<p>Scandanavian 1A's title is beginning swedish while scandanavian 2A's title is beginning finnish. Are they related? I just want an easy class for my hard schedule and this is the only one that fits.</p>
<p>Hey those are 2 completely different languages… Of course they are not related! Finnish isn’t even a Scandinavian language. It is in its own family of of Finno-Ugric languages. It is just grouped that way because Finland is located in Scandinavia. Basically Swedish, Danish and Norwegian are closely related while Finnish is not.</p>
<p>And if you haven’t realized, can just check the pre-reqs to the classes… obviously classes don’t go in order by number… math 1a, 1b, 16a,16b,53… </p>
<p>If you be looking for an easy class, just do Swedish. Its really an easy language to learn.</p>
<p>thank you good sir. Would you happen to know anything about Scandanavian 100A which is titled “Scandanavian languages and linguistics” taught by Moller. I have no experience with any of those languages what so ever but am curious to learn (also this class fulfills a breadth req).</p>
<p>Zorro - it’s basically the advanced continuation of the language series that you have chosen. You’ll have one 1-hour lecture of general comparative Scandinavian language and culture studies on Wednesday, along with two 1-hour discussion sections in the language of choice (Danish, Swedish, or Norwegian). If you are interested in Finnish, you need to take the 102 series. </p>
<p>If you have no experience in the Scandinavian languages, you should take one of the lower-division classes. The 1, 2, 3, and 4 series are Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Danish, respectively. </p>
<p>Professor Moller is probably one of the warmest and funniest professors I’ve had at Cal. Since your language classes will be at most, ~18 people, you’ll get a lot of interaction between you and your professor.</p>
<p>Thanks for the helpful responses I appreciate it.</p>