Things SWEDES Say That CONFUSE Me (Sweden’s STRANGEST Words)

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Have you ever wondered what some of the toughest Swedish words are and how you're supposed to pronounce them? Well wonder no longer, as in today's video, I'll be taking on the hardest words in the Swedsh language to answer the question "how hard really is it to learn Swedish". I've been living in Sweden for three years now, so I decided it was well and truly time to dig into some of the hardest words and phrases in the Swedish language - so its time to see if I'm up to the challenge!
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@dianadjumanazarova7026 2 жыл бұрын

You filming yourself, trying to pronounce all those difficult words and phrases takes a lot of courage. The way you aren’t scared to “embarrass yourself” while making mistakes is really inspirational 👍👍👍

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

that's really kind of you to say Diana, thanks so much🤗 if it helps somebody else to push past their comfort zone with a language they're working on, then I guess that's a job well done :D hope you have a great day!

@dianadjumanazarova7026 2 жыл бұрын

@@JustaBritAbroad Thanks for this video 😊🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

@@dianadjumanazarova7026 thanks so much for watching!

@johanandersson9208 2 жыл бұрын

The first word preskriberat is not prescribed as I think you said. If you commit a crime then after a certain time you will no longer be able to get arrested for that crime. I believe its called Statute of limitations in USA. And you did really good on those toungtwisters :)

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

oh really? interesting! just goes to show that sometimes Google Translate fails you if you're not writing in context😆 thanks so much for putting me right though! and I'm glad to hear that you think I did a decent job😅

@-Suie- 2 жыл бұрын

hehe i was looking for this comment

@MrBEA68 2 жыл бұрын

You beet me to it, and never trust google translate 😉

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

@@MrBEA68 yep, learned my lesson the hard way now ;)

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

@@-Suie- hahaha good job you guys were here to put me right!

@MsAnpassad 2 жыл бұрын

Ynnest isn't really favour, it's more like privileged favour. "Det är en ynnest att hjälpa dig med dina barn" would be like "It's my privilege to help you with your kids". And preskriberat are not right, a crime is "preskriberat" after a certain length of time. There are several words that seem to mean the same in english and swedish, but they mean something completely different.

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

thanks for jumping in on these ones! i feel failed by Google Translate now😅time I go back to trusty old Duolingo haha

@darkiee69 2 жыл бұрын

@@JustaBritAbroad Or a dictionary. Those ol' books had some really good editors. 😉

@PennyAfNorberg 2 жыл бұрын

When two words in different languages sound alike but means something else we call it a false friend.

@The.4nimaL Жыл бұрын

Det är också ett ord som inte används idag

@MsAnpassad Жыл бұрын

@@The.4nimaL Eh, jo det används.

@evak1003 2 жыл бұрын

You did great!!!! Every pronunciation spot on :) I mean, the chosen "tungvrickare" is hard for even us Swedes. One thing about the word preskribera though. I don't think I often use that word for medicine prescribed by the doctor, I'd rather say "läkarn skrev ut det" =) Of course it's correct but somewhat old-fashioned maybe. But however when it comes to crime, for example a case of a violent robbery's committed years ago is preskriberat, the guilty can no longer be convicted.

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

thank you🤗🤩and thanks for explaining to me how best to use preskriberat! I'll bear that in mind for the future. then again, hopefully I wont have to be describing crime contexts that often, I hope🤞🏻😅tack så mycket!!

@evak1003 2 жыл бұрын

@@JustaBritAbroad Well, you can use the word if you have been or done something naughty in - maybe - your younger days and say "Det där är preskriberat nu" Hi, hi

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

@@evak1003 haha good point ;)

@Ikajo 2 жыл бұрын

@@JustaBritAbroad We don't use ynnest in everyday speech either, it is a very old way of speaking. Nowadays you would use the phrase "göra någon en tjänst". Or just ask "Kan du göra något för mig?"

@meadish 2 жыл бұрын

@@JustaBritAbroad Ynnest is more formal or poetic register, so you might use it in elegant language, or to indicate a great favour which you feel privileged to receive, rather than, say, picking up a carton of milk on the way home.

@allenculpepper9553 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been learning Swedish and Norwegian for only a few months, though I’ve been learning Danish for several years.I know a lot of people say Danish is hardest to pronounce, but I think Swedish is really hard too-especially putting the stress in the correct syllable-so I’m impressed!

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Allen! Interesting to hear your perspective as a Danish speaker, my impression has also been that Danish is much harder so it’s interesting to learn that hasn’t been your experience! Thanks so much for checking out the video though and best of luck with your studies!

@nordscan9043 2 жыл бұрын

@@JustaBritAbroad Do you watch Swedish lad's language challenge, who comes from a southern region in Sweden called Skåne? Duolingo isn't the best way to learn languages by the way.

@theRealRindberg 2 жыл бұрын

Riktigt rolig video! Gör fler av den här typen :) Really fun video! Do more of this kind :)

@ericanoren5212 2 жыл бұрын

It's so fun to see all this, you say everything that my husband does regarding Sweden and Swedish. We are moving to Sweden in about 2/3 years and we both can't wait!

@ElayaHell 2 жыл бұрын

You did the last one best the hardest one!! That one was almost flawless!

@marian299 2 жыл бұрын

Such a fun video! Keep them coming 🙌🤩

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Maria!! I’ll keep making them if you keep watching them🤩🤩

@Bumbledora 2 жыл бұрын

Well done! You especially pronounced the word sjuksköterska perfect and managed the tongue twisters! I can hear an English accent but it’s not very strong. You’re intonation is really good. Learning a new language is not easy. 🙂🌸💗

@MorganandWill 2 жыл бұрын

Its a constant conversation for Morgan (American) to learn Swedish from everyone in Sweden and it can be quite frustrating. Doesn't make it any easier when everyone speaks english! But I guess its like you've done, just gotta to it as often as you can in everyday life. Great video, and can't wait to see more Swedish videos (No pressure though)! //M&W

@mazfaerie2852 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Your swedish is fantastic and gives me such inspiration ✨ 👏

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!! You’re learning too? How’s it going?

@mazfaerie2852 2 жыл бұрын

@@JustaBritAbroad väldigt långsamt. min svenska är hemsk! I hope that this year it will get a lot better! I need to practice more ! It can be difficult when you're not around it every day.

@ButacuPpucatuB 2 жыл бұрын

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 bravo to you! I’m not learning Swedish on Duolingo, but you sound like you’re learning well and that’s fantastic

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

thanks so much! what are you learning? and good luck if you decide to enter my competition!!🤞🏻🎉

@ButacuPpucatuB 2 жыл бұрын

@@JustaBritAbroad French and Hawaiian. I’m Hawaiian and Filipino (they’re adding Tagalog this year!). So naturally I’m learning my home language. French… I just love it!

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

@@ButacuPpucatuB ooh fun! I've been to the Philippines, but I'm yet to experience Hawaii, must be beautiful. Good luck with learning your home language!

@andershansen2861 2 жыл бұрын

You're doing pretty good - and especially on the last one

@thefunkyJ 2 жыл бұрын

Gott nytt år och snyggt jobbat! Too bad that instagram always seems needed to enter competitions 😪

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Tusen tack!!🤩 sorry about the Instagram clause - I’ll have to dream up some KZfaq only giveaways sometime soon!

@katam6471 2 жыл бұрын

Your pronunciation of the Swedish sounds is really good, I think. Stress and pitch accent seems to be a bit harder for you. But I struggle NOT to get pitch accent into English, which I started to learn 50 years ago, so please don't feel bad about that. :-) Btw, when you feel ready for the next level, try 'västkustskt' . _That's_ a challenge, even for a native speaker!

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

thanks for your feedback Kata! you're certainly right about stress and intonation, that's something I've noticed when I'm speaking Swedish too, getting into the rhythm is the hardest part, because you all speak with such a lovely, flowing rhythm that us foreigners aren't used to, but I'd love to be able to pick it up one day!! such a good point about västkustskt though haha I'm not even sure where to START with that one😅😅I was fine until the double st-skt! haha p.s. thanks so much for watching!

@katam6471 2 жыл бұрын

@@JustaBritAbroad I remember when I decided that it MUST be possible to learn to say 'västkustskt' many times at at least a normal talking speed without stumbling on all the consonants. It took days of hard practice, starting veeery slowly and speeding up a little at a time.

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

@@katam6471 oh wow😳there's no hope for me then hahaha

@bengthammarberg4603 2 жыл бұрын

When I was reading the swedish news on Madeira Radio I was struggeling with the word "buskskogsavverkning". We were sending directly and I had to try three times😀

@zirie3332 2 жыл бұрын

LOL Västkustskt... I wouldn't use that.... My default mode is set to refrase a sentence with such a word. And I live there... on the bestcoast oh sry. westcoast... but same same... :-P ;-) That is really tricky to say and if one starts to think about it it's even more impossible.

@mariaekberg7819 2 жыл бұрын

The one about "sjömän" you absolutely nailed it! Good job!

@raenalatina9027 2 жыл бұрын

Great job! & omg, I love the Duo plushie!

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Plus is definitely a good choice⭐️ good luck on winning the plushie!

@michaelsouth218 2 жыл бұрын

Well done Greg, very impressive and very inspiring, I may have to set myself some language goals!

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

thanks! what language might you choose to focus on, I'm intruiged😆😉

@frslearn3650 2 жыл бұрын

@@JustaBritAbroad Portuguese or Spanish, I have reason to regularly visit both countries but I'm becoming increasingly interested in Portugese histroy.👍

@andreajansen1988 2 жыл бұрын

I know several people that moved to Sweden "complain" that they never get to use Swedish because the second we find out someone is from abroad, we switch to English. And well,aren't I living proof? I know you know Swedish.. but for me it's more like "omg, I get to use my English!" :P The only drawback working for a municipality in Sweden, is you seldom get to use your English. But I also get that this makes it harder to learn Swedish, since you don't get to use it as often as you might want

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

haha I know exactly what you mean Andrea! You want to practise and they want to practise so you end up with this mish mash of English and Swedish😅😅 but you're right about working for a municipality not meaning you get to practise so much. that's why you talk to me here instead :) hehe

@rybomxn 2 жыл бұрын

I still struggle with the nurse one, and I'm friends with one 😅 Great video as always, now get me that merch!

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

hahaha LOVE this ry😅best you get practising then, no excuses!😅

@olasjoberg2111 2 жыл бұрын

God fortsättning, det är ntressant att följa med dig :)

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Det samma Ola! Tack för att du följer med och god fortsättning🤗⭐️

@stefanjohansson2298 2 жыл бұрын

Loved it. You do speak swedish my friend. Realy good. Take care and be safe.

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Stefan🤗 great to know that I’m getting there! All the best!

@mldag1678 2 жыл бұрын

The swedish reminds me so much of Tony Erving and it’s amazing (altough it makes sense since you’re both from England) But the swedish is so amazing!! Good job👏👏 but the difficult words are difficult for a reason, I was tempted to say the first word in english ”preprescribed” (I think ??😅) but if you roll the r’s it might sound more accurate? Just a tips från mig! Also I just noticed the owl in the background… not scary at all😭✋

@megaweird439 2 жыл бұрын

I think you did a very nice job on the pronunciation! I am learning Japanese, and it is a lot easier to pronounce than Swedish. Good for you!

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

thanks so much! I can't imagine its easier to pronounce than Japanese though?! those characters look really hard to pronounce, kudos to you for committing to learning it!

@Ikajo 2 жыл бұрын

@@JustaBritAbroad Japanese isn't that difficult to pronounce. The tonality of Japanese doesn't change as a rule. Unlike Sweden that goes up and down a lot. I learned Japanese many years ago, to a degree. I'd say the best way to get the sounds right is pretending you are doing ventriloquism, barely moving your lips and keep you mouth as still as possible. Swedish is the other way around, opening your mouth makes it easier to get the right pronounciation.

@robertthoren4022 2 жыл бұрын

Bra jobbat!

@SinaFarhat 2 жыл бұрын

Tongue twisters är enormt elaka saker, nästan sadistiska! Jag vet att du kan svenska och det gör det ännu intressantare att höra dig prata språket! Ha en fin vecka!

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

De är inte så lätt i mans modersmål så de är ännu svårare på ett andra språk😆 men tusen tack du är så snäll! och kul att du vill se lite mer innehåll på svenska på min kanal det här året. jag får fundera över vad jag kommer prata om😆hoppas du har en bra vecka med - och en trevlig trettondagarsjul!

@joharfleet7495 2 жыл бұрын

Wow very impressive and I take everyone else’s comments about how good your Swedish is as I have no clue. But am going to crack on with Duolingo Spanish now!

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

awww thank you! best you enter the giveaway to see if you can get a duolingo plus membership, even more benefits to help with your learning🤩

@tonyf315 Жыл бұрын

nice to see Duo pays off for svenska, I'm in USA trying to learn in hopes of going there someday!

@healingjustforyou7742 2 жыл бұрын

Grattis Du är duktig , alla kan lära sig nytt språk om man vill. Jag kan rekommendera dig att läsa en saga . Koka soppa på en spik den är på på lätt svenska.

@harumscarum8303 Жыл бұрын

I'm impressed by the last one. Even your intonation sounded pretty swedish. 👍

@DNA350ppm 2 жыл бұрын

You did really great. From these examples I can only hear a need to improve one Swedish sound which is very different from the English alphabet: Y - you could easily learn the difference by exaggerating the contrast between example-pairs like: tycka - ticka; sy - si; by - bi; ynka - inka; lyfta - lifta - and maybe also give these a contrasting pronunciation: lucka - lycka; unge - yngel; rusa - rysa; bugga - bygga; mus - mys. As these words mean different things you could confuse listeners who first might guess wrong and then have to correct their interpretation. Look very closely at your girl-friends cute mouth when she says these sounds - you will like y much better than i (because to produce y one hast to round the lips) 🙂- but i is nice, too, i resembles a smile in Swedish. I suggest you'll get a kiss for every Swedish Y - ha det så kul!

@ciacarinsky7000 2 жыл бұрын

Well done! 👍

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

thanks Cia!!

@darkiee69 2 жыл бұрын

Preskriberat isn't something that's prescribed. It's "barred by the statute of limitation" according to my old dictionary. Had to get that one of the shelf since google translate had it wrong too.

@jessicajansson1203 2 жыл бұрын

You do great!!!

@MollySato 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, your ”språkmelodi”… don’t know what it’s called in English… is amazing!! 🤗👍🤗

@Gamerviking 2 жыл бұрын

I feel you. Im currently trying to learn Filippino And at this moment im stuck trying to learn the words . Nga nge ngi ngo and ngu. Looks supereasy. But saying them is so hard :)

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Wow I wouldn’t even have any idea where to start with Filipino Håkan, kudos to you! Though I’ve spent some time in the Philippines and I have to say that the language sounds 👌🏻🤩 good luck!!

@Strasstass 2 жыл бұрын

The last one was very good!!! Du är mycket duktig! 👍

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

You think so?!🤩 thank you🤗⭐️

@kashesan Жыл бұрын

Great Job!! Not easy.

@ANightworkerslife 2 жыл бұрын

Well done!

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!! And thanks for watching🤗

@christeryrjas5021 2 жыл бұрын

Wow - bra jobbat!! :)

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Tack så mycket 🤩🤩🤗

@liefenheim 2 жыл бұрын

I am impressed that you got the Swedish 'u' sound correct. Most foreigners pronounce it like a long oo in English. Like Swedish 'sju' (7) will be schoo for so many. :) Also that you have got a hang of the Swedish accents, both grave and acute. So differ between 'anden' (definite form of 'and' = duck) which has acute accent and 'anden' (definite form of 'ande' = spirit) with grave accent. This is almost impossible to learn for many foreigners as their languages are not accent dependent. I live close to Falun, the "capital" in Dalarna. It is 'Faalun, not Fal'un /Faloon/ :)

@Phalaenopsisify 2 жыл бұрын

Inte illa! Och du har till och med fått en uggla :)

@Lol-zr4kp Жыл бұрын

I'm a swedde and it's so fun to see people react to swedish and swedish cuture xD

@SirHubertthefirst 2 жыл бұрын

Bra jobbat 😂

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

hehe tackar man tackar!

@maxar2551 2 жыл бұрын

Bra jobbat

@ersia87 2 жыл бұрын

You do great actually! Ant thanks for the tip! I created a Duolingo account right away and ended up spending the better part of three hours wiping of my dusty german. :D

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Can’t wait to hear how your German studies go!

@meadish 2 жыл бұрын

Das ist sehr toll! Ich versuche auch mit Duolingo deutsch zu lernen, aber ich habe es nie früher studiert. (And I probably just made about 9 mistakes just in those two sentences, but hey, no extra charge.)

@AndreasGiers 2 жыл бұрын

Väldigt duktig

@SuperBenkoo Жыл бұрын

I think you have a very good grip on the swedish language, especially after 3 years.

@cynic7049 2 жыл бұрын

Great pronuciation, and three of those is popular tounge-twisers that are a bit hard even for Swedes. But you where a bit of on 'preskriberat'.

@markussterky6113 2 жыл бұрын

Keep up the good work! try the Swedish word for SLYLY which is SKÄLMSKT. It proves the rule that in Swedish you can have five consonants at the end of a word (the rule for the beginning is three consonants as in STJÄRNA).

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

I never knew that such a rule existed Markus😳😅 I’ll get practising!!

@markussterky6113 2 жыл бұрын

@@JustaBritAbroad My dad was a Swedish and English teacher and we talked a lot about langugages..... In terms of "rules" these have evolved over centuries. It is similar to a Finnish person not being able to start a word with ST and thus Stockholm is Tukholma or that a Spannish person cannot hav ST at the begining of the word and pronounces it Estocolmo. Both you and I as English and Swedish speakers can pronounce words beginning with ST but not if you are Finnish or Spannish... It just gets curiouser and curiouser.....

@Ulf-qg1vd 3 ай бұрын

Good work! I am swedish so one of the best brits I ever heard speak swedish.

@Ulf-qg1vd 3 ай бұрын

Well stockholm mentality is not typical swedish mentality. Just goto Norrtälje in the stockholm region and you will find that is more close to british mentality! Stockholm is the worst example in fact. Swedes are negative, afraid of conflicts and in general has no temper. In Rimbo 56 km you will discover how direct people are compared with stockholm in general. I will dare you to come here and you will see?

@NinniSusanna 2 жыл бұрын

Hej! Jag pratar gärna engelska, men jag hoppas att du tycker att det är en bra utmaning att läsa en kommentar på svenska. Jag är svensk och jag är imponerad! Du har ett väldigt bra uttal! Det är riktigt svårt att säga sj, sk och liknande ljud. Och ditt uttal av ö är så bra! Ofta har personer med engelska som modersmål svårt att lära sig att säga å, ä och ö, men du har lyckats.

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

tack så jättemycket Ninni! så kul att höra att du tycker att jag gjorde bra! jag tycker inte att min ö är så bra så det var så otroligt skönt att läsa din kommentar! tack för dina snäll ord, mycket uppskattat!

@friswing 2 жыл бұрын

The hardest one, de sjuka sjömännen... was PERFECT!

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

No way?! Really😳😵 thank you!!😍

@Frenchie1116 2 жыл бұрын

Good job! :D

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

thank you :D

@martinjarenheim7142 2 жыл бұрын

I think you did really good pronouncing thoose words, they were actually really hard words

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Martin! And thanks for watching🤗

@andersgranstrom7128 2 жыл бұрын

Great job, man!!! *applause* 🙂

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

thanks buddy!! and thanks for watching :D

@andersgranstrom7128 2 жыл бұрын

@@JustaBritAbroad My pleasure! 🙂 "Sex laxar i en..." and "Sju sjösjuka sjömän..." - impossible for me to do, if you speed the talking pace up... I realized this many years ago, and decided to to something else instead... 😂

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

@@andersgranstrom7128 hahaha glad its not just me that struggled!!😆

@boyish69 2 жыл бұрын

Vad duktig du är Gregg!!!! 😍😍😍

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

tack så jättemycket Bengt! trevlig kväll!

@nickekotevski9277 2 жыл бұрын

Genre is a good one! Agenda is as well! ;) You´re doing well!!!

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

thanks so much Nicke! and thanks for watching🤗🤗

@peremeesz 2 жыл бұрын

Sje-ljudet. It is very different in different varieties of Swedish. In East Swedish spoken in Finland, it is exactly the same as the English sound normally spelt with 'sh'. There is (or was) also something called "fruntimmers sje". And if you hear one of the news presenters of SVT (Katarina Sandström) speak, you will notice that her "sje" is something quite different from a southern Swedish one. To me, it sounds very elegant, but that's just me.

@mork3595 2 жыл бұрын

You speak so good Swedish Our language is very hard and the toungtwisters are very hard to say even for us who lived here our entire lifes

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! You’re making me blush😌 feeling really proud after your comment☺️

@mork3595 2 жыл бұрын

@@JustaBritAbroad You should be proud, I didn't even know what "preskiberat" meant

@ela83a 2 жыл бұрын

Du klarade alla fint, men den sista klarade du riktigt bra! 👍

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Ah men tack så mycket🤩 så kul att du tycker det!! Jag känner mig stolt nu!!

@bengthammarberg4603 2 жыл бұрын

Jättebra Gregg! Du är fantastiskt duktig och som vanligt god och glad😀 Be din flickvän säja preskriberat så blir uttalet perfekt på slutet av ordet. T ex verben fotografera och prenumerera har samma böjning och uttal. God fortsättning till er båda!

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

tack så mycket Bengt, du är så snäll! det ska jag verkligen göra! hoppas att du har haft en bra trettondagsafton!

@madamepaulettes5337 2 жыл бұрын

I've been learning Spanish on Duolingo for about 3 months. Swedish sounds hard to learn! It's a cute language though!

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

oh you have? fun!! how's it going!! :D I learned Spanish for a bit too, its a beautiful language. but I have to agree with you, the rhythm of Swedish is fantastic!

@zirie3332 2 жыл бұрын

Gosh! Brave! Tbh. I'm not sure I'd do that in English. You've (the English language)got many words that's pretty hard to pronounce. :-) Not to mention spelling... but that's a whole another story. I reckon Swedish is rather tricky too... Far, får får får Nej, får får inte får, får får lamm.

@TheTacitum 2 жыл бұрын

Vad säger dina vänner i England om Brexit? Hur påverkas deras vardagsliv av Brexit? Sämre eller bättre! Tack, roligt att se hur en icke svensk upplever/tycker om Sverige.

@carinalundstrom7566 2 жыл бұрын

You'll get another one: pronounce Kvistfritt kvastskaft. Good Luck and happy New year

@livetefter4050 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting with skånska sj-ljud. It's like the inverted* 'sjooo' that people say is a "Norrländsk thing". *With inverted I mean that the skåne-sj is on the way out and sjooo is a sound while you breathe in.

@ronjaravenbell9663 2 жыл бұрын

I am swed and your swedish is good.

@SweMunk 2 жыл бұрын

Wow din engelska är verkligen så bra! Hur lärde du dig så bra engelska? :D

@-Suie- 2 жыл бұрын

i think your best was sju sjuka..... very nicely done

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

you do🤩🤩 thanks! I'm so surprised, because that was one of the hardest ones to say😅 hehe thanks for watching!!

@DefaultFlame 4 ай бұрын

. . . The way you speak Swedish is . . . Cute. That's not meant as an insult, just literally cute.

@herkcollins4263 2 жыл бұрын

I would never tell you to pick up the pace, I've been learning Swedish for over a year and I suck. I feel like I should be better by now, but I'm terrible.

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Im sure that you’re way better than you think Herk, we’re always harder on ourselves - from my experience at least. Any updates on when you’ll be moving scandi side?

@brickan2 2 жыл бұрын

A thought! Preskriberat does not equal prescribed anymore, allthough I know google says so - that is not the meaning of it unless you live in the 50's. A prescription or something prescribed to you is called a "recept" or "ordinering" Usually from a doctor to pick up meds or do an activity. Preskriberat is a crime that has gone over the limitation period in 99% of the times someone uses that word. Great video!

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the heads up Joel! Good to get an idea about the proper, modern meaning. Thanks for watching🤗

@lhulugren5309 2 жыл бұрын

You should try to work on the Rolling R: ”Tag en Redig Rasp och Riv dig i Röven, så får du stoRa Röda Ränder” (Take a proper rasp and scratch yourself in the bottom, then you will get big red stripes).

@Asa...S 2 жыл бұрын

Remember, when you say "Y" like in ynnest och flyg the mouth should be as small, when you say it with a wide mouth it becomes "flig" and "innest". Practice in front of a mirror.

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Great tip Åsa! Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll try that🤗🎉

@ShadowScoutSwede 2 жыл бұрын

Well, i think you did pretty good and i know it is not that easy .

@hansjonsson6462 2 жыл бұрын

Almost perfect

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Tusen tack Hans!

@heybri7416 2 жыл бұрын

need that owl!!

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

good luck :D wishing you the best of luck!

@hakansundstrombmwsweden7645 2 жыл бұрын

Hmm, quite well !

@mintpastill 2 жыл бұрын

U doing good 🤗

@milossavic6642 2 жыл бұрын

I would say Very Good swedish pronounciation 👏

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Milos!!

@richardyp1726 2 жыл бұрын

I'm try learn english i speak spanish thank for get me hope with this video

@Nilhad59 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video! You should try to say: Typiskt västkustskt.

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!! Oooh someone else suggested that, sounds harddd hahah

@88marome 2 жыл бұрын

I'm Swedish, I always say Shanghai with a normal shhh🤫 sound. Am I wrong?😂 It's more difficult that way, to change from tons of "sj" to "sh".

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

oh you do? interesting! well I don't need to worry then😅maybe I'll start saying it like that from now on😅😆

@linusfotograf 2 жыл бұрын

I believe it’s a dialectal thing.

@lhulugren5309 2 жыл бұрын

I think the correct chinese pronounciation is with a ”shh sound”

@linusfotograf 2 жыл бұрын

@@lhulugren5309 Yes

@meadish 2 жыл бұрын

@@lhulugren5309 The Mandarin Chinese sound at the start of 'Shanghai' doesn't really exist in English or Swedish. It is more or less a retroflex sound, the closest in Swedish might be be the final 'rs' sound in 'fors' as said by somebody North of Stockholm, but the tongue is curled back even a little more than that.

@ErickPayneYT 2 жыл бұрын

The ugly fly portion 🔥

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

I’m learning from the best… just with a lot less hours put into the edit😉😄

@annaekenstierna4502 Жыл бұрын

Its Kinda good yeah

@toxyy8257 2 жыл бұрын

Bra jobbat and i live in sweden

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

tack så mycket! thanks so much for watching🤩

@MegaWunna 2 жыл бұрын

"Sju sjösjuka sjömen skötes av sjuttiosju skutskötestor på sjunkande skeppet Shanghai", Seven seasick seamen treated by seventy seven nurces on the sinking ship Shanghai. It is somewhat hard in english as well but not as hard as in Swedish.

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

You’re right! Definitely harder in Swedish, but not easy either way haha😅

@mariannejohansson1361 2 жыл бұрын

Övning ger färdighet. Sj-ljuden är svåra för många. Det lät väldigt bra.

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

ja juste! det behöver jag jobbar med också kan jag tänka mig! tack för att du tittade Marianne! önskar dig en trevlig kväll!

@herrbonk3635 2 жыл бұрын

Swedish genre is not as much "swedishified" as it is inspired by old French pronunciation. So it's one of those (pretty few) french loans that never got transcribed to the swedish system.

@Maviation 2 жыл бұрын

Well done! But I can still here that you are Brittish :D Fortsätt, övning ger färdighet.

@HowDidThisHappenNow 2 жыл бұрын

You did well, some of those word-twisters are even hard for sweds. can´t resist to throw in one myself: "Sju djupa sjöar" spoiler below "Seven deep lakes"

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!! I’ll get practising your new one😆😆

@seriksson9721 2 жыл бұрын

"Kjells tjuvskjutna tjäder". Try that one.

@runecanberger913 2 жыл бұрын

Try: "Sju sjösjuka sjömän" 🤣🤣

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

I did that one actually! At the end of the video Rune🤗🤗

@shallowlord Жыл бұрын

The last one is hard even for swedish ppl

@Dwaggiemorph 2 жыл бұрын

I like how the last tongue twister has so many versions in Sweden, the most used one where I live is "Sju sjuka sjömän på de sju haven med sju sköna sjöjungfrun."

@linusfotograf 2 жыл бұрын

Sjöjungfrur is the plural

@Dwaggiemorph 2 жыл бұрын

@@linusfotograf lol, can always find people wanting to correct people. And while jungfrur is more correct in a lexicon way, jungfrun is used as a regional dialect version. So it's still used even though it's not completely correct, because.. language..

@linusfotograf 2 жыл бұрын

@@Dwaggiemorph Men jungfrun är bestämd form singular. Sju sköna jungfrur är obestämd plural. Var i landet säger man så här?

@Dwaggiemorph 2 жыл бұрын

@@linusfotograf Om du vill veta alla ställena som jag har hört det så kan jag inte ge ett bättre svar än inom skåne där jag är uppväxt. Jag tänker dock inte dela med mig vart jag bor mer än så.

@linusfotograf 2 жыл бұрын

@@Dwaggiemorph Fair enough

@Jony5173 2 жыл бұрын

Att något är preskriberat är en juridisk term. En preskriptionstid innebär att det finns en viss tid att agera och om tiden har löpt ut så kan man inte vidta rättsliga åtgärder längre.

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Jaså? Tack för tipsen Johanna! Tror inte att vi har en sån ord på engelska! Och gott nytt år✨🤗

@Jony5173 2 жыл бұрын

@@JustaBritAbroad det heter statute of limitations på engelska ☺️ gott nytt år!! 🥳

@ravenmoonink7320 2 жыл бұрын

Omg i wish i could win this and learn more enlgish to finally live in the uk 🇬🇧 but my english is still not good enough i always wanted to have duolingo plus i hope i cant get it

@JustaBritAbroad 2 жыл бұрын

Good luck Raven! So fun to hear that you’re learning English though, I hope it goes well for you!

@Sakura-zu4rz 2 жыл бұрын

🇸🇪👨‍🍳❤❤🎆Hello, Warm wishes on New Year to all of our wonderful and very special family and friend. ❤ ❤🎉May you have a meaningful and successful year 2022 that brings you many joys and great big smiles!😊❤