Assuming you didn't know danish before the move, how hard was it to learn the language? I'm especially curious about understanding the language when spoken. As I speak swedish (and live in Sweden), I understand written danish quite well as the languages are quite similar, but when spoken I find it close to impossible to understand.
Since both Danish and English are Germanic languages, reading came a lot faster than speaking of course.
The first year I found myself asking my vendors to just write me on email because it was so hard to understand over phone.
Now that I've become used to Danish, I find it easier to understand than Norwegian. Norwegian (Bokmål) is extremely simlar to Danish except a few grammatical changes and word differences. However, it's been hard to take the potato out of my mouth and speak like a Norwegian!
It's hard to say, but I probably would have felt the reverse had I moved to Norway before Denmark. Perhaps Sweden will be the next on my list :D
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Assuming you didn't know danish before the move, how hard was it to learn the language? I'm especially curious about understanding the language when spoken. As I speak swedish (and live in Sweden), I understand written danish quite well as the languages are quite similar, but when spoken I find it close to impossible to understand.
Since both Danish and English are Germanic languages, reading came a lot faster than speaking of course.
The first year I found myself asking my vendors to just write me on email because it was so hard to understand over phone.
Now that I've become used to Danish, I find it easier to understand than Norwegian. Norwegian (Bokmål) is extremely simlar to Danish except a few grammatical changes and word differences. However, it's been hard to take the potato out of my mouth and speak like a Norwegian!
It's hard to say, but I probably would have felt the reverse had I moved to Norway before Denmark. Perhaps Sweden will be the next on my list :D