In English (language): Meryn Stol voted up this answer. Thomas Tydal I am Swedish, and I found English very easy to learn since the two languages are so similar. There are a lot of Swedish words in English - old ones as well as new ones - and while Swedish has many English words we also share common influences like French and German. It's not just the vocubulary that is similar, also grammar and word order. The pronunciation is a bit different, but not really that much. I will show you what the word order looks like in the next paragraph. I wrote it in Swedish first and then translated it word by word into English, not changing the word order nor grammar. When it regards the pronunciation so would it actually work to say the english words on swedish. It would sound like a very peculiar accent but the message would go forward anyway. Fact is that you maybe already heard it on the news then our former state minister spoke english on that way. (The main difference is the prepositions and... - Meryn Stol