Which one has easier words and stuff like that???
2007-02-18 00:46:42 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Depends where you're from, really. But for most, Norwegian is easier, because it belongs to the group of the Indo-European languages (just like all other Germanic, all Slavic and all Romance languages).
Finnish, on the other hand, is a member of the Finno-Ugric language family and is typologically between inflected and agglutinative language. The Finno-Ugric languages form a subfamily of the Uralic languages. Hungarian and Estonian, also belong to this family.
2007-02-18 00:54:02 · answer #1 · answered by M 6 · 9⤊ 2⤋
Norwegian ( both Bookmal and Nynorsk) are easier to learn. Bookmal is accepted as an official, but the truth is that you'll be not well understood if you speak in it in many parts of Norway.
You can read a thorough information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/norwegian_l
It is a Germanic language and has also some common traits with English. I would say that Finnish is one of the hardest to learn ever languages on earth.
Hope that helps!
Have a great day!
2007-02-18 07:51:55 · answer #2 · answered by sunflower 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Although I've never tried to learn Finnish, I am trying to learn Norwegian and in some instances, it's quite simple. Because it's a germanic language, there are many words which are similar to English, if not the same. What's difficult is the fact that all nouns are either masculine, feminine or neutral. In english of course, we don't have this. I also find telling the time takes a bit of thought because their structure for announcing time is different to english.
2007-02-18 01:04:24 · answer #3 · answered by leejvh 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're a native speaker of Serbian, and your English is decent, so that means Norwegian won't require any really big conceptual changes to understand. No language is inherently any more difficult than any other, but you've already got the Indo-European concepts down. Learning Norwegian will probably be easier for you than learning English was.
2007-02-18 02:01:31 · answer #4 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know both fairly intermediate well, and I'd say, if you're European, then you will probably learn Norwegian quicker but get very confused with- & if exposed to Danish & Swedish too.
If you are a newly born or if this is to be your first european language (which can't be as you are already asking this in english) - I'd say Finnish - it has its logic & simplicities, and it has more words that are almost identical to english words (just add an 'i') than norwegian does
2007-02-20 04:27:13 · answer #5 · answered by profound insight 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Finnish (the language - Finland is the country) is supposed to be one of the hardest languages in the world to learn. It doesn't have any similarities to any opther language whereas Norwegian will have lots of words you'll recognise as being similar to English.
2007-02-18 01:13:32 · answer #6 · answered by chip2001 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You mean Finnish?
Norwegian is much easier. It belongs to the same family as English,
In Finnish you won't find a single word similar to English
2007-02-18 01:06:40 · answer #7 · answered by QQ dri lu 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Finnish and Hungarian are two of the most complex languages to learn since they have so many cases and tenses. So I'd say that Norwegian is a little easier.
2007-02-18 01:05:33 · answer #8 · answered by David W 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Definitely Norwegian. In fact, Finnish is one of the oldest languages in the world while Modern Norwegian is one of the newest; it's grammar is even simpler than that of English for the most part. For example, Ka gjør du? - "What are you doing?" (literally "What do you?").
2007-02-18 19:01:44 · answer #9 · answered by Brennus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think Norwegian is easier.
2007-02-25 13:38:46 · answer #10 · answered by supercalifragilisticexpialidocio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋