Can Nordic Countries Understand Each Other? (Finnish, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian)

Can The Nordic Countries Understand Each Other?
Lets see!

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[vinterglitter]

Hello! It’s Sofia 🌼 thank you for watching~ it was so lovely filing with my lovely Nordic sisters ♡ please be kind in the comments ❤️

[Illjwamh]

Finnish is a completely different language from the other three. Might as well ask a Canadian, a Belgian, and a French person if they understand Hungarian.

[xenoren]

Guys, no one said that Finnish would be similar to Scandinavian languages....I think the point of the video was just to compare the languages of the Nordic countries because despite the language differences Finland is also a Nordic country! And I think it was actually pretty cool because Finland is often excluded and many people probably didn't know what Finnish sounds like or how different it is from these other languages. Next time we need Icelandic and Faeroese included as well :)

[finunni]

Hi this is Lotta! Thank you everyone for watching and commenting ❤ This video was so much fun to film, realized I should have studied Swedish more when I had the chance 😅

[Nezabudka]

Interesting how all these Nordic people are so mellow / chill / relaxed 😄 Demonstrates the character of the region :)

[VNExperience]

This was such a cool video! As a Finn, I was surprised I could understand 80% of what our Nordic friends said. It helped to have learned Swedish and Norwegian a long time ago so that may explain it. More of these, please!

[ロキ-dh]

Swedish, Norwegian, Danish are Germanic languages from Indo-European language family.
Finnish is from Uralic language family.
They are completely different.
I do love finnish pronunciation. It's so beautiful.

[annalaehdesmaeki]

I was born (and raised) on the west coast of Finland, so my native languages are both Finnish and Swedish. Now, living in Germany for multiple years, I had no troubles understanding each one of the
nordic people speaking. I enjoyed this episode a lot. Thanks, tack, tak & kiitos!

[KHAEISTIREDxx]

i relate to the Danish girl lmao
"I think so, I just have a problem memorizing everything."

[apetass]

If you want to do something similar in the future, I'd suggest you choose a person from the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland. They speak Swedish (finlandssvenska), but they have their own dialect with some differences in vocabulary and grammar. I think that would make more sense in this context.

[jannepeltonen]

It was nice to see a Finn in here :D At some point there were so many people around here interested in Korean culture that I wondered why I hadn't seen this country represented on this show before :D

[JomerTB]

My two favorite parts in the video were the facial expressions of the lovely Danish lady trying to understand what the lovely Finnish lady was saying, and comparing side-by-side the phrases of each language. They are all similar except when it gets to Finnish, it's something completely different which made me chuckle. I understand Finnish comes from a different family of languages so that makes sense that it is so different.

[nasenmann]

It's so embarrassing for me as a German not being able to understand more than just a few words. Just a tiny little bit of Swedish but that's it. Finnish sounds absolutely stunning by the way, really enjoyed hearing it. 😊

[pnhclkz]

I really like this group of people! Quite amazing how intelligent they're when it comes to analysis languages and accents ❤

[tristan]

Nordic people, you’re all incredible I love you ! ❤ I’m learning Finnish and it is still hard for me to understand the language perfectly… In that video it was the first time that I understood everything from a Finnish native speaker I’m so happy ! Kiitos paljon Lottalle ❤🇫🇮

[ohmp]

I am a native Finnish speaker. I understood almost everything in Swedish, and this time I was surprised that I understood almost everything in Norwegian too. But Danish... no way.

[phbuss]

The background music is too loud, it's hard to hear them speak sometimes.

[pinkbabycrocs]

As for Lotta (Finnish), i understood nothing but her saying her name and the number eight in the first part, but then completely understood the sentences about her dog. I'm Estonian, so minulla=minul, koira=koer, kaksi=kaks jne. Lumi means snow btw, very cute :)

As for the other languages, it's interesting that 'moor' is also a word in Estonian, but it's mostly used in literature to describe an old lady, not a mother.
I understood like half of the Swedish stuff but very little Norwegian and Danish.

[TheLillaRev]

As someone who is learning Norwegian because i'm moving to Norway, i am impressed with how i understood some Swedish and a little Danish! Learning one language really does open up doors for other languages!

[Gameviewsblog]

That was the softest and easiest Danish dialect to understand i've ever heard, and i'm Norwegian. understood everything perfectly.

Norwegian is Danish words pronounced as if spoken by swedish people, so generally we understand the other two easiest and they each understand us better than each other