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: Alexandra's Danish is pretty close to perfect
: now. She really has an ear for languages.
: Ingrid's Danish also ended up sounding close
: to perfect.
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: A Danish friend once told me she thinks it
: is impossible for a non-Dane to speak the
: language without an accent
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: The Princesses Alexandra, Mary and Marie
: speaks a very good Danish with remarkable
: little accent and a big vocabulary. All
: three were about the same age as Prince
: Henrik when they married into the Danish
: Royal Family.
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: 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.
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: 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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