Archive for 'Grammar'
Learning Danish through English Posted by Bjørn A. Bojesen on Sep 29, 2011
Having a hard time learning Spanish? Wrestling with Chinese? Learn Danish! 🙂 Jeg er f@cking ligeglad med alt dit crap! I don’t give a f@cking damn about all your crap! Modern Danish slang sometimes sounds like a bad Hollywood rip-off… In Denmark you start learning English in fjerde klasse (the fourth grade), when you’re just 10 or even…
Written Danish: a couple of quirks Posted by Bjørn A. Bojesen on Sep 1, 2011
When learning Danish, one of the most confusing things is the huge distance between the written and the spoken forms of the language. In a way it resembles the problem faced by people learning English as a foreign language, who have to get a grip on the strange fact that women in a queue is…
Danish Plurals Revisited Posted by Bjørn A. Bojesen on Jul 29, 2011
While Grammar and definitions may not be as interesting as drinking beer at a small café table in the sun while watching for the next attractive member of the opposite (or same) sex, those aspects of Danish are certainly important if one wishes to avoid confusion. (Author Lars Henriksen wrote an entire short story centering…
The Plural Plurals of Danish Posted by Bjørn A. Bojesen on Jun 30, 2011
Let’s break away from the outer world of danskhed (Danishness), and take a look at an essential part of any grammar: plurals. It’s inevitable that you’ll sooner or later want to refer to more than one of the same thing. The same can be said of this blog, where I cannot let every guest-starring Danish…