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
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Mind you, I never went to either Jylland or Bornholm so I can't assert to the differences, but that was what my classmates in 'high school' from 1999-2000 told the wee exchange student.
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There is a lingual rivalry in Denmark... Over here in Jylland we make fun of the way people from Sjælland talk. We don't tend to like the way it sounds, actually, just like they don't like the way we talk.
However, they were exaggerating the difficulty they experience when "travelling abroad". There is a lot less difference between the way we speak in Jylland and the way they speak over on Djævleøen than there was in the past.
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I figured that there had to be some exaggerations--these were gymnasium students, after all, and with an impressionable American in their midst, who could resist the fun? -- but I did hear some generalizations from adults as well. I figured it was similar to the way we Northern American speakers (gently) harass the Southerners. Not drastic, but if you weren't expecting it, you could run into issues.
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http://www.speakdanish.dk/
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But don't take my word for it, I am not native and it's been a while since I heard it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Danishdialectmap.png <-- on this map, the variant I remember would have been marked as "N".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutlandic has a discussion of phonology.
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Here's an example of how different the western dialect is from the copenhagen one.
A few years ago I was at home with my parents having dinner in the garden when two Scottish people on bikes came by to ask for direction. Instead of needing me to translate from Danish into English Dad just spoke to them in his normal Danish dialect and the two understood each other perfectly. they stayed for dinner, actually. that would not work if the same two Scots had ventured out on bikes in copenhagen...
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