{"id":1798,"date":"2019-03-31T22:59:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T22:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2019-03-31T22:59:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T22:59:05","slug":"talking-about-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/2019\/03\/31\/talking-about-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking about Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beklager, jeg taler ikke engelsk! <\/strong>(Sorry, I don\u2019t speak English!) Although I normally wouldn\u2019t recommend lying, the previous phrase might come handy if you\u2019re a beginner & want to practice your dansk<\/strong>! \ud83d\ude42 Otherwise there is a big probability (!) that the Danes you meet will answer you in their excellent English\u2026 Let\u2019s talk about sprog<\/strong> [spraw] (languages).<\/p>\n

In Danish, 99 % of language names end in -sk<\/strong>. It\u2019s like –ish<\/em> or –ch<\/em> in English, just much more extensively used. Spansk, fransk, italiensk, kinesisk, japansk, tysk<\/strong> = Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, French, German.<\/p>\n

Here are some useful phrases:<\/em><\/p>\n

Taler du dansk?<\/strong> (Do you speak Danish?)<\/p>\n

Hvilket sprog foretr\u00e6kker du?<\/strong> (Which language do you prefer?)<\/p>\n

Skal vi skifte sprog?<\/strong> (Would you like to change language?)<\/p>\n

Jeg l\u00e6rer dansk.<\/strong> (I\u2019m learning Danish.)<\/p>\n

Jeg vil helst tale dansk.<\/strong> (I prefer to talk Danish.)<\/p>\n

Hvad betyder \u201dskumfidus\u201d?<\/strong> (What does \u201dskumfidus\u201d mean?)<\/p>\n

Hvordan siger man \u201dcrunchy\u201d p\u00e5 dansk?<\/strong> (How do you say \u201dcrunchy\u201d in Danish?)<\/p>\n

As English has the two different verbs \u201dto talk\u201d and \u201dto speak\u201d, Danish has the duo at tale<\/strong> and at snakke<\/strong>. I find them to be fairly interchangeable \u2013 although snakke<\/strong> is a bit more informal (and is also used in the meaning \u201dto chat\u201d):<\/p>\n

Snakker du ikke dansk?<\/strong> (Don\u2019t you talk Danish?)<\/p>\n

Vi sidder bare her og snakker.<\/strong> (We\u2019re just sitting here chatting [a bit].)<\/p>\n

When you get used to Danish, you\u2019ll notice that speakers from different parts of the country don\u2019t have the same intonation or \u201dword melody\u201d. Maybe you\u2019ll find Jutland Danish a bit more monotonous or \u201ddown to earth\u201d and Zealand Danish a bit more sing-song or punchy. Still, very few people today speak a dialekt <\/strong>that is considerably different from Standard Danish. The most notable exception would be the still-going-strong s\u00f8nderjysk<\/strong>, which can be quite a riddle for people not from S\u00f8nderjylland <\/strong>(Southern Jutland). The Danish on Bornholm is also quite divergent due to the island\u2019s proximity to Sweden.<\/p>\n

In the Danish Commonwealth (Rigsf\u00e6llesskabet <\/strong>= DK, Greenland, Faroe Islands), f\u00e6r\u00f8sk<\/strong> (Faroese) and gr\u00f8nlandsk<\/strong> (Greenlandic) are also spoken, and you might run into speakers in Denmark also. I\u2019ve seen the languages used in some ATMs. \ud83d\ude42 Faroese is historically related to Danish, and the islands have a lot of influence from Danish culture, which means you\u2019ll probably recognise a few words (pylsuvogn<\/em><\/strong> = p\u00f8lsevogn<\/strong> = hot-dog stand<\/span>). Greenlandic is totally unrelated, but even there you\u2019ll understand words which have been \u201dborrowed\u201d from Danish (kulturi <\/em><\/a>= kultur<\/strong>)\u2026<\/p>\n

At school, lots of Danes learn tysk, fransk<\/strong> or spansk<\/strong>. Everybody learns English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Beklager, jeg taler ikke engelsk! (Sorry, I don\u2019t speak English!) Although I normally wouldn\u2019t recommend lying, the previous phrase might come handy if you\u2019re a beginner & want to practice your dansk! \ud83d\ude42 Otherwise there is a big probability (!) that the Danes you meet will answer you in their excellent English\u2026 Let\u2019s talk about…<\/p>\n

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