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Originally Posted by Marulus

So Danes and Swedes do not understand each other perfectly after all? What about Norwegians-Swedes and Norwegians-Danes?

Originally Posted by Lutiferre

In regards to Norwegian, there is both bokmål (Book Language) and nynorsk (New Norwegian). I am not sure which I understand the best, neither in writing nor spoken (maybe bokmål isnt spoken at all, I dont know an awful lot about it). But I know that I understand Norwegian better in general, in writing, and it seems that when spoken, it becomes scrambled into some incomprehensible chaotic blabbering of a language (so that would suggest bokmål is more similar to Danish than spoken Norwegian, in case bokmål isnt actually spoken). Swedish is a bit easier for me to understand when spoken, but ironically harder to understand when written.

I have a Norwegian friend, who tells me that for him it is the same - Swedish is easier to understand when spoken, but Danish easier when read/in written form.

The highlighted part is not surprising. Bokmål is danicised Norwegian. Nynorsk is actually not so "new", since it is based on dialects that are spoken in Norway. The term nynorsk is what is new about it, since it was created to preserve the folkish Norwegian language. I wish we had a Norwegian to comment on this too, but at least what I just said, I took it directly from Norwegians I know.