Reply #64: Swedish is incredibly easy to learn.

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I took it for 2 and a half years in college, and the professor never even used English
after the first semester (native Swede), and never needed to. It looks complicated if
you have no idea what is going on, but it is very similar to English once you get into
it and understand what it is all about. It is a simplified Germanic language with most
basic things so close to English, you pick them up immediately:
snö--snow
regn--rain
kniv--knife
hus--house
äta--eat
mjölk--milk
sex--six (OK, SOME things, ya gotta watch! LOL)
Jag skall gå hem nu--I shall go home now

etc. etc., and if you know any German, you can figure out 75% of it.

Plus, once you can read it, you can read most of Norwegian and Danish, too.
Norwegian spoken is not too hard once you understand Swedish, but Danish is
a mess due to pronunciation, and needs some getting used to. On the other hand,
København (Copenhagen) is the coolest city in Europe north of Hamburg.