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Why do Danes have the best English? Is it the education system

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Why do Danes have the best English? Is it the education system or something else?
My sample size is a bit small, but they are perfectly understandable with almost no noticeable accent; it's crazy.
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>>76688305
>they are perfectly understandable with almost no noticeable accent

This is how I know you've never conversed with a Danish person. Because it's literally the opposite.
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We start learning it at an early age and the languages are pretty similar. Most danes have a pretty thick accent though, no idea where you got that from.
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Danish is a hideous language, even kids know anything else would be better.

I don't know why we're surrounded by all these retards. Finnish is even worse and Norway doesn't even know what their own language is. Just be normal.
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>>76688400
>>76688377
Spoken to a few Danes and heard some Danes on streams, and they sound American to me.
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>>76688419
hvad fanden
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>>76688377
>>76688419
top fucking keeeeeek :D
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>>76688419
>this post
Swedes are the most butthurt and autistic people in the region, literally the parisians of the north.
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All the media (films, games etc) here is imported and rarely ever translated. The translations usually suck as well so I guess people don't even like them.

>no accent
Well, I have a ridiculous accent.
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>>76688502
I don't know who those are but I'm sure their neighbors are waaaay more obsessed with them than vice versa.
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Most Danes I've spoken to online have very good verbal speaking skills however I never heard anyone without an accent.
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>>76688305
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>>76688305
Usually sounds like a german accent to me. Its not bad though.
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>>76688305
Most danes do have an accent, but the pronunciation and pitch of danish is very simmilar to english that you can pass it off as someone speaking in a funny voice, but not a dialect.

It's the same reason why some dutch and german dialects also speak with near perfect english.

What makes danish different is the Stod and Stress, which doesn't apply when speaking english because english words aren't structured around it.
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>>76688419
sverige var ein tabbe
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danes are obsessed with english. They think it makes them trendy and modern. They even use it among themselves all the time.
Don't even think it is possible for a dane to say a couple sentences in danish without replaceing a
perfectly normal danish word with an english word.
They use every opportunity to speak english. When went to copenhagen last year, multiple times danish persons answered back in english when i talked to them, even though i speak fluent danish (slight accent).
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Why do Danes get bullied so hard on here?
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>>76691935
Well, to be fair, they bully really hard themselves.
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>>76691959
I don't really see them post at all if I'm honest
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>>76691989
Oh, I was referring to my personal experience with Danes.
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>>76691912
This is actually true, and it's especially a problem the closer you get to copenhagen. It's fucking annoying to meet someone who mixes english with danish as if it's a perfectly natural thing to do, it sounds fucking retarded.
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>>76688443
In my experience, the ones who spend a lot of time with games/movies/internet, often have the best American/British accents.
All the others... Not so much
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>>76691935
Because danes are some of the most obnoxious people in the world, moreso than any other nordic country. We are so irrelevant that everyone here have developed a crushing inferiority complex and will have a spastic fit if denmark is as much as namedropped somewhere.
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>>76688305
R O D G R O D
M E D
F L O D E
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>they are perfectly understandable
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>>76688305
Read this
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121127094111.htm
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>>76691912
Why are there so many Faroese posters here but so few Icelandic ones?
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tfw dont know english
pls kill me ;__;
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>>76693035
why would you need to know english?
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>>76693052
Wanna be your friend!
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>>76692937
i don't know, maybe icelanders have meaning in their lives.
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>>76693064
I doubt you want to be friends with me specifically, and I don't think most US citizens like Russians.
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>>76693109
DELET
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>>76693267
Well okay. But most of big researches are written in english. So if you want to learn something new - you need english language, if you want talk with someone in another counrty again english will be good solution.
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>>76693469
Keep working on it, and you'll get there.
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Denmark is the best Scandi country because they're unabashedly nationalistic and have tightened their immigration controls.
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Nordics in general are really good at speaking English. The top 5 countries on EF's English proficiency index are always the Nordic countries and Netherlands. Pic related is from 2015 I think. 2016 has the same 5 countries on top, but in a different order.

American """""""""culture""""""""" is seen as trendy and cool by normies in Nordic countries. People were lining up for Starbucks when it first opened in Stockholm.
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>>76688305
The Dutch are better but the difference is like 0.8%
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>>76693896
See >>76692601
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>>76693469
Bы мoжeтe иcпoльзoвaть oнлaйн-пepeвoдчик. Oни нe кaжyтcя cлишкoм плoхими.
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>>76694293
kek. Let's try.
In fact, they translate badly. More precisely, you will understand me, but everyone will understand that this is an interpreter.
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>>76688533
>>76689974
Any example on youtube where Danes speak english?
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>>76694679
And i thought we were lazy
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>>76694679
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31IYtB_ZGTc
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>>76694679
Look up some videos of Maelk
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>>76694679
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anx9giJf3MI
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>>76693267
>and I don't think most US citizens like Russians.
t. CNN
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>>76694679
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk
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>>76694679
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTozrTpxldM
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Danes are the original Anglos you know
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How was roskilde festival boys. I went last year, holy fuck do you mother fuckers drink
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>>76698829
Lots of rape
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>>76698882

I just read an article about it. In the past, cases were only registered as rape if and when a perpetrator was arrested, whereas this year they are recorded as rapes during the initial report.
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