IKEA = Ingvar Kamprad (founder) Elmtaryd (the farm he was born) Agunnaryd (the village close to the farm) My father was from the province where this location can be found, so he knew this well.
Scania is one of Sweden's famous brands because of well known buses and trucks like Scania K360 😊😊 In Southeast Asia, the Philippines and Indonesia are well known of Scania mostly on Touring and some bus companies have Scania such as GV Florida and Rosalia Indah 😊😊
I remember very well the pronunciation comparison of Swedish brands more than a year ago. The Finnish woman's answer to H&M was really funny and the other Nordics reacted to it with a smile.
what is even more shocking is, that she does not know that mercedes is actually a woman's name. i would have guested that people in stuttgart should know that the name originates from the dealer emil jellnik who used to call himeself monsieur mercédès in racing. that was the name of his daughter if i remember it correctly.
@@feyindecay912 Yeah, I as a Dane also didn't know what country H&M originated from. It seems very different than knowing where ABBA is from. It makes sense to know ABBA is Swedish, because it's a band. You know the people behind band, and that's why you know where it's from. But H&M is just another soulless corporation among thousands of others. Why would you know who is behind it, and where they are from? It seems like a much more niche piece of trivia than knowing the bandmembers of a band lol.
And he got the idea for his daughter's name from the Spanish princess Mercedes, who was born just a few years before her. Mercedes is a very Spanish name (just like Dolores). We shorten it as "Merche", but we would never call the car brand "Merche" though, since it'd sound silly and less sophisticated 😂
The inability to pronounce the rolling "R" is called "cadel" here in Indonesia. Sometimes people with this affliction are seen to be child-like and adorable, but many also perceive them to be a bit annoying 😅. I mean we really roll our "R"
In my opinion when it comes to brand names pronunciation a lot of it comes down to how "international" a person or a society is. A Finnish person from a small town that isn't very invested in international things (what we would call a "juntti") would pronounce brand names very different than someone from Helsinki.
My friend was deathly afraid of Citymarket as a child, her elderly countryside parents called it Kitumarket (Suffer or Torturemarket). She was well over 10, when she found out it was really just a large daily ware store, torture wasn’t included in the shopping experience and no whips & chains were sold.. It’s our version of Walmart, so I find Kitumarket oddly fitting sometimes (as an adult).
When IKEA launched in the USA around 1990, their corporate marketing told us to pronounce it as "Eye-KEE-Uh". I don't know why they chose to do that, since the native pronunciation is no more difficult to say. (Honestly, any four-letter word with three vowels could be pronounced a hundred different ways in English, haha.)
@@lenarsa66 it became H&M in like the late 90s. I always remember it as H&M and having "hennes & mauritz" addition somewhere until like mid 00s at the latest
@@Becks-and-books A month ago in another part if this thread I wrote: "H&M means Hennes and Mauritz. We used to say Hennes for short, meaning hers. Her that is of course Greta Garbo and Mauritz is Mauritz Stiller, actor and filmmaker that worked a lot with Greta Garbo. Possibly her "discoverer". Now this is only the legend version. The more boring version is that first the was a company called Hennes-Hers refering to Greta Garbo, that sold women's clothing. Then they started working with another company called Mauritz Widforss Handels AB that sold men's clothing and that became Hennes & Mauritz - H&M. But you must agree, the first version is more mystical 😜😝"
My pronunciation as a Swedish-speaking Finn varies: For Arken I follow the Swedish pronunciation (just without the pitch accent); I pronounce H&M, Volvo, Fjällräven and Iittala the Finnish way; Spotify depends on the language (in German I pronounce it like in British English, in English either in British or American English, and in Finnish and Swedish I pronounce it the Finnish way); Ikea the Finnish way except the E is accented and longer, Mercedes-Benz also depends on the language (I pronounce it according to the language, except in Swedish the first E is closer to Ä or Æ, the R and C are pronounced separately, and I'm lacking the pitch accent, sometimes I drop the "Benz" part); Maison Margiela I try the French way (I've never actually heard of the brand before); Zara I pronounce it the Finnish way except the first A is long; and finally, I pronounce Versace the Italian way.
Mercedes is indeed a Spanish name. The creator of the car had named his daughter after the Spanish princess at the time, Mercedes, who had been born just a few years prior, and when the time came to give a name to the car he used his daughter's Spanish name. I guess it sounded "exotic" to Germans back then.
Yeah, most people I have talked with would say Märsa or similar depending on dialect, some might say Mercedes and then super pretentious people would say Mercedes Benz.
Honestly Spotify, h&m, IKEA, Volvo are by far the biggest brands to go global from Sweden. In India a luxury bus means Volvo and Volvo means luxury bus. Everyone knows this brand. 🚍
Same! xD There are so many swedish brands (originally) that are better chosen like Electrolux, Hästens, Ericsson, ABB, Absolut, Bahco, Hasselblad, IsaDora, Lindex, Marc O'Polo, Tetra Pak, Zyn, Polestar, Koenigsegg, Skype, m.m.
The Fjällräven backpack is popular because of nostalgia. When I started first grade as a child in the early 80:s it was the most common bag for kids in Sweden. That changed but when my generation started having kids there was a new surge in popularity for the backpack and adults started using it too. By then Sweden was very good at promoting our brands internationally so it just took off.
I moved to France in the nineties. A french woman living in the same house had one Fjällräven backpack and she really loved it! Lasted for a very long time as well. She used it every day.
As a Finn I would have probably chosen to ask them how they pronounce Nokia. Well, that may be too easy and similar with each. Maybe Rovio or Marimekko
I can see Finnish frustration on the face of a Finnish participant when others are surprised that H&M is Swedish. Also, in Finland Fjällravem is sometimes called a "kettulaukku" because it is a backpack with a fox logo.
Kettureppu (fox backpack)! It goes for anything, my husband has their jacket, so kettutakki (fox jacket) it is. Ive heard few Finns call it Fjellu, but thats the minority.
@@herrbonk3635 That's shocking consindering that the majority of swedish people know spotify. If you don't you're either old, live in the middle of nowhere or you're barely online.
Mercedes (Jellinek) from Mercedes-Benz was actually named after a Spanish Princess so yeah, it's a Spanish name actually. You can look it up for more information.
Iingvar Kamprad was living during a long time in Switzerland, near Lausanne. He was living in Switzerland for tax reason. When he is dead, he had the 8th wealth in the World. But, he is know to be very stingy. For instance, he went to the supermaket in Switzerland around 18 hours, because the supermaket closes at 18 hours 30. Of course, supermarket makes discount on articles that needs to be sold this day, so Ingvar Kamprad was buying these articles with discount. 😂
H&M means Hennes and Mauritz. We used to say Hennes for short, meaning hers. Her that is of course Greta Garbo and Mauritz is Mauritz Stiller, actor and filmmaker that worked a lot with Greta Garbo. Possibly her "discoverer". Now this is only the legend version. The more boring version is that first the was a company called Hennes-Hers refering to Greta Garbo, that sold women's clothing. Then they started working with another company called Mauritz Widforss Handels AB that sold men's clothing and that became Hennes & Mauritz - H&M. But you must agree, the first version is more mystical 😜😝
Italian has a stress accent that is close to what is considered a pitch accent, but its not strctly the same. For the people who don't know, pitched words aren't really the same as homophones (words that sound the same). So, like "branch" (as in stick) and "branch" (as in part of a company) are not examples of pitch variation, even if they sound alike. To understand those differences you need context from the sentence that it is used. With a pitch accent you do not need context. The pitch of the word is enough to distinguish between which variation you are using.
3:20 No, we say "dix heures" (private joke even for most French people). 3:48 Volvo is a Latin word, its meaning is "I'm rolling". Pretty sure the Swedish girl doesn't know it. 6:29 Nope, the UK pronounce it the same way than in continental Europe. It's in the US Ikea is pronouced this way. 7:52 The Mercedes-Benz name is a combination of two names: Mercedes Jellinek and Karl Benz. Originally, Mercedes-Benz was founded by Karl Benz and Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler and was part of Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, better known as DMG. The company was first known by the name Daimler-Benz, as an homage to the founders. After Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler passed away, entrepreneur and racing enthusiast Emil Jellinek was brought on by chief engineer Wilhelm Maybach. Emil went on to help create the Mercedes 35hp in 1900. Jellinek named the new cars after his daughter, Mercédès Jellinek, whose Spanish name translated to “mercy.” The company later went on to have the “Mercedes” name trademarked 1902. While the company continued to trade as Daimler-Benz, the car line began to carry the Mercedes-Benz name. 8:04 In "French hood" and north eastern France some people shorten the name by only saying Benz, there's even a popular French rap song titled "Ma Benz".
When I was a kid there were two different brands: Hers was doing woman clothes, and Maurice's was doing mens wear. At some point they joined forces, and became Hers and Mauric's. Or H&M.
@@siimtulev1759 That one wasn't about how Finnish works. It was about how we pronounce foreign words - few people are going to say them in full rally english mode. She said versace exactly like I would have.
Interesting that Italians and Spaniards have to go to a speech teacher to learn how to pronounce "r" in their correct way. In Sweden, children who cannot make rolling "r" or hard "r" also has to go to a speech teacher.
It depends, in the region where I live, in the North of Italy, a lot of small towns have this kind of "French r" but it's considered a characteristic of their town accent. And people from nearby towns joke about it a lot, you can tell where they come from.😊
Well, it appears whenever I retire and go to visit Germany, I'll have to step out of Bavaria for a bit and see how Baden-Wurttemberg is doing. Stuttgart seems like it would be a nice place.
I wouldn't hold my breath because Germany is sacrificing its auto industry in order to prop up US foreign policy and it's been devastating. It's really puzzling why EU politicians no longer feel that they can diverge from the White House.
“Americans change all the pronunciations” Okay, Versace, yes, you got us. Zara? I’ve never heard anybody pronounce it as “Sara” and I’ve heard it said aloud many times. We use a heavy “Z” sound and the ending is always pronounced like “are-a” not “air-a”
Germans are accurated they spell Espotify better than in English with the spell is Ispotify, a fast straight cutter spell, German spell is very explicative, pacient. Spotify is another weird word a neologism 🤭🥂🍺
Swede from the second biggest city here. Never heard anyone pronounce Mercedes that way. You would only pronounce the c as a sch when you say Merca which is a shortened way of saying the name. Otherwise the c would be pronounced as a s in the full name Mercedes.
Are there any other german speaking people here who pronounce spotify like she does, never heard a german say "schpotify"? And I'm from the south and know lots of people from south germany.
Yeah and the amount of vowels and consonants really matter. That's why we might smile a bit for foreigners if they pronounce words with too short or too long vowels or missing the double consonants. We do appreciate people using Finnish though and if you want you can ask for corrections as most will rarely correct prononciations of any person unless asked to do so. Good example of this are following Finnish words: Tuli, Tulli and Tuuli. Those are in order: Fire, Customs and Wind. In fact if one just use basic forms of Finnish words in almost any order we will eventually understand what you want to say. Just needs more effort as we have to change each word to correct form in our mind first and maybe ask couple questions to disambiguate some of the words that can be understood multiple ways because not given in their correct form but instead in the basic form.
It's boring to have Finnish pronouncing brand names, because we just pronounce them as in English or whatever the most common way of pronouncing the name is. It's more fun when we get to see our own words and vocabulary.
If this was done with guys the Finnish guy would have been fighting with the Swedish guy the the whole time and the German guy would propably be hyping up the Finnish guy
Not many Swedish brands on this list: Mercedes Benz is German, Iittala is Finnish, Versace is Italian, Maison Margiela is French. Arket is a brand under the H&M umbrella, but was founded in London, England.
Don't forget fjällräven is also a political statement.. if you see a person with a fjällräven bag in sweden you know their political opinions 95% of the cases.. i want to say 100%.. but it wouldn't be fair.
Claudia have sweetest face here. She always smiling
Electrolux is also a Swedish brand that would have been fun to hear in different languages.
or Husqvarna
Or Koenigsegg, there are actually 2 ways, 1. With swedish words, 2. English. And that’s it
I didn't know it was Swedish. I thought it was maybe Slovakian or Croatian.
IKEA = Ingvar Kamprad (founder) Elmtaryd (the farm he was born) Agunnaryd (the village close to the farm)
My father was from the province where this location can be found, so he knew this well.
Are you taking about Älmhult in Småland?
småland?
@@torrhap Japp
@@luminoustarisma kunglig farsa
Jag brukar säga Ingvar Kamprads Egen Affär.
Scania is one of Sweden's famous brands because of well known buses and trucks like Scania K360 😊😊
In Southeast Asia, the Philippines and Indonesia are well known of Scania mostly on Touring and some bus companies have Scania such as GV Florida and Rosalia Indah 😊😊
Not really
Scania is also or first the name of the southernmost part of Sweden in latin; Skåne in swedish. Some consider it more a part of Denmark... 😄
@lenarsa66 Yeah 😊😊
Yes. But a part of the Volkswagen group since a couple of years.
@WinkelHoof Yeah 😊😊
I remember very well the pronunciation comparison of Swedish brands more than a year ago. The Finnish woman's answer to H&M was really funny and the other Nordics reacted to it with a smile.
“Americans change all the pronunciation”
Well, France, you also change everything😂
I grind my teeth every time I hear you guys pronouce "Cadillac" wrong. 😄
😂😂😂😂😂
Domestic fight
😂😂😂😂😂
Bye, bye, bye
😂😂😂😂😂
It's rather funny how the anglos wage war with the french when they're BOTH wrong.
War ? Are you kidding ? And the Entente
Cordiale ? :)
Of course, France is the land of Revolution!
:)
Hey Lou Anne is back! So is Claudia and Liina
Everybody in Germany knows that H&M and ABBA are from Sweden. You found that one blonde who doesn't 😅
She really lives up to the blond vibes.
what is even more shocking is, that she does not know that mercedes is actually a woman's name. i would have guested that people in stuttgart should know that the name originates from the dealer emil jellnik who used to call himeself monsieur mercédès in racing. that was the name of his daughter if i remember it correctly.
I didn't know h&m was swedish for a long time, and I'm both swedish and German
@@feyindecay912Even Minecraft is Swedish
@@feyindecay912 Yeah, I as a Dane also didn't know what country H&M originated from. It seems very different than knowing where ABBA is from.
It makes sense to know ABBA is Swedish, because it's a band. You know the people behind band, and that's why you know where it's from.
But H&M is just another soulless corporation among thousands of others. Why would you know who is behind it, and where they are from? It seems like a much more niche piece of trivia than knowing the bandmembers of a band lol.
Similar to Finnish (merso) Mercedes is often called “mersha” in Sweden
In Lithuanian we say "mersas".
Mercedes went from the first name of Emil Jellinek’s daughter, a business man, : Mercédès. :)
In India they changed the name from mercedes to Bharat which means India in Hindi so commercial trucks go by the name Bharat Benz.
Disappointed the Spanish girl didn't know that it's a Spanish name, but in her defence she suspected something.
Emil Jellinek looks like slightly modified Czech name, originally it would be Emil Jelínek. 😀
And he got the idea for his daughter's name from the Spanish princess Mercedes, who was born just a few years before her. Mercedes is a very Spanish name (just like Dolores). We shorten it as "Merche", but we would never call the car brand "Merche" though, since it'd sound silly and less sophisticated 😂
The inability to pronounce the rolling "R" is called "cadel" here in Indonesia. Sometimes people with this affliction are seen to be child-like and adorable, but many also perceive them to be a bit annoying 😅. I mean we really roll our "R"
3:25 gurl, you are freaking lying! No one says „Schpotify“ 😂
Shpotify 😂
I love german humor 😂😂😂😂
She said shopshoptify😂😂😂😂😂😂
Seeeee this duuuuuuudeeee😂😂😂😂
На Финском любое слово звучит очень странно, как же я обожаю этот язык за подобное, он прекрасен
ABBA is from Sweden, but i love Roxette too, many songs of them are my favorites, Liina is my favorite member among the nordic countries
Don't forget about my favourite bands: Army of Lovers and Ace of Base.
In my opinion when it comes to brand names pronunciation a lot of it comes down to how "international" a person or a society is. A Finnish person from a small town that isn't very invested in international things (what we would call a "juntti") would pronounce brand names very different than someone from Helsinki.
My friend was deathly afraid of Citymarket as a child, her elderly countryside parents called it Kitumarket (Suffer or Torturemarket). She was well over 10, when she found out it was really just a large daily ware store, torture wasn’t included in the shopping experience and no whips & chains were sold.. It’s our version of Walmart, so I find Kitumarket oddly fitting sometimes (as an adult).
When IKEA launched in the USA around 1990, their corporate marketing told us to pronounce it as "Eye-KEE-Uh". I don't know why they chose to do that, since the native pronunciation is no more difficult to say. (Honestly, any four-letter word with three vowels could be pronounced a hundred different ways in English, haha.)
It could be pronounced:
ee-kee, Eye-kay-uh, Ee-kee-ah,
and a thousand more other ways😂
As a Swede, out of all the Swedish brands in this video, I've literally never heard of Arket
Hej, jag hade inte heller hört talas om det 😊
Jag med
maybe a 08 brand?
In Denmark we don't say HM or H&M, we actually say the full name - Hennes & Mauritz - pronounced almost as in Swedish
Because that was the name before they shortened it to make it to the international market.
@@lenarsa66 it became H&M in like the late 90s. I always remember it as H&M and having "hennes & mauritz" addition somewhere until like mid 00s at the latest
@@Becks-and-books A month ago in another part if this thread I wrote:
"H&M means Hennes and Mauritz. We used to say Hennes for short, meaning hers. Her that is of course Greta Garbo and Mauritz is Mauritz Stiller, actor and filmmaker that worked a lot with Greta Garbo. Possibly her "discoverer". Now this is only the legend version. The more boring version is that first the was a company called Hennes-Hers refering to Greta Garbo, that sold women's clothing. Then they started working with another company called Mauritz Widforss Handels AB that sold men's clothing and that became Hennes & Mauritz - H&M. But you must agree, the first version is more mystical 😜😝"
In the 70ies, when I first went there, it was called Hennes & Mauritz in publicity, then H&M. Shorter and shorter 😆
My pronunciation as a Swedish-speaking Finn varies:
For Arken I follow the Swedish pronunciation (just without the pitch accent); I pronounce H&M, Volvo, Fjällräven and Iittala the Finnish way; Spotify depends on the language (in German I pronounce it like in British English, in English either in British or American English, and in Finnish and Swedish I pronounce it the Finnish way); Ikea the Finnish way except the E is accented and longer, Mercedes-Benz also depends on the language (I pronounce it according to the language, except in Swedish the first E is closer to Ä or Æ, the R and C are pronounced separately, and I'm lacking the pitch accent, sometimes I drop the "Benz" part); Maison Margiela I try the French way (I've never actually heard of the brand before); Zara I pronounce it the Finnish way except the first A is long; and finally, I pronounce Versace the Italian way.
French girl is adorable ❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊
"Slaton" Ibrahimovic 🤣
"Swedish was shocked" the titles are cute lol
Mercedes is indeed a Spanish name. The creator of the car had named his daughter after the Spanish princess at the time, Mercedes, who had been born just a few years prior, and when the time came to give a name to the car he used his daughter's Spanish name. I guess it sounded "exotic" to Germans back then.
Jennifer 🇩🇪❤, what a nice surprise!
Thanks! Although I am getting roasted in the comments about my accent lol it's fun 😅
@Jenncysworld haha Don't worry about them, good to hear from you!❤
@@Jenncysworld😘🥰😍🤗🥂🍺
Reg de ed auf Mädle, dia hen koi Aanung.
no there is shortened version of Merceden in swedish, it is Merca (SH sound instead rc)
Or "Kokainsläde", In English "Cocaine sled" because the Criminals always drives Mercedes or BMW
Yeah, most people I have talked with would say Märsa or similar depending on dialect, some might say Mercedes and then super pretentious people would say Mercedes Benz.
I've not heard anyone below 50 say märsa
What the beep is "arket"? (I am from Sweden and NEVER heard of it!)
Same!
Honestly Spotify, h&m, IKEA, Volvo are by far the biggest brands to go global from Sweden.
In India a luxury bus means Volvo and Volvo means luxury bus. Everyone knows this brand. 🚍
It's a clothing brand/store. Owned by H&M but supposedly more "fancy". I'm also Swedish but only heard of it recently.
It's Turkish.
Same! xD There are so many swedish brands (originally) that are better chosen like Electrolux, Hästens, Ericsson, ABB, Absolut, Bahco, Hasselblad, IsaDora, Lindex, Marc O'Polo, Tetra Pak, Zyn, Polestar, Koenigsegg, Skype, m.m.
And then a older swede comes and say spotify in the non english way "spotti-fy" 😅 Like I do 😂
French girl is Back,she is nice..yeah
The Fjällräven backpack is popular because of nostalgia. When I started first grade as a child in the early 80:s it was the most common bag for kids in Sweden. That changed but when my generation started having kids there was a new surge in popularity for the backpack and adults started using it too. By then Sweden was very good at promoting our brands internationally so it just took off.
I moved to France in the nineties. A french woman living in the same house had one Fjällräven backpack and she really loved it! Lasted for a very long time as well. She used it every day.
They are also very durable.
I remember those from the 80´s here in Finland. Of course those are still sold here and i see those occasionally.
Thanks.
As a Finn I would have probably chosen to ask them how they pronounce Nokia. Well, that may be too easy and similar with each. Maybe Rovio or Marimekko
너무 재미있게 보고 잇는데요 한글 자막이 잇엇으면 좋겠어요 음성이 영어인데 자막이 또 영어? 네요... 자막은 한글이였으면 한국사람들도 재미있게 볼수잇엇것같아요 저도 영어를 못하는데 한글 자막이 없어서 먼말인지를 모르겟어요..ㅠㅠ
I can see Finnish frustration on the face of a Finnish participant when others are surprised that H&M is Swedish.
Also, in Finland Fjällravem is sometimes called a "kettulaukku" because it is a backpack with a fox logo.
"Kettulauku" interesting totaly Asian and uralic finnic 🍺🍺🍺🍺
Kettureppu (fox backpack)! It goes for anything, my husband has their jacket, so kettutakki (fox jacket) it is. Ive heard few Finns call it Fjellu, but thats the minority.
8:00 Old Swedes say "a Mersha", rather than "a Merchedes".
H, ”hå” ends with “å”, &. So it is natural to contract it to “Håem”.
Woaw.. i didn't know Spotify is from Sweden?
Sweden has the highest innovation index (pc) in the world, we like our inventions
And I'm Swedish and don't know what spotify is :)
@@herrbonk3635 it's a music streaming platform.. the biggest in the world I would say.. 😅
@@AviatorSE-RSF 😮
@@herrbonk3635 That's shocking consindering that the majority of swedish people know spotify. If you don't you're either old, live in the middle of nowhere or you're barely online.
Mercedes (Jellinek) from Mercedes-Benz was actually named after a Spanish Princess so yeah, it's a Spanish name actually. You can look it up for more information.
Mercedes was the daughter of Emil Jellinek and she was from Austria. She do not have a big Wikipedia page but there is one.
@ThomasVanhala Yes! and her daughter was named in honor of María de las Mercedes of Bourbon (Spanish Princess).
Iingvar Kamprad was living during a long time in Switzerland, near Lausanne. He was living in Switzerland for tax reason. When he is dead, he had the 8th wealth in the World. But, he is know to be very stingy. For instance, he went to the supermaket in Switzerland around 18 hours, because the supermaket closes at 18 hours 30. Of course, supermarket makes discount on articles that needs to be sold this day, so Ingvar Kamprad was buying these articles with discount. 😂
He was known to be a cheap ass
i think it was easy for french, italian and spanish to say volvo because the word "volvo" comes from latin
Well, Spaniards say volver, and Italians evolver, frenchies yeux-revolver, from
dutch-normand :)
Really? I didn't know
8:18 She said "taxi" but the subtitle is "charge tax", LOL
H&M means Hennes and Mauritz. We used to say Hennes for short, meaning hers. Her that is of course Greta Garbo and Mauritz is Mauritz Stiller, actor and filmmaker that worked a lot with Greta Garbo. Possibly her "discoverer". Now this is only the legend version. The more boring version is that first the was a company called Hennes-Hers refering to Greta Garbo, that sold women's clothing. Then they started working with another company called Mauritz Widforss Handels AB that sold men's clothing and that became Hennes & Mauritz - H&M. But you must agree, the first version is more mystical 😜😝
Italian has a stress accent that is close to what is considered a pitch accent, but its not strctly the same.
For the people who don't know, pitched words aren't really the same as homophones (words that sound the same). So, like "branch" (as in stick) and "branch" (as in part of a company) are not examples of pitch variation, even if they sound alike. To understand those differences you need context from the sentence that it is used.
With a pitch accent you do not need context. The pitch of the word is enough to distinguish between which variation you are using.
More is Scania
H&M was started in Västerås.
The nickname for Mercedes Benz in Finnish is mersu, not merso.
3:20 No, we say "dix heures" (private joke even for most French people).
3:48 Volvo is a Latin word, its meaning is "I'm rolling". Pretty sure the Swedish girl doesn't know it.
6:29 Nope, the UK pronounce it the same way than in continental Europe. It's in the US Ikea is pronouced this way.
7:52 The Mercedes-Benz name is a combination of two names: Mercedes Jellinek and Karl Benz. Originally, Mercedes-Benz was founded by Karl Benz and Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler and was part of Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, better known as DMG. The company was first known by the name Daimler-Benz, as an homage to the founders.
After Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler passed away, entrepreneur and racing enthusiast Emil Jellinek was brought on by chief engineer Wilhelm Maybach. Emil went on to help create the Mercedes 35hp in 1900. Jellinek named the new cars after his daughter, Mercédès Jellinek, whose Spanish name translated to “mercy.” The company later went on to have the “Mercedes” name trademarked 1902. While the company continued to trade as Daimler-Benz, the car line began to carry the Mercedes-Benz name.
8:04 In "French hood" and north eastern France some people shorten the name by only saying Benz, there's even a popular French rap song titled "Ma Benz".
I know that H&H is from Sweden because I lived in Sweden for so long like so many years❤
Sorry I said H&M wrong😂
😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤
When I was a kid there were two different brands: Hers was doing woman clothes, and Maurice's was doing mens wear. At some point they joined forces, and became Hers and Mauric's. Or H&M.
Karl Benz invented the Internal Combustion Engine and first automobile. His name should be someone that everyone on Earth knows.
😂😂😂😂 Maybe the inventor of wheel should be first, dont you think?
Or Lenin
No, the first automobile using a petrol engine was created in France, in 1884, two years before Benz.
And first automobile ever, with steam, was also invented in France in the 18th century.
Well, I as a finnish I say H&M "hoo ät äm"
Or Hooämmä. But I definitely approve Henkkamaukka, or Henkkis.
german girl: we have a strong Z.
literally pronounces it like an S.
Yeah her first attempt was a little off and sounded like Sara. Her second attempt is how it's usually said in Germany: Tsara.
The German girl was hilarious 😆 She needs to be in more videos!
She's lovely and funny, and musical person❤
I disagree. The way she said Spotify gave me the biggest ick. Nobody pronounces it that way.
The Finnish girl did not pronunce like Fins would say..
Same for the swedish girl
How so? I’m Finnish and she said all of them the same way I do. Except maybe Versace but she acknowledged she doesn’t know how people say it.
@@saaraa7876 I can't remember whole video anymore, but Versace is the one I definitely meant. I am Estonian myself and I know how Finnish works :D
@@siimtulev1759 That one wasn't about how Finnish works. It was about how we pronounce foreign words - few people are going to say them in full rally english mode. She said versace exactly like I would have.
@@siimtulev1759but no one says Versace in Finland like it would actually be pronounced in Finnish.
La pronunciacion correcta es la española porque es un nombre español, Mercedes.
Well then Zara is pronounced Zahra or Sara, not Thara, because it comes from Arabic and Hebrew, not Spanish.
@@andyx6827 Sara is for Bible Christian name
Versace is hard to pronounce in Finnish lol. I understand the struggle
I have never heard this fashion house Maison Margiela. 🤔
Me too..maybe Maison du Monde😅
"It's from my hometown I know this very well" - Doesn't even know What the Mercedes means and isn't sure on the Benz either. Girl stop yappin
7:54 Mercedes was the other founders daughters name
Yes, They named their daughter with the spanish name Mercedes, because they liked the name
I’m from Sweden and I did not know they had these many brands-
Volvo is latin for "I roll".
Ssssssara 😅😂...I think Mercedes is a Roman Empire name Latin girl...
Interesting that Italians and Spaniards have to go to a speech teacher to learn how to pronounce "r" in their correct way. In Sweden, children who cannot make rolling "r" or hard "r" also has to go to a speech teacher.
It's a galore that Italian schools have teachers !! ahahah
It depends, in the region where I live, in the North of Italy, a lot of small towns have this kind of "French r" but it's considered a characteristic of their town accent. And people from nearby towns joke about it a lot, you can tell where they come from.😊
Where ?
@@KuukilabKuuki-rw7myI don't know if you're asking me or not. The towns I''m talking about are in Emilia in the Emilia-Romagna region, Parma province.
Ahhh, understood, tutto chiaro ! :)
On the western Alps we sound very like the
parmesan (the folks, not the cheese)
I don't think you can buy clothes in Hoenn. That's really only after Kalos.
Well, it appears whenever I retire and go to visit Germany, I'll have to step out of Bavaria for a bit and see how Baden-Wurttemberg is doing. Stuttgart seems like it would be a nice place.
I wouldn't hold my breath because Germany is sacrificing its auto industry in order to prop up US foreign policy and it's been devastating. It's really puzzling why EU politicians no longer feel that they can diverge from the White House.
I talk Swedish😂❤🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪
Sammaaa
Idk if u can but can u find someone from Puerto Rico and do a video with Puerto Rican spanish😋
That German girl holy hell, that girl has A! personality she is something else......
Jag är från Sverige/in from sweden
SABATON !!!! They are also from Sweden !!!
Since when was sabaton a brand?
@@mappim I think its the name of the armour that knights had for their feet.
No they're from Turkey.
@@greekwarrior5373 Haha what? They are from Falun, which is a small city in sweden...
Sabaton is from Italia,metalheads
“Americans change all the pronunciations”
Okay, Versace, yes, you got us. Zara? I’ve never heard anybody pronounce it as “Sara” and I’ve heard it said aloud many times. We use a heavy “Z” sound and the ending is always pronounced like “are-a” not “air-a”
HM started as Hennes wich just means hers and then the founder baught a store that was named Mauritz and so it was added.
In Germany noone say Shpotify. We say ist like in English.
Germans are accurated they spell Espotify better than in English with the spell is Ispotify, a fast straight cutter spell, German spell is very explicative, pacient.
Spotify is another weird word a neologism 🤭🥂🍺
@SinilkMudilaSama I am German. And here everyone spell Spotify like in England.
@@Rebekkas_Stube I know too the german spell and british spell the details.
Have nice 👍 week bye.
Short Mercedes in Sweden is Merca
Come on Swedish girl, Mercedes is called Merscha :)
Swede from the second biggest city here. Never heard anyone pronounce Mercedes that way. You would only pronounce the c as a sch when you say Merca which is a shortened way of saying the name. Otherwise the c would be pronounced as a s in the full name Mercedes.
Are there any other german speaking people here who pronounce spotify like she does, never heard a german say "schpotify"?
And I'm from the south and know lots of people from south germany.
No-one stuck Iitalla, except the fin. Because that’s the only language with doubled vowels. Oh this was fun.
Yeah and the amount of vowels and consonants really matter.
That's why we might smile a bit for foreigners if they pronounce words with too short or too long vowels or missing the double consonants.
We do appreciate people using Finnish though and if you want you can ask for corrections as most will rarely correct prononciations of any person unless asked to do so.
Good example of this are following Finnish words: Tuli, Tulli and Tuuli. Those are in order: Fire, Customs and Wind.
In fact if one just use basic forms of Finnish words in almost any order we will eventually understand what you want to say.
Just needs more effort as we have to change each word to correct form in our mind first and maybe ask couple questions to disambiguate some of the words that can be understood multiple ways because not given in their correct form but instead in the basic form.
As for fjällräven I will say Im a swedish speaking Finn and probably german was closest (closer than swedish)
Do you mean closer than finnish?
@@mappimCloser than Turkish.
The German was closer to Swedish than the Sweden? GTFO. Haha. Put down the pipe and walk away.
Ooh ya'll are in for a ride with this one 😂 I can't wait for the next reaction. The animation quality is some of my favorite of all time.💕
Spotify -- In musician we say "dogshit"
IKEA... Ingvar, Kamprad, Elmtaryd, Agunnaryd.
Please this with finnish❤😂🇫🇮
I like the German girl, she reminds me of Nina Hagen.
It's boring to have Finnish pronouncing brand names, because we just pronounce them as in English or whatever the most common way of pronouncing the name is. It's more fun when we get to see our own words and vocabulary.
If this was done with guys the Finnish guy would have been fighting with the Swedish guy the the whole time and the German guy would propably be hyping up the Finnish guy
Not many Swedish brands on this list: Mercedes Benz is German, Iittala is Finnish, Versace is Italian, Maison Margiela is French. Arket is a brand under the H&M umbrella, but was founded in London, England.
Personally I think tha' Swedish international
brands are rare.
I know only IKEA, Saab, Volvo, smörgåsbord,
ABBA, an LisbethSallander :)
@@KuukilabKuuki-rw7my Lisbeth🤣
Off the top of my head: Minecraft, SanDisk, Skype, Absolut Vodka, Eriksson, Abloy locks.
@@perunarieska9182 Abloy is in fact originally a Finnish company. It was sold to Swedish Assa ab in 1994. New company took the name Assa abloy ab.
Um Volvo is now Chinese but originally we owned it
Volvo Cars was sold, Volvo Trucks is still a Swedish company and it's huge.
Hätten eine ohne Dialekt nutzen sollen, Raum Hannover bietet sich an. Aber nicht Stuttgart 😅
Mercedes, Versace Maison Margiela and Zara Swedish??? Change the title of the video for "Swedish brand names as well as from some other countries."
No
Exactly
I’m from Sweden 🇸🇪
I dunno why the Finnish girl pronounced Fjällräven so weird. She said like "Fjellreven" not "Fjällräven"
wait till they hear how english speakers pronounce fjällräven (fuh-jal-ray-vin)
Don't forget fjällräven is also a political statement.. if you see a person with a fjällräven bag in sweden you know their political opinions 95% of the cases.. i want to say 100%.. but it wouldn't be fair.
Volvo is latin though, so ofc they all say it more or less the same.
You should have invited a Russian too, their pronunciation is different too 😂. Ikea is Ee-keh-yah, for example 😂
H&M is actually the old saying of genders. So its male and female basicly
Hennes and Mauritz is what it means.
I want video with Türkish languages(Turkish,Azerbaijani,kirgisian,kazach and other)
❤First❤😘😘😘
I thought H&M was for Hombres y Mujeres (Man and Woman in spanish) 😂
Should've given them Koenigsegg