{"id":697,"date":"2012-09-28T21:03:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T21:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/?p=697"},"modified":"2012-09-28T21:03:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T21:03:45","slug":"learning-danish-with-sarah-lund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/2012\/09\/28\/learning-danish-with-sarah-lund\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Danish With Sarah Lund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"By aimee daniells (Flickr: Sofie Gr\u00e5b\u00f8l and S\u00f8ren Malling) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons\" href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ASofie_Gr%C3%A5b%C3%B8l.jpg\" aria-label=\"Sofie Gr%C3%A5b%C3%B8l\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\"  alt=\"Sofie Gr\u00e5b\u00f8l\" width=\"102\" height=\"131\" \/ src=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/df\/Sofie_Gr%C3%A5b%C3%B8l.jpg\"><\/a>A number of people in countries like England and Germany seem to have got an interest in Denmark and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/learn-danish\">Danish language<\/a> because of the tv serial <em><strong>Forbrydelsen<\/strong><\/em>, or <em>The Killing<\/em>, as it\u2019s called in the UK\u2026 As someone who loves Danish, all I can say is: <strong>fedt!<\/strong> (slang for \u2019nice\u2019 or \u2019great\u2019, it actually means \u2019fat\u2019).<\/p>\n<p>I have to issue a warning, though: <em>Forbrydelsen<\/em> is not the best place for a beginner to learn the language! \ud83d\ude42 Here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>most of the persons in the serial appear in stressed situations, where they speak faster and more \u201dsloppily\u201d than Sofie Gr\u00e5b\u00f8l (the actress portraying Sarah Lund) would do if you had a relaxed conversation with her<\/li>\n<li>there\u2019s a lot of technical vocabulary and slang (it\u2019s all about cops and criminals, so what did you expect?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Besides, cool people in Denmark, especially in the Copenhagen area, tend to speak with a slur \u2013 and there are a lot of cool people in a serial like this.<\/p>\n<p>All right, I get it \u2013 you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">do<\/span> want to understand the <em>Forbrydelsen<\/em> actors, no matter what I say to you\u2026 Fortunately, it is not impossible. (After all, there are a couple of million Danes watching the serial <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">without<\/span> subtitles!) You just have to listen very carefully, and remember that in spoken Danish, many sounds are either swallowed or jammed together with other sounds. Frequent filler words like <strong>bare<\/strong> (just, only), <strong>lige<\/strong> (just), <strong>noget<\/strong> (some) and <strong>ikke<\/strong> (not) come out as <strong>ba\u2019<\/strong>, <strong>li\u2019<\/strong>, <strong>\u201dn\u00e5d\u201d<\/strong> and <strong>ik\u2019<\/strong>. <strong>Uge<\/strong> (week) becomes <strong>\u201du\u2019e\u201d<\/strong>, and as almost any final <strong>e<\/strong> is dropped in fast talk, the word most often becomes reduced to [oo].<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at what they actually say in this small sequence of the serial:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Forbrydelsen - clip 2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ddnAr5sqIO0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">0.23 <strong>Sarah Lund:<\/strong> Hva\u2019 ligger der i den retning [RATning]?<br \/>\n<em>\u201dWhat lies there in that direction?\u201d (What is there\u2026)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">0.28 <strong>Her colleague:<\/strong> Der er bar\u2019 noget mer\u2019 skov og noget vand (derovre).<br \/>\n<em>There\u2019s just some more forest and some water (over there).<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">0.30 <strong>Sarah Lund:<\/strong> Noget vand? \u2026 Har vi haft folk derovre [dah-OUWor]?<br \/>\n<em>Some water? \u2026 Have we had (any) people over there?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">0.34 <strong>Her colleague:<\/strong> Nej [nie] Sarah Lund, h\u00f8r nu her, nu stopper du, vi har haft hunde og (en) beredskabst\u00f8s i den der retning ik\u2019, hun har g\u00e5et den fuldst\u00e6ndigt modsatte vej [vie]!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>No, Sarah Lund, now you listen, you stop now, we\u2019ve had dogs and a <strong>beredskabst\u00f8s<\/strong> (\u201dalert gal\u201d) sent in that direction, she has gone the complete opposite way!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">0.40<strong> Sarah Lund <\/strong>(makes a phone call)<strong>:<\/strong> Bengt, jeg er ked af det [yaa KETHa deh], jeg n\u00e5r det ik\u2019 til tiden.<em><br \/>\nBengt, I\u2019m sorry, I won\u2019t make it on time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">0.42 <strong>Bengt<\/strong> (in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/learn-swedish\">Swedish<\/a>)<strong>:<\/strong> <em>Vad s\u00e4ger du?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>What are you saying?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">0.45 <strong>Sarah Lund:<\/strong> Bar\u2019 ta\u2019 flyet, jeg elsker dig, hej!<br \/>\n<em>Just take the plane, I love you, bye!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">0.48 <strong>Bengt<\/strong> (still in Swedish)<strong>:<\/strong> <em>Faen<\/em>!<br \/>\n<em>D@mn!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">2.05 <strong>Sarah Lund<\/strong> (picks up the phone)<strong>:<\/strong> Ja?<br \/>\n<em>Yes?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">2.06 <strong>Voice<\/strong>\u00a0(on the phone)<strong>:<\/strong> Det var ik\u2019 hend\u2019.<br \/>\n<em>It wasn\u2019t her.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"272\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2012\/09\/Sofie_GrC3A5bC3B8l-1-272x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2012\/09\/Sofie_GrC3A5bC3B8l-1-272x350.jpg 272w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2012\/09\/Sofie_GrC3A5bC3B8l-1.jpg 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><p>A number of people in countries like England and Germany seem to have got an interest in Denmark and the Danish language because of the tv serial Forbrydelsen, or The Killing, as it\u2019s called in the UK\u2026 As someone who loves Danish, all I can say is: fedt! 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