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[lubomirvrana]

Swedish and Norwegian are mutually intelligible, just like Czech and Slovak. It's nice when two nations understand each other and don't need translators. As far as Scandinavian languages are concerned, Swedish leads the way for me :)

[spidrawebster]

I learned some Danish as an exchange student over a summer, then got in a situation where my school dropped Danish instruction but still offered Swedish. So I took that. Then Danish came back and I was taking both for a couple years. I was very good (I'm told) at keeping them separate, but it takes constant practice. In the years since, as I've gotten busy with other things, I make far more mistakes when switching now. As you allude to, there are far more Swedish speakers (Swedes also tend to be better at promoting their national "brand" than Danes are) so I've gone from being equally good to being better at Swedish now. There are just more opportunities to practice it.

[nataaalia]

I'm starting to learn swedish and it seems like I will unlock powers if I become fluent in it.

[sorciavivia]

I really enjoy the singsong sounds of Swedish and its closeness to English. But this is a great explanation. I did wonder what the similarities to the three languages were.

[lmatt]

I started off with Norwegian but the 2 written standards and the millions of dialects made me switch to Swedish. Swedish has twice the amount of speakers, the dialects are more similar and it's spoken in Finland so it was like a "gate" to 2 countries.

[Ugleseth]

As a Norwegian, I would also say learn Swedish, and I would say that for two reasons. First because of the dialects in Norway. There are a crazy amount of dialects that can be hard to understand.
Second reason is music. There is no language that is as beautiful when sung.

[Letthice]

I speak a little Norwegian and it's pretty good for when I visit Sweden as they're quite close but then I get them mixed up

[Geospasmic]

I love the idea of mutually intelligible languages. English doesn't really have any, although some dialects are almost like different languages. I've heard Fresian is the closest, but I can't make heads nor tails of it.

[Gert-DK]

I am Danish. If you want to learn a Scandinavian language, take Swedish. Why? Because the three of us understands each other, but speaking Swedish, you will do fine in Finland, too. Swedish is an official language in Finland, therefore many Finns speak Swedish.

[permelander]

The hurdle with Danish language depends of which part of Sweden You come from. I live on an island outside Gothenburg. The dialect where I live is mixed Danish and Swedish due to trade and wars since Viking age. People from Stockholm dose not understand a word of what I say. However, when I go to Northern Denmark /Jylland/ Aalborg etc . I can speak my own dialect and all Danes understands me, ectcept for counting as they have another version of it.Well I manage now

[clauslebensart]

Love that you sneaked Grotesco and Kamelåså in there ;D

[vswild]

Have you seen the "Islandic standup about nordic neighbors"? Its on youtube, from years ago. I still watch it from time to time because it doesn't ever get old 😂😂😂

[Meow_dasKatze]

Good to know that my random decision was a good decision

[maikopasma]

Swedish is not only the easiest nordic language to learn, (still pretty difficult tho)
But it's also the most spoken one

[VoidVerification]

German here. I get the impression, Swedish and Danish is a bit like High German and Swiss German. As a German native speaker from Germany, you need extensive training to understand Swiss German dialects.

[alisezone]

2:11 AAHHAHAHAH THE YOUNG ROYALS FANDOM GATHERR.. HE HAS FIGURED OUT WHY WE ARE HERE

[iKrivetko]

Bokmål and Nynorsk aren't just different writing systems, they are in fact standards of two separate languages, and while Nynorsk is distinctly West Scandinavian (eg/ek for I is one of the features, for example), Bokmål is indeed more of an assimilated version of Danish which is East Scandinavian.

[WeirdDexHolder]

I have recently read that Norwegian is like "a Swede trying to speak Danish". I don't know if that's true, but it sounds plausible (and fun) to me.

[DebrerFrans]

I'm a bit confused, because I used to watch Scandinavian series and in some of them Swedish and Danish people meet and seem to understand each other quite well (like one is talking in Danish and the other one is answering in Swedish). It isn't true in real life?

[keithwald]

It's the old story: You say _Jantelagen_, I say _Janteloven_ ... But we both say _berg_ (and even the Dutch all the way to the Icelanders)