Ok wow... this gave me chills. Not so much that she knows Swedish though it was suprising but more of WHERE she learnt it. Pretty much the town over from where I currently live XD and here I thought it was gonna be Stockholm or something... nope. Sandviken.
@@kebabman1968 The Famous RENNY HARLIN of Finland ! He is The Best known Finnish born - Self made Man at Hollywood ! After His 1st Movie Born American - still in Finland - He had to move to Hollywood ! Harlin made Movies like CLIFFHANGER with Sylvester " Rocky " Stallone & Long Kiss Good Night with just Davies ! Year 2020 He moved back to Finland - and Now is working with Mika WALTARI Books - Komisario PALMU ! He plans to refilm The Whole Serie of PALMU - who was Chasing " wrong doers " already at 50s & 60s Helsinki !
she was in sweden for just one year, lived in the us for over a decade before this interview and still remembered enough swedish to speak fluently. No wonder she's got a mensa level iq
Depends a lot on how willing you are to learn another language as well, though. A lot of people rely too much on English, and this never really leads anywhere. She probably insisted on trying to learn Swedish and stick to that language as much as possible, and probably also checked Swedish/English dictionaries a lot. You can learn a lot in just a couple weeks that way.
The fact that she only spoke Swedish for one year and still remebers after what, like 20 years of probably never saying a Swedish word is pretty impressive to say the least. I dont remember anything from my German classes and i finnished school 2 years ago.
+toby It largely depends on how willing you are to actually use the language yourself. One mistake that I often see foreigners make in Sweden is that they use English all the time - they know that we are really good at English in Sweden, so they kinda take advantage of that, and I consider that a big mistake. Geena Davis most likely tried her best to understand the Swedish language instead of just relying on English, and this can have amazing results and really help with long-term memory as well. You can learn a foreign language very quickly if you always try using it while you live in the country where it's spoken. Geena Davis was also married to a Finnish guy (and that's probably why she speaks Swedish with a Finnish accent in this video), and Finnish people tend to know at least a little Swedish since they learn it in school, and some parts of Finland even have Swedish as their official language.
Laurelindo I am Swedish so i know all that already. Im not talking about how fast a person learns a language, im saying that it's amazing that she still remembers it after probably 20+ years of not saying a Swedish word at all.
"Jamen, jag kan inte. Det var så länge sen. Jag kommer inte ihåg nånting." She uses the word "jamen", which is a filler word. It's super difficult for a non-native speaker of any language to use filler words correctly and effortlessly. She knows way more than she lets on, she is very talented!
"Ja men" is technically equivalent to "yes but", although I believe that "Ja men" is used a bit more as filler words compared to in English. In this situation, it is more like "well actually".
People say she sounds like a fin, but honestly she sounds a bit like the Queen (who doesn't have Swedish as a native language). Finnish Swedish has much "rounder" and slower vowels.
i would think its swedish with a finnish twang thru a finnish filter. Im swedish but my fathers side of the family is from österbotten - the north of Finland were swedish is prevelant in some parts. Meaning swedish is their native tounge, just a different accent.
I don't think she sounds like a finnish speaking swedish at all, she sounds like swedish people used to speak in older movies, back in the 50's when we actually pronounced every word instead of just clumping everything together and rushing it or using slang. Very good Swedish.
well nobody really speaks any language properly beqause it takes too much effort i mean whats properly..there are different dialects aswell then we must only have one way to pronounce things, its a very human thing to not pronounce everything. - could you with all the kindness of your`re heart pass me the salt over their to your right my dearest human fellow man friend...thank you i am forever in debt and will try my best to repay you as soon as possible - pass me da sawt...fank you mai. The shorter and easier to pronounce the better, that literally goes for all languages, In russian o’s turns to a’s alot of the time cuz most of the time ist faster and easier, winteeerrr vs winta... so much easier, Är vs E/Ä, va är problemet instead? of vad är problemet? if we dont do these kind of things we are not being efficient, and we would be very slow when communicating, but slang though... if its only slang then it kind of becomes a whole other language, but britain is no stranger to that with the cockney rhyming slang, there was actually a thyming slang culture in Stockholm waaay back where they had a similar thing where they could talk with only slang (Söderslang) and that was in the 1940s but sure i can agree on when theres too much slang it doesnt sound good but as i said spoken language is more effecient when leaving stuff out and choosing easier and faster pronounciation, speaking like a book is not how most people speak and for a reason. If this was a reality then it would be one dialect per language and that would be boring for alot of people which i dare to think is a majority, but then there are preferneces ofcourse and i cant argue against what you think beqause its what you like, i myself like Skånska, Cockney for example, actually if you want to learn a language where there isnt much variation where the dialects arent that shockingly different from each other than russian is a good pick but still, the spoken language still simplify spoken speach and shorten words to make it more effecient like any other language, alot of european languages actually are more consistant from how their sounds matches their writing, so english is actually really confusing beqause of this.
She speaks good understandable swedish, with an accent but still good. Didn't know she was an exchange student her senior year... Makes me wonder: why sweden?
I'm swedish, myself and I'm fully aware how diffficult my native language is. Even if english and swedish share the same language tribe, they are still very different. So color me impressed.
Sounds very clear and easy to understand. There is a slight mix of Finnish accent and the elderly way of speaking Swedish from the black and white era movies.
I too spent a year in Sweden (Gothenburg) as a student, teaching English. I am from the north of England. Her Swedish sounds very good to me. How lovely to hear it!
As an American, I have to say your friend is right. It took me 6 years to say my first word in Swedish. Then 4 more years to actually understand what people are actually saying. All together it took me 10 years to understand and speak this language. I also read a bit and write in Swedish. The Swedish language is hard.
It's so perfect that Geena just happens to remember only the necessary words in Swedish to say she no longer remembers Swedish because the horrific alternative would have been that she only remembered dirty Swedish words.
I read somewhere that Swedish was the easiest language for native English speakers to learn. Really hard were Mandarin and Farsi, and the very hardest was Japanese. Hungarian and Euskara(Basque) are also a nightmare.
She spoke that fluently and with hardly any US American accent (more Finnish) with so little practice so long ago!? That is above human! (read the description now) Oh... I guess that Renny was "Finlandssvensk".. The Finns that speak Swedish.
If I am not totally misinformed she spent her time in Sweden in my home town "Sandviken", about 190km North of Stockholm. I wish I had more info to give about that but it was before my School days. Sandviken has had Jimi Hendrix playing in "Högbo" just as his career was taking off. More recent years DJ Tiësto and Scorpions paid visits and also a certain Pamela with a common Swedish last name. Apart from that Sandviken is not known to many abroad except maybe for their steelworks "Sandvik" which is a global company with around 30.000 employees worldwide.
I am Swedish and I have to say that I did not see this coming. Americans usually have terrible accents but hers is very good, especially for an American who only spent a year in Sweden.
She did an interview with a swedish journalist she spoke swedish and she sounded really good, languages are like muscles, if you don't use them every now and then you will lose it, one has to maintain it by speaking reading listening to music watch movies etc.
Her accent is more like Ingrid Bergmans accent than a Finnish accent in my opinion. Compare to Ingrid in "Murder on the Orient Express" if you get the chance.
In the film, Ingrid Bergman exaggerates her Swedish accent very much. The role she plays required a strong Swedish accent. Irl Bergmans English was not perfect but ok. She never mastered the voiced s sound and also had problems separating v and w
Great Swedish!! My native language so I know - and I miss seeing Geena!! Fuck Hollywood in the 90s for thinking women over 40 were too old to act. Geena is so likeable, I know she's doing great things in life but seems like Hollywood turned their back on her which pisses me off.
It's not really.Finnish is a crazy difficult language. Swedish is like English and German combined to me. I lived there for 5 years and my Swedish was alright, but there everyone speaks English except old people.. I used to watch the text on TV to learn.
Det tog ungefär ett år för mig att lära mig svenska så jag tycker inte alls att det är ett svårt språk. :) (ok, uttalet är skitsvårt men man vänjer sig :-))
I have to say, she do sound a little as our queen, but slightly better. It sounds a little like old swedish actors, like Ingrid Bergman or Greta garbo when the speak english. She spoke in a sense to perfect.. It wasnt bad... at all.
Geena Davis was married to Finnish film director Renny Harlin (renny Lauri HARJOLA)........ Sounds finnish accent..??? . I don't know because I am finnish and I don't speak Swedish . 😂
As a Swede I am super impressed. She has not spoken Swedish in aaaages and still sounded good.
Det var en överaskning ;) She did really good on that Swedish!
Jag visste inte det här, fick reda på det idag 😮😮😮.
Så många gånger man har sett hennes filmer i över 30 år
Ok wow... this gave me chills. Not so much that she knows Swedish though it was suprising but more of WHERE she learnt it. Pretty much the town over from where I currently live XD and here I thought it was gonna be Stockholm or something... nope. Sandviken.
Haha she almost sounds like a Finnish person speaking Swedish 😂
kolla beskrivningen (y)
Kanske för att hon var ihop men finnen Rennie Harlen.....eller vad han hette?
Dissaa du Finland? 😑
Jag tyckte hon lät lite som drottning silvia när hon snackade svenska 😀
@@kebabman1968 The Famous RENNY HARLIN of Finland ! He is The Best known Finnish born - Self made Man at Hollywood ! After His 1st Movie Born American - still in Finland - He had to move to Hollywood ! Harlin made Movies like CLIFFHANGER with Sylvester " Rocky " Stallone & Long Kiss Good Night with just Davies ! Year 2020 He moved back to Finland - and Now is working with Mika WALTARI Books - Komisario PALMU ! He plans to refilm The Whole Serie of PALMU - who was Chasing " wrong doers " already at 50s & 60s Helsinki !
That's really good Swedish! Very easy to understand.
I took swedish for 3 years and tbh I know more latin than swedish nowadays. Swedish is tough to learn.
@@kuutti6777 Not really. Latin was much more difficult. I lived in Sweden for nine months.
she was in sweden for just one year, lived in the us for over a decade before this interview and still remembered enough swedish to speak fluently. No wonder she's got a mensa level iq
Depends a lot on how willing you are to learn another language as well, though.
A lot of people rely too much on English, and this never really leads anywhere.
She probably insisted on trying to learn Swedish and stick to that language as much as possible, and probably also checked Swedish/English dictionaries a lot.
You can learn a lot in just a couple weeks that way.
The fact that she only spoke Swedish for one year and still remebers after what, like 20 years of probably never saying a Swedish word is pretty impressive to say the least. I dont remember anything from my German classes and i finnished school 2 years ago.
+toby
It largely depends on how willing you are to actually use the language yourself.
One mistake that I often see foreigners make in Sweden is that they use English all the time - they know that we are really good at English in Sweden, so they kinda take advantage of that, and I consider that a big mistake.
Geena Davis most likely tried her best to understand the Swedish language instead of just relying on English, and this can have amazing results and really help with long-term memory as well.
You can learn a foreign language very quickly if you always try using it while you live in the country where it's spoken.
Geena Davis was also married to a Finnish guy (and that's probably why she speaks Swedish with a Finnish accent in this video), and Finnish people tend to know at least a little Swedish since they learn it in school, and some parts of Finland even have Swedish as their official language.
Laurelindo I am Swedish so i know all that already. Im not talking about how fast a person learns a language, im saying that it's amazing that she still remembers it after probably 20+ years of not saying a Swedish word at all.
She doesn't speak it fluently. Far from it.
"Jamen, jag kan inte. Det var så länge sen. Jag kommer inte ihåg nånting."
She uses the word "jamen", which is a filler word. It's super difficult for a non-native speaker of any language to use filler words correctly and effortlessly. She knows way more than she lets on, she is very talented!
"Ja men" is technically equivalent to "yes but", although I believe that "Ja men" is used a bit more as filler words compared to in English.
In this situation, it is more like "well actually".
tror faktiskt hon säger nämen, jag kan inte.
@@basseman4239 Jepp, hon säger "nämen".
Minsann i allsindar!
A hell of a lot better Swedish than the embarrassing sauna scene in Umbrella Academy
That's what brought me here !!
People say she sounds like a fin, but honestly she sounds a bit like the Queen (who doesn't have Swedish as a native language). Finnish Swedish has much "rounder" and slower vowels.
i would think its swedish with a finnish twang thru a finnish filter. Im swedish but my fathers side of the family is from österbotten - the north of Finland were swedish is prevelant in some parts. Meaning swedish is their native tounge, just a different accent.
I don’t think that I have ever heard a member of the monarchy speak. Konstigt.
I think she sounds like Astrid Lindgren's storytelling voice. KONSTIGT!
Haha, hon låter som drottning Silvia!
She sounds like the swedish Queen.
no she sounds better
High EvulMe, Yes she really sounds like Queen Silvia when she speaks Swedish.
@@bjornsundberg1947 I'm not Swedish, but I've heard enough Swedish to detect an accent in Queen Silvia's Swedish.
So what? Sylvia learned Swedish comparatively late in life. During school years its way easier to learn
I'm from sweden and she speaks perfect swedish. Sounds almost like Ingrid Bergman.
I don't think she sounds like a finnish speaking swedish at all, she sounds like swedish people used to speak in older movies, back in the 50's when we actually pronounced every word instead of just clumping everything together and rushing it or using slang. Very good Swedish.
This is true, nobody speaks the language properly anymore, kind of sad.
I agree that´s what I thought too She sounds like swedish people in older movies she does not sound finnish at all.
Yes, that's what I thought as well -- she sounded like one of my charming, elderly Swedish relatives. :-)
Yes, I agree with you.
well nobody really speaks any language properly beqause it takes too much effort i mean whats properly..there are different dialects aswell then we must only have one way to pronounce things, its a very human thing to not pronounce everything. - could you with all the kindness of your`re heart pass me the salt over their to your right my dearest human fellow man friend...thank you i am forever in debt and will try my best to repay you as soon as possible - pass me da sawt...fank you mai. The shorter and easier to pronounce the better, that literally goes for all languages, In russian o’s turns to a’s alot of the time cuz most of the time ist faster and easier, winteeerrr vs winta... so much easier, Är vs E/Ä, va är problemet instead? of vad är problemet? if we dont do these kind of things we are not being efficient, and we would be very slow when communicating, but slang though... if its only slang then it kind of becomes a whole other language, but britain is no stranger to that with the cockney rhyming slang, there was actually a thyming slang culture in Stockholm waaay back where they had a similar thing where they could talk with only slang (Söderslang) and that was in the 1940s but sure i can agree on when theres too much slang it doesnt sound good but as i said spoken language is more effecient when leaving stuff out and choosing easier and faster pronounciation, speaking like a book is not how most people speak and for a reason. If this was a reality then it would be one dialect per language and that would be boring for alot of people which i dare to think is a majority, but then there are preferneces ofcourse and i cant argue against what you think beqause its what you like, i myself like Skånska, Cockney for example, actually if you want to learn a language where there isnt much variation where the dialects arent that shockingly different from each other than russian is a good pick but still, the spoken language still simplify spoken speach and shorten words to make it more effecient like any other language, alot of european languages actually are more consistant from how their sounds matches their writing, so english is actually really confusing beqause of this.
She speaks good understandable swedish, with an accent but still good. Didn't know she was an exchange student her senior year... Makes me wonder: why sweden?
renni harlin
varför inte?
I hear no accent. Sounds like a Finland-Swedish dialect though.
@@syntaxerror8955 That's an accent
Syntax Error Yes?
I’m a Swede and that was awesome swedish from Geena if you ask me! To Geena: Jag tycker att du kom ihåg väldigt många ord. Bra jobbat!
😄Wow haha! Her Swedish accent sounds like it came from an 1940´s movie, or from an old grandmother. It´s pretty.
That was really good, I've met people who have lived like 30 years in Sweden and still can't speak proper...
I'm swedish, myself and I'm fully aware how diffficult my native language is. Even if english and swedish share the same language tribe, they are still very different. So color me impressed.
English and swedish? i mean any similarity at all?
De tillhör den germanska språkstammen.
I am Finnish and I don't think it's hard , it's really simple compared to Finnish.
Swedish is kind of easy?
@@liina000 Definitely easier than Finnish for English speakers
Sounds very clear and easy to understand. There is a slight mix of Finnish accent and the elderly way of speaking Swedish from the black and white era movies.
I too spent a year in Sweden (Gothenburg) as a student, teaching English. I am from the north of England. Her Swedish sounds very good to me. How lovely to hear it!
Wow that was really impressive! sounded great. Clearly for a Swede that its not her mothers toungue but VERY good.
that was so perfect Swedish dialect. words were so clear
My english friends who lives in Sweden complains. It is difficult for me to learn Swedish, when everyone wants to speak English with me.
As an American, I have to say your friend is right. It took me 6 years to say my first word in Swedish. Then 4 more years to actually understand what people are actually saying. All together it took me 10 years to understand and speak this language. I also read a bit and write in Swedish. The Swedish language is hard.
James - I assume you speak swedish?
Geena - yes fluently
a mili second later
Geena - i can’t anymore
She tapped out really quickly haha. (He broke the cardinal rule: You praise the actor for the ability without making him/her prove it.)
It's so perfect that Geena just happens to remember only the necessary words in Swedish to say she no longer remembers Swedish because the horrific alternative would have been that she only remembered dirty Swedish words.
I remember gina. At the school prom she was awarded the title. "Fuckgirl of the year"
@@christopherchristianvanlan1809 I'm shocked you remember anything Christopher with that empty head of yours
That was really good!
Super! You sound fantastic, you're swedish was perfect!
All the best from Bert in Sweden.
I read somewhere that Swedish was the easiest language for native English speakers to learn.
Really hard were Mandarin and Farsi, and the very hardest was Japanese. Hungarian and Euskara(Basque) are also a nightmare.
She spoke that fluently and with hardly any US American accent (more Finnish) with so little practice so long ago!? That is above human!
(read the description now) Oh... I guess that Renny was "Finlandssvensk".. The Finns that speak Swedish.
I am from Sweden and she says "Well yeah but I can't, it was such a long time ago, I don't remember anything".
She sounds like a finnish person trying to speak swedish
Nice! Good Swedish! :D
I'm Swedish (born in Finland). Imagine how much I've wanted to marry Geena for the last 30 years...
Hon är en riktig muminmamma ;)
If I am not totally misinformed she spent her time in Sweden in my home town "Sandviken", about 190km North of Stockholm.
I wish I had more info to give about that but it was before my School days. Sandviken has had Jimi Hendrix playing in "Högbo" just as his career was taking off. More recent years DJ Tiësto and Scorpions paid visits and also a certain Pamela with a common Swedish last name. Apart from that Sandviken is not known to many abroad except maybe for their steelworks "Sandvik" which is a global company with around 30.000 employees worldwide.
Jimi was in Sandviken on September 8, 1967.
I am Swedish and I have to say that I did not see this coming. Americans usually have terrible accents but hers is very good, especially for an American who only spent a year in Sweden.
Perfectly correct, just with an accent.
Sounds like perfect native Swedish dialect of east-Swedish (Finland-Swedish). No American accent.
she lowkey sounds like drottning Silvia
Wow! Hats off! I've heard a lot of people claim to say something in Swedish only to hear absolute jibberish come out! But this is actually good
"Jag kan inte, det var så länge sen, jag kommer inte ihåg nånting"
I dont know how, it was so long ago, I dont remember any [Swedish, implied]
Omg… here I’ve been as a Swede loving her movies having no clue that she’s been to Sweden… oh the feels hearing her speak my native language ❤
"and it was in Swedish"
That's not unusual in Sweden"
She said : it was so long ago i can't remember anything anymore.
Obviously she could.
Wow! That was VERY good, but as alot of you said, it is with a FInnish accent :)
She did an interview with a swedish journalist she spoke swedish and she sounded really good, languages are like muscles, if you don't use them every now and then you will lose it, one has to maintain it by speaking reading listening to music watch movies etc.
She has the most beautiful lips
im blown away.its just 10 million speakers..
Pretty good!
Her accent is more like Ingrid Bergmans accent than a Finnish accent in my opinion. Compare to Ingrid in "Murder on the Orient Express" if you get the chance.
In the film, Ingrid Bergman exaggerates her Swedish accent very much. The role she plays required a strong Swedish accent. Irl Bergmans English was not perfect but ok. She never mastered the voiced s sound and also had problems separating v and w
I´m Swedish and impressed. :-) Very cute accent too, Finnish, yes.
Great Swedish!! My native language so I know - and I miss seeing Geena!! Fuck Hollywood in the 90s for thinking women over 40 were too old to act. Geena is so likeable, I know she's doing great things in life but seems like Hollywood turned their back on her which pisses me off.
Pretty damn good! Didn't even hear any American accent in her pronunciation.
Her Swefish sounds beautiful
It sounds like "old-lady" swedish XD
That was perfect Swedish 👍🏻
GREAT FUN FACT WITH GEENA DAVIS !!!
It was perfect and yes, with a slight finnish accent.
wow! that was awsome. Our language is very hard to learn. Im very impressed :)
It's not really.Finnish is a crazy difficult language. Swedish is like English and German combined to me. I lived there for 5 years and my Swedish was alright, but there everyone speaks English except old people.. I used to watch the text on TV to learn.
Mattias, vad vet du om det?
Det tog ungefär ett år för mig att lära mig svenska så jag tycker inte alls att det är ett svårt språk. :) (ok, uttalet är skitsvårt men man vänjer sig :-))
That is insanely impressive.
She's so fuckin beautiful.
She sounds like queen Silvia.
Tack som faan!
"Has anyone ever told you have very sensors lips?" (Match Point of Woody Allen.
She said ”I can’t. It was a long time ago, I don’t remember anything”.
Tantissimi auguri di un buon felice compleanno geena
Oh så fint. Hon talade som en dam! :)
I was in Sweden for six months, and it was difficult to learn Swedish because everyone speaks perfect English!
She's such a babe.
She sounds like the Swedish queen :D
Wow that good
The accent is as bad as it gets but she could probably make herself understood most of the time
I have to say, she do sound a little as our queen, but slightly better. It sounds a little like old swedish actors, like Ingrid Bergman or Greta garbo when the speak english. She spoke in a sense to perfect.. It wasnt bad... at all.
Hmm, her Swedish actually sounds a lot like how Queen Sylvia´s speaks Swedish....
*_She speaks the same way the Queen of Sweden speaks_*
Wow her accent is good
Oh italian subtitles , cool
Almont like Canadien speaking Swedish !
She nailed it...🙂👍🏻 bättre på svenska än Will Farell 🇸🇪
Alla dagar i veckan.
Grammatically correct, very little accent, very impressive!
I was in dk One year i still speak it
Swedish with a finish accent
Her accent is a little bit like a Finnish accent, actually.
She sounds sort of like a Finnish-born woman who has lived in Sweden for a very long time.
Sounds like the swedish queen lol
Geena Davis was married to Finnish film director Renny Harlin (renny Lauri HARJOLA)........ Sounds finnish accent..??? . I don't know because I am finnish and I don't speak Swedish . 😂
Finland-Swedish dialect is a native Swedish dialect, and not an "accent" (if that's what you meant). I heard perfect Swedish with no American accent.
Who says Swedish is hard to learn? I´ve heard toddlers speak fairly good Swedish, in Sweden.
Johnny ”Balle” Lundberg I don’t know, who?
beorlingo lol what
@@500spikar Damn right!
Hon är riktigt bra!
To me it sounded more like an Åland accent than Finnish.
Finlandssvensk dialekt.
@@beorlingo Tack. Äntligen någon som fattar skillnaden mellan dialekt och brytning.
Why does everyone laugh at the beginning??
I knew she could speak Swedish ( and why). 🙂
It almost sounds like Spanish 0:59 - 1:03
I can't, It was to long ago, I can't remember anything
Mycket bra uttal Geena.
Låter som Prussiluskan i Pippi!
She sounds like a 1940s swedish person it is a swedish accent just not a modern one
Mycket bra uttal!
Hon pratar med samma brytning som drottningen
🤘👌
Geena ė nata di sabato come oggi
That's pretty good for an american
Who said Swedish is h a r d to learn ? For anybody speaking a Germanic lingo it´s easy as pie. U can master it in in less than a year .
Oggi geena compie 68 anni
who is she?
Geena Davis. Great actress. Well known for "A league of their own."
even more known from thelma and louise and a long kiss goodnight
Wasn't she in Beetlejuice? No one dares to write it, Ha!
@@JohnRyder- yes she was. As long as you don’t say the name three times you’re ok.
Finsk brytning? Haha