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| Dart Newbie United States Joined 6396 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German | Message 1 of 3 06 November 2006 at 6:16pm | IP Logged |
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I've seen this thread about a suggested Romance language learning sequence:
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=192&PN=0&TPN=1 Does anyone have any suggestions about a Germanic language learning sequence? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| rafaelrbp Pentaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 6801 days ago 181 posts - 201 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Spanish, English, French, Italian Studies: German | Message 2 of 3 06 November 2006 at 6:47pm | IP Logged |
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I could be wrong, but this is what I always heard:
1. German 2. Dutch/Afrikaans 3. Swedish/Norwegian/Danish 4. Icelandic/Faroese If you include English in that list, them it should be the first one. You should also consider Scots, Frisian, Gothic, etc. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| TDC Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6709 days ago 261 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, French Studies: Esperanto, Ukrainian, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Persian | Message 3 of 3 09 November 2006 at 3:03pm | IP Logged |
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I plan on learning them in this order:
German - It's the most widely used, and probably the best place to start. If you don't get any further, you probably wouldn't regret learning German. (unless you plan on moving to one of the other countries) Swedish - The most widespread of the 3 Scandinavian languages. Also genetically it's further away from German than Dutch. So less to confuse. Dutch - Closer to German, so after having German/Swedish, should be somewhat easier. Norwegian - Extremely close to Swedish, shouldn't be too difficult at this point. Danish - From what I can tell maybe the most difficult to understand spoken out of Sw/No/Da, so I feel it would be better to have a base in the other 2 first. Also by learning book Norwegian you can already basically read Danish. (or something like that) Icelandic - Probably the most difficult after German, lots of old features. So I figure building the others up first would help to make the ease into Icelandic much simpler. Another reason to do this one near the end is because there's really only an island full of speakers. Afrikaans - Perhaps the easiest because of a simplified grammar. Also being spoken mainly in South Africa, puts it the farthest away from the others. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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