Is Norwegian or Swedish easier to learn for English speakers?

Like Swedish and many other Scandinavian languages, Norwegian is one of the easiest languages to learn for English speakers. Like Swedish and Dutch, its speakers are often proficient in English and it can be a hard language to actually be able to practice at times.

Is Swedish or Norwegian more similar to English?

Norwegian is closer to English than either Danish or Swedish. In fact, it’s often described as the easiest of the three languages to learn.

Is Swedish more difficult than Norwegian?

When it comes to Danish vs Norwegian, Norwegian is easier to understand. Their writing is the same, and there’s not a lot of difference between vocabulary and grammar either. And for Swedish vs Norwegian, Norwegian wins again. It’s a slight bit closer to English in terms of vocabulary and pronunciation.

Is Norwegian the easiest language to learn for English speakers?

Persian is easy in terms of grammar, most Western European languages have the advantage of common vocabulary and recognition. Norwegian happens to have both of these, and in this post I’m going to show why Norwegian is the easiest language for your average English speaker to learn.

Is it easier to pronounce Norwegian or Swedish?

You need to vibrate your tongue to make it, which is the difficult part I guess. Swedish is “softer” and is probably easier to pronounce if you’re an English speaker. If you’re speaking another “hard language” like German or Dutch, I’d think Norwegian is easier.

Why is the Norwegian language so different from other countries?

While especially Sweden has been very strict on enforcing a national standard for their language, Norway has encouraged differences. The result is that Norway also has a second “native” written language called “New-Norwegian” which causes a lot of problems.

How hard is it to learn Norwegian?

There are around 5.2 million native speakers of Norwegian (a fraction of the 360 million native English speakers) being a Germanic language, it shares a lot of cognates with English, so again the basics will not be hard to grasp.