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| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6428 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 9 of 21 27 May 2012 at 7:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
That part made me laugh so hard  Edited by IronFist on 27 May 2012 at 7:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6428 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 10 of 21 27 May 2012 at 7:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
Is it possible to learn it in 6 months? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6428 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 11 of 21 27 May 2012 at 7:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I want to go work for a Scandinavian ergonomic chair company.
Like HÅG. Look at how awesome this is: Hag Capisco Edited by IronFist on 27 May 2012 at 7:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6650 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 12 of 21 27 May 2012 at 8:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
I'm not sure what Camun... meant, but, as far as I know, there is no test you have to pass to work here. Though all immigrants will get free Swedish lessons by SFI, Swedish for Immigrants. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6428 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 13 of 21 27 May 2012 at 8:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Someone on another forum posted that Oslo, Norway is very expensive, and that a McDonald's combo meal was about US$16. Is that true?
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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5444 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 14 of 21 27 May 2012 at 10:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
We have a few of those at work. I don't like them, but others do. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Pisces Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4613 days ago 143 posts - 284 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish*, French, SwedishC1, Esperanto Studies: German, Spanish, Russian | Message 15 of 21 27 May 2012 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Pronunciation of Swedish is hard, harder than German. Pitch accent, retroflex consonants, different sh-sounds. The pitch accent is really a detail. (Since I moved back to Finland, my Swedish has become Finnish Swedish, which doesn't have pitch accent and has fewer retroflex consonants and easier sh-sounds, but it does have an unusual u-sound that some people find difficult.) There are four or five ways of forming the plural - these are called declensions in some grammar books, but there's nothing else to them - there are no cases besides nom. and genitive (which is just with -s, like -'s in English). Learning the genders is pretty hard. The hardest thing in the grammar is prepositions, which seem completely crazy for an English speaker, and maybe particle verbs (verbs like 'lock up'). As an example of the latter, låsa = lock, but in Swedish, 'låsa upp' means 'unlock'. Then there are annoying things, like the fact that the Swedish verb 'gå', which is pronounced as much like 'go' as is possible, actually means 'walk', so one is liable to say stupid things like, "last week, I walked to New York." Also the pronunciation of a word is often not clear from the spelling. All in all, though, it's not a difficult language. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Haldor Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5606 days ago 103 posts - 122 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Swedish Studies: French, Spanish | Message 16 of 21 29 May 2012 at 11:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I don't know which one is the hardest - but I think with Norwegian you will pretty much have 3 for the price of one. A Norwegian speaker will understand pretty much all of both Danish and Swedish without much hassle. I don't think the Swedes can say that, at least not with Danish, whose writing resembles that of Norwegian
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