Finlands-Svenskar (suomenruotsalaiset) are native Finlanders with Swedish as their native language. Their Swedish differs a bit from The Swedish Swedish since both sorts have evolved in different directions with different influences for the last couple of hundred years or so.

@farrier1234

Ай бұрын

Finlands svenska är en egen svensk dialekt. Finland tillhörde Sverige under 5-600 år. Jag som pensionär skulle gärna flytta till Finland då Sverige har utvecklats åt fel vilket iinte Finland har gjort . Tyvärr kan jag inte finska hm förrutom en del ord förstås som inte är lämpligt att skriva här men jag gillar verkligen Finland. Man kan säkert klara sig på Engelska och en del svenska så om det finns någon trevlig Finska i passande ålder . jag kan kan laga mat baka och sko en häst så ja kanske det kan vara intressant med intellektuella samtal.

@nina-kitty6573

Ай бұрын

Finnish Swedish is own languages not Swedish Swedish.. Its not little different. You cant talk Finnish Swedish in Sweden think it almost same..🤦🏻

@spoonzor1

Ай бұрын

@@nina-kitty6573 Haha, no its not its own language. Every finnish speaking finn learns this in "swedish" in school. It mostly hasent been subjected to loanwords from Europe and hasnt evolved more like Swedish because trade didnt go through our parts as much. So finnish-swedish is just less evolved swedish with other mixtures ofc. But to say they are seperate languages is just plain wrong.

I thought i was going insane trying to locate weird peeping sound :D

@mikkorenvall428

Ай бұрын

Me too. I need a therapist now for years.

@sateentuoksu

Ай бұрын

Me too. Thought it was my fridge. But no.... 🤔

@90Pekkis

Ай бұрын

@@sateentuoksu Mä luulin naapurin palohälyttimen huutavan.

@Zejdeni

Ай бұрын

I literally ran to my washing machine three times to see what is going on 🙈

I'm from a family were my dad was swedish and mom is finnish. When my dad was alive, we sat at the dinner table and mom sat in the other end and dad in the other. Me and my sis sat in the middle and when we talked, we talked finnish to mom and switched to swedish when talking to dad. It's quite automatic to switch from language to another if you really know the languages. 🤔

You can always leave your own duvet and visit the duvet next door for a minute or you can always bring your own and gently put the long edge between your neighbor and their duvet to create a temporary double duvet to snuggle in.

As a Swede I regard "Finlandssvenska" as very cool...its lhow our ancesters was speaking in the past . Its old fashioned (seen from a Swedes eyes) BUT really beautiful!!!😍

YES! Please do learn lots of languages! I speak several and learning them has been such a pain for me. Now, though, I love that I can speak (in order of appearance) Finnish, English, Swedish, German, French, and some Japanese. Makes you understand the world and, frankly, everything in it so much more thoroughly. If you find it easy, please do yourself a favor and just learn as many as you find the time for. Oh, and while you're at it, check out Xiaomanyc. Maybe react to one of his crazy "learned X language and surprised native speakers" videos.

Sweden has ruled over Finland in the past, of which there are areas that speak Swedish. Fun fact: In Ukraine, in Kherson oblast, there is a village -Gammelsvenskby (old Swedish village) with Swedish speakers (not sure how many of them are alive now, but I think there were about 300 before the war?). The Swedish-speaking population was forcibly relocated from Estonia (which was then part of Sweden) in 1721. Pretty cool that the language has survived for so long.

@matshjalmarsson3008

Ай бұрын

There are also a couple of towns/villages in Russia with native Swedish speakers

@olsa76

Ай бұрын

@@matshjalmarsson3008 Interesting. Where?

@matshjalmarsson3008

Ай бұрын

@@olsa76 I don't remember, and perhaps the people who had Swedish as their first language are gone by now. I read about it 30 or so years ago (or I may have seen it on TV). I believe they were also forced there from eg Estonia

@olsa76

Ай бұрын

@@matshjalmarsson3008 You may be talking about the same place as me, but that Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union when you heard about it?

@matshjalmarsson3008

Ай бұрын

@@olsa76 Perhaps, but I remember it as being further north, there's also Vyborg

Finish(suomi) english and svenska are mandatory to learn in finland

@mikkorenvall428

Ай бұрын

In a fact english is not mandatory, but it's most common foreign language to lerrn/teached in Finland. Some schools teach french of german instead of english.

Most of the area that is now Finland was a part of Sweden for loads of years, so there are still parts of Finland where the people have Swedish as their first language. And Swedish is taught in school (as is Finnish in Sweden, albeit very briefly). Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, and German, and (to an extent) Danish may be the easiest languages to learn as a native English speaker, since there are many similarities, all being Germanic and we have lots of loan words from English, and the Vikings introduced many of our words to English. So we have Kniv = Knife Svärd = Sword Sköld = Shield Papper = Paper Glas = Glass and so on. But there are some false friends, like Slut = (The) end Fart = Speed etc

Jeah, I've been learning Spanish around 7 months with Duolingo and books and in internet. Just added Italian and it is quite much similar To Spanish. Also undestand Portugues A bit. And of course English and Swedish. 1h/day is quite normal To me.

@mr.sts.p

Ай бұрын

Me to

Hello! from a finlandswede. Yes, we are Finlanders who speak swedish as our first langage. This video is filmed from my hometown kzread.info/dash/bejne/iXydt9RmnKq5eZs.htmlsi=LgYf0M8WaTzB5H-Y. It is a BBC report about our two languages. We speak you can say, as swedish sounded back in the day, and we perhaps a few more old words than in Sweden. Often swedish peaople don´t even know what a finlandswede is, becouse for some reason they don´t learn about that part of history in school, even though we here in Finland learn a lot about swedish history, because it is a part of our history too. Finland were once just the eastern part of Sweden :)

@2506754250675

Ай бұрын

i find it sometimes funny as my luv was born in sweden, grew up in norway but moved to finland with her mother in teens. she is somewhat insecure with her finnish altho she only has kinda åland accent. sometimes when we talk we switch languages between english finnish or swedish without even noticing.. except when it goes to norwegian altho they are so similar that i can easily read norwegian but talking... no way :D challenge for coming summer is trip to denmark which she ofc speaks fluently

@mikkorenvall428

Ай бұрын

What is lost in there is that everyone in Finland has to learn the other language. Swedishspeakers shall learn finnish in the school, and finnish speakers will learn swedish in the school, that's in the law. And in most schools you also learn english as a first foreign language, but some schools also teach french or german as a first foreign language. But of course the learned language is never as good as your native language.

@SteamboatW

Ай бұрын

Well, I learned about it in School in Sweden, but maybe they have stopped since then.

@TheMillySilly1

Ай бұрын

@@SteamboatW Vad kul! 🥳 Ofta när man besöker Sverige brukar folk vara förvånade över att svenska är ens modersmål och att jag är dålig på finska. Och ofta tror folk att man pratar svenska med finsk brytning… eller så tror folk att dom har blivit bra på finska, fast det är svenska dom hör och inte finska. 😅

@SteamboatW

Ай бұрын

@@TheMillySilly1 Vi hade barnprogram på Finlandssvenska när jag var liten, och jag läste böcker på finlandssvenska, så det verkar vara yngre människor...

Finlandswedes most often have an advantage in languages. As they are a language minority, it is common that they learn the majority language Finnish as they cannot help hearing it everywhere and know it would be useful to be fluent. The Finnish speakers have mandatory Swedish at school, but Swedish being a minority language of roughly 6% of the people most kids consider it irrelevant, and in most parts of Finland you never hear a word of Swedish. Therefore many finlandswedes speak two languages fluently to start with, and learning English at school means just one 'foreign' language, whereas the Finnish speakers struggle with Swedish and English. And then there are these Finlandswedes like the current president of Finland Alexander Stubb who is bilingual to start with, and also speaks English, German and French.

Thanks for noticing the washing machine. I was just taking my headphones off to solve if my fridge has left with its door open or what...

Yes Dwayne Easter part off Finland belonged to Sweden 🇸🇪 we called it Österlandet you should look it up how things where before 18 hundred.

@Gittas-tube

Ай бұрын

Hello there! "Easter part off Finland belonged to Sweden" makes no sense. What this Swedish person is trying to say, I guess, is that of the area now known as Finland, the coastal areas as well as the southern and southwestern areas were an integral part of the Kingdom of Sweden for some six hundred to seven hundred years. It was considered as one of the Swedish provinces and was called 'Österlandet' or the Eastern Land (as seen from Sweden). At the time there was no entity called Finland. The incorporating of 'Finland' into the Swedish kingdom began with catholic monks, priests and even bishops, who were told by the Pope to travel to heathen lands in order to convert the folks there to the Christian faith. (As in other places, the converting was sometimes done by less than Christian methods.) The Eastern province was treated just as all the other provinces making up the kingdom of Sweden, no better, no worse. Over more than six hundred years, more and more people from Sweden proper moved to the Eastern province. The region was developed and 'modernised'. Towns were founded, fortresses and castles were built, trade developed etc. The administrative language was, of course, Swedish. The educated classes like priests, military leaders, judges and other administrators, came from Sweden originally, but in the 1500 hundreds, many were already local people. Times were tough for 'Finland', as it was for everybody else during Medieval and Renaissance times. To make a long story short, those Finnish citizens who call themselves Finland-Swedes are mostly descendants of the Swedes who moved to the Eastern province (of Sweden) that later began being called Finland. These people are legally Finnish citizens, speak Swedish as their mother tongue (usually also Finnish and other languages). They have their own culture, which is partly the same as in Sweden, but living in Finland, they're also influenced by the Finnish culture. One foot in each culture, perhaps. The Finland-Swedes mostly live all along the coastline, in southern Finland and on the Åland islands, where Swedish is the official language and some knowledge of Swedish is required if somebody wants to move to Åland. So, the Finland-Swedes are not Swedish citizens living in Finland, nor are they some upper class people somehow 'better people' than the Finns. You'll find them in all walks of life, from poor fishermen to top class scholars, inventors, researchers, captains of industry and trade - just as their Finnish-speaking counterparts. Temperamentally, the Finland-Swedes are considered as being more cheerful, social and outgoing as the Finns, but that is rapidly changing, because the Finns are now finally letting go of their negative and belittling view of themselves, what with being "the happiest country in the world" for the seventh time in a row. There are many interesting details that could be added, but I'm sure that this fresco of the Finland-Swedes is enough. History is always more complex...

@mr.sts.p

Ай бұрын

@@Gittas-tube Turku, Åbo and Wasa was under Swedish roll before the Russian tok it back but if it is East off Finland 🇫🇮 im not shore but we in Sweden 🇸🇪 called it Österlandet that is a fact! Have a Nice day! 😊

@sampohonkala4195

Ай бұрын

​@@mr.sts.pEvery part of modern Finland has been part of Sweden (with possibly the exception of Northernmost Lapland where the border was unclear) - and at some point much more, even the area of the Russian city St.Petersburg has been Sweden.

Finnish - svensk family is suomenruotsalainen perhe. And it is 100% finnish family who speaks swedish as a mother language (because of finnish history) instead finnish. They can speak finnish as well because most of people in finland speaks finnish but their mother language is swedish. And mother language is always mother language if you know what I mean.

@Pataassa

Ай бұрын

But they are not swedish people. They are Finnish people. They just speak swedish language. Same way that there are peoples in Canada that speak France instead of English.

Btw, languages are a nice hobby. Go for it. But learn one at a time.

do german coz in finland swden is tought as sckooll =)

If you can speak swedish, it is easier to learn german as they grammars have some similarities