This metaphor is not that far away from reality. Conversations between Swedes and Danes in particular take a lot of concentration and are known to be a bit awkward. Let us clarify. Danish stands out from the other two Scandinavian languages mainly because it has a large discrepancy between written and spoken language. The words are shortened, the consonants softened and the endings almost swallowed.
To people speaking Swedish and Norwegian, a lot of Danish pronunciation patterns seem completely random. A lot of the time, conversations default to English as a common lingua franca. Danish: en farve. Norwegian: en farge. Besides pronunciation, there are also some false friends to watch out for. If a Swede and a Norwegian agree to do something roligt together, the Swede will be expecting to have a lot of fun, but the Norwegian will be preparing for something more calm and relaxing.
If a Dane thinks a Norwegian is nice or cute, they call them rar. Despite some differences in vocabulary, written Danish and written Norwegian are almost identical. This is because Norway belonged to Denmark between the 14th and 19th centuries.
Danish never really found its way into the spoken language, however — the geographical proximity to Sweden played a larger role here. No, of course not! Nordic languages are all part of the North Germanic language family. Faroese Faroe Islands is also a Nordic language, but only Contrary to popular belief, Finnish Finland is not a Nordic language.
Yes, many of the Scandinavian Nordic languages are mutually ineligible. This is thanks to the shared history and common vocabulary Nordic languages have. They should be dialects of a common Scandinavian language. Nordic languages are very similar to each other. Over 20 million people speaker Nordic languages. Out of all the Nordic languages, most speak Swedish with 10 million Swedish speakers worldwide.
There are 6 million Danish speakers, 4. Of course, many Scandinavian residents speak more than one Nordic language. This is a government-defined rating of how easy or hard foreign languages are. If you want to determine how long it will take an English native speaker to learn a foreign language, this chart is quoted. According to the FSI ranking, most of the Nordic languages are very easy to learn for native English speakers. Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish are all Category I languages.
This means you can reach complete fluency in them in hours or weeks. Icelandic on the other hand is a little bit more complicated. This raises the difficulty level and the amount of time estimated to learn it. You may need up to 44 weeks or hours of study to master Icelandic.
So, we can definitely rule Icelandic out as the easiest Nordic language. When it comes to Norwegian and Danish, they are similar in vocabulary. The difference comes in, in the sound as they differ.
On the other hand, Swedish and Norwegian are similar when it comes to the pronunciation but their words used are different. To understand the relation these Nordic languages have to each other, we can look at them as Scandinavian siblings.
Norwegian is the eldest. Danish is the rebel sibling. Quick links. In what order should I learn Scandinavian Moderator: Johanna.
In what order should I learn Scandinavian Post by Woods » Thu , I have a question to ask you Scandinavian language learners. How do you actually deal with the difference between Swedish, Norwegian and Danish, so great as to name them three different languages?
So far I know a few phrases in all of the three languages, and what I do is tell them randomly to Scandinavian people. Should I read all three languages until I learn them or should I stick with Norwegian until I learn it and only then read Swedish and Danish in order to keep my writing clear from words that are not its own?
What would you advise me? Re: In what order should I learn Scandinavian Post by Dingbats » Thu , I edited your post and added paragraph breaks so it's more legible. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them. Re: In what order should I learn Scandinavian Post by Woods » Fri , Dingbats wrote: I edited your post and added paragraph breaks so it's more legible.
Dingbats wrote: It's hard enough for native speakers who have to deal with the other languages to keep them separate. Re: In what order should I learn Scandinavian Post by Dingbats » Sat , Grytolle wrote: Yeah, but that's hardly relevant for the choice between three languages with more than 5 million speakers each and no real spread outside of their respective country.
Re: In what order should I learn Scandinavian Post by Woods » Sun , I don't know why, but there's an enormous demand for studying Scandinavian languages.
All the folks are interested either in Swedish, or Norwegian, or Danish, or Icelanding, or all of them. Just look at the profiles of the Unilang-ers or over the Internet. Why is it so? If you know Swedish it's not hard to be able to communicate with most Norwegians depending on where in Norway they live.
The farther west, the harder it is. After Swedish, you should move on to Norwegian which is then mostly about learning the words that are different enough not to be understood.
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