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> They're pretty good at it One is, and became so with surprising speed back when (but - nitpick - is no longer a princess). Another really isn't, not in any d
by interfixus 7y ago
> They're pretty good at it
One is, and became so with surprising speed back when (but - nitpick - is no longer a princess). Another really isn't, not in any deep and idiomatic way, considering years spent and ressources at her disposal. But then, her very much native born husbond prince can barely master a full coherent sentence in his mother tongue.
Actually, few non-natives ever become truly fluent in spoken Danish. It is not so much a weird language as it is a mumbled one - to the extent that many Danes, especially the younger generations, have real trouble with written language, always confusing conjugations which ought to sound different but in contemporary speech don't. Compare Norwegian and Swedish, languages very closely related to Danish, but with far clearer speech habits.
- lordnacho 7y ago> But then, her very much native born husbond prince can barely master a full coherent sentence in his mother tongue. Aren't they both fluent in Danish and French? > Actually, few non-natives ever become truly fluent in spoken Danish I don't know, I suspect this is because there's so many weird sounds that aren't really explained in a course. I find if you look up a linguistic explanation of the language you see a lot of things that a language teacher wouldn't give you. But of course that's not the same as practicing.