How Similar Are German and Danish? 

The only thing making learning danish even marginally possible for me is that I speak German. I don’t know how anyone could learn danish without speaking a Germanic language from birth. Mad respect to those people

As an Englishman who lived and studied in Germany for 11 years and has also a longstanding interest in Denmark. This has given me the insight I needed! My next goal is to learn Danish!! Thank you!

As an English and German speaker, this video was fantastic for me! In the beginning of the video when you were switching back and forth between Danish and German, I could almost understand all of the Danish without having to translate it in my brain. Hearing it back to back with German like that really worked for me. I'm part Danish and want to learn Danish as well. I think I'll do okay, especially with vocabulary. I also speak some Norwegian. I'll focus on pronunciation differences between the three languages, Thank you! 👍

im actually friends with a danish guy and its very impressive to see and hear how he doesnt even sound danish when speaking english but i cant get rid of my german accent regardless of how hard i try or have spoken english in my past years

I just discovered your channel. Excellent content! Thank you!

I love your videos. They give me new insights and easy to understand. Keep up the good work! 👍🏼👍🏼

Amazing amazing absolutely fantastic and brilliant video!! thank you!!

Sehr interessantes Video! Danke, Mic!

I watched that video. I thought they were very good. I watch your videos over and over again. Thanks for making them

Mange tak Mic. Det var en rigtig god video! Danke Mic. Das war ein richtig gutes und informatives Video. Bisher eins deiner besten, wie ich finde!

Your analytical explanation of the differences in these three languages is very interesting. I appreciate your concise explanation of complex subject matter.

top notch video, super interesting! one minor note though: at 8:38 you say that English, like Danish, uses the past tense where the subjunctive would be used in German. this is kind of true, but “to be” is actually conjugated as “were” regardless of who is addressed when using the subjunctive! for example one might say “if i *were* him, i’d get a new car”; i’d argue that this is a different form than just the past tense. mange tak fordi du laver de her videoer Mic, det virkelig skønt at se folk der bidrager til verden sådan her :))

Fantastic video again Mic, thank you, mange tak :) I miss your Hummel [official DBU] t-shirt a bit :)

Excelent expalanations Mic. Love it!

Great video, I live in Brazil and did study Icelandic and i find danish a lot more difficult (can’t notice all those different sounds). You’re channel made it a lot more clear for us to understand.

Hej Mic, mange tak for at sprede viden om det danske sprog på nettet. God dag fra Danmark!

Finally I get to hear this explanation in English, my brain almost crashed after hearing so much German on the Ecolinguist video because my German level is pretty low (I’m Mexican)

Fede videoer Mic. Dine videoer på ecolinguist er super seje. Gid der var mere af sådan noget.

Valeu mic !👍😎

Thank you for the video! Seeing some common ground with german gave me a lot of insights (and hope!), as most danish materials I see are for english speakers. And certain things simply make no sense when comparing danish to english.

I love Danish language. Which textbook do you recommend? I can fully understand the texts but i don't know how to pronounce the words in a native way.

Excelente video y excelente que puedas hablar español. Mange tak!

I'm just curious, are you a Danish-German dual citizen?

Great video 👍🏻 Just a quick reminder, though, that there are more than just two future tenses in English 😉

Jeg er flyttet til Danmark for 5 måneder siden fra Tyskland, så mange tak!

German is a west germanic language. Danish falls into the North germanic sector. That alone tells that there is quite a big difference, even tho there are several similar words and even same ones to say so

Kleine Korrektur (10:50): "sein" ist der männliche Possessivbegleiter und steht mit dem besessenen Substantiv zusammen. Die Form "3. Pers. Sing. mask. Genitiv" des Personalpronomens wäre "seiner" wie in "Wir gedenken seiner" (ggü. modernerem "Wir gedenken ihm"), wo das Pronomen ein im Deutschen seltenes Genitivobjekt darstellt (vgl. Bsp. mit Substantiven als Genitivobjekt: "jemanden einer Straftat (GEN) bezichtigen", "sich einer Sache (GEN) bemächtigen"…). Du hast vermutlich "sein" und "seiner" miteinander verwechselt, weil Possessionen und Zugehörigkeiten im Deutschen typischerweise mit dem Genitiv ausgedrückt werden, wobei dieser zumindest in der Umgangssprache mehr und mehr durch Konstruktionen mit "von" + Dativ abgelöst wird. LG

Interesting video! I’m glad I learned what “sounds right” in German because noun declensions and weak and strong adjective endings are very difficult to learn. I have no explanation for it, but English speakers would be much more likely to say “I don’t think he has ever eaten directly from the table.” as opposed to negating the eating part of the sentence.

Thanks, Mic. What I like about Denmark, besides that everyone is happy to speak English with a smile, is that, having grown up with both German and English, there are so many Danish words that are easy to figure out.

I grew up in Austria and now I wanna go to Denmark to study there, but for me learning danish is very difficult. I had no difficulties learning Spanish or Korean for example, but for some reason, I got some difficulties with danish (which is closest to my two fluent languages (English & German))

Hi, im from The Netherlands and i must say that Danish sounds a lot like Frisian with a combination between German and English. Im learning Danish for 2 months now and must say that reading with understanding is easy till now, but to be spoken to...... i have to say if someone can talk a bit slower.

Mange tak fra Tyskland.

Seems that Dutch has more similarities with German than Danish is

- Bitte ich will finden ein wörterbuch oder ein Grammatik in Danish in Brasilien . Wo ich es können kaufen ?

How did I guess your fist cognate was going to be “arbejde”? That’s the first word I recognized as the same when I first started learning Danish after 2 years of German in high school….a LONG time ago.

Fantastic video Mic. Thanks for the illuminating comparison of these related languages. Also huge respect for using the British Union Jack to denote the English language rather than an American flag like many other channels do (bizarrely)! 😄 Would love to see more of this content!

4:39 in Low Saxon(AKA Low German): ik eet du ittst he, se, dat itt wi eet ji eet se eet

- Bitte ich will finden ein wörterbuch oder eine Grammatik in Danish in Brasilien . Wo ich können kaufen ? Sie haben du eine Netzwerkseite zu geben Beispiel !!! - Vielen Dank für ihre Zeit ...

Die Verwandtschaft zwischen Dänisch, Deutsch und Englisch ist echt faszinierend. Aber Huhn ist der neutrale Oberbegriff für männlich Hahn und weiblich Henne. Wobei es als Eselsbrücke für han und hun trotzdem hilfreich zu sein scheint :) Immerhin Henne wie hende ;)

- Bitte ich will finden ein wörterbuch oder eine Grammatik in Danish in Brasilien . Wo ich können kaufen ? Sie haben du eine Netzwerkseite zu geben Beispiel !!! - Es ist schwer zu finden Danish hier ? - Vielen Dank für ihre Zeit ...

as a Romanian who learned Swedish and German I found the two languages more similar than I expected

"he shall be" in English as well.

Well, thanks to linguist Rasmus Rask (born Rasch 😅), Danish isn’t nowadays considered a German dialect… until not so long time ago, all nouns were written with capital letters… and Å, å is the newest letter in the Danish alphabet. It was AA, aa until World War II ended… 🥸

21:05 I think you forgot "hiccough" 😂

Danish and English: Hard pronuciation, Easy grammar German: Hard grammar, Easy pronunciation Bonus: English: Relatively hard to remember vocabulary

isn't han and hun the declined versions in accusative from he(r) and hie?

Came from Ecolinguist 👀👀

English used to use "shall" for the first person singular and plural compound future, while "will" indicated desire. e.g. I shall go vs I will go. This has all but disappeared in the last century in the English-speaking world. From the wiki: Shall and will are two of the English modal verbs. They have various uses, including the expression of propositions about the future, in what is usually referred to as the future tense of English. Historically, prescriptive grammar stated that, when expressing pure futurity (without any additional meaning such as desire or command), shall was to be used when the subject was in the first person, and will in other cases (e.g., "On Sunday, we shall go to church, and the preacher will read the Bible.") This rule is no longer commonly adhered to by any group of English speakers, and will has essentially replaced shall in nearly all contexts. Shall is, however, still widely used in bureaucratic documents, especially documents written by lawyers. Owing to heavy misuse, its meaning can be ambiguous and the United States government's Plain Language group advises writers not to use the word at all. Other legal drafting experts, including Plain Language advocates, argue that while shall can be ambiguous in statutes (which most of the cited litigation on the word's interpretation involves), court rules, and consumer contracts, that reasoning does not apply to the language of business contracts.These experts recommend using shall but only to impose an obligation on a contractual party that is the subject of the sentence, i.e., to convey the meaning "hereby has a duty to."

So I'm Dutch, learned English, German and French. And now I'm going to move to Denmark. I thought it would be not too difficult, reading Danish. But the pronunciation is so different! In Dutch we basically pronounce every letter. Danish seem to swallow half. Although in east Netherlands they do that too! And I wanted to add a funny thing about 'er' . In Dutch this means there. Sometimes speaking several languages gets confusing

…el dánes 🇩🇰 es el francés 🇫🇷 de las lenguas germánicas. 🤔

I love the Danes. They have a cool language, and they are so nice. They are very attractive people too. This guy is quite attractive too.

Hej Mic! Endnu en udmærket video! Tusind tak! Jeg interesserer mig for både dansk og tysk. Faktisk er tysk mit første fremmede sprog. Ja, det er ingen tvivl om, at hvis du kan tysk så er det nemmere at lære tysk og omvendt. Dog tysk grammatik er generelt sværere end dansk grammatik, efter min mening./ Hallo Mic! Noch ein ausgezeichnetes Video. Vielen Dank! Ich interessiere mich sowohl für Dänisch als auch für Deutsch. Eigentlich ist Deutsch meine erste Fremdsprache. Es steht völlig außer Zweifel: wenn man Deutsch kennt, so ist es leichter, Dänisch zu lernen und umgekehrt. Doch meiner Meinung nach ist die deutsche Grammatik ist im Allgemeinen schwieriger als die dänische Grammatik. Übrigens: hier sind die Linke zu meinem neuesten Video auf Deutsch (in 2 Teilen). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-psFWp28zpqQ.html (Geografische und statistische Überraschungen - Teil ), ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ThWNY_vQHXQ.html (Geografische und statistische Überraschungen Teil 2) Venlig hilsen fra Storbritannien/ Viele Grüße aus Großbritannien :-)

your English accent is a mix between Danish and German.

Tak fra en amerikaner, der taler svensk, tysk og lidt dansk (jeg boede i Malmø og tilbragte et par måneder i København). Ein sehr deutlicher Vergleich zwischen den drei Sprachen.

Faktisk hjalp dansk mig med tysk ! Men dansk er selvfølgelig lettere for mig... Also, there used to be capitalisation in Danish, no? I have seen old books with it.

2:56 So, you should risk your life to be married?

Ich bin ja so froh, daß ich als Kind nach Flensburg zog, und damit auch in die Schule ging (dänische), og tænk, at skulle lære tysk grammatik som voksen. Men det gjorde du vist… sejt. Liebe Grüße aus Dänemark

Beim Thema gendern bewegt sich ja grade einiges in Deutschland, wäre vielleicht mal ein extra Video wert. På dansk kan man ikke sige generelt, at der ikke findes feminine og maskuline former, feks. sanger og sangerinde. Er det ikke mere en vane kun at bruge den maskuline form?

Danish has such a cool orthography, and seems simpler than German ... but I wish it was pronounced more like German! i.e. consants pronounced and the words spoken as they are written.

I hear no difference between o and å at all!

As a guy who's learning Norwegian, I don't see any difference between Danish and Norwegian... Except when it comes to pronunciation 😂

My guess was German mixed with british

Poor brits so much french(latin) these last years (about 1000 of 'em) 😞

I thought Danish is one of the Scandinavian languages

- Jeg Ved ikke, godt hvis du forstår men ... Hvis jeg vil studere Dansk ... så har du et for eksempel, venligste vedste en bog ? - Hvis du forstår, så svar tak ...👍.

Jeg taler engelsk som mit modersmål, men jeg har studerer dansk (og lidt tysk) for nogle år.... og jeg helt synes at dansk ligner meget mere til engelsk end tysk.

Danish is really bizarre 😅

I hope you weren't at that mall!

The muppets cook was danish, what wonderfull. But as german we never found out what smörrebröd really is. Maybe something a cake of surströmming and flavour. Who knows. What leeds us tu indugermanic lang wätsches! Very complicated. Even Mark Twain desperated. Ich sach ma so, wenn ihr mit Shakespeare durch seid. Seid ihr Sprachproof in germanischen Sprachen. Whalla, bassd scho. Voila. Jede Sprache hat ihren Witz und ihre Geschichte. Ich habe mich als hässlicher Mensch in keltische Sprachen eingegraben, nie habe ich mehr gelacht.

Die dänische Sprache hört sich immer total abgehackt an. Als würden sie manche Wörter verschlucken.