For an English speaker, Swedish is without doubt the easier language to learn. Finally, Swedish with its "singing" pronunciation-style with its many vowels is very different from the monotonous German. German has three genders, whereas Swedish has two, and while German has four cases, Swedish has none. The German language has more variation in terms of verb inflection than Swedish. ![]() Many words visibly have the same roots, but grammatically, Swedish looks more like English than German. German has a lot in common with Swedish in terms of vocabulary. You'd think that this meant that German had more in common with English, but due to the historical evolution of the two languages (and Latin, Greek and French influences on English), English and German aren't that close. So are English and Dutch, whereas Swedish, along with other Scandinavian languages fall into the North Germanic category. To be more precise, German is a West-Germanic language. English, too, is a Germanic language after all. ![]() It doesn't necessarily mean, however, that they're mutually intelligible. ![]() ![]() Swedish and German are two languages that both belong to the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language tree.
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