Anthony D'Costa
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:13:23 -0700
If you can't read Japanese then you don't know how Japanese sounds. If you can read Danish you don't know how it sounds. Try putting a potato in your gullet and speak the language. It's that hard. It's not grammar or the vocabulary. Been there, done that, and failed like so many others before me:) Cheers, Anthony On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:45 AM, j.martin.pedersen < m.peder...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > > Just to be factual-ish: Danish is like German, Dutch and English. If you > know two of those you can read some Danish and begin to follow > conversations. Pronounciations are odd and some of them difficult to for > foreigners to ever get right, but it is essentially just another > Northern European dialect. > > On 30/08/10 23:09, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > > btw -- that sounds like a challenge! But I'm going to plead "beginning of > > the semester." :) > > > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Anthony D'Costa > > <promothesdco...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > >> Try learning Danish and see how far you get:) Japanese is easier. > >> > >> Anthony > >> > >> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> Anthony P. D'Costa > >> Professor of Indian Studies and Research Director > >> Asia Research Centre > >> Copenhagen Business School > >> Dalgas Have 15 > >> DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > >> Ph: +45 3815 2572 > >> Fax: +45 3815 2500 > >> http://uk.cbs.dk/arc > >> www.cbs.dk/india > >> http://www.thisismodernindia.com/this_is_modern_india_about_us.html > >> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> > >> > >> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfis...@gmail.com > >wrote: > >> > >>> WITBD, Carrol? Honestly, at this point, Denmark sounds pretty good to > me. > >>> I've always wanted to learn Danish. > >>> > >>> /me goes to sign up for Danish RosettaStone > >>> > >>> > >>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Carrol Cox <cb...@ilstu.edu> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Lou has an unhealthy interest in political trash. It prevents him from > >>>> pausing to think seriously about WITBD. > >>>> > >>>> Carrol > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> pen-l mailing list > >>>> pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu > >>>> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> pen-l mailing list > >>> pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu > >>> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> pen-l mailing list > >> pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu > >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >> > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pen-l mailing list > > pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu > > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa Professor of Indian Studies and Research Director Asia Research Centre Copenhagen Business School Dalgas Have 15 DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Ph: +45 3815 2572 Fax: +45 3815 2500 http://uk.cbs.dk/arc www.cbs.dk/india http://www.thisismodernindia.com/this_is_modern_india_about_us.html xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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