Danes, Swedes and Norwegians: which language do you use when visiting each others' nations?

[Aren]

Very easy to understand IMO. Danish is harder but not impossible. I spent 14 days in Copenhagen last year it took me 3 days to get a grasp of it.

[KirillMazur]

Which sounds the best ?

Danish and Norwegian are definitely closer to each other than to Swedish. Danish has by far the most complex phonetics of the three. In Swedish there is a very big difference between what is written and how it is read.
I would choose to study Norwegian.

[Finnish Swede]

Danish and Norwegian are definitely closer to each other than to Swedish. Danish has by far the most complex phonetics of the three. In Swedish there is a very big difference between what is written and how it is read.
I would choose to study Norwegian.

In a history Norwegians were pretty long time under Denmark (and where ''forced'' to speak Danish ... someway). Icelandic reminds the most of old Norse.

For me Danish is more easy to read than listening.

[Tooting Carmen]

At the moment, the BBC is showing a programme called The Bridge, which is set partly in Denmark and partly in Sweden, and the characters seem to understand each other well.

[KirillMazur]

In a history Norwegians were pretty long time under Denmark (and where ''forced'' to speak Danish ... someway). Icelandic reminds the most of old Norse.

For me Danish is more easy to read than listening.

Is it true that in Scandinavia you have such a joke about the Danes that the speech of a Dane would be like a Norwegian with a hot potato in his mouth?

[Finnish Swede]

Is it true that in Scandinavia you have such a joke about the Danes that the speech of a Dane would be like a Norwegian with a hot potato in his mouth?

True (Norwegians) or Scanian (Swe). And knowing that your comment that Swedish is pronounced the most differently vs written form ... sounded weird for me.
As it is exactly Danes who will ''not'' pronounce whole words as they are written ... Danes someway swallow the last letters... bit like having that hot potato in mouth

[KirillMazur]

And knowing that your comment that Swedish is pronounced the most differently vs written form ... sounded weird for me.

Norwegian seemed to me easier in this sense - the written language is nevertheless closer to the read, than in the other two languages. But the accuracy of the German language is still unrivaled. Even in English, there is a big discrepancy between writing and reading, but few people pay attention to this due to the popularity of the language. Russian is also accurate, on a par with German.

[Finnish Swede]

At the moment, the BBC is showing a programme called The Bridge, which is set partly in Denmark and partly in Sweden, and the characters seem to understand each other well.

Malmö is part of Scania.

[Tooting Carmen]

Malmö is part of Scania.

So was it once Danish territory?

[Not a Cop]

So was it once Danish territory?

Yes.