SWEDISH VS ICELANDIC - Language Challenge

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A guy from Iceland tries to speak Swedish while I try to speak Icelandic in a language challenge.
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  • @mikael5743
    @mikael57437 жыл бұрын

    Wow, I thought these languages were closer

  • @TheSwedishLad

    @TheSwedishLad

    7 жыл бұрын

    Maicon Oliveira to me, Icelandic is like a distant version of tricky Norwegian.

  • @niksk8807

    @niksk8807

    7 жыл бұрын

    +TheSwedishLad you are my favourite youtuber 😊

  • @niksk8807

    @niksk8807

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Nikøs K (from greece)

  • @rennce

    @rennce

    7 жыл бұрын

    Ikr I thought it would be a lot similar

  • @Daniel.J.Rinander

    @Daniel.J.Rinander

    7 жыл бұрын

    And Norwegian

  • @FirstNameLastName-gu1mu
    @FirstNameLastName-gu1mu7 жыл бұрын

    Icelandic is the closest language to old norse in these old times.

  • @powdergate

    @powdergate

    2 жыл бұрын

    In these modern times?

  • @LeelooBastet

    @LeelooBastet

    2 жыл бұрын

    Even today, Icelandic/faroerse, then Norwegian

  • @FrozenMermaid666

    @FrozenMermaid666

    5 ай бұрын

    Technically, the closest languages to Old Norse are Greenlandic Norse and East Norse, tho Icelandic and Faroese are also super close to Old Norse, and also, Old Icelandic and Middle Icelandic and Old Faroese and Middle Faroese and Old Norwegian - these are all very closely related, as I am studying them all, so I can see that most words are cognates!

  • @Dr.Seltsam100

    @Dr.Seltsam100

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@FrozenMermaid666For what reason, science?

  • @virgincolada2295
    @virgincolada22957 жыл бұрын

    Wow! Those girls singing Barbie Girl directly from the 90s!! 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @TheSwedishLad

    @TheSwedishLad

    7 жыл бұрын

    VirginColada everything is svout the 90's right now.

  • @virgincolada2295

    @virgincolada2295

    7 жыл бұрын

    TheSwedishLad Really?!? We didn't have enough about the 90s 20 years ago? 😂

  • @TheSwedishLad

    @TheSwedishLad

    7 жыл бұрын

    Apparently not :)

  • @virgincolada2295

    @virgincolada2295

    7 жыл бұрын

    TheSwedishLad ahahhaha I agree with you. Please keep doing these videos I love them soooo much!

  • @TheSwedishLad

    @TheSwedishLad

    7 жыл бұрын

    As long as I find great people to film with, they will keep on coming. I did two videos the other day, one in Portuguese and one in Swiss-German. Yay!

  • @Linu595
    @Linu5957 жыл бұрын

    Skånish vs icelandic

  • @sayitinswedish
    @sayitinswedish7 жыл бұрын

    This was AWESOME! Icelandic is so different from the peninsula Scandinavian languages.

  • @firepower8820

    @firepower8820

    6 жыл бұрын

    Its contenental and insular

  • @ZhangK71

    @ZhangK71

    6 жыл бұрын

    Wyrmbana Finnish isn't even Indo-European

  • @kekman3923

    @kekman3923

    6 жыл бұрын

    theadam22 isnt both icelandic and dutch germanic?

  • @Dark123hound

    @Dark123hound

    5 жыл бұрын

    ein Kekman Why yes they are same goes for the other Norse languages (Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Faroese).

  • @fririkegilsson337

    @fririkegilsson337

    5 жыл бұрын

    I'm Icelandic. These languages (at least in written language) aren't that different... although, we are closer to Norway and MUCH closer the Faroe Islands, in spoken language. It's the spoken Icelandic language that is much more difficult.

  • @nicktitov3098
    @nicktitov30987 жыл бұрын

    Now Faroese language

  • @gregorioimparato

    @gregorioimparato

    7 жыл бұрын

    YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @gregorioimparato

    @gregorioimparato

    7 жыл бұрын

    YEEEEES

  • @eliasnjetski1146

    @eliasnjetski1146

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ja

  • @NekoBoyOfficial

    @NekoBoyOfficial

    5 жыл бұрын

    Snälla!

  • @bjorningiberndsenbjornsson390

    @bjorningiberndsenbjornsson390

    3 жыл бұрын

    no it´s a shit version of Icelandic

  • @monasabbat9733
    @monasabbat97337 жыл бұрын

    Aaw, finally! Such a beautiful language. I love how icelanders embrace and glory their r sound.

  • @iuriSalvador

    @iuriSalvador

    7 жыл бұрын

    Where are you from?

  • @monasabbat9733

    @monasabbat9733

    7 жыл бұрын

    iuriSalvador I'm from Russia. we love r's too :)

  • @iuriSalvador

    @iuriSalvador

    7 жыл бұрын

    Mona Sabbat Spaciba :)

  • @monasabbat9733

    @monasabbat9733

    7 жыл бұрын

    Elsa Þórsdóttir oh, you should keep it that way, it's beautiful *-*

  • @monasabbat9733

    @monasabbat9733

    7 жыл бұрын

    Elsa Þórsdóttir Rrrrrrussia :D

  • @linajurgensen4698
    @linajurgensen46985 жыл бұрын

    It’s super fascinating to see how different languages from the same language family can sound... my native language is german and it sounds nothing even near icelandic.

  • @jaga.zawislak
    @jaga.zawislak7 жыл бұрын

    Yessssss, two of my favorite languages :D Tack Martin!!

  • @TheSwedishLad

    @TheSwedishLad

    7 жыл бұрын

    jageens you're welcome. Loved filming this video. Girl choirs and volcanoes. Ha ha

  • @koalasbooks2496
    @koalasbooks24967 жыл бұрын

    These are always so much fun to watch!

  • @fififornow8031
    @fififornow80315 жыл бұрын

    I love both peoples. Cheers

  • @brittanymartin1980
    @brittanymartin19807 жыл бұрын

    Definitely one of my favorites so far!

  • @TheSwedishLad

    @TheSwedishLad

    7 жыл бұрын

    Brittany Martin same here.

  • @GirlFromNippon
    @GirlFromNippon6 жыл бұрын

    It was a lot of fun watching you guys speaking three different languages ! Takk ! :)Greetings from Kobe, Japan.

  • @LeeDee5
    @LeeDee55 жыл бұрын

    I love how Iceland sounds!

  • @allisonhellix773
    @allisonhellix7737 жыл бұрын

    I love these challenges and I love Icelandic - perfect video! Also: I'm kind of living in hope you'll *do* Sami (yes, there are many Sami languages and very few native speakers of any of them so ..maybe Northern Sami?) and I'm also in the Maltese "lobby". I just made that up I just think someone requested it on a comment here or in the Svenska/Português "The Birds" challenge video. Kudos to you (if that is a rude word in any language you know please do let me know)!

  • @andrasiboti
    @andrasiboti6 жыл бұрын

    They both are so awesome, at it!

  • @jasonlove8733
    @jasonlove87333 жыл бұрын

    I love all your vlogs

  • @Dunmerdog
    @Dunmerdog4 жыл бұрын

    I've been learning Icelandic recently; what an amazing challenge of a language, especially the phonology. I'm having such a great time getting my head around all the sounds and pronunciations.

  • @TheSwedishLad

    @TheSwedishLad

    4 жыл бұрын

    I am right now trying to learn as much Icelandic as I can in a week. Such a difficult (and at times easy if you're a Swede) language.

  • @FrozenMermaid666

    @FrozenMermaid666

    5 ай бұрын

    Icelandic is one of the prettiest languages I’ve ever seen, like Norse / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Gothic etc, and all other Germanic languages are also gorgeous, so I am learning them all, and Icelandic is actually a category 2 language, as is Norse and all other ancient Germanic languages, so it’s very easy to learn, especially for speakers of other Germanic languages, Germanic languages being the easiest to learn / read / type etc in general, with very organized aspect and super pretty words that require less repetitions to become part of the permanent memory, as one naturally tends to memorize / remember the prettier and more distinctive words faster - I am close to intermediate level in Norse and in Icelandic, advanced level in Dutch, intermediate level in German and Swedish, close to advanced level in Norwegian, writer level in English, beginner level in Faroese / Danish / Gothic etc and the other Germanic languages, and I highly recommend learning Norse / Dutch / Norwegian / Icelandic / Gothic etc, which are as pretty / refined / poetic as English, definitely too pretty not to know, and the other Germanic languages as well, as they are all gorgeous!

  • @FrozenMermaid666

    @FrozenMermaid666

    5 ай бұрын

    By the way, the words einn / ein / eitt should be used in Icelandic and Norse as an indefinite article as well, because it doesn’t really sound right saying that Iceland is very cool country, instead of saying Icelandic is a very cool country, and in most situations an article needs to be used to sound more flowy, like the words en / ei / et are used in Norwegian, which mean both the indefinite article a / an and the number one!

  • @terminator572
    @terminator5727 жыл бұрын

    These two have to be my favorite Norse languages. Cheers from Mexico, and I wish I someday learn those two!

  • @eliza_armand
    @eliza_armand7 жыл бұрын

    This was a great video! 👍🏻

  • @TheSwedishLad

    @TheSwedishLad

    7 жыл бұрын

    Fashion Confession sleays fun to incorporate volcanoes, though mostly not applicable.

  • @Dai_Abdurrahman
    @Dai_Abdurrahman2 жыл бұрын

    Danke dir

  • @MambaZN
    @MambaZN7 жыл бұрын

    :) Son of Anton! Well done man.

  • @DanHarkless_Halloween_YTPs_etc
    @DanHarkless_Halloween_YTPs_etc5 жыл бұрын

    Good stuff; thanks.

  • @stevebloodymckenna
    @stevebloodymckenna7 жыл бұрын

    Nice I've been waiting for this. I like how the icelandic word for volcano translates as firemountain, at least i think it does based off my knowledge of Norwegian

  • @egillphosri

    @egillphosri

    7 жыл бұрын

    yes, you are right, eldfjall directly translares to firemountain

  • @jannepeltonen2036

    @jannepeltonen2036

    5 жыл бұрын

    It does. Works the same in Finnish (tulivuori, tuli=fire, vuori=mountain) - even though we don't have any of them.

  • @dan74695

    @dan74695

    3 жыл бұрын

    It would be "ildfjell" in Norwegian. Edit: Not in every dialect, but most of them.

  • @steensangill7772

    @steensangill7772

    3 жыл бұрын

    And "ildfjeld" in danish, we should be using that word instead of volcano :-)

  • @stevebloodymckenna

    @stevebloodymckenna

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@steensangill7772 Det er sant. nesten det samme som norsk, ildfjell.

  • @angharadhafod
    @angharadhafod2 жыл бұрын

    I love it that volcano is fire mountain.

  • @ozanbayrak562
    @ozanbayrak5627 жыл бұрын

    this guy is really of the same mind with me. I like languages and making language challenges with foreign people too.

  • @enogimka7185
    @enogimka71857 жыл бұрын

    Ahah you did a pretty good job on the editing of that one!!!

  • @TheSwedishLad

    @TheSwedishLad

    7 жыл бұрын

    Enogimka it was a fun one to play around with (and a one-take).

  • @enogimka7185

    @enogimka7185

    7 жыл бұрын

    TheSwedishLad speaking of the last part of the video, that part with the meteor! XD

  • @sminkle12
    @sminkle124 жыл бұрын

    I’m Icelandic but moved to America for most of my late childhood. I speak English, Icelandic, and my girlfriend is Swedish so a lot of Swedish, but I’m not fluent. Maybe it was since I’m from Iceland, but I found learning Swedish was easier than English

  • @87g4g3

    @87g4g3

    3 жыл бұрын

    Í hvaða fylki flutturu til?

  • @jonathanemslander6896
    @jonathanemslander68964 жыл бұрын

    This was the most interesting one

  • @mihajloracpeti6628
    @mihajloracpeti66287 жыл бұрын

    Martin you did what i wanted.

  • @oskarengstrom28

    @oskarengstrom28

    7 жыл бұрын

    me also!

  • @TheSwedishLad

    @TheSwedishLad

    7 жыл бұрын

    i love Sweden I know ;)

  • @viktorvarfor3659

    @viktorvarfor3659

    7 жыл бұрын

    TheSwedishLad Do you need someone for Faroese maybe? :)

  • @TheSwedishLad

    @TheSwedishLad

    7 жыл бұрын

    Oh yes!!! If you're in Stockholm, send me a message on my facebook page. That would be gold!!

  • @brunamiranda387
    @brunamiranda3877 жыл бұрын

    Awesome!

  • @queensectonia8984
    @queensectonia89847 жыл бұрын

    Swedish vs Hindi! We need it!

  • @texastea5686
    @texastea56866 жыл бұрын

    I've heard Icelandic is super difficult to learn! I love your videos and hope to visit that whole region one day....

  • @rullvard8245

    @rullvard8245

    3 жыл бұрын

    It depends probably on what you're first language is

  • @FrozenMermaid666

    @FrozenMermaid666

    5 ай бұрын

    In truth, Icelandic and Norse are very easy category 2 languages, so it isn’t hard to learn them, but the reason why ppl think Icelandic is hard is, because Icelandic uses these different letters ð and þ which look very scary and very different, which give Icelandic a very different and unique aspect that others aren’t used to, so it can look very scary to a new learner at first sight, and it kinda makes sense, because Icelandic comes from Norse, and Norse and other Germanic languages were created / modified by dudes that had that raider spirit, so these languages reflect that in their very strong / battle-like aspect, one can definitely tell that they are languages made and spoken by warriors and raiders, so they look very ‘thrætening’ and very dominant and very unique, so I can see why a new learner would think Icelandic has to be one of the hardest languages ever, but when it comes to language difficulty level, one should know that all Germanic languages are actually super easy to learn / read / type / pronounce / memorize etc with very modern and very organized aspect and very modern and soft pronunciation, and are the easiest languages ever! It’s also the fact that one will find all foreign languages hard as a beginner, anyway, because one doesn’t know yet how the new language works and doesn’t know the words well and doesn’t know what sounds the different letters represent etc, so most of the time when ppl feel that a language is hard it’s subjective, as Germanic languages are all category 1 and category 2 languages, so they aren’t objectively hard, unlike Chinese / Arabic / Japanese / Thai / Vietnamese etc which are objectively hard category 10 / category 9 / category 8 languages! Germanic languages and the 6 modern Celtic languages and Latin languages and Hungarian and Slovene and Finnish / Latvian / Estonian are the easiest languages, and they include category 1 and category 2 and category 3 languages, which are quite easy to learn and definitely the easiest to read, however languages that are category 4 / category 5 + are extremely hard to read and learn and pronounce, and category 6 to category 10 languages are very impossible with impossible scripts and impossible characters and very complicated tonal pronunciation or clicks etc, so I don’t think anyone could ever be truly fluent and writer level etc in one of those, not even natives, for example, no one can learn all the characters used in Chinese, and there is always the risk of using a different tone without realizing and saying a completely different thing, however, the easy languages that aren’t harder than a category 3 language are very easy to learn to fluency, especially when compared to the others, and one can even get to a writer level in those languages in less than a decade, plus they can easily be used, and even the category 3 languages like Irish and Scottish Gaelic can be easy to read to someone that has already reached fluency and knows the words well - Irish & Scottish Gaelic are the hardest languages I am learning, which are category 3 languages, and they are definitely harder to spell / read than the other languages I’m learning, with lots of vowel clusters and accents, Icelandic being quite easy to spell / read, especially when compared to them, altho Icelandic isn’t as easy to spell as a category 1 language like English / Dutch / Norwegian etc, as it has many words with accents, tho not as many as Irish and Scottish Gaelic, so these classifications are very accurate, especially when considering the spelling of the words and the type of letters that they use, tho the pronunciation is very easy in all these languages, so they all have like a category 1 language pronunciation, except for the typical Swedish pronunciation and the typical French pronunciation which would be more like a category 2 language pronunciation, as they are slightly less easy to pronounce than the others due to the different intonations used in Swedish and the many nasals used in French!

  • @VIGZ727
    @VIGZ7276 жыл бұрын

    Both languages are beautiful

  • @victuz
    @victuz7 жыл бұрын

    I found really funny haha, even that these two languages are kinda hard for me to reproduce (perhaps because I speak a Latin language), I really like Martin's excitement xD

  • @adamirfan6986

    @adamirfan6986

    3 жыл бұрын

    lol for me is not hard cause i'm asian...

  • @FrozenMermaid666

    @FrozenMermaid666

    5 ай бұрын

    It’s only because yé don’t know the words and their pronunciations and the pronunciation rules etc yet, but they are very easy to pronounce, especially Icelandic has one of the easiest pronunciations ever, just like English / Dutch / Norwegian etc, and typical Swedish pronunciation is a bit harder, unless one just uses a normal intonation and a SH instead of the other sound that most use when saying Swedish words with skj letter combinations, so the typical Swedish intonation would be the only type of Germanic pronunciation that a bit trickier and harder to get right, but in general, Germanic languages are super easy to learn / read / type / pronounce / memorize etc with very modern and very organized aspect and very modern and soft pronunciation, and are the easiest languages ever, tho one will find all foreign languages hard as a beginner because one doesn’t know yet how the language works and doesn’t know the words well and doesn’t know what sounds the different letters represent etc, so most of the time when ppl feel that a language is hard it’s subjective, as Germanic languages are all category 1 and category 2 languages, so they aren’t objectively hard, unlike Chinese / Arabic / Japanese / Thai / Vietnamese etc which are objectively hard category 10 / category 9 / category 8 languages - in fact, Germanic languages come from Latin, so Germanic languages and Latin languages are very similar in many ways, so it’s very easy for those whose first language is a Germanic language to learn Latin languages, and it’s also easy for ppl whose first language is a Latin language to learn Germanic languages, because they have so much in common, including tons of cognates and mostly similar sounds and very similar grammar, which is definitely an advantage for a learner that knows a Germanic or Latin language, and Celtic languages are also very close to both Latin and Germanic languages, even tho they look very different at first sight!

  • @mukuya33
    @mukuya336 жыл бұрын

    Are u gonna make videos about other languages too? Like German, Italian, Turkish, Persian maybe Chinese?

  • @hildajonsdottir837
    @hildajonsdottir8376 жыл бұрын

    I speak both languages fluently and I think it would have been easier for Egill if you didn't have a dialect XD bra video förresten. Kul att se att någon bryr sig om vårt lilla språk :)

  • @gizmogoose.2486
    @gizmogoose.24867 жыл бұрын

    He's a happy chap!

  • @TheSwedishLad

    @TheSwedishLad

    7 жыл бұрын

    Gizmo Goose he sure is!!

  • @MichaelSpengler

    @MichaelSpengler

    2 жыл бұрын

    really the kind of person you want to hang around with and have a beer together..

  • @biari8599
    @biari85994 жыл бұрын

    Ahahahahaha that was so much fun!

  • @lenarosic
    @lenarosic7 жыл бұрын

    Well guys, you are linguistic cousins, so you can repeat each others sentence almost without problem

  • @TheSwedishLad

    @TheSwedishLad

    7 жыл бұрын

    Lena Rosic I did better that I thought I would.

  • @lenarosic

    @lenarosic

    7 жыл бұрын

    Its the same for spanish and italian person to repeat the things they say.

  • @jatojo

    @jatojo

    4 жыл бұрын

    Swedish-Icelandic is not like Spanish-Italian, more like Spanish-French.

  • @byronco4917
    @byronco49173 жыл бұрын

    I'm Filipino and i love both of these languages

  • @heimerblaster976
    @heimerblaster9764 жыл бұрын

    that was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @elsakristina2689
    @elsakristina26894 жыл бұрын

    In the past there were more similar words, in the 1600s there were a lot of words from Icelandic in Swedish and a lot of words from Danish in Icelandic that exist still in Swedish, and in medieval times Swedish and Icelandic had the same grammar.

  • @josedelsud
    @josedelsud7 жыл бұрын

    both have viking roots but I guess it is easier to pronounce for the Icelandic guy ;)

  • @emdadahmed5592

    @emdadahmed5592

    4 жыл бұрын

    Icelandic has Viking roots. Swedish doesn't. Swedish descended from non Viking proto Norse speakers

  • @alessandraahrel4940

    @alessandraahrel4940

    4 жыл бұрын

    a normal guy Yeah of course I’m supposed to trust you over all the academic research, books, runes, and articles that prove that Sweden was inhabited by vikings.

  • @linguaphile9415
    @linguaphile94157 жыл бұрын

    Watch out, the volcano is having an eruption! This is so ambiguous... xD

  • @cicero1178
    @cicero11787 жыл бұрын

    I figured it would be a lot easier for you since you also speak a Norse language

  • @TheDarkSaplings
    @TheDarkSaplings5 жыл бұрын

    Can you try Norwgian vs Arabic challenge?

  • @TheStarkman123
    @TheStarkman1236 жыл бұрын

    'Iceland' is 'Island' but 'island' is 'eyja' hahaha.

  • @fridtjof.nansen
    @fridtjof.nansen7 жыл бұрын

    Áfram Ísland! 😄

  • @MegaJohn144
    @MegaJohn1447 жыл бұрын

    I saw the Tunnelbana in the background, Were you at Islandstorget?

  • @TheSwedishLad

    @TheSwedishLad

    7 жыл бұрын

    John Crane ha ha, I wish. No this was between Gullmarsplan and Globen.

  • @TheLandOfFantasy
    @TheLandOfFantasy7 жыл бұрын

    Little bit wrong to learn someone else Swedish when youself have an a little bit of skånska in the accent

  • @jatojo

    @jatojo

    4 жыл бұрын

    Many dialect speakers can speak almost without dialect if the situation requires it - I don't know if SwedishLad can do that. Maybe he doesn't want to.

  • @egillphosri
    @egillphosri7 жыл бұрын

    If you want to hear singing in Icelandic, have a listen to Vikings Of Thule theme song and Fortíðin on my SoundCloud Channel soundcloud.com/egill-antonsson/vikings-of-thule-theme-song-remastered

  • @TheSwedishLad

    @TheSwedishLad

    7 жыл бұрын

    Egill Antonsson wow, very cool!!

  • @monasabbat9733

    @monasabbat9733

    7 жыл бұрын

    Egill Antonsson I'm gonna go play Skyrim for no reason at all now :D it's wonderful!

  • @bjarnivalur6330
    @bjarnivalur63307 жыл бұрын

    Þessi hnífur *á* að vera þungur

  • @poondawg3244

    @poondawg3244

    6 жыл бұрын

    Bjarni Valur LOL, saell gestur!

  • @shadowpastathetf2kidwithau706
    @shadowpastathetf2kidwithau706 Жыл бұрын

    Cool language this is

  • @skalare4492
    @skalare44926 жыл бұрын

    The languages are similar enough that I can understand icelandic after listening and attuning my ears for a few minutes. The swedish spoken here is southern, I'd say scanian and I'd suspect that makes it more dissimilar to icelandic. A huge number of words are shared between the two languages though they sound different because of the intonation and pronounciation of certain letters. But yeah, fellow swedes and probably norwegians, pick out a nice icelandic documentary or movie and turn of the subtitles, you'll find that you understand most of it after a short while, even after thousands of years of separation. It's a beautiful language. :)

  • @jannepeltonen2036

    @jannepeltonen2036

    5 жыл бұрын

    Icelandic actually sounds more like the dialects of Swedish spoken in Finland, where there're old Swedish-speaking communities on the coast and in the archipelago. What with a more monotone intonation and main stress mostly on the first syllable etc. Isolation sometimes means that more archaic forms tend to survive. But yeah, I've only learned Swedish at school, and I can understand surprisingly much Icelandic. I think the main catch is to learn the proper pronunciation - I'm trying to understand the difference between i and í, somebody told me that i is like the i in Finnish and í is more forward, but to me it sounds like the í is exactly the same as the i in Finnish and i is pronounced more in the back of the mouth and slightly more open...

  • @Xatalion
    @Xatalion6 жыл бұрын

    Why can't we Scandivians have a own language that we speak to each others, so all can understand

  • @SnowElf_96

    @SnowElf_96

    5 жыл бұрын

    Because History. But if you want to be technical, Norway should speak Swedish and be apart of Sweden, and Denmark is more complicated but at a time also very much Sweden and Swedish. As well as Estonia and parts of Finland spoke Swedish. But Iceland was discovered by Norwegian Vikings some oh which my have been Danish but thats another story. Greenland is Danish so like there that. Oh my gosh its annoying your right. If I were to decide it would be Icelandic because that is the old way and closer to Swedish. Norwegian is newer so its less good. And Danish is just German mixed with some Swedish words. So I hope I helped but i probably just made you more confused.

  • @ethan8445

    @ethan8445

    5 жыл бұрын

    Xerathon there was a language named old Norse the language the Vikings spoke Icelandic is more related to old Norse If you gave an Icelandic person a script of old Norse they can understand it But over time Danes and Swedes and Norwegians developed their own languages from the original language old Norse or “ donsk tunga”

  • @LordDirus007

    @LordDirus007

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeah it's called Old Norse. Someone should invent a New Norse language that combines all of Scandinavia languages

  • @swevixeh

    @swevixeh

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@SnowElf_96 Or we could just compromise by using eastern Norwegian which is basically "Swedish with a Danish spelling".

  • @wardeni9603

    @wardeni9603

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@SnowElf_96 Swedish was much more ingrained in Finland than in Estonia though. Finland was part of Sweden for almost 700 years, and Swedish was the only official language here until 1863. and on top of that, Old Middle German was the trade language. What I think would be the best choice would be a grammatically simple language that prioritises words that are found in all the Northern Germanic languages. Doesn't matter if it's old fashioned, like in Swedish the word "Neighbour" used to be "Nabor", and it has an equivalent in Finnish too: "Naapuri"

  • @HeaterPlastic
    @HeaterPlastic7 жыл бұрын

    uuuh! swedish vs italian is missing! :D

  • @uroboros4260
    @uroboros42607 жыл бұрын

    I love Scandinavia and its languages, they are quite interesting to listen. I wish you Vikings could stay for longer in Holmgarðr and eventually form my homeland Garðaríki. Pity it didn't happen though.

  • @meadish

    @meadish

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think at least some Vikings did stay for so long that over time they simply assimilated into the Slavic majority along with their language and most of their cultural customs. Thank you for making me look up uroboros, I was not familiar with the concept until now.

  • @thestreamer1481
    @thestreamer14814 жыл бұрын

    More Icelandic please

  • @laufeykristjansdottir2219
    @laufeykristjansdottir22197 жыл бұрын

    Reiprennandi...aldrei heyrt þetta orð áður 😂

  • @12388753

    @12388753

    4 жыл бұрын

    OK... Hva sier du, da? Jeg har hørt mange islendinger som sier "reiprennandi" eller noe sånn :D

  • @elfadogg406
    @elfadogg4065 жыл бұрын

    I could tell from the thumbnail he was Icelandic...

  • @sminkle12
    @sminkle124 жыл бұрын

    0:29 that’s true, normally fathers name. I am Ólafur Jónsson, son Jón

  • @OliverPerssonMusik
    @OliverPerssonMusik6 жыл бұрын

    WHY ISNT "VOLCANO" ELDFJÄLL IN SWEDISH TOO! So much more badass!

  • @albertmerlew
    @albertmerlew6 жыл бұрын

    2nd one!!!!

  • @danborggren1370
    @danborggren13703 жыл бұрын

    Comparing Icelandic with Swedish is like Comparing Latin to modern day Spanish, or maybe Italian. The Swedish word for "cool" (not hot) is 'sval' and in Icelandic it is 'svöl'. If Swedes use the old synonyms they can communicate with Icelanders more easily, like use the word 'fara' (fare, drive, travel) instead of 'åka' and 'fager' (faire, beautiful) instead of 'vacker' etc. Some type of videos like these seem to want to show differences instead of similarities.

  • @yallugly3712
    @yallugly37126 жыл бұрын

    Where was that recorded

  • @danielgaratunrusten6558
    @danielgaratunrusten65586 жыл бұрын

    I am living on the western part of Norway and I can see some clearly simularities with my dialect in norwiegen and obiously swedish is almost the same

  • @TheSwedishLad

    @TheSwedishLad

    6 жыл бұрын

    That makes sense linguistically. I live din Bergen for a year.

  • @SuperMagnetizer
    @SuperMagnetizer7 жыл бұрын

    Takk fyrir þetta. Það er en svöl video.

  • @TheSwedishLad

    @TheSwedishLad

    7 жыл бұрын

    SuperMagnetizer you're welcome.

  • @benstiller5054

    @benstiller5054

    7 жыл бұрын

    Þetta var svalt myndband* :)

  • @freyrten4515
    @freyrten45157 жыл бұрын

    martin was it hard to talk icelandic

  • @dethararjusinnessjukt5408
    @dethararjusinnessjukt54083 жыл бұрын

    And the language.

  • @jubmelahtes
    @jubmelahtes7 жыл бұрын

    i always thought Icelandic would be more different from the other Nordic languages but i understood much more than i expected. im norwegian and its kinda intresting to hear how we also spoke here in Norway before the union with Denmark

  • @jubmelahtes

    @jubmelahtes

    7 жыл бұрын

    Elsa Þórsdóttir Æ er fra nord Norge. Hvor på Island er du i fra

  • @jubmelahtes

    @jubmelahtes

    7 жыл бұрын

    Elsa Þórsdóttir wow. Så du er en skikkelig verdensborger. Jeg tror jeg har litt dansk blod også har jeg bodd i Stockholm. Men ikke så mye som du har. Har du vært her i nord Norge da? Jeg har ikke vært på Færøyene men det set ut som et fint sted.

  • @jubmelahtes

    @jubmelahtes

    7 жыл бұрын

    Elsa Þórsdóttir Æ har Facebook. Bare søk ætter mæ

  • @scottanderson7612
    @scottanderson76124 жыл бұрын

    1:33 what are they singing ? i wounder .

  • @arnadiskristinsdottir9704
    @arnadiskristinsdottir97044 жыл бұрын

    I .I've there in Iceland

  • @jairoambrosio3454
    @jairoambrosio34547 жыл бұрын

    Do VS Gothic language...

  • @conniea.474
    @conniea.4743 жыл бұрын

    Great, now I dont know wich one learn first 😂

  • @barrysteven5964
    @barrysteven59644 ай бұрын

    Just a wee correction to the English there. We don't ever say a volcano is 'having an eruption'. It sounds a bit like it's having an erection. We just say a volcano is erupting.

  • @mikezinn7212
    @mikezinn72127 жыл бұрын

    Great! Wish English had embraced more of its Nordic origins!

  • @EfterStormen
    @EfterStormen7 жыл бұрын

    How About Swedish VS Portuguese?

  • @87g4g3
    @87g4g33 жыл бұрын

    1:37 You can say ,, ég tala FLJÓTANDI íslensku." Its just more common to say reipreynandi.

  • @asdfg9398
    @asdfg93987 жыл бұрын

    Wow, the Icelandic accent is very similar to the Danish one.

  • @ronanmorris2250
    @ronanmorris22504 ай бұрын

    OMFG, the Icelandic guy is SOOOOOOOOOO dang cute!

  • @vp4744
    @vp47447 жыл бұрын

    How about translate this: Look at those dwarves in the fjord chasing the trolls in the drone that was stolen by my clone.

  • @the1inAmillionSPERM
    @the1inAmillionSPERM6 жыл бұрын

    This was Icelandic vs Danish

  • @johnflemstrom
    @johnflemstrom6 жыл бұрын

    Martins accent makes it harder haha

  • @AnneLien1987
    @AnneLien19876 жыл бұрын

    I am a native dutch speaker. I speak english, dutch, french and german. In september I start my Swedish language course. Icelandic must truly be the most difficult language ever to pronounce :p

  • @meadish

    @meadish

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hej! Har det gått bra att lära sig svenska så här efter fyra år?

  • @PreGameler
    @PreGameler7 жыл бұрын

    Sounds kinda like finnish. As a swede

  • @haeleth7218
    @haeleth72184 жыл бұрын

    One man is speaking Icelandic quite close to how the Vikings spoke (Old Norse) and the other guy is speaking a language from Old Norse that has developed a lot over the centuries (Swedish). Nice video though.

  • @Thedeepseanomad

    @Thedeepseanomad

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you translate "Iceland is a very cool Island" like this in Swedish: "Island är en mycket sval ö" it is much closer to icelandic. So it is also very much a question of which words you use and how you interpret the english sentence.

  • @MalamIbnMalam
    @MalamIbnMalam4 жыл бұрын

    I thought they would be closer. Maybe Icelandic vs Danish

  • @ole7146

    @ole7146

    4 жыл бұрын

    Monsieur Africain, Danish arn’t closer to Icelandic either nor is Norwegian. We Scandinavians only understand a word here and there, Norwegian who speaks some of the western dialects, may understand two words here and there.

  • @freybjorn4635
    @freybjorn46355 жыл бұрын

    I live in Eastern Europe and it was very awkward to hear such prevalence of name Anton

  • @user2kffs
    @user2kffs4 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like Icelandic has been isolated on an island for 1000 years, oh wait

  • @talia7665
    @talia76652 жыл бұрын

    If someone in Iceland is called Jason his son will be called Jasonson and his son will be called Jasonsonson😂

  • @TheSwedishLad

    @TheSwedishLad

    2 жыл бұрын

    The last name is based on the first name so Jasons son would be (for example) Aron Jasonson. And if Aron gets a son, his last name would be Aronsson.

  • @Starkardur

    @Starkardur

    2 жыл бұрын

    No, his son would just be called whatever his father name is and then son. So if Jason's son is also called Jason then his son would be like his dad Jasonson.

  • @superallipalli
    @superallipalli7 жыл бұрын

    Watch out, the volcano is erupting! Is the proper English translation of what they just said..

  • @egillphosri

    @egillphosri

    7 жыл бұрын

    that's correct, I altered it to that, because I think 'having an eruption' sounds strange in Icelandic, I'm not sure if it sounds strange in English

  • @zebulonmccorkle5930

    @zebulonmccorkle5930

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, nobody would say "having an eruption" in America, at least.

  • @imanerd7360
    @imanerd73606 жыл бұрын

    This guy learns cuickly

  • @truemoves09
    @truemoves094 жыл бұрын

    Only UK using english. scotland,ireland,britain..

  • @amiwho3464
    @amiwho34643 жыл бұрын

    The icelandic is a big boi!

  • @lmiddleman
    @lmiddleman7 жыл бұрын

    Nice Zoom recorder.

  • @ManychMan
    @ManychMan7 жыл бұрын

    У Эйла, Эйля или как его там пахан Антоха, наш земляк!

  • @cNsdJake
    @cNsdJake5 жыл бұрын

    1:54 han från island låter som papanomaly Hann frá eyju hljómar eins og papanomaly

  • @amiwho3464
    @amiwho34643 жыл бұрын

    Man they talk alot cooler over there in iceland

  • @Starkardur
    @Starkardur3 жыл бұрын

    Swedish as a lot of words taken from other languages.

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