Is it true that if you speak Swedish you understand Norweigan and Finnish also?

Question

I've heard this but I don't know if it's a rumor or not?

Answer 1

Swedes usually find it easier to understand Norwegian than Danish. One source claims that while Norwegians understand almost 90% of spoken Swedish, Swedes understand only about 50% of spoken Norwegian. The lowest degree of intelligibility is between spoken Danish and Swedish. Danes understand approximately 45% of spoken Swedish, but the Swedes can only grasp about 25% of what the Danes are saying. For written material, the comprehension percentages rise to 70-90% for all language combinations

Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish are called Scandinavian languages.
Proficient speakers of any of the three languages can understand the others, though studies have shown that speakers of Norwegian generally understand both Danish and Swedish far better than Swedes or Danes understand each other. Both Swedes and Danes also understand Norwegian better than they understand each other's languages.

Finnish belongs to a different language family Finno-Ugric and has nothing in common with the three languages

Answer 2

Norwegian and Swedish have fairly high mutual intelligibility.
"Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish. The three are considered to compose the Mainland Scandinavian group. Written Danish and the Bokmål form of Norwegian are particularly close, though the phonology and prosody of all three languages differ somewhat. Proficient speakers of any of the three languages can understand the others, though studies have shown that speakers of Norwegian generally understand both Danish and Swedish far better than Swedes or Danes understand any of the other languages."
Finnish, on the other hand, is not related to these three languages at all.

Answer 3

I know that the Norwegians and Swedish understand each other quite well, but Finnish is very different, I believe. Maybe you are thinking of Danish, which is closer to Norwegian and Swedish.
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Answer 4

it quite is elementary... study bokmål norwegian! in case you study Norwegian you would be waiting to understand people who communicate Swedish with out too plenty worry. *Why no longer study Swedish as a replace?* One reason is Norwegians can understand Danish extra effectual than a Swedish individual can (it continues to be demanding, yet you will certainly be waiting to study Danish. mutually as a Swedish individual might have worry). yet another is Norwegian is between the least complicated languages for a close-by English speaker to examine (Swedish isn't too demanding the two, yet they have extra grammar, like extra plural noun endings). I heard Norwegian is likewise extra undemanding to pronounce than Swedish is! Norwegian is obviously the extra effectual selection! i do no longer comprehend plenty approximately Finnish :P

Answer 5

No. Finnish is totally different. People from Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Denmark can talk their own languages and they understand each other.

Swedish is the second native language in Finland, but they are not similar at all. Finnish language is more like Estonian language, sounds like Hungarian language.

Answer 6

The scandinavian languages belong to a common group and it becomes possible to make intelligent guesses at the meaning of words in each other's languages.This is the case with most other language groups like the Latin , Mongolian or Indo Aryan or Dravidian . All that is required is an open mind willing and wanting to understand the other, verbally or in print. Such guess work success is far better in the case of printed words. My own experience with deciphering spanish texts with the help of my smattering knowledge of Portuguese is a case in point.

Answer 7

Nope