There are people down south who watch television?
Certainly still when I grew up. Born in 86.
There are people down south who watch television?
Growing up in Lund in Sweden, I used to watch Danish TV in order to be able to watch cartoons, more specifically Tom and Jerry. Swedish TV did not air that sort of Imperialistic Yankee pollution back in the 70s. It was a different time, that's for sure.I have no problem at all with Danish (and most people down south also watch both Swedish and Danish television in my experience which I am sure helps with that).
The thing is that when it comes to languages not only the Berlin or Copenhagen dialects are representative of the respective greater languages. Having travelled across both Germany and Denmark by train this summer, without having any prior experience in any of the languages, I was able to understand and get understood while speaking with Danes, but absolutely not when it came to Germans. This is anecdotal, but consistently Danish is closer than German to Swedish.If you cherry pick you can get the result you want... wow how unexpected... when is that not true?
The point is a randomly chosen German and a randomly chosen Dane the random german will speak hochdeutch and the random Dane will speak the copenhagen dialect. And then yes i very much find hochdeaitch easier. And there are dialects of german even easier than hoch deutsch.
Also switzerditch would have been much harder if a mates girlfriend didn't speak it.
We've gone through Denmark and Germany by car every summer of my childhood. I still don't understand any danish whatsoever. German... i'll admit it takes some getting used to but it's clear and it's logical. The words correspond very well 1:1 with swedish and most composite words correspond well 1:1 with their composite parts in both languages. German more or less sounds like really old fashioned Swedish.The thing is that when it comes to languages not only the Berlin or Copenhagen dialects are representative of the respective greater languages. Having travelled across both Germany and Denmark by train this summer, without having any prior experience in any of the languages, I was able to understand and get understood while speaking with Danes, but absolutely not when it came to Germans. This is anecdotal, but consistently Danish is closer than German to Swedish.
Once you get used to it you could learn any language of the Germanic family though, my point is without prior experience.We've gone through Denmark and Germany by car every summer of my childhood. I still don't understand any danish whatsoever. German... i'll admit it takes some getting used to but it's clear and it's logical.
Not danish, and I have tried. It's freaking impossible to understand. You just don't let them know that you're swedish and they'll talk english to you.Once you get used to it you could learn any language of the Germanic family though.