Sometimes I just want Finnish to come and fuck up the expectations and throw everyone in a loop if they expect us to sound similar

Finnish is in the Uralic family while the others are Germanic, so big difference.

@@Gazer75 Yes I know that but Finland is counted as a nordic country, the title should have mentionned scandinavian countries.

aurinko paistaa -feels way too hot

I like when Sweden and Norway are in the videos

As a Dane, I find it pretty easy to understand Norwegian, but Swedish is much harder. Written Norwegian is quite easy, almost like Danish.

I've also never heard of the distinction between "PC" and "stationær" in Danish. It's usually a distinction between "bærebar" and "stationær" while "PC" covers all computers.

Until recently at least, you would be expected to know the difference between PCs (personal computers which are an IBM invention) and Apple/Macintosh products. In any case, it's wrong to say that PC means "portable computer" as a PC can be both portable and stationary. But the reluctance to use the word "computer" is interesting. Danish is one of the few languages in the region using the word "computer".

The generic term for a computer is datamaskin or just data, so Benedicte is doubly wrong. However, a PC is often denoted as such in cases where an English speaker would just say computer, when we are referring to a specific computer.

Stick å brinn

@@GigasoftProductions Which is one of the reasons I'm critical towards all these language videos because the premise often seems to be that the people participating are experts in their own language. In fact, they rarely are.

Jk, love all of our neighbours ❤️

Estonian computer = arvuti sun = päike water = vesi reindeer = põhjapõder bag = kott knife = nuga (old word for knife is also väits still in use in some dialects)

Esperanto computer = Komputilo sun = sunon water = akvo reindeer = boaco bag = sako knife = tranĉilo

Correct. Also, words like window, sister, brother, father, mother also have Norse roots. Fun fact: "window" comes from the literal Norse translation of "wind eye", i. e. "vindaugi".

@@Onnarashi sister, brother, father and mother are absolutely not derived from old norse, they are basic indo european words.

@@KaliMaShaktiDevi Sister is derived from Old Norse systir, which again came from from Proto-Norse ᛊᚹᛖᛊᛏᚨᚱ (swestar), from Proto-Germanic *swestēr and from Proto-Indo-European swésōr.

Their word is kniv, our word for many is knives. So, it's not hard to go from kniv to knife then to knives.

@@youn1700 One knife, two knives - en kniv, to knive. Old Norse is knif.

And italian

Iirc “sol” is Latin for “Sun”. They were a bit off regarding French, which is “Soleil”. Close enough though.

Pronunciation: Spanish = Sol (Light L) Portuguese = Sou (L turns into W)

@@jsphat81 that's on brazilian accent

@@elitestarquake3597 I think it is the diminutive form that took the place of the normal one

Yes me too i am Norwegian. I know it's almost one in the morning. Sorry...

As a dane i agree lol, it’ rlly fun to see how others would say different things :)

Well, I'm a little confused about the "computer" one. Because I've lived in Norway, and I'm pretty sure most people said "data" or "datamaskine", not "PC"! 🤔 I also remember the computers at my Norwegian schools being extremely outdated, compared to what I was used to from my Danish school, or at home for that matter. But then again, that was more than 20 years ago... things could have changed since then 🫣

@@svahilaful No you have right it's "data" or "datamaskin" too so you got it right 😊 I live in Norway that's why i say you got right because you got it right 😉

Samma her/same here

Indeed! Koreans, or at least the people making these videos, seems to belive that all European languages are "English"...

Yes, my first thoughts too.

Such as a important and universal consept as "Sun" have probebly some early Indio-Europan root. Hence both Latin and Germanic have the same orgin for the Sun.

That properly because The Normandi was sold to the vikings so they would stop raiding

Mother tongue doesn’t count

I would say Copenhagen Danish is one of the more difficult "dialects" to understand and - especially - to learn. There is a lot of glottal stop in the Copenhagen language and many soft d's - both things are among the hardest to cope with for foreigners.

@@jatojo I agree. I finished my Danish language courses and I have a hard time understanding people from Copenhagen than from Aarhus.

@@EeveeTinna And it would be even easier if we could go 40-50 years back in time. Pronunciation has become a real mess in Danish in recent decades.

@@jatojo Yup. I'm Norwegian, and I understand older Danes just fine. Younger Danes not so much. Subtitles when watching Danish tv shows are a must. I don't need them at all for Swedish.

@@Neophema If only the Norwegians and Danes would go back to the language of the 1970's, the two populations would understand eachother better. ;)

Fun fact, Shirt and Skirt are both words from Norse. And so is Cake, Death, Knife, Warrior, Fight, and your mom.

Skit and sh*t. Sky and shy.

My favourite English word is "Scathed" ("Unscathed"). It's fairly often used, it has retained its proper Norse pronunciation (for real) and it's also close to my Norwegian "Skade" (to hurt) but practically IDENTICAL to the modern Danish pronunciation. (random fun fact: I only recently, after 25+ years of knowing English, learnt that it's not "pronOUNciation" but "pronUNciation". I always thought it would retain the "noun" part heh)

Yes that's true. Fish and fisk. Shine and skinne. Shame and skam. Wash and vaske...

Yes, "by" just means "city" or "town" in modern Norwegian. Other examples are "wick" or "vik" ("bay") and "kirk" ("kirke" or "church"). A good example of the former would be Jorvik and Lerwick, and for the latter it would be Dunkirk. On Shetland they maintain some Old Norse practices, like Up Helly Aa, coincidentally at Lerwick. Some more similarities can be found in modern Scots, such as "bairn" which means "child(ren)". In modern Norwegian, it's "barn". I think the Scots word for "vacuum cleaner" is basically identical woth modern Norwegian too. We say "støvsuger", and in Scots they say something very similar. I could be wrong.

Some of the words which are similar are not borrowed from Scandinavian, they simply have a common Germanic origin.

"Norwegian, Swedish and Danish word for “town” so literally Grim’s Town." In Norwegian and Danish "by" means city or town, but in Swedish "by" means just mean village (we call a city or town "stad"). To a Swede it sounds so cute when they calls a big city like London or New York a "by".

What is Old Norse? 1066 and you all do not speak French ?

It's surprising few in the young generations that know this

I would guess that depends a lot on the specific dialect of Danish you hear. I (a naive Swede) have had a discussion with two Danes in which all three of us spoke our respective native languages: they spoke Danish and I spoke Swedish. We got along fine, with minimal misunderstandings. But I have also heard Danish dialects that sound like double-Dutch to me.

@@xpqr12345 that dialect thing is possible of course, but I'm natively a Finnish speaker, so I hear those languages differently like you do. I think you understand what I mean.

In Norway we say that spoken Swedish is easier compared to spoken Danish, while written Danish is easier compared to written Swedish.

@@Onnarashi that makes sense!

@@Onnarashi This is so true. I speak to, have collegues and customers in all these regions and try to tell people. It's not that difficult.

Brought to you by the peaceful Scandinavians

You would be totallt amazed by how many of our basic "Scandinavian" words you "mysteriously" already "know", even though you unfortunately can't hear it straight away typically. It's as if we by magic are already speaking an older simplistic ( OE + ON ) core Pseudo English in advance, when we start learning English and then "just" have to fill in all the gaps and climb a few hurdles here and there. D Kan du ( "thu" orig.) høre [h'oe'r-e] dem komme over til os [us]? - se, de [dee*] ( "dey") er [air] allerede her(e) [heir] nu [noo*]! E Can you (thou] hear them coming ('come') over to us? look (see), they are already here now! D Hvad skal vi [ve] give ham [hAm] / dem for hans /deres første [first-e] fine [fee-ne] sang [sAng] for os [us]? E What shall we give him / them for his / their(s) first fine song for us? And so on and on ... 🤗

The history of English is incredibly fascinating, in that it was greatly simplified when lots of different peoples shared the island, but it’s simultaneously incredibly rich because of its many influences. Kind of the best of both worlds, as it were. I saw that a new theory emerged that claims English is a Nordic language. But I guess that would depend on your perspective. :)

Old Germanic (and Germanic) is just a parent grouping, it does not denote origin. It is not a time-scale, it's a geographical one, so to say. Old Norse and Old English *WAS* Old Germanic. I think you are confusing "German" with "Germanic", it is *NOT* the same.

@@SebHaarfagre you’re right, I should have just put “Germanic”, no need for the “Old”. I meant that Old Norse and Old English (from Anglo-Saxon) have a common ancestor, although there is a temporal aspect to that as well as a geographical one. But I take your point. Also, iirc, the main split between Norse and English was North Germanic - which became West Old Norse (ancestor of Icelandic and Faroese) and North Old Norse (ancestor of Norwegian, Swedish and I think Danish, which is why they have more mutual intelligibility than with Icelandic) - and Western Germanic, from which Frisian and English derived, amongst others.

Search up "Rune Nilson Engelsk"

@@FluxTrax Petter Solberg english 👏

At least they don't say "boksesekk" lmao

Danes pronounce everything so weirdly that it becomes Finnish

Last summer I was on a train down from Stockholm to Hamburg. In Denmark this couple stepped on and sat down in front of me and started talking to each other. At first I thought they were speaking danish, but the more I listened in the less I understood. At some points the melody sounded almost like finnish. I was super confused, but then we started talking and it turned out they were from the Faroe Islands! So what they were speaking was closer to icelandic than anything I knew. They were really surprised when I told them that their language had a very similar melody to finnish 😁

Does not sound similar to me 😅she said mit navn er - my name is, and then jeg er - I am 🙂

@@EeveeTinna Yeah, I knew that because before I posted the comment, I Google Translated "mitt namn är" from Swedish to Danish and got "mit navn er". I just omitted it from my comment though because it was googled. 😅 Apparently, it was the device for me because I heard Finnish on my computer & TV, but then when I switched to my phone, I could clearly hear Danish. 😊Sorry, I mean undskyld for all the Danes out there. 🤗

@Antti Rytkönen no worries, was not a critique, just could not hear it 😁 I am not Danish though 😂 just living in Denmark, and loving languages in general 😊

Its funny because we norwegians can better read danish than swedish, but when someone talks we better understand swedish than danish

@@vegardnybakeri8148it is funny because I am danish and I know a lot of Norwegians who understands danish better than Swedish when talking

@@sissemark9720 Might be because they are your friends. Generally norwegians understand swedish a lot better

@@vegardnybakeri8148 It may also have a connection with where in Norway they are from. I am from the north, and understand Swedish best, but my husband is from the coast in south, Sørlandet, and he understands Danish best. Now I live in Sørlandet, and after getting used to the dialect here, I understand Danish better than before. There even is an island outside of Kristiansand which they used to call "Little Denmark" because of the dialect.

@@vegardnybakeri8148 It's not that funny. It's because you where under Danish rule and we imposed our written language on you. Norwegian bokmål is super easy for Danes to read, because it's (basically) just Danish worked over by Norwegian spelling. Nynorsk or older dialects of Norwegian are a lot trickier.

He probably wanted to explain that he is not actually a reindeer but a red deer.

@@balthazarbeutelwolf9097 Deer comes from old English Deor that means Animal not just Deer compere Eng Deer Old Eng Deor Nor Dyr Swe Djur Den Dyr,

@@Anderssea69 I know. My point was that the animal in the photo was not a reindeer - different species.

Or maybe it wanted to become "Veskan".

@@balthazarbeutelwolf9097 I do agree and was confused there. The animal in the picture is a red deer but the Swedish woman was speaking about reindeer. Translating the word correctly but showing the wrong species.

Something really weird is Dutch. Maybe they were the original language equalizers (and changed some nordic dialects/languages) Old Dutch for swedes are (at least for me (Swede) really understandable at least in written form) but old English not as much. Maybe the Dutch spread their language by trading 1400-1600 to Sweden and we (Swedes) mixed our nordic (Danish/Norse/Swedish language) more with Dutch then Norway/Denmark. Almost impossible to know how our Nordic (for some dialects, and for us Languages) got as diverse as it is today (the similarities is because of location ofc) but for me I guess the Dutch had something to do with it... Today I can not understand Dutch (well not much anyway) but old Dutch (even Frisian) I do get...

I have also noticed the similarity between so many Dutch and Swedish words. You expect Dutch to be always similar to German, but then occasionally there's those words that differ considerably from German but are instead almost the same as Swedish. Edit: your theory seems plausible, thank you!

the reindeer one was confusing because thats not a reindeer in the picture they showed!!! atleast not at all what they look like here in the nordics.

@@audhumbla6927 It is very common for people from other parts of the world to mix up reindeers with deers, which I think it was. You can even see it in Christmas decorations in Norway, they mark it as "reinsdyr" while it is a deer. I also will add that in Northern Norway the word used is "rein", not "reinsdyr", similar to the Swedish "ren".

@@ahkkariq7406 not necessarily in northern norway, i would guess its more to do with how common they are in the area, i live in northern oppland and we use rein nearly exclusively

Yes. In many way it are you that have had a slower development or less amount of outside influence of your language due to the natural isolation your geographic location creates. I guess it are us that have changed our language more. If we go back to the Viking age where we began to trade and unite I think it were closer than today. It are my impression that the last 30 years of internet have had massive impact on your lifestyle and thinking/worldview. As a Dane, I think it are great that we now, as members of the Kingdom, can communicate and exchange thoughts on contemporary events, person to person. I often look at Greenlandic news and Faroese news, just to see how things are going. I do not know exactly how, but I think we should be able to be even closer on a daily basis than we are now. I guess we forget to say this, so I will use the opportunity to express that I love that we are one Danish, Faroese and Greenlandic family. Even more in times like these, were we see POOtin´s Russia and Xi´s China use illegal aggression and landgrabbing. I hope you in Faroe Islands and Greenland are just a little proud of the active role Denmark have taken to aid Ukraine. A sidestep from the original subject, but hope you forgive and understand 😊

As a Norwegian I have to say it is very easy to read Danish. It is very similar to Norwegian. Swedish not so much, but it is totally understandable. I just have to focus a little bit.

@@ahkkariq7406 I wouldn't say that I feel a big difference between the difficulty between written Norwegian vs written Danish. But just for the meme I'll say that Danish is easier to understand. (where the meme being that the hardest Scandinavian language to understand orally is the easiest for Scandinavians to read :P )

@@eriksahlin8853 Presumably there is something about the wording that is common between Swedish and Danish that makes it easier, something that also appears in the video. We can use the same in Norwegian, but it sounds a bit old-fashioned.

@@ahkkariq7406 Swedish, Danish and Norwegian are best described as national varieties of a common 'scandinavian' language. At least I think so.

@@joelthorstensson2772 I agree, and some linguists do, too.

English syntax (word order) is much closer to Norwegian than to the other Germanic languages.

@@ktipuss The syntax is the same for swedish norwegian and danish.

It's not just influence, English _is_ a Germanic language so even without Nordic influence, there would still be common words that sound similar and mean the same thing.

I am french and danish, and i can tell you that many words in danish were taken from french, exemple: Umbrella in danish : Paraply, in french : Parapluie (barely different prononciation) Environnement in danish : Miljø, in french : Milieu (mostly used as the word Middle in french) Driver in danish : Chauffør, in french Chauffeur Subscribtion in danish : Abonnement, in french : Abonnement And some other i can't recall at the moment. I'm not sure where that happened, but i think that comes from when french was used among noble families and royalty few hundred years ago 🤔

@@III-VI THe words are very different in Danish.

In Danish we have datamat (very rarely used, but was quite common when computers were new), computer, bærbar, laptop, stationær, PC. Seems like many of the words are the same, although maybe different ones are more or less common. I think "computer" is by far the most common as a catch-all in Denmark.

datamaskin is probably dator in Swedish, some just say "data" which should be more similar to English "data". data=data, dator=computer Stationär dator bärbar dator, maybe you don't need to add dator to those 2. or i think dator would more strongly imply a desktop but could say stationär to clarify it, while laptop is usually just bärbar or laptop. think laptop and pc is may be used as well in swedish nowadays.

Pretty much half of the English language is derived from Old Norse / Germanic, while the other half lends its roots to Latin (which is also shared to some degree in Old Norse). Definitely English is much more closely related with Scandinavian languages, than many of the mid/southern European languages are.

The nordic countries don't dub tv-series unless it's for children so you hear English everywhere. Same goes for the Dutch and they are also generally said to be good at English. In Germany everything is dubbed and people speak worse English even though German is still very close to English, as a comparison Finnish people speak about as good English (if not better) than Germans and Finnish isn't even related to any Germanic languages at all, (although you have to keep in mind that some that take part in those tests are probably Swedish speaking finns/bilinguals that grew up with both Finnish and Swedish and they would probably have an easier time learning English.) My point: English is for sure related to northern germanic languages but I think not dubbing has a bigger impact on how well people learn English, otherwise Finland should have the same level of English proficiency as Japan or any other country with a majority language not related to Indo-European languages.

@@wilmab4120 Oh by far, what you point out is correct. Scandinavian countries certaintly have a HUGE advantage in learning English comparred to people in Germany. Because in Scandinavia they don't dub things, they are English speaking with Norwegian caption. Not to mention video games, music, and other media that is in English for Scandinavian countries. My point is however, that some language specialists have made the argument that ''English is infact a ''Scandinavian-ish'' language, more so than it's modern roots from French would suggest. This is in part of many of it's loan words from Scandinavian languages, aswell as how English builds up it's sentences comparred to other countries that build their sentences differently from how Scandinavian languages and English does. Both of course have roots from Germanic, but I am refering to more ''recent'' arguments in ''recent'' times, aka after England was invaded and overtaken by William the Conqueror, and the old English language was ''cast aside'' and a more modern English language with heavy influence from French started to evolve.

Aqua does not have the same root as water, vatten and voda, but Italic languages do have a cognate word from P.I.E - Unda (wave)

@@henriquealmeida8511 Well aqua comes from the Porto-Indo-European root *akwā, while water comes from PIE root *wed. As far as I know, neither has been traced back any further, but it certainly would not surprise me if in ancient Proto-Indo-European, the two conceptually similar roots had a common ancestor.

Even us Finns say 'vesi', which is not that far off

In my Finland Swedish dialect it's vaten, like how a finnish speaker would say it but slightly more melodic, if you have the finnish voice in google translate say it, it sounds very similar. It's sort of interesting to see the small changes that happened over time and how dialects conserved certain forms of words that died out in other dialects or related languages.

Beat me to it. Personal Computer.

Lots of people in the US say PC, maybe she been in Korea to long.

I'm from the United States and I don't know where she got "bag" from.

Well we usually use “bag” for a gym bag. I at least don’t use it for anything else unless I forget the word for it

I think the old term was "baggir".

@@ahkkariq7406 Just different declinations of the same word.

Has nobody ever taught them not to speak when they’re eating😂

It's so weird that Swedes (and Norwegians) think Danish sounds like "having a potato in their throat" or mouth or whatever, because as a Dane, I've always thought that especially Swedish sounds like someone with a speech impediment whenever they try to say any consonants. It's funny because most of us wouldn't think like that if the languages wheren't so similar. For some reason the "that sounds like my language but wrong"-impulse is really strong. The narcissism of minor differences I suppose.

Word. I had a similar analogy with North Germanic and Romance languages. Danish and French are the outcasts, because their pronunciation have drifted so much. Denmark is way too south for a Scandinavian country, and France is way too north for a Latin country. Even their temperament. Both make amazing pastries, though. Italian and Swedish would kinda be each other's counterparts. Both share a strong rivalry with France and Denmark, respectively, and they sort of have an older sibling role, as the origin of the Romance languages comes from Italy, and so does the origin of the Scandinavian languages (come from Sweden). Iberia (Spain and Portugal) would be more like Norway. Still very understandable with Italian and Swedish, and share more similar temperament, with a stronger filial bond. I guess Iceland could be Romania, and Finland would have to be Greece.

I suppose it is quite difficult to find people from Iceland or Faroer in Korea. And then you also have to find people who want to participate.

@@DontPanick My point is rather that they should call this for what it is. Scandinavian differences. I would not call a comparison between a Scottish, Irish and British English for British commonwealth differences. That is what they basically do in this and the last video by calling it Nordic differences when the only nationality represented are Scandinavian nations.

@@johnnorthtribe so you feel Scandinavian languages are NOT nordic languages? And if they put together French, Italian, Polish, and Greek people, that's not a comparison between European languages? Does it read somewhere "ALL Nordic languages"? I didn't see or hear that at all...

@@gerohubner5101 this is clearly a video about the Scandinavian languages and they do not know when to use the correct term. If you look through other comments under this and the last video, there are som Finns reacting to this as well. We who actually live here in North Europe would never call this a "Nordic English Differences" and exclude the third biggest country in Norden. And Nordic is not a language group either so no I would not even use the term "nordic languages". I would say Scandinavian languages and Finnic-Ugric languages. Nordic or "Norden" is a political union and not a geographical location. But Europe is a geographical location.

Im an Australian and my knowlegde on the subject is very small, I've only recently become interested in different cultures and languages. So if anything I say is wrong, then feel free to correct me, all I want to do is learn. But I would have to say I agree with John, I can understand how some people might not see anything wrong or misleading by the title because technically its not wrong, but it's probably not the best term to use. If I'm not mistaken, Johns comment doesn't mean he is implying that Scandinavian languages are not Nordic languages, I think he just means that the only languages included in the video are Scandinavian, there are no languages in the video that are Nordic that aren't Scandinavian. So I would think it would make more sence to use the term "Scandinavian" in the title rather then "Nordic". If Nordic languages are seperated into 2 categories, and this video is comparing English to "Nordic" languages, wouldn't you expect the languages being compared to fall under both categories. Sure by using the term "Nordic" in the title, it doesn't imply that every single Nordic language is going to be compared, but when all the languages being compared belong to only one side of the Nordic languages, it does seem like the other half is missing, therefore wouldn't it be better to use a term that is more specific to the languages that are being compared. Out of all languages I find Russian, Finnish & Farease the most intriguing (I'm activelty learning Russian and Finnish at the moment) and the only reason why I clicked on the video was because I thought that they may have included finnish in the comparison. I still enjoyed the video, but it would have been more interesting with a fin. I probably would have never bothered watching the video if they referenced "Scandinavian" in the title. Besides the "Nordic" term the title is also a little misleading, the girl from the US, states a word and then the others repeat that word in their own language, the video is comparing english words to the other languages, where as the title (to me) implies they are comparing how the other nationalites pronounce english.

No, old norse and old english shared a lot of similar words back then😉👌 They are related to a common language.

@@annki3837 Yes, they're related, but that's not the reason why they have adopted a lot of *our* words. That relationship is quite old, the conquest isn't.

Yes, and the Vikings setteled in Normandy, and then the Vikings from there went to England, so there you go England is basically a scandinavian country.

Yeahh like bag and buksesmekk haha, I was actually looking for this comment.

Finland is not Scandinavia because Scandinavia is a physical location and also a cultural location (because of Norse vikings). Nordic is just a political Union between Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Faroe Islands, plus the two autonomous Greenland and Åland where we co-operate about different topics and strive for the same goal. And Finalnd is mostly related to Sami and Estonian language and some few near and inside Russia. These poeple also came to north Europe long long long before Attila the Hun even was born.

In the English speaking world, "Nordic" and "Scandinavian" are basically synonymous.

All of these countries are Nordic though, so the title isn't necessarily wrong. They're ALSO known as Scandinavia but that doesn't mean calling them Nordic without including all other Nordic countries is wrong. Imagine if the title was "Europeans' language differences" or whatever, that wouldn't necessarily mean all 40+ countries would be compared.

Finnish has nothing to do with Attila the Hun. Finnish belongs to the Finno-Ugric languages, which are spoken in Northern Europe and East Siberia. Other examples for those languages would be Hungarian and Estonian. Although Hungarian is a bit of an outsider geographically speaking. There are a lof of regions in Russia where people originally spoke those languages. Some are dying though. The Sámi language is also part of this family. The Sámi people are from Northern Norway, Sweden, Finnland and also from Russia. Together we Samoyedic they are called Uralic languages. Samoyedic people are from Siberia as well.

​@@JonassoeDepends. If you're into Political Science the naming matters, also in the Anglosphere. Saying "the Nordics" makes people expect that there will in the least be some Finn there, but there wasn't. Thus when there are "only" Norwegians, Swedes and Danes there, it's more _precise_ to say Scandinavia. Strictly speaking the Nordics include all countries with Scandinavian and Finno-Ugric heritage, so in the broader sense it could also include the Baltics and even parts of Scotland.

o: i learn something new everyday

@@giselIxo the more you know!

Spanish: Conputadora Sol Agua Venado, reno Bolsa, mochila Cuchillo

@Julián In European Spanish, computer is ordenador, not computadora like across the Pond. Not suggesting that European Spanish is better, but your statement is just a bit too absolute. ;)

computer is pc in portuguese brazil

Yes. From what I've seen by people who've spent their whole lives dedicated to this, Old English and Old Norse was mutually intelligible (to at least some degree). We also have practical examples of this of course, can be done with some Googling I guess. Apparently Doggerland was a landmass which flooded aeons ago, there's been found evidence of (land) connections to the British mainland a long, long time ago. Either way, some contact was kept between seafaring peoples. I have no idea why Dutch (Holland) is so distinct, Frisian is very close to Norse and Norman also has quite a bit of Norse influence. (I mean Dutch DOES sound similar phonetically to some North Germanic languages but it IS quite distinct)

Learn icelandic first as base because that is 99% similar to old norse

Swedes call it "Donken".💀

In the North of Norway we say Mækkdonalds. Burger King is just Be-Kå. I guess Mækkern would be kind of like saying MacDee in English.

In US "Reindear drinks whateer"

"Gyllene måsen" om man tar med frugan😉

In Finland a slang word for McDonalds is "Mäkkäri".

Well, the only ones i know using McDonald's is teens and so on, and ni one says that wordm. You say, lets go to MacD. So we all use that now. Way faster...

korvmoj säger vi å går ned till "italienaren" o käkar libanesisk kebab - Halal

@@lucone2937 Or just "Mäkki"

I mean, Danes are worse than even the infamous French when it comes to their number language. I'm not sure even the Danes themselves fully understands when they talk numbers. 😅

@@Runegrem Most probably don't understand the etymology, but at the end of the day the numbers have names, and we know the names. That seems to do the job.

@@jacobrichter Yeah, naturally. But I'm not gonna let that get in the way of a friendly jab from a Swede to a Dane. 😉

It has never really been considered as its own family, it is a part of the West Germanic branch of the proto-Germanic language family (a distant, ancient relative to modern German - particularly northern Low German - Dutch, Frisian, Luxembourgish) with strong North Germanic/Scandinavian influences and of course, a lot of French and Latin vocab, which sets it a bit apart from other proto-Germanic languages.

And the Swedish "Dator" is really the modern version of "Datormaskin" that we also used back in the 60:s and 70:s in Sweden before it just became "Dator". I think we maybe even used "Datamaskin" also. "Data" is or should I say was used to describe IT in general in Sweden. It was about everything concerning computers and computing! A person that was good at IT could be sadi to "Be good at data" (Vara bra på data)!

@@Magnus_Loov Pretty much same in Norway, except "dator". But that is when informal Norwegian is used. In a formal Norwegian the only correct word is "datamaskin", because the offical meaning of data is: "collected information".

@@Magnus_Loov Much the same here, we use "data" to refer to "generally IT related stuff". Some people also refer to a computer as "dataen" - same as dator for all purposes. So same here, if you said "Han er god på data" eller "bra på data" it means exactly the same.

No one say ‘datamaskin’

The only time I have ever heard the word "computer" used like that in Norwegian, was in a really bad dub of an American instructional video for PCs, which we were shown in elementary school in the late 90s. Saying computer with a Norwegian pronounciation like that was EXTREMELY old fashioned and archaic back then, so if you are telling me that ppl in elementary schools are now talking like that, that's some great trolling.