Why can Scandinavians speak English so well?
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Scandinavians speak English well because it’s very similar to their native languages. The similarity includes not only related vocabulary, but also grammatical structures.
Do Swedish people speak English with an accent?
Most Swedes simply sound Swedish, but you can usually see and hear whether they’re going for Standard American vocabulary and grammar with a General American accent, or Standard British vocabulary and grammar with a Received Pronunciation accent.
But you are right they probably have less of an accent than e.g. French or Spanish. There could be several reasons: The countries are quite small, and nobody outside their own countries speaks their language, so they have had more English teaching at school.
How do you fake a Swedish accent?
One of the easiest tricks to fake a really good Swedish accent is to move the general location of speech, within your mouth. Imagine your speech is a ping pong ball, that you move around in your mouth as you are speaking. Try a thick American accent – the ping pong ball is really far back in your mouth, right?
Are Norwegian and Swedish similar?
The languages spoken in Scandinavia are called North Germanic languages and include Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese. Danish, Swedish and Norwegian are all very similar, and it is common for people from all three countries to be able to read the two other without too much difficulty.
Are Danish and Swedish similar?
Danish, Norwegian (including Bokmål, the most common standard form of written Norwegian, and Nynorsk) and Swedish are all descended from Old Norse, the common ancestor of all North Germanic languages spoken today. Thus, they are closely related, and largely mutually intelligible.
Is Swedish difficult?
Swedish is one of the easier languages for an English native speaker to learn, with a lot of vocabulary and grammar in common. Still, there are some tricky components, from the melodic rhythm to complicated compounds.
Do I need to speak Swedish in Stockholm?
A very high proportion of the Swedish population (close to 90\%) can speak English very fluently, and you will have no problems conversing with people in English in Stockholm or anywhere else in Sweden. You will not need to speak Swedish for any trip there.
What percentage of Swedish people speak English fluently?
In Sweden nearly 89\% people speak English.Scandinavians speak English with fluency.But the accent for most of them is Swedish.
How many Swedes can speak passable English?
In the under 40 group I would say that at least 90\% of Swedes can speak passable English. Not American English, not British English or SA English or Aussie English, just English. British English is what is generally taught in schools here, beginning at early ages.
How hard is it for Swedes to learn English?
In other words, Swedes are exposed to so much English from such an early age that it is very difficult for them not to become somewhat fluent in it. They are taught English from age 8 or 9 at least and sometimes as young as 7, so by the time they have left even high school they have had almost a decade of learning it.