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| FutureSpy Hexaglot Newbie Brazil yuji.ws/ Joined 6458 days ago 13 posts - 14 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Spanish, CatalanC1, Galician, English, Esperanto Studies: Occitan, Swiss-German, Cebuano | Message 1 of 14 04 October 2011 at 2:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Are the texts on Hugo Swedish in 3 months, Danish in 3 months and Norwegian in 3 months
all the same? I'm looking for textbooks with parallel text in all 3 languages, but so far I couldn't find any. Unfortunately, Assimil, Colloquial, Teach Yourself for each of these languages are completely different textbooks... If anyone knows such a textbook, any recommendations would be very appreciated. Edited by FutureSpy on 04 October 2011 at 2:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4830 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2 of 14 04 October 2011 at 3:20pm | IP Logged | ||
It may not be quite what you want, but there is an old Collins Scandinavian phrasebook which has parallel phrases in all 3 languages. Our copies are from the 1950s/60s. I was able to buy a 2nd hand copy from amazon.co.uk (marketplace) when I thought we had lost our original copy (then the original turned up). I don't know if there is a modern Scandinavian phrase book that does it in the same way. (I actually like the style of some of these older language books). EDIT: Seems like there should be a good niche market out there for a parallel Scandinavian language course. I think it could certainly work for the written language. I don't know about the spoken though. Edited by montmorency on 04 October 2011 at 3:23pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
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Good idea, montmorency! Thanks. I had completely forgotten about phrasebooks. Actually
I'm trying to learn Norwegian, and it would be great to acquire some competency (even if it's just reading skills) in the others. Besides Collins, Berlitz and Lonely Planet have Scandinavian phrasebooks in a single book. And there's also an online phrasebook resource Book2. Edited by FutureSpy on 04 October 2011 at 5:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7123 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 4 of 14 04 October 2011 at 6:33pm | IP Logged | ||
No. One is in Swedish, one is in Norwegian and the other is in Danish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
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So the text used as base is different in all three books?
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4830 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 6 of 14 05 October 2011 at 12:42am | IP Logged | ||
FWIW, I have TYS Norwegian (book and CD) and I'd say it's quite good. I haven't got around to looking at the Swedish and Danish ones. I think someone on here said they were each entirely different courses, which is actually fairly reasonable in a way (e.g. the Norwegian one talks a lot about Oslo and other specific Norwegian things, and I suppose the others will do the same for Sweden and Denmark). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
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As far as I know, the only real courses with parallel text for most (if not all) old
courses is Linguaphone. But I'm afraid of buying the wrong book (there are audio-only courses and real courses). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5567 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 8 of 14 05 October 2011 at 1:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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The answer is that all the Hugo Scandie languages are all different in text.
As to the 50s-60s Linguaphone - even then you would be wrong as the Danish course was always different from the others. I have the Norwegian and Danish from that era, but not the Swedish, so I can't say if the Swedish uses the same format as the Norwegian (and most other languages of that era). Edited by Elexi on 05 October 2011 at 4:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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