danish people are coming to my school

[Clockworkkiller]

yea

[Sir_Hans]

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[Berserkadin]

Good luck understanding anything they say.

[Sniger]

why?!

[Sniger]

i mean... why would a dane in his right mind visit you?! and why would you have danes visiting?! are you insane?!

[Christo]

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.

[Sniger]

yeah ive heard about those... but...

WHY?!

[Christo]

Because reasons

[Tibe]

I kinda like the sound of danish. I intent on learning it some day. Althou im pretty sure its quite similar to this:
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[Sniger]

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[zagibu]

I kinda like the sound of danish. I intent on learning it some day. Althou im pretty sure its quite similar to this:
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Not at all. It is very different. Icelandic is pretty unique.

[Sniger]

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

[Prinz_Karl]

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.

[Angantyr]

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.

[zagibu]

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.