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| SupremeTheory Newbie United States Joined 4287 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 9 of 26 08 September 2012 at 3:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks for all the responses! And I too, have some heritage from Germany, and Scandinavia. Though together, it's very small (only around 18% from Scandinavia, around 25% from Germany and scandinavia), still, I've heard that the places are nice, and hope to visit them some day. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4869 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes  Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish | Message 10 of 26 08 September 2012 at 3:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
Coincidentally, I recently found out as a result of National Geographic's Genographic Project that I have some distant male-line ancestor from Sweden or Denmark who likely was a viking raider on his way to pillage Constantinople. All this after I decided to start learning Danish! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6385 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 11 of 26 08 September 2012 at 5:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
We welcome you back into the tribe of our people, Forgotten One. The viking blood flows through your veins. May your axe stay sharp, your ship sail swiftly and straight, and may clergymen tremble at the sight of your sails on the horizon. 12 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4869 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish | Message 12 of 26 08 September 2012 at 11:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
Haha, I hope you don't think I took the results too seriously; they haven't changed my perception of my ethnic identity one bit. I just think its fascinating to realize that we all really are more interconnected than we think. The history that we read in textbooks lives within us. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4631 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 13 of 26 09 September 2012 at 12:15am | IP Logged | |||||
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Well there are Danish-style placenames only a few miles away from where my parents were
born, e.g. Kirby, and other places ending with -by, and there is one place called by locals (it may only be a local name, not even mentioned on maps), known as "Housesteads" (pronounced "hoose-steads"), which the locals know is a Viking name and means "homestead", and is very close to modern Danish "hus" and "sted", so I definitely feel like I'm "going back to my roots". :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6400 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 14 of 26 09 September 2012 at 12:18am | IP Logged | |||||
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And it was me who added the reason "because I lived in the country of this language in my previous life" on HTLAL :) Yes, I really believe in it. But no, it doesn't seem to help me with Danish...
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| Jaynie Senior Member Denmark Joined 5713 days ago 51 posts - 62 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Danish, Latin | Message 15 of 26 15 September 2012 at 6:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
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OK so I don't really have any reasons for you that haven't already been mentioned...but
I will add to the chorus of "Yes! Learn Danish!" I live in Denmark,so I NEED to learn Danish. But even if I didn't need it, I would still enjoy it. Cool points: The grammar is simple. Between English and Danish, I am able to recognize lots of German words. Just a bonus:) Once you can read Danish, you can read most Norwegian. Two for the price of one! And, as someone mentioned above, Danish TV shows and film are really gaining international attention - and for good reason. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Zimena Tetraglot Groupie Norway Joined 4395 days ago 75 posts - 146 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish Studies: Czech, Mandarin | Message 16 of 26 23 September 2012 at 4:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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First of all, I must admit I don't understand these "Is such-and-such a good language to learn?" types of questions. In my book, any language is a good language to learn as long as you're interested and motivated for it. There is no language that is in any way better than any other - it all depends on which languages interest you the most and will be the most rewarding for you personally.
Just my opinion, of course. If you learn only for "professional" purposes, I get that there are languages that would be better to learn than others, but if you want to learn out of interest and joy, any language is good if it's the language you want to learn! As for Danish - I would say that it's a good language to learn because it will also be a great help in understanding the other Scandinavian languages. Also, the grammar is quite simple as Jaynie also pointed out - in fact, simpler than the grammar of Norwegian or especially Swedish. Anyway - go for it and good luck! 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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