finland is too far down because most of their lakes are very small / smaller that most studies register.
Some Excellent pronouncing there. Keep up the good work. Really enjoy your videos.
13:49
yes I live in Malmö (where sweden connects to denmark in the south through Öresund bridge) and some winters we get 2 weeks of snow in total during the winter months, the rest is just depressing rain and darkness.
IKEA is marketed as Swedish but is headquartered in the Netherlands since the 1970s. just like Volvo is Chinese and Spotify fled to Manhattan while Skype is a swedish invention they were based in Estonia of all places.
The depressing thing about mentioning taxes is that yes we do have high taxes. We used to have good schools, we used to have good health care. That's not the reality anymore but the taxes remain....
22:47
in the US you can go to war at 18 but you can't drink until you're 21. Same brilliant logic!
Volvo is swedish, if you consider the important parts of Volvo. The car-manufacturing part is not the important part of the company, Volvo Penta, Volvo CE and Volvo Trucks are, and those parts are still Swedish. Less known than the car manufacturing part, but way larger.
Also, the swedish tax burden has lessen significantly the last 30 years. One could make the arguement that that is the very reason for the decline (wich in it self is debateble, at least for health care. In general, people in Sweden are way better of health wise today than 30 years ago).
@@victorcapel2755 The ownership is no longer Swedish so i'd say that Volvo is no longer Swedish. my point remains. The tax burden may have lessen "significantly" (source on that btw? just curious since it's a pretty significant statement to say that) but it is amongst the highest if not the highest taxes in the world. this wouldn't be a problem if we had top notch society services like schools health care etc. because then it would be worth it. right now tax money is wasted significantly and change is needed. it's becoming clear that the state can't handle the money properly.
@@marcusberggren9241
Again, when you say "Volvo" you really mean "Volvo Personvagnar", the manufacturer of cars. That has never been Volvos main buisniess.
Trucks and Construction Equipment, along with buses, boat- and industrial enginges is the main buisniess for Volvo. Always been. Volvo (the swedish company) has around 140 000 employees, Volvo PV (the car manufacurer with a chinese majority stake holder, it still has considerable swedish ownership through the AP-funds, Folksam and AMF) has about 40 000. So it is the smaller part of the brand and a separate company.
The car manufacturer is not on Fortune500 lists, the maker of trucks and excavators are.
You can really just google the swedish tax burden historically yourself. It peaked in 1990 and is now at the same level as 1976. But you expected the quality of welfare programs to increase with less funding?
@@marcusberggren9241 ownership has nothing to do with the nationality of a company. Volvo, both companies, is Swedish. Both are headquarterd and registred in Sweden and both are even traded on the Swedish stockmarket (not that that actually matters for nationality).
While the taxes remain but has been lowered both in percentage and in income adjusted by inflation by 300 billions a year. So the things you say used to be good lost funding adjusted by inflation.
Your pronunciation is extremely good; it surprises me every time.
5:08 Finland is known as the country of a thousand lakes.
Yes in the south where I live we see very little snow. At the moment nothing.
14:47 It is quite easy to learn German if you speak Swedish, especially if you learn it in school from a young age (12+). But you do have to study German to understand it.
From 12 yo swedes choose German, French or Spanish as their third language, and they have to learn this for several years, up to 7 years before university. I don't remember how many years are obligatory, but at least 2 or 4 years.
Im half Swede and half German and there are many words which are the same. Many are also really similar. Take as example duscha and duschen.
Nah, southern Sweden has atleast some weeks of snow per year. In nov-feb temps usually vary between +4C to like -15C
Where I'm from in Sweden the weather can be 10°C on midsummer evening.. and also on Christmas Eve.. fking Borås
Swedish talking skills 3/5 actually pretty good man. :)
my uneducated thought on why systembolaget has a higher drinking age than bars is so we can get weaned into it. the bar can shut you off if youve had too much, so the first few times you go out you get that "first drunk" out of the way in a slightly more controlled/regulated way, then when you're old enough to buy it whenever you've grown a bit more and getting absolutely plastered isn't as big of a deal anymore. - Random swede's thoughts
17:12 Sweden has guns too and they are quite common however you must get a lisens to get one, aka you need to be fit to have a gun and do a corse on how to use them to get to own one so not like the US where every depressed teen has a gun store within 2 miles and can get guns without any controls
The grammar is quite simular between sweden and germany. The languages are based around "the nordic germanic" language. So all the nordic countries + germany and England is somewhat related. At the age of 9 you learn english in school and at the age of 12 you have the choice to pick german, spanish or french as a 2nd language in school.
Spanish seems to gain a lot today, reasonable considering number of speakers. Though German and Germany ought to still feel "closer".
You talked about the similarities between the languages. And yes, I understand a Norwegian almost perfectly, a Dane with some struggle but I wouldn't understand a German (maybe Danes would though).
In Sweden everyone learns a third language in high school (I went for Spanish but don't remember anything) and what I've heard from my peers learning German the grammar and some words are pretty similar to Swedish so they thought it was pretty easy to learn.
I recommend Sarek, skierfe, abisko and stora sjöfallet and more
The Scandinavian mounTain range isn’t very high since it’s so old and has been grounded down by weather and several ice ages.
No we get snow all over Sweden but if you compare to the northern part its basically nothing because the north get really much much snow, like canada I think.
The guy is wrong, it doesn't have to be public land. You can walk and camp and do almost everything even on private land, just not in the absolute vicinity of someones house and also as long as you don't do any permanent harm to the land.
Fun fact with the alcohol law in Sweden. There is no age limit for drinks with 2.25% or less alcohol, as it is considered as a light drink. between 2.25% - 3.5% you can drink at 18-20 years, and anything above 3.5% is 20 and up.
Edit: and yes, Sweden does have embassies in the US. Three actually. New York, Washington and San Francisco. And practically one consulate per state.
AB Volvo doesn't make cars. That was a small subdivision and they sold it to Ford who later wold it to Geely.
Finland officially has more lakes than your little Canada. =)
Roads may be good in the south where more people is compressed but where there is need of road because of the distance between stores and whatever there is bad roads
Fun fact, or maybe not so fun. Lördagsgodis originated from the "vipeholmsexperimenten". An experiment where mentally handicapped people would be force fed a VERY sticky, sugary, toffee. And through various experiments and studies it was said that having a lot of candy once a week was better for your teeth than a little bit every day. Which is true. Sweden has contributed a lot to the dental science, sadly at the cost of peoples suffering but different times i suppose.
Pronunciation is as a non native 3/5.5
Dont buy bottled water in Sweden. Tap is good and even better when you have your own water supply/well.
Great video! Your reaction to the whale mouth sex was funny
about a third of our swedish words comes from germany. so it Depends
The reason why in the south part of Sweden snows less than in Rhode Island is the same reason why snows less in Sacramento that in Rhode Island, ocean currents. There is a global ocean current that flows from the south of Africa to the north pole running all acroos the west coast of Europe and then that current goes from the north pole running all across the esat coast of North and South America, turns up again when crosses the south of South America it goes up again running across the west coast of both South and North America. That current brings hot water from the equator to the west coast of Europe and cold water from the Artic Ocean to the east coast of North America. That affects a lot to the climate. For the same latitude, western Europe or west coast of North America will have a hotter climate than the east coast of US.
I went to the Priest's bathtub last year! The beach there is insane, jagged rocks everywhere as if an old norse god went berserk on the land with his axe.
Is it easy for a Scandinavian to learn German? Short answer: no. We are taught it in school so many of us can speak it (at least in Denmark) - but it's still one of the most hated languages here - like in general! Having to do German is like doing chores.... no strike that - I would rather do the dishes than speak German! 😀Aber ich kann es doch sprechen 😀I just chose not to! But yeah Swedes, Danes and Norwegians can sooorrttt of understand each other - especially if learn the words that are not at all the same. An example between Danish vs Swedish and Norwegian is the number 50. I Denmark it is "Halvtres" - but in Swedish it is "femtio" and in Norwegian it's "Femti". So basically in this example the Danes for some unexplainable reason decided to make a completely unique way of saying numbers - where the other Scandies chose - well the same as the English basically Fifty - or five tens, Femti - five tens... (Any non-Scandies can ignore this last part) Now before any of my Scandinavian brothers gets the chance to taunt us for this - remember that your languages are just as messed up - and we DID used to own you. 😀
P.S. If you want to identify "which Scandinavian language" you are hearing here you go (not 100% but for the most part it works):
Danes sound very monotone in comparison. Also you are usually not in doubt when a Dane is speaking English - or Danelish as we affectionately call it. Just look it up on UA-cam 😀
The Swedes speak in tonal waves. They usually start in a fairly low tone, then goes up a pitch, and then goes back down at the end of the sentence. Again here - you almost can't miss hearing the accent when they speak English - Or Swenglish - and again - just look it up on YT - it's about as distinct as Danelish 😀
The Norwegian speak on a tonal up-curve. They start low and go up into higher tones. They match the amount of "beats" to the length of the sentence which is VERY distinct and VERY hard to replicate. When they speak English they are not as distinct though. To my ear they sound a good mix of Irish, German, Swenglish and Danelish. You can take a stab at this one yourself here.
ua-cam.com/video/49CkgeQVh70/v-deo.html&ab_channel=HenrikBrodtkorb
a disturbing fact about "lördagsgodis": The decision to promote a one one day per week candy intake comes from the experiements conducted at the Vipeholm Institute where people with physical and mental disabilities were fed only candy to see how fast sugar would disintegrate teeth.
You should react to a movie about the Wasa ship. It was commissioned by Gustavus Adolphus
I live 2 min from arlanda, in order to drive to the city centre of stockholm in 45minutes you'd have to be going in reverse. Its 30min tops with traffic... Carry on. :)
Listening to you trying to speak swedish is quite intresting, altho i'd have to say you sound almost danish with the way you say things, So its close atleast ^^ skål!
as a swede who is learning german it's actually not that hard. Since we both are germanic languages and also share a fiew words the only hard thing is the way words connect with other words.
South Sweden (Not Danish) hade me in stitches. It is very common to joke about those living in Skåne is infact danish
By the way, Finland is called The Land of a 1000 lakes sometimes, not sure how wide spread that is outside Scandinavia though.
Allmäns rätten is kinda hard to explain on where it applies. Very short and simplified version is that all woods etc are fair go. Gardens etc is still offlimits. Most videos also dont explain that there is still rules, like you are not allowed to destroy anything, you have to leave things as when you got there (No littering etc), you are not allowed to cut down trees and so on and so forth.
Swedish, Norwegian and Danish can sort of understand eachother. Some can understand a little german, and even dutch. But it is not as strange as it sounds, as they are all based on the same language (germanic). English is basicly a mash up from a lot of the ancient languages (latin, germanic etc etc), so that is why there are quite a few of similar words.
I just want to point out, about health care, I dont doubt that america have the better health care, if not the best. Problem (from my point of view) is that you have to be insanly rich. Just a natural things as giving birth can cost up to 25k dollar... Sorry for the choice of words, but it should be fucking free. Healthcare should not be a reward, it is a human right. Well, ok, it is not really free here. We pay for it with our taxes. Our high taxes meen we have free healthcare. Free education, no matter on what level. Sometimes it is painted as "everything is free" while infact it is that everyone, the whole countries, helps eachother out to make sure we all have the same security and rights. Also, what is not mentioned, the private insurance thing, is still reglegated by the same rules as the national healthcare. So there is not really much difference, and no hospital or healthcare center may deny care, no matter what. So even if you dont have an "insurence", you can go to the same places and reseive the same help.
About immegrants, it is a lot time angeled. We will take in fugetives from war, natural distaster, political refugees or what not, and give temporary citizenship. A lot of them get permenant, but a lot also have to leave as well.
And also, the whole latin catalog of plants was written by a swede called Carl Von Linné. Which I think they should have mentioned, as it is used over the whole world.
And one last thing that is not mention... Weapons. We export -a lot- of weapons. We manufacture and export the most used anti-tank weapons in the world (The AT4, and the Carl-Gustav), artillery, anti-air weapons. Not many even want do admit it here. We even supply the american military with thousands of weapons every year.
Last Edit: Swedes have been called The Beautiful People, so of course we look good :P
being a swedish person myself i think you did i good job pronouncing all the words.
"We have guns" omg that had me rolling on the floor
About the immigrants - Sweden was one of the few countries that actually allowed refugees to enter its country, while many European countries did not. F.ex.we took in as many as Germany, that is a much larger country. We also already have a big community of ppl from the middle east, such as Syriens, so they ofc traveled here to be with their loved ones and friends, like any sane person would do. But some people also just come here since they hear stories about how they will get lots of money when they enter the country and get a bike so they can travel in the cities (not true :P)
2:50 LOL, Swedes only eat Lutfisk once a year aswell. If at all anymore. Its more an old persons dish.
Actually at 1:16, can you walk in someones backyard, no but you can pitch a tent on private land if it is just for 1 night, then it is ok if like it is in a forest owned by someone.. you have the right to camp for 1 night..
I would grade your pronunciation of the Swedish words: Pretty well out of 10
Sweden sent help to north Vietnam in the Vietnam war
Yeah we sent healthcare equipment and personal to train them. It was the policy then to help any country who got attacked in an emperialist way.
You said all of the words almost all the words perfectly
5:18 Finland actually has the second most islands in the world after Sweden.
I have walked from the Sun to Mars three times, touching the effigies at each planet. Takes me five hours. Extending the walk to Jupiter feels impossible, it’s at Arlanda Airport which is 30 minutes by *high speed train*
Why did the norwegian crawl around in the store?
He was searching for "low prices" *comical sound effects*.
(u gotta love the jokes between us though!)