Denmark and the Danish Language

Denmark on the European map, is east of Great Britain.

Look at the map and you will see that Denmark is pointing north like a finger surrounded by sea, with Norway and Sweden, the other Scandinavian countries, to the north. (Finland to the east of Sweden bordering Russia has a totally different language.)

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 Websites

Berlitz European Menu Reader

 https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Danish_phrasebook

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World's Weirdest Statues And Monuments to See: From Alice and Aristotle to Mushrooms and Waltz

Angels, bottles, Fruit, guitars, whatever you like, somebody, somewhere has made a statue to it. Usually advertising local produce. Why not? The USA, Canada, and Australia are especially fond of giant monuments.

Here they are, first alphabetically by type, to track them down by subject matter, then by country for convenience of visit.

Alice in Wonderland: Central Park, New York, USA;



Australia.

Statue of Alice, Rymill Park, Adelaide, Australia.

Angel of the North, UK.

Aristotle, Aristotle, Aristotle Park, Greece.

Bean (Pinto Bean), Canada.

Duck, Canada. Mallard Duck at Andrew, Alberta.

Guitar, Australia.

Mermaid (Little Mermaid), Copenhagen, Denmark.

Mushroom monument in the village of Vilna, (not  the city of Vilnius,) Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Sunflower, Bow Island, Albert Canada.

Sphinx of Giza, Egypt.

The Thinker, by Rodin, in Copenhagen, Denmark. (I have seen this in at least two other places.)

The Waltz. France 
(In French, La Valse.)

What To See Where
America: Alice in Wonderland
Australia: Alice in Wonderland
Canada: Alberta: Antelope, Bear, Beaver. Bee, Bison, Cowboy, Cowboy Boot, Crow, Crown, Dinosaurs, Duck. Elk, Moose, Mushrooms. Pig, Piggy Bank, Potatoes, Pumpkin, Sunflower, Swan, Teepee
Denmark: Little Mermaid; The Thinker.
Egypt: The Sphinx
France: The Waltz
UK: Angel of the North.

Useful Websites
http://www.bigthings.ca/alberta/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue

About the author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a travel writer and photographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.

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