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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4833 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 137 of 169 11 August 2013 at 2:39am | IP Logged | ||
I did, but then I'm not what you might call hardcore. Not the written language, but the spoken. Mirabile dictu, I actually find Danish easier. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4673 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 138 of 169 11 August 2013 at 3:00am | IP Logged | ||
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I can clearly hear the difference between a clear speech used on NRK news and slurred speech used in Norwegian movies. It is not only a difference in speed, but in diction (quality) as well.
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| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5105 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 139 of 169 11 August 2013 at 3:17am | IP Logged | ||
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I didn't want to start a new thread for this, so I hope you guys can help me out.
Swedish intrigues me, but I have a couple of questions. Does that language have a strong presence on the internet? And also, is there a lot of published literature in Swedish? I need to figure out whether or not it would be worth it to me to study it some day in the distant future. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5458 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 140 of 169 11 August 2013 at 7:23pm | IP Logged | ||
The diction is horrible in recent Norwegian films. I guess it is meant to sound as natural as possible. In the seventies and eighties, on the other hand, they used to speak in a very theatrical and artificial way. That was actually a lot worse to listen to. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| NorwegianNYC Triglot Newbie United States Joined 4344 days ago 10 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English, Norwegian*, German | Message 141 of 169 26 August 2013 at 3:25pm | IP Logged | ||
are reading the news, not speaking it. Norwegian has no spoken standard, and no authoritative dialect, so you cannot SPEAK the language in a way that is more correct than other. Which again makes the concept of sloppy diction relative, since spoken Norwegian is the everyday speech of the region you are from, with its idiosyncratic twists and oddities, and ditto deviations from standard written Norwegian. No one SPEAKS the language like they READ it on the news... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4849 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 142 of 169 26 August 2013 at 4:05pm | IP Logged | ||
Sweden is a major European industrial country, so what do you expect? There's plenty of Swedish books and websites. Edited by Josquin on 26 August 2013 at 4:06pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4712 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 143 of 169 26 August 2013 at 5:09pm | IP Logged | ||
The Swedish presence is big enough to be relevant for you to learn. Yeah, you get more material in English, but there's nearly always more material in English. It's not Ojibwe. There's plenty good fiction and non-fiction in Swedish. Plenty detailed wiki articles. Plenty of cinema. Lycka till! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| louisjanus Newbie United States NorwegianLanguage.inRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5624 days ago 11 posts - 19 votes Speaks: English* | Message 144 of 169 26 August 2013 at 5:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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and if reading Norwegian and Danish interests you in the future, you will be able to make the transition. And
speaking Norwegian. -- let me know. Edited by louisjanus on 26 August 2013 at 5:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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