One issue for English speakers from the USA and UK is that we use a comma (,) between the sets of three digits in long numbers, where as in Denmark (and Germany) you use a period (.). So your example at 12:30 would be written 9,876,543,210 in the USA and UK, and we would write 123.898 where you would write 123,898 for a number with a decimal part.
Just saw your soft-d video. That "solves" gud, but leaves questions open about guld gul gulv. Also me and some friends have been endlessly debating tre træ
Great that it solves gud. What else do we need if God is solved? 🙄 tre and træ are the same to most Danes nowadays. gulv and guld are the same, except for the vowel sound, which is u in guld and å in gulv. Both vowels are short. gul has a long u vowel with stød. You can hear the words pronounced in den danske ordbog. Hope this solves the mysteries in your life 😉
Dansk language is so funny.when I write and read in the same time ,I just write back to front ,just write like I read ,for example 21 I write 1 and 2 =21 😢😅😅😅
Great video 👍🇩🇰 I have a question: I have a "52" in my phone number and every time I say "toogHALVtreds" people always understand "toogtres", as if I'm not clearly saying that "-halv-". Any suggestion ? It really discourage me from trying to speak Danish because every time it seems natives pretend not to hear I'm saying "HALVtreds" "HALVfjerds" and "HALVfems" 🥲
That's an interesting question. I'm not sure what causes this particular problem, apart from Danes not being good (or willing?) at understanding Danish that's not 100 percent native sounding. You can send me an audio file where you say your number in a relaxed, normal way, several times, and then send it to me and I'll take a look at it. Du har stadig min mail-adresse, ikke?
Mic, could you please make a video about the difference between danish vowels: a and æ, e and i, o and å, how to pronounce the name Lene and Lone. 😊 Thank you so much for your great lessons.🇺🇦❤👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Dank je! Ik heb noch niet geprobeert te schrijven ob Nederlands. Dit is de eerste maal. Ik ben zeker dat de text is heel verkeert! 😁 Godt at høre at du synes at videoen er nyttig :)
In English English one billion used to mean one million million - same as in Danish but these days it's been overtaken by the American billion, one thousand million.
Hi Mic, thanks for the video! Could you please do a video on Danish vowels? I have seen a few videos on youtube, but nobody really explains how to say pronounce them properly or when to use each vowel sound.
Hej! Thanks for the suggestion. As a matter of fact, I am keeping this topic as something that I can make into a paid online course at some point. Right now I am doing one-on-one online lessons, but in the future I want to move in the direction of online courses. I'm sorry, for now I won't make any videos on Danish vowels. But there is already a bit of information about them in some of my videos on pronunciation. Not comprehensive at all, though. The guy on the channel called Dansk Udtale is great, have you checked out his videos?
Thanks, that's nice of you to say. My plan is to make new videos more regularly. There are some things I have to get under control in my life before I can get more productive again on this channel. But I will be back!! 😁
I learned French in school and was wondering why the French had to make it so complicated when it comes to numbers. Then I started learning Danish and I thought hey French isn’t so bad.
Hi! I'm new to the channel and currently learning Danish, the biggest issue i've had recently is the differences between words/meanings like- hoj/hojt or stor/stort, would you care to explain that to me?
A thing that makes a language hard is exceptions, and especially exceptions to exceptions. Here is one I have witnessed: When we use fractions we can say en-en-halv, to-en-halv, tre-en-halv etc., but as an exception we usually say halvanden instead of en-en-halv. Then in a store, I head someone say the price to a customer: Et-hundrede-og-halvanden (101.50). You can't say that. That is an exception to the exception. Here you have to say et-hundrede-og-en-en-halv. That doesn't exactly make a language easy to learn.
You're right. Every language has exceptions, and probably every language also has exceptions to exceptions. That means there is more data to assimilate for our brains, which of course makes it more difficult to learn the language, because we can't just infer from other data in every case. This particular example of yours is interesting. I've never thought about this before. It would indeed be very strange if someone said hundrede (og) halvanden. I guess the rule is: halvanden can only be on its own, it cannot be combined with bigger numbers.
I just watched this video 3 days ago and let me say; it is EXCELLENT. The puppet dialogue examples are particularly helpful I can already count pretty well and state 3 - 5 digit numbers. I was saying numbers in the license plates while walking dogs around the neighborhood Then while driving by cars which required me to get a little faster. Main tough thing are linking some of the sounds, but I actually really like the numbering system. Maybe it’s because I have such an affinity for maths and so I really appreciate the use of a base-20 kind of way to count.
@@MicsLanguages I’ve gotten pretty dang good with numbers by now to the point where I can drive by cars(less time to see the plate) and read the 3 digit numbers. I wanted to ask: in Danish, do folks sometimes read a 3-digit number as a 1-digit followed by 2-digit number, or do they always use hundrede to state the hundreds? Ex: 256 as “to saksoghalvfems” rather than “to hundrede saksoghalvfems”
Watch out. You wrote you're good with the numbers now, so I suppose you made a typo. 256 is not to hundrede seksoghalvfems 🧐 Regarding your question, I'd say that we use both of these options, depending on the situation.
Hi. I still don't understand when to use "er" and when to use "har". For example. "Fire personer er blevet såret i et skyderi". Why is it wrong to say "fire personer HAR blevet såret"? While it is correct to say "Der HAR været mange mennesker på stedet." In Swedish we always use "har". Please help me!
Godt spørgsmål. Jeg forstår godt du er forvirret, for svensk bruger, som du selv siger, altid "har". Dansk bruger at være og at have når vi danner førnutid / perfektum. Der er nogle verber hvor man altid bruger have (det er de fleste verber), og der er nogle hvor man altid bruger være. At blive er et af de verber hvor vi altid bruger være. Så det er altid forkert at sige "har blevet" eller "havde blevet" . Derudover er der verber hvor vi bruger enten have eller være, alt efter situationen. Det drejer sig om bevægelsesverberne, for eksempel at gå, at køre, at løbe. Her bruger vi have, når der er et objekt. For eksempel: Jeg har kørt min mor til lufthavnen (min mor er objektet her). Men vi bruger normalt at være når der ikke er et objekt. Eksempel: - Hvor er Peter? - Han er allerede kørt. Men der er også situationer hvor vi bruger at have selvom det ikke er et objekt. For eksempel: Jeg har rejst meget i Sydamerika. Her fokuserer vi på handlingen. Hvis vi derimod fokuserer på "verdenssituationen", dvs. det faktum at personen er et andet sted end vedkommende var før, så bruger vi at være, som i dette eksempel: Peter er rejst til Thailand. Det var end kort indledning til emnet. Jeg håber at du nu forstår det bedre 😉
