"The man speaks English."

Translation: Mannen talar engelska.

[agolz]

What's the difference between talar and pratar?

[Arnauti]

pratar is slightly more colloquial. talar is very often used with languages, like in this sentence.

[rstevoa]

What is the difference between engelska and engelsk?

[Jersebas]

I believe engelsk is an adjective (an English breakfast), while engelska is the language (I speak English).

[Zmrzlina]

That's correct. Have a lingot!

[nicholasmarkamos]

Languages aren't capitalised?

[Zmrzlina]

Nope.

[h4ck8ug5]

How would I know when talar means the positive "can speak" or the negative "do not speak" ?

[rstevoa]

Jag talar engelska = "I speak English". Jag talar INTE engelska = "I do not speak English". The inte means not.

[h4ck8ug5]

Tack rstevoa.

[kschruben]

Ive been introduced to a new word, kan, ive not been given this word before and so for the only time i see it is when translating ,,, The man speaks english, i write, Mannen inte engelska, the program says its wrong and corrects with,,,, Mannen kan engelska, may i get some guidence on the word.
Tack

[Arnauti]

You forgot the verb and put inte ('not') instead, so the program tried to match your answer to the list of accepted answers. In cases like that, you may get shown any answer that is just accepted. kan means knows, so Mannen kan engelska means 'The man knows English', which is another accepted answer here.

[Marcus450595]

En man pratar svenska

[LovroV]

Why is talar pronounced as tålar

[Emery724151]

It is not, it is proununced with a long A: tAlar, there is a very big difference between a long A and Å.