How come Scandinavians can speak better english than most of us?
Socialism
They are not lazy.
I worked night shift at a gas station for around two years and nothing really crazy happened, just a few weird things like
>Dude comes in once or twice a week in the middle of the night to buy smokes and occasionally dog food, never on security cams. I would have assumed it was some technical glitch if I couldn't see myself in three of the six inside cameras like normal
I asked if he was a vampire and he said no but it wasn't entirely convincing. I sucked his dick once.
>See cars pull up on cam
>Go outside to fill their tanks because fucking jersey
>No car anywhere in sight
This happened so often i complained until they replaced the outside cameras and had a guy look at all the jargon but it didn't fix anything. So instead I asked for a new window so I wouldn't have to go all the way outside to see if there was actually a car but the owner said no. It was really annoying.
>People going to the bathroom and never coming out
The bathroom door was like right next to the counter and they had to borrow a key to use it. I could have missed them coming out because I was stoned most of the time but the keys never came back. Had to replace so many. There was also this one drunk chick who asked to go to the bathroom and instead ended up in the cold room and she died and wasn't found for like a week which was kind of weird.
Also this isn't paranormal really but there was this one guy who would come in once a month and buy all the toothpaste (literally all of it) and one set of nail clippers. So that was weird.
>>58192846
Where the fuck is our maiden's hand?
REEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>58192846
1. TV and movies are subbed, not dubbed. Same thing for games
2. Nordic master race
>>58192937
Really weird.
>>58192846
They're white
>>58192937
Cool story.
How was this relevant to OP?
>>58192846
They don't translate films/tv/books. You can find anything in English. They are almost bilingual society. But English is perceived as cool and hip. Sometimes they speak english between themselves. I think scandinavian languages are in decline.
>>58192846
Because they learn the grammar before starting to speak the language, and 99% of the english they're exposed to is grammatically correct.
Also they're exposed to basically as much english as their own language.
>>58192846
small population so we can't really have an internal circle-jerk on the same scale as germany or france. i used to spend time on the something awful forums back in like 2005 because there weren't any norwegian forums of the same size and quality
for us, learning english is like learning how to cook. it'll make your life better and easier
>>58192846
because theyre not dumb
>>58192846
My tummy aches I ate too much popcorn.
Honestly their accent always makes me question if they are retarded
>>58193141
>flag
gib tax money
>>58193067
you are retaded they still speak their respective languages in day to day communication
>>58192846
I fucking sucked at English before I started playing wow when I was like 14.
We be smart n shit yo
>>58192846
Cause their languages sound somehow similar to English.
Besides they are way harder so English is really easy for them.
>>58192937
Everyone knows
>Norge har troll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jBuNMHzqmI
>>58193278
Literally just saw 2 white native Viennese girls talking in English that told us "German isn't very pretty" when asked why
>>58192846
I`m interested more as to why the Indians can`t speak English well when it`s the second official language in India.
>>58193278
Have you ever been outside of Humenné, Mirko?
They switch between their language and English all the time. I've spent some time in Stockholm and Copenhagen, so I know better.
>>58193436
>Cause their languages sound somehow similar to English.
Does it?
I assume their languages are more similar to German.
>>58193278
yes i spent month in denmark and nobody talked in fucking english unless there were foreigners present in the debate
>>58193531
They speak it well they just have an accent which is pretty normal.
>>58193067
>>58193501
>>58193551
I've never seen 2 finns speak anything but finnish between the two
>>58192846
well its a germanic language as well, so wouldn't that be like if i learned kazak turkish?
shouldn't be hard at all desu
>>58193637
You are not scandinavian, mongoloid bro.
>>58193604
English is just dialect of Norwegian t b h
>>58193140
>he missed the early days of vgd.no, around the millenium
O i am laffin
>>58193551
No, we don't. I am born and bred here, I know better. Your experiences are either a lie or you came across some literal turboautists.
>>58192937
We have a board for this. >/x/
>>58192891
Damn.
>>58193672
Good point, I often forget since everyone always mistakes us as one of them
>>58193634
>They speak it well they just have an accent which is pretty normal.
Are positive about that? I mean the vast majority. Bet it`s more about public servants or upper class in general.
>>58193436
Implying english sounds anything like wharbblgarlsven.
>>58193436
>Cause their languages sound somehow similar to English.
Absolut inte. Mämmi paska uloste.
>Besides they are way harder so English is really easy for them.
It doesn't work that way, Hector.
>>58193637
I can say the same for Norwegians and Swedes. Although Swedes, Norwegians and Danes will often talk English between each other, especially younger people. It's just the easiest solution most of the time.
>>58193783
He's not positive about shit. I swear to god Indian tech support has lowered my faith in humanity so fucking much.
>>58193922
>It doesn't work that way, Hector.
This is what I'm talking about. The dumbest americans don't even know that sentence needs a comma.
The question is how importan knowing English is for an average person in Sweden or Norway. Is it required for work?
>>58193677
>vgd
mer autisme enn her fåvæ
>>58193978
Get ya. However, I still exceedingly doubt that most Indians know English well.
>>58192846
High education standards.
>>58194367
I was agreeing with you.
>>58194096
r u bernie? :D
tbqh finns are too autistic to write 4chan-english without caps or punctuation marks
some people just want to watch the world bern
>>58193953
>Although Swedes, Norwegians and Danes will often talk English between each other, especially younger people. It's just the easiest solution most of the time.
why
>>58194324
autism meg her og autism meg der, kukskalle
>>58193289
This, I learned to speak through video games. Germans, frenchies etc keep to themselves for the most part, but we're just too few. I think it's true for Dutchies aswell, at least I played with them and Brits for the most part. The Dutch are even better than scandis, but they also benefit from a non-shit educational system.
>>58194324
Idag har du helt rett, men rundt år 2000-2003 var forumet ganske morsomt. Da var det ikke så mye unger med tilgang på internett, og de uutdannede innavlproduktene som regjerer der nå, hadde ikke fått oynene opp for internett ennå. Tror det var verdens 9. mest aktive forum på et tidspunkt.
>>58194528
oh you mean between the countries sorry
t. assburger
>>58194528
It should be said that this is mostly true for people unfamiliar with the akin languages, or Danes. It's easier to understand English than both Danish and Swedish for me, and I grew up close to the Swedish border. Norway have regional dialects that vary a tremendous amount aswell, literally impossible for Swedes and Danes to understand some of them. It's just a matter of being pragmatic, you know how much nordics hate communication.
>>58194439
Nothing to do with that, moron you are.
they dont have their own language anyway so why not just use english
except finns
finns are just cool and smart
>>58195010
Köszönöm, bro.
>>58194096
Are u srs? Even if you don't know the proper grammar, you'd at least be able hear it from the pronunciational rhythm of the sentence.
>>58195682
I stand by what I said.
>>58192846
English is super easy to learn desu senpai.
Finnish on the other hand is pure cancer. You can all be thankful you will never have to take the Finnish matriculation examination.
>>58192937
>I sucked his dick once.
Spotted the fag
>>58194528
i don't know
it's retarded. in norwegian schools we learn a meme language known as nynorsk when we could be learning danish and swedish
in sweden they could have danish and norwegian instead of immigrant appreciation class
>>58198456
Spotted the gullible, try-hard Amerifat spouting pseudo-intellectual memes like the sad fuck he is.
>>58197941
I'd much rather have grown up speaking any other language than the one I speak now. It's too common, you know? It doesn't feel unique.
I almost feel envious of people simply for having been born into a different culture.
>>58198862
Finlandssvensk is truly the superior Scandinavian language.
>Spoken so slowly anyone can understand
>Swedish, most basic of the whole
>Alway speak with a cheeky smile on you face.
>>58198862
Bring back norrœnt mál!
>>58199076
Surely spanish is already quite common in USA? Can you take classes on it in school?
>>58198862
But, Ola, we are already learning Danish in school :^)
>>58199258
A fair amount of white people in Southern California know enough spanish to speak to a Mexican. In school the required foreign language classes are usually Spanish, French, German, or Italian.
>>58199420
>>58192846
They don't bother to learn how to shoot a duck with a .500 before acquiring a sophisticated way of speaking (i.e. the original, British English)
That's the tl;dr to it
>>58199538
So your fluent in 3-4 languages on average?
>>58199730
LOL. I don't think I made that clear. By required classes I meant just the bare minimum.That's only from middle school to high school. And you only get your choice of one language at a time. Fuck, we're not that smart.
>>58200066
I kinda wish we'd speak swedish, some for of scandi language.
Kinda sucks speaking hard-ass language no one else in the world speaks (no, we can't really understand estonian).
Would be cool to have some oversea random island where people spoke finnish.
>>58200329
*or some other form
1) Cold weather fosters indoor culture
2) Tradition of subtitling instead of dubbing
3) Autists like video game sci-fi(all of which is in English)
The english taught in their school system is virtually the same in other places which place an emphasis on english.
>>58200471
also good luck traveling abroad if you expect anyone to know norwegian
>>58200526
That shit too, nigga
>>58198862
Hvis du hadde studiespess på vgs skal du ha lært å lese og tolke svenske og danske tekster.
>>58200618
So what was the difference between nynorsk and bokmål again? Is it just spoken and written language?
>>58192846
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAYUuspQ6BY
>>58192846
They are very Americanised
>>58201028
Pretty much. >>58193067 also raises some good points.
>>58201028
That's where the cuckoldry comes from. I never knew what it was until americas started rambling about it on 4keks.
>>58201028
That's only recently though, pretty much all people aged 30+ speak british english
>>58201529
JUST
>>58192846
Oh East Germany hi there. Long time no see
Oh btw a few NATO members subsumed
>>58200728
They're both written languages. One is a heavily norwegianized Danish (bokmål), the other is based on Western dialects (nynorsk).
