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  • Getting into Russia is difficult, getting out again is next to impossible. Besides anyone in Russia who doesn’t speak russian would be immediately arrested long before they got to Moscow. It’s a dumb comparison. If the country I live in fell to fascism I absolutely would take the fight to them.

    The fact is that you people allowed this to happen and you’re allowing it to continue. Europe would not give a single solitary fuck if it weren’t for the fact that the USA has been ingraining themselves into all parts of international politics for decades, and your recent fuck up is causing problems for everyone.





  • They only teach bokmål in the language courses for foreigners, even if you live in a nynorsk area. Until relatively recently school children were expected to learn both and if you were expected to reply to letters/emails in the same language as they were written in. That doesn’t happen as much now.




  • Best for what purpose? Norwegian is best for understanding Swedish and Danish (Swedes have more difficulty understanding Danish than Norwegians do) Swedish and Norwegian are essentially a dialectical continuum.

    Oslo dialect is heavily influenced by danish because back in the day if Norwegians wanted a decent education they went to Denmark. The more commonly used written form of Norwegian (bokmål) is still very similar to Danish (only as it’s written though, danish pronunciation is fucked up). The other form (nynorsk) was created from several rural dialects as part of a nationalism movement and more closely resembles Swedish (not in terms of spelling but pronunciation) it’s not as close as bokmål is to Danish though.

    Finnish is a completely different language family but is very similar to kven which is spoken by very few people on the Northern coast of Norway. It’s a nice sounding language though and a good way to sound like you’re going to stab someone.

    The correct language is the one that is spoken in the country you’re most interested in. I live in Norway so for my purposes Norwegian is obviously best. And I don’t need to revert to speaking English in Sweden or (most of) Denmark, which is nice.

    If I had to learn a second north European language, I’d choose either northern Sami, Faroese, Icelandic, or Greenlandic.