i mean... why would a dane in his right mind visit you?! and why would you have danes visiting?! are you insane?!
Probably a student exchange program, with some kinda twin town.
It's pretty common. My town has a twinning agreement with a german town the same of our size.
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Post by: Sniger on October 12, 2013, 11:35:25 am
yeah ive heard about those... but...
WHY?!
Title: Re: danish people are coming to my school
Post by: Christo on October 12, 2013, 11:37:00 am
Because reasons
Title: Re: danish people are coming to my school
Post by: Tibe on October 12, 2013, 11:39:38 am
I kinda like the sound of danish. I intent on learning it some day. Althou im pretty sure its quite similar to this: visitors can't see pics , please register or login
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Post by: Sniger on October 12, 2013, 11:40:04 am
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Title: Re: danish people are coming to my school
Post by: zagibu on October 12, 2013, 05:51:47 pm
I kinda like the sound of danish. I intent on learning it some day. Althou im pretty sure its quite similar to this: visitors can't see pics , please register or login
Not at all. It is very different. Icelandic is pretty unique.
Title: Re: danish people are coming to my school
Post by: Sniger on October 13, 2013, 01:16:31 pm
yes and no. i understand crude icelandic (dunno why) and most icelanders have np understanding danish. it seems that danes have harder time understansding the icelanders.
but i think its funny cus in my ears the languages is far from similar like swe/nor/danish... still majority is able to understand one another... facinating :)
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Post by: Prinz_Karl on October 13, 2013, 03:17:33 pm
You understand icelandic a bit because it's a germanic language like Dansk, Norwegian or Swedish and german.
It's pretty fun to read danish texts for me as german. When I was young I never thought I would be able to understand it but seeing now all the similarities I can deduce the the most of it and I could learn it very quick.
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Post by: Angantyr on October 13, 2013, 04:14:13 pm
yes and no. i understand crude icelandic (dunno why) and most icelanders have np understanding danish. it seems that danes have harder time understansding the icelanders.
In Iceland Danish is the second language and still mandatory in the high school curriculum, and Icelandic is more or less unchanged from Old Norse, and therefore the root of much of the modern Danish, Swedish and Norwegian languages.
Title: Re: danish people are coming to my school
Post by: zagibu on October 13, 2013, 05:27:15 pm
Hmm, I stand corrected then. Didn't realise it has the same parent as Norwegian and the same grand-parent as both Danish and Swedish, but it makes sense, I guess.
Title: Re: danish people are coming to my school
Post by: Tibe on October 13, 2013, 07:49:29 pm
Damn, I acctually learned something today.
Title: Re: danish people are coming to my school
Post by: Angantyr on October 15, 2013, 01:28:48 pm
Proto-Germanic - Proto-Norse (earliest North Germanic language) - Old Norse/Norrønt - Old West Norse - Old Icelandic/Old Norwegian - Icelandic, Middle Norwegian - Modern Norwegian - Old East Norse - Old Danish, Old Swedish - Middle Danish, Middle Swedish - Modern Danish, Modern Swedish
A variant of old Norse was also called 'Danish tongue' by contemporary saga chroniclers, supposedly a pan-Scandinavian lingua franca.