Whaaaat? There is a band with this name? I thought you were joking, but there is really a band with this name! Stroopwafels are really amazing, so why not name a band after it? 
So far the Swedes havenât (as far as I know) named a band as Amazing Meatballs, but perhaps itâs just a matter of time 
I got stroopwaffels every time I ordered a fountain pen from the Netherlands. I miss them!
The Boston-based band Freezepop has a former member who went by the name of the Duke of Pannekoeken.
Shouldnât that be âThe Amazing Köttbullarsâ?
It sounds even funnier like that! Köttbullar is already the plural form, so the S at the end is unnecessary, but letâs leave it there for comic effect.
I heard the Köttbullar is pronounced âsh#tbullarâ. Is that true?
@Malyngo- close enough 
No. In German it would sound like schötbĂŒlar, or something like that.
In Swedish K sounds like sh depending on the vowel following it.
The ö is like an o that is formed at the front of the mouth, or oe. Like the German ö in König.
Of course, when one doesnât know that, and listens to a recording, one could easily imagine the ö sounded like i (from sh#t) because it is pronounced so fast. But to give a better example, if you open Google Translate and look at the Swedish word for kitchen (kök), it will be easier to listen to the sound, because in kök the ö is a long vowel (in köttbullar the ö is a short vowel). It is pronounced like schök, or schoek.
German can be like that. âStadtâ (city) and âStaatâ (state) are pronounced the same, except that the âaâ is longer in âStaatâ. Iâve heard that Finnish is similar, with doubling the same vowel (aa) and consonant (nn) being pronounced a bit longer than single vowels (a) and consonants (n). True?
In real life, Stadt and Staat sound pretty much the same to me, but the context and case differentiates them (die Stadt and der Staat).
Swedish and German have a lot in common. I was told Swedish used to have in the past a grammar similar to the German one, but it was simplified at some point. It is much easier to learn as a foreign language than German. It is between English and German. It is easy to learn if one has a basic understanding of German and speaks English. And, if you learn Swedish you can understand Norwegian as well.
In Swedish the long vowels can be recognised by being followed by a single consonant. Hereâs a funny example:
Yes. Finnish has lots of words with double vowels, and they are pronounced as a single but longer vowel. Double consonants sound like a hard consonant, like there was a little pause on front of them. For instance, in mustikka (blueberry) we donât pronounce two Ks, but thereâs a very short âpauseâ before pronouncing K.
The double vowels and consonants can be a challenge when a person is starting to learn the language, because if you pronounce it wrong, it means something different.
And suddenly the For Dutch only -thread became a grammar class for Swedish and Finnish! My apologies to the Dutch. Wait⊠the Dutch started it! @Whying_Dutchman 
Ps, no, my bad, I started with the Stroopwafels
In fact you can learn all Swedish words plus the complete Swedisch grammar by watching this video a few times:
Well, if you grow up speaking a Germanic language, youâll notice the difference quite easily, even to the point of noticing the difference of pronounciation of âdtâ and âtâ. But it sure can be tricky sometimes, especially when regional dialects mess everything up 
This seems to be the same for Germanic and Nordic languages.
Well, apparently, English is a Germanic language as well⊠Must have diverged at some point
And there seems to be a mistake in that article btw. Luxembourgish is a language, not a dialect
LOL
Well, language is not defined by the number of speakers 
Hmmmmm ⊠I still LOL, sir!
Lol, the history of English is one of those weird things Iâm into.
English is derived from Old English, which was brought over by the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes (from the low countries) at the end of the Romano-British period. The west Saxon dialect mostly won out after the Scandinavian invasions in the 9th century and reconquest by Alfred and his children and grand children. After the Norman invasion in 1066, it started to pick up words from old French. The closest modern language to English still in use today is Frisian.
Pssssssst! Never say or write that out loud!
The âF-wordâ are like the ancient dark tribes that haunt us mere mortal Dutch since before the dark ages. They are to us what we are to BelgiumâŠ.
This is why we built dikes originally ⊠much like the Germany built a wall back then or the US nowâŠ
Glace: French for ice cream!
Yes, and that has a lot do with the fact we often have multiple words for the same thing, which in turn can be quite useful when abroad. For example if Iâm in a Germanic country Iâll likely be understood saying âbeginâ whereas if Iâm in a Latin country Iâll likely be understood saying commence.
An interesting tangent from that is that in certain parts of England youâll often hear people saying âyou knowâ scattered in their speech a lot. In certain parts of Scotland that shifts to âye kenâ and when I lived in the Shetland Isles it would be âdu kenstâ.
