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| brumblebee Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6615 days ago 206 posts - 212 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese | Message 17 of 20 10 June 2006 at 2:51pm | IP Logged | ||
I agree, I was trying a good online tutorial for Swedish (I don't have the link, I just found it somewhere), and for the first few minutes, I had a very hard time pronouncing the words, but after a while, it became much easier. thanks for your advice, brumblebee 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6708 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 18 of 20 11 June 2006 at 11:51pm | IP Logged | ||
I remember thinking the exact opposite: Once I found a magazine and when I opened it up, I saw what I now believe was Dutch but at the time it did not look familiar at all to me. In fact it looked utterly alien, and because I was a bus full of exchange students from all the corners of Europe and some parts of Asia as well, it could have been any language for all I knew. Since that time, though, I've learned quite a bit more, and am more inclined to agree with you now. I just wanted to share that story that I thought was kind of amusing. :-) I have never studied Dutch, so I cannot speak for how easy or hard it is, although I've heard it's not terribly difficult. I have, however, studied German and Norwegian: German is complicated, but starts to make sense after you give it a chance...but Norwegian...I really like Norwegian. All of the Germanic languages have kind of a dark charm to them, but the Scandinavian languages are especially cool, and as far as ease goes, I thought Norwegian was quite simple in a lot of regards, and you are in luck because Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish are quite similiar to one another. So I would say if ease is your concern, go with those first. Edited by Journeyer on 11 June 2006 at 11:53pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Eddard Tetraglot Newbie Netherlands Joined 6594 days ago 13 posts - 14 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC1, German, Swedish Studies: French, Italian | Message 19 of 20 13 June 2006 at 7:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi brumble,
As you may know already, I'm a big fan of Swedish, although Norwegian must be easier to pronounce, lacking the strange (but BEAUTIFUL) sj-sound as in the Swedish words SJu, SKära, STJärna, SKJuta, SJälv, etc. If you want to learn a specific Germanic language I would say: -German, if you want to learn an IMPORTANT language. In Europe German is the biggest language, if we don't count Russian and the German economy is one of the strongest as well. -Swedish, if you want to learn a BEAUTIFUL language. Without doubt the Italian of the Germanic languages, which is sung instead of spoken. It's the biggest Scandinavian language as well. -Any Scandinavian language (except Icelandic en Faroese) if you hate complicated grammar rules. These grammars are VERY easy to master. -Dutch if you're looking for a language with a vocabulary, pretty close to English (well, at least more than the other Germanic languages). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| brumblebee Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6615 days ago 206 posts - 212 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese | Message 20 of 20 13 June 2006 at 9:06am | IP Logged | ||
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I think that I will probably learn Swedish first
2. German 3. Icelandic 4. Norwegian (If I choose to learn more) 5. Dutch 6. Afrikaans 7. Danish 8. Faroese 9. Frisian 10.other Edited by brumblebee on 13 June 2006 at 9:07am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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