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Why learn Danish over other language?
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montmorency
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Message 57 of 59

13 June 2012 at 1:11am | IP Logged

Medulin wrote:

Danish intonation is more similar to the English one. Norwegian and
Swedish have a very ''complicated'' intonation which is complex both 1. at a word level
(pitch accent); and 2. at a sentence level (speech melody).

Yes, interesting. Well there clearly must have been a lot of Danish influence on the
English of northern England, so perhaps there is a sort of "folk memory" at work, and
we can hear there is a relationship, even if we can't quite get what they are saying
most of the time :-) (But the Norwegians were here too, as far as I can work out,
also somewhat in the north of England). Both of my parents' families are from the north
of England, and the same is true of my wife, and she always thinks that Danish is the
closest to English.

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If we compare it with Romance languages, Danish would be like European Portuguese or
French, and Swedish and Norwegian would be like Spanish and Italian, when it comes to
pronunciation. Do we expect one letter-one sound correspondence in Continental
Portuguese and French? No!

:-) Thanks for that observation. An interesting way of looking at it.

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Message 58 of 59

13 June 2012 at 9:24am | IP Logged

Haldor wrote:

But then again, Norwegian has all the accents, so maybe Danish, or Swedish, is better.

Are you referring to pitch accents or regional accents? Both are present in Swedish.
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Message 59 of 59

13 June 2012 at 6:28pm | IP Logged

As for the original question... I don't choose one language over another, I choose whether or not to study a language. I decided to study Danish for various reasons.
And when I decide whether or not to study Danish on this specific day, I decide based on what I can do in Danish and whether it's as enjoyable (or more enjoyable) than my options in other languages.

just my useless two cents

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