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| eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 4104 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian | Message 9 of 12 23 November 2013 at 1:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
You are both right, in a sense. There isn't a lot of formal study, but the native language curricula of Denmark, Norway and Sweden include a certain degree of understanding the other two. In Sweden, students up to the age of 15 are occasionally exposed to Danish and Norwegian texts and films, and I think that in Norway and Denmark there are certain requirements even as to how much a student must be able to understand at certain ages. I wouldn't go as far as to say that the Nordics "study other Nordic languages in school", though. Those who live there are sometimes exposed to and expected to be able to interpret texts in a school environment, but at least in Sweden this is all done in Swedish class. There's no Danish or Norwegian textbook. There's no regular studying. 6 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 10 of 12 23 November 2013 at 2:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Wow, interesting. Is it part of learning the history of your native language and seeing how it's different from the neighbours? Or is it explicitly done to make understanding Scandinavian people and media easier?
Is Finland Swedish ever mentioned btw? ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 4104 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian | Message 11 of 12 23 November 2013 at 3:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
When I went to school, the purpose was expressed as a mere mutual understanding. I'm not sure I ever learned anything about the history of the Swedish language in school, and I definitely didn't learn anything about the mutual history of the Norse languages in school.
Finland what?? ;) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6914 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 12 of 12 23 November 2013 at 6:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
I have my old textbook in front of me, "Språket och vi" (ISBN 91-40-61036-5). One chapter is devoted to "languages in time and space" (Språk i tid och rum), meaning languages of the world, runes, old Swedish and so on, including a section on dialects and one on the languages of Scandinavia (including Finnish, Saami and Greenlandic) - about ten pages for that last section. The Swedish subject is divided into two parts, and we get grades in each of them - the Swedish language (including composition, grammar, language history etc.) and Literature (history, novels, poetry etc.). Maybe Finland Swedish is mentioned among the dialects in the current material, who knows. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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