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| cwcowellshah Newbie United States Joined 4166 days ago 34 posts - 52 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish | Message 25 of 31 12 February 2013 at 10:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I know this is an old thread, but I thought the original poster might appreciate another answer to the question.
Swedish was an easy choice for me over Danish and Norwegian, for these reasons: * Danish appears to have the fewest online or in-print learning resources. * Norway's bifurcation between Nynorsk and Bokmål adds an unwanted layer of complication. * This is entirely personal preference, but Danish doesn't sound as pretty as the other two. In Danish I hear Russian/Portuguese-like nasality, and Arabic/Hebrew-like guttural sounds, neither of which appeals to me. * The Swedish tones are pleasant to hear and fun to imitate. * At twice the population, Sweden has more native speakers and (presumably?) more things to see as a tourist. * Danish has a reputation of being hard to understand orally, due to cut-off sounds, rapid speech, and elisions. * Danish pronunciation *sounds* like it would be the hardest of the three for a native English speaker to learn to produce. Please correct me if any of those reasons seem wrong. Having said all that, for my purposes, any of the languages would have been fine. And I will say that Danish has the most interesting looking alphabet of the three. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6384 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 26 of 31 13 February 2013 at 3:25am | IP Logged | |||||
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You might be mixing up Russian with Polish.
Half your points are basically about the difficult and unusual pronunciation. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| cwcowellshah Newbie United States Joined 4166 days ago 34 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish | Message 27 of 31 13 February 2013 at 5:02am | IP Logged | |||||
No, Russian sounds nasal to me. Maybe Polish is even more nasal, but I've never heard it so I don't know.
Yes, Danish pronunciation is a real stumbling block for me and, I take it, for a lot of others. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5634 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 28 of 31 29 March 2013 at 8:35am | IP Logged | |||||
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So there are more online and book / audio resources available for Swedish and Norwegian than for Danish? I didn't know that!
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4494 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 29 of 31 29 March 2013 at 5:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
Russian doesn't sound particularly nasal to me. I don't think Russian has any nasal vowels at all (Polish does, and so does f.e. French).
It's as big a stumbling block as you make it out to be. I actually think I would find Danish easier because I have to worry less about pitch accent. But all in all pronunciation takes time to adapt to. Which is why it tends to be the no. 1 thing I cover unless I can already produce all the phonemes. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4631 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 30 of 31 29 March 2013 at 5:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
But instead you would have to worry about the stød... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4494 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 31 of 31 29 March 2013 at 10:24pm | IP Logged | |||||
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There's always something to worry about.
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