montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4830 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh
| Message 1 of 3 11 December 2013 at 10:25pm | IP Logged |
Borgen's Birgitte Hjort Sørensen on BBC Radio 4 in an interview with Jenni Murray
Birgitte Hjort Sørensen
Birgitte Hjort Sørensen played the part of Katrine Fonsmark, the journalist, turned
spin-doctor, in Borgen.
She is in London playing in a production of Coriolanus (in English).
Her British-style English accent is well-nigh faultless, although she said she has had
the help of a voice coach for the play. She stumbled over one word, but I think that
was a slip of the tongue more than anything. Otherwise, I didn't hear her put a foot
wrong.
She attributes her good English to watching a lot of English-language films and TV from
an early age, together with an interest in languages.
I'd say her English comes over rather better than that of Sidse Babett Knudsen (who
played the Prime Minister in the first two series), to the extent that I have heard
the latter.
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daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4523 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic
| Message 2 of 3 16 December 2013 at 10:08pm | IP Logged |
Doesn't work for me, everything else on bbc works fine though ... strange.
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montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4830 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh
| Message 3 of 3 17 December 2013 at 12:59am | IP Logged |
As a compensation, an interview in the Observer:
interview1
(I'm sorry about the rather silly journalist interviewing her....)
A slightly more sensible one in the Guardian:
interview2
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