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I went to Australia once and we met an American family in "Ripley's Believe it or not". I don't recall exactly where they were from, but I knew about the city and which state it was in. We told then we were from Denmark, a town called Randers, and they asked: "Is that far from Amsterdam?" We were like: "Uhm, yeah - it's a different country" (thinking they'd mixed up Denmark and The Netherlands). The woman's next question almost blew my mind: "So, is Denmark one of the bigger cities?" My friend and I looked at each other and we tried to patiently explain that Denmark is a country, that Randers is one of the bigger cities in that country, and that Amsterdam is the capital of another country named The Netherlands. When the couple's next question was if we speak Dutch in Denmark, we gave up and pretended that we had to get moving, because we were meeting someone soon 😂
We came for the Tour de France and told a new Danish friend we were going by train to Nyborg and she laughed when I pronounced it like “Nye-borg” hitting every letter in my Southern US accent
The sun is strong in Denmark, because of several things: The time it is up. The amount of UV rays, from thin ozon layers. The reflections from water everywhere. Go fishing in April and you get torched.
The sun thing is definitely because we get more direct sunlight in the summer than areas that are further south. It's literally the angle the sun hits the earth at that makes it more concentrated.
I work as a cashier in a discount supermarket on Amager. The thing about saying something out of the ordenary is a big surprice for folks like you. When I say " Jeg håber du har en pragtfuld dag" ("I hope you have a wonderfull day), ppl like you alway go " sorry I'm english speaking". But the problem is that your "Hej" ("Hey"), sounds to danish. Put a thick accent on in like HEEEYyy or as the germans do and use "Hallo"
in Jutland you will probably hardly hear about having ( pragtfuld dag.) in my northern Jutland it will probably at most. ( goddag) if the day . ( det er ikke så ringe endda) well then it is certainly a splendid day. ( ja helt afgjort en pragtfuld dag) ( hvis du har set noget der var værre) well then its almoste a perfekt day. a treasurer in an association said "the accounts disappointed to the good side" at general meeing and the surplus never has bin better. ( rengskabet har skuffet til den gode side og så har der aldrig været større overskud)
We're just back from Denmark, we were in Aarhus, Randers and Copenhagen. We're moving sometime this year as my Dane is homesick and hates Irish food. 😂So I am trying to learn Danish now.
English also has huge differences between spelling and pronunciation, lots of words could be spoken very differently, and then you just have to know how. One reason for getting burned by the sun in Denmark is that (compares to the US), the amount of time with sunlight is much longer in the summer.
99% of all yankee caps worn in Denmark are worn by people with no idea of it being affiliated to a sports team, even less a baseball team. They were all over the place in the 90's and 00's. Pretty sure most people thought it was just a brand.
Fun fact! When I was in New York many years ago I went to see a baseball game, because...well, you haven't really been to the US if you haven't seen a baseball- or "football"-game :P As I watched it, it reminded me SO MUCH of "rundbold", which I'm sure you'll have been made acquainted with by now :P And as my American friend explained the rules to me, and I found myself thinking "This is basically slightly more elaborate rundbold", I noticed a couple of rows in front of us there was a kid of....no more than 12, I think who sat with his dad, and he could NOT stop staring at me 😅 He was much too polite to say anything, but I could TELL by the look on his face that he was completely flabbergasted. I could almost hear him think "How are you an adult and don't know all of this already?!" 😅
About the sunburn, I'm pretty sure it's because you haven't been exposed to the sun for like 8 months and suddenly when spring and summer arrives, you take off your clothes and get a burn. Also, isn't the danish soft D a bit like the English th? Modig (brave) is almost pronounced mo-th-ee.. Well, and then you can go to Jutland and they use the hard D instead of the soft D. LOL, I'll stop talking about soft and hard D's now.. :) Great channel though you guys. I'm happy you are enjoying living in Denmark.
The sounds are not the same. I only recently learned that, and I can still not hear the difference. But some Americans say the Danish soft D is more like than L. It does not sound like L at all to me. The Danish soft D is pronounced with the tip of your tongue behind your lower front teeth. The English th of "there" is pronounced with the tip of the toungue between the front teeth.
Thanks for watching Benjamin - so glad you like the channel. The soft D and hard D always cracks us up. To both of us it's more of an "L" sounds for the "soft D" - we really only have one D sound in English (I think) haha.
Hi there - it sure is funny that in Danish not all the letters that are written are pronounced, but by now we are very used to that it is the same case in English, so I'm surprised that Americans react to that. Exercise, temperature, naturally... come to mind.
My mom once got me a couple sweatshirts with the name of an American college on them. I really couldnt understand why she would find it normal for me to wear the brand of an institution I have nothing to do with at all. I still ended up wearing them though as it was getting cold out
Woah... I just had a weird experience seeing the bit about Hans Ø or 'The Whiskey Wars' part. My pride (as a dane) tells me that, sure, that island was part of Greenland and thus, part of the Kingdom of Denmark - another part (also heavily influenced by my pride o.O) says that, yeah, we conned those nice Cannadians! Score for the small guys!! I think the takeaway is,.. yay?
I love the New York Yankees cap because of NY Hardcore. Yeah. I'm that eighties. Wore it and will wear it again because of my musical preferences. Even if I don't care about baseball. Tried softball once, though. It was actually quite fun!
A language teacher might skip this part of the class, if everybody gets the pronounciation right with just a few times of "listen and repeat"! But that almost never happens with adults. And in "Danish for Foreigners" the right pronunciation might never be reached at all, with any method. 😀
Love you guys! I have a "hue" to keep my head warm, it's translated: Hat. But it's not a hat. It says "GRØNLAND" and something. A friend gave it to me. Never went to Greenland. No trees. It keeps my head and ears warm. I also have a cap with "MÆRSK" on it, cost me 35 DKK in a second hand store. It keeps the sun out of my eyes. I never had a job at Maersk. They just things keep my head warm and the sun out of my eyes. I don't see them. I look at pretty things instead. Like nature's many fractile wonders. Who would bother looking at his glasses? Look THROUGH them, is the answer ;-) Like your eyes ;-)
And can i just say.. That NÅ is 100% danish and couldn't be said any better. Thats like Linie3 level to me. Ie very homegrown. Have you looked into Line 3 doing English bits, or maybe our Queen Daisy as she's known informally. 😉
Regarding the pronunciation, I'm both lucky and unlucky, o was born in England to Danish parents, and for a long time had an English accent as a kid. But when we moved to Denmark, I finally learned properly and mostly down to my grandma sitting with me and reading with me, writing with me, without my grandma I wouldn't be very good at Danish. But yes, we are terrible at actually pronouncing things, it's so different from how it's spelt, and I learned that the hard way too, since I could speak it, but I couldn't read or write, I learned the hard way, that Danish spelling/pronunciation is dumb.
It's really tough for us to try to practice together and when we were in classes and doing homework we would argue about how to pronounce things - we couldn't correct one another being both American so it was kind of a waste of time.
@@RobeTrotting oh absolutely, you don't have someone to lean on in your everyday. I was crap at Danish as a kid, but I had two Danish parents and 4 Danish grandparents to help. So I had plenty of help learning. If you want a business idea, consider a platform that connects foreigners and Danes, so us lonely isolated Danes have someone nice to chat to, and foreigners can ask language questions.
GUYS im danish!!! Ive been living in Southern of Spain and Amsterdam and i am now back in Copenhagen. Lets do an interview for your channel guys! Hit me up :)
The reason for sunburns i north europe, are the angle of the sun to the ozon protective layers, so the the tilt of the earth results in the sun are shining direct down through the ozon layer and not in an angle lige down south. :)
Yeah, danish is difficult.. its just this that I live on the west coast of sweden and my father comes frome Skåne, (Scania), so im used to Danish! I know that they dont pronuned every letter, but the words in spelling is very similar.. so I have to listen to the flow of words and setences to understand! It still this that one can understand one other without changing to english! However guys, I have a challange for you, take the train to Malmö and trye out your danish/english/swenglish on the swedish side! But do this in summer season.. becuse we all want to promote this thing thats cald.. bigger Copenhagen, wich include "Skåne"! Another tip is.. visit Bornholm, the last place there they speak east danish, some danes say they speak like swedes, singsong and pronuns the letters.. I can confirm, much more easyer danish to understand!
So the baseball thing, as a danish transplant to SOcal, was something I felt I had to learn, when I moved to the US. And after seeing Kurt Gibsons homerun in the 1988 game one of the World series at Dodger stadium, just proved that point. I did not know what happening at the time, I just went with my girlfriend at the time, because her family had season tickets to Chavez Ravine ( Dodger Stadium). From that day on, I took it upon myself to learn about the game and became a huge Padres fan and still am to this day. Seen hundreds of games since that day in October 1988 and listen to the Pads games on the radio everytime they play. Just one note, hate the Yankees and ofcourse them Red sox - tak for de sjove historier om Danmark - keep up the good work, boys......
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I don't think I have ever seen any adult in a onesie (flyverdragt). But on the other hand, I don't notice what anyone is wearing because I just don't care. Not gonna talk to them anyway :D
Isn’t rundbold kinda similar to baseball? The game is with 2 teams one forms a queue waiting to swing the bat and then run around the field. The other team has to retrieve the ball and throw it to a teammate who is waiting down by the other team. We said teammate gets the ball they yell stop. If the runner is not at one of the three based they are out. The teams will regularly switch positions. Of course I know there are still many differences like rundbold is played square, the ball is just a Tennisball, there’s no protective gear and it’s not an official sport but a game that can easily be set up for a birthday party or PE at school. But I have always felt like it might be inspired Edit apparently according to the Danish lexicon baseball is based on the old English games rundbold and cricket so it’s the opposite of what I thought
The thing with the grocerie shopping is funny to me as ive been a cashier in Netto for a long time and the "programming" that you are talking about goes both ways. I usually would say the wrong thing at the wrong time bacause i was used to say the same thing i the same order
Love you guys! I have a "hue" to keep my head warm, it says "GRØNLAND" and something. A friend gave it to me. It keeps my head and ears warm. I also have a cap with "MÆRSK" on it, cost me 35 DKK in a second hand store. It keeps the sun out of my eyes. I don't see them. I look at pretty things. Like nature's many fractile wonders. Who would bother looking at his glasses? Look THROUGH them, is the answer ;-)
I suppose the Onesie is a flyverdragt It supposedly was invented to keep pilots warm in the cold Nordic air when flying planes in older times when monoplanes were the common military craft
I think one of the real reasons you see alot of Yankees caps and the like in denmark, is that for some reason, alot of clothing stores, for some random reason, sells them in denmark. I see them all the time, and wonder "why the **** cant i just but a cap with no logo on it".
That’s so bizarre - imagine seeing a superliga team’s jersey being sold in Myanmar, but only one team and not because they’re fans but for fashion purposes 😂
@@RobeTrotting yeah, i have always found it really weird, i have come across it in: Bilka and Kvickly and some other random clothes stores. Typically discount ones. On the jersey thing, i once went to romania, on a trip related to some relief aid, and was wuite surpriced during the day to see several Brøndby IF shirts it was only when i saw an FCK and a OB one, that it finally clicked for me, embarassingly, they were ofcourse jerseys donated to help poor people.
To be fair the soft consonants are hard for kids too. Although mostly when it comes to spelling. In my 0 grade class I remember we had a poster with the silent d’s and g’s. Of course they aren’t completely sound sand and sagn have a silent d and g but are not pronounced the same. Especially the silent or hidden g will really change how you pronounce the word kinda like if it was spelled savn wich is a completely different word. We have a suprising amount of four letter words with s a and n now that I think about it
I've been learning Norwegian for a while and checked out Danish. OMG Hot potato in the mouth doesn't even . The languages look very similar, but producing Danish is impossible 😂 e
Y’all NEED to do a video regarding drivers in Denmark. It’s a must for anyone traveling to Denmark. It’s a nice heads up for what one would expect driving there. From tailgating to arrogantly aggressive drivers, foreigners would benefit greatly from this information. Love y’all’s work! Cole
Thanks for watching Cole :) Interesting idea - I think it depends where the tourist is from. Some countries they visit from may seem much worse than Denmark haha (having spent a month in India at least one comes to mind).
We Danes , hate that kind of drivning to. its just stupid. I especially hate it on the motorway when I drive 130 in an overtaking and then someone comes from behind. and flashes even if I drive my yes 100-130 meters to the next car in front, in an overtaking. I drive within the limits of the law, and the person behind is indifferent and even rude. Danes hate this just as much as everyone else
Also talk about the benefits of it being illegal to overtake on the righ. A american said to me that if they had that law in the US it would back up all traffic on the highways
ÆØÅ is pronounced like this: Æ (eh) Like you've just been asked what you want for dinner and you don't care. Eh... Ø (urh) Like you've been asked a question and you don't know the answer. Uh... Å (ohh) Like you've just made a big mistake. Ohh...
sadly there are different versions, so this is not the way to learn it. å in "å" is different from å in "ånd" ø gøre is pronounced differently from køre also grøn the æ is a different vowel in kælder and in bære. also the same case as written on wikipedia "danish phonology" I am currently writing a book for different patterns to get the correct pronounciation most of the time.
I live in lergravsparken now in 4 months and I can't say the name right My wife always repeat it for me when I wake up the next day still can't say it xd The struggle is real
I'm from Aalborg and in the beginning of the 90s we had a class trip to Copenhagen and we lived in Amager. We couldn't pronounce it and we said all the letters out. So Danish dialects are difg8 for us as well. People from Copenhagen has problems pronouncing names up here as well.
As a native speaker of Danish, American English and Swedish, I think it’s rude when people don’t respect other peoples efforts in speaking a language that is not their own. If someone talks to me in either Danish, English or Swedish, I respond in the same language even though I can clearly hear that it’s not their first language. So if f.ex. you spoke to me using Danish, I would respond in Danish, but I may politely ask if you want to switch to English, if I hear you struggling to get the words out. Grammar is not the most essential thing when you want to get a point across. You can mess up the grammar a lot and still be understood. However, pronunciation is really important in any language. You mess up the pronunciation too much and nobody will be able to understand you. Danish pronunciation is really hard for many foreigners. Just like English, Danish has many different vowel sounds. English has around 20 vowel sounds, Danish has 22, but some linguists believe we have way more vowel sounds than 22. They put the number as high as 40. The killer vowels are æøå. Particularly, ø is difficult because there is a plethora of ways of saying it depending on what consonants are attached to it. Øjne (eyes) and ører (ears) are both written with an ø, but the pronunciation is quite different.
You probably get so sunburned because you got used to the no sun and forget to take care of your skin when it’s suddenly sunny and you want to take advantage of the little sun. Personally even though being born and having lived all my life in Denmark (and being about 2/3 Scandinavian and ~99% European) if I get a tan in the spring and summer (i don’t get tan any other way than from the sun) I will be very likely to keep at least 50% of that tan into winter. It just kinda stays around. And I really rarely get sun burned
i think you dont give yourself enough credit having watched vids from all the way back 2016-17 you both look like Danish food and lifestyle did good to you and alot of Danish words and sayings you say is not bad atlall like mikes " rød grød med fløde " you are doing great : Thumbs up from here :)
Dutch and Danish are of course very different languages, but they sound similar. Was a the KLM airport few years ago, and when you don't listen closely, the background talking actually sounds a lot like Danish. But when you actually listen, there isn't much in common. Danes are also relatively tall, but we aren't as high... Weed isn't as accepted here :D. The Netherlands is also a wealthy country and, afaik, shares similar welfare/social benefits as the Nordic/Scandinavien countries are known for. Cheers!
As I say "Danish is the French of Scandinavia" we don't use half the letters and those we use we don't pronouce of those, the vowels is just a mess and nothing is pronouced the way it's written
we are in mentality more like Italians in Northern Europe. our faith in authority is minimal, we are happy to take orders if they make sense, and in my Jutland, yes, the VAT still has a problem in making sense, BIG PROBLEM WITH MAKING SENSE, The state is not here so much that it matters. therefore we contribute based on attendance.
We would probably just use our first names if we started our channel from scratch - BUT it was a joke on the expression "globe trotting" and the idea that people think you're just a globe trotter if you live abroad but you're just sitting around in your bathrobe like everyone else - only in a new country haha.
I don't know about that Copenhagener one... Maybe because I don't live in Downtown Copenhagen but in an outer suburb (if you ask people from other places in Denmark).
no, there are in deed a lot of silenced letters. What in english is: What, where, who.. (A silenced h) Is in danish: Hvad, hvor, hvem. A silenced H and a V spoken as W. But there are more silenced letters like d,g,h. Danish words dont use w, q, z, x.
In Danish, we pronounce words as they are spelled. In English they skip a lot of letters. That the word "niece", for example. It is spelled the same. It means the same. But in Danish, we pronounce it as it is spelled. In English it is pronounced "nis". The e's are just ignored.
Where you should put your tongue, huh?....ahem. On a serious note, I live in 'Clemson country' which means I see a lot of orange and purple in the stores and in public. At first I didn't understand why. I mean, who would seriously wear orange and purple?? To this day, I don't own any orange/purple attire, I bet I never will. My hats are all from parks or museums, I don't even have a Dollywood hat... ( I do school trips to various places in the East and South, like Atlanta, Charleston, Washington DC, and so on). All these memes are spot on! But English ( even American English) has its own peculiarities...
Baseball is not a game that is played in Denmark or in the rest of the Nordic countries for that matter. On the other hand, Americans are totally clueless when we talk about team handball, which is the second most important sport in Denmark after football…our football ⚽️ that is.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 i kind of look like that that when I try to teach children danish, because you have to show them VERY CLEARLY how to use the mouth or where to put the tongue 😂😂😂 I have a question to you guys. Don’t Americans know that we are not Denmark people and we don’t speak Denmark ???? I’ve heard that so the times and I just wonder if ( United States of America people 😂😂) don’t know that ? They know that the French people are French and speak French and Italian people are Italian and speak Italian. But when it comes to almost the rest of Europe I’ve heard the weirdest things 😂😂
I always thought the Ø sound was fairly similar to the way you'd pronounce "earth", for instance. Like, if you can pronounce "earth", then you should be able to pronounce "rød", right? :P
You would be understood, but ø sounds different. When saying the ø-sound in "earth" I almost feel out of breath. Hard to explain, but the Danish ø is a more natural and simple sound. It is a shorter and more distinct sound. Can't explain it, but the placement of the tongue is also a little different. It is not a bad way to explain the sound to foreigners, I think :) Fun fact: "ø" is also a word in Danish. It means "island"
I leved in south afrika 3 years the african from dutch english has alot of danish words in it even as lækker ther just spel it lekker but bronouice it like Lækker and it means the same!
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Base ball is just rundbold with a lot of rules, right
The way you both said "Nå" and Mike's "Nej tak" were so great and with the perfect tone of sarcasm. Well done 👏
He actually said "rødgrød med fløde" quite well :P
I went to Australia once and we met an American family in "Ripley's Believe it or not". I don't recall exactly where they were from, but I knew about the city and which state it was in. We told then we were from Denmark, a town called Randers, and they asked: "Is that far from Amsterdam?" We were like: "Uhm, yeah - it's a different country" (thinking they'd mixed up Denmark and The Netherlands). The woman's next question almost blew my mind: "So, is Denmark one of the bigger cities?" My friend and I looked at each other and we tried to patiently explain that Denmark is a country, that Randers is one of the bigger cities in that country, and that Amsterdam is the capital of another country named The Netherlands. When the couple's next question was if we speak Dutch in Denmark, we gave up and pretended that we had to get moving, because we were meeting someone soon 😂
Not to forget the American couple who went on vacation in Austria but actually wanted to go to Australia 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
What couple was that? Never heard of them.
Where are ze kangaroos bitte ? 😄
Is this true?
That first painting meme is Honey Boo Boo's Mom (Mama June)!!😂 From the show Toddlers and Tiara's on TCL. Haha
My first thought as well.
LOL! This is so much fun! I litterally laughed out loud several times, and I was in a bus 😀
Glad you enjoyed it! These are a lot of fun for us too :)
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We came for the Tour de France and told a new Danish friend we were going by train to Nyborg and she laughed when I pronounced it like “Nye-borg” hitting every letter in my Southern US accent
The sun is strong in Denmark, because of several things: The time it is up. The amount of UV rays, from thin ozon layers. The reflections from water everywhere. Go fishing in April and you get torched.
When the little kids wear those onesies, with their short legs, they look like astronauts hopping on the moon :)
So true 😂 it’s adorable
The sun thing is definitely because we get more direct sunlight in the summer than areas that are further south. It's literally the angle the sun hits the earth at that makes it more concentrated.
Danes might be direct, but hearing NO THANK YOU to hav en god dag, would make me laugh my ass off if i were in the store :D Genius
HAHA, I could definitely see it being said in a serious manner with full comprehension - some days I would do and say the same
I work as a cashier in a discount supermarket on Amager. The thing about saying something out of the ordenary is a big surprice for folks like you.
When I say " Jeg håber du har en pragtfuld dag" ("I hope you have a wonderfull day), ppl like you alway go " sorry I'm english speaking".
But the problem is that your "Hej" ("Hey"), sounds to danish.
Put a thick accent on in like HEEEYyy or as the germans do and use "Hallo"
Oh, I can see that - like "hi" and "hej" really sound similar.
in Jutland you will probably hardly hear about having ( pragtfuld dag.) in my northern Jutland it will probably at most. ( goddag)
if the day . ( det er ikke så ringe endda) well then it is certainly a splendid day. ( ja helt afgjort en pragtfuld dag) ( hvis du har set noget der var værre) well then its almoste a perfekt day.
a treasurer in an association said "the accounts disappointed to the good side" at general meeing and the surplus never has bin better.
( rengskabet har skuffet til den gode side og så har der aldrig været større overskud)
'Closer to the sun somehow' actually laughed out loud^^
This is a science channel now
Loved every minute of it guys!
- and so funny, bc it's true! 🤣
hello from Hundested 🌸🌦
Thank you 😊 so glad you enjoyed it and hope you’re enjoying the days getting longer ☀️
@@RobeTrotting most definately & I know you are too! 😉
☀️ bring it on! 😎
That first one looks like Mama June Shopped into a painting.
White and Red Tulips ;)
YES haha, Derek said that too but thought it was too obscure to make the reference - you get it thought!!!
We're just back from Denmark, we were in Aarhus, Randers and Copenhagen. We're moving sometime this year as my Dane is homesick and hates Irish food. 😂So I am trying to learn Danish now.
Ohhhhh u got a Pet dane
Not a fan of potatoes, eh?
GL with your Danish, and your Dane :)
Cheers!
English also has huge differences between spelling and pronunciation, lots of words could be spoken very differently, and then you just have to know how.
One reason for getting burned by the sun in Denmark is that (compares to the US), the amount of time with sunlight is much longer in the summer.
Colonel = Kernel, how does that make sense
Sometimes I use sunglasses in spring and fall, when the sun is low in the sky.
True, it can be tough when it's basically horizontal sunshine haha
Mama June has been face-swapped into the painting in the first meme. 😂
The first picture is actually a Photoshop of a old painting and a American woman in one of those tv reality shows you have over there. 😀
I see it now haha
99% of all yankee caps worn in Denmark are worn by people with no idea of it being affiliated to a sports team, even less a baseball team. They were all over the place in the 90's and 00's. Pretty sure most people thought it was just a brand.
This makes a lot of sense haha
Fun fact!
When I was in New York many years ago I went to see a baseball game, because...well, you haven't really been to the US if you haven't seen a baseball- or "football"-game :P
As I watched it, it reminded me SO MUCH of "rundbold", which I'm sure you'll have been made acquainted with by now :P
And as my American friend explained the rules to me, and I found myself thinking "This is basically slightly more elaborate rundbold", I noticed a couple of rows in front of us there was a kid of....no more than 12, I think who sat with his dad, and he could NOT stop staring at me 😅
He was much too polite to say anything, but I could TELL by the look on his face that he was completely flabbergasted. I could almost hear him think
"How are you an adult and don't know all of this already?!" 😅
About the sunburn, I'm pretty sure it's because you haven't been exposed to the sun for like 8 months and suddenly when spring and summer arrives, you take off your clothes and get a burn. Also, isn't the danish soft D a bit like the English th? Modig (brave) is almost pronounced mo-th-ee.. Well, and then you can go to Jutland and they use the hard D instead of the soft D. LOL, I'll stop talking about soft and hard D's now.. :) Great channel though you guys. I'm happy you are enjoying living in Denmark.
The sounds are not the same. I only recently learned that, and I can still not hear the difference. But some Americans say the Danish soft D is more like than L. It does not sound like L at all to me.
The Danish soft D is pronounced with the tip of your tongue behind your lower front teeth. The English th of "there" is pronounced with the tip of the toungue between the front teeth.
Thanks for watching Benjamin - so glad you like the channel. The soft D and hard D always cracks us up. To both of us it's more of an "L" sounds for the "soft D" - we really only have one D sound in English (I think) haha.
I am a man of simple taste. I see danish memes, I click.
Hi there - it sure is funny that in Danish not all the letters that are written are pronounced, but by now we are very used to that it is the same case in English, so I'm surprised that Americans react to that. Exercise, temperature, naturally... come to mind.
My mom once got me a couple sweatshirts with the name of an American college on them. I really couldnt understand why she would find it normal for me to wear the brand of an institution I have nothing to do with at all. I still ended up wearing them though as it was getting cold out
Ha, wow - that's interesting. Did she visit them at least?
@@RobeTrotting nope 😅
Consider yourself blessed if you don't know who June Shannon is, mother to Honey Boo Boo. (First meme painting/picture)
Woah... I just had a weird experience seeing the bit about Hans Ø or 'The Whiskey Wars' part. My pride (as a dane) tells me that, sure, that island was part of Greenland and thus, part of the Kingdom of Denmark - another part (also heavily influenced by my pride o.O) says that, yeah, we conned those nice Cannadians! Score for the small guys!!
I think the takeaway is,.. yay?
I love the New York Yankees cap because of NY Hardcore. Yeah. I'm that eighties.
Wore it and will wear it again because of my musical preferences. Even if I don't care about baseball.
Tried softball once, though. It was actually quite fun!
Teachers in Danish schools also draw cross sections of mouths in order to teach English 'th', German 'ch' and Spanish 'rr'. 🙂
Probably where it comes from then haha
A language teacher might skip this part of the class, if everybody gets the pronounciation right with just a few times of "listen and repeat"! But that almost never happens with adults. And in "Danish for Foreigners" the right pronunciation might never be reached at all, with any method. 😀
Love you guys!
I have a "hue" to keep my head warm,
it's translated: Hat. But it's not a hat.
It says "GRØNLAND" and something.
A friend gave it to me.
Never went to Greenland.
No trees.
It keeps my head and ears warm.
I also have a cap with "MÆRSK" on it,
cost me 35 DKK in a second hand store.
It keeps the sun out of my eyes.
I never had a job at Maersk.
They just things keep my head warm
and the sun out of my eyes.
I don't see them.
I look at pretty things instead.
Like nature's many fractile wonders.
Who would bother looking at his glasses?
Look THROUGH them, is the answer ;-)
Like your eyes ;-)
the second lvl of '' rød grød med fløde '' is '' It's hard to be a nissemand ''
Oh I will GLADLY sing Julekalendar songs if I NEVER get asked to say ''rød grød med fløde'' again haha
@@RobeTrotting its cringe for those who still want people to say that.
This is just so funny and sooo true.
Maybe Americans think "Danish, surely that isn't a language, it's a pastry... so, the language must be Dutch"?
And can i just say.. That NÅ is 100% danish and couldn't be said any better. Thats like Linie3 level to me. Ie very homegrown. Have you looked into Line 3 doing English bits, or maybe our Queen Daisy as she's known informally. 😉
Did you know we have a Nå! generation? 🤣
Please making an reaction to Trish Regan comparing Denmark to Venezuela, it would be fun to see you reactions now when you know both worlds 🙏🙏
Regarding the pronunciation, I'm both lucky and unlucky, o was born in England to Danish parents, and for a long time had an English accent as a kid. But when we moved to Denmark, I finally learned properly and mostly down to my grandma sitting with me and reading with me, writing with me, without my grandma I wouldn't be very good at Danish. But yes, we are terrible at actually pronouncing things, it's so different from how it's spelt, and I learned that the hard way too, since I could speak it, but I couldn't read or write, I learned the hard way, that Danish spelling/pronunciation is dumb.
It's really tough for us to try to practice together and when we were in classes and doing homework we would argue about how to pronounce things - we couldn't correct one another being both American so it was kind of a waste of time.
@@RobeTrotting oh absolutely, you don't have someone to lean on in your everyday. I was crap at Danish as a kid, but I had two Danish parents and 4 Danish grandparents to help. So I had plenty of help learning. If you want a business idea, consider a platform that connects foreigners and Danes, so us lonely isolated Danes have someone nice to chat to, and foreigners can ask language questions.
@@jonahthrane812 we’d love to plan a live social event like that at some point
😂 yeah ❤ us danes in a nutshell! And you guys REALLY should go to Aalborg 😂
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GUYS im danish!!! Ive been living in Southern of Spain and Amsterdam and i am now back in Copenhagen. Lets do an interview for your channel guys! Hit me up :)
Love it! 🤣🤣
The reason for sunburns i north europe, are the angle of the sun to the ozon protective layers, so the the tilt of the earth results in the sun are shining direct down through the ozon layer and not in an angle lige down south. :)
Yeah, danish is difficult.. its just this that I live on the west coast of sweden and my father comes frome Skåne, (Scania), so im used to Danish! I know that they dont pronuned every letter, but the words in spelling is very similar.. so I have to listen to the flow of words and setences to understand!
It still this that one can understand one other without changing to english!
However guys, I have a challange for you, take the train to Malmö and trye out your danish/english/swenglish on the swedish side!
But do this in summer season.. becuse we all want to promote this thing thats cald.. bigger Copenhagen, wich include "Skåne"!
Another tip is.. visit Bornholm, the last place there they speak east danish, some danes say they speak like swedes, singsong and pronuns the letters.. I can confirm, much more easyer danish to understand!
Bornholm it Bust!
So the baseball thing, as a danish transplant to SOcal, was something I felt I had to learn, when I moved to the US. And after seeing Kurt Gibsons homerun in the 1988 game one of the World series at Dodger stadium, just proved that point. I did not know what happening at the time, I just went with my girlfriend at the time, because her family had season tickets to Chavez Ravine ( Dodger Stadium). From that day on, I took it upon myself to learn about the game and became a huge Padres fan and still am to this day. Seen hundreds of games since that day in October 1988 and listen to the Pads games on the radio everytime they play. Just one note, hate the Yankees and ofcourse them Red sox - tak for de sjove historier om Danmark - keep up the good work, boys......
Everyone is a effing comedian 🙄..., but u guys pull it off 👍🤣 !!! Happy V-day 😍 BTW! Of course I know what an "inning" is. It's when your bellybutton goes inward.., DUH 🙄
Thank you! You too! That belly button joke is hilarious though haha
I don't think I have ever seen any adult in a onesie (flyverdragt). But on the other hand, I don't notice what anyone is wearing because I just don't care. Not gonna talk to them anyway :D
haha, so very correct either way LOL
The first meme is Mama June.... Honey Boo Boo's mom..... mashed with a classical painting.
Isn’t rundbold kinda similar to baseball? The game is with 2 teams one forms a queue waiting to swing the bat and then run around the field. The other team has to retrieve the ball and throw it to a teammate who is waiting down by the other team. We said teammate gets the ball they yell stop. If the runner is not at one of the three based they are out. The teams will regularly switch positions. Of course I know there are still many differences like rundbold is played square, the ball is just a Tennisball, there’s no protective gear and it’s not an official sport but a game that can easily be set up for a birthday party or PE at school. But I have always felt like it might be inspired
Edit apparently according to the Danish lexicon baseball is based on the old English games rundbold and cricket so it’s the opposite of what I thought
GREAT DANISH, Derek!!!!! 😊
Looove it. A reaction to. TY for great content.
The thing with the grocerie shopping is funny to me as ive been a cashier in Netto for a long time and the "programming" that you are talking about goes both ways. I usually would say the wrong thing at the wrong time bacause i was used to say the same thing i the same order
Ah, interesting. That makes sense 🇩🇰😃
Love you guys!
I have a "hue" to keep my head warm,
it says "GRØNLAND" and something.
A friend gave it to me.
It keeps my head and ears warm.
I also have a cap with "MÆRSK" on it,
cost me 35 DKK in a second hand store.
It keeps the sun out of my eyes.
I don't see them.
I look at pretty things.
Like nature's many fractile wonders.
Who would bother looking at his glasses?
Look THROUGH them, is the answer ;-)
I suppose the Onesie is a flyverdragt It supposedly was invented to keep pilots warm in the cold Nordic air when flying planes in older times when monoplanes were the common military craft
ofcourse we know what baseball is, we call it "rundbold" :D
I think one of the real reasons you see alot of Yankees caps and the like in denmark, is that for some reason, alot of clothing stores, for some random reason, sells them in denmark. I see them all the time, and wonder "why the **** cant i just but a cap with no logo on it".
That’s so bizarre - imagine seeing a superliga team’s jersey being sold in Myanmar, but only one team and not because they’re fans but for fashion purposes 😂
@@RobeTrotting yeah, i have always found it really weird, i have come across it in: Bilka and Kvickly and some other random clothes stores. Typically discount ones. On the jersey thing, i once went to romania, on a trip related to some relief aid, and was wuite surpriced during the day to see several Brøndby IF shirts it was only when i saw an FCK and a OB one, that it finally clicked for me, embarassingly, they were ofcourse jerseys donated to help poor people.
Using sunglasses more in winter than the summer because the sun is so much lower in the sky
To be fair the soft consonants are hard for kids too. Although mostly when it comes to spelling. In my 0 grade class I remember we had a poster with the silent d’s and g’s. Of course they aren’t completely sound sand and sagn have a silent d and g but are not pronounced the same. Especially the silent or hidden g will really change how you pronounce the word kinda like if it was spelled savn wich is a completely different word. We have a suprising amount of four letter words with s a and n now that I think about it
I've been learning Norwegian for a while and checked out Danish. OMG Hot potato in the mouth doesn't even . The languages look very similar, but producing Danish is impossible 😂 e
Haha the yankees cap - I always assumed it was just a cool kung fu letter 😉😅🙈 (*get the reference)
Y’all NEED to do a video regarding drivers in Denmark. It’s a must for anyone traveling to Denmark. It’s a nice heads up for what one would expect driving there. From tailgating to arrogantly aggressive drivers, foreigners would benefit greatly from this information.
Love y’all’s work!
Cole
Thanks for watching Cole :)
Interesting idea - I think it depends where the tourist is from. Some countries they visit from may seem much worse than Denmark haha (having spent a month in India at least one comes to mind).
We Danes , hate that kind of drivning to. its just stupid. I especially hate it on the motorway when I drive 130 in an overtaking and then someone comes from behind. and flashes even if I drive my yes 100-130 meters to the next car in front, in an overtaking. I drive within the limits of the law, and the person behind is indifferent and even rude.
Danes hate this just as much as everyone else
Also talk about the benefits of it being illegal to overtake on the righ. A american said to me that if they had that law in the US it would back up all traffic on the highways
The restaurant. Kitchens used to close even earlier.
15:28 That one got me, Nej Tak ;) I love Rødgrød med fløde and that was pronounced better than the Nej tak :D
Nå! Have we mastered Rødgrød med fløde?
@@RobeTrotting Selvfølgelig :)
ÆØÅ is pronounced like this:
Æ (eh) Like you've just been asked what you want for dinner and you don't care. Eh...
Ø (urh) Like you've been asked a question and you don't know the answer. Uh...
Å (ohh) Like you've just made a big mistake. Ohh...
sadly there are different versions, so this is not the way to learn it.
å in "å" is different from å in "ånd"
ø gøre is pronounced differently from køre also grøn
the æ is a different vowel in kælder and in bære.
also the same case as written on wikipedia "danish phonology"
I am currently writing a book for different patterns to get the correct pronounciation most of the time.
@@Mathias-bz2kr I was making a joke.
I live in lergravsparken now in 4 months and I can't say the name right
My wife always repeat it for me when I wake up the next day still can't say it xd
The struggle is real
I'm from Aalborg and in the beginning of the 90s we had a class trip to Copenhagen and we lived in Amager. We couldn't pronounce it and we said all the letters out. So Danish dialects are difg8 for us as well. People from Copenhagen has problems pronouncing names up here as well.
As a native speaker of Danish, American English and Swedish, I think it’s rude when people don’t respect other peoples efforts in speaking a language that is not their own.
If someone talks to me in either Danish, English or Swedish, I respond in the same language even though I can clearly hear that it’s not their first language.
So if f.ex. you spoke to me using Danish, I would respond in Danish, but I may politely ask if you want to switch to English, if I hear you struggling to get the words out.
Grammar is not the most essential thing when you want to get a point across. You can mess up the grammar a lot and still be understood. However, pronunciation is really important in any language. You mess up the pronunciation too much and nobody will be able to understand you.
Danish pronunciation is really hard for many foreigners. Just like English, Danish has many different vowel sounds. English has around 20 vowel sounds, Danish has 22, but some linguists believe we have way more vowel sounds than 22. They put the number as high as 40. The killer vowels are æøå. Particularly, ø is difficult because there is a plethora of ways of saying it depending on what consonants are attached to it. Øjne (eyes) and ører (ears) are both written with an ø, but the pronunciation is quite different.
hahahaha selvfølgelig!
You probably get so sunburned because you got used to the no sun and forget to take care of your skin when it’s suddenly sunny and you want to take advantage of the little sun.
Personally even though being born and having lived all my life in Denmark (and being about 2/3 Scandinavian and ~99% European) if I get a tan in the spring and summer (i don’t get tan any other way than from the sun) I will be very likely to keep at least 50% of that tan into winter. It just kinda stays around. And I really rarely get sun burned
selvfølgelig can easly be spoken with all the letters, if you learn correct Danish.
See - this is also our problem, y'all can't understand each other haha :)
i think you dont give yourself enough credit having watched vids from all the way back 2016-17 you both look like Danish food and lifestyle did good to you and alot of Danish words and sayings you say is not bad atlall like mikes " rød grød med fløde " you are doing great : Thumbs up from here :)
To be fair, the Dutch and Danish are quite similar, like we both love Bikes, we are both small Countries that are very flat.
Dutch and Danish are of course very different languages, but they sound similar. Was a the KLM airport few years ago, and when you don't listen closely, the background talking actually sounds a lot like Danish. But when you actually listen, there isn't much in common.
Danes are also relatively tall, but we aren't as high... Weed isn't as accepted here :D.
The Netherlands is also a wealthy country and, afaik, shares similar welfare/social benefits as the Nordic/Scandinavien countries are known for.
Cheers!
As I say "Danish is the French of Scandinavia" we don't use half the letters and those we use we don't pronouce of those, the vowels is just a mess and nothing is pronouced the way it's written
we are in mentality more like Italians in Northern Europe. our faith in authority is minimal, we are happy to take orders if they make sense, and in my Jutland, yes, the VAT still has a problem in making sense,
BIG PROBLEM WITH MAKING SENSE,
The state is not here so much that it matters. therefore we contribute based on attendance.
Taken! I'm totally guilty of misunderstanding the NY on those caps...
😅 That first one is Honey Boo Boos mama.
You seem to have the Å pretty much under control. 👍
The angel A.
Not sure if this is ever told.. but im curious.. why Robe Trotting? play in Globe Trotting? but whats the meaning
We would probably just use our first names if we started our channel from scratch - BUT it was a joke on the expression "globe trotting" and the idea that people think you're just a globe trotter if you live abroad but you're just sitting around in your bathrobe like everyone else - only in a new country haha.
I discovered an even better tongue twister than "rødgrød med fløde" -"røget ørred." People just look at you wrong, and don't even try.
I know someone knows about baseball if they wear a Cubs hat
right! haha
I don't know about that Copenhagener one... Maybe because I don't live in Downtown Copenhagen but in an outer suburb (if you ask people from other places in Denmark).
Lol. These are super fun. The not pronouncing every letter I think depends, what part of the country you’re from.
no, there are in deed a lot of silenced letters.
What in english is: What, where, who.. (A silenced h)
Is in danish: Hvad, hvor, hvem.
A silenced H and a V spoken as W.
But there are more silenced letters like d,g,h.
Danish words dont use w, q, z, x.
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In Danish, we pronounce words as they are spelled. In English they skip a lot of letters. That the word "niece", for example. It is spelled the same. It means the same. But in Danish, we pronounce it as it is spelled. In English it is pronounced "nis". The e's are just ignored.
Haha, you kind of contradict yourself in this comment.
The best example of "not said letters" in english, is the english word for "Kø" = Queue. They could just spell it Q and it would be the same result. 🙂
@@RobeTrotting I don't see a contradiction.
Where you should put your tongue, huh?....ahem.
On a serious note, I live in 'Clemson country' which means I see a lot of orange and purple in the stores and in public. At first I didn't understand why. I mean, who would seriously wear orange and purple??
To this day, I don't own any orange/purple attire, I bet I never will.
My hats are all from parks or museums, I don't even have a Dollywood hat... ( I do school trips to various places in the East and South, like Atlanta, Charleston, Washington DC, and so on).
All these memes are spot on! But English ( even American English) has its own peculiarities...
The soft "d" is exactly like "th" in "the".
If you want to pronounce the soft "d" in Odense, think "O-th-ense"
Et and en is properly super frustrating for foreigners
Card is king in DK - and I've finally learned that it isn't in Germany.
its a flyverdragt - like the pilots use and pilots are cool...
If permanent ice counts as land, then Canada and Denmark also border Russia somewhere near the North Pole.
5:35 we know when you are pretending, its very clear to us ;)
Baseball is not a game that is played in Denmark or in the rest of the Nordic countries for that matter. On the other hand, Americans are totally clueless when we talk about team handball, which is the second most important sport in Denmark after football…our football ⚽️ that is.
U a Sabres fan??? thought they didn’t have any...... Great videos You guys make so precise about us ( bøvede) Danes....for better and for worse👍👍
We use hats and so on as Fashion not a statement =)
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 i kind of look like that that when I try to teach children danish, because you have to show them VERY CLEARLY how to use the mouth or where to put the tongue 😂😂😂
I have a question to you guys. Don’t Americans know that we are not Denmark people and we don’t speak Denmark ???? I’ve heard that so the times and I just wonder if ( United States of America people 😂😂) don’t know that ? They know that the French people are French and speak French and Italian people are Italian and speak Italian. But when it comes to almost the rest of Europe I’ve heard the weirdest things 😂😂
Do people really ask you to say rødgrød med fløde? I thought that question died with the 80's
Actually, yes haha. Tbh, it’s really common from people on here or TikTok - and we’re like “bruh, I just made a 20 minute video 😂 no”
which is why I NEVER wear a baseball cap.. I wear a trucker cap! Mesh for the win!
And it can keep you cooler haha
Yes! I love my Kenworth trucker cap. Besides the comfiness. Noone else i dk has one like (haven't seen one yet), so I can feel oh so special *S*
I always thought the Ø sound was fairly similar to the way you'd pronounce "earth", for instance.
Like, if you can pronounce "earth", then you should be able to pronounce "rød", right? :P
You would be understood, but ø sounds different. When saying the ø-sound in "earth" I almost feel out of breath. Hard to explain, but the Danish ø is a more natural and simple sound. It is a shorter and more distinct sound. Can't explain it, but the placement of the tongue is also a little different. It is not a bad way to explain the sound to foreigners, I think :)
Fun fact: "ø" is also a word in Danish. It means "island"
@@fastertove I know. I am, in fact, Danish. :D
I leved in south afrika 3 years the african from dutch english has alot of danish words in it even as lækker ther just spel it lekker but bronouice it like Lækker and it means the same!
Nå is a Very handy word
I keep my sunglasses in the car
Technically Greenland and kingdom of Denmark got a tiny bit bigger