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[–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

I’ve noticed the same. We seem to understand Swedish and Danish better than you understand us/eachother.
Swedish is easy, Danish is OK but I need to focus a bit.

I always figured it was because we imported your TV shows in the 90’s, so if that’s the resson, it should decline with the younger generation.
Time will tell.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago*

    Some of it is probably that Danish and Norwegian TV has aired a lot of Swedish programs over the past decades. By contrast, it's only in Skåne that Danish TV is aired regularly. Nowadays a lot of Norwegian TV is being aired in Sweden but it's a pretty new phenomenon.

    But I think the big reason is that Danish is a genuinely weird language. Danish children learn to speak significantly slower than other kids.

    It's crazy that by age 2, Danish children are almost 6 months behind in speech development compared to Swedish, Spanish, Sudanese and South Korean children. So it really is a difficult language to get your ear used to.

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