The Scandinavian languages are Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic and Faroese. Our primary focus within the research field of Scandinavian languages is the Swedish language, but we also do research ...

Swedes often have a hard time understanding Danes in particular, despite the fact the Scandinavian languages are very similar. Photo: Søren Bidstrup/Scanpix Denmark/AFP At a conference in Sweden ...

Swedes have the best non-native English skills in the world, according to the eighth edition of the EF English Proficiency Index. Sweden’s Scandinavian siblings Norway and Denmark also place in the ...

Norn is the extinct Scandinavian language of Scottish regions like the Shetland Islands which was brought there by way of Norse settlers. To this day, Shetland communities celebrate their Nordic ...

The discipline of Scandinavian literature examines literature written in the Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic and Faroese) from the perspectives of literary studies and ...

While all of the Scandinavian languages have verb-second order in main clauses, they vary in the word order in subordinate clauses: in Icelandic the finite verb appears in a high position, to the left ...

CROSSING the Oresund bridge from Denmark to Sweden is not merely a matter of a cringe-inducing toll (360 Danish kroner, about $66). Those making the trip, as Johnson did recently on holiday, will ...