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Learning a language can be a daunting task for the inexperienced linguist, but patience and hard work will get you there. There could be quite some challenges if you want to learn Norwegian, but while it won’t be easy, it’s not impossible either, and here are some tips to help you.
Swedish is part of East Scandinavian languages, which in turn represents a part of the North Germanic subdivision of the Germanic languages. It has its origins in the Old Norse. There are numerous linguistic similarities with Norwegian and Danish, which allows for basic interchange.
‘Finnish’ is a part of the Finno-Ugric family. Almost 6 million individuals who reside mostly in Russia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, and Canada speak the ‘Sumoi’ language. Sumoi and Swedish hold the position of the official languages of Finland since 1892. Here is an overview from a professional translation service regarding Finnish language translation and history.
Danish is part of the Scandinavian languages, and the other languages of this group are Swedish, Norwegian, Faroese, and Icelandic. Nearly six million individuals in Denmark, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Germany, Norway, and Sweden use the Danish language for communication. In addition to this, Danish is an official language of the EU and one of the popular dialects of the Nordic Council.
In today’s European Union countries, bearing in mind the large language diversity in schools, there is a need to analyse different aspects of the second language being taught to these pupils. The teaching of a foreign language is mostly influenced by demand, by the level of teacher qualification, by whether the teaching resources are sufficient, by the strength of motivation that is implemented and by exposure to foreign languages.