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The five-minute city: inside Denmark’s revolutionary neighborhood - “cars are not welcome here”.(www.theguardian.com)

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MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
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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

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frank@sopuli.xyz
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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

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gloriousspearfish@feddit.dk
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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.

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frank@sopuli.xyz
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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

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goodthanks@lemmy.world
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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.

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JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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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.

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rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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The linked video is a joke about how difficult it is to understand danish accents

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MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
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Oh, fair enough. I wasn’t in a position where I could watch a fiver so I took the comment at face value

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Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee
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Literally everyone over the age of 10 speaks English, but if you’ll still need to understand Danish to actually live there.

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