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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4622 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 9 of 31 21 June 2012 at 7:18pm | IP Logged | ||
For anyone interested, I have just realised that BBC4 is currently repeating "Borgen" on Wednesday evenings, 2300 BST. (I missed it; thanks goodness for iPlayer; that was episode 2/10. We have 6 days to watch it (longer if you download it I think). Unfortunately, it's too late to watch episode 1, unless you have already downloaded it). I didn't find the politics especially interesting, to be honest, except for the parts about Greenland, which I wasn't expecting. For the rest, one soon gets the picture that parties in coalition have to make compromises with their principles in order to get anything done at all (and we had enough of that in "Forbrydelsen I", when it was still a bit of a novelty). No, what was interesting was the human side of the story, and of course, trying to pick out Danish words. It was also good to see Soren Malling again. (Jan Meyer in Forbrydelsen I). . . I'm never sure about the availability of BBC iPlayer outside the UK. I used to think it was 100% unavailable, but then a friend of mine in Germany said he'd watched or listened to something (it might have been radio rather than TV); maybe it depends on the individual programme (licensing restrictions or something). Anyway, if there is anything on BBC you want to watch or listen to via the internet, and you live outside the UK, it might just be worth a shot. . Also, if you are a guru (or a friends with one), you can do clever things with proxy servers... Edited by montmorency on 21 June 2012 at 7:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tibbles Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4985 days ago 245 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Korean | Message 10 of 31 21 June 2012 at 7:59pm | IP Logged | ||
I lived in Denmark in 1994, so I feel that Danish sounds much more pleasant and familiar than Swedish or Norwegian. :) Also, in some ways, Danish has a lot more in common with English than other Scandinavian languages. I remember on the first day of my Danish language class, the teacher had us read excerpts of Danish from a book and try to guess their meaning in English. All of us, even with zero knowledge were able to make out the meanings of the sentences that we had to read. To me the challenges of learning Danish are (1) the soft pronunciation, and (2) the overly helpful natives who will always answer you in English! I'm not interested in learning Danish anymore, but from time to time I do enjoy watching a Danish drama such as _Forbrydelsen_ ("The Killing"). One funny story about Denmark is that one of my American friends lived in a town that he simply could not prounce: Trørød. He always had to write it on paper for the taxi driver! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Aquila123 Tetraglot Senior Member Norway mydeltapi.com Joined 5100 days ago 201 posts - 262 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: Finnish, Russian | Message 11 of 31 29 June 2012 at 12:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Most foreigner trying to learn Danish end up speaking something that sounds more like Norwegian.
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4622 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 12 of 31 30 June 2012 at 10:54pm | IP Logged | ||
Well I started off trying to learn Norwegian, but have transferred to Danish, so it seems that (if I persevere far and long enough) I will end up coming full circle! :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Aquila123 Tetraglot Senior Member Norway mydeltapi.com Joined 5100 days ago 201 posts - 262 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: Finnish, Russian | Message 13 of 31 29 July 2012 at 12:27am | IP Logged | ||
Danish has a fenomenon called "stød", meaning "toss" instead of the tunes. It consists of chopping a vowel in two parts with a rapid clottal constriction, and in such a way that there is still only one syllable. It is sometimes described as a glottal stop after the vowel, but I think it is better to describe it like i did here. The presense or absense of this fenomenon plays approximately the same role as the tunes in Swedish and Norwegian. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5128 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 14 of 31 29 July 2012 at 8:28am | IP Logged | ||
I am seeing this in Iceland. They have learned Danish in school, but what comes out is fairly close to Norwegian. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4622 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 15 of 31 29 July 2012 at 10:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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I wonder if the same happens in Greenland?
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6703 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 16 of 31 29 July 2012 at 11:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Why is this happening? Usually, the native pronunciation (and perhaps more important: prosody) seems to be hard to eliminate. Even though Icelandic doesn't exactly have the same prosody as Danish, I wonder how the Icelanders sound Norwegian.
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