Yeah, I imagine that if you were taking a language through formal study, Duo wouldn't be very useful at all. :) It's pretty good for trying something new though, especially if you haven't decided whether or not you want to stick with it
Norwegian grammar is not terribly difficult. There are a lot of similarities to modern English and middle English, so I get along with it okay. Prepositions give me a lot of trouble though (going to have to work harder on those). And remembering the correct way to decline adjectives is hard for me.
The nice thing about Norwegian is that it's kind of a middle ground between Danish and Swedish - knowing written Norwegian makes reading written Danish relatively easy, and understanding spoken Norwegian makes understanding spoken Swedish relatively easy. (But written Swedish is hard, and spoken Danish is very difficult. xD So it's not perfect.)
I tried Finnish once! It's in an entirely different family than the Scandinavian languages and man, is it ever challenging. Lovely to listen to, but everything about it was so hard that I just gave up. xD
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Norwegian grammar is not terribly difficult. There are a lot of similarities to modern English and middle English, so I get along with it okay. Prepositions give me a lot of trouble though (going to have to work harder on those). And remembering the correct way to decline adjectives is hard for me.
The nice thing about Norwegian is that it's kind of a middle ground between Danish and Swedish - knowing written Norwegian makes reading written Danish relatively easy, and understanding spoken Norwegian makes understanding spoken Swedish relatively easy. (But written Swedish is hard, and spoken Danish is very difficult. xD So it's not perfect.)
I tried Finnish once! It's in an entirely different family than the Scandinavian languages and man, is it ever challenging. Lovely to listen to, but everything about it was so hard that I just gave up. xD