Apparently, Norwegian is by far the easiest language to learn

[SirGillroyJenkinstheThird]

For a native-english speaker. http://mithridates.blogspot.com/2008/08/why-norwegian-is-easiest-language-for.html


it's a fairly useful language and pretty cool imo. A lot of totseans I'm sure are with me in wanting to learn another language and not being too particular on which exactly. Any good resources I should look for to learn Norwegian?

[Hare_Geist]

If this is the case, I think I may have found my entryway into the Germanic languages I've so longed to comprehend so as to be capable of reading the great wealth of Danish and German literature in its original tongue.

[DerDrache]

If this is the case, I think I may have found my entryway into the Germanic languages I've so longed to comprehend so as to be capable of reading the great wealth of Danish and German literature in its original tongue.

You'd be better off just going straight for the language you want. Even with tons of dedication and immersion, it would still take 1 to 2 years to reach a reasonable level of fluency in any language (and that's a best case scenario).

Besides, there are more German (and Danish, probably) resources than there are Norwegian.

[BSK]

You can bring up example after example of cognates in both Norwegian and Dutch and point out places where one has an English cognate and the other doesn't, but suffice to say they're both about equal here. So let's look at why Norwegian is easier to learn even than Dutch:

as long as you don´t look for a job on an oil platform, just assumptions shouldn´t make you choose something that is more a dialect than a new language.

[Zay]

You'll definitely be pressed to find native speakers unless you go to norway. it's not a widespread language. Hare, step stooling languages generally doesn't work to master a specific language. unless you really like norwegian, go straight into German.

[DerDrache]

You'll definitely be pressed to find native speakers unless you go to norway. it's not a widespread language. Hare, step stooling languages generally doesn't work to master a specific language. unless you really like norwegian, go straight into German.

Get on MSN.

[Zay]

Get on MSN.

Laptop broken, sent in under warranty. Waiting for the nigs at HP to fix it. Until then I get less internet time.

[i poop in your cereal]

I call bullshit.

I'm Danish and it would take me quite a bit of effort to learn it fluently.

[i poop in your cereal]

If this is the case, I think I may have found my entryway into the Germanic languages I've so longed to comprehend so as to be capable of reading the great wealth of Danish and German literature in its original tongue.

Norwegian and German has absolutely nothing in common.

[DerDrache]

I call bullshit.

I'm Danish and it would take me quite a bit of effort to learn it fluently.

What?

[ibetyouvotenexttimehippy]

Norwegian and German has absolutely nothing in common.

Bullshit.

Funny you should make this thread, I came here to ask wether it would make it easier to learn Norwegian or Swedish before German. Will just keep an eye on this thread.

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[Zonko]

If this is the case, I think I may have found my entryway into the Germanic languages I've so longed to comprehend so as to be capable of reading the great wealth of Danish and German literature in its original tongue.

What about English?

[DerDrache]

It's always funny when people think it's better to learn a language similar to what they want to learn, instead of just going straight at it.

If you wanna speak a language, eventually you're gonna have to learn all of it, whether it's hard or not.

[i poop in your cereal]

What?

The two languages are very, very similar, and danish has a rep for being the hardest to learn and even though I understand the majority of norwegian, it would take me ages to learn it fluently.

[i poop in your cereal]

Bullshit.

Back up your claims or shut up.

They have as much in common as norwegian/german and english.

[OneMestizo]

Norwegian and German has absolutely nothing in common.

What? No one is this stupid, right?

[ibetyouvotenexttimehippy]

Back up your claims or shut up.

They have as much in common as norwegian/german and english.

You made the claim, you should be backing it up. Saying they have nothing in common with English is even stupider. Fuckwit. English is a Germanic language.

Just incase you aren't a troll and really are that - fuck it, i'm preety sure your just a dipstick but anyway:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Origins_of_English_PieChart_2D.svg

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[DerDrache]

Most languages are related in SOME way, so saying "A and B have nothing in common" is a very sloppy statement. I assumed he just meant that knowing one wouldn't help you significantly with the other...

[BSK]

http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algoritme

this is the first part of the norwegian wikipedia text about algorithms:

I matematikk og informatikk er en algoritme en presis beskrivelse av en serie operasjoner som skal utføres for å løse en type problemer. Ordet kommer fra navnet til matematikeren og astronomen al-Khowarizmi (ca. 780 - 850). Han skrev flere bøker, blant annet boken Al-jabr wa'l muqabalah. Den inneholder en oppskrift - eller en algoritme - for hvordan bestemte annengradsligninger kan løses.

this is my word by word translation into german by using similar words or knowledge about dialects I got from 8 holidays at the german sea, 6 at the balic sea, 2 in denmark and probably 100 in the netherlands:

in mathematik auch informatik ist ein algorithmus eine präzise beschreibung von einer serie operationen einiger höheren ausführungen für die lösung eines typischen problems. wort kommt vom navigator bis mathematiker auch astronomen al-khowarizmi. er schrieb mehr bücher, mit anderen büchern al-jabr wa'l muqabalah.
der inhaber einer abschrift - alle ein algorithmus, für wo bestimmte anderegradsgleichungen können lösen.

as I said this is only semantically correct, but if I can understand 80% of a scientific description in another language that I have never learned then it sounds a bit retarded to me to say they have nothing in common. oh wait, the word holder was understood with my english knowledge ..