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JonGalt
Pootie too good!4331 Posts
I remember reading somewhere that Danish people have the best english for non native english speaking people. But I also visited Sweden for a day and it was similar there. If you want to travel there, just learn English and a few key phrases in Danish/Sweden/Norwegian. Many people have said it, but the languages are quite similar. And not to bash the Danish people, but even they told me that Danish was a pointless language to learn haha. | ||
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Shikyo
Finland33997 Posts
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sob3k
United States7572 Posts
Today i went APstone, Rageblade, Randuins, sunfire. I smashed face, tomorrow I may purchase a dcap or perhaps nashors or maybe a BOTRK.... Except WTF Riot you expect me to pay like 86,000 ip for hybrid pen runes....fuuuuuck that. Suboptimal here I come. | ||
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Solaris.playgu
Sweden480 Posts
On April 28 2013 21:52 Shikyo wrote: Swedish would pretty much be the most "standard" language out of those and as a bonus it works in Finland everywhere as a native language as well(I wouldn't be as confident in Finnish natives understanding danish when swedish is just their second language for example) . I would agree with this, out of the nordic languages swedish is probably the easiest to get around with. It took me some time to learn to understand norwegian, and I'm still struggling with danish, but I have never encountered anyone from norway or denmark that didn't understand me (though I've had to speak slowly at times ^^ ). Finnish is completely different to the rest, but they learn swedish as a second or third language in school. From what I have heard they are very good at it along the coast, and get worse and worse the further you get into the country. However, english should let you communicate with anyone anywhere pretty much. | ||
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Badboyrune
Sweden2247 Posts
On April 28 2013 20:51 nyxnyxnyx wrote: i want to learn a language, just wondering which As a Swedish person I would recommend picking a non-scandinavian langue. The main reason being that there's very little reason to since they're all only spoken by fairly few people and the vast majority of those people speak perfectly fine english. They're also fairly hard languages to learn I believe. And to be fair they don't even sound good. It just seems like very much effort for very little reward. I'd rather have gone with german, french or spanish. Or even italian. All of those have vastly more native speakers than the scandinavian languages, and a decent amount of those are not very good english speakers. They're also languages that you might have use for when working/studying since they're so useful. Saying you speak spanish at a job interview and chances are the employer might see some use for that. Swedish not so much. If you still want to learn a scandinavian language don't pick danish. Because it sounds horrible. | ||
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Solaris.playgu
Sweden480 Posts
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Dandel Ion
Austria17960 Posts
On April 28 2013 22:33 Solaris.playgu wrote: I have no sources on this, so don't quote me, but I think danish is supposed to be the hardest language in the world to learn. I doubt this. A lot. I've learned danish for a while (I have danish relatives), and it's not even that bad. And DEFINETLY not the hardest in the world. I would, however, agree that it doesn't even matter if you speak it, Danish Dudes are pretty good with english, and a lot of them speak german even. Speculation: It's because Danish TV isn't dubbed, only subbed. So they watch a lot of stuff in English. Screw schooling, if that was the case in German speaking countries, English levels would increase by 300% guaranteed (number completely pulled out of my ass, ok?) | ||
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Shikyo
Finland33997 Posts
On April 28 2013 22:48 Dandel Ion wrote: I doubt this. A lot. I've learned danish for a while (I have danish relatives), and it's not even that bad. And DEFINETLY not the hardest in the world. I would, however, agree that it doesn't even matter if you speak it, Danish Dudes are pretty good with english, and a lot of them speak german even. Speculation: It's because Danish TV isn't dubbed, only subbed. So they watch a lot of stuff in English. Screw schooling, if that was the case in German speaking countries, English levels would increase by 300% guaranteed (number completely pulled out of my ass, ok?) Well I'd be inclined to agree. My understanding of japanese is pretty decent and it's almost entirely from anime and lyrics. | ||
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Vanka
China1336 Posts
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Bwaaaa
Australia969 Posts
On April 28 2013 22:33 Solaris.playgu wrote: I have no sources on this, so don't quote me, but I think danish is supposed to be the hardest language in the world to learn. I would have thought that african language which is just toungue clicking would be harder. | ||
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Solaris.playgu
Sweden480 Posts
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Eppa!
Sweden4641 Posts
Expected 1:Gambit 2 Fnatic 3 EG in lcs at the start of the season and all through the season (slight doubt if EG would get out of the slump in time for playoffs). Something of importance is the fact that the EG playstyle is extremely strong and it always has been. WE often use the same style of play and this is when they are the most domi.nant | ||
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JonGalt
Pootie too good!4331 Posts
Despite this, I think Danish was a harder language to learn. That's just my 9 week exposure of Danish vs my 7 months of Sesotho exposure so take it for what it's worth. It just seems to me that Sesotho (and the other zulu languages) is actually a fairly simple language, whereas Danish is much more complicated. Not to mention when you hear a sentence in Danish (as a non native) it could be one word or fifteen. In Sesotho you can at least here the spaces in the words. | ||
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Wala.Revolution
7583 Posts
EDIT: I guess dot isn't removed, but it has a heal. | ||
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Alaric
France45622 Posts
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thenexusp
United States3721 Posts
On April 29 2013 00:12 Alaric wrote: It removes the same things as Cleanse, and it has a travel time on the projectile too. Not quite. Cleanse gets rid of the ignite DoT but Crucible doesn't. Actually the things that Crucible removes are very clearly enumerated on the Crucible itself. It's pretty much any CC that is reduced by tenacity. | ||
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WaveofShadow
Canada31495 Posts
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Chexx
Korea (South)11232 Posts
On April 28 2013 22:55 Shikyo wrote: Well I'd be inclined to agree. My understanding of japanese is pretty decent and it's almost entirely from anime and lyrics. If you dont have an asian native language and never studied japanese. I highly doubt that. | ||
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Ryuu314
United States12679 Posts
On April 29 2013 01:05 Chexx wrote: If you dont have an asian native language and never studied japanese. I highly doubt that. Iunno...I know a good number of people, Asian and non-Asian, who learned quite a decent amount of Japanese by just watching subbed anime. Ofc, watching anime won't teach you how to read/write, but understanding and speaking can definitely be learned via watching lots of stuff. Same works with Korean and K-drama. | ||
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onlywonderboy
United States23745 Posts
I'm bad at all foreign languages, currently trying to just get a C in my French class so I never have to take it again xD | ||
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Among the youth in all 3 countries, i'd say at least 80% (probably way higher) has the skills to speak with you on a standard conversation level.
