Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, which should you learn???

The North Germanic Languages are all linked and share many traits, but thy are also each unique linguistically in how their language works and the culture which enjoys it. In this video you will see the culture behind Norwegian, Danish and Swedish with some bits of how these languages work as well. In the next video you will see Icelandic. This is part of a 3 part series.
1. West Germanic
2. North Germanic - Norwegian, Danish and Swedish
3. North Germanic - Icelandic.
Here is the link to the 1st: • Which Germanic Languag...
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And here Langfocus does an excellent comparison if you want to dig further: • The North Germanic Lan...

[@JandenHale]

This was super informative, thank you.

[@BenLlywelyn]

Welcome.

[@KnijMagz]

Excelent video! I think I might start with Norwegian

[@BenLlywelyn]

Good idea.

[@KnijMagz]

@Ben Llywelyn hey I was thinking to learn Norwegian on Duolingo and was wondering if you had any opinions on their Norwegian course. My main concern with learning Norwegian is how I will be able to speak it. I heard they teach Bokmål but wasn't sure if the speaking exercises would be in Bakmål or not. That is important to me I learn to actually speak especially since Bakmål isn't spoken so I don't want to be "speaking" Bakmål if that's not the right thing to do. I hope that makes sense.

[@nielzene9656]

Great video! Thanks! I think I'm going for Norwegian for now 🇳🇴

[@BenLlywelyn]

Excellent choice.

[@TerencePetersenAjbro]

Correction: Swedish = Han känner henne. I started off studying German, once I mastered that, Swedish was basically half the work/effort. I lived in Denmark for more than 30 years, but still speak Danish with a foreign accent, most cannot hear where I originally come from though. Yeah Danish is difficult to speak compared to Swedish with its lovely clear long vowels!

[@BenLlywelyn]

Tak! Glad you found a language road you enjoyed.

[@TerencePetersenAjbro]

@@BenLlywelyn Dw i'n dysgu cymraeg hefyd.

[@FrozenMermaid666]

I started with Dutch & Swedish and then I started learning Norwegian after about 1 month, and learning Norwegian made it easier to read and memorize Swedish words! I highly recommend Dutch & Norwegian first, and then Swedish & German, and then Danish (knowing both Norwegian & Swedish will make learning Danish so much easier, because Danish pronunciation is a bit more difficult and combines rules and patterns from both Swedish pronunciation & Norwegian pronunciation) and, once one is a B1 or B2 in these, one should also start learning Icelandic & Faroese, and even oIder Germanic languages such as OId Norse & OId English & Norn etc! I’m learning all the Germanic languages and all Celtic languages and most Latin languages, so I also started learning Irish and Breton and Scots Gaelic yesterday, and I’m learning about 13 languages at the same time, and I also want to start learning the other two Celtic languages as soon as possible because it’s going to take at least two years for me to become an advanced level in Celtic languages and it’s better to start learning them all now and learn new words little by little!

[@FrozenMermaid666]

By the way, Dutch & Norwegian are the easiest to read / easiest to learn languages (literally as easy as English) at least for an English speaker, but also in general, because they really are easy in every way, so it took me about 300 hours of study to reach a quite advanced level in understanding written Dutch / Norwegian, so I can understand a lot now, after only a few months, plus I know over 6.000 base words in Dutch and over 3.500 base words in Norwegian (plus the different verb forms and plurals and diminutives etc) so, I can understand Dutch & Norwegian really well now, and I watch many videos with Dutch / Norwegian subs!

[@FrozenMermaid666]

BTW, in Norwegian, the pronoun can be before the noun as well - min prins / prinsen min! Jeg liker min prins / prinsen min, and, min krone / kronen min! Both are correct! And, min is for masculine nouns, mi is for feminine nouns, mitt is for n nouns, while mine is for all plurals! So, one can say mi nese or nesa mi (nese is feminine, meaning nose) or, mitt hjerte / hjertet mitt (my heart, n noun) or, min tann / tannen min (my tooth, m noun) etc, and, one can also use the m form for feminine nouns in Norwegian, so one can also say min nese / nesen min! In some cases, possessive pronouns can be used by others, but only when referring to one’s body parts / thought / actions! For other types of nouns, only I can use possessive pronouns, myself being the only Possessor / Owner / Ruler etc! Words like master can also only be used by me, myself being The Master / Boss / Idol etc aka The Leader - so, the word learned must be used instead of mastered when referring to languages etc!

[@evilcommunistpicklerick3175]

I'm doing a language exchange with a Dane, I'm doing Danish (as well as German) and he's doing Welsh

[@BenLlywelyn]

Sharing languages is a way to great friendship.

[@ahkkariq7406]

Nørdic! Good one. As a Norwegian, I love it! It's on point. There are a lot of introverts in the Nordics. Nørdic = Nerdic

[@BenLlywelyn]

I'm sure some of you are secretly outgoing.

[@ahkkariq7406]

@@BenLlywelyn Some are absolutely outgoing. They are not even secretly outgoing, but since they know the culture, they adapt to some degree.

[@87g4g3]

Vel gert félagi. Flott myndband.🇮🇸 Mér finnst fornmálið léttast að skilja og færeysku líka en hin málin finnst mér vera létt að læra(þó ég tali þau ekki) þá er voða einfalt að lesa þau, sumt skilur maður og annað ekki. Mér finnst enska vera með suma hluti líkari íslensku en hin norðurlöndin svo sem ,,have" og ,,hafa" sem á hinum málunum er ,,har". Ef þú hefur spurningar um fornan- kveðskap, bragahefð og skáldskap þjóðarinnar eða það sem við köllum þjóðararfinn endilega hafðu samband við mig. Ég tel mig nokkuð seigan með stuðlana. Cheers. So happy that you mentioned rúgbrauð, if you ever go to Iceland then definetly try getting it homemade, it's delicious with butter(smjöri)

[@BenLlywelyn]

þakka þér kærlega

[@sebastianflesjandersen939]

How do you know these things?...... I'm Norwegian and understand almost everything spoken in either Danish, Swedish (+Norwegian obviously). Also I can confirm what you say is close to 100% true..

[@BenLlywelyn]

Work and reaearch. And keep a journal!

[@ulrikbro-jrgensen1542]

in denmark we never had a revolution, we had somekind of discussion about absolutism. And after that we went to civil war-

[@paulwhitney8058]

Well there's always Brithonic

[@BenLlywelyn]

Welsh is a fine language.

[@rogermagnusson115]

Swedish because norwegans and danes understand that.. God..

[@BenLlywelyn]

Go for it.