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Swedish is so simple in style and so close to English that knowing it might actually help your English writing. English is my third foreign language, it is almo
by type0 5y ago
Swedish is so simple in style and so close to English that knowing it might actually help your English writing. English is my third foreign language, it is almost given that I won't be proficient in it unless I devote all my time communicating only in English, which I can't see being feasible.
- CogitoCogito 5y agoI mean it is and it isn't. The main larger points of style are definitely extremely similar. But the smaller tail of tiny stylistic elements are basically never ending (just as with every language). My my English writing is not at the level of fine literature, but it is certainly much closer than my Swedish writing is. But at the same time, if I read well-written Swedish I can identify basically all the finer stylistic points. Overall it's just certainly an issue of practice. Even if I live in Sweden, I still write mostly in English.