Norwegian, Danish, Swedish: so similar - why are they even different languages? 

Yes spoken Danish is a bit hard. I guess you would understand it if you studied a bit how the different sounds are produced in Danish. However it's great to hear that you benefit from your Swedish classes when travelling around Scandinavia!

Bare hyggelig, flott at du likte det :-)

Yes Danish pronunciation is a bit tricky ;-)

'Er' and 'är' are actually the same word, with almost the same pronunciation in Norwegian and Swedish, but different spelling.

Nice to hear :-)

Great to hear :-)

Understanding spoken Danish would require to get a basic understanding of the pronunciation differences between Norwegian and Danish - without that it's really hard. I don't teach 1:1 at the moment but check out my courses here: courses.skapago.eu/lp/all

Sounds great :-)

What part of Svensk pronunciation is crazy in your ears?

I'm a bit biased and would suggest Norwegian as it is (in some way) linguistically between Swedish and Danish. However if you're just more drawn to Swedish, I would say go for Swedish! You can even change from one language to another one at a later point.

Thank you very much for your answer! @@TheNorwegianSchool

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@@TheNorwegianSchool :)

It's relatively common to interact. The Scandinavian countries have had close ties to each other for a long time.

@@TheNorwegianSchool Yes, especially after Denmark and Sweden stopped constantly fighting, more than two centuries ago.

Short answer. Yes. - We interact with each other alot, we all consider each other as family, because of our herritage and shared history (we are god damn proud to be vikings lol). We also go on vacations alot between ourselves. We also watch each others TV shows, all the time, and listen to each others music to some degree, if it gets popular enough (lyrics can get washed out a great deal, so can be hard to understand). Our languages are mutually intelligable, but ofc there are differences and dialects can make it harder to understand. In recent time, there has been a shift towards english speaking entertainment tho, and we all speak english so well by now, that like, maybe 50%ish of ppl (mostly the younger generation) dont even bother try to speak scandinavian to each other anymore, and just defaults to english instead, which is a shame... If u tell someone to slow down, because u have a hard time understanding it, it will usually result in us understanding each other still.. But its just much easier to do it in english in the end, because its just "easier" (and faster). Im a Dane and obviously the odd one of the three, as norwegians and swedes dont have much trouble understanding each other, while we are bordering Germany, and have developed somewhat broken form of scandinavian, and we get friendly mocked for that. Norwegians and Swedes tend to say our language sounds like "a strangeled goose" or "someone speaking with a potato in their mouth" or something like that. :p Its all friendly banter tho. We would always show up for each other, if any shit hit the fan. Always.

That's true but Sami is not a Scandinavian language.

@@TheNorwegianSchool Why is sami not "Scandinavian" really? Of course it does not have germanic roots, but it has been spoken in Northern Scandinavia for thousands of years. (I'm not saying they were here first, because they were not, but still.)

​@@herrbonk3635 Sami is a Uralic language, it has no similarities with Scandinavian languages. Calling Sami a Scandinavian language would be like calling Hungarian a Slavic language. Also Finnish is a Uralic language btw, not a Scandinavian language. Scandinavia as a geographic region only includes Sweden and Norway, the linguistic group differs from the geographical area (as it does for the Uralic languages, which are predominantly spoken very far from the Ural).

@@TheNorwegianSchool Of course it hasn't, but you miss my point. In a sense, our languages are not "scandinavian", they are (north) germanic. Spoken in Denmark, Island and Finland as well as Norway and Sweden. And with other almost as old languages spoken here as well. Slavic is also aiming at a group of people, not a region. (Parts of Finland is actually also part of Scandinavia and Skanderna, even after parting with Sweden in 1809, but that's another part of the complexity.)

@@herrbonk3635 You can call them North Germanic languages if you prefer that. These names are pretty arbitrary. As I pointed out before, Uralic languages are barely spoken in Ural and still bear that name. I don't see what's the problem here.

I wouldn't say that, I think Swedish and Norwegian are on par.

@@TheNorwegianSchool Thank you :) Takk for ditt svar.

Thank you!