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Ever wondered why Swedish sounds the way it does? It turns out centuries of living in extreme cold meant keeping your mouth closed as much as possible while spe…
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Vro nameste
Swedish people can't pronounce G it transforms into a J
Imagine Zlatan Ibrahimovic speaking like this😂😭😭
Just wait until he meets someone from the north. A super short inhalation as a "yes" or acknowledgement.
False
😂😂❤😂😂
He is more right than he realizes. In the Northern Swedish town of Luleå they answer in the affirmative with a short, narrow draw of breath. Looks kinda like a fish in an aquarium.
"Dak thin"😂😂😂😂
Sounds more like Finish tbh. Swedish has a lot of åhh sounds. Like ‘yes’ = ‘åh’, ‘I completely agree’ = ‘åha’, ‘really?’ = ‘åhååh’, ‘you’re not saying? = ‘åhåå’, ‘no, I really do not want to go outside now’ = ‘årgh’. See the difference? <br><br>And also, a Swede would ever speak so much in one go. 😂😂😂
The Swedish Chef will like a word with Trevor!!!
I’m Swedish and when I heard this I was like ”…is he speaking Chinese?” Idk, I never thought about how Swedish sounds to people who don’t know it
And then Finnish people just don't talk much.
Tamil sounds similarly awful but comes from a warm climate…..
where i live gets kinda cold (not like northern sweden cold but still freezing) but we get really high winds. when the wind and temperature are right, it'll literally take the breath out of your lungs if you breathe through your mouth. Ever fall out of a tree as a kid and get the wind knocked out of you? like that, but just because you walked out of your front door at the exact wrong moment
Finnish sounds the same 😊
For a Swedish accent it also helps to sound 10% like Stitch from Lilo and Stitch
At the end there it sounded more like a poor parody of indian to me
Is he confusing Swedish and Hindi?
As someone who lives in Rhode Island, USA. We tend to talk faster
Australia has a lot of warm air too, but we don’t talk with our mouths wide. Otherwise all the flies and other bugs fly in 🤮
Opening your mouth in South Africa... swallowing flies... <br>Making fun of the Swedes... Have you heard Danish?!
I am Swedish and I get it.<br>Also WHAT did you say aboht my mother?!
Man just be insulting my language while being 100% right😂<br>Also when someone says that you can’t be Messing around when the temperature is below freezing it always makes me laugh because we walk around in hoodies in that weather and bike around.
Instantly need to google sweedish language
The English language wouldn't exist without Old Norse.😂
Funny and true
😂😂As a Swedish ❤You made me laugh soooo much!!!😂😂😂.... Mabe " This open your mouth in Wintertime" Can be that YOU couldn't handle it and probably hade your " entire face covered"😂😂😂.... Love it & Love You❤
He is an educator
He clearly never been up to Northern Sweden or Finland, as they hardly talk at all. If you get a three word sentence out of them then they won’t speak for a week. If asked the just answer with a quick inhale of air that sounds like “chu!” It can mean anything between haven and earth. Sometimes you can get a “Jo”(yes) or “Nä”(no), but that’s it. But then again it can get so cold in the north that your pee will freeze before it hits the ground and your “John Thomas” will never forgive you and retract into your body for good!
Crazy part is, he is so right! In the coldest part of sweden, they don't even say yes (or ja in swedish), they simply do a real quick inhale with puckered lips.😂
This young man is really funny 😂😂😂 <br>I really love his funny way of telling his story 😂
This is well known in linguistics.<br>Hence Northern Europeans speak languages with many consonants while Southern European languages are full on vowels.
As a Swede this was pritty funny
Björn Skifs said that Swedish sounds like urka gurka!😂😂😂
So they basically sound like penguins. It makes sense
100% true for the Japanese dialects also.<br>日本の方言もそうなんだよね、北の方に行けば行くほど、口を開かずにしゃべる、確かに。
As a swede, I approve of this message!
As a Swede, his mimicking isn't that close, but he does have a point anyway... 😅
Det tycker inte jag
Norway in the winter:<br>-"Hey! How are you?"<br>-"No"
Logic and funny at the same time. 😂
It's not THAT cold....
If I make some fun over a language from africa and mock the sound of this language, I think I will get problems.
Well true, i love in norway and u berly have to open the mouth to talk
Shit doesn’t sound like Swedish at all
I've heard the same idea said about russian
Why does your Swedish sound like the soundtrack to a Bollywood blockbuster?
As a swedish person I can confirm: he is absolutely right👍. It is to cold😂. Thats why, in the north of Sweden, where Im from people dont talk much at all! And when we say "Yes" we just breath in air, very short,(it is like a voiceless "jo": yes)no need to produce unnecessary sounds out here!<br>Love Trevor ❤
Some researchers say it happens the same in Portuguese. Brazilians tend to open their vowels more than the European counterpart.
😂 hejdå
Thermal throttling conversations
As a finn i can confirm this
Actually, in the north of Sweden, people often speak on both the inbreath and the outbreath. In the winter, the temperature can drop to -40
I love their accent😅
Ok but why does he make us sound like we're from India 😂
As a Swede I heard 2 real swedish words but then it sounded like Hindi or something like that. 😂
Some of that “Swedish” gibberish sounds vaguely Norwegian also 😅🤣
Not true. We just hate interacting with people more than we need to. So we speak fast and barely open our mouths so we can end the conversation as soon as possible and get the hell out of there. <br><br>Still funny though. 😂❤
Trevor you tripping and wrong
That's Norwegian though 😂😂😂
Dearest Cecilia from Svalbard please see our fav human from South Africa 🇿🇦. @ceciliafromsvalbard living in the most northern place in the world
As a swede, this is spot on 😂
😂😂😂😂
As a Canadian, when it’s really cold your jaw kind of locks up also from the shivering so you can’t open as wide 😅 ..
That is not Swedish. That's Norwegian or Danish.
No this is NOT TRUE for ALL SWEDES!!! This is BS!!!
Ha ha love from Sweden
Even locally in Sweden, I always joke (it's dressed as a joke, but it's facts) that the dialect loses letters the further north you get. It goes from "jaau, de kan vi göörrraa" in Skåne, "Joo'lå" in Gästrikland in the middle to simply inhaling with vigor in Lappland (it's called an 'ingressive sound' and you don't even use your vocal cords).<br>I went to uni with students from the entire country, the most talkative were from Göteborg and Malmö and the most silent ones were from Jokkmokk and Skellefteå.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Nailed it😆😆
Does it mean geordies and scousers in Newcastle and Liverpool were Swedish people abandoned there who were later forced to speak English ?
Not even remotely funny, must have been meant for Germans and Americans
Trevor you're brilliant!😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yup. This is why we talk this way. In fact the further north you go in Sweden, the words get shorter and fewer between. Go far enough north and the word for yes does not even have any letters in it. It basically just a short breath of air and no is breathing out. Efficiently combining communication and the pesky need for (cold) air.
Southern swedish is basically Qasa.
That makes sense😂😂😂😂
Freeze the shit out of your throat 😂😂😂
Trev.. I live in Sweden.. I think you're mistaking the sounds with Norwegian.. Same root but different flow..
As a Swede, this is faaar from an accurate representation of our language
This is what i love and respect most about trevor noah's kind of comedy <br>He makes us laught, we also learn a lot from his experiences inat his craft all of the places he's had shows around the world <br>He's excellent at his craft.
Tbf as a Scandinavian Danish to be precise they sound like that for us also 😂
In country Australia we hardly open our mouths when we talk so that we don't let the flies in.
Hmm. You forget mosquitoes in summer time
You mean India? I have never heard a swede talk like that unless their an indian immigrant 😂
That's Finish, from Finland. Not Swedish.
In northern Sweden they say yes, by just breathing in between their teeth, with an o shaped mouth. So it makes a certain sound.
We Sweds don't actually feel the cold as much either - we are just not as social, so we don't want to waste 5min on a greeting 😂
omg that's also true for lower german, which is spoken in northern germany, and danish. 😅
Honestly that sounds more like Finnish
Sounds kinda like Eminem lol
Look, in the 18th centurie, Sweden launched a massive land reform to fix a centuries-old system. Previously, land was divided so everyone got a fair share of the good and bad soil. A single farmer could own dozens of tiny, scattered strips of land mixed with their neighbors' plots!<br>This system required everyone to live close together in tight-knit farming villages. But it was highly inefficient.<br>To boost food production, the state consolidated the land. The result? The traditional Swedish villages literally vanished. The old houses were torn down or moved, and farmers were forced to move out to live directly on their new, larger fields. It completely changed both the Swedish landscape and rural society forever! So, everyone was lonely AND cold. 😅
He is not wrong.
Being Danish that's how Swedish sounds to me too... I do like Sweden though and Swedish people are so polite and nice 👌😄
The Smart 🧠 comedian that hardly swears or talk about sex & fukkkin. 💯✌🏻✌🏻
I live in Sweden and I hear people talking Swedish I think it’s Japanese 😂
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Whenever im out in the cold, my fingers dont move as quickly and nimbly as I'd like them to. It's almost like everything's frozen over and the lack of energy has slowed everything down. I can imagine its the same as woth our mouths. I noticed when practising spanish i can't roll my Rs as well during winter
But sweedish have more open vowels than English
Ello canta mover me lipz don’t walk too long 🗽 anywhere oh boy, your eyeball will freeze 🥶
