The way Danes speak makes it much harder for Danish children to learn the language. Fabio Trecca, CC BY-ND A visual depiction of the words for ‘smoked trout’ spoken out loud in Danish (top) and ...

Norwegian filmmakers Esikld Fors and Anders Øvergaard said they love Denmark and its "slurry" language. Photo: Submitted The Local spoke with Norwegian filmmaker Eskild Fors, whose video poking fun at ...

An inaudible mumble follows. Daddy doesn’t play games – well maybe Cluedo at which he’s unbeatable because the Brits pretty much invented sleuthing – or eat Danish desserts. Yuk! It’s all harmless fun ...

Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales and Soeren Kierkegaard's philosophical tomes were written in Danish. So was the hugely successful 1993 novel by Peter Hoeg, Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow. But ...

Dramas, comedies, thrillers and so much more. This collection celebrates the Danish language across all TV genres (plus all program in which any Danish is spoken). A US prison examines different ...

Sisters Katrine and Karoline were close as children, but could not be more different today. Karoline lives in a debt-ridden relationship. Katrine, on the other hand, has it all in her relationship ...

Poul Andersen, a Los Angeles Times printer who published the nation’s only weekly Danish-language newspaper, Bien, for more than a quarter of a century, has died. He was 84. Andersen, a Danish ...

Hot off the heels of Danish comedy Another Round winning this year’s Best International Feature Oscar, Netflix has greenlit its first Danish-language original movie, Loving Adults. Dar Salim (Borgen) ...

Morten H. Christiansen, The William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Psychology, Cornell University and Fabio Trecca, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science of Language, Aarhus University There are three ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) There are three main reasons why Danish is so complicated. First, with about 40 ...