by Alpha Omega Translations | Sep 17, 2015 | Foreign Language
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Norwegian is part of the North Germanic language family and is mostly spoken in Norway, though it can be found in other Scandinavian countries as well. Like all Scandinavian languages, Norwegian traces its roots back to Old Norse. Norwegian...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Jul 6, 2015 | Foreign Language
By Sarah-Claire Jordan A lot of people in the United States in particular (sorry, but we are notorious for not knowing much about the rest of the world), when asked what the difference between Nordic and Scandinavian is, would probably either say “nothing” or that...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Jul 6, 2015 | Foreign Language
The North Germanic languages are a group of languages that together form a branch of the Germanic languages. There are three branches of Germanic languages, though one branch, the East Germanic languages, no longer exists. The other branch is the West Germanic...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Jul 6, 2015 | Foreign Language
By Sarah-Claire Jordan If you have ever talked to someone in English whose native tongue is a Scandinavian language, you probably noticed that they speak almost perfect English. The same thing happens with native German speakers, as German is very similar to English,...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Nov 26, 2013 | Foreign Language
Any image of the Ice Age gives us a wizened earth, barren and stony, abdicated to the powerful and relentless freezing of the poles. A few of these glaciers, silently introduced between high and mighty cliffs where lies modern day Scandinavia, would alter the...
