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Discussion on: I'm Stephen, soldier to web developer. I love sharing knowledge. Moved to Scandinavia without knowing the languages; AMA!

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Stephen Chiang

Since both Danish and English are Germanic languages, reading came a lot faster than speaking of course.

The first year I found myself asking my vendors to just write me on email because it was so hard to understand over phone.

Now that I've become used to Danish, I find it easier to understand than Norwegian. Norwegian (Bokmål) is extremely simlar to Danish except a few grammatical changes and word differences. However, it's been hard to take the potato out of my mouth and speak like a Norwegian!

It's hard to say, but I probably would have felt the reverse had I moved to Norway before Denmark. Perhaps Sweden will be the next on my list :D