I've always wanted to learn Norweigan or Finnish. Since I've been listening to more and more foreign music, I've wanted to become more serious about it.
Are there any good (preferably free) online sources for these? I don't mean AltaVista Babel Fish, either... I mean serious, step-by-step "courses."
2007-10-23 17:05:24 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
try http://www.foreignlanguages.com
2007-10-26 13:03:12 · answer #1 · answered by . 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I were you I'd go for Norwegian, because then you'll be able to figure out Swedish and Danish with ease.
Finnish is in a totally different language family and would be 100x more difficult to learn. You'd have to memorize every word and wouldn't have the clues of the similarity to English that Nor/Swe/Dan have.
There used to be a site called
travlang.com
but I haven't been to it for years. Try it and see.
Otherwise, go to an official Norwegian site, like the site for the Norwegian train system ( I think it's www. nsb.no) or maybe SAS (Scandinavian airlines) and you can flip back and forth from NO to ENG and compare.
Here's a sentence to get you started:
Vil du ha en kop kaffe?
2007-10-24 00:49:13 · answer #2 · answered by topink 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋