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Snusmumrikken wrote:
well it depends on what type of language you start off with. Norwegian is problematic because we do really differentiate between about 18 vowel sounds and it does matter. We also have (for most dialects) quite a lot of retroflex sounds. and Norwegian has tone language tendencies but the difference isn't present in all dialects. phonologically speaking Norwegian is .. maybe problematic to some speakers. English natives will struggle with some consonant clusters while Russians likely won't. 
grammar wise norwegian is quite stripepd? we don't have much difference and not many tenses and in general inflections. we do have the passive for verbs tho but it's pretty easy to explain (basically it has to be present or present-like and you just add -s on the infinite form of the verb) 
er.. we don't inflect for person on verbs. 

substantives are a bit more chaotic tho. 

Mamoo wrote:
my first name is madelaine
i like it, but people never know how to spell it

also i have four really long names (originally had 5, removed one lol)
so my name is too long for documents, cant fit it in my id so its just the first letters of my first three names, and then the last name

my combined names letter count would be 44 if i didnt remove one lmao

Mamoo wrote:
my first name is madelaine
i like it, but people never know how to spell it

also i have four really long names (originally had 5, removed one lol)
so my name is too long for documents, cant fit it in my id so its just the first letters of my first three names, and then the last name

my combined names letter count would be 44 if i didnt remove one lmao

December wrote:
woah you've had many different names then why did she change it at such a young age lol like suddenly at 4 she was like nope that's not her name

Snusmumrikken wrote:
do you say it like madelén 

Venuschat wrote:
hmmmmm so like exact opposite of Turkish? I think it's really easy to write, spell and pronounce Turkish when you get just a bit familiar but the grammar is fucked for real 
anyways gon hit yall Norwegian speakers up if I ever decide to learn for real hehe

Mamoo wrote:

yes

Venuschat wrote:
ughhh I went for "madelyn" right up 

Mamoo wrote:

ahahah a lot of ppl do actually !

Snusmumrikken wrote:
You're Norwegian or? 

Snusmumrikken wrote:
possibly yeah 
You can have a sentence like:
Lise loser lyse lus 
(Lise ish-pilots?? light lice) 
Which a lot of non-natives will struggle with because y/u/i is very similar to them while for us they are as distinct as s and b 

Venuschat wrote:
that's so interesting tho wow