Comments on: My top Flashcard apps to learn Danish

By: Béranger

Béranger — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 18:17:15 +0000

Hi Peter,
Thanks a lot for sharing your story and glad to see that Danish is spread worldwide 🙂
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Béranger

By: PETER RANDRUP

PETER RANDRUP — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 02:58:33 +0000

PETER RANDRUP part two of two

I have a lot of trouble remembering the “connecting” words like who, where, why, what, how, are, you, on, in, etc. To ask in Danish something like “Where are you going?” or “How do i get to the grocers?”, “What are we having for dinner? or “Can you tell me how you make Rød Grød Med Fløde?” the sentences start with where, how, what, can and I can never seem to remember them I decide if I made some flash cards for the words I could practice them untilI get them memorized. It’s worth a try, right?

Peter Randrup
Smithers BC Canada

PS The Rød Grød Med Fløde dessert I mentioned is a toughie to pronounce. The words with “ød” are said like a double “o” in the word “wood”.
BUT… instead you start with an “r” not a “w” and end it with a “th” sound like “those” not “tooth”
With the “ed” in “med” and the “de” in “fløde” they are said like the begining sound of the name “ESTER”…. eh-ster…so “m-eh” and “fl-ooth-eh” . So “roothe-groothe-meh-floo-th-eh” What could be simpler right? 🙂 🙂

By: PETER RANDRUP

PETER RANDRUP — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 02:57:22 +0000

My parents (now both deceased) and my eldest brother immigrated to Canada in 1956 so I grew up without relatives – which was difficult. People say you can’t miss what you never had. They’re wrong. I’m almost 59 years old and I have always felt a great sense of loss not getting yo know my Aunts. Uncles. cousins. Grandparents etc. I met my Dad’s Mom on two occasions – in 1968 when I was 6 years old, and 1972 when I was 11-12 years old. I didn’t meet my Mom’s Mom because whe died unexpectedly in 1962 just 5 months after my birth. I met both Grandfather’s at 6 years old – this was during our entire family’s 1968 visit. It was in 1972 when my Dad’s Mom and one of his sister’s visited us in Canada.

I’ve always been sort of ticked off and disappointed that my parents didn’t make sure my siblings and I leaned to speak Danish. I get why (sort of) – my parents were trying to learn English, there were almost no Danes where we lived, and my eldest brother didn’t like them speaking Danish because then they’d think we were Dutch (long story) But part of me still thinks they could have found the time. (Okay so their lives were busy and they were raising 5 children still……)

When I was about say 12 -16 myself and my siblings talked about having regular Danish lessons from Mom…..but it just never happened. And children learn so much fasterthan adults generally. My Copenhagen born brother (now 66 years old) spoke Danush for the first 8 years of his life. The family orginally lived on a remote farm and for those first 5 years they spoke a lot of Danish because they lived with another Dane – my Father’s childhood buddy – who immigrated before they did – and he’s the one who talked them into moving to Canada.

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