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| LanguagePhysics Newbie United States Joined 4137 days ago 34 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 74 17 October 2013 at 6:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I know that Swedish, Danish and Norwegian all have very similar grammar, but is there one which could be considered more grammatically simple than the others?
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| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4244 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes  Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 74 17 October 2013 at 6:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
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The grammatical differences are so minimal that as you I would just go with the one that I'd feel most invested in.
Although I think that Swedish has the most complicated noun paradigm, consisting of five or six different declension types, as opposed to the Danish four (correct me anyone if I'm wrong) Like in Swedish a noun can have -ar, -or, -er or -r in indefinite plural, but I think in Danish the only options are -er and -r. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4835 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 3 of 74 17 October 2013 at 6:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, in terms of morphology Danish is simpler than Swedish and Norwegian, but this is compensated by the complex Danish phonology, i.e. pronunciation.
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4835 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 4 of 74 17 October 2013 at 6:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
You mean -or, -ar, -er, -n, or "zero"-ending (plus -on for the irregular nouns "öga" and "öra"). Edited by Josquin on 17 October 2013 at 7:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4244 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 5 of 74 17 October 2013 at 7:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, I was doing loads of other stuff simultaneously and my train of thought was cut. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5325 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 6 of 74 17 October 2013 at 7:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
Amen to that. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4698 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 7 of 74 17 October 2013 at 7:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
I would find the pronunciation of either difficult to get right and can't really say it matters much. Danes have a particular way of assimilating sound that doesn't exist in the other two, but then you have to do the tonal contours properly. Either way: who cares. Pick one and go for it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4835 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 8 of 74 17 October 2013 at 7:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Yeah, of course the OP should pick the language that he likes best, I'm just giving him information.
The problem with Danish phonology that I was referring to is not obtaining native-like pronunciation but understanding what people are saying. Nobody really cares if you don't get your Swedish pitch accent right and nobody will care if you can't reproduce the Danish glottal stop or the soft d like a native. But when you can't understand people because of slurred language you will need a lot of practice to overcome this obstacle. Anyway, choose whatever floats your boat. 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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