I've taken...four years. I quit two years ago. I can haggle with illegal immigrants on how much I'll pay them to do my yard, though. It's really all about the conjugation. If your Scandinavian languages are like English, then most of what you have to do is remember one or two endings for each tense, with irregulars. Spanish and the other Romance languages usually have five or six endings for each tense. There's also a greater deal of seperation between the tenses, allowing for greater specificity in language.