The way Danes speak makes it much harder for Danish children to learn the language. Fabio Trecca, CC BY-ND A visual depiction of the words for ‘smoked trout’ spoken out loud in Danish (top) and ...

Morten H. Christiansen, The William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Psychology, Cornell University and Fabio Trecca, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science of Language, Aarhus University There are three ...

Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales and Soeren Kierkegaard's philosophical tomes were written in Danish. So was the hugely successful 1993 novel by Peter Hoeg, Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow. But ...

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In a major review of the language, ‘career women’ are now paired with ‘career men’ and manslaughter is a linguistic offence The Danish language does not officially carry a male equivalent for the ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Danish academics have warned of “language death” in the country after the closure of scores of ...

DENMARK has set out laws to ensure children migrants learn the country's language and if they don’t their parents will stop receiving benefits. At the moment, three-year-olds from migrant families in ...