Anyone else surprised at how well Scandavian miscers communicate in English?

[Spacedogg]

They have english speaking school in Sweden? lol

Do you think English is going become the native language of your countries pretty soon?

It's just an English section but the school sucks cawk anyways. I wouldn't think so, even us at the English section use Swedish 99% of the time. The only time I speak English is when a teacher is close-by. This is also a special case, the "normal" sections and other schools speak Swedish exclusively. But English is well integrated in the society. There is also a "law" prohibiting the use of English for the public sector in Sweden but the law is not enforced.

[twicerainbow]

They speak English because they have to. They need it to communicate with everyone else in Europe and around the world. How many people say speak Swedish? 6 million? Here in North America we have 400 million of us on this continent that we can communicate to in English.

The only reason we would learn another language (besides French for us Canadian brahs) is for a hobby. We dont need it. We can travel 8 hours on a plane and land and still only need English. But knowing multiple languages is extremely impressive either way

germans learn english, despite pretty much every country around them speaking german.

[CrustyLoaf]

Yeah, primary and secondary education in the US is lacking but the US has the greatest tertiary education in the world, and it's not even close.

Yeah but how many people benefit from that "great" tertiary education?

Not many.

germans learn english, despite pretty much every country around them speaking german.

What?

[jabroniebrah]

master race..Scandinavia is so underrated by 'mericans..Faroe Island is best part of Scandinavia..master everything..bosses..except the weather maybe

[PSUbrah]

When you think about it, we american miscers are pathetic. We can only speak English when all these other foreign micers are bilingual.

[milivoje]

I dunno if its been said already but

- subtitles instead of dubbing. the only other countries I know that do this are netherlands, belgium and portugal.
- learn english, another scandinavian language from a young age
- they are minor languages so other languages need to be learnt.
- influence of American pop culture

[CrustyLoaf]

When you think about it, we american miscers are pathetic. We can only speak English when all these other foreign micers are bilingual.

Not many foreigners on here apart from Canadians, Brits, and Australians.

We're all in the same boat.

[nonamewut]

sometimes i feel like my english is better than my swedish lol, i get lost trying to find words in swedish sometimes, even though my swedish is ofc way more fluent

[amperless]

Southern European checking in.

I can communicate in 3 languages (written and spoken comprehension). My native slavic language (Slovenian language), English language, German language.

I can also communicate verbaly in Italian language, but I can not write in Italian.

But because I live in a poverty Southern European state and for that reason I will be forever unemployed. FML

[Isthisreality]

A lot of scandinavian brahs have already made the point about our television not being dubbed, and the fact that we're taught english from an early age. I think this trend in scandinavia is a product of high standards of living combined with being relatively small countries/languages. As a danish person, you're pretty much aware that there's a big world out there from the day you're born, and that Denmark is only a very little part of it. We (scandinavians, possibly most other europeans as well) tend to travel a lot; I've been to the U.S., Philippines, Thailand and 10+ different european countries by the age of 22. If you live in U.S., I think (and this is a guess on my part) that you're more likely to travel within the states, instead of going to cultures where you speak different languages. There's no way you can travel/be very succesful as a danish person, if you can't speak english fluently. Nobody knows our crappy, difficult language.

Thanks for the compliments in this thread - it's always good knowing that our U.S. brothers appreciate the efforts we've gone through to learn english

I'm learning Danish atm as I'm going to live there next month (I have a danish passport, have to move there before I turn 22 to keep it). It's not overly difficult, but pronouncing things such as Rød is tough.

Looking forward to living there though, other then pronunciation Danish doesn't seem overly difficult and the word are mostly similar to English. As long as I dont order rødgrød med fløde I should be fine :\.

[Merauder]

I'm also surprised at times.

[Valeurvaleur]

I'm learning Danish atm as I'm going to live there next month (I have a danish passport, have to move there before I turn 22 to keep it). It's not overly difficult, but pronouncing things such as Rød is tough.

Looking forward to living there though, other then pronunciation Danish doesn't seem overly difficult and the word are mostly similar to English. As long as I dont order rødgrød med fløde I should be fine :\.

Pronounciation is hard, and then there are the minor details like our word endings that change almost randomly - people will still understand you, but it's clear that you are making mistakes;

Jeg elsker dig OR Jeg elske dig

Jeg forsvarer dig OR Jeg forsvare dig

Jeg hører dig OR Jeg høre dig

They are subtle differences, but it's hard to learn and master all of them (or so I've heard from non-natives).

[NedStark]

Americans education is sht, everyone who takes spanish for french class always end up saying they only learned a few words.. and some useless phrases

[CrustyLoaf]

Southern European checking in.

I can communicate in 3 languages (written and spoken comprehension). My native slavic language (Slovenian language), English language, German language.

I can also communicate verbaly in Italian language, but I can not write in Italian.

But because I live in a poverty Southern European state and for that reason I will be forever unemployed. FML

Let's be serious bro, Slovenia is classed as Eastern Europe.

[Makke]

Finland checking in. English starts in school when we are 9 years old and every Social media throws english at us. Nowadays if you cant speak english in finland, you are a retard

[NorseViking]

Americans education is sht, everyone who takes spanish for french class always end up saying they only learned a few words.. and some useless phrases

off topic: mirin name to rep ratio

[shoelaces]

Is bodybuilding popular in Denmark? 2/3 of the posters ITT are Danish.

[JattStyling]

Because I am. Better grammar and spelling than many US and UK miscers. Currently trying to learn German and it is hard as hell to get everything down. Dunno how Euro brahs speak English so eloquently considering it is not their native language.

no, ur just ridin cock

[JattStyling]

Finland checking in. English starts in school when we are 9 years old and every Social media throws english at us. Nowadays if you cant speak english in finland, you are a retard

Let me fix your poor grammar.

Finn here, English starts in school at the age of 9 and all social media uses English. Nowadays, if you cannot speak English in Finland, you are considered an imbecile.

[shoelaces]

Americans education is sht, everyone who takes spanish for french class always end up saying they only learned a few words.. and some useless phrases

Too many feels.

[Domstar104]

English, Spanish and Mandarin ;know one of them and your set

[shoelaces]

English, Spanish and Mandarin ;know one of them and your set

Why Spanish? Why Mandarin?

[Frutcher]

Swede here. I would say that we Scandinavians are better than 70% of the world at everything (sports, education, happiness etc.) The only problem is that we're generally very modest. That's why I only said 70% of the world...

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[CrustyLoaf]

Swede here. I would say that we Scandinavians are better than 70% of the world at everything (sports, education, happiness etc.) The only problem is that we're generally very modest. That's why I only said 70% of the world...

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Scandinavians are the best in the world at being arrogant douches.

I agree with that.

[Domstar104]

Why Spanish? Why Mandarin?

Because the Anglosphere is big, south America speaks Spanish (for the most part) and Mandarin rules asia

But 2100 thel be the 3 languages left

[squisito]

Swede here. I would say that we Scandinavians are better than 70% of the world at everything (sports, education, happiness etc.) The only problem is that we're generally very modest. That's why I only said 70% of the world...

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But Sweden came 37th in the Olympics last year.

[mirinryan]

i would try hard to learn the worlds only relevant language too

You taking mandarin lessons then brah ? kinda srs

but yeah english is still the language of commerce

[jstar007]

Same with Dutch people too. Many of them write with perfect grammar and speak English very well. Many even have better English grammar than Americans.

[Frutcher]

Scandinavians are the best in the world at being arrogant douches.

I agree with that.

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[Ikeman83]

Because I am. Better grammar and spelling than many US and UK miscers. Currently trying to learn German and it is hard as hell to get everything down. Dunno how Euro brahs speak English so eloquently considering it is not their native language.

Learning a second language from childhood on (which Scandinavians do) is totally different from learning a language as an adult/teen. Scandinavians do not synchronise (dub) English language television, and they watch a lot of it, so they learn English as a primary language alongside their native Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, or Finnish.

The reason you're having so much trouble with German is because "der, die, das" is impossible for non-native German speakers to get a good feeling for, and basically has to be memorized. As you get farther into the grammar, you'll realize that the grammar rules for German are actually fairly straight forward, and fairly logical as well.

Good luck