It is a Germanic language whose nearest relative is Icelandic; the two are not normally mutually intelligible in speech to unpractised listeners, and Faroese is considerably more different (certainly not mutually intelligible) from its next closest relatives, the larger and better-resourced Mainland Scandinavian languages Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish.
many native speakers of Faroese do speak Danish as a second language, in current times often used for university education or employment in Denmark (while Faroese is the language of home, daily life, school, etc.