Hi, Nanna. Is  Icelandic much more remote from the other Scandinavian languages. It sounds like an older language, compared to Swedish. Can a Danish person, let's say understand Icelandic, easily? 

Liliana 

Goodness, no, Liliana,

From Wikipedia. This is Icelandic:

Margir Íslendingar telja íslenskuna vera „upprunalegra“ mál en flest önnur og að hún hafi breyst minna. Það er ekki alls kostar rétt og má í því sambandi nefna að íslenskan hefur einungis fjögur föll af átta úr indóevrópska frummálinu, á meðan flest slavnesk mál hafa sex föll og pólska sjö.

The only words I understand are 'Slavic' and 'Polish'...

The Danes can "read" Dutch, but at dimwit speed. Very laborious, but it can be done and it helped me with maps and street signs when last I was in Belgium.

Nanna

Yes, a little bit hard, but isn't it beautiful, Nanna.

Thanks. Liliana

No, I won't say that. But since I don't understand what sex is doing leaning up against og pólska, I am understandably a little loathe doing any leaning myself no matter the direction.

Nanna

I can read and write three languages, English, Greek and Italian, and only read Spanish, and Portuguese, but I do not know if that makes me a polyglot since there have been times when I've caught myself thinking in Greek when living in Greece, or in Albanian when in Albania, or in any language to which I was exposed for a long time over a period. So it depends on the time and the place one is at a particular moment and also on which language one feels more comfortable with at that moment. I'd call myself bilingual at most, but even that does not seem accurate since my mother tongue is Albanian.

I can certainly relate to that language attrition referred to here and in another thread.

Ines

 Yes , as anothet person said  polyglot is the person who speaks more than 2 languages. But I want to make a comment about the text in Icelandic.

Margir Íslendingar telja íslenskuna vera „upprunalegra“ mál en flest önnur og að hún hafi breyst minna. Það er ekki alls kostar rétt og má í því sambandi nefna að íslenskan hefur einungis fjögur föll af átta úr indóevrópska frummálinu, á meðan flest slavnesk mál hafa sex föll og pólska sjö.

    3 Times words starting with islend ; foll seems to be the preposition for  and  it says  indoeuropean also. I think that with patience and a little more text it can be understood . lol