FINNISH VS SWEDISH #5 - Language Challenge
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Swedish guy tries to speak Finnish while Merkku XX from Finland tries to speak Swedish in a language challenge. This was filmed during Tubecon in Stockholm.
Merkku: / @merkkuxx2579
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I speak both Finnish and Swedish, and fun fact: raccoon is pretty much the same thing in both languages. In Swedish: tvättbjörn; tvätta = to wash, björn = bear. In Finnish: pesukarhu; pesu = wash, karhu = bear. I never understood the point in naming it a "wash bear", but at least we Finnish people are not alone with this one haha Edit: and actually this stands for also peanut butter! In Swedish: jordnötssmör, and in Finnish: maapähkinävoi. Jord = maa, nöt = pähkinä, smör = voi
@liljakaren97
7 жыл бұрын
It's the same in Icelandic, þvottabjörn = wash bear
@herrfriberger5
7 жыл бұрын
It's because that "bear" often rinse food under water.
@elizew26
7 жыл бұрын
Annamau same in Dutch we say 'wasbeer' wassen = to wash and beer = bear 😂👍🏼
@Nana_S_T
7 жыл бұрын
And you knowing Russian is relevant how...?
@ElisabethOrchard
7 жыл бұрын
In German it's the same. Racoon is "Waschbär" - "waschen" is to wash and "Bär" is a bear. Same thing for the peanutbutter. "Erdnussbutter" - "Erde" = jord/maa, "Nuss" = nöt/pähkinä and "Butter" = smör/voi. I am German by the way but I am learning both Swedish and Finnish. :)
När hon kommer från Estland har hon säkert inte pluggat svenska i skolan
Strange. Just 20-30 years ago, it was pretty hard to find a finnish person that didn't know any swedish at all, like this girl.
@TheSwedishLad
7 жыл бұрын
Very true.
@parthiancapitalist2733
7 жыл бұрын
TheSwedishLad finish is related to Hungarian, they come from Proto-Uralic
@timomastosalo
7 жыл бұрын
She's Estonian, and Finnish - so she probably didn't learn Swedish in school like pretty much all the Finns do. But, Swedish often 'rusts' unused for the Finns, because English is used so overwhelmingly in the international meetings, often with the Swedes as well, because then Finns are closer on the same level, both not speaking their mother tongue. Of course Swedish is pretty close to English, but at least Finns don't have to compete with them in their own language - leaving them automatically underdogs in the situation. If they don't happen to be Swedes of Finland, Finns whose mother tongue is Swedish, about 7% of them. Some Swedish citizens don't even know there is such people in Finland. On the other hand, there are very few Swedes in Sweden who speak Finnish, if their background is not Finnish.
@user-ip8dg5uv5q
6 жыл бұрын
Currently there are quite Finns who dont know Swedish:D
@VIItut
6 жыл бұрын
There has always been quite a many of those who can't speak or understand Swedish, especially in inner Finland. And nowadays Swedish is quite unpopular among pupils. It's waist of time, they say. And actually I agree: more reasonable would be learling English and then German, Russian, French, Spanish or Mandarin China etc.
the skåne accent doesn't really make it easier on her 😂
@livedandletdie
6 жыл бұрын
It never helps when a Scanian tries to speak Swedish.
@kayness1
6 жыл бұрын
den vackraste dialekten!
@Juutube989
5 жыл бұрын
Kay C Kommer från en skånings mun, finaste dialekten är nog dalmål eller norrländska.
@Wallis184
5 жыл бұрын
@@Juutube989 norrländska ❤️
@Oliverii
4 жыл бұрын
@@livedandletdie my scania speaks gr8 swedish 😡😡😡🧀🧀🧀
Yes, Hungarian is quite different from Finnish and Estonian, but it still belongs to the Finno-Ugric group of languages which means that all of this three languages and some more had the same proto-language in the past.
i really love this challeneges cause it proves that swedish is one of the most easiest language
@MKwildout
7 жыл бұрын
english is much simpler language than swedish though
@maleena7738
7 жыл бұрын
Emmanuel Moore omg no😮 it's so much easier to pronounce Finnish😅
@user-ip8dg5uv5q
6 жыл бұрын
Swedish is not so easy as seems
@tworoyboys208
3 жыл бұрын
@@maleena7738 finnish also has like 14 noun cases so i found it to be harder than mandarin chinese. also i find swedish to be very simple outside of the word order
@maleena7738
3 жыл бұрын
@@tworoyboys208 Finnish actually has even 15 cases😅 but the thing is...once you get those, the whole language makes sense and it pretty logical! (Talking from experience here) I still find Swedish pronounciation pretty hard but the grammar isn't that hard. I just prefer Finnish because there aren't any articles to learn😁
You should make one about Finno-Swedish vs Standard Sweden Swedish! 😃
The finns and estonians have spectacular blond hair... but wow is their language ever full of hard consonants.
@TheVikingProgrammer
7 жыл бұрын
Perkele is an insult(And the God of Thunder (Or fire, depends on the version) in Finnish Mythology) 😂.
@HexMachineNica
7 жыл бұрын
Actually Finnish has more vowels in words than most languages.
@charonortiz8906
6 жыл бұрын
annihilationHaven I mean my hair is brown and I'm from Estonia, Sweden, and turkey
@abielticas1693
6 жыл бұрын
Sometimes Finnish sounds like Japanese... It's a really cute language!
@deniz-qm1tu
5 жыл бұрын
@@abielticas1693 I heard that from a lot of people, but I've never get such an impress. (I'm completely foreign to these languages.) But, sometimes every languages sounds Japanese to me; like Italian, Spanish sometimes even French, Georgian and Persian.
Weird that the Finnish for spider is almost the same as the Cymraeg (Welsh): copyn. I don't know other languages were is similar (though I've heard Old English attacop is related). It's also interesting that, if I recall, Finnish for Wales is close to what we call ourselves: Cymru. It's strange when you hear such far flung connections.
Finnish is crazy language damn 😂
love ur videos !!
@nojokes3197
7 жыл бұрын
? meno súdi človeka ? čoo :DD
"I can speak Estonian" "Oooh!" :O "I'm Estonian" "..." :|
oh wow, that's a nice piece of trivia that I've just learnt! in Finnish "peanut butter" is also "earth nut butter" (maapähkinävoi)
Actually when I hear Finnish people speaking finnish-swedish or what they call it, sorry not sure what's the correct word for it, I found it the easiest Swedish to understand. Probably because they speak it really slow. So going to Helsinki was a blast being Danish.
love you sweden
Oh my god that thumbnail
I sweat to death just hearing one simple sentence of either talk.
didn't she say that she was Estonian, not Finnish?
@finnicpatriot6399
3 жыл бұрын
Same thing
I speak both swedish and hungarian. Only finnish i know is 'veri' (hungarian vér) meaning is 'blood'. And 'vigan' (which is 'vígan' and sounds a bit oldish in hungarian) meaning happily.
@Aurinkohirvi
6 жыл бұрын
That's because blood is an old word in the language family. A sentence that all speakers of Uralic languages find familiar: fish swims alive under waters. In Finnish: kala uiskelee elävänä vesien alla. Other words Finns and Hungarians both still use that are from the same Uralic root are for example: käsi (hand), vaski (copper, although in Hungarian means now iron), nuoli (arrow), voi (butter), niellä (swallow), mennä (go), joki (river), jää (ice), talvi (winter), löyly (soul), maksa (liver).
@animacs1
4 жыл бұрын
@@Aurinkohirvi in Hungarian this would be: a halak élve (elevenen) úsznak a víz alatt.
0:13 I love how he knows he will suck!!! hahahaha 😘
@TheSwedishLad
7 жыл бұрын
He he
I like the flashback to the Swedish girl tries to speak danish video xd
As soon as the question was said i knew the answer in Svenska lol
How about Swedish vs Gutnish
I like your videos jim carey
Jag kan prata båda för att jag är från Finland och jag går i en svensk skola men jag kan Inte prata rik-svenska. Ja tässä vielä todistus et osaan myös suomea koska mähän oon tietenkin Suomesta ja asun turussa
@Nekotaku_TV
2 жыл бұрын
*rikssvenska
He's good at speaking Finnish, does The Swedish Lad know Finnish at all?
@MM-ns2ee
3 жыл бұрын
Yes ofcourse
Är det bara jag som tyckte hon såg ut som Keyyo på videons thumbnail 😂😂😂 Is it just me that thought she looked like Keyyo (a swedish youtuber) on the thumbnail😂😂😂
Too bad we all cannot speak the same language around the world! Here in the US, I only had the choice of 3 languages in school. Germain, French and Spanish. I took Spanish since Mexico is south of us. I am of Norse and Germain decent. Crazy shit is it not?
Jordnötssmör är Erdnussbutter på tyska
Well, Estonian, Finnish, and Hungarian are all in the same language family … where as Swedish and every other language of Europe (except Basque) are all in the Indo-European language family … along with Persian, Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, and more. You'd probably have an easier time learning Hindi than Hungarian, Martin. Then again, so would most of your viewers.
@Rolando95
4 жыл бұрын
loool, funny. You now nothing about languages. This similarity is so small that it's easier to learn Finnish because words moved from Swedish to Finnish.
@reasonableargument645
4 жыл бұрын
@@Rolando95 Including grammar and pronunciation.
@mky3039
4 жыл бұрын
@@Rolando95 Only about 4% of Finnish vocabulary is of Swedish origin. And most of those words aren't very common.
@animacs1
4 жыл бұрын
@@Rolando95 words got nothing to do with how languages are related. Grammar has.
@Rolando95
4 жыл бұрын
@@animacs1 Find a relation between Hindi and Swedish grammar!!!
”Swedish sound like Nepalese language because both belongs to Indo-European languages! Swedish language share more similarities between Finnish language than Hungarian and Finnish languages (theory of 50-100 shared root word) -> Hungary (uralic turkish influenced language) Finnish (Finno-Baltic or Finno-Uralic language).
girl in the video has a really nice smile. so different looking from what i'm used to
Jag är Göteborgare och min pappa har en jobbarkompis som heter Petri men ändå så är hans dialekt super Göteborska.
I'm Turkish, Swedish, and Estonian 🇸🇪🇹🇷🇪🇪
Är jag den enda som såg barnen i bakgrunden nära slutet? Myös kyllä, suomalaista on hyvin vaikea oppia. Öll þessi tungumál eru þó svipuð. "Raccoon" er það sama á öllum tungumálum. XD
@kissaku
4 жыл бұрын
*Kyllä, suomea on hyvin vaikea oppia. (suomalaista = "to do to a finnish person" so the sentence was like "It's really hard to learn a finnish person" so the context is totally different. Google translate has not yet mastered finnish at all.) :D
Finish sounds like Quechua
Ei saa peitää!
@hentehoo27
6 жыл бұрын
*FÅR EJ ÖVERTACKAS*
Your acsent sounds like Norwegian But not the same words
Herregud
Tää oli aika hauska:D
Wow she's gorgeous 😍
He is speaking scanian tho
@yaxifromeast1989
6 жыл бұрын
zlatantillifk Han prata med stockholm accent...different from skaraborg
Perkele
please try speaking Afrikaans in your next video
Mitt namn är inte Sven, det är Martin
"Minun kissiini on pinta panta" I died. 😂❤️
🤗🤗🤗💛💛💛🤭🤭🤭 very funny very lovely video. Estonia, finland, lithuania, lethonia should a uralic baltic club of nations.
That girl is actually Estonian :D
Im so bad at swedish.. so bad that i hate and dont even want to learn it!
just speaking the words,but sweeds just try to be better.thars why we love sweeds
sad thing she learned Swedish in school
She is cute
Jag vil att lara finnska (i totally guest that btw(
Апхапхап, tvättbjörn = pesukarhu = медведь-постирун ))) - Алллё, ета прачечная?..
Damn sh e is a cutie
@TheSwedishLad
6 жыл бұрын
And it's her birthday today!
@tortorsson2482
6 жыл бұрын
Happy birthday Merkku, where ever you are:) Cool channel, sub.
I am Greek And for us Finnish is much easier
@mky3039
4 жыл бұрын
It's not, Swedish is much easier to learn for a native Greek speaker. They're related (though not very closely) and their grammar is more similar.
Swedish is a compulsory subject in Finnish schools. How come this Finnish girl has not learned any Swedish at all?
Oh god Finnish... the final boss lol
@TheSwedishLad
2 жыл бұрын
ha ha
HEY my name is not Sven - it is *_Mach 10,_* ya'll
Bara jag som är från Finland här?
Oschysst köra med skånska!
My name is not Sven!!!
Erdnussbutter :-)
@emanuelgreipel9074
5 жыл бұрын
by the way.... swedish and german have the same translation. tvättbjörn means Waschbär. tvätt is wasch(en) and björn means Bär.
i think finnish is easy langue
@mcminimuna1028
7 жыл бұрын
No vittu kai ny ku sä oot syntyny Suomes
@sicka5255
7 жыл бұрын
Triirex pelaa reading it's actually easier for me it than swedish because you almost always pronounce the words the way they're written
@triirex6334
7 жыл бұрын
Alma Báez if u read u can speak almost good finnis
@emisstudying
6 жыл бұрын
Susi Gamer think again :)
Finnish people learn swedish in their school. why cannot? :D
@suakeli
3 жыл бұрын
There's a huge difference between learning an extremely useful global language (English) or choosing to learn a major language that interests you (German/Spanish/Russian) and being forced to learn a language that only 0.13% of the World understands (Swedish). And yes, Finnish is even more insignificant than Swedish and it's a good thing that Swedes aren't forced to learn Finnish.
@singleturbosupra7951
3 жыл бұрын
Yea, but most people never once need Swedish outside school. It's only really spoken in coastal towns, go even little bit inland and you wont hear a word in Swedish ever. And if you don't use language, you forget it very quickly. I did quite okay in Swedish in primary school, but nowadays I couldn't hold a conversation in Swedish to save my life, and I'm only 26 right now, so it's not like I haven't spoken Swedish in decades. On my engineering studies I managed to pass the Swedish courses very very barely, and that little I knew in those courses I've mostly forgotten also. English on the other hand I use almost daily, so I can do quite okay with it. I do have very heavy accent though, since I almost never speak it out loud, I only write and read.
Make the sentence in sweedish and finnish "Finland was a colony of Sweeden till 1712" 😂
@timoterava7108
4 жыл бұрын
Why that sentence? Everything is wrong in it. Finland was never a "colony" but an integral part of Sweden. The second largest and important "city" of Sweden was Turku/Åbo. The Swedish time in Finland lasted until 1809.
Det finns ett ord för marshmellow som du uttalar fel
@stepchild8100
7 жыл бұрын
Pontus Hermesgård jag vet inte det finns ett ord. Konstig
@nightcorelover9677
5 жыл бұрын
Men vad är ordet?
The finnish should Learnt svenska
Nobody's talking about how bad the English sentences were though.
Nokia won
@TheSwedishLad
5 жыл бұрын
Yup!
Tää muija on iha schaiba, oppis ny ruotsinsa paremmi
lol käytännös suomen kielen sanat ei oo nii pitkii
@streamerlx4927
2 жыл бұрын
Kymäätaa lynkaa muusaa on min
The benefit of being bilingual; Voin puhua suomea hyvin Jag kan prata svenska ännu bättre Ich kann Spreche Deutsch gut. I can speak English well. Kiitoksia paljon, tack så mycket, danke schön, thanks so much! ;)
She really is a shame to all finns. Like you studied swedish how is that you can't even repeat after someone. It would be understandable if you would need to translate it..
@finnicpatriot6399
3 жыл бұрын
What? It would be a shame if she spoke fluent Swedish. Speaking Swedish is a shame, you anti-Finnish twat.
@lemonlemonade9497
2 жыл бұрын
shame? as a finn im proud of her. most of us are bored of this swedish shit! why do we have to learn their language but why dont they also elarn our language?? all of us finnish students are so tired of this. i hate the swedish language so much. i dont care that i get bad grades on that. We should learn other finno-ugric languages instead of swedish.. I'd gladly learn Saami, Estonian, Karelian, Vepsian but never swedish
Swedish sounds like German.
@lemonlemonade9497
2 жыл бұрын
cuz maybe they are both germanic languages lol??
@animacs1
2 жыл бұрын
@@lemonlemonade9497 yes. And? Finnish and Hungarian are relatives (the closest), still doesn't sound similar. At all.
@lemonlemonade9497
2 жыл бұрын
@@animacs1 Hungarian isn't the closest relative to Finnish. Karelian, Estonian and Vepsian are the closest relatives to Finnish and they do sound familiar.