Welcome Sofia, I had to disappear for a while but now I am back also, this is a really good site and everyone is like family, you will love it here
Newbie from Sweden!
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Thank you! It's been a pleasure so far. I hope you get your old name back soon!
Hahaha I hope so too!!! thanks.
Obviously because nobody understands their gibberish!Yeah, there seem to be a lot of Norwegians around here! Always nice to see fellow ScandisI wonder why there aren't any Danes though? Quite the mystery
By gibberish I mean the fact that they speak with hot porridge shoved down their throats.. 
Not even they understand each other :P
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Obviously because nobody understands their gibberish!
It was super embarrassing being in Denmark... They mostly understood me in Swedish, but I couldn't understand a word they said in Danish....
Been there, experienced that. :\
Imzadi Hopewind
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I usually ask them to reply to me in english, when I talk back in norwegian
The first time I visited Norway it was like that for me as well, though. Depending on accent, I still find Norweigan hard to understand :P
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I used to have problems with understanding Norweigan as well, but my Swedish teacher in high school was Norweigan (oh, the irony) so I got used to it after a while!
Sofia, wow, seriously? 
I've had a few Swedish teachers, but none of them tried teaching me Norwegian :P.
I worked with a bunch of Danes at a hotel in Norway when I was 19 - after that, understanding Danish became a lot easier. For the most part I am able to understand what both Danes and Swedes say as long as they keep the tempo moderate.
I've had a few Swedish teachers, but none of them tried teaching me Norwegian :P. I worked with a bunch of Danes at a hotel in Norway when I was 19 - after that, understanding Danish became a lot easier. For the most part I am able to understand what both Danes and Swedes say as long as they keep the tempo moderate.
Hi!! Welcome Always great with more Swedes around here!! I'm from Stockholm too, though I'm moving to France soonish.
I think a big reason there are no Danes here are that the books were never translated to Danish, but they were to Swedish and Norwegian. But yeah we're better off without those porridge-speakers anyway. :P
Always great with more Swedes around here!! I'm from Stockholm too, though I'm moving to France soonish. I think a big reason there are no Danes here are that the books were never translated to Danish, but they were to Swedish and Norwegian. But yeah we're better off without those porridge-speakers anyway. :P
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Now that I think about it, there has been at least one Dane I could understand! I had a Danish skiing teacher for a day, he was really easy to understand!
In the southern part of Sweden, people speak with an accent that really resembles Danish (at least to Swedes) that's harder for me to understand than Norweigan! Since it resembles Danish, I always though Danes could understand people from southern Sweden easily, but according to my skiing teacher, southern accents are the hardest for them to understand when it comes to Swedish! I was really suprised to hear that.
In the southern part of Sweden, people speak with an accent that really resembles Danish (at least to Swedes) that's harder for me to understand than Norweigan! Since it resembles Danish, I always though Danes could understand people from southern Sweden easily, but according to my skiing teacher, southern accents are the hardest for them to understand when it comes to Swedish! I was really suprised to hear that.
Skånska is strange, that's why the Danes won't understand that.
Neither do Norwegians :P
Theolyn Maryash
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Oh. My. Gosh. Thank you for solving that mystery for me! :bow
*is learning Danish and loving it* :tug
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You know what to do, Theo Sedai!
That she does, stop learning that oddball language and try a real one, such as Swedish.
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Hi!! Welcome
I think a big reason there are no Danes here are that the books were never translated to Danish, but they were to Swedish and Norwegian. But yeah we're better off without those porridge-speakers anyway. :P
Ooh that makes sense! Although everyone I know who's read WoT has read them in English :'D How exiting to be moving abroad! Good luck to you!
Imzadi Hopewind
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*raise hand* I started to read WoT in norwegian.... Changed to english when I got to book 7 or something, because I read faster than the books got translated