Day 7
I’m not too proud of myself today either, as I haven’t studied any language at all. I guess ithat being a Sunday, it’s understandable. But; well, surprisingly I met two Danish families at work today!
After listening to their conversations I asked, at the cash, what language they spoke. (it definetely was a Germanic language, very probably Nordic, absolutely not German, surely not Dutch, didn’t sound like Norwegian really, and not “Old Norsy” enough to be Icelandic. I guessed either Faroese due to my poor knowledge of that language’s sounding, or Swedish for similar reasons, but I just couldn’t plant my dart in it with assurance.) I wasn’t really thinking Danish, so I was a bit surprised. What shocked me even more was that an hour or so later; a man and his daughter told me they spoke Danish too when I asked them! It’s the third time I hear I Germanic language being spoken in the shop, and two were in the same day! (the first being German)
So anyway, to me Danish sounded like strongly Vikingized* German with frequent unrecognizable and hard-to-make-written sounds apparently common to Danish ;) I loved that experience.
