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Before visiting Scandinavia, is it better to learn one Scandinavian language to fluency or a smattering of all three?

Context I have live in Norway (a few months shy of a year) and, before that, lived for almost a year in Denmark. I have visited Sweden, though at that time I only had mostly forgotten school Swedish ...
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Are Swedish/Danish/Norwegian ever taught as a single pluricentric language?

Short answer: Scandinavian languages are taught separately as expected like almost all other languages, Serbo-Croatian is unusual. A good test might be “Given a piece of text or audio, is it possible ...
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Reflexive and possessive pronouns in Swedish

You are correct in both your statement. "Mannen har en katt. Hans katt äter sin mat." does indeed mean that the cat is eating the cat's food. To refrase it so that the cat would eat the mans food ...
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Swedish diphthongs, occurrence

Swedish grammar is reasonably regular; for böjning of nouns you can find information online, for example at https://www.worddive.com/grammar/sv/svensk-grammatik/2-bojning-av-substantiv/ The key ...
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Graded readers for Swedish?

http://ll-forlaget.se/hem/nivaer?levelId=538 You can check out this webpage that offers books in easy Swedish sorted into three levels of difficulty. Let me quote the website about the different ...
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