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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5642 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 31 27 March 2012 at 3:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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With my Danish excercise log in the Log Subforum I feel like a stranger in the desert because there is really nobody at the moment who studies the same language and writes a log about it. I did a tag-search and all I have found are some old Danish logs of past years but nothing updated in 2012.
Are there any reasons for this phenomenon? Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 27 March 2012 at 3:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5627 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 2 of 31 27 March 2012 at 9:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's a difficult language to pronounce? And sounds less pleasant to the ear than its cousins Swedish and Norwegian, (IMHO, no offense intended). However I did enjoy the Danish political series Borgen, shown recently on the BBC (in Danish with subtitles). And quite a lot of Brits now know the Danish for prime minister, Staatsminister.
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| Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4861 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish | Message 3 of 31 27 March 2012 at 11:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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I was recently learning Danish and I started a log for it here, but I've had to abandon it for a while until I have more
time available for my language pursuits! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6392 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 4 of 31 27 March 2012 at 11:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm learning it as well but I'm aiming only for passive skills for now and there's not much to report. I'm mostly doing LR.
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| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6744 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 5 of 31 28 March 2012 at 6:35am | IP Logged | ||
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I've never studied a Scandinavian language, but when I read the "Which Scandinavian
language should I learn?" threads, there seems to be a consensus that Danish is more difficult than Swedish or Norwegian, especially with regard to pronunciation. For this reason, it's rare that I see anyone on this forum recommend Danish over Swedish or Norwegian. Edited by Lucky Charms on 28 March 2012 at 6:36am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5642 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 31 28 March 2012 at 8:25am | IP Logged | ||
I hope that your time schedule will be more favourable in the future again because I would look forward to reading the logs of other learners of Danish. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 28 March 2012 at 8:26am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| KimG Diglot Groupie Norway Joined 4772 days ago 88 posts - 104 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Portuguese, Swahili | Message 7 of 31 01 April 2012 at 3:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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Danish got slightly harder pronounciation than Norwegian or Swedish, yes. But exept that, I see no reason to not learn it, if there's some reason, like living close to Denmark, going there often, or something similiar, the language is a better choice than learning Norwegian and practice it in Denmark.
If one want to learn one scandinavian language, and really don't have any special reason to pick one, Danish would be the one hardest to learn to pronounce initially, but learning the difference on Swedish and Norwegian Tone 1 and 2 is a feat few foregin learners learn, it's possible the difficulty of Danish versus Swedish/Norwegian is a bit exaggerated. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4623 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 8 of 31 01 June 2012 at 1:38am | IP Logged | ||
I'm now hoping to do this, but my L1 is English. Wondering about how to find suitable L-R material. (I don't insist on parallel text however. Just good translations from Danish to English). I'm not the type to keep a language log. Not publicly, anyway. But I'm happy to report occasionally on progress. [If any :-) ] Edited by montmorency on 01 June 2012 at 7:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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