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Dansk [dan'sg]
Think Danish is easy? No? Nor do we - and some of us ARE Danish. That should tell you something.
We have no fewer than NINE vowels. Yes, nine: a, e, i, o, u, æ, ø, å and y. Yeps, we love vowels so much we even told some of the consonants to be vowels. hurdy gurdy indeed.
This makes for a very complicated way of pronouncing things. A recent study found that Danish is one of the hardest languages for children to learn. If kids find it hard, imagine what it is like to learn as an adult?
Read the article this post refers to here - by The Copenhagen Post
Now, a while back we found this great site where you can teach yourself some very useful Danish sentences, such as "my ham is frozen" and "she has monkey arms" and "there is something stuck in my left nostril, oh wait, it is bellybutton fluff (der er noget i mit venstre naesebor, vent, det er navle fnuller"). This site has sadly now closed. It taught our Sebastian so very much - and now we have to teach him Danish ourselves.
We are thinking of doing weekly lessons in our wonderful languages, so if there is something you have always wanted to know how to say in a Scandinavian language, let us know.
The first one is obvious...
You need to educate people on the names of famous Danish dishes such as rød grød med fløde, it surely must be THE "sentence" that most Danes try to teach unsuspecting foreigners...
Posted by: S | May 17, 2011 at 04:51 PM
Danish is not easy.
My Chinese mother married my Danish father back in 1969. His family tried teaching her Danish, including the infamous "rød grød med fløde".
She eventually applied for a Danish passport and was interviewed by a high ranking police commissioner/officer (or whatever you call those important officials). He asked her a series of questions in English, and ended with, "do you speak any Danish?"
She beamed and attempted to say the most difficult phrase of all (rød grød med fløde). What she ended up saying was "røvhul med fløde".
The official didn't say a word and granted her a Danish passport immediately.
Posted by: Eva | May 17, 2011 at 11:22 PM