The Swedish language, casually spoken | Johanna speaking Swedish | Wikitongues

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The Swedish language is spoken by 10 million people, primarily in Sweden and parts of Finland. A close cousin of Norwegian and Danish, Swedish is descended from Old Norse, the common ancestral language of Scandinavian peoples today.

More from Wikipedia: "Swedish (Swedish: [ˈsvɛ̂nːska] (listen)) is a North Germanic language spoken natively by 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden (as the sole official language) and in parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standing with Finnish. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish, although the degree of mutual intelligibility is largely dependent on the dialect and accent of the speaker. Written Norwegian and Danish are usually more easily understood by Swedish speakers than the spoken languages, due to the differences in tone, accent and intonation. Swedish is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Era. It has the most speakers of the North Germanic languages. Standard Swedish, spoken by most Swedes, is the national language that evolved from the Central Swedish dialects in the 19th century and was well established by the beginning of the 20th century. While distinct regional varieties and rural dialects still exist, the written language is uniform and standardized. The standard word order is, as in most Germanic languages, V2, which means that the finite verb (V) appears in the second position (2) of a declarative main clause. Swedish morphology is similar to English; that is, words have comparatively few inflections. Swedish has two genders and is generally seen to have two grammatical cases – nominative and genitive (except for pronouns that, as in English, also are inflected in the object form) – although it is debated if the genitive in Swedish should be seen as a genitive case or just the nominative plus the so-called genitive s, then seen as a clitic. Swedish has two grammatical numbers – plural and singular. Adjectives have discrete comparative and superlative forms and are also inflected according to gender, number and definiteness. The definiteness of nouns is marked primarily through suffixes (endings), complemented with separate definite and indefinite articles. The prosody features both stress and in most dialects tonal qualities. The language has a comparatively large vowel inventory. Swedish is also notable for the voiceless dorso-palatal velar fricative, a highly variable consonant phoneme. Swedish has also had historic use in Estonia, although the current status of the Estonian Swedish speakers is almost extinct. Instead, it is used in the Swedish diaspora, most notably in Oslo, Norway, with more than 50,000 resident Swedes.

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As a Swede this warms my heart. I've also had a lot of people say during my travels that it sounds like singing when I've spoken to other Swedes. To me it's fascinating, I don't really hear it myself but I can sort of understand why. Also, this is a great channel.

Fisklina
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Swedish is such a bouncy, up-beat sounding language. Everyone sounds like they're in a brilliantly good mood. Love it x💖

karengittins
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I was today years old when I learned Swedish uses tones in the language. It just sounds so bright and happy sounding!

misswindupbird
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Swedish is such an elegant sounding language!

warnerbf
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That tongue twister sounded as if one of the audio channels switched polarity.

Axacqk
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I took Swedish courses in university (had my B1 exam a few weeks ago) and could understand everything. Such a gorgeous language and easy to learn for a native German speaker (or I guess for anyone who speaks a Germanic language). Tack för den här videon! :)

hkfilmfreak
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This one was lovely! So fun and playful. I wish we could hear tongue twisters in every language. A bunch of tongue twisters in different languages all edited together would make for a fun video.

AdrianSanabria
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@Wikitongues here is a translation. I couldn’t find where to submit it so feel free to use it!

“Hi, my name is Johanna and today I’m going to speak my native language, which is Swedish.

Swedish is a North Germanic language, closely related to Danish, Norwegian and to a certain extent, Icelandic.

This is because they all stem from the ancient Norse language which was a language that was spoken in the Nordic countries over 1000 years ago.

Swedish has a lot of influences from English, German, French and Latin and due to the immigration of the last century, Swedish has many loan words from Arabic, Turkish, Serbian, Finnish etc.

I find that speaking Swedish is lovely.
We have nice pitches. I’m often told by non Swedish speakers that it sounds like I’m singing when I talk.

Swedish has a lot of nice sounds, a favourite word is “sjö” (means lake),
listen to it, “sjö”.
Nice. It’s a nice sound.

There is a nice tongue twister, which is almost impossible to learn if you’re not a native speaker, which has to do with “sjöar” (lakes) and nice things;

”Sjuttiosju sjösjuka sjömän sköttes av sju sköna sjuksköterskor på ett sjunkande skepp i Shanghai”

Translation;
Seventy-seven seasick sailors were looked after by seven lovely nurses on a sinking ship in Shanghai.

Beat that if you can!

Pitch is important in Swedish because it can alter the meaning of a word.
Here is an example;
“Ser du anden?” or “ser du anden”?

Maybe you heard the difference?

These are two different words.
The first is “ande” as in the spirit,
second;
“anden” is the singular definitive form of duck, a bird.

Varm greetings to you from a cold Stockholm!”

AnnaKaunitz
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it's so freaking elegant, absolutely love it. can't wait to learn this amazing language.

silicongen
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I am learning swedish and you speaking the language so beautifully is giving me motivation! Thank you

ghostcookies
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1:36
Now that's a tongue twister!!!

collinsagyeman
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I studied Norwegian for a couple of years and I kind of understand some things

brandonduet
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I like Swedish and the other Nordic languages. They sound so beautiful ☺️

zibaik
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I love the soft accent of Swedish <3 spoken slowly, I am starting to understand more and more because I have a little knowledge of Old Norse :D Hearing you speak, I guess and then check the English subtitles. Thank you for helping us understand more and speaking beautiful Swedish language for us to hear! ^_^

Darvit_Nu
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Lovely! I particularly like the tongue-twister, that's fun!

Poohze
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i'm on unit 26 in duolingo, i can understand maybe 40-50% as you speak, and while i will never reach this level of fluency i can take some inspiration
and yes swedish sounds very melodic and pleasant to our foreign ears

dharma_donk
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One of the most beautiful languages in my opinion :)

Momoeki
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I'm American with Swedish ancestry and I really wish my grandparents passed down the language to my Dad.

MarkNJ
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Legit the most beautiful language in the world from the most beautiful country in the world ❤️ wish I could speak it fluently some day!

GourmetGhouless
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Italian girl trying to learn Swedish here. I really don't hear any difference between the two "anden" (ok, maybe I hear something, but that's just a almost invisible difference).
Anyway I found videos like this one (Swedish speaking not too fast + Swedish subtitles) to be extremely helpful for learning, so, really, thank you for making this!

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