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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5339 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 209 of 299 28 October 2013 at 12:29pm | IP Logged | ||
I most certainly do!!! At times I "cross over" and attempt to speak Swedish, but I then go the full hog, whith Swedish phonology and all - I have probably done that with you, I do not remember. I would however never speak Svorsk. At the very most I will slow down, articulate better, or use more simple sentences, but when I speak Norwegian, I speak Norwegian, as pure as it comes - regardless of whether I speak with a Dane, a Swede or a foreigner. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4712 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 210 of 299 28 October 2013 at 12:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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You probably spoke more Swedish then, haha. To me it sounded like Swedish and not
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5339 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 211 of 299 28 October 2013 at 12:51pm | IP Logged | ||
Then that was probably what I attempted to speak :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4712 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 212 of 299 28 October 2013 at 12:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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It was a while back. And my Swedish was worse. You are forgiven :P Maybe speak Norwegian
next time :P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| s_allard Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5435 days ago 2704 posts - 5425 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Polish | Message 213 of 299 28 October 2013 at 1:06pm | IP Logged | ||
I think this post sums up the debate quite well. I especially like the point about listing the languages in a CV "unless specifically required." I would think that users would know how to deal with the politics of language when applying for jobs. Back to Scandinavia where I find it fascinating that there seems to be an easy flow of people between languages and dialects. When I was in Norway I remember noticining on a ship that the writing on signs seemed a bit different from what I had seen elsewhere. Someone then explained to me that it was Nynorsk and a bit of the history. I marveled at the fact that such a sparsely populated country could have two variants of the official language in addition to all the regional dialects that seem to be thriving. Edit: "tiny county" was corrected to "sparsely populated country" Edited by s_allard on 28 October 2013 at 3:44pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6602 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 214 of 299 28 October 2013 at 2:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ugh, it's not a county and it's not so tiny.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4712 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 215 of 299 28 October 2013 at 2:13pm | IP Logged | ||
Thing is that you can't rely on political documents. Better to get to know what the languages are like and gain some educational value out of it in the process. Norway isn't tiny, just not densely populated. Edited by tarvos on 28 October 2013 at 2:47pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5339 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 216 of 299 28 October 2013 at 2:18pm | IP Logged | ||
I guess technically we have 5:-) In Norwegian we have the two variants of Bokmål and Nynorsk (plus half a million of spoken dialects) and then in some counties we have Sami as official language, and within Sami there are three differents variants. We just like to be difficult :-) 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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