One of the main reason why Nordic countries know english is because we don't dub our foreign TV-series. It's not a big enough market to get multiple voice-actors together on top of the translator, when you can just put the translation to the sub-titles. This is why we get constant pronunciation education from TV.

I'd say like 90% of swedes speak English. it's only the really old people who might not know any English (in my experience). then there are people who technically *know* English but can't have a conversation, only ask for directions and order food and such

A Third Swede here.... And I like your channel so much. You are my favorite KZfaqr. I highly recommend you to watch som other videos with *Niklas Ekstedt* . He is one of the most famous chefs from Sweden, Along side *Leif Mannerstöm* , who's the grandfather of Swedish cooking. Plus *Tarek Taylor* my favorite chef.

Lingonberry is NOT the same as Cranberry, its a complete diffrent berry, it only exist in northern eurasia. (Black and red currant is another amazing berry that you dont got in the states)

The chef are right, he does swedish meatballs wrong, spot on..🤣

Awesome Work Bro, Thanks 👍👍👍 Greetings from Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸

We in Sweden learn english from early on in school, and our accent comes mostly from NOT dubbing american movies and TV shows, like Germany and France does.

This KZfaq channel 'Alex' is FANTASTIC. Highly recommended anyone just to flick through it, whether you like cooking or not. He did a great series where he tried to make his own dried pasta.

We have a dish that is basically meat balls wrapped in cabbage. This comes from a Turkish dish. The Turks wrap it in vine leaves, but until very recently we could not grow vines in Sweden because of the climate, so people used cabbage l.

18:20 Depending on the source, they say that 80-90% of Swedish people speak English. Of course the fluency varies, but most young and middle aged people speak English.

Meat balls do not come from Turkey (it's a stupid false fact Swedish tourism agency published), existed even before that northern war in Sweden, an old dish. They have similar in Turkey but entirely but different spices and not round and not same kind of meat. We imported another national food, dolme from Turkey.

Cold meatballs, sliced and put on a sandwich, with some pickled cucumbers, or beetroot salad. So good! Meatballs are one of the things I miss most as a vegetarian, but luckily there are some pretty good vegetarian replacements.

Great video as usual! Greetings from Sweden! And in swedish: Bra video som vanligt! Hälsningar från Sverige!

He actually pronounces Stockholm very well and the way a Swede would haha

Home made meatballs: mashmeat salt pepper chopped onien egg breadcrumbs little milk, mix it, roole it in your hands, frie, then you cooke them in the pan with water in 20 minutes, and then you mix it with flure and cream and soya. , potatose and lingonberry. The potatose does not need to be mashed

Swedish Chef was my inspiration to become a chef 🤣

Everyone learns English from an early age, I started learning it at age 9.

When I go to Ikea I like trying their Meatballs with mash potato and green peas, and a cup of tea. But now I don’t eat beef anymore, but next time I go I will try vegetarian meatballs instead. 🇸🇪

18:20 Don't know the percentage. But older people, born before 1940 or so, are generally not fluent in English. Especially non academics. Basically only French, German, Latin and classical Greek were taught in most schools, before the social democrats took power in 1932, and before they turned towards USA after WW II.

Only cooking with birch wood in a stove from the 1800s is Stockholm Hipsterness taken to the max xD

That’s a high end restaurant, just so you know. We also have a popular dish called cabbage dolmas, which also was brought to Sweden from Turkey by Karl XII. At one point the Turkish government wanted to prohibit IKEA from serving meatballs because they came from Turkey originally 😆

You should try my moose meatballs. They're the best :D

Alex is a favorite KZfaq chef. He has this strangely structured chaotic-scientific method of perfecting different foods. He tries to make it himself, deep dives into different local traditional ways of cooking (like this trip to Sweden), plans, make more research and then tries some more, using what he learned that is useful and skipping the rest. His long time project of buying different pasta machines, destroying them, rebuilding and modifying them is a long journey towards perfection. Or at least to a machine that works for him. And he *OWNS* that accent! Great grammar, vocabulary and diction, so he's no beginner at English. So hopefully he keeps his accent for life. As a Swede; whenever you mention Swedish Chef and go "Bork-bork-bork!", I laugh. I don't think anyone sensible can be offended by something that over the top. 🥄👨‍🍳Bork! Bork! 🍴 Edit: I actually haven't watched Alex for a couple of years. Now I saw he bought *another* pasta machine two months ago. So I guess his struggle is still going on...

Meatballs could be found all over the world, in different forms/shapes and with different spices. The only real Swedish thing is that it served with mashed potatoes, lingon berries jam and a heavy cream sauce.

Over 70% of Swedes speak english at various levels, the younger the person the more fluency can be expected. They teach english in school from age 6, so the lack of a accent is probably atributed to that.

In Sweden, you learn english in school in around 2nd or 3rd grade. This means almost the whole of Sweden's population knows how to speak almost fluent english.

This was a very good video. I really appreciate the way you try to learn things. Really really good 👍

First of all, your Pronounciation of "Kött" was Spot On, great job as always. Keep in mind that these are Restaurant Grade meatballs so they are a bit more fancy and have some extra stuff in them. Meat, onions, soaked bread crumbs and your favourite spices is enough to make good meatballs. They are also way bigger than the standard household meatballs are. I for one also HATE Lingon and the pickled Cucumber, haven't eaten them with meatballs for at least 15 years or so. Regarding the knowing English part: We learn English in school at the age of about 7-9 and keep learning through high school even so most people below the age of 45-50 know it well enough to have a conversation and only the really old Swedes know next to no English. There are some ugly ass Swedish English accents tho, especially if people don't speak it often enough.

Always a treat to end a days shop at IKEA with a plate of Swedish meatballs in the cafe 😎😎😂

After watching this video I now have to go eat!! My mouth is watering so much. Great choice Connor.

This video made me want to drive to Ikea for meatballs. 😂😂

in the 1940ish began Sweden from age 11 - 12 to read english and after that they started to read at a younger age ,1969 age 10, 1994 age 8, there are a school that only use English as language (Engelska skolan)

Have to say that I agree with the meatball statement.. they do it different than I do but I also agree with their version. I never order boeuf bourguignon or moules mariniere because I always feel that I make it better at home but I would order this just because of the kitchen. When I go out I always try to pick something I know and something new just to expand my own cooking -so I would without any doubt pick this if I ever were to visit them. Also note.. You don't sound ignorent or disrespecting my dude.. your comments are because you like his accent and it brings you joy. Don't think about it. :) As a swede though I goes away from the traditional recipe and goes all in with more butter and also add parmesan cheese to melt with the potatoes.. so please try to do this and thank me later. :) Regarding the accent we start to learn english in middleschool (9-11 years old kids) and in highschool (12-15) we can pick french, german or spannish (at least when I went to school).. the english keeps on going so you have at least 6 years of learnning english and 3 years of a third language. So I would say that if you go to Sweden today the people under 50 would be about 80% who would talk english in order to have a conversation. If you go to people at 40 I would say 95%...

Sweden are pretty high up on the list of English as second language overall, the reason many don't have any or little accent is probably due to similaritys in the languages. I have almost no accent but building proper scentences and translation in the head on the fly makes it not flow but i rarely speak English unless some tourist ask for direction, they always seem to find me when they need direction :D

But did you know why plane wings have the turned up wing bit at the very end? The wing works by having low pressure at the top, and high pressure under, thus the wing (and the plane) is pushed upwards. But on a normal wing, this in-balance can spill over the edge, so the last few feet of wing become redundant. By having the turned up wing at the end, the pressure difference can not spill over. This means the wing is more efficient, the wings can be shorter, and you can park the plane in a shorter hanger.

I love that idea for the restaurant, I didn't know of it. Really wanna go, but it's gotta be super expensive. I love meatballs with lingon. Holy shit that looks good...

Around 90 percent of the population in Sweden state that they can hold a conversation in English, and that probably includes almost everyone who grew up here after the Second World War.

I started learning english in school at the age of nine. Almost 50 years old now :) and the meatballs can be made with a huge variaty! 50/50 beef and pork, 100 % of pork or beef, veal that is more for the boiled meatballs we have with a green kale soup I have my special recipe for meatballs and most other swedes have their families recipes. Gently cooked onion goes very well alongside the cucumber and lingonberries. Make the meatballs in to a hamburgerstyle and serve them with the same sides, instead of mashed potatoes just boil them and serve. So many ways. And if there are any meatballs leftover slice them and make a meatball sandwich either with a beetrootsallad on or just some mustard. Any bread you have at home works.

I mean english was a different language before Rome and Vikings occupied Brittain, and when England ruled the sea the sailors/traders changed MANY words to communicate easier with other countries, this made english the easiest language to learn.

Swedish Schools start lerning swedish peoples the english language, from 4 5 grade so some creds to our schools in sweden

About 90% of the swedish population is considered fluent in english.

kul att se :)

some a Swede, I don't like lingonberries at all. Never understood that. But before me, it's meatballs, potatoes and brown sauce and some vegetables.😄 You can buy ready-made meatballs, but nothing beats home-made meatballs.

Even my 92 years old (Swedish) mom also understand and speak English. Maybe with an old fashion accent.

I love your new room and the doggo 🥰

Hi Mc jibbin 👍🏾 the english spoken language is from the old north languish not al of them but many so we in the old north languish have easyer on english in Norway..Sweden..Denmark and all movies from young age is in English and the sub is in swedish in germany italy france spain they dubbing movies to there own languish its realy crasy hear Bruce Willis spoke spanish or italy ha ha ha ha but its fun as hell trye check a movie as are dubbed i look at Die hard in spanish i laughed in that cinema that they almost tell me to leve the cinema ha ha ha 👍🏼 Yeah its true King Karl 12 stolen the meetballs (köttbullar) from Turkey 👀🌏 and you speak good Swedish when you trye it sounds good 🇺🇲🇸🇪

Check the next episode where he takes a look at turkish meatballs!

First off Scandinavians speaking English that our languages are of Germanic origin just as English, French, Spanish and Italian are from the Latin language group. Secondly, there is not much language pride due to not seeing it as a world language so all Scandinavians learn it in school. Also due to this we never adopted the tradition to dub movies and such instead we always watch in the original language and use subtext instead, also very few games are translated so we use English much more in our everyday life. Sidenote most Scandinavians consider the Dutch to speak even better English :)

A meat marble. Like a meatble perhaps ? Huh huh!? 😆

I really don't like cranberries, love lingonberries, they are not alike.

im the same, I want my food super hot (warm)

The most swedish dont do meatballs like this chief does them. Onion, minced meat, milk, egg, breadcrumbs, white pepper and salt. Mix it togheter and roll them into balls and put dem in the owen for 400 degrees until the inside isn´t pink. There you have swedish meatballs as almost every swede eat them. If you want to be fancy you could put som garlic, mushrooms and antoher item you like.

my 86 year old grandma make herself understood in english

itssssssssssssssssssss noooooooooooooooootttttttttttt cranberry !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love Alex

Yeah food's gotta be real hot, I hate cold food that's supposed to be eaten hot...

no no no. meatballs, are just to lure you out of our pristine happy food - pannbiff.

Haha you are so funny :-)

But some speak more british english and some speak american english

Norway, Danmark,sweden and the nederlands kan speak god english

Its not like cranberry!

Are eggs washed in Sweden?

😁👍

Actually meatballs is a Norwegian invention. The mistake is the same as with "French" fries (that is actually from Belgium) and "Danish" pastry (that is from wienna). The meatballs came with the norwegian vikings when the vikings spread from their origin in Norway to what today is called sweden and denmark. So we will call it by its real name from now: "meatballs" and nothing else.

jesus christ what is this man??

6 Seconds in i paused ....i know in a recent vlog you were saying who was hot and good looking now you intro in a different bedroom lolol

Keep mentioning Karl XII because that makes every Norwegian smile because we get to remember that the guy met his maker in Norway.

you dont get lingonberries iun America? ofcourse they are nice with meatballs, but alot better with black pudding :P

Too large, real Swedish meatballs are much smaller

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Nobody told you, but in Scandinavia, it is well known that the best meatballs in the world are actually Danish meatballs.

89% of Swedes say they can speak english. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population