German and Swedish have a lot in common stemming from the same Germanic roots, but how similar are they? As a speaker of any Germanic language, see if you can play along! * I've noticed some criticism of Giles' Swedish in the comments. I cannot fully judge one's fluency in a language if I'm not fluent in it myself. So I do have to put my trust in what those who volunteer to take part in these videos tell me. If you have any suggestions as to what other measures I can take to ensure the person who volunteers is fully suited to represent the language then please do let me know. Having said that, since I have a very long list of volunteers, there will be other participants representing Swedish in future videos. Thank you for your feedback. Please contact me on Instagram if you'd like to participate in a future video: instagram.com/BahadorAlast

@panajotispapagiannopoulos2579

2 жыл бұрын

It must be tough to "test" if the people who volunteer are perfectly fluent

@malolelei3937

2 жыл бұрын

I think just because a person has a little accent because of having lived abroad for a long time doesn't mean they should not be able to participate in these videos. That's a little harsh imho. He seems a very knowledgeable and fun individual actually. I would personally love to see him again Bahador Jan. But of course, it's your channel. You can decide however you want. I will continue watching your videos as always. 😊

@burkmat

2 жыл бұрын

He's actually quite good. I was for a while wondering what dialect he was speaking until he made a grammar mistake and I realized he was an L2 speaker. Hatten av för dig Gile 👏

@collectivelove2275

2 жыл бұрын

I think he did well, but yeah I can see why.

@muhammadjalal2335

2 жыл бұрын

Yoo buddyy

I'm honest, as a native german speaker I guessed just like 30 % of the amount that the german guy guessed. He was really good.

@ingvarharaldsson677

2 жыл бұрын

I think it might have been manipulated. The german guy knew the sentences before. I saw a similar video by Ecolinguist, the results there were more realistic. kzread.info/dash/bejne/eGeosal-Y9W0c9Y.html

@Serenoj69

2 жыл бұрын

@@ingvarharaldsson677 Hmmm....as a Dutch I did not look at the text (written Swedish is very easy for someone who talks Dutch and is a bit willing to put a little effort in it) and all are quite simple. Now from what I have read Dutch is closer to Swedish than German is but not that much. So I can see how a German could score as good as this guy does without any prior knowledge.

@marsukarhu9477

2 жыл бұрын

As a native Finnish speaker I got all of them right...

@ingvarharaldsson677

2 жыл бұрын

@@marsukarhu9477 you are having a laugh! Which one: German or Swedish?

@marsukarhu9477

2 жыл бұрын

@@ingvarharaldsson677 As a Finnish person I naturally speak Swedish (bilangual country and all) and German I've studied in school of course since Finnish isn't quite a "world language" for some reason. Easy like sunday mornings.

The same words in Dutch: - zwager - elf vensters - een lange reis - huidbehandeling - vreedzaam land - rookruimte And the sentences in Dutch: - Vandaag ga ik naar het strand om te zwemmen. - De schijf (plaat) wordt op de radio gespeeld. - Ik heb maagpijn. Mijn buik doet pijn. - Het is beter om lief te hebben dan om vijanden te hebben. - Morgen vlieg ik naar Stockholm, de hoofdstad van Zweden. - Ik hou er heel veel van om Zweeds te praten, omdat het zeker 's werelds mooiste (fijnste) taal (spraak) is.

@frdjuh

2 жыл бұрын

@mechEnut Dutch is a conservative language and it didn't have a vowel shift like German or English.

@r.s.5557

2 жыл бұрын

Dutch is even closer to German than swedish

@braincytox7314

2 жыл бұрын

I guess this would be in English: today i go to the beach to swim while the german sentance today I go at the beach swim (so without to, u don't give swim as a reason why u go there cuz that would be Ich gehe zum Strand um zu schwimmen)

@Serenoj69

2 жыл бұрын

@@r.s.5557 It is also a bit closer to Swedish. I just listened to what he said (the Swede) and had little trouble. Sure some words are very different, but most are so similar you can guess the others. What threw me off is when he did not say "alla" in that one sentence. Later on he added it.

@marcpeschke4061

2 жыл бұрын

Dutch is german's brother language. Lots of western and northern german dialects are almost identical to dutch.

I suppose the Swedish speaker doesn't have Swedish as native language since it had some flaws but still it was very good.

@oBenjGo

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah he mixed up tomorrow and in the morning in swedish but a good and fun video still

@richlisola1

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah! He failed to mention which other languages who spoke. If one of them was German, then this wasn’t a true test!

@DonArques

2 жыл бұрын

He could also have translated "Ich habe Magenschmerzen" to "Jag har magsmärtor", instead of saying "Jag har ont i magen" to bring out some more cognates ;)

@kaewakoyangi8071

2 жыл бұрын

I heard those flaws but am unable to explain where they came from.

@gligeti

2 жыл бұрын

Weird, when he speaks fast, his Swedish is pretty good, but when he slows down and starts to add the sounds not usually pronounced in real everyday speech, he makes more mistakes (like att har, att älskar as opposed to the correct att ha and att älska) so maybe he is better at spoken Swedish than written Swedish...

I love to watch these German/Swedish videos😅 I speak both Swedish and German and I really noticed that it's easier for swedes to understand German than for germans to understand Swedish. Love to all of you beautiful people out there 👋

@dan74695

Жыл бұрын

Swedish has a LOT of Low German loanwords.

@rahel_fiedler

Жыл бұрын

for me it is so hard to understand swedisch. i have no idea, how he can understand all that and that good

@dan74695

Жыл бұрын

@@rahel_fiedler You would've understood more if you spoke Nederdüütsk.

@hatrez3679

Жыл бұрын

Yess it is. I barely understand a thing in Swedish.

@sshreddderr9409

Жыл бұрын

yes Im German, and I understand not much, but I also believe that swedish people are generally more exposed to non native languages than Germans due to not having movie translations and population size. the only languages I can understand most of is dutch, and then yiddish. With swedish, its mostly just some words, and filling in the context from abstracted sound and no real understanding.

So cool how "svåger" and "Schwager" are cognates with the Sanskrit word श्वशुर (śváśura) which has become "ससुर /سسر‎" (sasur) in Hindi/Urdu.

@Fafner888

2 жыл бұрын

свёкор in Russian!

@panajotispapagiannopoulos2579

2 жыл бұрын

That's really cool

@panajotispapagiannopoulos2579

2 жыл бұрын

I love the stuff I learn from these videos but then the comments always teach extra amazing facts

@ArturoStojanoff

2 жыл бұрын

Spanish for father in law is "suegro"

@collectivelove2275

2 жыл бұрын

@FichDich InDemArsch It used to mean the same in ancient times, but the modern Swedish meaning is brother-in-law

Really enjoyed it. I love the intuitive format of your videos, both the online ones and the original in person ones. They're really great for us watching and getting involved.

As a native German speaker I was always wondering how much North and West Germanic are mutually intelligible so thank you for this!

@gorgioarmanioso151

2 жыл бұрын

They are quite similar, I am native spanish speaker but I have lived in Sweden since I was nine, and I now study with a lot of Germans and to be honest you get a lot, the main issue is the pronunciation, when reading its much easier to understand!

@burkmat

2 жыл бұрын

I think Low German is a lot more similar to Swedish than High German. Cognates like tid and Zeit are not easy to recognize for example but the Low German word would be easier I guess.

@LucasRodrigues-ef4un

2 жыл бұрын

It's crazy in romance language as well, I speak portuguese and understand other languages from latin like a accent

@xaverlustig3581

2 жыл бұрын

@@LucasRodrigues-ef4un Germanic languages are somewhat further apart than romance and slavic languages, so it is more challenging.

@gorgioarmanioso151

2 жыл бұрын

@@xaverlustig3581 Dude, it depends which Germanic language not Swedish and Norwegian and Danish( as they are all pretty similar, specially Norwegian from Østfold) . I am fluent in Swedish and Spanish. I have no hard time in understanding Italian or Portuguese, nevertheless French which is highly influenced by Germanic Languages is much harder, and Romanian is much further apart. I guess is the same regarding Germanic Languages it all depends on what you speak and which region you are on.

Wow, the Swedish speaker impressed me with his accent, and his ability to mimic even the way Swedes speak English! Feels like he really absorbed the language.

Word by word, both languages share lots of similarities. But in spoken form, it takes a lot more to understand fully what is spoken by the other party.

@mkphilly

2 жыл бұрын

Swedish has some consonant combinations that sound totally different from the written

They guy speaking Swedish has a beautiful smile.

His Swedish is good but not perfect. He makes a lot of minor mistakes, so I figure Swedish isn't his mother tongue.

@shadesamurai

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah i noticed it too. His swedish was bad.

@malamour

2 жыл бұрын

probably from some other nordic country

@skirmantasmikuckis6923

2 жыл бұрын

british?

@zarakul6663

2 жыл бұрын

vems ?

@shadesamurai

2 жыл бұрын

@@zarakul6663 Y did u remove ur comment asking if he was gay?

Wunderbar sprache 🇩🇪❤️🇸🇪 Underbart språk

@dennisalexanderson6975

Ай бұрын

❤️

That was so enjoyable ! Love it ☺️

Love these comparison videos-I remember seeing Nobi in an Ecolinguist video and it's great to see him on this channel as well. Multan dankon al Bahador pro sia bonlaboro!

@samspear8772

2 жыл бұрын

I was gonna say he looks familiar for some reason haha

@malolelei3937

2 жыл бұрын

Is that Esperanto? nice 😊

Many thanks for the two languages I began my languages studies with!

Great video and great participants. Would love to see them again in future videos. #WewantGilesagain 😅

It would have been much more interesting if German and Swedish were their respective mother tongues, and if their familiarity of the other language, culture and country was clarified. That way you could get a clearer picture of how geographical, cultural and linguistic proximity plays into their comprehension of the other language. Someone who learns Swedish as an adult in Australia would, for example, have a very different relationship to the German language than someone like me who grew up in southern Sweden, just 2 hours drive from Germany, visiting regularly and learning some German in school.

@NobbiMD

2 жыл бұрын

Hallo, Hampus! Was für ein lustiger Name. Deutsch ist meine Muttersprache. Und ich habe erzählt, daß ich in Kalifornien wohne. Also, bitte...

@justthecousinoftheguywitho2337

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. Native ones might have more in common like even from their lifestyles and other things but this video was also very interesting.

@Christian175z

2 жыл бұрын

German is Nobbi's mother tongue. What are you talking about?

@hampusgunnarsson8389

2 жыл бұрын

@@Christian175z That particular point only applies to the other guy. Anything else I can clear up for you?

@Christian175z

2 жыл бұрын

@@hampusgunnarsson8389 Oh, alright then. Have a nice night then.

„Fönster“ in Swedish is very likely a German loanword , ultimately from Latin „fenestra“, whereas the original Norse word „vindauga“ ( wind eye ) is preserved in Norwegian „vindu“ and of course in English „window“.

@Letmegetthatforyou

Жыл бұрын

I think it has to do with Norway not having the huge influx of german immigrants as Sweden had (Stockholm in particularly).

@AlexxHO

22 күн бұрын

@@Letmegetthatforyou It was Hansa influence to Sweadish, actually.

That was so nice and interesting! I tried understanding the German part through my Yiddish studies, I was happy to understand a lot of it :)

I find it extremely odd how good the Swedish speaker's accent is when it's clear he's not a native. When he talks at normal speed it sounds pretty much perfect but when he slowed down at around 7:15 and 8:00 he misplaced some of the Rs in the sentence. He says "Det är bättre att älskar än att har fiende" which is still perfectly understandable Swedish but as you can see it differs slightly from the correct way of saying it. At first I thought he was a native Swedish speaker who had developed a slight accent from having lived abroad for a while and I even thought I could hear a Swedish accent in his English. But a native Swede probably wouldn't make such a mistake. Overall I am very impressed though, his pronunciation is amazing. Great video!

Thank you! The World needs more polyglot videos like this comparing, all the worlds beautiful languages with oneother. I was really surprised for example by the similitarities beetween Spanish and Farsi words in another video on this channel. My two mother-languages is Finnish and Swedish and I also speak fluent english so I really understood everything that nobi said. Swedish and also English is really close to the German language. Thank you for the linguistic pleasure...

You should compare Low German (Plattdeutsch) and other languages like Swedish/Danish/Dutch etc. and you will find incredible similarities between them. The reason why High German is rather different, is because it was created as an attempt to have a German standard language. So they constructed a language that could easily be understood by most the speakers of all the German dialects.

@-jfk2306

2 жыл бұрын

Ich glaub eher das sich das Hochdeutsche mit Blick auf die Phonologie anders entwickelt hat, da zum Beispiel alle unstimmhaften plosiven Laute zu Plosiven wurden ( vgl. Appel > Apfel).

@aroma13

2 жыл бұрын

It isn't that that high german was created as a ,, standard form" of german,but the fact that the language evolved in the south of germany in different ways than the North,for exemple , the letter ,,t" in some places turned to ,,th" and then just to ,,s" (see english ,,hate",swedish ,,hat" ,dutch ,,haat" and german ,,Hass") and since high german is based on the southern dialects of germany(where the elevation is higher) ,that's why it seems a little alien compered to the other germanic languages that are situeted more to the north

@PhiNics

2 жыл бұрын

@@aroma13 I can assure you that South German (Bavarian, Alemannic, Swabian) is just about as far as you can get from Hochdeutsch which is spoken mostly around Hanover. I think you are mixing up German and Germanic languages.

@agricolon

2 жыл бұрын

That's not totally correct, Hochdeutsch (High German) wasn't created nor were the people forced to talk and write in High German. Within several centuries there happened a couple of vowel and consonant shifts which collided more or less in the middle. E.g.(from north to south):"Mîn niuwes hûs" became "Mein neues Haus." whereas (from south to north) :"Li-ebe gu-ote Brü-eder"* became "Liebe gute Brüder". (*they were spoken as two vowels, but niuwes like nywes) So eventuelle they merged into one another. And then letterpress, Luther and so forth...

@janosch1097

2 жыл бұрын

@@aroma13 Based on Middle German mainly.

The Swedish guys' pronunciation was a bit off, he is definitely not Swedish.

@bosonbreeder

2 жыл бұрын

He sounds just like someone who was born in Sweden but has been living in the UK for a very long time. The grammars are sometimes weirdly off too, in a way that is sort of peculiar, because no Swede would make those kind of errors. In other sentences he speaks perfectly good, native, Swedish - with a posh/flamboyant Stockholm accent over a slightly northern Sweden accent. Pretty unusual combination.

@Serenoj69

2 жыл бұрын

@@bosonbreeder I don't think he is Swedish. I first thought he was, but his love for Swedish to me indicated it he wasn't. I mean apart from French, who on Earth is so openly in love with his/her own language? On top of that he had the sentence about how Swedish is "Världens finaste språk" etc. blah...

@bosonbreeder

2 жыл бұрын

@@Serenoj69As a Swede myself I can tell that this guy definitely grew up in Sweden. It's just one of those things you can tell as a native. Swedish is pretty hard to mimic with all its sublime nuances, and even foreign people who have lived in Sweden for many decades are pretty easy to point out.

@patrickbroman

2 жыл бұрын

@@bosonbreeder I’m guessing you mean ”subtle”? ”Sublime” means ”of very great excellence or beauty”. Typ ”gudomlig”.

@bosonbreeder

2 жыл бұрын

​@@patrickbroman​You are perfectly correct. I have no idea how I managed to mix those words up.

Great video! I enjoyed it so much and it was fun guessing alongside them! I started learning Swedish not too long ago, and it's been the easiest language I've studied yet by far. It almost feels like cheating when I'm studying because I often can figure things out without having learned them previously. It's such a beautiful, underrated language that I wish more people would learn. I'm planning on moving to Sweden as soon as I'm financially able, so I'm slowly preparing. Studying Swedish has become the highlight of my days. 🥰

As an American studying Swedish, I envy how well Giles pronounces Swedish. To my ears, he has a native-level pronunciation. I also speak German, but in my experience, Swedish is far easier to learn than German, as there are no cases to contend with, nor conjugation of verbs. Och Giles är så snygg!!

@plutopingvin454

2 жыл бұрын

You're an American, that's why he has a native-level pronunciation to your ears. As a native Swede, you can kind of hear his accent, but he speaks Swedish extremely well, don't get me wrong on that! But he's just not quite at native-level to me since he made a few mistakes, but he has an extremely good accent.

@k.williamjones3978

2 жыл бұрын

@@plutopingvin454 That makes sense...

@Greksallad

Жыл бұрын

He doesn't speak 100% perfectly but I'm almost convinced he has a Swedish parent or something or grew up around Swedish because his pronunciation is very very good, almost native-level. I've only ever heard one non-native speak better and that was a Polish woman who had studied Swedish at university and she sounded like she was born in Stockholm. There was literally no way to tell she wasn't a native speaker even though she only really become fluent at age 20 and had never studied it before. Blew my fucking mind.

Ein tolles, amüsantes Video ! Ich lerne Schwedisch seit einigen Monaten, und dieses Video hat mir die Möglichkeit gegeben, mich mit dieser Sprache zu üben !

@peixeess

2 жыл бұрын

good luck! don't listen TOO much to the guy in the video as he says things a bit wrong at times :)

@orebepstein9058

2 жыл бұрын

@@peixeess la pronuncia della lingua svedese è davvero difficile ma irresistibile

@SchmulKrieger

2 жыл бұрын

... zu beschäftigen* ... , die Sprache besser zu lernen*

I don’t really like it when non-native speakers do this. The Swedish speaker was reading “Det är bättre att älskar än att har fiender”, even though it said ”älska” and ”ha”. This is a typical mistake English speakers do when speaking Swedish.

@hnorrstrom

2 жыл бұрын

Yes it sucks to have incorrect sentences for the German to react to.

@fintonmainz7845

2 жыл бұрын

I agree 100% .

@rodley25

2 жыл бұрын

The rolled r at the end of a word is not something ‘English’ English speakers do naturally. We do more of an ‘a’ sound like butta and wata and suga, daughta. We ignore the r, Scottish English speakers or Americans are probably better with the rolled r.

@davidkasquare

2 жыл бұрын

@@rodley25 I’m talking about mixing the infinitive with the present tense, gå -> går, stå -> står, as they look the same in English. (Apart from the 3rd pers sing) I teach Swedish to foreigners on a daily basis, so I’m quite familiar with these mistakes. And to make it clear: what happens is that the final -r is actually added when it’s not supposed to be there.

@kaiserchief9319

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidkasquare Do you do online teaching?

Can we get danish vs Swedish/Norwegian. Since they usually say they can't understand spoken Danish 😁

@BahadorAlast

2 жыл бұрын

It's in the works. Stay tuned! :)

@pronemanoldbutyoung5548

2 жыл бұрын

@@BahadorAlast Maybe this is true, maybe it's a bit of a Swedish construction 😁 I read that Danish infants are the ones that last recognizes the meaning of their parents language, Danish, in the whole world, amongst all languages spoken around the world 😁 To be fair, e.g, "the whole country" in Danish is pronounced 'hele riiee" spelled "hele riget". In Danish you simply skip 90% of consonants 😁

@daadirmohamed6580

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

Really enjoyed this video :)

The Swedish dude acting like he didn’t know what the German words meant. He knew every single one you can tell🤣🤣🤣🤣.

@alirezabeiranvand2984

2 жыл бұрын

They said he wrote something and it is also in Yiddish so maybe he knows Yiddish? Which is very close to German

@dialmightyspartangod6717

2 жыл бұрын

@@alirezabeiranvand2984 Isn’t Yiddish a Germanic language not Semantic or is that Hebrew? Yiddish and Swedish is also Close

@syynimaa9562

2 жыл бұрын

@@dialmightyspartangod6717 yes yiddish is germanic and very similar to german, but its written with the same alphabet as hebrew

@WolfgangSourdeau

2 жыл бұрын

Yiddish is clearly German with some hebrew and slavic additions from the communities that were speaking it in easter Europe. From a video that was posted here a few months ago, you can see that they are both still very mutually intelligible.

@herrbonk3635

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think he's Swedish. He sure looks like it, but doesn't sound like it.

Thank you Bahador jan for this enlightening comparison between 2 Gremanic Sprachen!

That was a good video. I got quite a bit of the more difficult sentences.

خییلی خوب بود، دست مریزاد، ویدئو ی بسیار گرم و دوست داشتنی بود، سپاس از شما 💜🌸

Having been to Sweden as a German, I noticed a huge difference between written and spoken Swedish. I was able to make out about 50 to 70 per cent in the written form but only about 10 in the spoken one.

@mickeyvd1979

9 ай бұрын

Ich hatte genau das gleiche in Schweden, ich war dort 2001 während meines Studiums für 2 Semester. Ich hatte ein halbes Jahr zuvor angefangen, mir selbst Schwedisch beizubringen mit Buch und CD. War ja auch eine andere Zeit, damals konnte man nicht einfach auf Google oder KZread gehen und sich das anhören... Es klappte alles wunderbar, mir fiel Schwedisch, da Germanisch und verwandt und so, sehr leicht. Konnte nach dem halben Jahr einwandfrei Texte lesen und auch selbst schreiben. Sprechen ging auch, halt nur langsam. Ich bestand dann sogar an der Stockholms Universitetet den TISUS Test, also diesen Standard-Sprachtest für Auslandsstudenten. Da habe ich das Hörverstehen aber auch nur knapp bestanden. Als ich mich dann anfing, unter die Leute zu mischen, war das für mich das reinste Chaos. Ich erkannte die Sprache, die ich eigentlich ganz gut beherrschte, ganz und gar nicht wieder. Als ich dann mich traute, zu sprechen, sagte einer zu mir: Du sprichst ja wie der Hochadel😂 Dann haben meine neuen schwedischen Freunde mit der "Learning by doing-Methode" beigebracht, wie Alltagsschwedisch geht. Nach einem Monat war dann fast nichts mehr ein Problem für mich. Und heute bin ich sogar glücklich mit einer Schwedin verheiratet und lebe in Stockholm😂

@user-ek2ty2ot8s

3 ай бұрын

Swedes speak in dialect but write in standard Swedish.

Thanks for sharing This video very useful

This is great. Nobi seems like a very nice guy. I know a little bit of both languages so it was very fun to follow and guess 👍😁

@JavidShah246

2 жыл бұрын

Alireza Beiranvand, the goal keeper?👏😀

@alirezabeiranvand2984

2 жыл бұрын

@@JavidShah246 Yes 🇮🇷🎉😁

@kaywann

Жыл бұрын

Shire lor, namiri

very interesting. I taught myself Swedish based on my knowledge of German. So many similar words.

This was an interesting watch. Understand a little bit of both...more swedish though as it was taught in school here in finland. Have to go the library to sharpen my language skills...

Good video! My brother studied languages at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California. The pace of study was intense. Students had to master the language course in 36-64 weeks. Psychologically it was very difficult, but fortunately he was helped by Yuriy Ivantsiv's book "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages”. The book " Polyglot Notes" became a desk book for my brother, because it has answers to all the problems that any student of a foreign language has to face. Thanks to the author of the channel for this interesting video! Good luck to everyone who studies a foreign language and wants to realize their full potential!

It is much thanks to the similarities between Swedish and German that I managed to learn German relatively easy. Lots of words are relatively recognisable.

@herrbonk3635

2 жыл бұрын

The words are not exactly the main problem with German, but the syntax... :)

Sir i am indian zorastrian Ahurmazda is my god Its my strong wish to visit persia and see fire temples. You are humble person 🇮🇷♥️🇮🇳💪💪💪💪

This was a lot of fun to watch and very interesting! I'm from Spain, but recently I started studying both languages (very slowly, it's just a hobby), so watching this video was great! By the way, count on me if you ever want to do another episode featuring Spanish, I'd love to participate!

@lelinguechepassione4698

2 жыл бұрын

Buena idea, amigo ! Sería muy interesante, por ejemplo, una comparación entre castillán, catalán y italiano.

@manorueda1432

2 жыл бұрын

@@lelinguechepassione4698 yeah, and their varieties, and many more languages!

Excellent! I suggest to provide them with the written words and sentences also to speed up things a bit. Also, it would be good to always hear and read the fully sentence of the other language in translation

I got "Feinde" (Deutsch) from "fiender" (Svenska) and few others. Very close languages. Thumbs up! 👍🏼

Since Afrikaans is my home language, I'm also able to pick up some of the Swedish and German words. So it's also quite fun for me to play along.

Nice video ❤️❤️❤️

In Dutch: Zwager, elf vensters (thow venster is not used a lot), een lange reis, huidbehandeling, vredig land, rookruimte. Pretty similar!

I am Brazilian learning Dutch and I could notice some similarities among dutch, German and swedish. Really fun.

@congamonga7039

Жыл бұрын

Sehr geil, bao sorte e nao perde a pacienca com as declinacoes, cara

@kleberdombroski

Жыл бұрын

@@congamonga7039 obrigado.

I have studied both languages, and I have to say swedish is way easier to learn. I think his "singing" dialect is just one way of speaking swedish. Here in Finland swedish speakers speak much more archaic sounding swedish without the "singing".

@henriklarsson5221

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, in Scania we don´t sing either :D

@meadish

Жыл бұрын

@@henriklarsson5221 Utom Peps då. Saknad som få.

Sorry a lot of small misstakes in the Swedish... saying "har" instead of "ha" repeatedly and so on... and the intonations is off too. His Swedish is very very good, but not perfect.

@Warriorcats64

2 жыл бұрын

Just like your English.

@Pastor24u

2 жыл бұрын

@@Warriorcats64 Maybe, even if I doubt it… but I didn’t participate in a youtubevideo representing the English language now did I?

@Warriorcats64

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pastor24u Fair enough.

Nobi is adorable. 😍

Good video 👏Fonster or fenster is like in Italian (finestra) also it's pretty similar to French.

@meadish

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, that word travelled from the Latin areas through Germany to Sweden. The earlier word in old Norse was a cognate of English "window" and can be broken down to 'wind-eye" (vindoye, vindöga etc).

@henriklarsson5221

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We have a great deal of latin loan-words here in the north, since the chatolic days :)

*If your first video was comparing similarities between Persian and German, then I hope you will consider doing one between German and Russian. Of course, they belong to separate branches of the Indo-European family of languages--but I can think of many cognates between them--certainly more than between German and Persian. A great many Russians are interested in learning German, and vice versa. Therefore, I think it would be encouraging to native-speakers of both languages to note some of the similarities. Vielen herzlichen Dank! / Большое спасибо!*

Haben ein guten tag. I'm still a german learner but i can make out some old english words that are similar to german. Also i'll like to see these comparisons Irish gaelic vs russian Cherokee vs chinese

nice video, please show the translation of the other language in both caption and voice

He has such a beautiful Swedish pronunciation. Makes me go all gooey

@hnorrstrom

2 жыл бұрын

It sounds like a Stockholm accent but is actually slightly off. But his pronunciation is clearly better than his texts there is gramatical errors in every sentence.

@Nekotaku_TV

2 жыл бұрын

But also wrong.

@Redsleather

2 жыл бұрын

He’s a good looking man

As always - super. Thanks a lot. Ethnically I am German from Kazakhstan. But in my opinion Swedish sounds way softer It is like more beautiful version of German. P.S. There are many many common words in Swedish/German and Russian language. Maybe you will do it one day (Russian vs German/Swedish). Svenska språk är så vackert. Jag har bestämt mig att lara det har språket

@Catire92

Жыл бұрын

Я немец из таджикистана 👍🏼

@caroskaffee3052

2 ай бұрын

I feel it's the complete opposite 😂 swedish sounds chopped and like a potato stuck in someone's throat. german is silky smooth compared to the scandinavian languages

So cool! Do they have any accounts to follows?

Ok, the guy speaking Swedish does NOT have Swedish as his mother tongue 😜 But to be fair, a majority of Swedish pupils study german in school for 3-4 years. So it will be hard to find a native Swede that knows zero german.

@hnorrstrom

2 жыл бұрын

He also seems to know a fair bit of German like "Schallplatten" not a basic word exactly

@estereriksson1708

2 жыл бұрын

@@hnorrstrom yes, I have studied German in 9 years. And I didn't know the word "schallplatten"..

They really did a great job! 👏🏻👏🏻 I speak German and couldn’t understand everything in Swedish. 😁 They both had a strong grasp of both languages. 👍🏻👍🏻

@adamirfan46

Жыл бұрын

swedish language just like danish norwegian finnish and icelandic....

I'm so conflicted about the swedish speaker (not in a bad way). 😂 On the one hand I can clearly hear he's not native, but on the other hand, since he's not native, I'm immensely impressed by his pronunciation. It's really superb! I wonder what's his mother tongue.

@JohnDoe10350

Жыл бұрын

Giles is an English name. And he has a British English accent. I suspect that he has a Swedish parent or maybe spent considerable amount of time living there, but not enough to master it.

Very interesting. I speak German, Englisch and Norwegian. When i started learning Norwegian i had that feeling 1/3 of Norwegian is English/English related/roots..., 1/3 German/German related and 1/3 Scandinavian. And with Swedish i have the feeling that it has even more in common with German especially Low German.

@herrbonk3635

2 жыл бұрын

Those "English related" roots are from Scandinavian (Old Norse), an older language than English.

@herrbonk3635

2 жыл бұрын

But it's totally true what you say about Low German. It affected Swedish heavily, due to extensive contact with the Hansa League during the middle ages, where many Low German craftsmen and merchants also decided to stay for life in Stockholm, Kalmar, Visby, etc.

@meadish

2 жыл бұрын

@@herrbonk3635 To be fair, for the past 100 years English has increasingly influenced both Swedish and Norwegian, although that influence is sometimes subtle, and those of us who were born later than the middle of the 20th century will only be clearly aware of the changes that occurred since we were young. Spoken Swedish today is full of anglicisms both in terms of vocabulary and exact patterns. So not only swearing in English (sh*t, f*ck, b*tch) but also expressions one might not immediately peg as English influence, like "kex", "spendera tid", "hjärnsläpp", "familjär" (in the sense "bekant" rather than the earlier meaning borrowed from French), "flippa ur", "dumpa", "härdsmälta", "falsklarm", and the accelerating use of English derived terms in formal professional language within science, medicine, economy, etc.

@herrbonk3635

2 жыл бұрын

@@meadish Very true, at least for some categories of Swedes. But the roots are the roots, whatever happended later. There are also many nunaces in this. Kex may be a variation on cakes, but cake (and cookie) stems from the same scandinavian word as swedish kaka. Skit is a swedish word too; "sh*t" is just saying it in an american accent, for a vulgar effect. F*ck has old norse roots as well. Spendera tid has been said in Sweden since the 1700s, iirc. The 1900s idéa that _tillbringa_ would be the only possible word in that context is a typical example of hypercorrection. Familjär has historically had two meanings, either (in swedish) _förtrolig, intim, otvungen, obesvärad,_ or (swedish again) _"betecknar att någon känner grundligt till, är synnerligen väl förtrogen med, hemmastadd i densamma, välbekant med något"._ Hjärnsläpp and some of the others may be inspired by English, I don't know. But (possible) anglicisms of that kind only enriches the language. I mean that very honestly, even though it sounds like a typical political cliché or _plakatfras_ (poster phrase?) Again, English did the same for many hundreds of years, with many languages. It wasn't just norman french and old norse, altough they were most dominant. I agree that internationalisation destroys professional terminology though. Or if we should say lack of historical knowledge and perspective. Business and medicine are horrible in this regard, as are some of our newest universities, but many other areas are badly affected as well. Perhaps not very surprising though, when people live most of their lives on the english speaking internet (just like you and I). A few examples from electronics, where such changes have been possible to study in realtime for the last 20 years: The swedish term (bistabil) _vippa,_ is now almost fully replaced by the american term "flipflop". A (logisk) _grind_ is now called a "gate", while the _styre_ (on a transistor) is also "the gate". An ordinary _stiftlist_ is now a "ribbon connector", and so on. But once again, "gate" is another example of a loan from "us" into english. It's basically the same old norse word as scandinavian _gata,_ after a thousand years or so of semantic gliding :)

@meadish

2 жыл бұрын

@@herrbonk3635 All very good points, thank you for taking the time to make your post so informative. I was not aware "f*ck" was actually a loan into English from Old Norse, I thought it was merely a case of a shared Germanic root. I know it is foolish to get upset about modern loans as well; everyone knows languages change naturally over time according to their circumstances. That said, part of how the process unfolds *is* related to attitude and values (see Icelandic for example), and I cannot help but thinking we Swedes as a culture are too eager to increase the influence of English. Political decisions, such as defunding Tekniska nomenklaturcentralen, somehow seem like active attempts to roll over and accept defeat. The changes you mention at the end of your comment are reflected in nearly every professional field. Given 5-6 more decades of this trend, it will simply make more sense to just place Swedish on the rubbish heap of history, because the younger generation will simply feel more comfortable speaking English.

I'm Dutch and got almost al the Swedish words right!

Salom y'all. Mamnunam! Danke! Tusen tak! Love these bridges you are building, in a world addicted to walls. The written language, with its varying scripts and scratches, serves more as walls that divide, rather than the spoken word, wherein one can often find, and create, bridges of recognition.

I'm a Finland Swedish speaker and we lack pitch accent, so we have a different melody than people in Sweden. The Swedish dialects in Finland have preserved archaic parts of old Swedish. "Standard" spoken Swedish here is maybe closer to the written Swedish language, but the rural dialects have some things in common with Norwegian and Icelandic. E.g. at least the older generations of dialect speakers use three noun genders, like in German (preserved from old Norse). So for that part there is some familiarity in German. On the other hand German has some weird words, like for instance Pferd, which doesn't have any cognate (häst/hest). There is also Ross in German, which is at least known as a name for some horse breed in Swedish (russ). And Ross and English horse are also cognates.

Very nice videoooooo

Interesting fact, the Swedish "resa" and the German "Reise" has an English cognate that is now obsolete, it's "reys". The meaning is the same and I think up until the last century it was still commonly used.

10:00 Nobi said something important about “Haupt”. I wanna know more😔 Is it related to Sanskrit “Sapta” and 7th Chakra?

@arjunarsheya7723

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Alireza. Haupt is a cognate of 'caput' in Latin and 'kapāla' (कपाल) in Sanskrit. In Latin it means head and the English word 'capital' derives from it. In Sanskrit it has the meanings of both head and skull. Hope this helps.

@JavidShah246

2 жыл бұрын

@@arjunarsheya7723 yes sir! This helped a lot🙏🏻

@JavidShah246

2 жыл бұрын

@@martinger.becker1614 baleh martin jan! Shoma ham farsi midanid?

@JavidShah246

2 жыл бұрын

@@martinger.becker1614 besiar khoob👏 agar vaght dashtid, sari be grouhe telegram e bahador bezanid ta dar anja bishtar baa ham ashena shavim😊

@justme8841

2 жыл бұрын

isnt 7th chakra the crown chakra? then yes it is right. because haupt means head, but also main

Swedish vocabulary is to up to 50% of Middle Low German origin (due to the Hanseatic League). That does also bring Swedish and High German closer to each other than they would have been without Low German influence on Swedish.

It’s hard to speak perfect Swedish. Getting the grammar and melody right is the hardest. Giles really impressed me with getting the melody close to perfect. I don’t hear that a lot from people who aren’t native speakers. And also pronouncing the vowels so nicely. When foreigners nail the really difficult sounds it really wows me!

@stefansoder6903

Жыл бұрын

Why would Swedish be any harder than other languages?

@Riroraruro

Жыл бұрын

@@stefansoder6903 I never said that it is.

@stefansoder6903

Жыл бұрын

@@Riroraruro Swedish has a very simple grammar, not hard. The "melody" might be hard to nail but everyone understands you even if you don't get the melody.

@Riroraruro

Жыл бұрын

@@stefansoder6903 Jag har inte heller sagt att språket är svårare än andra språk. Jag sa att det är svårt att tala perfekt svenska om man inte är född in i det (en/ett till exempel är faktiskt svårt). Det beror förstås på varifrån man kommer och vilken grammatik man är van vid.

@stefansoder6903

Жыл бұрын

@@Riroraruro Det är svårt att tala vilket språk som helst perfekt om man "inte är född in i det". Inget unikt för svenska.

As a Chilean, is nice to see the word "Schwager" in 1st place. There's an old football club called Lota Schwager, and there's a retired southern Chilean footballer called Jorge Schwager.

Skivan is related to Scheibe, not to Schallplatte :)

@oskich

2 жыл бұрын

The most common slang word is "Plattan" - Probably borrowed from German :)

@stefansoder6903

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. They miss a lot of cognates in this video. Kind of frustrating to watch!

@NobbiMD

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that. Please dont be harsh on Giles.

Fuhr ab an eine lange Reise Il partit pour un long voyage (not sure what to pad "Mittelmeer" with to fill the next line) Sur la mer Mé-mé-méditerranée

I loved it, I always exceptionally enjoy Germanic languages

German guy looks like he has a very kind heart

@seanmyers4455

2 жыл бұрын

He is a wonderful man and a delight to know.

@justme8841

2 жыл бұрын

agree

There are more cognates than you realise. Often you can find a word with only a slightly different meaning or an archaic or more formal word that is the same in Swedish and German. The two languages are more similar than people think at first glance. "Magenschmerzen" and the Swedish guy said "magont". If he had used the more formal "magsmärtor" it would be exact cognates. A lot is also obscured because German has kept a very complicated grammar and the word order is often different.

@TheMichaelK

2 жыл бұрын

Not to forget that Swedish vocabulary is to up to 50% of Middle Low German origin (influence due to the Hanseatic League) which also brings Swedish closer to High German than it would have been elsewise. E.g. Swedish smärta was borrowed from Middle Low Saxon smerte.

@jeremy-likes-cats

Жыл бұрын

It's also obscured because standard German has gone through the High German Consonantal Shift but other Germanic languages haven't.

@stefansoder6903

Жыл бұрын

@@jeremy-likes-cats That too! If you have even a slight grasp of the sound shifts the similarities become even more clear.

Would love to see German vs Færøysk or Icelandic

I have learned English, French, German language and I started learning Swedish in Duolingo and i found to be easy to learn like dotter, kvinnor och fiska, mot, jag äter mot och jag dricker vatten. Jag lärde mig inte mer svenska. So, that us all i have learned in Swedish language. Tack så mycket

@ardeshirbabakan9034

2 жыл бұрын

var bor du?

@ardeshirbabakan9034

2 жыл бұрын

är du turkisk?

@AhmetMurati

2 жыл бұрын

@@ardeshirbabakan9034 jag bor i Tyskland

@AhmetMurati

2 жыл бұрын

@@ardeshirbabakan9034 nej, jag albanska

@ardeshirbabakan9034

2 жыл бұрын

@@AhmetMurati du är albansk och Du heter Turksk

I rarely get to hear this rolled 'r' in German. Is it still widely used across many parts of Germany. What about Swedish? Is the pronunciation of the 'r' sound uniform across Sweden?

@fartreta

2 жыл бұрын

R is rolled in most of Sweden, but not in the most southern part where it's the guttural one like in German or French, then there's a transititional area where they alternate between rolled and guttural (in initial word positions) depending on the position within the word, or is even silent in some positions, like in British RP (most parts of the Småland province, they even have a special day celebrating their accent, "fössta tossdan i mass" - in standard Swedish "första torsdan i mars" - "the first Thursday in March") and then you have Stockholm where some speakers, mostly from older generations, have an almost American sounding R, which is also heard in the peculiar dialect of the island of Gotland far out in the Baltic sea. Oh and I almost forgot the Västervik-Vimmerby area of Småland where R is pronounced like an English W in initial word positions.

@Yogajuergen

2 жыл бұрын

The rolled 'r' is not that common in Germany. People from the south of the country (e.g. Bavaria) use it. Greetings from Germany 😊

@meadish

2 жыл бұрын

@@fartreta That's a great summary. If you go to "Dialektkartan" and listen to older recordings from different areas, it seems some dialects in Norrland also have variations on how emphatically rolled the rolled r is, and the 'w' like variety also shows up in some regions in Norrland, especially in older speakers.

Can we pls do Dutch with Swedish or Norwegian ?

Dutch and German please, i'm interesting to similarities of both language

In my opinion there are many more similarities between Swedish and Dutch than between Swedish and German. Just open any old-fashioned paper dictionary and you will be surprised how many dutch and swedish words are the same, not to speak about northern dutch dialects and swedish, even more similar.

I'm sure the guy to the right is a brilliant polyglot, but he does not sound extremely Swedish. His cadence, prosody, or melody is a little off and he says the u-sounds more like a swedish y-sound (which often seems to be the hardest part for foreigners).

I lived outside Stockholm until I was 5 and picked up Yiddish from my parents. I got about 80% from the written sentences (esp German) and I guess that helped getting the Swedish

He used Säkert for Surely. It gave the sentence an odd feeling.

Another interesting cognate is "hud" in Swedish being related to the English "hide", not as in the modern form of "hidden", but in English hide used to be common for referencing the skin of an animal, and also used as a curse word to refer to a human's skin.

@collectivelove2275

2 жыл бұрын

So "hudbehandling" makes sense in English if you go deeper into it, since "behanding" is to handle, in other words treating.

@Warriorcats64

2 жыл бұрын

It still is used that way, albeit as jargon.

@bahador alast You are synchronised with Ecolinguist!

@laurenford9057

2 жыл бұрын

well they have been on each other's channels so maybe they now synchronize together 😉

@SamA-bo4tk

2 жыл бұрын

Ecolinguist only does European languages, Bahador's videos are much more international

The Swedish guy is not Swedish right? Made this harder for the German guy, since the "Swede" made errors in pronunciation and grammar.

@NobbiMD

2 жыл бұрын

It did not make it more difficult.

Nice

I just started learning Swedish but find German a lot easier due to exposure and because most sounds come from the middle and front of the throat whereas in Swedish more seem to come from the back.

@herrbonk3635

2 жыл бұрын

The other way round, I would say. German throat sounds are nonexistent in (standard) Swedish.

@helenaortegaa

2 жыл бұрын

For me it's the other way, I find Swedish easier than German, idk if maybe Spanish being my first language has something to do with it

@MDobri-sy1ce

2 жыл бұрын

@@helenaortegaa It’s hard to tell. For example, I am Canadian so I had to learn English and French growing up but always found Spanish much easier than French.

@herrbonk3635

2 жыл бұрын

@@helenaortegaa Yes, and Italian and Swedish is even closer in basic pronunciation, for some reason. Despite all the french (and still french sounding) loan words in Swedish.

Both German and Swedish are unique in their own way, would like to learn German one day!

@cosmiclevi5274

5 ай бұрын

Whats your native language?

Very interesting. The best swedish word for me is "kvinna", because woman here becomes Queen, sounds so similar.

@henriklarsson5221

Жыл бұрын

Yes, and the words are related, it was even spelled "qvinna" a logn time ago.

Danke schön Tak så micket

Swedish sentence 3 in full English cognates: I think much about to speak Swedish for that [are] [securely] the world's finest speech.

I can speak an advanced level of German (I consider myself quite proficient) and I understood all the German things of course, and I could therefore figure out about 60-70% of the Swedish. Fairly similar tbh, very interesting!

The swedish guys understands german he is just pretending not to understand.

@petervan7372

2 жыл бұрын

i feel the same

@linusfotograf

2 жыл бұрын

He’s not Swedish though

I love Deutsch and Sverige. Love from India🇮🇳

13:06 Recently discovered the welsh accent, I feel like we have that in common.

Wish you got an actual Swede and German from Germany... I was gonna say I love this video because of the topic but as a Swede it was a bit annoying to hear him not speak it as a native. 8:00 He made 3 mistakes in this sentence and said the sentence in like 4 different ways. Made it harder for the German guy. 10:30 And here he could have said "same in Swedish". Then he got imorgon and morgon wrong... I can only hope that nobody uses this to improve their Swedish.

@SamA-bo4tk

2 жыл бұрын

Putting myself in Bahador's position, I feel like it's kind of tough, because I'm sure a lot of people contact him and they say they are from whatever country and they tell him that they speak this or that language, so what can he really do to filter out those were not going to be the best representatives of the language?

@estereriksson1708

2 жыл бұрын

Ja, och han sa fel på meningen innan det med. "har, älskar, fiende"