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> The conventional wisdom is that it's easier for an English speaker to learn Swedish than it is to learn German. If we consider pronunciation then closest is
by timeon 4y ago
> The conventional wisdom is that it's easier for an English speaker to learn Swedish than it is to learn German.
If we consider pronunciation then closest is probably Danish. As English pronunciation seems to be alien to most European languages.
- memsom 4y agoNot Danish. Danish is pretty alien. Norwegian is quite easy for an English speaker, plus all the dialects mean that even technicalities such as the tone accent can be "worked around". Swedish and Norwegian are both pretty easy to pronounce and pretty easy to learn as an English speaker. Most of the problem is vocabulary, not really so much the grammar.