AshVilla Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 When Nicklas writes 'bad at english' he is comparing himself to other danes. I'm 29 and have been to most countries in Europe at some point. And I feel comfortable saying we danes probably speak the best english (not counting countries where english is the native tongue) in fact, most under 50 are fluent, and most under 30 would be able to adapt a british accent in a matter of months. The worst english speaking dane is still better than any french, spanish, italian guy. @adz.villa .. You can take the 'We love to fight and do cocain... and NICKLAS HELENIUS' away as his song but you can never take away the way he stupidly snorts everytime he speaks, which I personally believe is the reason he got that song to begin with. Well i know a few people from Norway Sweden Finland and the majority of them tend to think that Danish is the hardest to learn of all the scandinavian languages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juteface Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 Hey Nicky you're so fine You're so fine You blow my mind, Hey Nicky *claps* Hey Nicky *claps* Rinse and repeat. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 When Nicklas writes 'bad at english' he is comparing himself to other danes. I'm 29 and have been to most countries in Europe at some point. And I feel comfortable saying we danes probably speak the best english (not counting countries where english is the native tongue) in fact, most under 50 are fluent, and most under 30 would be able to adapt a british accent in a matter of months. The worst english speaking dane is still better than any french, spanish, italian guy. @adz.villa .. You can take the 'We love to fight and do cocain... and NICKLAS HELENIUS' away as his song but you can never take away the way he stupidly snorts everytime he speaks, which I personally believe is the reason he got that song to begin with. Well i know a few people from Norway Sweden Finland and the majority of them tend to think that Danish is the hardest to learn of all the scandinavian languages That's because the Danes don't bother pronouncing their words Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vandaq Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 When Nicklas writes 'bad at english' he is comparing himself to other danes. I'm 29 and have been to most countries in Europe at some point. And I feel comfortable saying we danes probably speak the best english (not counting countries where english is the native tongue) in fact, most under 50 are fluent, and most under 30 would be able to adapt a british accent in a matter of months. The worst english speaking dane is still better than any french, spanish, italian guy. @adz.villa .. You can take the 'We love to fight and do cocain... and NICKLAS HELENIUS' away as his song but you can never take away the way he stupidly snorts everytime he speaks, which I personally believe is the reason he got that song to begin with. Well i know a few people from Norway Sweden Finland and the majority of them tend to think that Danish is the hardest to learn of all the scandinavian languages Well true, but Finland is the most different. Swedish,Norwegian and danish has similarities. I do think danish is much harder to understand than swedish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted July 11, 2013 Moderator Share Posted July 11, 2013 I've often heard it said that linguistically there are similarities between English and Danish that make both easy (or easier) for the other to learn. In fact I've heard that Danish is the easiest language for a native English speaker to learn for those reasons. So the fact that Sweden, Norway & Finland happen to be traditionally 'Scandinavian' too is largely irrelevant from a language point of view.And on the discussion of non-native fluency of English, I've no experience of Danes other than on the internet but I'd imagine the Netherlands might push you close on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 "allegedly" Danish is the hardest language in the world to learn . I know swedes and norweigans and some Danes can speak to each other but never in danish, always swedish or norweigan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted July 11, 2013 Moderator Share Posted July 11, 2013 "allegedly" Danish is the hardest language in the world to learn . I know swedes and norweigans and some Danes can speak to each other but never in danish, always swedish or norweigan While Danish is said to be the hardest Scandinavian language to learn because of its speaking patterns, grammatically it is relatively easy. Danish has only nine verb forms, including the passive, which while peculiar to Scandinavian languages is familiar to English speakers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 (edited) I always imagined Icelandic quite hard to learn... Got to be similar to Norwegian though? Edited July 11, 2013 by AVFCforever1991 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 Finish has no relation to the other Scandinavian languages and is actually closer to Hungarian. Norwegian and Swedish are pretty similar and Danish is in the same family but is the odd one out. Danes can usually understand Swedes or Norwegians but those have trouble understanding what the Danes are saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarpie Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 There's not really any language which are close to finnish with the two exceptions, hungarian and estonian. Hungarian and finnish has some similar sounding words but that's it afaik, and similarities in grammar. Danish, swedish and norwegian are very different from finnish and those three languages are similar to english in many aspects since they also are latin-based. Finnish is very hard to learn by foreigners, partly because it's not latin language, for example finnish has fifteen case forms for nouns. We don't use words like from/to/at etc nor articles, we 'bend' the words instead which is why there are so many form nouns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 (edited) Looks promising so far, hope he starts against arsenal but doubt it Edited July 11, 2013 by sir_gary_cahill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troglodyte Posted July 11, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted July 11, 2013 I always imagined Icelandic quite hard to learn... Got to be similar to Norwegian though? Icelandic is supposedly the closest language to Old English that is still currently spoken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killeen30 Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 Scores on his debut, reminds me of another previous signing.....Carlton Cole? Nahh Darren Bent or Gabby, he's talking about Or Kevin Phillips, possibly even Dion Dublin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killeen30 Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 Looks promising so far, hope he starts against arsenal but doubt it Awww no... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 Scores on his debut, reminds me of another previous signing..... Carlton Cole? Nahh Darren Bent or Gabby, he's talking about Or Kevin Phillips, possibly even Dion Dublin! He is clearly talking about Zat Knight or maybe Milan Baros Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesperchr Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 I've often heard it said that linguistically there are similarities between English and Danish that make both easy (or easier) for the other to learn. In fact I've heard that Danish is the easiest language for a native English speaker to learn for those reasons. So the fact that Sweden, Norway & Finland happen to be traditionally 'Scandinavian' too is largely irrelevant from a language point of view. And on the discussion of non-native fluency of English, I've no experience of Danes other than on the internet but I'd imagine the Netherlands might push you close on that. Some english words, have their roots in old danish. Because the danish vikings settled in parts of england, and "Forced" the danish languge into english.... If you take words like "husband" it comes from the old danish word hùsbondí another word "they" which is the danish word "de" English citys that end on By... Like Grimsby! are most likely named by a viking settler, whos name was "Grim" Grimsby (By = town) Grimstown Thats why there are so many similarities betwen English and danish Bam... a little history on Villatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killeen30 Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 Scores on his debut, reminds me of another previous signing.....Carlton Cole?Nahh Darren Bent or Gabby, he's talking about Or Kevin Phillips, possibly even Dion Dublin! He is clearly talking about Zat Knight or maybe Milan Baros Nah it's Mark Draper! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVillain Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 Scores on his debut, reminds me of another previous signing..... Carlton Cole? Nahh Darren Bent or Gabby, he's talking about Or Kevin Phillips, possibly even Dion Dublin! He is clearly talking about Zat Knight or maybe Milan Baros Nah it's Mark Draper! Bosko Balaban Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdomlahor Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Enough of the games. He's talking about Heskey, clearly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicon Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Nice from Helenius - if he can start the season with confidence we'll be in good stead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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