Why is Danish so Hard

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[peterg]

The language videos are interesting, you should make more of these.

[kennethvalbjoern]

I'm a dane, and I don't agree with your talk about the danish language dying. I'm 50 years old and danish children speak exactly the same language as I do. And I speak almost like my granmother born in 1911. Only the common dialect changes slightly over time, but that's probably true for all languages. Of course we borrow english words like google and other tech language, **** and other stuff. I think the danish language will survive for many years to come.

[andreasbekker]

Especially we young Danes are butchering the words, making them shorter or sometimes not even pronouncing parts of the word that are meant to be pronounced. An example could be "ikke engang" which means "not even" in the context of "I'm not even hungry". Nowadays it's mostly pronounced as "Inggang"

[erichamilton]

Be careful when saying a language's grammar is easy, the difficulty is sort of hidden in other areas.

[declanburns]

i love these languge videos you should make more.

[julianneheindorf]

Danish is not dying. That sounds like wishful thinking on your part. All languages change and evolve over time. Today we don’t sound the way we did in the 1940s or the 1970s. While it us true that some English words have found their way into the Danish language such as the word email, there are other instances of people just taking a random English word and mixing it in with the Danish they are speaking. This is not okay or acceptable.

[Elendrria]

Hey. I am from germany and learning danish recently. Danish isn't dying at all. It is just developing in the way it is pronounced. Using many english words in daily converstation happens her in german as well and it is everything else but dying ;). Ppl tend to pull words together and speaking faster. Sometimes it makes it hard to understand, but once you get used to it, it isn't a big deal. It's like dialects. They remain the same language but you probabaly having a hard time understanding it. Or do you understand dialekt śląski fully? ;)

[ullazitabinder]

I'm a Dane, and I don't agree with your talk about Danish having fewer tenses than English. The tenses exist in Danish, but several of them are not used, because they are complicated, and Danes like "easy". Our language is dying, yes. I'm in my fifties, and I use words, that the youth has never even heard. Danish is getting poor in native words, which is sad, since the language actually have some beautiful words - they are just not being used anymore, instead we adopt words from other languages. At the same time we have words with several meanings, like a word can mean 3 different things, depending on the context - one of the reasons, Danish can be hard to learn, I suppose.

[jeremycline]

I'm fascinated by the fact that Danish is considered so hard based on the pronunciation alone. I study a little bit of Danish for fun and I can confirm that the spelling vs/ pronunciation is mind-blowing sometimes. Having said that, as difficult as it is, English spelling is more difficult with far more exceptions and identifiable patterns. Even though Danish pronunc. seems torturous, it is very, very regular once you get used to it.

[erichamilton]

Probably English is being used so much because it is considered: cooler, better, superior, more elegant, more worthy, more logical, etc... This has to do with people in these countries choosing English. It has nothing to do with English language or Americans or Brits. It is a product of psycho-sociological factors in Denmark in this case.

[MaoRatto]

To me, Danish ironically sounds pretty clear? It's strange to be able to notice the vowels. It's probably due to the fact I live in a location where Standard American, but Appalachian to where basically. "Hiccough vowels " happen before a gerund verb. A'going, A schwa + hiccough. Also the consonants when speaking fast with a clash of Southern Influence leads to a mess of losing last consonants or the piece of paper of " what's an e and i? ". I can say yes we keep older vocabulary, irish influence, but the hilarious part is it's probably why I can hear and notice the glotal stops clearly and difference in words like hound and her,

[Garfield_Minecraft]

Dog love I
Grammatical correct..
2:01 pronounciation?
That’s pronunciation bro! Lol i think not just danish

[PingvinAnd]

7:35 i really hate this mem, the german word for 97 translate to 7 and 90 (siebenundneunzig), the danish translation is also 7 and 90 (syvoghalvfems) the same for every number that exists, the last pre komma number is pronounced until 100 where the hundred part is pronounced first (lets take 172, einhundertnundzweiundsiebzig (not wrong to say hundertundzweiundsiebzig) and

[d-_-b...]

I never learned danish so i do not know is your video true

[mikoql]

duński język jest kurde podobny do niemieckiego

[Tripperchris]

Actually, Danish grammar is very difficult; even more difficult than English or German.

[Eirikursson]

There are a lot of points to mention in this video... You say that Danish is dying because of English loan-words and vowels? What is your prediction then? That Danish will eventually be replaced with English because of Many vowels? Is that a serious point?

Danish numerals are effectively like the German system. Etymologically, though, it's based on halves and twenties from the numbers 50 and up - all Scandinavian languages actually have a common base for the numbers 10 to 40. The etymological root for Danish numerals is something that very few Danish speaking people are aware of, and no one uses it productively, and it's forever obscured in the fogs of history. You'd almost say that the Swedish and Danish numeral system is just reversed. Swedes say tre-ti-fem (3, 10, 5) for 35, Danes say fem-og-tredive (5 and 30), but the word for 30 is just like the word for chair, bed or roof - there isn't really any connection with the word for either 10 or 3.