Oskar representing us Swedes very well. Hes very good at explaining everything. I would be so bad at that.

As a Swede I would like to add my thoughts on tupplur I think the "lur" refers to "Lura"(to trick) So you trick the rooster during the day (aka take a nap when it won't scream you awake)

I'm learning Swedish and I learn a Swedish word a day (in addition to my regular studies). When I was given Tvättbjörn I thought "wash bear." (using the verb) I thought maybe it was panda. But then I suddenly had the image of a bear washing its paws and then thought, "Maybe raccoon?" I laughed so hard when I clicked and saw I was right! I knew all the words in today's lesson... and knew enough that the phrase "glida på en räckmacka" has the å in the wrong position. This was fun... more Swedish, please!

Tvättbjörn = Der Waschbär = the washing bear = the raccoon Jordgubbar = Die Erdbeere = the earth berry = the strawberry (Both from Swedish to German to literal translation to English) It wasn’t until I learned German did Swedish magically made a helluva lot more sense, lol.

On a related note, in Italian the word "raccoon" is also translated as "orsetto lavatore" ("washing little bear"). And, as regards the strawberry, the Norwegian term "jordbær" means literally "Earth berry", which makes more sense than the Swedish term "jordgubbe". Anyway that was a fun lesson, thank you guys!! 😁

I'm from Finland and we used to be under swedish rule (before we were under Russian rule which was before we gained independence so ages ago) and watching this video made me recognize yet another Swedish influence in Finnish language. Tupluurit comes from tupplur and means the exact same thing. We just made it plural while borrowing the word. Also the hippo, we got the same idea. Virtahepo, stream horse or a river horse.

I fricking love Sky! She's so cute and she does great with the pronounciations. I understand it's hard for an American but she really tries and does it well! These two have the best chemistry. Hope there's more videos to come with them both. :)

you can survive in sweden by just speaking english. their society is highly educaded and almost everyone knows some or fluent english. in fact Sweden is 8th in the global rank of english proficiency for non-English speaking countries.

Definitely need more Scandinavians on here. Oskar is a solid dude. Entertaining video.

In Danish lur is also a nap...a really good nap is a "morfar" - a grandfather. And funny that she didn't pick up on the "fartkontrol" 😆😅

I think you'll find "flodhäst" has the same etymology as "hippopotamus" as both mean "river horse". In Ancient Greek, "hippos" = "häst" = "horse" + "potamos" = "flod" = "river". So Sweden was not as smart in this as you say by inventing such a word. They were, however, smart enough to copy the Greeks!

She's very good at getting the Swedish words right in just a few tries! ^_^ Go, Sky!

This is so fun! I love that Oskar is so patient and very good at explaining. Also, I don't think I've ever heard an American nail the pronounciation of Swedish words this good. Well done!

Swedish is the nicest sounding Germanic language in my opinion!

Make a video talking about famous people of Sweden 🇸🇪 like The band ABBA , Zara Larsson or Zlatan ibrahimovic

"Lur" is also the word for when a bird rests one leg by standing on the other. Rosters have a lot of words about sleep connected to them in swedish so probably that's the reason it became tupplur. Jordgubbar comes from an old dialect and would be translated to "earth/dirt balls" in that dialect.

In french, for the word "racoon" we actually use the term "raton laveur" which can be translated as "washing little rat"

Actually, _hippopotamus_ means _river horse_ in Greek (híppos, "horse" + potamós "river"). And I think that _flodhäst_ is probably a calque of this Latin/Greek word (just as _Flusspferd_ in German).

I think the reason it is called jordgubbe in Swedish is because jord means soil and they grow in the soil and gubbe was originally a dialectal word for little lump, but now the word gubbe is used for an old man, but maybe with a negative emphasis. Sorry if i made it complicated and sorry for my english 🙈🍓

I love this guys energy!

From what I've googled, "jordgubbe" comes from "jord", meaning "earth", and "gubbe", meaning "little lump", so it would literally transçate to "little earth lumps" or "little lumps from the earth".

I absolutely love the swedish language. I want more of these Videos! 🥰🥰

Actually many languages use the same logic as the Swedish word for raccoon Italian: Orsetto lavatore "little washing bear" (but you could also say "procione") French: Raton laveur "Washing rat" Japanese: Araiguma アライグマ / 洗熊　"washing bear" And the same goes for "vegetables" Italian: "verdure" comes from "verde", which means green Japanese: Aomono 青物, which literally translates as "blue things" is another word for vegetables, even though most people would probably say yasai 野菜 (In Japan blue and green used to be perceived as different hues of the same color)

Detta är så underbart! I love this! Wonderful stuff. I need more of this. People sharing and learning each others languages. I would want to see this in Africa, Asia and the middle Eastern nations! Heck, bridge the languages between different nations on all the continents! This is so cute and wholesome! Heartwarming

When she pronounced «flodhäst» she sounded exactly like a dialect from the north of Norway😂

10:45 "Like Fart Control" - That made me crack up :D

I'm loving all the videos these two are in!!!

Oskar is the sweetest teacher 🥺

The "lur" in "tupplur" means "nap", so "tupplur" is a short nap, like the ones roosters take

I like Skys bubbly personality.

I get what Oksar is saying because until I started teaching English and Spanish there were a lot of things about both languages that I just said without giving much thought to why. Then when my students would ask questions I would think about why I speak a certain way. For example in English, you only have the option to add er and est to adjectives with one or two syllables. Longer words you can only use more or most ahead of them. But I had never thought about this until I started teaching. Now some people will say more AND add er to the end of an adjective which makes my ears wince in pain. 😢

Great teacher and student. I learned a lot just by watching

This is so funny to me as a Norwegian because i realise we have the exact same combination of words just in Norwegian. We also have vaskebjørn=wash bear= racoon, grønnsak=green thing= vegetable, and even høneblund= chicken nap, so kinda the same thing although i would never had guessed what tupplur meant just from looking at it.

These two have awesosme chemistry

Last one kind of incorrect described, if somebody is “sliding on a räkmacka” their life or what ever they’re doing is going pretty good without the person putting in any effort. For example a group assignment in school, four people working together and getting a good grade, one person barely have put in any work, this forth bro is “gliding on a räkmacka”. Not as Oscar said that it’s when you drive a car and have fluency with the traffic lights.

I'm from Germany and in German, we call a racoon literally laundry/washing bear ["Waschbär"] as well

I'm trying to learn Swedish rn so I knew jordgubbe but thats it! I still have a lot to learn. I love how these two interact!

Tupplur - comes from the short nap the roster have while standing, preferably on one leg and one eye open. Still ready to wake up at any moment or if something happens.

Okay but can we talk about how weirdly accurate some of the pronouncements were? Like, it sounded more like Sky was from Norway or even Norrland!

At first I was really confused and weirded out by washing bear being some actual animal, but then I realised that it's the same in estonian 🤣 (pesukaru).

In Slovakia we also say Medvedík čistotný (washing bear) and our czech brothers say mýval (from the verb mýt - wash)

Tupplur, to fool the rooster: The Rooster wakes you up in the morning, the you make a fool out of it (lurar den) by taking a nap on the day. That's why "lur" became a slang for "nap", you're fooling the rooster by sleeping on the day.

I love this people! I love them together and gosh! Wanna have a pod with this two!

Tack means thanks. but we in Sweden do not say please in swedish but end with a thank you:)

Quite interesting! Especially the literally translation of strawberry in Swedish. I'm from the Netherlands, which is not that far away from Sweden. We call a strawberry in Dutch (no, not German) "Aardbei". If you would directly translate that to English it means "Earth bee" (Aard - bei). Funny similarities!

She is SO GOOD at pronouncing things! I'm rather amazed.

Perfect Swenglish at 10:45 "No fart control"😆

Hippopotamus actually means "river horse" from Greek origins.

I'm enjoying learning some swedish with oskar 🤗🤗🤗

Fun fact in greek Hippopotamus also means river horse. So again Sweden wins låneord. :D Also The verb "lura" has an original sense "squint, ", from which it developed the senses "close your eyes" ==> "sleep" (although this sense is rare today) Other Scandinavian languages have something like "hønseblund", more like "a hen's wink", which seems related but doesn't at the same time.

Så kul att höra någon lära sig svenska (its so funny to hear When someone Teaches svenska!!!

In Mandarin Chinese, raccoons are also called wash bear 浣熊

As a Swede I'm impressed by Sky! How she figures out the words! :O

”So these animals do laundry.”

Så jäela kul!!! Oskar bra jobbat!

"Raccoon" in French is "raton laveur" which literally means "little washing rat." 😂😅

Lur is an old word for having a short sleep. Tupp (rooster) is connected to it because people would have a short sleep after the rooster woke them up in the morning. A very old word for snoozing in other words :)

She’s doing very well, especially for being so new to the language

10.45 "fart control" Made my day. A bit of swenglish 🤣🤣🤣

On Related Note for FLODHÄST, In Indonesian 🇮🇩 word "HippoPatamus" 🦛 is Also translated as "KUDA NIL" (KUDA means Horse and Nil means Rivers Nil in Africa) so the same with Swedish say Hippo is Flodhäst "River Horse" 😅

This was difficult. Sky did well. Proud of you, ma’am. ❤️

Bruh why is he socially capable. Thank god they didnt send ur average swede cus this guy can actually talk to people

Jordgubbar - The original meaning of gubbe is actually a lump and I believe the word for old men has been borrowed from the lump word. So jordgubbe is basically soil lumps (jord has several meanings). If you think about how the ripe strawberries hang down touching the soil, it sort of makes sense. It’s an old word though so when strawberries came to Sweden, who knows the reason for calling it the way we do.

"tvättbjörn" is translated to washbear, not laundry bear, and it is actually a very common name to call racoons in a lot of languages.

i am actually danish and the danish and swedish languages are not that far from the same language so i actually recognised most of the words immediately

As a Swedish I enjoyed this, specially the swinglish “fart control” at 10:45 😂 Fart in Swedish means speed

I’m coming from sweden!😊 You are the best!❤️

She's great at pronunciation. I've never met an American that could get Swedish so fast before...

Strawberry is Erdbeere in German which translates to earth/soil berry

I love how she sounds norwegian when she says Flodhäst

Me being a swedish makes this video sooooo hilarious

She's actually really good at pronouncing the swedish letters

In denmark we Call strawberries jordbær which means dirt/Earth berry

aslo coming here on a räkmacka doesnt mean youre early to the place. it means you got lucky on the way with ANYTHING related to life.

Just a minor spelling error, it’s spelled: ”Glida på en räkmacka”.

I've been learning swedish for a while now and I never thought of the literal translation of words, such as jordgubbar meaning "earth man". That messed me up. However, they messed up (not the Swedish man, but the editors). Jordgubbar means strawberries, not a singular strawberry.

half of the time I am just thinking ”that is so easy” and the other half I am thinking “what is wrong my Swedish brother’s”?

May I marry or adopt Sky, whatever works better for her? She's such a ray of sunshine. Adore her! :)

Meatballs and Roxette, that's all I know 😁 Although I like hearing Swedish spoken ..

Hippos = horse Potamos = river English also calls is river horse, only using Greek words …

He didn’t teach her about the perfect Swedish word ”Lagom”

Haha knowing Danish it was weird but cool to be able to actually guess most of these!

They accidently wrote:slidå pa. Instead of:slida på

just got to point out as a swedish person that oscar did a gramaric error. he said i like grönsak but since it’s plural he should have said i like grönsaker. en sak it’s a noun and grön is a adjective. if he likes one grönsak he should have said i like en grönsak :) all this doesnt matter i just wanted to prove i was swedish!

Talking about "fart control" and different meanings of words. "It's not the fart that kills, it's the smäll."

It's laundry bear / wash(ing) bear in Estonian too! There's so many other similarities aswell, never knew there were so many similarities between the 2 languages!

I have never heard a swedish person saying that they gonna take a "nap". 😂 And lur I think is a bit more from the word lura. (lure in english) Phones did not exist when the word came to exist 😉

There are many names for strawberries.. The wild original strawberry is a smultron. The cultivated strawberry is Jordbär or Jordgubbe.. (Earth Berry) (Same as Dutch Eerdbeer) Gubbe is a slang word for a larger berry.

The gubbe part of jordgubbe is an reeely old word fore litle lump.🍓🇸🇪

He said "fart control" while speaking English.😊 An American friend of mine thought these traffic signs were extremely funny. It means "speed control".

Actually, roosters crow at all hours of the day. Yes, roosters do sleep, but they can be loud and obnoxious at any hour of the day.

I miss Christina…

gubbe used to be a dialect word for lump in Swedish so the translation and meaning is more like earth lumps. We also refereed to potatoes ''potatis'' as jordgubbar before the words settled for what we call them today.

All Swedish animal names literally translated are great. Like Rådjur - Raw animal

He is so sweet. Love them

Speaking of strawberries, the strawberry is not, from a botanical point of view, actually a berry. Technically, it is an aggregate accessory fruit, meaning that the fleshy part is derived not from the plant's ovaries but from the receptacle that holds the ovaries. Each apparent "seed" on the outside of the fruit is actually one of the ovaries of the flower, with a seed inside it. 😨

Haha most important centence to learn or teach in any language for us Scandinavians. One beer please! 😂

😂 Jag tyckte hon var väldigt duktig faktiskt! 👏

Please make another video where Christina and Lauren react to chewkz

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