Post #1509084
2026-04-12 23:05 UTC
Damned.
I'm watching a Norwegian show. As a Swede, it works fine. There are things I don't get, but usually context helps and I'm in sync again. And then a Danish character turns up, and I'm lost.
Sorry Danes. It's not you. I'm just sad that I find it so hard to understand your spoken language, especially when reading it is normally not very hard at all.
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@DanielaKEngert@hachyderm.io 2026-04-13 06:58
@rollbear Seems to match the stereotype. 🙄 Personally, I found *reading* any of written Norwegian, Danish, Swedish (in the order of familiarity to me) quite easy to manageable. *Listening* to any of them, and figuring out the meaning of the sounds as spoken by people on the streets is a completely different level. Last year, at a café in Stockholm, I met a group of Norwegians from an island way up north. We had nice conversations, loved it. But as soon they were talking to each other in their native language, I had huge troubles to even recognize some of the spoken words, lest alone to get the gist of their conversation. So, it doesn't need Danish to get lost in translation 🤭