Fellows, fellows. Now we have to do something. The Scandinavian lounge is the least used in this entire forum and now I think it
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Fellows, fellows. Now we have to do something. The Scandinavian lounge is the least used in this entire forum and now I think it
I love everything about the Scandinavian countries... apart from the weather :( I'd like to move there one day...
I was getting round to learning Norwegian last year as I found a relly nice book for beginners in a shop, with a cassette. But since improving my English & Russian takes me plenty of time I could hardly find more to start learning another language. Maybe one day...
In Poland all Scandinavian countries are highly admired but only few universities offer studying Scandinavian languages. If you decide to take up such course tou have to prepare to "defeat" around 15 competitors.
I'm still friends with a lovely Norwegian. Any more lovely stories about lovely Norwegians? I'd take one about an affable Norwegian, in fact. Or a taciturn Finn. Not strictly Scandinavian, I suppose.
Don't give me no Finns. They are simply wanna-be Russians. Same winter caps (but not quite up to the standard). Same steam bathes (not quite up to the standard again). Same drinking habits (not quite up to the standard either).Quote:
Originally Posted by joysof
Lovely high cheekbones, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by bad manners
Jag heter Tivarp!
ojojoj Tivarp, har du l
Ahhh! I don't understand what you're saying! I just thought it was funny because I google searched for "Tivarp" and it came up in a Swedish name list. :D
haha, that
Finns are NO wanna-bes at all, although their land have been owned, for most of its life-time, by the swedes, and then lost to russia in war, it has always remained its own national consious!
Even if the finnish are very similar to the swedish, culturally (A Swedish person feel very at home in Finland, and most Finns learn Swedish in school), They are NO wanna bes what so ever!
If your interested in the Finnish (and also to great extent the swedish and mutual samic) spirit, read something of the author Arto Paasilinna who captures the northern soul!
Finally there are no better "Saunas" (or "Bastu", in Swedish) than in Finland , and I have tried them in both Suomi, Sverige and in Rossija!
Best Regards
[EDIT]Leave it, stupid comment.
perhaps Finnish is the next language I'd like to master after Russian. Eventhough there are no Scandinavian around me, I'd be very glad to learn this language. In pursue of learning new technologies have forced me to learn quite a lot of language, Finnish is one of them, due to my interest in Linux and also in some of computer related research in University of Helsinki . I'd be very grateful for assistance in learning this language :D.
I know several languages amongst them, English, Russian, French, and Swedish, due to my knowledge in Swedish, and that Swedish culture (and some basic words) is so simillar to Finnish I have learned a bit, though the languages is otherwise very different...
So I can help you a little, although if you'd been interested in Swedish, instead of Finnish (when you said you wanted to learn a Scandinavian language) I could have helped you a lot more....
Finnish and Swedish are like English and Mandarin. They don
Yes but the, due to their common history and close cultures, they have words the are really the same...
Storgatan - Torikatu
Spelm
Swedish acctually also have "many" words incommon with Persian that are exactly identical....For example the word for "Roof" which in both Swedish and Persian is "Tak" So even though I one doesn't generally think of Swedish as a close language to Persian, it has got more incommon than you'd think
mm thatQuote:
Swedish acctually also have "many" words incommon with Persian that are exactly identical....For example the word for "Roof" which in both Swedish and Persian is "Tak" So even though I one doesn't generally think of Swedish as a close language to Persian, it has got more incommon than you'd think
Preciselly, while the slight simillarites in some words between Swedish and Finnish come from their mutual history and their geografical closeness... 8)
oooh, youQuote:
Preciselly, while the slight simillarites in some words between Swedish and Finnish come from their mutual history and their geografical closeness...
I always classed scandinavian langauges as easy, now i lived on the scottish island of Shetland, and they speak there norwegian the majority of the time aswell as english and gaeliic its so interesting. .. . i learned to speak norwegian there and now i feel as though i have a good command of it!
Well. . as i said i thought of scandinavian languages as easy but there are some difficulties to each one which is a pain and i am going to try describ eit!
Danish, easy to learn you know fairly simple grammar, and then pronounciation SO DIFFICULT, so therefore anybody who wants to be a good linguist you know that way you have perfected it. . this is a BIG flaw well. . to me because you cant tell the pronounciation like you can in say, German, Spanish etc BLOODY ST
[quote=Anonymous]BLOODY ST
Well, finnish is of course a scandinavian language, because its a scandinavian country, but it's not from the same language group.
I speak both Swedish and some finnish - and my teacher in finnish says that, regardless the big differences in swedish and finnish, swedes are the one's, generally, which have it most easy to learn finnish, because;
1. Finland has quite a number of words that are common and loanwords from sweden because Finland has been Swedish for most of it's lifetime (over 600 years)
2. Pronunciation for swedes is simple because all the letters and sounds in Swedish are also in finnish, exept for "a with one dot over it". So for swedes you just have to skip letters and sounds - like the many "sh, ch" sounds in swedish, which dont exist at all in finnish
And of course when ever countries have got a big influence on eachother, one get's more familliar with oneanother's languages aswell...
I noticed in my last message that it may be interpreted as if there is only one letter from swedish that don't exist in finnsh - there are more, like b,g, and so on...
Bollocks, my old china. Finnish is not a Scandinavian language - it's an Ugro-Finnic language. And Finland is not even a Scandinavian country - it's a Nordic country alright, but Scandinavian it isn't. This question has been discussed at Scandinavian forums and discussion groups ad nausea yet many people still make this stupid mistake. Du paastaar at du taler svensk, men du ved ikke hvad forskellen mellem skandinaviske og nordiske laender er...Quote:
Originally Posted by Zhenya
hehe ok, nu ska vi inte bli upprorda Det finns dock fortfarande manniskor som raknar Finland till Skandinavien, troligen eftersom F. har varit svenskt sa lange...men oavsett, sa stammer ju iaf det andra jag skrev :lol:
What forum was that - got any link?
ja vissssssst (er det hvad man siger paa svensk?) men de kommer ikke fra Skandinavien, de som paastaar det. Nogen deler af Finland er praeget af den svenske sprog, svenske kultur, men i det hele taget er Finland et helt andet land - nordisk ja, men ikke skandinavisk. Det er normalt bare udlandninger der tror at Finland tilhoerer til Skandinavien. Paa dansk (jeg ogsaa tror paa svensk og norsk) findes der forskel mellem 'nordisk' og 'skandinavisk'. Laes her: http://www.wordiq.com/definition/ScandinaviaQuote:
Originally Posted by Zhenya
How interresting is that site Vending Machine, What is your name? Wow you can speka good Danish hehe.
I'm Ignacio, do you spek spanish? Im obssessed witht eh Norwegian language, and i also like swedish and danish. Explain more about this eqivalent to the Stoed in Norwegian please. .. .
Thanks
Ignacio
yes but you know since most people speak swedish - with a lovely accent, in the capitol Helsinki - Helsingfors, that's what counts, hehe...
Many people speak passable Russian in the capital of Kazakhstan - does it make Kazakhstan a Slavic country? Besides, I wouldn't say that most people in Helsinki speak Swedish - most will have been taught it at school and some do speak it quite well but the majority speak it quite haltingly or not at all. Many can speak some very basic Swedish but won't. Now, Turku or, say, Porvoo is indeed a different story...Quote:
Originally Posted by Zhenya
yes of course, it was somewhat a joke...
Still almost 300 000 Finns, speak swedish. Here is a good link http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/finnswedes.html
You from Norway Vending?
JagQuote:
Originally Posted by Zhenya
Nej det
Det tycks, Kamion, att det
[quote=Kamion]Jag
What does that mean?Quote:
Da vej der jab nem!
Ved du ikke? Det er dansk-russisk for "la os drikke". Paa russisk staver man det давай дерябнем, men paa dansk skriver man da vej der jab nem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zhenya
:) Jag lyckades aldrig kryptera det till ryska!
Da vaj Da vaj!
[quote=VendingMachine][quote=Kamion]Jag