edit: one other thing I have seen, but it doesn't mean it is always spam. All The Words In A Title Are Capitalized - it's something to pay attention to whether it is spam or not. Conventionally, titles are usually not like that in Norwegian.
edit: one other thing I have seen, but it doesn't mean it is always spam. All The Words In A Title Are Capitalized - it's something to pay attention to whether it is spam or not. Conventionally, titles are usually not like that in Norwegian.
Another big one is that Norwegians like Germans write words together, just one example from one of the stupid ads: "Spesial Reportasje" is a dead giveaway not only because of the capitalization.)
(Oh well, sadly because of pressure from Words incompetent spell checker over years and lenient teachers this is getting worse. I fear we are seing compound damage here as kids that got away with this are now becoming teachers...)
The current state of formal German will surely not be the end of history.
See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leerzeichen_in_Komposita#Gesch... (Might need Google Translate, if you don't speak German.)
Hyphens or spaces are still better than those long words...
Just be glad you ain't learning Turkish or Finnish, though.
Source: Learned it as an adult myself.
In order of skill, or chronological? C: German, Swedish, English, and French. S: Swedish, English, German, and French.
> and what level are you currently at?
"Level"... Lived and worked here 26 years (longer than in any other country), usually speak only Finnish with colleagues. (Exception: my previous job, 2014-18, at an unusually international company; quite a lot of English there.) What number is that, on whatever scale you were thinking of?
[EDIT:] IOW, it's gotten to the point where I fear my actual native language is only my fourth-best any more, Finnish having pushed it off the podium. [/EDIT]
Anyway, my point was: I may have improved a bit since, but was probably quite close to my current "level" after two or three years. It really isn't all that humongously difficult as it's made out to be.
The logic of a multi-inflected agglutinative language may feel unusual at first, but once one gets used to it, it's just that: logical. The orthography and especially the pronunciation of Finnish is the most straightforward of all the languages I've dabbled in (smatterings of perhaps half a dozen more besides the ones I speak). And I think, above all, it has the fewest cases of "this is the rule, but the exceptions are this, that, and the other", where you just have to learn by rote that "this word works that way, but that word works this way", of any language I've come across. Learn the rules and you know it; no exceptions to learn.
I'd say that it's fluent level then. I've met people that have lived in Finland for 20 years but can't still form sentences in Finnish.
The "Finnish is hard" trope is probably a mental block, Finnish probably seems hard on surface but it's very logical if you dive deep into it.
(Something like: Pictures in the struggle against mistakes when using spaces between words)