Scandinavian Studies at Edinburgh 2015

I really like Abbeyhill and Deaconess too I reckon I'll be applying for the same

Cool What course have you applied for?

Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics but I'm still deciding whether to do Danish or Swedish

Jag talar lite svenska: det är ett vackert språk
If I were you I would choose Swedish as there are more speakers, and it sounds beautiful. I've spent a few months studying Swedish using online resources and study books (~2 hours a week) and it's really enjoyable.
Danish would also be cool to learn, but apparently it can be quite hard to pronounce.
Why not Norwegian?

Oh wow! I thought about beginning to learn one of the languages but I'm still so indecisive. I like the sound of both Swedish and Danish, but yeah Danish pronunciation is pretty difficult.

I've heard Norwegian grammar is quite complex so that put me off a little bit. That said, I do love grammar (why I'm doing Linguistics!). Also, they didn't run that language last year because not many people choose it so I kind of thought it would be the same this year.

Even though I'm going to study mathematics, I've studied a lot of languages and Swedish since primary school (I'm Finnish). I personally don't like the sound of Danish. In my opinion, Swedish grammar is VERY simple, compared to French or English, for example. And I like the language so I'd recommend Swedish.

Oh wow! I thought about beginning to learn one of the languages but I'm still so indecisive. I like the sound of both Swedish and Danish, but yeah Danish pronunciation is pretty difficult.

I've heard Norwegian grammar is quite complex so that put me off a little bit. That said, I do love grammar (why I'm doing Linguistics!). Also, they didn't run that language last year because not many people choose it so I kind of thought it would be the same this year.

Oh wow! I thought about beginning to learn one of the languages but I'm still so indecisive. I like the sound of both Swedish and Danish, but yeah Danish pronunciation is pretty difficult.

I've heard Norwegian grammar is quite complex so that put me off a little bit. That said, I do love grammar (why I'm doing Linguistics!). Also, they didn't run that language last year because not many people choose it so I kind of thought it would be the same this year.

There is a website (and app) called duolingo. It's a free language learning platform and has both Danish and Swedish (Norwegian is coming soon): it's quite basic (most of the sentences are 'I am a man' 'the Apple is red' etc, especially in the earlier lessons, but it does go more in depth as you progress). I use it to improve my French (I dropped it after AS Level): you should sign up and give it a go. If you use it to learn the basics of both Danish and Swedish, it may help you decide which language you wish to pursue at university.
As wonko-the-sane mentions, Swedish grammar is really easy and quite a lot of words are similar to English.

I'm a fluent Swede. It's very straightforward to have conversations with Norwegians if they are from Oslo, as the dialect is very similar. They sometimes have the words in a different order and occasionally there is confusion because of a word that isn't shared but 95% of the time there's no problems. Norwegian from the far north is a different matter xD -- I have only met one or two but I'd imagine perhaps it is like Danish where after you have a while to 'tune in' you can get the gist of what is being said. Danish is undoubtedly further from Swedish though and personally I think it sounds quite strange too.

My blind patriotism leads me to recommend Swedish but I suppose all I wanted to say is that if you have a good understanding of written Swedish you will quickly find yourself having a good understanding of Norwegian too.

Really? That's quite helpful actually. Haha it might be Swedish then!

The only thing that really confused me one time was me and a Norwegian dude were having a conversation about family and he said "far din" ('father yours') whereas in Swedish it'd just be "din far". But I wasn't thinking right or he spoke too fast for me and I just thought it was a completely different word xD -- then later I was like OHHHHH, and once you've heard it once you never make the mistake again.

Sometimes Norwegians are interviewed on Swedish chat shows and they tend to just speak Norwegian, though I assume they are careful to avoid sentence structures or words that'd be confusing.

I've heard Norwegian grammar is quite complex so that put me off a little bit. That said, I do love grammar (why I'm doing Linguistics!). Also, they didn't run that language last year because not many people choose it so I kind of thought it would be the same this year.

Norwegian grammar isn't especially more difficult than Danish or Swedish. I should add that Norwegian did run this year (and does every year) - there's 30 people in this year's first year group.