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| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4621 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 41 of 74 23 October 2013 at 9:55am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I think TV can have a huge influence. Not so long ago, regional accents and dialects were rarely heard on British TV, now they are everywhere. On several occasions as a child, I remember going on holiday to other parts of Britain and hardly understanding anything that the locals said. If I was a kid now, I think I'd cope a lot better because I would have had some prior exposure.
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5333 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 42 of 74 23 October 2013 at 10:04am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Hah! Tell that to someone who grew up with "Emmerdale Farm" :-) In the beginning, when I was young it felt
like it was barely English. After a while I hardly even noticed. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4827 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 43 of 74 23 October 2013 at 10:41am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Not to mention: Coronation Street (Manchester/Salford), since the 1960s Crossroads (Birmingham), started 1960s, ran for decades Auf Wiedersehen Pet: Geordie + other regional accents Brookside: Liverpool: ran for many years (various other Liverpool-based drama, comedy) Steptoe and Son (and others): Cockney. Rab C Nesbit, very broad Scottish. etc, etc. However, I think what he was referring to was announcers and presenters, etc. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6677 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 44 of 74 23 October 2013 at 8:34pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Did you grow up in the south? ;) (Anything below Sundsvall counts as the south for me.) We had SVT 1/2 and TV4 for like... ever. Then TV3, Femman, ZTV and MTV, and I think that's pretty much it.
The mention of SVT may be key here, I can't say I watched either one very much, except as a very small child, but then I never saw anything other than Sweidsh programs. But, my mother watched and still watches a lot of TV, and she always followed the Danish serials. I have never seen a Norwegian serial though. These last years Norwegian serials have obviously improved in quality, so I wouldn't be surprised to see more of them now (if it weren't for the fact that I don't have time to watch TV). Not to mention that there's been tons of more contact between Norway and Sweden with half of my generation moving here for at least some time :P They even had to import Skavlan... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5831 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 45 of 74 23 October 2013 at 8:59pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Don't forget Ant and Dec. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 4098 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian | Message 46 of 74 23 October 2013 at 10:09pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Why, yes, I did. (...and anything north of Växjö counts as The Great White North to me, so we're even) ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4827 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 47 of 74 24 October 2013 at 12:22am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Why aye mon! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4667 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 48 of 74 27 October 2013 at 7:45pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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''Mange seier faktisk at findlandssvensk er det lettaste språket i Norden å forstå, fordi dei har så klår uttale.''
seier Heidi Lønne Grønseth, skuleansvarleg i Foreningen Norden. http://framtida.no/articles/ikkje-gje-opp-a-snakke-norsk#.Um 1efVMucjN Mini Dictionary: http://miniordbok.org/ VERD verd /verda er heile jorda/ verden /verden er hele jorden/ verden /verden er alle lande på jorden/ värld /världen är alla länder på jordklotet/ Do you think of Danish, Swedish and Norwegian is easy? • Danish youth: 43.3% (Swedish) and 53.9% (Norwegian) • Swedish adolescents: 33.5% (Danish) and 58.4% (Norwegian) • Norwegian adolescents: 35.5% (Danish) and 77.4% (Swedish) Source: Aftenposten.no Edited by Medulin on 27 October 2013 at 8:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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