Yesterday it was exactly 5 years ago I moved to Denmark. When i look back what i have done over 5 years , then i think most of the language.
I always thought that i was outside this planet every time i heard Danes speaking danish, but now that i am used to living here, it makes more easier to understand why danish sounds like they have potatoes in their mouth and feel like throwing up every time they speak. Scandinavian is a hard language to learn I think.
I quote from one of blogger "
As written, Danish is an extremely hard language to learn if you are not native (which I am).
However, even the written language is a nightmare for most people, too. they have a grammatical order that is basically upside-down for many people.
Instead of 'the' in front of nouns they have 'den' and 'det', and instead of 'a' and 'an', which are easy to figure out, they have 'en' and 'et'. It depends on the word and doesn't really make any sense.
For example, the Danish word for dog is "hund". It's an en-word, en hund, a dog. But the word for pet is 'kæledyr' and that's a et-word. Whether it's an et- or en-word also decides the endings. A horse - en hest. The horse - hesten.
And that's just the beginning. To mention some more, we have the hv and d-words; the hv-words are words like "hvordan" (how), "hvorfor" (why) and "hvad" (what). The H is not pronounced and many people become confused with that. Even worse are the d-words where the d is silent. In the word hund, as mentioned above, they do not pronounce the d. There are many words like that in the Danish language. And not to mention our famous æ, ø and å, the Danes being the only ones in the world to have the å. These three letters are pretty much impossible to pronounce if you're not from Denmark.
"quoted"
so you can i magine how hard i'am to learn Danish
1 comment:
Yesss, I feel the same: "potatoes in their mouth and feel like throwing up every time they speak" :)))
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