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Which Scandinavian language do you learn? | ||
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| limey75 Senior Member United Kingdom germanic.eu/ Joined 4404 days ago 119 posts - 182 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Norwegian, Old English | Message 1 of 42 10 November 2012 at 7:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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My prediction is that most people here learn Swedish but we'll see... Edited by Fasulye on 11 November 2012 at 11:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6602 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2 of 42 11 November 2012 at 12:15am | IP Logged | ||
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As of now I'm the most serious about Danish. But I want to live in Finland so eventually I'm going to learn Swedish as well. And I'm doing the Assimil experiment in Norwegian (which I mostly want to understand).
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| sans-serif Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4564 days ago 298 posts - 470 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, German, Swedish Studies: Danish | Message 3 of 42 11 November 2012 at 12:51am | IP Logged | ||
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Swedish is the only Scandinavian language I've studied seriously, and will likely remain that way. I am, however, planning to develop my comprehension of Danish and Norwegian to a level that allows me to communicate with and read books from all of Scandinavia.
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| limey75 Senior Member United Kingdom germanic.eu/ Joined 4404 days ago 119 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Norwegian, Old English | Message 4 of 42 11 November 2012 at 1:05am | IP Logged | ||
What do you mean by this? :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6602 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 5 of 42 11 November 2012 at 1:16am | IP Logged | ||
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Oh it's a challenge!
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5852 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 42 11 November 2012 at 11:00am | IP Logged | ||
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I have been learning Danish for 3 years now. I started my Danish studies in October 2009.
Have look at my "Dansk övelse log" in the Log Subforum, where I practise my Danish writing skills! Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 11 November 2012 at 11:01am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| AlOlaf Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5153 days ago 491 posts - 617 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC2 Studies: Danish | Message 7 of 42 12 November 2012 at 10:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Up until recently, I had no interest in speaking any foreign language but German. Within the last year, though, I've become enthralled by Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Dutch. I suppose it would be foolhardy to try to study them all simultaneously, but I started to think about all the forum members who speak multiple languages and figured they had to have had some simultaneous learning action going on there at some point. Has anyone ever tried to learn several closely-related languages at the same time and, if so, what was the result? My goal is not to achieve advanced fluency, but to travel to the countries where these languages are spoken and be able to get around and explore and not be dependent on English speakers. I've been told that many native speakers of these languages will break into English upon detecting the slightest hint of an American accent, but I don't care.
I voted Swedish because that's what I've been spending the most time on lately. Edited by AlOlaf on 13 November 2012 at 3:19am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4526 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 8 of 42 13 November 2012 at 2:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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@AlOlaf
I think the main factor that causes Scandinavians to switch to English is the incompetence of a lot of English speakers to pronounce sounds like ø/ö and y. It's not hard to achieve, but you might need some time to get them right and use them automatically. If you make an effort and get these right, I think a lot of Scandinavians are glad to speak their native language with you, even if you make some mistakes here and there. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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