While ambitious urban planners try to make 15-minute cities a reality, the Nordhavn district of Copenhagen has gone one better. What’s life like when everything you need is just a stroll away?
And you get invited to free Danish school to learn. Lots of opportunities to learn Danish here, and as a native English (only) speaker it’s not too hard a language to do OK at.
But for sure you can do your day to day in English no problem if your job was in English
Foreigners here often say that they face a hard time learning Danish, because as soon as the Danes pick up that they are not fluent, they switch to speaking English.
For sure. Lots of jokes about that and it’s medium true. It depends where you are and what you’re doing but like socially it’s very welcoming to learn and teach
I think it’s hard because you don’t need to learn it to survive
I had the same trouble when I moved to Germany. Try to speak Deutsch, nein spreche English. The eastern states were kinder than the western ones. Weimar locals were such kind people compared to Bavarians.
You’d pick up about 3 words and thus never truly integrate. This is the trouble with foreign countries where literally everyone speaks near-perfect English.
That said, there’s only about 4 such countries. The Netherlands and Scandinavia, basically.
Denmark has lots of English speakers, you’d get by pretty well only knowing English and over time you’d pick up some Danish too
Literally everyone over the age of 10 speaks English, but if you’ll still need to understand Danish to actually live there.
And you get invited to free Danish school to learn. Lots of opportunities to learn Danish here, and as a native English (only) speaker it’s not too hard a language to do OK at.
But for sure you can do your day to day in English no problem if your job was in English
Foreigners here often say that they face a hard time learning Danish, because as soon as the Danes pick up that they are not fluent, they switch to speaking English.
For sure. Lots of jokes about that and it’s medium true. It depends where you are and what you’re doing but like socially it’s very welcoming to learn and teach
I think it’s hard because you don’t need to learn it to survive
I had the same trouble when I moved to Germany. Try to speak Deutsch, nein spreche English. The eastern states were kinder than the western ones. Weimar locals were such kind people compared to Bavarians.
You’d pick up about 3 words and thus never truly integrate. This is the trouble with foreign countries where literally everyone speaks near-perfect English.
That said, there’s only about 4 such countries. The Netherlands and Scandinavia, basically.
The linked video is a joke about how difficult it is to understand danish accents
Oh, fair enough. I wasn’t in a position where I could watch a fiver so I took the comment at face value