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Swedish and Norwegian are mutually intelligible, just like Czech and Slovak. It's nice when two nations understand each other and don't need translators. As far as Scandinavian languages are concerned, Swedish leads the way for me :)

I learned some Danish as an exchange student over a summer, then got in a situation where my school dropped Danish instruction but still offered Swedish. So I took that. Then Danish came back and I was taking both for a couple years. I was very good (I'm told) at keeping them separate, but it takes constant practice. In the years since, as I've gotten busy with other things, I make far more mistakes when switching now. As you allude to, there are far more Swedish speakers (Swedes also tend to be better at promoting their national "brand" than Danes are) so I've gone from being equally good to being better at Swedish now. There are just more opportunities to practice it.

I am Danish. If you want to learn a Scandinavian language, take Swedish. Why? Because the three of us understands each other, but speaking Swedish, you will do fine in Finland, too. Swedish is an official language in Finland, therefore many Finns speak Swedish.

I'm starting to learn swedish and it seems like I will unlock powers if I become fluent in it.

I really enjoy the singsong sounds of Swedish and its closeness to English. But this is a great explanation. I did wonder what the similarities to the three languages were.

I started off with Norwegian but the 2 written standards and the millions of dialects made me switch to Swedish. Swedish has twice the amount of speakers, the dialects are more similar and it's spoken in Finland so it was like a "gate" to 2 countries.

I am am a Swede with a lot of childhood time in northwest Skåne but most of my time has been in Stockholm. Skåne is the southernmost "landscape" of Sweden. During the time in Skåne I was exposed to some Danish as we could listen to a Danish radio station (which played more and better pop- and rock music (spoken Danish of course between the pieces of music) than the two Swedish radio channels at the time). This latter area (and also Blekinge and parts of two other neighboring landscapes) was part of Denmark until 1658. After that Danish was banned in these areas - the idea was to teach the former Danes to speak Swedish which resulted in a dialect group - essentially different versions of "skånska" which also includes some vocabulary that is distinct for this area. Today I spend much of my time in the western Blekinge (close to Skåne) and definitely recognize the similarities. With this background I still have to admit that I have much more problems understanding Danish than the two versions of Norwegian but there are Norwegian dialects (or individuals) that also can cause me problems. It feels embarrassing with the large problems I have with Danish and I usually stick to English whenever I visit Denmark. There are also some words which are entirely different from Swedish like - yes the word "different" in Swedish which is "olika". In Danish this is "forskellige" and in Norwegian "forskjellige" or "ulike". A Swede cannot just know the word "forsk(j)ellige" and therefore has to learn it and there are more such examples. Counting in Danish is still a mystery for me (probably learned some of it as a child but forgot it - I am 72 now). It is easier for me to read Danish and but again - Norwegian is easier for me to understand. Icelandic is essentially not understandable but sometimes I have tried to read Icelandic texts and recognize a few of the words but the barrier is huge and would require a lot of studies and experience to overcome. There is however one advantage with Swedish that may be forgotten - that many Finns have a Swedish dialect as their native language and even more people in Finland have studied Swedish which helps a lot. There are however Finnish people who don't know any Swedish - Finnish is very different from Swedish - most Swedes will not understand Finnish. A few words here and there can be recognized - for example "street" is "gata" in Swedish and "katu" i Finnish (the letter "g" seems to be rare in Finnish - it is much more of "k"), a few more recent words are essentially the same as English ("golf" is also "golf" in Swedish and Finnish (not "kolf")) but one cannot build a conversation on just a few words like that... Finally it should be noted that Swedish is not native in all of Sweden: There are large areas in northern Sweden where there are two major groups of "Laplandish" (word?) which also stretch into Norway and Finland - I am not the right person to comment Laplandish but the average person from the southern half of Sweden will not understand any of that.

As a Norwegian, I would also say learn Swedish, and I would say that for two reasons. First because of the dialects in Norway. There are a crazy amount of dialects that can be hard to understand. Second reason is music. There is no language that is as beautiful when sung.

I speak a little Norwegian and it's pretty good for when I visit Sweden as they're quite close but then I get them mixed up

Keep going man , thanks a lot

The hurdle with Danish language depends of which part of Sweden You come from. I live on an island outside Gothenburg. The dialect where I live is mixed Danish and Swedish due to trade and wars since Viking age. People from Stockholm dose not understand a word of what I say. However, when I go to Northern Denmark /Jylland/ Aalborg etc . I can speak my own dialect and all Danes understands me, ectcept for counting as they have another version of it.Well I manage now

I love the idea of mutually intelligible languages. English doesn't really have any, although some dialects are almost like different languages. I've heard Fresian is the closest, but I can't make heads nor tails of it.

German here. I get the impression, Swedish and Danish is a bit like High German and Swiss German. As a German native speaker from Germany, you need extensive training to understand Swiss German dialects.

Love that you sneaked Grotesco and Kamelåså in there ;D

Go for Norwegian. You get the written language of half of Scandinavia (Norwegian and Danish) and half of the spoken language of Scandinavia (Norwegian and Swedish). And no, you don't need to learn Nynorsk. The only reason for someone who wants to learn about Nynorsk is if you plan to move to a Nynorsk municipality. The majority of Norway uses Bokmål when it comes to the written language.

I lived in Vienna half my life, and I understand Bavarian quiet well. And Danish and Bavarian have some similarities in the pronouciation, besides the rolling Italian R sound.

Have you seen the "Islandic standup about nordic neighbors"? Its on youtube, from years ago. I still watch it from time to time because it doesn't ever get old 😂😂😂

Its deep, funny and and cute for non nordics foreigners the first impression that danish rwegian and swede are the same idiom in writng and spell, only impressions 😅😅😅😅 Between nordics germanics natives norwegian and swedish are brothers and danish today seems the french nordic cousin, that talks eating the finals letters. Today i can understand and see that, but in past years i couldn't see clearly this phenomenon in the same cultural linguistic backstage.

Bokmål and Nynorsk aren't just different writing systems, they are in fact standards of two separate languages, and while Nynorsk is distinctly West Scandinavian (eg/ek for I is one of the features, for example), Bokmål is indeed more of an assimilated version of Danish which is East Scandinavian.

It's the old story: You say _Jantelagen_ , I say _Janteloven_ ... But we both say _berg_ (and even the Dutch all the way to the Icelanders)

2:11 AAHHAHAHAH THE YOUNG ROYALS FANDOM GATHERR.. HE HAS FIGURED OUT WHY WE ARE HERE

I'm a bit confused, because I used to watch Scandinavian series and in some of them Swedish and Danish people meet and seem to understand each other quite well (like one is talking in Danish and the other one is answering in Swedish). It isn't true in real life?

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I have recently read that Norwegian is like "a Swede trying to speak Danish". I don't know if that's true, but it sounds plausible (and fun) to me.

So Norwegian has a lot of similarity to Swedish due to proximity, but it also has a lot of similarities to Danish because of previous Danish rule. By this logic, if someone's goal is to understand all three very well, wouldn't that makes Norwegian the best choice? Also, you talk about the dialects of Norway, but again if your goal is to understand everybody in Scandinavia, then studying Norwegian prepares you for understanding them better than studying Swedish does, right?

Som svensk, hur svårt är det för dig att förstå nynorsk jämfört med bokmål? Och de olika norska dialekterna? Jag är nyfiken Tack för videorna Joakim!

Embodied by The Lost Vikings. The tiny vocal red-haired one is the Dane, the muscular serious blonde one the Norwegian and the frivolous fat blonde one one the Swede.

I got my potatoes and ready to learn some Danish 😊

I think i will start learning some of these languages... I just dont know which of them. I also dont have any native friend from these countries. I need to think about it.

2:47 "Bæstefar, jeg kan ikke snakker Dansk!", "Det kan jeg ikke heller, høhøhø."

Det er dejligt, bedstefar! Swedes are always so busy criticizing how Danes don't enunciate..... and then go on and pronounce "sj" like ✨THAT✨ WHAT EVEN IS THAT, JOAKIM. I hold you personally responsible.

all three languages are fascinating

Swedish is not only the easiest nordic language to learn, (still pretty difficult tho) But it's also the most spoken one

Good to know that my random decision was a good decision

For starters is Danish in fact the odd kid out? The soundshift of what is today the Scandinavian languages already began during the 800 and the major soundshift of Danish happend during the 1100, long before any of the Scandinavian languages was influenced by middel low German. Old norse had stress accents and neither Faroes or Icelandic, the closest spoken languages to old Norse today, is classified as tonal/musical languages which is the case with Swedish and Norwegian. So Swedish, and in particular Norwegian, quite simpley took a diffrent path evolving into having tonal / musical pronunciation, although it differs throughout Norway from less to very pitchy. In Swedish it seems more stabil throughout the country as less pitchy and in certain regions the pronunciation / soundscape is quite nasal. Danish on the other hand, in particular the varies Jutish dialects and accents, leans more towards western Germanic languages like Dutch, Frisian and northern English. As far as the written standards Swedish is the one that differs the most, Swedish has a significant amount of wotds that differs completly from Danish / Norwegian.

Alv, yo elijo el Islandes xd

Danish accent sounds more like German or Dutch accent

I think they say Norwegian is West Norse because it originally was, and that shines through in some elements such as diphthongs, the feminine etc - most of those being emphasized in Nynorsk. However, Bokmål (especially the conservative variation) is pretty much Danish, so East Norse.

great video allthough i havent watched it yet

Nobody ever mentions the fact that Dutch is the language that most resembles Swedish .

Correction, you do not need to learn Nynorsk if you wanna learn Norwegian

Everyone loves the Danes and Demark, but for the love of all that is good, Denmark -- annunciate! Learning Swedish and looking at Bokmaol, I always find the Norwegian word order confusing to start with: how is that managed on the borders...?

2:11 HE KNOWS….

EDVIN

*Promosm*

Danish sounds like horses speaking

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