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laban
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 Message 1 of 15
09 February 2010 at 11:12pm | IP Logged 
After many random web browsing, and looking around for some scandinavian lanaguage learning resources (programs, audio tapes, sites...), it seemed to me that swedish is the most accessible out of the rest of the scandinavian family.

why do you think that is?

btw - seems like icelandic sources are pretty hard to find, and even more - faroese.
(but that could make some sence, especially for faroese ;)
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 Message 2 of 15
09 February 2010 at 11:28pm | IP Logged 
laban wrote:
After many random web browsing, and looking around for some scandinavian lanaguage learning
resources (programs, audio tapes, sites...), it seemed to me that swedish is the most accessible out of the rest of
the scandinavian family.

why do you think that is?


Twice as many Swedes as Danes and Norwegians.
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Metamucil
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 Message 3 of 15
10 February 2010 at 2:18am | IP Logged 
might help that swedish is an official language in Finland as well.
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10 February 2010 at 4:43am | IP Logged 
I have never had problems finding Danish material. Whether it's litriture, film or structured lessons for learning the language.
But what do you mean by material?
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laban
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10 February 2010 at 2:31pm | IP Logged 
@ tractor

thought about it, but still, population size shouldn't really matter here, since we're probably dealing with foreign demand to study the language. and although i'm not sure about it - I think there is no big difference between, lets say, sweden and norway when it comes to their power and verious influences over the world. so basically, none should have an advantage over the other.

@ oz-hestekræfte

I've noticed more teaching programs and tapes, and even when I did find something of, lets say, icelandic or even danish for that matter - they were lesser in quality.

Edited by laban on 10 February 2010 at 2:32pm
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Ari
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10 February 2010 at 2:44pm | IP Logged 
I know there was a lot of emigration from Sweden to America. This might indicate there are many descendants of Swedes in the US, who might want to learn the language. Don't know if there was equally pervasive emigration from Norway and Denmark. I also think Swedish things like IKEA, ABBA, Volvo and the Nobel Prize might help spread the fame of the language. But then I'm Swedish, so maybe I'm just not picking up the big Norwegian and Danish internationalities.
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 Message 7 of 15
10 February 2010 at 3:03pm | IP Logged 
Ari wrote:
I know there was a lot of emigration from Sweden to America. This might indicate there are many descendants of Swedes in the US, who might want to learn the language. Don't know if there was equally pervasive emigration from Norway and Denmark.

I don't know about Denmark, but a lot of people emigrated from Norway. I don't know if the numbers are comparable, but I can't really see why they shouldn't be. After all, Norway was a poor country a hundred years ago.
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10 February 2010 at 3:14pm | IP Logged 
laban wrote:
@ tractor

thought about it, but still, population size shouldn't really matter here, since we're probably dealing with foreign demand to study the language. and although i'm not sure about it - I think there is no big difference between, lets say, sweden and norway when it comes to their power and verious influences over the world. so basically, none should have an advantage over the other.

If everything else is more or less equal, population size may be the determining factor why more people want to study it. By the way, I'm not sure that everything is equal when it comes to influence. Sweden is Norway's big brother.

Edited by tractor on 10 February 2010 at 3:14pm


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