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Norwegian is a bit obscure. It only has 5,025,980 speakers (according to Wikipedia, wonder how they got that exact number?).
But French has 467 million, Spanish has >500 million, Russian has 278 million, Chinese has 1.3 Billion, and Japanese has 130 million (again, all wiki'd), so it might be more useful to learn one of those?
Read somewhere that learning another scandinavian language is one third as hard as learning russian/chinese/japanese because of the shared germanic ancestory.
Sounds good. How closely related is it to Danish (which, I read somewhere is the most closely related language to English, although I would have though Dutch).
Identical written language, verbally we don't have a potato down our throats but we can easily talk with them, as we can with the swedes, so really its 3 languages in 1.
maybe you should focus on spelling your own language (or should I say launage [like you did])correctly before a foriegn (or foegin [again, like you did]) language.
[1 point]114 days ago by nufaloReplyEdited 114 days ago by nufalo
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Like English..?
But what will English-speaking people learn? I vote Norwegian.
Norwegian is a bit obscure. It only has 5,025,980 speakers (according to Wikipedia, wonder how they got that exact number?).
But French has 467 million, Spanish has >500 million, Russian has 278 million, Chinese has 1.3 Billion, and Japanese has 130 million (again, all wiki'd), so it might be more useful to learn one of those?
Read somewhere that learning another scandinavian language is one third as hard as learning russian/chinese/japanese because of the shared germanic ancestory.
That's probably true.
Sounds good. How closely related is it to Danish (which, I read somewhere is the most closely related language to English, although I would have though Dutch).
Identical written language, verbally we don't have a potato down our throats but we can easily talk with them, as we can with the swedes, so really its 3 languages in 1.
Ah, I see.
I ran into much the same thing the first time I heard Portuguese. Sounded like Spanish with a mouth full of mush.
foreign language
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[-6 points] 116 days ago by deleted user Replymaybe you should focus on spelling your own language (or should I say launage [like you did])correctly before a foriegn (or foegin [again, like you did]) language.
Yeah there seem to be a lot of people having a hard time writing foreign (or should i say foriegn[like you did])?