Jim Devine
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:24:36 -0700
Danish should be eaten, not spoken. -- Homer Simpson (apochryphal). On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Anthony D'Costa <promothesdco...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l