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    Scandanavian Languages

    Hi,
    I want to study another European language. I speak English, Chinese (Mandarin only) and French along with my computer graphics degree ( in French)!

    Which Scandanavian language is the easiest to study for me do you think?

    Thanks in Advance!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Minty View Post
    Hi,
    I want to study another European language. I speak English, Chinese (Mandarin only) and French along with my computer graphics degree ( in French)!

    Which Scandanavian language is the easiest to study for me do you think?

    Thanks in Advance!

    Minty
    i don´t know wich is the easiet, but to me, the most beautiful is swedish

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    Swedish!

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    Quote Originally Posted by loladunas View Post
    i don´t know wich is the easiet, but to me, the most beautiful is swedish
    Google swedish dialects to find out which one you like.

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    Well, there are some Scandinavian languages closely related to each other, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. But there is also the Dutch Frisian language, that stands between English and the Scandinavian ones.


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    I vote Swedish. Motivated by it's the most common spoken language in Scandinavia. Swedish about 10.5 million speakers. Compared to Danish which has 6 million and Norwegian has 5 million.

    Also, Swedish is the language you should learn, if you're going visit or live in Scandinavia. If I wasn't Swedish and I had to learn Scandinavian languages, I'd learn Swedish because it has the most clarity of all Scandinavian languages. Danish is like Swedish, but they don't pronounce the words properly, so you always get the feeling, "what the hell are they saying?". Norwegian is just a funny version of Swedish and Danish. Once you know Swedish, you'll understand reading both Norwegian and Danish.

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