posted by [identity profile] juuro.livejournal.com at 07:16pm on 2005-05-16
Polka is not unknown in Scandinavia. In some parts it is even popular. Swedish would not be a very unreasonable guess for "soft and swooshy" version of German. In a song I don't think I would be able to differentiate between Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian. A native speaker, of course, would.

And if it didn't sound even remotely Germanic in structure, there're any number of Finnish polkas, as well.

Polish, to my ears, has a somewhat Slavonic sound.
 
posted by [identity profile] thette.livejournal.com at 08:45pm on 2005-05-16
Yes, it probably was one of the Nordic languages.

To find out how Swedish sounds, you can try our national radio stations, available at http://www.sr.se/P1/ (and P2, etc). P1 is talk radio, P2 is classical/some folk and P3 is popular music. P4 was intended to be for the older generation, but has become P3 light.
 
posted by [identity profile] juuro.livejournal.com at 02:58pm on 2005-05-17
And just try to guess how often P2 is available in the Swedish hotel room...

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