My Danish has improved, thanks to weekly private lessons in my apartment from my tutor, Eva Olsen. The official language of the 5 million residents of Denmark is Danish, and speaking, reading, and writing Danish is not enormously difficult. What's hard is understanding what the hell people are saying. Danes stay true to Scandinavian minimalism by pronouncing only a portion of each word. For example, "What is your name?" or "Hvad hedder du?" is pronounced "Ve' he' du'?"For the first year, I understood no one but professionals paid to ennunciate - mostly TV newsreaders and hand puppets.
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