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’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.