vocabulary that isvery similar in both languages. difficulty of learning this language if you already speak German. In terms of which I would learn first, however, I would have started with Danish, since it is probably closest to English and German, and used that as the base to learn Norwegian and Swedish, which are very close. Some Norwegian dialects, especially ones in Northern Norway, are still similar to Icelandic, but most Norwegian dialects are more similar to Swedish and Danish and quite different from Icelandic. I guess Danish would be a better choice, it is a little closer related to Norwegian, but you can't do anything wrong with waiting for Swedish, it will be very useful too! JavaScript is disabled. That is sometimes the key to understanding the language. Swedish is spoken by the most people amongst all the five Nordic languages – 10 million people. http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=256094. This gives you an
German. Danish and Norwegian are more similar than Swedish and Norwegian or Swedish and Danish, but if you know one language well, you'll have no problems understanding the others too. CountriesNUMBER: Total number of countries
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German is quite close to other Germanic languages such as Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian. similar vocabulary (see above). of the language group you enter by learning German. This gives you an indication of the economic importance
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As a short non-answer I'd just like to point out that it really depends on what type of Norwegian, Danish and Swedish you're talking about. Printed from http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/languages/similarities/index.html, Copyright 2009 François Micheloud - All rights reserved. number of countries times % similar vocabulary (see above). It is not so close to English, although both languages share some common vocabulary. This gives you an indication of the number of
language. Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are very similar languages. Speakers NUMBER: total number of native speakers of each
Découvrez comment nous utilisons vos informations dans notre Politique relative à la vie privée et notre Politique relative aux cookies. It is not so close to English, although both languages share some common vocabulary. SHARE: number of speakers times %
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