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Anonymous
Sup /trv/.

I think this is probably the best 4chan board for this. Thinking of studying a Scandinavian language, but can't decide. Finnish seems most interesting but also hardest? I'll do self study at least in the beginning, and native language is Dutch if that matters anything. Opinions wanted, thanks!
>> Anonymous
I think you would gain much more if you would learn danish because that would give you the ability to thrive in Norway and Sweden too cause those languages are very similar, but if you learn Finish you could only use it there, Finish isn't a Indo-European like the rest of the European languages, it's also a retard language and makes me RAAGE!
>> Anonymous
>>65022
lrn2smashyourkeyboard

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>> Anonymous
Finnish is great language, especially the cursing is neat.

Helvetin perkele.
>> Anonymous
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>>65022

viitu.

FINN/AUSFAG HERE! this thread is now for finnfags.
>> Anonymous
>>65022
Learn Norwegian, Some swedes dont understand danish and some danes dont understand swedish, but most understand Norwegian.
>> Anonymous
Hyvää ilta! Mä olen Jake! I'm learning Finnish :)
>> Anonymous
>>65035
That's what I'm planning to be really soon! In what way are you one? I'm still in Australia but am planning to move over there for a year or two very soon...
>> Anonymous
>>65038

Guess you could refer to me as a half-breed. HALF FINN HALF OTHER. Looks like a RAD place to live. Going there soon too! Can't wait!
>> Anonymous
>>65039
How soon and what way are you going to go about it? You don't hear of many Australian people with plans to go over there :) And it indeed seems like an amazing place to live! So exciting!
>> Anonymous
>>65042

Travels start 1/3 way through next year and go till whenever I decide to come home (if at all)!!! Yourself?
>> Anonymous
I'll be going over as soon as I've fin(n)ished (lol!) my degree and after I've done this TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) course, and also earned enough money, so hopefully I'll be over there by this time next year!
What will you be doing there?
>> Anonymous
>>65045
That's a good plan! How long is the TESOL course? Expensive?
Probably be living it up all over europe! Working if need be, doing whatever I feel like, whenever I feel like it :)

Going anywhere else?

Definately hitting Norway and Sweden whilst I'm there!!
>> Anonymous
>>65046
The TESOL course only goes for one semester, and also it's a university course so HECS will cover that for me, and I won't even have to pay it off if I dodge the tax system by decided to not come back, haha. I plan to study while I'm there, I'll probably end up doing my honours in literature after I do a year of Finnish language and culture courses.
I'll be visiting lots of neighbouring countries for sure! I'll be living in Turku so a trip to Sweden is only a short boat-ride away! I also have plans to travel around central Europe when on holiday from study. It's going to be great!!
>> Anonymous
>>65045
> fin(n)ished (lol!)

in b4 facepalm
>> Anonymous
learn the language loituma is sung in
>> Anonymous
i would say Norweigan of Danish they're the most understandable in scandinavia.
>> Anonymous
>>65058
>Norweigan of Danish
Bokmål?
>> Anonymous
>>65058
But if you understand norwegian you understand swedish.

Norwegian is basically sounds like a child speaking swedish
>> Anonymous
>>65067
You are refering to the Oslofags right?
Because the people in the Norther and Western parts dont sound like them at all
>> Anonymous
Swedish, Danish and Norwegian are Germanic languages like your native Dutch. Finnish is not, therefore it will be the hardest to learn.
>> Anonymous
If you learn to speak norwegian, you will probably be able to understand swedish and danish to a certain dergree. also you wil be understood.
>> Anonymous
Norfag here.

Finnish has nothing to do with Scandinavia, or with Scandinavian language. Their language is ENTIRELY different, I mean like.. it's not even based on latin, we're talking some hieroglyphic shit here. So if you learn Finnish, you won't be able to take advantage of that for anything other than communicating with the Finnish. Plus, it will be quite difficult as it's so foreign.

I recommend Swedish. It's quite similar to Norwegian/Danish, and it's probably the most significant of the Scandinavian nations.
>> Anonymous
Bump because of Finland.

Vitun venäläiset. See, Im learning Finnish and I already have the basics!
>> Anonymous
>>65084
Finnfag here. I agree.
>> canttouchthis !AB5fTSvpY6
why dont you look at the languages and see which one u like the look of.im trying dutch. from byki.com,they have free downloads
>> Anonymous
>>65084
Dude, almost the entire Finnish grammar is based on Latin. It's pretty much an artifical language that was made by Mikael Agricola back in the 1600's or so. Every word is sais exactly like it's written on paper. Very logical language tbh.

However the words differ from other languages so much that it's no real use except that you can brag about knowing on of the hardest languages on earth. Learn Swedish instead, or Chinese if you want to do something useful.
>> Anonymous
>>65129
I beg your pardon for spelling mistakes, i write this stuff on cellphone
>> Anonymous
>>65129
Lies through and through.
>> Anonymous
>>65129
Troll or just plain stupid? The world may never know.
>> Anonymous
Well as many people already has mentioned finnish is probably the most useless "Scandinavian" language (even though Finland is not really a part of Scandinavia) with around 6 million speakers. If you learn Swedish, Danish or Norweigan on the other hand you will be able to make yourself understood to almost 20 million people. I would probably rank the languages as following:

#1 Swedish, it has the most speakers with 9million+ and you have no problems to make yourself understood if you were to talk to another Scandinavian (They even study Swedish as a 2nd language in Finnish schools)

#2 Norweigan, although it does not have as many speakers, you can make yourself understood in the other Scandinavian countries just as with Swedish, also Norway is the ritchest of the 3 and Norweigan people always sound happy in a "goofy" way when they speak =).

#3 Danish, probably the hardest language of the 3 (Finnish not included, its totally different as stated before)
only because their spelling is waay off from the way they speak, their spoken language has evolved without the spelling-rules for about a hundred years or so. Also many swedes have a hard time understanding Danish, it just sounds like they are drunk or something to us ^^ (sorry but it do ;) ). One good thing about Danish from an Englishspeakers point of view is that their pronunciation is probably the one most alike to English.

I did not mention Iceland at all but there is atleast one cool thing about Icelandic, with its less than 300.000 speakers that cannot communicate with the other scandinavians in other than English its not a very smart choice ofc BUT : The language has changed as little as possible since the Vikings and Icelanders can actually read and understand Norse writings that are more than 1200 years old perfectly fine (although they dont use runes anymore ^^). Thats pretty cool imo.
>> Anonymous
Finnish is not hard but my suggestion would be Russian or Mandarin, Finnish is next to useless unless you absolutely must live there or something
>> Anonymous
I think you should just learn them all because I don't think there's that many differences between the languages, start with.. like.. Norwegian, then Swedish, then Finnish. I'd be more impressed if someone said they spoke Norwegian over Finnish