Reading in Danish/Norwegian/Swedish
-
- Blue Belt
- Posts: 520
- Joined: Thu Jul 23, 2015 3:21 pm
- Languages: English (N), German, Japanese, Mandarin, Korean
- x 1415
Reading in Danish/Norwegian/Swedish
If you read books in at least one of the continental Scandinavian languages, how do you generally read books originally written in the other ones?
0 x
- jeff_lindqvist
- Black Belt - 3rd Dan
- Posts: 3167
- Joined: Sun Aug 16, 2015 9:52 pm
- Languages: sv, en
de, es
ga, eo
---
fi, yue, ro, tp, cy, kw, pt, sk - Language Log: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2773
- x 10598
Re: Reading in Danish/Norwegian/Swedish
Other, i.e. sometimes original, sometimes a translation. Of the Danish/Norwegian authors I've read the last ten years, most (if not all) of them have written crime fiction. That is a popular genre and a lot is translated into Swedish. It's not that I actively look for native content, nor that I actively avoid it. If the book I've decided to read happens to be written by a Danish/Norwegian author and it's a translation into Swedish, fine.
2 x
Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge:
Ar an seastán oíche:Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
Ar an seastán oíche:
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
-
- Green Belt
- Posts: 380
- Joined: Sat Oct 29, 2016 10:58 am
- Location: Norway
- Languages: Norwegian (N), English, Spanish, Catalan, French, German, Italian, Latin
- x 778
Re: Reading in Danish/Norwegian/Swedish
Same as Jeff: Sometimes in the original and sometimes in translation. I think most people would prefer to read it in translation though.
2 x
-
- Green Belt
- Posts: 306
- Joined: Sat May 13, 2017 6:21 pm
- Languages: German (N), Swedish (C), English (?), French (A2), Esperanto (A2). Reading Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Afrikaans. Wanting to learn Polish, Yiddish
- Language Log: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 15&t=16039
- x 1073
Re: Reading in Danish/Norwegian/Swedish
I prefer reading Norwegian and Danish (as well as all other languages which I can read) fiction in the original.
Most of my Swedish friends and colleagues are surprised when they see me reading in Norwegian or Danish though. They usually tell me they never would do that, even those of them who wouldn't hesitate to grab an English book.
Most of my Swedish friends and colleagues are surprised when they see me reading in Norwegian or Danish though. They usually tell me they never would do that, even those of them who wouldn't hesitate to grab an English book.
2 x
Assimil French :
Active wave :
Active wave :
Return to “General Language Discussion”
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 2 guests