How to Recognize The Danish Flag
The Danish flag is red with a white cross offset to the left. Look for it on flagpoles and Danish food in the supermarket of European and other countries.
Where You Can Read and Hear and Speak the Danish Language
How to Map Read
Danish to English
Berg/bjerg is mountain.
Hagen is harbour.
Hus is house.
Land is land.
Ny is new.
slot is castle
English to Danish
castle is slot
hill is bakke
hilltop is bakketop
house is hus
land is land
mountain is berg/bjerg
new is ny
river is flod
estuary is flodmunding
stream is strøm
top is top
Danish is spoken in Denmark, but also spoken in Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
What To See In Denmark
The capital city is Copenhagen. Hagen means harbour, haven. The city is on the water.
Hans Christian Andersen is known worldwide for his fairytales. His little mermaid is commemorated with a statue in Copenhagen on the edge of the harbour and is the most visited site in Denmark.
Drive to Odense and you can visit his birthplace museum.
Danish Food
Danish bacon is famous in the UK.
Danish Drink
Carlsberg is a brand of beer. the name stands for the mountain of Charles.
The European menu reader covers Danish. The pocket size book includes 14 languages. Danish is similar to Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, German and English.
On the streets you might pass a chemist (Americans say drug store) and emergency vehicles.
Useful WebsitesBerlitz European Menu Reader
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Danish_phrasebook
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