Most beneficial language?

Question

I'd like to learn a Scandinavian language and want to know which of the Scandinavian languages would you say is most beneficial (spoken in most places / the most native speakers, most advantages, etc). Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, and so forth . . .

Answer 1

Swedish is the language spoken most across all of Scandinavia so I would say that.

I have heard that Russian is very beneficial for buisiness and stuff along those lines. Although it's not Scandinivian it is close if you want to consider that..


Finland's is the only one of those countries you mentioned with 2 official languages and of their population 5.5 % speak Swedish. The school children are taught Swedish (mandatory) in school but i'm not sure about other Scandinavian countries. So that means that more people are able to understand Swedish (and so you if you chose to learn it) even when you are not in the country.


I wouldn't bother learning Icelandic as you're not likely to go there and intergrate, or meet as many Icelandic people as it is away from mainland Scandinavia.
Denmark is pretty tiny so again I would rule that out. Finnish is very hard to learn compared to the others.

Population:
Sweden 9, 097, 948 (size 449, 964 km² )

Finland 5, 274, 820 (size 338, 145 km² )
Norway 4,667,410 (size 306, 253 km² )
Denmark 5,450,661 (size 43, 094 km² )

Iceland 304,334 (size 103,000 km² )

So as you can see there are more Swedish people and the country is the biggest so that gets my vote.

Answer 2

Swedish is probably the most widely spoken Scandinavian language. Sweden has a lot more inhabitants than the other Scandinavian countries. A lot of foreigners have lived there for some time too and learned the language to some degree. And if you speak Swedish, you can easily communicate with Norwegians and Danes and a lot of people in the other Scandinavian countries as well, because of the similarities of those languages and the multilingual inhabitants.

Answer 3

Although it is not considered one of the Scandinavian Languages, I would certainly recommend that you study DUTCH. It is spoken by about 20,000,000 people, outweighing Danish (about 5,300,000 people), Swedish (about 9,000,000 people) and Norwegian (4,800,000).

Dutch is spoken in the Netherlands, in Belgium, in Suriname, Aruba, the Netherlands Antilles, as well as other countries.

Substantial numbers of Dutch speakers can be found in France, Canada, the US, Australia, Israel, and Surinam.

Dutch, just like English is one of the Modern Germanic languages and it is one of the official languages of the European Union.

Afrikaans is derived from Dutch and is one of the 11 languages of South Africa and the mother tongue of about 15% of its population. Someone who is able to speak Dutch usually can read and understand Afrikaans.

The alphabet used for the Dutch language is based on the Latin alphabet so the letters and the vowels are the same as the ones used in the English language.


The number of non-native speakers of Dutch who voluntarily learn the language is small. This is partly because Dutch is not geographically widespread and because in its home countries the Netherlands and Belgium most of its speakers are proficient in other European languages.

Very similar to my native language German, I think the Dutch language is a vibrant thread in the beautiful tapestry of our world's languages.

I hope you enjoyed my input and will consider learning Dutch.
Here is your first Dutch phrase:

Take care!: Pas goed op jezelf!

Answer 4

Swedish...seems to be one i hear alot around ,,New England

Answer 5

swedish

Answer 6

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just kiddin i dunno. :)