How Many Languages Do You Speak? - Stockholm, Sweden
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- čas přidán 19. 08. 2023
- Asking people in Stockholm how many languages they can speak.
Recorded on 14 August 2023.
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These are all tourists in the most “touristy” places in the whole of Sweden.
These People are all Tourist !
@@holoholopainen1627not all of them were
@@pizzermaster1145 Tack ! Like WHO ? Gamla Stan IS so Famous - that there are No Average Svenska Joe - except working ! This IS The most expensive part of Stockholm - Even Olof Palme used to live there !
@@pizzermaster1145 They all were tourists except for 3 people
Love seeing how many languages people speak! I myself speak 4 fluent - Hebrew (my native language), English (school and life), Portuguese (mom from Brasil), and Spanish (telenovelas and it's an easy language). I took 6 years of French in school so I I understand a lot and can read some stuff but I can have very basic conversation. I tried learning Polish for 6 months, such a difficult language and I know only random words
Kurwa ja pierdole for sure 😂
Zhe madhim! Was it also easier to learn spanish because you already knew Portugese? I don't know a lot about the differences (and correct me if I'm wrong) but from what I understood, if you can speak portuguese then you can understand spanish speakers.
@@opus_X In general yes it's easier for Portuguese speakers to understand Spanish, but I also grew up watching telenovelas for kids from Argentina.
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Really interesting!
Most Swedes are are multilingual, so this is really interesting - comparing with others, if you are from a small language you have to adapt. If you speak Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, English, French, German or Italian - the challenge is soo much lower...
OOps, forgot Hindi
And arabic
Thanks Olov! Yes true, mostly tourist in this video though 😄
6:46 woo didn’t expect for a Latvian to be found, as we are pretty few.
Spanish is Going world wide and international language I must learn starting to day 😂
This is super interesting Nordin! I think Gamla Stan is where you will find many different nationalities so good place to investigate. I noticed lots of Arabic speakers when I was in Mall of Scandinavia, really fascinating! Thanks, great work!!🙏🙏
Glad you enjoyed it Stuart! :-)
The arabic speakers are "swedish" 90% or more live in Sweden so that is normal for us, however languages that should be prevelant in Sweden like Latvian, German, Russian, English, Dutch are much rarer.
@@chapno4255 Tack så mycket, intressant!
Definitively Spanish has become in a very popular language ❤
It is interesting seeing the increase of Spanish being spoken in Sweden where it is mainly being spoken by Latin American tourists or people from Latin America.
I think that because spanish is the second most spoken language in the world just behind chinese mandarin , and is more easier than mandarin ,and also spoken in 22 countries ( including the United States , in wich is the second language)that's why I think is very popular these days.
@@Alaskan-Armadillo Castellano is spoken in Spain, not only in Latin America. Many people in Europe learn Spanish when you take into consideration that by number of native speakers outnumbers the native English speakers. Plus Spain is part of the continent
second most spoken language in the world is english, not spanish@@josecarlosbayoncueto4689
@@josecarlosbayoncueto4689 Actually, when you account for everyone who speaks a language as a second language, English is by far the most popular with over a billion total speakers.
So interesting, I speak Swedish, Finnish, English and Mäen kieli, they talk in northern part of Sweden.
Can talk/ understand some hand signing both Swedish and Finnish, Spanish, Russian, Serbian, turkey and German...
Stockholm is full of beautiful people and everyone is having a great time ✨✨✨💟
This was really cool and interesting Nordin! Yes absolutely more content like this--and walking too! Tack alltid min vän 💙
Thanks Jack! For sure will do :-)
@@NordinWalks Tack! 💙
So suprised that the people who are Swedish don't say they understand Norwegian. As a Norwegian I would absolutely list Swedish and Danish 😊
Many swedes understand norweigan if they try, but it depends on the dialect aswell. I can never understand someone from Trondheim for example even if i tried
I understand mostly the Oslo dialect but becoming better at understanding Bergen and Stavanger dialects.
Also becoming better at understanding Danish.
There is a difference between knowing/speaking a language, vs understanding it. For example, I can understand Czech but it doesn't mean I speak it well.
Yes, we Swedes can understand Norwegian, especially the Oslo dialect given that Swedish and Norwegian are more mutually intelligible than Swedish and Danish.
Though, a point of note is that it does seem like the Norwegian Language is not as standardized as Swedish. Regional dialecticism seem stronger in Norway than it does in Sweden. A point I have heard in a lot of videos talking about whether to learn Norwegian or Swedish when learning one of the Scandinavian languages.
Brilliant video Nordin! It was very fun and interesting and entertaining! Isak is so at ease talking with people! Thanks so much! 😊👍🏼💙💛
Thanks Yvette! Yes agree Isak is nice with people😃🙏
@@NordinWalks 😊
The young Dutchman had an English accent!
That was a great idea for a video ☺️ I would have been so proud to have been asked since languages are what I really exceed at 😄 Very proud of my 5,5 languages
Thanks! Haha nice maybe next time :D
I am from Germany, I am fluent in german and speak some english and spanish. I want to learn japanese, russian, portuguese, arabic, french, korean, hungarian, chinese, hebrew, and a scandinavian language.
I know it will take me a lot of time but it makes me really happy. :)
Ой удачи...
This was great Nordin, a very fun idea😃! Thank’s for this one (i was out walking Harry)!🙈! And chatgang, you was fun to (Alex, i agree😂)! TC everyone 👋
Thanks Monica! 😀
What a cool idea Nordin! 😎💛
its really interesting, because recently i've noticed that there's been an increasing trend in channels doing this "what languages do (nationality/place) speak" video. the first WLDYS street interview videos i watched were by The New Travel channel, but then i started noticing that more and more other channels began catching on to this video topic and posting them. i live in a country with tons of immigrants so i actually plan on starting a street interview channel myself.
10:58 hilarious how the interviewer repeated “Deutsch“ even tho the people told him multiple times that they speak Dutch😂
Nice video✌️, Tack så mycket😊
Very nice video,a joy to watch!
Sympa video Nordin with sympa people...salutes from Spain. 😊
In these videos people say that they speak more languages than they speak, being fluent in a language not just knowing four words
Мне это тоже не нравится!!!!!!!
Ikr. Really annoys me. Takes a lot of effort to get to a decent level in one language. To me its just disrespectful to say you speak another language when you don't.
So nice to see Isak! 😃 Great idea, Nordin! And Isak is still wearing that cap from Nordiska Museum! ☺ Say hi to him from me, please!
Haha yes he does :D Thanks Gabriela!
@@NordinWalks 😂
I grew up trilingual - German, Italian, English. At school, French was added. At the moment I am still learning Finnish and Swedish, because I moved to Finland near the Swedish border.
Btw;I grew up in Germany.
Cool that you decided to take up learning Finnish. If you live in Finland, the locals will definitely appreciate you speaking the language, tsemppiä opiskeluun :D
I was surprised to hear that - Nobody spoke Finnish !
Intressant, är din familj från Finland eller? Jag pratar 3 språk flytande , engelska svenska och bangla, sen lär jag mig spanska i skolan och franska hemma
I'm from a country in South America and I'm a native Spanish speaker, and I speak Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and basic German.....and my country is soooo far away, and I would love to visit Sweden...I'm a traveler of the world ..fancied your clip quite a lot, cheers
What country in Latin America if you don't mind me asking? I'm Cuban-American
Hey Alaskan-Armadillo, nice to get a reply; I am from Chile@@Alaskan-Armadillo
Sweden, great country saludos desde Luxembourgo
Cool 👍 Det var meget sympatisk. Jeg taler 4 sprog. Tysk, engelsk, russisk og dansk. Tysk er første sprog, men jeg bor i DK.
Phoenix representing!!!
That was a fun video!
Interesante video y, no sabía que en esos países, especialmente, del norte de Europa se hablara tanto el idioma castellano. Curioso, por decir lo menos.
¡Saludos, desde Valparaíso, Chile!.
La mayoría mas que hablar español lo que saben son algunas palabras,pero hablar un idioma con fluidez es otra cosa
Many people in Central and Northern Europe speak several languages. In my case it's between 5 and 6. Apart from my mother tongue, German, I speak English, French, Spanish, Valencian (a dialect of catalan) and some Dutch. Living abroad - in my case in Spain - helps a lot.
Sorry, but people from Spain barely have a basic knowledge of English, don't even mention German.
@@BETOETEhe just said he speaks Spanish lol.
Most people speak their native language + English so you're well above average!
If I said in my case living in Spain has been useful it is very much to work on my Spanish. Apart from that, I wouldn't have learned Valencian. A certain similarity to French helps to keep it up.
Dutch guy speak perfect British English☺️
interesting interview, friedndly
Greetings from Tamil Nadu India.
Very nice
Spanish is an attractive and popular language to learn, not only in Europe (very few Americans with no Hispanic roots are bilingual), but surprisingly in South Korea, I've found in internet many Koreans that speak Spanish at different level of fluency (OrlandoFlorida).
Actually, almost 25% of Americans who are not of Hispanic descent are bilingual.
bilingual in Spanish?, I can't believe it.@@CMV314
i speak Swedish (in björkholmska and scanian), English fluently and im able to get around in germany using german.
Hola, cómo están?. Hablo español, inglés y sueco básico. Det är dags för FIKA 😃.......☕🍪(Kanellbular). Jag tillbringade ett år i Sverige, jag lärde mig grundläggande svenska, jag är väldigt tacksam mot den svenska nationen. Jag gillar natur, utbildning, respekt. Gud välsigne nationen Sverige. Haparanda, och Piteo Havsbad, fina minnen.
Swedes should learn Udmurtian to understand themselves. Significant admixture from the Urals.
Just by historical accident, English reached this international level of being the most common language, and it's kind of amazing that in Europe it's how people from all these different cultures talk to each other - convenient for all of us who can't speak anything else.
Great sharing nice video presentation new subscriber here mallika Palanisamy stay connected and waiting for your have a nice day bye bye thanks again
No-one were speaking finnish. Big surprice becouse finnish travels alot in Sweden and mostly at Stockholm area. There are also lots of finns that lives in Sweden. But as a finn i have noticed that very few swedish people talks finnish. Of course it is very hard to learn and is so different than other Scandinavic laguages. Here in Finnland we have to learn english and swedish at school. In Finland Sweden is our second formal language and at the coast area there is many places that most of the people speaks swedish. I am from Kokkola and here about 5-10% of the people speaks swedish. Costline up to north from here is finnish speakers and down to south all the way almost till Pori people speaks mostly swedish (except in Vaasa where most are finnish speakers).
But as we have long border with Russia, eastern people speaks more russia than swedish.
It's strange that an interviewer couldn't find people who speaks mainly Swedish and Finnish in Stockholm but languages like Spanish. English is usually the strongest foreign language for the native Finnish speakers. The native Swedish speakers in Finland live mainly in western and southern coastal regions like Vaasa (Vasa) and Helsinki (Helsingfors) and in the province of Ahvenanmaa (Åland).
I don't think the Finns in eastern Finland are particularly good at Russian, but there's a relatively small Russian minority who usually understand more or less Finnish or English Otherwise English is a neutral language that most of Finns prefer to use when they meet Swedes, and of course the whole Anglo-American popular culture is a big reason for its popularity.
@@lucone2937 I have noticed that mostly swedish and russians communicates here in english. Non of business people assumes in Tampere that anyone would speak swedish there. Sometimes i have clients (i drive taxi) that speaks swedish to each other but to me they speak english.
Well even that i understand much of swedish and speak little bit, my english is still much better. I never reveal that i understand the most what they are speaking.
Many driving south towards Turku / Åbo - wonders what happens to signs Björneborg - that IS just Pori in Finnish !
Nice to meet you
Thank you for learning Swedish anyway, i hope you have use for it
Eu AMO esses vids!
Her russian perfect🤯👍
More interviews like these
More will come!
@@NordinWalks But actually ask the people of the country... otherwise what's the point of saying it's in Sweden?
Those two Italian couples are the best!
Che figure!! 🤣
Good Job Nordin 🕴️✅
Thanks!
What does speking a language mean? I am fluent in three (Standard German, Swiss German, and English) I have retained quite a bit of passive knowledge in French from school, but when I want to speak it, English gets in the way, because of the many related words. I can get by in Italian when push comes to shove. I know a few phrases in Russian and Japanese. I can say "I don't speak Japanese" in Japanese, which always gets a laugh. I can understand written Dutch quite well, spoken, not so much.
And I was surprised how much Swedish I could get listening to the few Swedes in this video.
Interesting, I'll reply in my language English so as not to catch you out. I was always told that Swiss(I'm a Brit of Swiss French descent) and Belgians were trilingual but after studying French again, I realised that people living in non Francophone areas just can't be that fluent in French, there simply aren't enough hours in the day. Ive studied French and Japanese to a B2 level, both requiring immense effort. If a non native says they speak French, in 99% of cases its extremely basic.
You'd mever tell that dutch guy wasn't british had a spot on British accent
Maybe not interview Tourists?
Around 1,5.
So funny to be from Latvia and think what it would be like to be in this video and then suddenly there's a girl who's Latvian/Russian in the video haha, I definitely did not expect that.
Everyone will speak at least 2 languages
Most*
I’m English and only speak English, it makes us lazy as I’ve traveled the world and it’s the defacto language.
@@WestlecMost English speakers - miss everything - that IS spoken in - non English !
@@Westlec you should learn languages too though. I'm American and love learning languages I can speak some Swedish and speak French pretty well and planning on learning Russian eventually as well
@Westlec thats beyond sad
I love this! my mother tongue is Spanish so i was trying to those whom lied LOL
Is Jord (at 09:40) sure he isn't Dylan Haegens? 😅
Hey all
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To speak is much harder then to understand.
очень милое видео!☺
Has one people know of part world,name is Anastasia
Though the point was to ask Swedes... he keeps asking foreigners, being in Sweden is irrelevant then.
Swedes don't really have a reason to learn any other languages than english and swedes, so this is kinda surprising to see... though most of these are not swedish natives, so i guess that's why.
I was thinking about learning arabic. Almost a quarter of the population in sweden speak it at this point, so there are a lot of opportunities to practice, and maybe learn to understand these strange new people a little better.
99% of these are tourists...
I definitely don't believe 25% of the Swedish population speak Arabic.
I also don't think it's all that surprising that quite a few Swedes are multilingual, since many of us learn a third language in school.
Off course not. @@LoveLeeMeJenny
@@LoveLeeMeJenny Its true though around 2,3 million have parents from middle east. I hear arabic on a daily basis, i even learned some words just from hearing it.
@@kaiserkarl2 Its true though
Four minutes into the video, and we have yet to see a single person who speaks Swedish in Stockholm! 😆
Well most were tourists
@@Dsdsds346 It was filmed in Stockholm Old Town, the main tourist trap of Sweden ;-)
What's fun in choosing swedes who speak swedish on a swedish channel?
I see the point.. but... none .. of these.. maybe just one or two where actually Swedes... Rest is "new swedes" or turist.
@@BrandtAnnika What is your point? He chose to ask people he overheard speaking other languages than swedish, to see what language it was, and what other languages they may be fluent in. In Swedens biggest tourist trap where there's probably 90% non-swedes at any given time during summer. I don't understand what the issue is.
Italian 🇮🇹 ❤️
I only speak English!
You didn't get many Swedes to stop by and ask, did you? Otherwise, I'm surprised that only one of the peoples you asked mentioned knowing Swedish in Gamla Stan, Stockholm. Seems you mainly got tourists.
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I speak 3 launage swedish English and mongolian
English -Japanese 😊 from Anime movies
If you come to Spain and ask Spaniards the same question... Erm...
I may be considered a weirdo, but I speak 5 languages fluently: Spanish (my first language), English, Galician, Italian, French; a bit of Portuguese, German, Russian, and some Dutch.
I'd love to learn Japanese, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, and Greek.
And I'm proud of it!
With all due respect, the languages that you speak are very similar, so there really isn't much reason to be proud.
@@CMV314 For me, there is, that's all that counts. And well, I guess Russian speakers can understand Italian without problems.
How many languages do you speak?
Cute My Ethiopian sister❤
8:37 it’s kind of funny with the “i only speak two languages” comment. it very clearly shows the difference in norms between cultures, where two languages is the absolute minimum that everyone is expected to speak fluently
I wouldn't say it's cultural. It's just people being honest and not exaggerating the number of languages they speak.
@@CMV314 do you think you would find an American who would say "I only speak two languages", unless they're a linguist or some other context where people would expect them to speak many languages?
@@asdfghyter Of course you would. There are 333 million people in America. Do you think they're all the same?
@@CMV314 no, of course not, but my point is that it's *a lot* less likely, especially since most of them are already monolingual, so being bilingual is already an exception to the norm. this norm is exactly what I'm referring to
Ля такой кринж чел говорит что спикает на нескольких языках просят сказать что-нибудь а он такой ну я драйв э кар
Ну реально зачем говорить что ты говоришь на 2617181 языках когда можешь сказать только hallo ich bin 18 Jahre alt..........
Фразы из дуолинго полюбас😂
Latvian language is one of the oldest in europa.
Sweden for swedes
nice
Interesting interview
European people are normally multilingual i think
Phoenix, AZ is not "cool" literally
#1 language is Somali in Stockholm followed by Arabic
yes, true actually and very sad. As a native swede i actually dont feel at home anymore in my city
@@chapno4255 It's over
@@K55365 yes probably, for the bloodlines anyway
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i SPEK NO LAGUGE: SKALA 1/10
It doesn't look like Stockholm. Look these faces!!! It seems to be Morocco 🇲🇦🤣
Are you real? It looks exactly as Stockholm, Gamla Stan and surroundings, full of tourists.
Us Americans: One. ( sad...)
There were a bunch of Americans in the video that spoke more than one.
@@UnlimitedAuthority A miracle! :-)
I suspect those americans who go abroad (not many) are the same that also know multiple languages.
Mr Bean the monolingual
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1:29 These three young women are attractive and are of a good demeanor. Wishing them well.
Nobody speaks well the second language
Many swedes speak just swedish
Nope. We study English in school and from 7th grade even a third language. You have to be really old not to speak at least English.
Total kopia av The new travel😂
wow - only indoeuropean. so sad
Fin - Eng - Swe........ finnish language only language that is not primitive and clumsy + words are pronounced as written and written as pronounced.
sanonko
Shall I say
Ska jag säga " Ska jag sjja "
... aion
... I intend to
... Jag tänker göra " Jaag tänkkär jöra "
kävisinköhän
I ponder if I shall visit
Jag funderar på om jag skall besöka "
Ajaisin
I would drive
Jag skulle köra " Jaag skullä chöra "
language " langwitch "
uage " witch "
which " witch "
wich " witch "
witch " witch "
sorry , just facts. : /
the meme lives on. Poor Sweden.