Is it true if you learn one of these languages you can understand the rest?

Is it true if you learn one of these languages you can understand the rest?

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only for sweden, norway and denmark

If you learn Norwegian or Swedish you will be able to have simple conversations with anyone speaking either of these two, and you will also be able to understand most of written Danish. Icelandic is very different though and Finnish isn't even related to the rest.

Btw the map sucks, it butchered our lakes completely.

kind of but not really

Finnish isn't related to the other languages, but for them from what I've heard generally yes.

absolutely, you should learn finnish and then move to any of the other countries

>only for sweden, norway and denmark
And parts of Finland :^)

The Icelandic also learn Danish at school so they understand a little bit of Scandinavian in general.

Bitch

do we have a problem fat?

Take that back

No

He's not lying. Finnish is my mother language and now I can understand from Estonian to Crimean tartar of the Congolese variety

Mongol subhuman

Yes and I really enjoy listening to Norwegians talking

Don't most of them just speak English

Mutt submarine

what about faroese? there was a faroese guy in my school who understood norwegian i think

Faroese are great at understanding the other languages but we can't understand them.

Well actually, theres a great number of swedish loanwords in finnish so at least learning finnish would become somewhat easier if you knew swedish

Shouldn't learning Swedish be really easy for you guys? Grammar is basically English and you have, as you said, a great number of Swedish loanwords. Plus the Fenno-Swedish accent you learn in school has much easier pronunciations. No "sj" sound, no rounded vowels etc. Easy.

learning is easy but pronouncing is way harder than english for example

>But pronouncing is way harder than english for example
How so? I can't think of what would be difficult but then again of course it is easy for me.

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swedish grammar is easy enough, motivation is nonexistant

Yeah i can figure out swedish headlines in papers pretty much because of pakkoruotsi and a couple of beck movies

I can’t understand Swedish for shit

>swedish grammar is easy enough
Exactly. Easy grades, at least if you like learning languages.

>I can’t understand Swedish for shit
It's okay, we can't understand you either. Though I've got a feeling the problem is on your side, seeing as we can talk to Norwegians just fine.

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Förstår du skriftlig svenska eller?

Yeah I got constant 8's (scale 4 to 10) or so by not doing anything really, After school I have lost most of the vocabulary now though.

>Yeah I got constant 8's (scale 4 to 10) or so by not doing anything really
Nice.
>After school I have lost most of the vocabulary now though.
Obviously makes sense if you don't have any use of it. I've forgotten most of my French too.

I agree completely. It's just that in most parts of the country there aren't any fennoswedes, and where there are, it's usually either a) they also speak fluent Finnish, and the social dynamics are such that conversations with them are had in Finnish, or b) they don't speak very good Finnish, they think there's an expectation that everyone must speak it fluently, which causes them to hang out with other Swedish-speakers only. And all of this means that Finns cannot be motivated to learn the language.

t. Married to a fennoswede

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So the problem here is that:

1. Some Fenno-Swedes speak Finnish and therefore speak Finnish with Finnish speakers, as the Finnish speakers expect this.
2. Some Fenno-Swedes don't speak Finnish so they hang out with other Swedish speakers.

Isn't this just logical? I don't know what else I would be expecting desu

3. They communicate by hand gestures and creole

Yes, the language of *coof*

Not Finnish because they're perverts

>3. They communicate by hand gestures and creole
Also logical if you can't communicate any other way. My dad told me about him drinking in a pub in Estonia after the fall of the USSR. An Estonian man basically told him his life story using mostly gestures and some words of EnglishSwedish that he happened to know.

That's it. Fennoswedes are simply too few to form a majority or even a substantive minority in most of the country, so that there would emerge the kind of living and breathing bilingualism that now exists only on paper. So when some Finns question the mandatory Swedish lessons and get a response of ~Vi BoR jU i EtT tVåSpråKigt LanD~ they see that the argument is bullshit.

There does exist bilingualism, but in limited places and contexts. I myself am glad that I get to partake in them.

Yes. However, Finland isn't nordic, so their language doesn't apply

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You're just lazy.