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| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4762 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes  Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 25 of 74 19 October 2013 at 12:04am | IP Logged | ||
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4999 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 26 of 74 19 October 2013 at 12:15am | IP Logged | ||
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True. But several Swedish, Norwegian (and Icelandic!) thriller authors are nowadays in quite as many bookshelves as Andersen.
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5914 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 27 of 74 19 October 2013 at 9:48am | IP Logged | ||
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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4658 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 28 of 74 19 October 2013 at 2:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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She is not singing in a dialect, but in standard Western Norwegian (aka Nynorsk).
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6899 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 29 of 74 19 October 2013 at 7:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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People who don't recognize this as Norwegian probably get confused by the skarre-r and the kv- (instead of hv-). Those are the major things that stand out.
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5914 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 30 of 74 19 October 2013 at 7:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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@Medulin: Thanks. This song was interesting to listen to. I'm used to hearing Swedish and I immediately noticed a few differences in pronunciation, such as when she sings the words "eg" "dag" and "meg" she always pronounces the letter g at the end. I also noticed sometimes she trills the letter "r" but other times she doesn't.
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4818 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 31 of 74 20 October 2013 at 12:37am | IP Logged | ||
Plus Jussi Adler-Olsen, from Denmark. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4818 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 32 of 74 20 October 2013 at 12:42am | IP Logged | ||
Apart from the obvious point of going for the one which appeals to you most or seems of most use, I'd say go for the one that has the most materials which are easily available to you, or the most materials which are both available and pleasing to you. On the point of closeness or otherwise of English to Swedish, Danish and Norwegian, while they may be linguistically close, this does not mean that they can be learned without effort. You also have to take into account the vast English vocabulary that is non-Germanic/Scandinavian in origin. I won't risk quoting a number I'm not very sure of, but it's very high, in terms of percentage of words of French, Norman-French, Latin or Greek origin. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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