Learning Danish as a North American.

Carthage   Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:00 am GMT
EVERY learning material I have encountered - and I have searched extensively - was geared towards Britons. Not even the "American edition" of Hugo's "Danish in Three Months" seems to be based on NA English pronunciation!

So what would be the best way for an American or Canadian to approach "det danske sprog"?
Carthage   Sat Feb 25, 2006 5:40 pm GMT
I think that their motivations for learning the language are different: Britons would need the knowledge for prolonged business trips and vacations, whereas North Americans would need it to decipher genealogical records.

And then there are Danophiles like myself who learn it for its own sake.
Carthage   Sun Feb 26, 2006 4:02 pm GMT
*wonders what was wrong with the deleted message*
Larissa   Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:52 am GMT
Carthage, are you American or Canadian?
As a North-American English speaker do you have any trouble understanding British English? You don't understand the British terms at all or some of them?
Carthage   Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:23 pm GMT
Unfortunately, the former.

If I were Canuck, I could at least grasp SOME UK terms...alas, I am not.

So yes, I don't understand the vast majority, i.e. 80%, of British lingo.
Larissa   Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:15 pm GMT
Are you American or Canadian?
Carthage   Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:31 pm GMT
American.
HC Andrésen   Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:56 pm GMT
Ja, dansk burde I sanneligt lære! Et dejligt tungemål!
Arthur   Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:28 pm GMT
Hej HC,

Hvor i Danmark kommer du fra? gider du også sprog?
Fritz fra Norrig   Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:07 pm GMT
Jeg kan slett ikke sige som i sangen, " I Danmark er jeg født", selv om nogle af mine aner på 1600-tallet kom fra Viborg-egnen. Det er desværre ingen ægte danske, der skjuler sig bag den grimme ellings signatur ovenfor, kun Fredrik fra Norge, der så en dansk tråd og fik lidt lyst til at puste lidt liv i den. Men ja, jeg kan lide dansk!