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Nikop
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Message 33 of 107

04 March 2010 at 10:29pm | IP Logged

taKen wrote:

[QUOTE=tractor]
Due to all the interaction between Finland and Sweden (Finland used to be a part of Sweden), Finland is included in the group of Scandinavian countries, and rightly so.

FYI, Finland isn't a Scandinavian country.
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tractor
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Message 34 of 107

04 March 2010 at 10:52pm | IP Logged

Nikop wrote:

taKen wrote:

Due to all the interaction between Finland and Sweden (Finland used to be a part
of Sweden), Finland is included in the group of Scandinavian countries, and rightly so.

FYI, Finland isn't a Scandinavian country.

There are two common definitions of Scandinavia:

1) Sweden + Denmark + Norway
2) Sweden + Denmark + Norway + Finland + Iceland + Faroe Islands + Greenland

In Scandinavia, or at least in Norway, "Scandinavia" is very often used to refer to Sweden, Denmark and Norway
only, whereas the whole lot is referred to as the "Nordic countries".

Edited by tractor on 04 March 2010 at 10:55pm
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taKen
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Message 35 of 107

05 March 2010 at 9:58pm | IP Logged

tractor wrote:

Nikop wrote:

taKen wrote:

Due to all the interaction between
Finland and Sweden (Finland used to be a part
of Sweden), Finland is included in the group of Scandinavian countries, and rightly so.

FYI, Finland isn't a Scandinavian country.

There are two common definitions of Scandinavia:

1) Sweden + Denmark + Norway
2) Sweden + Denmark + Norway + Finland + Iceland + Faroe Islands + Greenland

In Scandinavia, or at least in Norway, "Scandinavia" is very often used to refer to
Sweden, Denmark and Norway
only, whereas the whole lot is referred to as the "Nordic countries".

Well this certainly is news to me. You must be talking about your own particular
region. In Trøndelag we regard Finland as a Scandinavian country.

Edited by taKen on 05 March 2010 at 9:59pm
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Rikyu-san
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Message 36 of 107

05 March 2010 at 11:00pm | IP Logged

For the purposes of this thread, Finland is included as either a Scandinavian or Nordic language, depending on how you slice the pie. Either way, Finland is in.

I have been too busy with other things and haven't updated the thread for a while but will shortly. In the meantime, if you wish to debate whether Finland is a Scandinavian country or not, I suggest we start a thread for that. I am, however, strongly in favour of reserving this thread for information on language resources of the languages listed in post one.
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cordelia0507
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Message 37 of 107

11 April 2010 at 3:14am | IP Logged

Free Online Course in Swedish
http://www.personal.psu.edu/adr10/swedish.html
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OlafP
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Message 38 of 107

11 April 2010 at 2:58pm | IP Logged

Test your Swedish: http://www.folkuniversitetet.se/templates/PageFrame.aspx?id= 19417

As an off-topic remark, Folkuniversitetet offers similar tests for English, French, Italian, Spanish, and German as well. Since the site is a bit chaotic here is the direct link:
http://www.folkuniversitetet.se/templates/PageFrame.aspx?id= 14460

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j0nas
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Message 39 of 107

11 April 2010 at 3:12pm | IP Logged

taKen wrote:

In Trøndelag we regard Finland as a Scandinavian country.

No, we dont.
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mrhenrik
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Message 40 of 107

11 April 2010 at 3:36pm | IP Logged

Norwegian:

Free legal music downloads from a Norwegian rap group called Gatas Parlament (one of my
favourites): link

Right-click on the underlined songs and click Save as..

Free legal TV programme downloads from NRK, the Norwegian state broadcaster:
link

Downloads are .torrent files, so you need a torrent program to download them. I'd
recommend µTorrent. It's completely legal for those
of you who are uncertain about .torrent files due to various industries's offensives
against the whole concept. The files are uploaded and hosted by NRK itself.

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