Languages (was Re: [Sca-cooks] globetrotting)

[Stefan li Rous]

Nanna commented:
> I can write English and Danish quite fluently (speaking these languages is
> another matter altogether); I can read and understand spoken Faroese,
> Norwegian, Swedish and German, and I can at least cook from recipes written
> in Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian and Afrikaans.

Most of these are similar, aren't they? Or maybe there is more
differance between the Scandanvian languages and German than say
between the Dutch and the Spanish or Dutch and Hungarian.

What are the roots of Faroese? Is it a combination of a Norse
language and perhaps Scots Gaelic?

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