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JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 4 days agoLike learning Norwegian (bokmål) while living on the west coast.
In all honesty, I’d be absolutely terrified of trying to learn a Nordic language, which is absolutely NOT due to the lovely Nordic people I’ve met across the years.
It’s a “me” problem, and case-closed, please.
Griffus@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
This got me curious, what is it with Nordic languages that is so off putting to you?
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 4 days ago
Well.. I mean… what later become “English” branched off from its West-Germanic roots, long ago, and never did become “High German.” So theoretically, as an English-speaker, I have great familiarity with modern French, and we share the same basic sentence-structure as with modern German. Some of that is actually true. In practice, I could not be more of a complete dumbass upon those other languages.
TBC, I can speak Castellano and Français like someone with heat-stroke, and I can vaguely understand Dutch and German.