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- From: rancke@diku.dk (Hans Rancke-Madsen)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
- Subject: Re: Closeness of the Nordic Languages
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.040733.23536@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 04:07:33 GMT
- References: <1hl344INN9s1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Sender: rancke@freja.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
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- cb926@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Edmund Joseph Ryan) writes:
-
- >Are Norweigan, Danish, and Swedish similar to the extent that a
- >speaker of one could get by with the other two?
-
- As far as reading the languages, yes. Understanding the spoken form
- is another matter. I generally have to have Swedes repeat every
- other sentense in order to understand them. But then, there are
- danish dialects that I'd have about the same amount of trouble with.
-
- (It's my impression that Swedes have an easier time understanding
- Danes than vice versa. Can anyone confirm or deny this?)
-
-
-
- Hans Rancke
- University of Copenhagen
- rancke@diku.dk
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