Hello, American here with an interest in languages. As a native speaker of English, I dont really get to experience what it’s like encountering a language that is mutually intelligible for me. I was curious about how easily can you all understand Norwegian/Swedish/Danish/Icelandic/Faroese. And what about other Germanic languages? Ive heard Swedes and Norwegians who live in boarder towns can more or less communicate with very little difficulty, whereas Icelandic is nigh unintelligible for mainland Nordic peoples. What about the ease for Iceland and Faroese people to understand Norwegian/swedish/danish? Might seem like a silly question to ask, but the whole concept just fascinates me.
And yes, Finns dont speak a Germanic language, i just didnt know if there was a term for the Northern European countries that speak Germanic languages, whereas Finnish is Uralic iirc. but just so you aren’t left out, how easy/difficult is it for you Finns to understand the Baltic peoples language? What about Hungarian? (Ive dabbled in a little Hungarian self study myself and have read that Finns listening to Hungarian is like hearing a language you think you are supposed to know, but its so garbled and warped its confusingly unintelligible.