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Is Swedish easy for German speakers?
German has a lot in common with Swedish in terms of vocabulary. Many words visibly have the same roots, but grammatically, Swedish looks more like English than German. For an English speaker, Swedish is without doubt the easier language to learn.
How hard is it for a native English speaker to learn German?
Seemingly endless compound words and the concept of noun genders is often enough to scare people off learning German for good. However, German actually isn’t nearly as hard to learn as you might think. About 40\% of German vocabulary is similar to English vocabulary, which is good news for native English speakers!
Is Swedish hard to learn for English speakers?
Believe it or not, according to the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Swedish is actually one of the easiest languages for native English speakers to learn, due to its apparent similarity. All languages have things about them that are difficult to learn, and Swedish is no exception to that.
Can Danish and Swedish speakers understand each other?
There’s a high level of mutual intelligibility between Swedish, Danish and Norwegian, meaning speakers of one can understand speakers of the others without too much difficulty. That’s quite the nifty language hack.
Is it easier to learn French or Swedish as a foreign language?
The Foreign Service Institute suggests that Swedish and French are slightly easier than German, or at least it takes less time to learn those languages. In much of the world, it is easier to find French classes than Swedish classes, or other offline learning materials. I haven’t studied Swedish,…
The main point here is that English and the Scandinavian languages come from the same core language family. As such, English share several similarities with Swedish, Norwegian and Danish. Let’s take a look at these in a little more depth. Swedish and English share 1,558 words. Examples include accent, digital and salt.