Well, technically, The Bridge is mostly Danish 
(script, production, etc.) But, yes, it “celebrates” the closeness of Sweden and Denmark where the bridge over the Øresound connects the two countries.
(Both cops, the Danish and Swedish, are suitably whacky in their own ways)
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Well, sometimes I want to… uhm, not dance 
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You realize, of course, that “The Killing” is a remake of a Danish TV show…
I would like to hear more Dutch (so cute), but, heck, they let “Van der Valk” only talk English 
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Are you sure? Really???
It’s less cool for foreigners 
Yeah, it’s only the talking.
I even have to laugh when I listen to Norwegian Death Metal. And don’t get me started about that Swedish girlfriend I once had. It was challenging for her, but I had a lot of fun
Love those northern languages, but not for serious stuff!
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Hm…OK… maybe not 
I did watch “Q en Q” when I was little, and I really liked it (probably dubbed though, back then)!
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I watched it some years ago and I remembered it wrong. It has Swedish and Danish actors. Now I can’t remember what language they spoke in the series. Probably Danish, Swedish and English. It is an awesome series. I love Sofia Helin as Saga.
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Give Bridge a try. I doubt you will be able to laugh all the time. The story is so interesting and we get quickly drawn into it. It has a serious binge watching factor.
Deadwind is in Finnish, give it a try! Have you watched anything in Finnish?
By the way, the Swedish Chef never sounded Swedish to me. 
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Your a Finn, right? Isn’t your language closer to Hungarian than to Danish or Swedish?
I can understand some Norwegian, Swedish and Danish (and can read a little more) … but not Finnish or Hungarian.
What about you? (Well, I assume you can understand Finnish - but the other languages??? :-))
I worked with Nokia in their glorious times, and did not have to laugh as much as when I worked with Ericsson or Conax. Finnish sounds more serious to me!
It does when he sings the Swedish national anthem:
No, I haven’t. I need to listen to the language a little more and decide .
I have no issues with (south american) Spanish, for example, I even love it since I was in Cuba.
But the sound of language always puts me “in the mood”. And I cannot laugh through serious stuff all the time. Well, I can, but I shouldn’t…
I probably let some local patriotism get the better of me here… it is a true collaboration, I guess 
The Helsinki episode in “Night on Earth” - it doesn’t get much sadder (and it seems to be perfect in Finnish).
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Never ever mention “Night on Earth” in my presence! I fell from my couch laughing just now, cause of the classic ROFL italian epidose!!!
It’s burned in my mind…
GREAT!!!
Since that movie I cannot see sheep without laughing!
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I googled it. I had read about that cult before, but it is still surprising. The extent to which people go when they get sucked into a cult. One can just wonder why can’t they just leave. Netflix has lots of interesting documentaries about different cults, they are quite interesting to watch.
I have a book called “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”. It is fascinating. And by the way, it has a chapter on The Tulip Mania I almost forgot to mention it!
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It’s even better when you understand Italian.
Which is really the genius of this movie (exploring some of the idiosyncracies of these various “cultures”).
(The actor playing the priest must have literally almost died keeping it together while Benigni probably mostly ad-libbed that scene 
)
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Already love the title. I absolutely believe that people get bad in groups, so it’s right up my alley!
Yeah, Tulip Mania. I remember that well. It was during our golden age, the 17th century, I was still young.
Holland was rich (cause: colonialism), art was thriving … and then we had to eat f#cking tulip bulbs for years and years…
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Both deserved an oscar. The priest for staying serious, and Benigni for whatever he did there. Genius!
One of the best monologue EVER! Right up there with Marlon Brando in ApocalypseNow and Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner…
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That is just gibberish.
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Actually I’m not. I was born in Brazil, but have lived in Finland most of my life, to the point that I sometimes can’t remember some words in my native language (Portuguese), even though I write often to friends and family. When I have a conversation in Portuguese, I often have to pause to try to translate something in my mind. I might remember something in Finnish and in English, and while I try to remember what it was in Portuguese, it is annoying when the other person interrups me trying to guess what I want to say.
I speak Finnish and English better. I studied some Swedish, and I can understand to some extent, but it isn’t enough for a conversation. When I try to talk to a Swede in Swedish, we often soon switch to English. But I can understand some Norwegian too, because it is so close to Swedish. But I can’t understand Danish. It sounds like a mix of Swedish with German, but at the same time it doesn’t. I have a Finnish friend who lives in Denmark and now speaks Danish, but she said it was difficult to learn.
I studied German 20 years ago or so, but I managed to forget so much. I guess if some day I decide to study it again, it would be easier to learn. I also studied Polish some 20 years ago, then started again and stopped again some 2 years ago. I have Polish, German and Portuguese ancestry, so I wanted to learn these languages, but man, Polish is hard to learn! I have never seen anything quite like it. On a side note, I once tried to study Russian, but I gave up very quickly because of the Cyrillic alphabet. I just couldn’t, because they look so much like our letters but H is N, P is R, etc.
I like learning languages for fun, but I also have a tendency to start something and lose my interests and then start something else. Last year I said I wanted to study French, but my husband pointed out I didn’t even finish the Swedish course yet.
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We have Billy bookshelves, but in a different colour. I have lots of furniture from IKEA.
I meant the Swedish cook isn’t speaking in Swedish.
That’s also one of those languages that is complicated for me. I can understand most latin-based languages, more or less. But not Portuguese. Don’t know why.
Polish I can’t understand … but my girlfriend is responsible for “eastern communication” anyway - she speaks Russian.
For her it’s always great fun when I read Cyrillic aloud. Now THAT is gibberish
I love languages too. It’s the key to understanding cultures…
I know what you meant. But it’s more fun to misunderstand
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