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For all who decided to visit Mathias and like to talk with him. Here´s your first Danish lesson!

Still very important:

Jeg elsker dig! I :heart: you !

Introduction to the Danish language

Introduktion til det danske sprog

Danish, the official language of Denmark, is spoken by over 5 million people. It is a germanic tongue, which means it is closely related to English and German. It becomes obvious when one gets to know some Danish vocabulary, eg. come (Eng.) = komme (Dan.) = kommen (Ger.), bring (Eng.) = bringe (Dan.) = bringen (Ger.). As a nordic language, it is very similar to Swedish and Norwegian. The knowledge of any of the above mentioned languages is a big help in learning Danish, and in the case of the two latter mutual understanding without prior learning is often possible.

The Danish alphabet differs slightly from the Latin one. There are three additional letters (found at the end of alphabet -- remember about it browsing a dictionary or a phone directory!) They are

Æ æ as in "forældre" (parents) -- a ligature of "a" and "e".

Indicates a monophtong (a single vowel).

Ø ø as in "rød" (red) -- a "crossed o".

Å å as in "et år" (a year) -- an "a with a ring above it." Before the spelling reform in 1948 the sound was written as "aa". Such spelling is preserved in some names, eg. Aalborg = Ålborg

The Danish grammar is not difficult, especially for a speaker of a Germanic language, who is already familiar with the concept of articles, sequence of tences, etc. The most difficult thing about the language is its pronunciation.

Pronunciation

Vowels

A: as in 'father'

E: a short, flat 'e' as in 'met'

E(g): as the 'i' in 'high'

I: a short, flat 'e' as in 'met'; as the 'i' in 'marine'

O: a short 'o' as in 'pot'; as the 'a' in 'walk'; as the 'oo' in 'zoo'

O®: as in 'or' but with little emphasis on the 'r'

O(v): as the 'ow' in 'vow', but shorter

U: as in 'pull'; as the 'oo in 'zoo'

U(n): as the 'a' in 'walk'

Y: a long, sharp 'u' ? purse your lips and say 'ee'

Consonants

B: as in 'box'

C: as in 'cell'

Ch: as in 'cheque', but sharper

(o)d: as the 'th' in 'these'

g: before vowels, a hard 'g' as in 'get'

h: as in 'horse'

j: as the 'y' in 'yet'

k: as in 'kit'

ng: as in 'sing'

r: a rolling 'r' abruptly cut short

sj: as the 'sh in 'ship

w: as the 'v' in 'Volkswagen'

Greetings

Hello: Goddag/Hej (pol/inf)

Goodbye: Farvel

Yes: Ja

No: Nej

Thank you: Tak

Excuse me: Undskyld

May I/Do you mind?: Ma jeg/Tillader De?

Small Talk

What's your name?: Hvad hedder du?

My name is ...: Jeg hedder ...

Where are you from?: Hvorfra kommer du?

I'm from ...: Jeg kommer fra ...

How old are you?: Hvor gammel er du?

Times & Dates

What time is it?: Hvad er klokken?

It's ? o'clock.: Klokken er ?

Today: i dag

Tomorrow: i morgen

Day after tomorrow: i overmorgen

In the morning: om morgenen

In the afternoon: om eftermiddagen

In the evening: om aftenen

Early: tidlig

Numbers

Zero: nul

One: en

Two: to

Three: tre

Four: fire

Five: fem

Six: seks

Seven: syv

Eight: otte

Nine: ni

Ten: ti

Food & Drink

Breakfast: morgenmad

Lunch: frokost

Dinner: middag

Menu: spisekort

Daily special: dagens ret

Curry: karry

Soup: suppe

Meat: kod

Lamb: lamme

Beef: oksekod

Chicken: hons

Turkey: kalkun

Fish: fisk

Tuna: tunfisk

Salmon: laks

Cucumber: agurk

Mushroom: champignon

Vegetables: grontsager

Carrots: gulerodder

Garlic: hvidlog

Potatoe: kartoffel

Onion: log

Corn: majs

Olive: oliven

Apricot: abrikos

Pineapple: ananas

Orange: appelsin

Banana: banan

Lemon: citron

Fruit: frugt

Cream: flode

Cheese: ost

Butter: smor

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According to Dansk daily there will be a editoral of 40 pages of Mathias in the ( next) another man - magazine!!!!!!!!!

There was never such a big editoral in that magazine of a male model before.

They sell the magazine at the central station here in Munich !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I knew Mathias is someone very special when I saw a picture of him for the first time :heart: :heart: :heart:

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Omg, is it just me or is Danish harder than German???? Please tell me they don't have 3 genders for their nouns and also those superbly annoying DIFFERENT endings for the definite and indefinite articles, and also for Nom, Akk, Dat and Gen endings...

Lol, but I still love German!

Ahahah Munichmarty, we should get learning!! :hug:

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wow!!!40 pages...!!!!!!!! can't wait to see that!!! :woot:

so the name of the magazine is called "Another Man" ??

i don't know if it's sold in taiwan... :o but i'll try my best to find it!!!

when is this magazine be published??? 8/30 or 9/1 ??? :idk:

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For all who decided to visit Mathias and like to talk with him. Here´s your first Danish lesson!

Man, there's no way I'm gonna get this stuff--Germanic languages and Falconer don't go well at all.... :wacko: Am I ever glad he speaks English!! ;) Otherwise...it would have to be sign language between us should we ever meet!! :laugh:

Thanks for the info Munichmarty and Faith!!! Seems like I'm going to be buying my first ever fashion magazine...!! :clap:

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About AnOther Man Magazine Issue 7-

the last magazine was published about 13 March , so the new one will be about published middle of September .

But I will ask at Munich central station .

But I hope Faith will get her magazine first, scan all 40 pages and post it on modelhomme or on " Oh Danish Boy" :D .

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