Love the swedish language but it complete waste of time lea.rning his secret obsession sven

Love the swedish language but it complete waste of time lea.rning his secret obsession sven
If youre interted in traveling to Sweden, doing business there, or just in Swedish culture, then it is very valuable. If you like languages in general, then Swedish is an interting one, and many enjoy how it sounds and it has some features that are distinct from other Germanic languages like German and English no masculine/feminie genders, but a common combining those two and a neuter and no person agreement on verbs at all, just tenses and one form for everyone, and, of course, everyones favorite, its a modern form of the language of the vikings but for that, maybe study Icelandic because its very similar to Old Norse even today. In terms of a cost benefit analysis to lea.rn the language as a foreigner compared to another language, Swedish is one of the least useful languages. See a very long discussion of that topic here Mathematically, which is the be language to lea.rn? On the other hand, and because of this fact, lea.rning Swedish is especially valuable as a foreigner because not many people do. You can get by just speaking English, so if you do go to the effort to lea.rn Swedish, even a little, it will be appreciated and Swedes are very welcoming in general. They may just switch to speaking English with you, but they will appreciate your effort nonetheless and if you ask to practice Im sure they will be happy to help you. An amazing fact Ive heard about Sweden is that at least for some classes at some universities classes are normally taught in Swedish, but if there is a single foreign student enrolled, the whole class will be taught in English instead. Thats an impressive level of bilingualism, and think about how nice it would be to have a foreigner sharing some of the wor.k with them! Ecomically, Sweden and the other Nordic countries are doing very well, and it would be beneficial to do business there if that is relevant for you. Swedish also is similar to Norwegian and Danish and understood fairly well in Finland but nowadays English as much or more. Strictly for international purposes, though, you might be better off lea.rning Norwegian because that is the most likely to be understood in more countries Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. For just the mainland countries, including Finland, Swedish might be better, but theyre so close anyway that Norwegian would be fine, and maybe Swedish for the insular countries too, at least for basic communication. Note that lea.rning one of Norwegian/Swedish/Danish is standard or compulsory in Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Finland— mostly Danish in the former two and Swedish in the last one. Danish is the most difficult to understand for speakers of the others, or if youre not familiar with it, though, so maybe not the be choice for international purposes. On the other hand, if you speak Swedish or Norwegian in Iceland or the Faroe Islands you will probably be understood but they might reply in Danish. The three are really used interchangeably in some settings, and they border on being mutually intelligible to begin with but especially with modern media and international travel. Personal experience I studied Swedish, and then I did research in the Faroe Islands and studied Faroese, and now I read Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Faroese and Icelandic for my research as needed, though not always very easily— with a bit of practice the differences between Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are not too significant, but much more extreme for Faroese and Icelandic, though they are relatively more similar to each other than the other three. Finnish is an unrelated language by the way. I would say that if you travel around any of those countries with English and one of Swedish/Norwegian/Danish you could communicate with almost anyone, and maybe that is supported by a story about how I actually found myself unable to communicate with someone in Finland I dont speak Finnish at all I was in Helsinki and I missed my stop on the bus and ended up at the end of the line outside the city I was going to my hotel in that area, and the bus driver pulled off to the side of the road to wait for the next return trip. I realized I needed to ask him what to do I wasnt in a hurry but was obviously lost, and my phones charge had just run out, so I said hello and asked him. He had trouble even answering me in English, so I thought I would try Swedish or maybe Faroese. It turns out I found one of the few people in Finland who doesnt speak English or Swedish. He was a recent immigrant from Kosovo, and he spoke Finnish fluently but not English, and hadnt been through the Finnish school system to lea.rn Swedish either. He realized what was going on and smiled, shaking his head. I did the same. I tried a few more languages with him, in the hope that we might have another one