If I had a Swedish accent, I’d never shut up. It is the most beautiful accent I have ever heard 👏🏻

Hi Joakim, I’m German und I have been learning --- not Swedish , but English . I love your kind of teaching so much and I take a great benefit out of your videos. , especially this one ! You are a lovely man!

Who’s here for a d&d character? 😆 thank you for this!

I am a teacher of Swedish as a foreign language. Great video! I want to add that not only do we have double and long consonants, there is also the need for a slight pause after the vowel and before the double consonant. Since you are a Swede you do it perfectly. As a foreigner learning Swedish it's important to pronounce with the pause: Ä----PPLE or i Swenglish A---PPEL Also, we do not only have a hard time with pronuncing Z. The S is also in itself very different between the languages. The Swedish S is made by the tip of the tounge farther up front in the mouth, touching the teeth while pressing out quite a lot of air. The English S is when you have the tounge positioned a centimeter farther back and the tounge not touching the teeth. Also, in English, the very tip of the tounge is not engaged but the ROOF of the tip. Air is blown out but very much less. It sounds less like whisteling than the Swedish S. I usually say that the Swedish S is as sharp and cold as ice:) ABBA Agnetha has these very Swedish S' s.

I love the accent of Swedes, especially the accent of Pewdiepie I love it, I also love learning Swedish language. This is helpful for a Swedish learner, jag älskar sverige!♥️🇸🇪

I'm only here because my friend dared me to do a Swedish accent for the whole day and I need to learn this accent and fast :OOO

I always think it's such a bummer coming across a Swede on KZfaq etc and they mostly seem to have American accents. This may out me as a bit weird but I love the Swedish accent. There's no way I would attempt to imitate that accent though as my English one is already full of weirdness from the places I've lived over the years. Keep up the good work! really useful content.

if a non-swede asked me how to do a swedish accent, i wouldnt be able to answer them. i just know how to do it because im swedish

Discord Squad! Another fascinating video, Joakim!

Thanks for this. My great-grandfather, Jan Gustav, was from Husby, Kopperburg, Dalarna, and spoke only Swedish when he arrived in the USA. Because of his example, I have always been charmed by the Swedish language and Swedish accent when speaking EN. Thanks again.

I'm just here because I'm reading a book by a Swedish author and I like to imagine the authors voice in my head when I read 😅

So helpful! Thank you so much for doing this!

Thank you, Joakim! Very interesting video! :)

This video is going to help me a lot to improve my swedish accent

I would love to hear you do an impression of someone's foreign accent in swedish, if that makes sense. Like if an American, Irish, Brazilian, canadian, idk anything moves to Sweden what would be the key aspects that would make them obvious. "A den där killen är jävla amerikansk"😄

Thank you for this video! Very fun and informative!!!

Tack så mycket 🙏 I just started learning Swedish for fun and its weird trying to pronounce Swedish words with a Canadian accent lol

I don't even know what type of video I was looking for when I googled "swedish acccent" but this video is everything I wanted and more!

Discord squad!

This is great thanks!

Jeez...I have to play a heavy Swedish accent in a play. I'm TERRIBLE with accents!! I am half-Swedish/half-American, spent summers as a kid in Sweden. All your "big points" are 100% "right on". But as you speak, I hear so many tiny nuances that are difficult to define, much less pronounce. You probably figured out, my Mother never taught me Swedish & I grew up around American English speakers. She died years ago, but was the light of my life, a beautiful woman, through & through. I wish I could consult her now. Listening to you brings so much "back" (even that saying "back" would be "beck"). I struggled with your three "extra vowels" as a kid. In college, I LOVED linguistics, even though I'm TERRIBLE at learning other languages. Anyhow, listening to you is a very helpful refresher in the most obvious ways you point out; but I love hearing the subtlety you may not even be aware of. When I listen to you (and many other native Swedish speakers), it's like recognizing a beautiful symphony, but not having the musical training or education to explain why it's so wonderful or beautiful. But I DO hear, appreciate, and enjoy all the "notes"!! Last thing: my friends always told me my mother's accent was VERY STRONG -- but I NEVER heard it. It sounded like "perfect" English to my ear. But when her Swedish friends spoke English, their accents were loud and distinguished to my ear. I believe this is a common phenomenon with children who are raised by a non-native speaker. PS: these American actors pretending to be Swedes sound terrible!!😝

Simone Giertz's accent is almost flawless. I caught a glimpse of it because of how she said "fusion" in a recent video, but if I didn't know she was Swedish, I wouldn't have noticed it

Thanks for this video- very helpful! I also like the one you did on slang words. Thought I’d let you know that the fake Swedish pitched accent you did in this video (towards the end) IS often how most Swedes sound to English-speaking people! It does sound a little strange and sometimes difficult to understand. But it’s cute and adorable! Don’t change it. 😀

Har tänkt ett tag på hur svenskt uttal låter på andra språk och du satte det fint i ord. Alla amerikaner i dina videoexempel har fan kefft svenskt uttal dock haha

My sister has lived in Sweden over 30 years. Generally when she talks in English it’s with a perfect American accent but when she’s tired or not paying attention she’ll slip into English with a Swedish accent and it is very cute!!

All language has music, and that should never be lost

Discord squad! *shouting in an over the top Swedish accent*

I think i love the Värmland accent the most but all regional accents are unique and pretty!

My niece is Swedish (live her first 6 months in the US, then moved to Stockholm with her Swedish mom)... she has such a light accent (I just said that word in Joakim's voice haha). When I went to Stockholm and met her boyfriend, his accent was so heavy I asked if he was from somewhere else... nope! It's amazing how different people adapt to a different language. I asked her about the Muppets' Swedish Chef when she was younger and she said you he's called the Norwegian Chef! Haha!

Love this and the speaking language and written

I have lived in gothenburg for some while now and I grew up speaking english mostly so I had a american accent and I sound stupid and weird when speaking swedish your video has helped me! Thank you!

I love accents. Any accents. I’d like to speak like Tobias Forge of Ghost. 😊❤

Watching this to practice for my role at a murder mystery party 😂. So excited. Thank you!!

A Swedish accent sounds so similar to the northern Michigan (UP) accent, at least to me. It’s almost exactly the same. I think that’s because a lot of Yoopers (people from the UP) are of Swedish descent.

Something else that can help. Swedes tend to pronounce all letters. Apple, accent, letter all have double consonants. So, if you make a very short pause to separate all double consonants, you will create the effect Ap-pel, Ac-sent, Let-ter.

Thanks for mentioning czech at 6:38 hehe Though we sometimes act as if R or L are vowels

Super helpful video thank you! What films were the short clips of? Would be great to watch films with Swedish accents in them. Thanks!

It's so funny to me how Americans seem to adore the Swedish accent, but Swedes seem to find it obnoxious.

Hahaha...as a Swedish American who hasn't been back to Sweden in a very long time, I just feel like hugging you...hearing you makes me feel like "home". Maybe in a few months, I'd try to send my pitiful "Swedish accent" video, but pretty sure it will be awful (working on it for a play).

This can actually be quite good, I once had someone French try speaking Dutch to me and even though they knew all the words, language structure and special rules I was barely able to understand them because they didnt have the right accent

By the way, which movie did you put some scenes in this video from?

I as a Swede have been attempting for the past year to retrieve my accent after American schooling trying to take it away from me and considering me to have a speech disorder because of it find this very helpful

Always loved Morfar's(rip) accent. This has been really helpful

When I come to a video, and learn what I need to learn, I give it a thumbs up... what in Futurama has the sweedish accent I can't remember now

I've been trying to learn Swedish for when I (hopefully) move there in the future. It's been hard to pronounce the words and sentences but this video really helped me understand what to do to say them more correctly. Thank you for your wonderful teachings😊

I’m just trying to learn how to do a Swedish accent since I have been learning the language and it’s quite jarring to speak it with a British accent

I'm also noticing the words with longer sounds all seem to have double letters. My boyfriend is Swedish and I love to listen to him talk hahaha.

Im from Gävle and this is pretty fönny 😄

I was always wondering what that throaty ee sound was I keep hearing

Trixie is the reason why you're here right? Right?

The interesting thing about the V-to-W-sound substitution is that Swedish doesn't have a W sound, it only have V-sounds. This doesn't transfer to their English, where it basically becomes the opposite. This one quirk is probably just because of how English is learned. There are a lot more W-words.

Cool video!

9:02 hahaha, that was exactly what I thought when I heard it: "it sounds like pure norwegian accent"

As an American with a Swedish mom, I think one thing the accent is good for is being very affable and disarming compared to other stronger spins like Scots and Russians give the English language. Swedes though may also have the higher % of English speakers that speak it so well, it sounds like picture perfect American or British English, but those who still show the Swedish accent definitely have their charms. And believe me, there's no shame for being in the latter category, as I am learning Portuguese, but not can't speak like a native Brazilian. Thankfully though, Brazil and Portugal are very welcoming cultures that get a kick out of foreigners learning their language. I may give them a chuckle the way I pronounce certain words, but all in all, they are always very patient and genuinely seem to appreciate your effort.

Thank you 😊 .

Jag älskar din kanel:) I as a Swede hate when you hear or speak English or American with a Swedish accent. sounds awful and is just as surprised the times people abroad like our accent. we are not perfect but i love my homeland in many ways but not when it comes to accent. sounds so fun :)

I think you could learn a thing or two from Trixie Mattel. Her Swedish accent is *chefs kiss*

Some other things I've noticed Swedes do: We will, when pronouncing a word with a "y" vowel in it (e.g. "system"), use the Swedish pronunciation of that letter, even though it doesn't exist in Swedish. We distinguish vowels much more than an English native. In English unstressed vowels are often reduced to schwas, but we don't do that. We are more ok with some consonant clusters. So a word like "mechanism" will have three syllables in a Swedish accent while an English native would often use four. One thing that's perhaps outside the realm of an accent, but pretty crucial if you wanna sound like a Swede, is to get verb endings wrong. Start saying "it have...", "they goes", etc. It's rare that I meet someone who can consistently get those right.

thank you for the video! could you do a video talking about everyday words/phrases and slang? for example "like, literally" etc what words do swedes say when they want to say those words in everyday context

Holy fuck this is informational and very well explained

It is kind of confusing when Swedes say words that start with "J" to be honest. Sometimes, I cannot get what they say but this vid explains! Thank you :)

Is anyone else just slightly obsessed with the Swedish accent for like no reason? XD

I can’t hold a fake Swedish accent WITHOUT bouncing up and down 😂 It helps you get into the mindset, which makes it easier to swap W for V, say long O and so on. Quite a tricky accent to do seriously/naturally, I think.

I have a novel book I'm reading now is in Stockholm, so I need to learn this accent to fill those characters.

My friend said I sound Swedish in some of my videos on tiktok, I'm trying to hear the similarities

Just finished Norsemen on Netflix, cant get enough of the swedish accent

"Swedish youtubers" you mean the one and only # 1 KZfaqr ?

Idk if it’s education system but danish people and Swedes always have such good English

I'm a writer doing a fantasy story that is based off Scandinavian Vikings and how would I portray an accent like those you spoke about in written form?

I have a Swedish friend I text with and I ask for a VM at times. It's soft, precise and slow. A bedroom voice, omg.

fascinating and insightful I'd of liked to hear more full sentence examples by you. Instead of just clips from movies

Cool I already have a swedish accent!

Forget this guy - Tracy is where it's at

Dont forget the "TH" sound that turns into a "D" :) "How about dis"

As a Swede, this was very helpful.

I'm watching this for a dnd swedish slime named slem I know slem is swedish for slime that why I named him slem and that why he's swedish

The two words I remember my Swedish Mother having trouble with was Jello was Yellow and soup became soap

Does anyone know there's a statue of Uma Thurman's grandmother in Trelleborg?

When ur from Sweden: ( Du Lär en väldigt bra :D! )

i don't know if you guys know this movie, but i am in a play called "Murder on Orient express," and i play greta olhson who is swedish

so many people have been telling me that i have a swedish accent even tho im not from sweden..the accent sounds beautiful tho

History Channel Vikings really needed this.

Me a swede trying my best to get rid of my swedish accent lmao

thanks for making this I am sweedish and would like to know how to do an accsent

I’ve spoken Swedish and English my whole life but I’ve never had an Swedish accent when I speak English, it also turns out so bad when I try 😂

trixie mattel brought me here. she should teach him how to do the real accent😌

there is a noise in swedish that i have dubbed "the swedish frog-ish noise thing" i've asked so many people and apparently there are very few people like me who can make it without being swedish and i love the reaction when i pronounce something to a swedish friend with that noise they get weirdly excited lmao (idk how to explain the noise but think of saying the name linus in swedish and the part where your tongue touches the back of your teeth swedish people make kind of a eyyeyeye froggy noise, sorry for being so bad at explaining lol ;-;)

When I was hungry I would say to my grandparrentas may I please have brrread.

Hej, jag har velat prata svenska. Min dröm kommer att gå i uppfyllelse! Jag kommer att prenumerera!

@9:10 great Norwegian accent 😂

I would definitely say "Hi I hävv än äxent" :D

OMG....so much fun..and so true when it comes to our accent!

I'm from Indonesia and I like Swedish accent 🇮🇩 🇮🇩 ❤️🇸🇪🇸🇪

I’m from Sweden and i’m trying to learn to speak Swedish with a Danish accent.

What's the name of this movie ? 1:06

Hej, at 9:10 you actually sound like a Welsh person (from North or West Wales), speaking English.

came here specifically learn the accent for Ulla in producers... immediately called out

i love the swedish accent.

0:52 hahahahahaha