Learning a language requires interest and passion Click to expand I think Dutch also sounds like German. I love the sound of Dutch. I don't know any Dutch. Jocaste said:. Interesting point about Danish. Having listened to a little Danish on the internet, from an outsiders point of view, it sounds far more like German than either Norwegian or Swedish do. I believe I even managed to pick out a few "German" words on Danish newscasts such "arbeiten" and "Urlaub". Of course, this may be wide of the mark but the words mentioned certainly sounded like their German equivilants.
I would assume that all this would make German easier to learn for Danes, but apparently not. English - England south-central. German is easi er to learn than French or Chinese, and easier to learn for a Dane than for a French or Chinese person, but still not easy , I'd say. You must log in or register to reply here.
Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where German and Norwegian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Norwegian language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Norwegian word for "Thank You" is takk.
Find more of such common German Greetings and Norwegian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare German and Norwegian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages.
Want to know in German and Norwegian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Norwegian time required is 24 weeks. A softUsvista venture! Most Difficult Languages -. German vs Norwegian. One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language. Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter. That was easy. Norwegian has another way to form the passive which is blir to become plus the past participle , but the word order doesn't change so again it's just a matter of remembering each word instead of also having to rearrange the sentence.
Pronunciation Here we're going to have to give the advantage to German. German has more consonant clusters than Norwegian and is technically harder to pronounce, but it just feels more certain than Norwegian to the student. Right from the beginning when you start with sentences like Ich bin hier I'm here or Was machst du?
What are you doing? That's probably part of the reason why imitating German accents is so fun for English speakers. Norwegian doesn't pronounce the t at the end of nouns when this is the definite article huset for house sounds like hoos-eh , nor the g at the end of adjectives farlig sounds kind of like fahr-lee , and on top of that has a kind of singsongy tone to it that added together sometimes tends to make the student wonder whether what he's saying really is correct.
The student begins to wonder whether one can you really just go to Norway and introduce yourself with "ya-eh" plus your name, or is there some weird tone or stress issue that makes it incomprehensible to Norwegians? Can you really be understood talking like that? Hvordan har du det? Norwegian "that's true" is " det er sant " sounds like "deh eah sant" while German is das stimmt sounds like dass schtimmt. Note that Norwegian isn't particularly difficult to pronounce no more so than your average foreign language, that is , but as the above shows the student needs to get used to navigating pronunciation in a fluid fashion that German doesn't force a person to do.
Of course, personal preference probably plays a big part here. Vocabulary Norwegian vocabulary often looks a lot like German vocabulary minus a lot of consonants, and the vocabulary in neither language is really more difficult than the other. Sometimes you will find instances where a German word more resembles English Wasser for water vs. Norwegian vann , and sometimes the opposite Norwegian tre for tree vs. German Baum.
It's also nice that the two languages complement each other so well in terms of vocabulary, because someone torn between learning one or the other at least knows that learning one will lead to a head start on the other. However, Norwegian does have a fairly strong online presence as well so it only looks small in comparison to German. Mutual intelligibility Norwegian, Danish and Swedish are extremely close, so those two are almost part of the package when learning Norwegian.
German has something similar with Dutch, though the two languages aren't as close to each other as the three Scandinavian languages are. However, Dutch occupies a bit of a middle ground between German and English, so an English student who has learned Dutch will notice cognates from both languages and will find Dutch to be remarkably easy to read after learning German thanks to this.
English ability Germans are generally fairly good at English, but Norwegians are often almost flawless. Suffice to say those without a clear plan won't find Norwegian to be easy to learn, as it's extremely easy to just use English with friends. Forums often have sloppy and bad grammer though, which is the case with the first sentence you chose. The point you are making still gets through, it's just slightly inaccurate. Good post! Post a Comment. Interlinear Books Interlinear books are bilingual translations where the original has a translation right below each word or expression.
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