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| Masked Avenger Triglot Senior Member Antarctica Joined 6125 days ago 145 posts - 151 votes  Speaks: English, French*, Danish Studies: Finnish, Latin | Message 1 of 59 01 December 2008 at 3:57am | IP Logged | ||
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Question aimed at language enthusiasts out there, not those who had to learn it. :)
The language has something of a bad reputation and whenever the subject of which Scandinavian language to learn comes up on this forum, Danish usually loses out to Swedish and Norwegian. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| pli Triglot Newbie PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5979 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Danish Studies: German, Russian, Esperanto | Message 2 of 59 01 December 2008 at 5:22am | IP Logged | ||
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I started Danish for 2 reasons (except for living in DK for 5 months):
1) The sound of the language is really nice (though it's kind of subjective.) It's very soft (and they keep on removing consonants, so it's soon going to be the first consonant-free language on earth :)) and COMPLETELY incomprehensible and unpronounceable, so it's a challenge! 2) Scandinavian languages are pretty simple (except for icelandic...) so it's pretty fast you're able to say something reasonable. And Danes and their culture are really nice, so it's a pleasure to spend time with them. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rob Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6156 days ago 287 posts - 288 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 3 of 59 01 December 2008 at 5:39am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not currently studying Danish, but I can think of plenty of good reasons to do so, so I will offer some nice words for Danish.
Danish is a co-official language in the Faroe Islands and Greenland, as well as being widely studied in Iceland. Written Norwegian is based on Danish, so it can be seen as the "original". Denmark is geographically closer to the rest of continental Europe. Denmark has been found to be the happiest country in the world, so is a good candidate for a place to live. Hans Christian Anderson. Many other popular writers. By the way, why do you ask? It looks like you're already proficient in Danish. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Masked Avenger Triglot Senior Member Antarctica Joined 6125 days ago 145 posts - 151 votes Speaks: English, French*, Danish Studies: Finnish, Latin | Message 4 of 59 01 December 2008 at 5:56am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I am one of those people who had to learn it.
I already knew the reasons why not to pick Danish, already discussed plenty of times over here, reasons I largely agree with, but I had never seen the case for Danish made on this forum. Edited by Masked Avenger on 01 December 2008 at 5:57am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Leopejo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6100 days ago 675 posts - 724 votes Speaks: Italian*, Finnish*, English Studies: French, Russian | Message 5 of 59 01 December 2008 at 6:31am | IP Logged | ||
Wouldn't you continue the series with... a case for Finnish? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Masked Avenger Triglot Senior Member Antarctica Joined 6125 days ago 145 posts - 151 votes Speaks: English, French*, Danish Studies: Finnish, Latin | Message 6 of 59 01 December 2008 at 6:51am | IP Logged | ||
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Nope, because I chose to learn Finnish. :p
Think of this topic as just an excuse to talk about Danish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6656 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 7 of 59 01 December 2008 at 3:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Danish is one of the last languages I'd learn, because whenever I met a Dane in the past we already had 2 or 3 common languages to converse in. No need for a fourth one ;-)
But seriously, it's hard to come up with a good reason to learn Danish, unless you want to live in Denmark. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5829 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 8 of 59 01 December 2008 at 4:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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1) If you already know Swedish or Norwegian you can already communicate with Danes.
2) Danish is pretty hard to pronounce; it's got a rather unique drawl to it that is not easy for an adult to pick up. Danes would not expect foreigners to speak with them in Danish unless the foreigner was a permanent immigrant in which case the public opinion would be that the person ought to learn Danish. Speakers of "small" languages in Europe such as Danes are pretty resigned to the fact that they have to speak English plus one or two other Euro langs.... that's just the way it is. Nobody is going to learn their language. Most Danes speak very good English and often German too. There really is no point to learn it unless you plan to live there or you plan to write a thesis on HC Andersen... ;-) 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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