The way Danes speak makes it much harder for Danish children to learn the language. Fabio Trecca, CC BY-ND A visual depiction of the words for ‘smoked trout’ spoken out loud in Danish (top) and ...
Norwegian filmmakers Esikld Fors and Anders Øvergaard said they love Denmark and its "slurry" language. Photo: Submitted The Local spoke with Norwegian filmmaker Eskild Fors, whose video poking fun at ...
Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales and Soeren Kierkegaard's philosophical tomes were written in Danish. So was the hugely successful 1993 novel by Peter Hoeg, Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow. But ...
A new voucher scheme has come into play at the country’s language schools. It sets out a five-year period in which to complete the entire Danish language program, and there will no longer be any room ...
Poul Andersen, a Los Angeles Times printer who published the nation’s only weekly Danish-language newspaper, Bien, for more than a quarter of a century, has died. He was 84. Andersen, a Danish ...
Morten H. Christiansen, The William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Psychology, Cornell University and Fabio Trecca, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science of Language, Aarhus University There are three ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) There are three main reasons why Danish is so complicated. First, with about 40 ...