Something like 80% of Swedish / Norwegian / Danish is mutually understandable between the languages so a Swedish and Danish speaker can easily have a normal conversation entirely in their own languages and be understood perfectly well.
In Swedish and I dont understand Danish at all. Norwegian is ok, I can understand parts of it. But Danish is super different. However, the Danish seems to understand Swedish much easier.
Same with Spanish and Portuguese. If the other person drops sounds, it’s harder to understand than if the other person sprinkles in sounds you might even still write. Same with merging sounds. I think Norwegian reduces a lot more unstressed vowels than Swedish and Danish is even worse.
I’ve noticed the same. We seem to understand Swedish and Danish better than you understand us/eachother.
Swedish is easy, Danish is OK but I need to focus a bit.
I always figured it was because we imported your TV shows in the 90’s, so if that’s the resson, it should decline with the younger generation.
Time will tell.
Some of it is probably that Danish and Norwegian TV has aired a lot of Swedish programs over the past decades. By contrast, it’s only in Skåne that Danish TV is aired regularly. Nowadays a lot of Norwegian TV is being aired in Sweden but it’s a pretty new phenomenon.
But I think the big reason is that Danish is a genuinely weird language. Danish children learn to speak significantly slower than other kids.
It’s crazy that by age 2, Danish children are almost 6 months behind in speech development compared to Swedish, Spanish, Sudanese and South Korean children. So it really is a difficult language to get your ear used to.
I have no personal experience being an English speaker just got talking to a couple once that we’re Swedish / Norwegian and I asked which they spoke to each other and they just said “whichever, doesn’t really matter”
Something like 80% of Swedish / Norwegian / Danish is mutually understandable between the languages so a Swedish and Danish speaker can easily have a normal conversation entirely in their own languages and be understood perfectly well.
In Swedish and I dont understand Danish at all. Norwegian is ok, I can understand parts of it. But Danish is super different. However, the Danish seems to understand Swedish much easier.
The problem with danish is they don’t know how to speak and they just eat half the sounds. Written danish is a lot more understandable than spoken
Ah yeah maybe that’s true. I haven’t seen written Danish at all.
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I understood that actually :)
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Ah yeah. I can read that without problems actually as a swede. So yeah, its just when they talk it becomes a mess to listen to. :)
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Exactly :)
Same with Spanish and Portuguese. If the other person drops sounds, it’s harder to understand than if the other person sprinkles in sounds you might even still write. Same with merging sounds. I think Norwegian reduces a lot more unstressed vowels than Swedish and Danish is even worse.
I’ve noticed the same. We seem to understand Swedish and Danish better than you understand us/eachother.
Swedish is easy, Danish is OK but I need to focus a bit.
I always figured it was because we imported your TV shows in the 90’s, so if that’s the resson, it should decline with the younger generation.
Time will tell.
Some of it is probably that Danish and Norwegian TV has aired a lot of Swedish programs over the past decades. By contrast, it’s only in Skåne that Danish TV is aired regularly. Nowadays a lot of Norwegian TV is being aired in Sweden but it’s a pretty new phenomenon.
But I think the big reason is that Danish is a genuinely weird language. Danish children learn to speak significantly slower than other kids.
It’s crazy that by age 2, Danish children are almost 6 months behind in speech development compared to Swedish, Spanish, Sudanese and South Korean children. So it really is a difficult language to get your ear used to.
I have no personal experience being an English speaker just got talking to a couple once that we’re Swedish / Norwegian and I asked which they spoke to each other and they just said “whichever, doesn’t really matter”