The mistake was that there was not enough attention to making sure that Henrik learned to speak a good Danish. He had a big vocabulary, but one often had to pay close attention to understand what he was saying.
It is true that Danish is a difficult language to learn because of about 50 ways of pronuncing the actual 9 wovels, determnied by where in the word the wovel are placed, the consonants, where the consonants are placed and how many consonants there are. In addition Danes tend to swallow the ending of words (English is not unsimilar in this way)
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: Also, Queen Margrethe speaks exquisite English
: to say the least. Regarding Henrik, I think
: speaking/mastering languages such as
: Vietnamese is a testament to the man's great
: intelligence. I don't think many people
: could master Danish to be quite honest.
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: And re Margrethe's French: I once watched a
: bit of an interview she gave in French. I
: was incredibly impressed that she said
: "il faut qu'on sache" at one
: point. Wow! The subjunctive!
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: And I completely agree about learning
: another language as an adult. He'd grown up
: hearing and speaking Vietnamese, learned
: Chinese (presumably Cantonese) and had to
: learn Danish later. They're very different.
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