Thank you again Lamont, it was a pleasure talking to you and I'm confident you'll hit the target with this one haha! All the best and stay in touch. /Klaudia

Omg! I really loved this 🤩 Her accent is truly amazing😍 Thank you so much for making this and especially for bringing back Swedish, love your videos👏👏👏

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Thanks for sharing Sharon!

@@daysandwords how many shares can a sharing Sharon share if a caring Sharon really really cared? Lots lol (no worries)

Haha exactly. The comes straight from Södermalm 🤣

That was my first thought as well!

I was going to say the same thing, but I was two weeks late… 🤣

Stockholmare har ingen dialekt! :)

@@axelfrick4106 Hahaha… eller hur…? Jag trodde inte att jag hade någon dialekt heller, tills jag flyttade cirka 500 km. Sedan trodde jag inte heller att jag tagit efter deras dialekt förrän jag besökte mina vänner hemma igen…

Also for non-Swedish learners reading this, it should be noted that this is even rarer in Swedish than other languages. It's known to be an extremely difficult accent to pick up.

Tack!

@@KlaudiaSwedish You really have picked up the melody and intonation of the language.

@@daysandwords y?

@@ln6264 It just is. There's no "why" to it. Or do you mean "what in particular about it makes it difficult?" - That is a whole video. In fact that's a good idea for a video that I'd kind of already had but you've just made me think of another element.

mer än smått skulle jag påstå. Helt galet imponerad.

håller med

Det är helt otroligt, båda är extremt bra, men att lyssna på Klaudia är ju som att höra en Stockholmstjej prata. O.o Om jag hade hört henne på radio utan någon bakgrundsinformation hade jag aldrig snappat upp de extremt få "tells" som finns på att hon inte skulle vara infödd svensk, det hade legat betydligt närmare till hands att förklara det med att hon växt upp med en annan svensk dialekt och sedan flyttat till t ex Stockholm, och det är som sagt om jag hade reflekterat över det alls (vilket jag inte tror). Även när man vet att hon lärt sig språket i vuxen ålder så får man verkligen sitta och lyssna långa stunder innan det dyker upp något som får en att tänka "aha där var det något" .. :)

Eller hur!! 😳 Jag är sjukt imponerad!! 😍

@Solve Everything jag känner många som bott här typ hela sina liv och fortfarande inte kan bra svenska. Antar att man helt enkelt inte vill lära sig. Dessa två personer bevisar att man kan lära sig perfekt svenska om man vill, så varför sjutton finns det så mycket folk i Sverige sen årtionden som inte ens knappt talar språket.

Som en skåning känner mig träffad

@@fesve Det behöver du inte känna. Du är inte svensk ;)

@@alexanderjohansson8133 BURN!

Yeah but Sweden is full of muslims.

@@sammeprotagonist and what is your point?

Tack! 😀

Tack! And thanks for not being picky! :D

I am intermediate level in Swedish / German / Norwegian and advanced level in Dutch, so I could understand most words! I noticed that non-natives speak in a way that’s easier to understand than most natives, they definitely enunciate the words better, so I can usually understand what non-natives (and natives that are teaching the language on yt etc) say! I highly recommend learning Dutch & Norwegian (Dutch / English / Norwegian are the prettiest languages ever, too pretty not to know) and Icelandic / Welsh / Old Norse / Cornish / Hungarian / Breton / Slovene / Gallo / Brazilian Portuguese / Galician etc, as all these languages are super gorgeous, and I am learning all Germanic languages and the 6 Celtic languages and the true Latin languages and Hungarian and Slovene and Finnish and Estonian, and I’ll probably learn Latvian as well because it seems like it has mostly pretty words, from what I’ve seen so far, so there are over 50 languages on my list of languages I want to learn and improve!

Dutch words are just too pretty not to know, and 83 of the prettiest words in Dutch are - ver, vlinder, verloren, feest, adem, vaste, veel, verdween, heel, het, heen, voorbij, vandaan, verven, domein, verwaald, drijfzand, lief, leegte, liefde, heerst, einde, zonder, weet, avond, vult, gekomen, centrum, moment, pad, loop, overheerst, vallen, twijfel, vinden, kelde, wald, ter, geweest, vrees, grenzen, verleg, rein, van, stellen, wilde, steeds, verstreken, evenbeeld, bleef, steile, vrede, stem, wens, net, tijd, stille, verwenst, zalig, ochtend, zilverreiger, weer, overwint, heerlijk, zin, hart, beweert, vanaf, kwijt, wolken, mes, verliezen, dwaling, verlaten, rede, trek, tuinhek, brand, verdien, blikje, vertellen, verder, vertrek...

Some of the prettiest Welsh words are derwen / nest / afon / talar / adeilad / helygen / afal / hyd / lolfa / enaid / bedwen / neithiwr / ynys / nos / sydd / noswaith / ers / mynd / rhosyn / eistedd / gwych / tân / fawr / telyn or delyn / ynddyn / llaw or dwylo / doeth / fewn or mewn / gwar / bys / ffynnon / swrn / tew / blin / mynydd / braich etc, and Welsh reminds of Dutch (Dutch / English / Norwegian are the prettiest and most refined languages ever with the most pretty words) because they have a similar intonation / vibe and they both have the soft CH (H-like K-controlled) sound and many of the words have similar types of letter combinations - Welsh is a category 1 language, and Breton / Cornish are also category 1 languages, just like Dutch and English and Norwegian etc, so they are very easy to learn, and have mostly pretty words, and I am beginner level in Welsh and in the other 5 Celtic languages!

After typing out all the subtitles for this I happened to watch Captain Sinbad's video on the Samurai way of Bushido and how when you feel you've reached a goal, you've strayed from the path and I felt that it was not coincidence that Klaudia is the best non-native speaker of Swedish I've heard (her British-English is amazing too) and she has adopted this path.

inlandsdialekt?

@@pierrenilsson6189 I'm glad I came across this comment, i'm not learning Swedish but I had in my head that on my language journey i'd work on hiding my accent,

@@iamkobi2187 I don't think there's anything wrong with wanting to work on your accent. I don't want to sound Swedish when talking English. Having an accent that makes you hard to understand is obviously an issue, but other than that, there are more important things in learning a language.

@@pierrenilsson6189 I don't think so, if you get the grammar and pronunciation to a native level you will be making native mistakes.

@@ketchup901 Depends. Finnish swedes don't have that intonation.

@@pierrenilsson6189 Yea but she could fix those mistakes and be even closer to native sounding? Why are natives immune to that particular mistake?

Bra, var inte så svensk 😉

You know you're one of the only people to give me a realistic number. Every 15th sentence, haha, that's perfect. I'm gonna start measuring my Swedish progress with this scale. At the moment it's 1 in 15 sentences sounds perfect. Next year someone will ask me and I'll say "2 in 15 sentences sounds perfect." and they'll be like 🤔

@@daysandwords Haha maybe a weird way of measuring! When I think about it though it's actually more likely every 10th sentence or so. Minor pronunciation errors. Wish you and your channel all the best none the less!

Oj men hej Lana! Du är en av mina favorit YouTubare! Jag älskar när du säger ett litet ord eller fras eller nåt på svenska! Till och med i outtakes när du säger typ, "Have you ever thought about how many... nej..."

Tack!

Yes. You can just hear the accent in some words and also a lack of slang words. But like 99,9% perfect.

I woud say that the main problem is the r's, There is something about them that don't soud native

and also the sentense strucure is a bit non native

@@jerkfogelqvist-utterstrom5130 But then again, just listen to some of our "famous" influencers and you will hear sentence structures that are Much worse than Klaudia's.

@@jerkfogelqvist-utterstrom5130 I disagree. The r's are among the most impressive aspects of her pronunciation. A very perfect "Stockholm r"

@@JS-uw1pr How does that not make any sense? You can notice it while sitting down and listening to it, but its not so extreme that my ear would pick up on it if I just walked down the street and passed her talking to a friend, because I don't stop and listen carefully to strangers conversation on the street.

@@JS-uw1pr The way she talks sounds exactly like a Swede would but certain choices of words and how they're constructed isn't what we would use. So if you REALLY listen extra for it you'll notice but if you'd just talk to her in passing you couldn't tell.

@@JS-uw1pr As a fellow swede, it made perfect sense - O P basically says; As a native, I notice she isn't native [in the context of this video, when listening for it], however, if I heard this in the streets and didn't know she was wasn't native [in the context of not listening for it / thinking about it], I probably would not have noticed. I agree with this, she has some occasional word choices and melodic intonations that sound like an accent - but this is also much easier to pick out when she speaks this much / over such a long time and they are heard consistently; in a shorter exchange it would probably have gone unnoticed (since natives also have random quirks while speaking) Don't get me wrong though, her swedish is amazing - it's an _extremely rare_ melodic/expression "character" to find with someone none-native.

I woud hear she has a slavic langauge as her basic. Some intonations sounds eastern european.

@@JS-uw1pr It seems like your English isn't at a high enough level to understand the comment, because seriously, it makes perfect sense.

Haha, tack. SÅ bra skulle jag inte hävda att min svenska var, men tack ändå!

Yeah. And contrary to popular belief, I have actually never been super anti-clickbait. I am anti-actual-lying. If you make a video called "Learn French in 12 hours" and then in the video, you come out with some whacky maths as to how useful 12 hours actually is and it's a good video about the value of that, then good for you. But if you make a video called "Learn French in a week" and then pretend that you didn't start learning French two years before, then you're just lying. So basically what I am saying: Clickbaity Lamont is coming, but the videos will always be something I genuinely believe (or did, or whatever).

@@daysandwords if the video does actually deliver on the title in a way that the viewer still feels is beneficial then I wouldn’t consider it clickbait because I think of clickbait to be disingenuous and a “trick”, this is just good marketing ;)

Almost all videos sound foreign.

Glad you feel like that! Thanks for watching!

Yeah, and her German and English are almost as good. 😬

Why did you learn norwegian?

I don't know how common of a thought this is here in Sweden... but I have always thought that Norwegian sounds like someone speaking Danish but with sort of a Swedish accent...oh and no hot potato in their throat/mouth (which is something which is pretty commonly said in Sweden, that Danes sound like they have a hot potato in their throat/mouth when they speak Danish)... if that makes sense. XD It does mean though that Norwegian is easier for me to understand than Danish is... even though I live in Skåne which is neighbors with Denmark, and used to belong to Denmark up until 1658. In general though... how much I understand of Norwegian and Danish varies a lot.. sometimes I completely know what is being said in both languages, and sometimes I understand very little. I guess it mostly depends on how big of a percentage of what is being said is using words which are very similar if not identical between the languages, and how much of it is where the words Norwegian and Danish uses is completely different from what we use here in Sweden. I also believe that Norwegians and Danes understand Swedish better, than most Swedes understand their languages... because if I am not remembering this wrong, Norwegians and Danes are exposed to a lot more Swedish movies and tv-series and tv programs, than how much we Swedes are exposed to Norwegian and Danish movies and tv-series and tv programs. In a lot of way's though, it would be easier for me to understand Norwegians and Danes if we switched to English instead... since I am of course fluent in English. XD

The similarities really are fascinating 😄 I'm Swedish and I understand Norwegian perfectly, it just feels like another accent of my own language. But every time I have a conversation with a Norwegian person I am equally amused at the fact that we're speaking two different languages! It will probably never cease to amaze me 😅

@@Calistarius79 Giv os skåne tilbage.

@@Michael-dj6pd nej, stanna på er sida av bron:)

Klaudia has almost no Polish accent, I cannot hear any, but she speaks a Swedish dialect (stockholmska, rikssvenska eller uppländska) to perfection.

What did you mean by swedish with an accent instead of just swedish? Like, she trained a specific swedish accent?

@@Matheus_Braz Ok so if I would speak English (Swedish is my main language obviously) I could just “say the words”, I would use the right words and the right grammar but I still get that Swenglish (swedish-English) accent, sounds horrible. However if I imitate an actual accent or even a specific individual It changes the whole game. Search for “Swenglish: how to spot a Swede speaking English”. There you have a Swede speaking English with a Swedish accent. And if you search for any video with Alicia Vikander you’ll see that she speaks with a more British accent. Sounds better. It’s the same when imitating the Swedish language.

I must admit I have struggled with it... but it's not really hard, I don't see why Swedes would struggle with it!

@@daysandwords Because they don't care... 😳🙈 And it drives me nuts! 🙈

Haha, precis vad jag tänkte. Mycket imponerande!

Flow is always off in Skype or Zoom conversations. Some people are talking as if they always sound like narrators when they talk to their friends over dodgy connections.

Spelling out words seperatly can totally change the meaning when words are meant to be joint into a new word. And we can make up thease words on the fly as well.

@Klaudia Grochot-Fraser :***

Thanks!

Thank you!

@@daysandwords An elegant yet simple solution to not having enough videos in your target language would be to have another KZfaq channel exclusively in swedish. This would bring about an avenue for practice and would further improve your swedish tremendously. You could simply reference that channel in this one, so that non-swedish speaking individuals are not required to wade through the content. Cheers and all the best.

Actually I used to think the same but speaking Swedish to a camera and then having the internet comment on it doesn't actually improve my Swedish at all. For starters, I have like a thousand dollars of iTalki credits, so I can speak Swedish to a native speaker anytime I want (which is objectively better) but also just the whole "23 people saw this and they all have different opinions on what you should work on by the way 4 of them are only SAYING they are Swedish" thing means it's yeah... not a good use of resources. I may start an all Swedish channel but it wouldn't be for corrections it would be to teach Swedish.

Thank you! :)

Thanks for the encouragement!

Inception of the idea to learn Swedish. Such is our cunning plan!

@@daysandwords I've got a question re: Swedish actually as I've never really studied any further Germanic languages; how intelligible is it with other Germanic languages? From my limited knowledge I have the impression that its mostly intelligible with norweigan, somewhat with Danish, but not very much with the others (obviously not at all with English) ?

It is basically 100% intelligible with Norwegian - it would be extremely unusual for Swedes or Norwegians to have to use English with each other. With Danish it depends very much on the people but they tend to use a mix of Swedish, Danish and English - curiously, Norwegians understand Danes pretty well most of the time. I can understand little bits of Icelandic and possibly even more Flemish (not sure if this is just Flemish or Dutch in general, but I'm guessing Dutch too) - I watch a lot of Flemish stuff and I have noticed words fairly often. German is pretty much the same except I did learn some German once upon a time so it's hard for me to tell what the Swedish is and what the remembering the German is, if you get me. I'd say Swedish and German are about as far apart as English and French. One of them learning just a little means you just can understand quite a lot. English is basically too influenced by French to be properly "Germanic", so it's easily the least Germanic of the Germanic languages... but Swedish tricks you with its pronunciation so that it sounds further away than it really is. e.g. "Min bror ligger på sjukhuset." would sound like total gibberish but the words actually aren't so far away. Min = my. Bror = brother. Ligger = lies (is lying down), på = in, on, at. Sjukhuset = hospital, sjuk = sick, hus = house. My brother is in hospital, and almost every word has some logical leap that can be made from English ("sjuk" can be argued to not sound or look like "sick", but everything else makes some sense). But pronunciation wise, it sounds like "Minbrooleegrpohwhuukhuuset."

Days of French 'n' Swedish thank you so much for that really informative and comprehensive answer! I know you’re a busy man so I’m very grateful and that is super interesting, though I am now having to consciously self restrain myself from diving into learning a Germanic language when I have other language commitments haha. Thanks again, I have to admit your channel more than any other inspired me to start my own, small as it is with a long way to go!

@@yourfirstsecondlanguage4782 As a Swede, you see many obvious similarities with English (without being a linguist). Evident in both fundamental syntax and vocabulary. There are the old Germanic heritage, the later "Viking parts" of English, plus a plethora of French and Latin words in common. Although some loans are (used) very differently, most are not. I would say Swedish is closer to English and Dutch/Frisan/Low German, than it is to High German in most (although not all) respects.

Thanks for your kind words!

Haha, thanks. Black belt maybe, natives maybe not (at least not for me). Guy Ritchie and Joe Rogan were discussing how "black belt" in martial arts is really just the beginning of good - like one black belt could smoke another black belt with one hand, provided they are good enough. I feel like in languages, basically all native speakers are black belts (very few aren't), so the first challenge for us non-natives is even competing. But I don't feel like I sound at all like a native speaker - Klaudia is extremely close though.

@@daysandwords Well, you have an accent that could be from further up in the country, I myself am born and raised in Luleå, way up in the north, we speak different from Klaudia, we dont "sing" as much in our way of speaking, you sound a little more like how we do, but without you sounding "hillbilly" so to say! :) Im pretty sure you came across Norrländska while listening to audio books and stuff, so you know what dialect im talking about :) You are doing a great job though, saw you mentioned Manley in another video, a guy that I studied with in Sweden, moved there for some years ago, he is loving it, I can almost BET that he came up to you talking if you had a Swedish jersey on! :) oh and I will of course be a friend of your channel giving you the support you deserve!

It's from watching Emil Hansius, so I am of course well familiar with Luleå. It's not been in audiobooks haha, they're all in rikssvenska. But I actually don't like the aspects of my accent that are northern because they clash with my "normal" Swedish - I do find some aspects of nörrlänska a little bit easier than stockholmska or anything else - so I think basically what happens is my accent turns into a mish mish of all the different dialects that I find easiest for that particular sound. One day I might go "all in" on one accent but I still haven't chosen which one. Thanks for the compliments - it's refreshing after the people who are like "you are saying this sound at 12:43 wrong - you need to work on that". Dra åt helvete, jag ska betsämma vilka grejer jag behöver jobba på, tack. (That last part is to them, not you haha.)

Förresten, vad heter din kompis? Jag har faktiskt inte träffat några svenskar i Sydney på länge men de är alla i samma klubbar och sånt - Swedes in Sydney, SMISK (Svenska män i Sydney klubben), Swedish-Australian Young professionals. Det är möjligt att jag har träffat honom.

@@daysandwords Oh yea, Emil is a really creative youtuber, I been watching him on and off for a few years now :) I do understand what you mean with picking up different dialects, thats how my English is, I spent 6 months in Kingston, Jamaica, then I studied 3 months in Nelson, New Zealand, then I picked up most of the vocabulary from watching movies and listening to music (mainly American movies and muisc) then I got the basics from School, which is more British English ... so now ... my English is doomed :) haha yea I figured it was not aimed for me! And thats how to think about it, YOU decide what to do! I am pretty sure people will continue to try and correct the few errors you might make (and me, as a native do the same, everyone does) :)