grammatically danish is easy, but pronounciation is the challenge, thanks for the video man

I am Icelandic. Back in the day when I was young ( a long, long time ago) Danish was taught as a second language in Iceland (English came later as a third language). I am used to pronoucing "-er" endings quite simply as "a". The ending always sounds like that to me as well when I stumple upon something spoken in Danish.

Ive been digging alot for such video... iam always lost when it comes to the reading and pronouncing the danish language, now i feel a bit at ease, thank you for the effort.

why do i think that soft d sounds like "L" ? 🤦🏻‍♀️😅

I'm heading to Denmark for a trip now and I only have 30 mins to learn Danish before going there. This is super efficient and now suddenly Danish sounds easy! Tak!!

My kids and I just attended a 3 hours "Basic Danish" course this morning here in Nuuk Greenland.. Thank you,More videos please.🥰

I am Norwegian married to a dane. I understand Danish quite well but the prenounciation is difficult. I am not able to say Norge(Norway) in Danish 😂 Its just impossible.

Whilst helpful for beginners learning Danish, some of what Nicolai says is a bit misleading. The pronunciation of the endings -e in "løbe" etc is the so called "schwa", or "ə" as in the end of the English word "Father". The ending -er in biler, bøger etc is pronounced approximately like the sound in the English word "odd". In other words, Nicolai's own pronunciation does not agree with his explanation. Also, the ending -et, although often pronounced as a soft d, is just as often pronounced with a hard d, particularly in Jutland. Learners should know that both variants are correct.

Tusind tak. I wish you made more videos, you're a very good lecturer.

I am an Indian woman .I love your way of teaching and pronouncing danish word .Thanku.

This is very interesting. My grandparents immigrated to Canada in the '40's. I grew up with them speaking Danish. They were from the country on Jutland. They said they spoke farmer Danish. I think they really did, because listening to your classes makes me realize how different I pronounce words! I think I might be considered quaint if I spoke in Copenhagen the way I learned. I don't get much practice anymore, but I try to keep my language and comprehension up! Thank you for sharing your classes!

Extremely helpful video. To the point and easy to understand. Thank you so much.

My parents are from the North of England - Sunderland and I'm finding that a lot of the Danish pronunciation is echoed in the way my grandparents used to pronounce words e.g gan yam for go home (hjem). Also children are bairns (barn). Fascinating.

Something tells me I'm going to be watching this channel very closely. Thank you for this series!

I have been trying some danish on duolingo for some weeks now during quarantaine and this helps so much with understanding pronouncing it. Like every 30 seconds I had a “oh so that’s how that works” moment

Thank you so much for this video. I find this really helpful, especially when it is extremely hard to find good information about the pronunciation of many languages, in other words good quality videos like this without any extra hassle. So clear, good tempo and easy to follow. I would like to hear more about the pronunciation of vowels:) It is sometimes hard to hear the differences between the Danish vowels. Thank you! I really feel like I finally learned something valuable

Thanks for this. And I enjoyed your struggle pronouncing 'pronunciation'. 😜

This really helped me start understanding the underlying fundamentals of danish so well along with a photonic correspondence and orthographic correspondence chart. I have already started figuring out how to assume pronunciation and spelling then check using a translator. I already know this is not going to work for everything, but it definitely is a great stepping stone in the right direction for someone studying the language in their spare time on their own. I truly can not thank you enough for this video!

Interesting. From an English speaker's perspective, that soft final -D ending sounds very much like a final -L or -LE ending in English words such as puddle, mill, dill, but when you say the -EDE ending, the D sounds almost like English "TH" in the word "the". To me, those two sounds are not the same. Clearly Danes perceive these sounds differently from non-Danes.

Thank you! This makes things a lot clearer!

No jokes on "soft d" in the comments? Okay

I speak portuguese, english and a bit of french. Danish is by far the hardest!

Wow u made my day i was desperate to find help relating danish language thx alot its gona help me alot

Thank u so much, I'm studying dansk and those simple rules are very easy and well explained. Mange tak :)

Please, make a video about the "stød" and how to apply it in pronunciation! Mange takk!

amazing video! have been so lost on Memrise with simple question pronounciation, you’re a lifesaver! Tak!

That final d sounds to me like an L. Am I missing it? For example the word "mad" sounds like "mull" to me.

Danish sounds as a rewinding audiotape

Perfect lesson. Thank you

This is my first attempt at Danish pronunciation and it sounds to me exactly like German (Arbejder - Arbeiter). German diphthongs and "r" pronunciation. So far so good :) If grammar is not the most difficult in the world I'm all in.

Thanks for this video! That soft 'd' is gonna be the rough one. It sounds a bit like an english soft L, but maybe its just that the audio isn't able to effectively show how that sound comes out. Or maybe I'm hard of hearing :)

Absolutely adore the differences in pronunciation between danish and norwegian. Cant wait to study danish next

Wooow simple and easy man, you just changed my way of reading and pronuncing the words, thanks for the video man.

Hej Nicolaj, Mange Tak for your Danish language videos. Please produce more. I found your lessons on pronunciation very help. The switch from German to Dutch is quite easy for me with the pronunciation.

Great video dreng, I sincerely love you! Mange tak for hjælpen

virkelig hjaelpsom, mange tak :)

Det var utrolig nyttigt! 🙂 Tak Nicolai! 🙏

Very nice got to know more about it

Having Danish heritage, I have always wanted to try and learn some "motherland tongue". I thought German was tricky! haha, Danish is going to be a challenge, but a fun one, I think. Thanks for the vid! It will make my attempts at reading/translating the written/texted Danish word a little more simple, and hopefully accurate.

what about "aeblet" it's not aebld right?

This video makes Danish language much easier.

Most useful video on the subject. Thank you so much.

super easy to follow, this is gold. Thank you for sharing! Much appreciated :-)

Please make more videos on Danish prononciation. This is very helpful

I speak portuguese, english and a bit of french. But danish is by far the hardest!

Very Useful Lessons!!!....HIGHLY APPRECIATED!!!

Are most symbols in danish so short, for example, mand sounds way shorter than it looks. It sounds like a small expulsion of air rather than a word.

Tusind tusind tak! It helps me a lot 😄

Hi important information. Otherwise it was big puzzle for me in learning Danish

Gosh! endnu en der mener at dialekt dansk er standard dansk. Så tror jeg da lige jeg vil erklære min dialekt for standard dansk. når "d" kommer efter en vokal udtales det "j" "de" er stumt i enden af ord men forlænger den forrige vokal. "mad" = [mæj] "fløde" = [flø:]

this video is so helpful, thanks for uploading this.

Nice video, I want to start learning danish because I have a friend who lives in denmark

Tak for videoen! Det bliver meget nemmere👍

Tusind tak! Videoen er super flot!

Thank you so much, this video is so usefull! You are the best! Mange tak!

Thanks! I have just discovered this video, it is really helpful.

I'm having a hard time discerning the pronunciation between plurals, and other variations of the same word. For example, dreng, drengen, drenge, and drengene. I know how to use it when writing, but when it comes to saying/hearing it, it all sounds the same and I get really confused trying to figure out which form it is.

Really helpful video! Quick question, is there a rule about double consonants? For example, Løkken? Or does this only apply to the town?

Very useful video! Thanks a lot.

You explain it all most clearly, tak skal du have. I still find the Danish spelling quite hard, though. But I´m glad that at least Danish does not have tones, oh my, that would make me give it up - that´s why I´ve quitted trying to learn Norwegian (Bokmål), and that would be an utter pity, cause, except for the Danish 'd' at the end of words, I find the language most beautiful!

This is so good, thanks. It makes somehow more sense to me now

Hello, I have just found your channel. Thank you for your videos! I am trying to learn how to pronounce the words in a song called "Vi To Er Smeltet Sammen". It’s beautiful, but some of the words seem unpronounceable :-( Would you consider teaching the most difficult sounds in this song? Some sounds seem to come from the back of the throat and I just can’t seem to reproduce them. For example, "svigtet." My throat actually kind of hurts when I try 😁. At least according to the pronunciation on google. On your lesson, when you said "mad" (food), to my ears, that sounded like "meld." As if there is an L after the "e." Did I mishear that? My native language is Portuguese, so very different from the Germanic languages. Thanks again!

Did you have more online material? You refer to class in the video. If so I’d love to see it up here, some of the best danish material on YT but only 2 videos😢

Ofcourse is very important your video for all like me that I need to know how to pronun danish so tank you so much to do it

This was actually so helpful. Mange takk

thank you so much. It will help me a lot. but it's still hard to remember:))

I'm learning Danish and it was very helful

Very nicely described, thanks.

Thanks so much for the useful video!

Really helpful - thank you so much! How should I pronounc Køge please? I am going to stay there and don't know how to ask for directions! Mange tak for din hjaelp

I`m froim Germany grammatic is easy for me some pronounciation of some word are quite similar to german but the soft d confuse me a little bit it sound for me like a l but therefore thanx for this video I`m looking forward to see more greetings from Hamburg Germany

It's confusing because this is the opposite of German. D becomes T. G becomes K. Z becomes S.

Only knew half of these rules, and Im danish myself...

this was most helpful. thanks

agree, tongue-twisting has been wisely used

It is great. Thanks

great!

I think I finally got the soft D ,thanks to you !

I speak 6 languages, the hardest of which are turkish and german but danish is so fun to learn, absolutely love the pronunciation. I'm 16 and I have visited Danmark 5 times already and i loveI the country so much! Jeg elsker Danmark 😎❤ Edit:german is easy as well

thanks for the video bro this video is so helpful

Words that end in "e" actual sound like "uh" as in "Duh" or the U in "Sun" or O in "Above"

Could remember almost instantly

Excellent video, Tak Nicolai. BTW, there's a small typo in the last slide - "D should *note*..." needs to be changed to should not"

I wonder whether there have been efforts to reform Danish spelling to better reflect pronunciation. Spanish and German have done this.

Thank so much ❤

excuse me but what is that *r* how do you do that??

How much time required to reach fluent in danish language

Helped me lots, thank you!

Nice going, tanks a lot 👌👍👏

Thank you, it's very useful

wooow!! Tak skal du have :-) Det hjælper meget til mig men kan du laver video om placeringen af tungen og dannelse af munden på, hvordan vi udtaler denne alfabetet "Ø,Y,U,O" Jeg finder de er så hårdt at udtale. tak

Thank you man, much better ^^

Very helpful.. But i also wanted to know about letter j.. As in how to pronounce faarevejle

Very useful, thank you 🌹

Thank you. Tak.

Very good video, thank you.

Fantastic video! alot of mysteries debunked :P

Thank you for this lesson. Two questions though: 1. The a in "Mad" (Food) sounds to my ear like two sounds combined (/æ/ and /ə/), and 2. the "soft d" sounds like only placing the tip of the tongue behind the upper teeth, touching the hard palet, is that correct? Another observation: P, T, and K between consonants, as you mentioned, seem to follow the same rules in English, where the p, t, and k in words like "speak," "student," and "skin" are more like b, d, and g, except being still voiceless. Am I correct?

Er det ikke sådan, at det stumme -d gør det samme som en dobbelt konsonant på dansk og engelsk ( -nn = -nd -n) - den gør vokalen kort som i "lann = land" "lan" som har en lang vokal? Årsagen skulle også vise sig når ordret bøjes: lan-ne = lan-de la-ne.

Great video! Tusind TaK! quick question, would you have in the pipeline some video's that contain footage of Danish people speaking ? That would be very nice :)