Jeg hedder Mark og jeg er New Zealænder!
Yesterday I started Danish lessons over here - it seemed to go well, and I can now count to ten (and sort of count to twenty, except I keep on fogetting half the numbers on the way), as well as have a very basic conversation (my name is, what's your name, where do you come from, I'm from NZ and I speak english and some other languages etc etc Do you speak english? Good, lets speak english instead of danish.... :-)
One of the cool things I like about danish is that there appears to be no verb conjugation ie in english you say, I am, you are, she is, we are etc. But in danish it's all the same word: Jeg er, du er, hun er, vi er etc etc. For anyone who has spent ages banging their head against that wall, I'm sure you'd be excited about that as I am!! The problem though are the vowel sounds - nine vowels, and they all sound the same. Its rough. That might take a while to figure out...
About half way through we had a break for ten minutes, and I went down to the shop to get something to drink - I was very excited to actually be able to understand how much the drink I brought cost!! Yah. I'm actually learning something!!!!
posted from
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Hey Mark,
Cool website design. Might point out that actually in English too - most verbs are only simply conjugated. I run, you run, he runs, we run, you run, they run. The verb "to be" is one of the few highly irregular verbs in English. Japanese on the other hand is even easier! No personal pronouns to worry about - basically you just say "run" and add something to indicate whether its past or present tense.
/language nerd
Matthew Bailey.
mbailey@gmail.com
Come on bro you should remember your 3rd + 4th form German. Danish is a derivative or realative of German aint it?
Should be easy for you to pick up.
LOL
Owen
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