update, neuigkeiten

Hallo to our followers and Hallo family!

Since most of my family is Austrian we'll have a little change on our blog. From now on all posts will be in German & in English! (Our Danish is not yet so perfect that we can cover that)

Hallo an unsere Leser & Hallo Familie

Da beinahe meine gesamte Familie aus Österreich ist benötigen wir hier eine kleine Veränderung. Alle Posts (Anzeigen) werden von nun an in Deutsch & Englisch sein! (unser Dänisch ist leider noch nicht so gut das wir auch das abdecken könnten)

danish

to learn danish is not easy. well, you only have to learn 3 more letters "æ ø å" but still there is the problem that you say things totally different then you write them.

but there are still some things, I managed to remember:

jeg hedder paul, jeg kommer fra wien i østrig.

I am paul, I'm coming from vienna in austria.

jen er vel nok god til et lave mad.

jen is very very good in cooking. :-)

well, since we are doing the course at the danforum in vienna, learning how to pronounce words is easy. it also helps to see that other people learning with you suffer the same problems with their tongue.

also funny, most peoples' motivation to learn danish is LOVE! Two women have danish boyfriends and want to communicate with their family and one guy has a danish girlfriend and he'll also move to copenhagen. only one guy is going to study there in next semester which is a very technical reason.

what ever the reasons are, learning a new language is always tricky and keeps you working on your brain fitness.

tak for i aften og farvel

paul and jen

lost in translation

© expat kobenhavn - café loundromat

it's 2009 and some expats may think that language is not as important as it was ages ago. especially when everybody speaks english nowadays. well, it might be true, when you see people like in that scenery sitting in front of their computer in a café in norrebro. but since we like to communicate and interact (and also want to study or work there) knowing the language is essential!

today we will have our first language lesson here in vienna! it was quite hard to find a proper danish course because skandinavian languages are not that popular here around the alps. and although danish is not a difficult language, it's very hard to pronounce or to understand, but i guess with a viennese accent you're better equipped for talking dansk, as they also speak very softly and swallow half of the word :-)
so after some browsing the net we found, that like every country, the danes have a cultural forum here in vienna. and luckily they offer danish courses! the forum is a cosy place in the 3rd district and our teacher is very nice. along with 3 other girls (all with danish boyfriends *g*) we hope to brush up our at the moment pretty non-existent danish, so that we can properly order our 7-euro tuborg in summer :-)

tak skal du have og god aften! and last but not least: hej hej! and see you soon.