Danish pronunciation, regional or otherwise
The recent post about Denmark got me remembering... Can someone point me to a place where I can find Danish pronunciation examples online? How about regional pronunciations?
A Danish friend comes from a part of the country where many consonants are only faintly pronounced. He demonstrated his grandparents' rural pronunciation with the Dansk translation of "I am standing on an island in a river" , expecting us to be amazed. Our reaction satisfied him... it does indeed sound as if it is almost entirely vowels. I have wanted to play this for my linguist brother, but I didn't get a recording.
I did however manage to come up with a way to explain his pronunciation of the region. When he says Jutland it sounds more like yll'n -- sort of like the "uillean" in "uillean pipes" (I'm sure I'm misspelling that as I know no Gaelic at all.).
I'm not a linguist, and I speak very little of the language so far, so I have no clue if this is technically dialect, but it's certainly a different pronunciation than what is spoken in Copenhagen and taught as standard Danish. And because I want to keep from losting what little Dansk I did pick up on my stay there, I'd also appreciate pointers to any sites that can help adult beginners.
Tak skal du ha...
Mary
A Danish friend comes from a part of the country where many consonants are only faintly pronounced. He demonstrated his grandparents' rural pronunciation with the Dansk translation of "I am standing on an island in a river" , expecting us to be amazed. Our reaction satisfied him... it does indeed sound as if it is almost entirely vowels. I have wanted to play this for my linguist brother, but I didn't get a recording.
I did however manage to come up with a way to explain his pronunciation of the region. When he says Jutland it sounds more like yll'n -- sort of like the "uillean" in "uillean pipes" (I'm sure I'm misspelling that as I know no Gaelic at all.).
I'm not a linguist, and I speak very little of the language so far, so I have no clue if this is technically dialect, but it's certainly a different pronunciation than what is spoken in Copenhagen and taught as standard Danish. And because I want to keep from losting what little Dansk I did pick up on my stay there, I'd also appreciate pointers to any sites that can help adult beginners.
Tak skal du ha...
Mary