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Speak in your own language thread

 
 
Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 05:57 am
Danish wrote:
What the heck? Shocked A German who speaks Danish? Very Happy


Understands, I just understand a bit when it is written Laughing

[Would be better, if I'd live in the bilingual northern part of Schleswig-Holstein ... we aren't against two language like the Danish in southern Denmark :wink: ]


Danish wrote:
Haha der er godt nok en masse forskellige sprog her. Very Happy

Ja, da sind schon ein paar Sprachen zusammengekommen.

Hvordan går det ellers med jer allesammen? Wink

Gut - und wie geht es Dir?

Det går fint tak. Smile

Das freut mich Laughing

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Danish
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 06:12 am
Ah I see. Hehe
I'm not sure where you get the part about the Danish people in Sønderjylland being against two languages from though. Everyone I know down there speaks German very well. Wink

Probably because they cross the border so often... Beer is cheap in Germany. Laughing
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old europe
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 06:15 am
Hallo mitsammen! Lustiger Thread...

(Soll ich jetzt "Lesezeichen" schreiben, statt "bookmark"...?)
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old europe
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 06:16 am
Danish wrote:
Probably because they cross the border so often... Beer is cheap in Germany. Laughing


In my experience, if you can order beer in a foreign language, you shouldn't have any problems at all....
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 06:18 am
Danish wrote:
Ah I see. Hehe
I'm not sure where you get the part about the Danish people in Sønderjylland being against two languages from though. Everyone I know down there speaks German very well. Wink


Nothing really to discuss: some local politicans get/got excited because on one side of the border (ours http://i14.tinypic.com/4yuj4t1.gif) you find e.g. bilingual traffic signs and on the other (yours http://i9.tinypic.com/4ujum8g.gif) ... not. :wink:
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Danish
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 06:22 am
Walter:
Ah now I understand what you mean. Hehe didn't really know you had bilingual signs in Germany. Very Happy
What I meant was that Sønderjyder don't seem to have a problem speaking German... As individuals that is. Smile
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 06:28 am
Det sydslesvigske Samråd keeps an eye on that :wink:

... and there's even a daily newspaper in Danish: Flensborg Avis
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Danish
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 06:38 am
Walter:
Why do they have all the Danish stuff in Germany? Do a lot of the people in Slesvig still see themselves as Danish or something? Shocked
They used to be Danish of course but that's a looong time ago. Hehe not like we've had any wars with you Germans recently. Heheh :wink:
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 06:49 am
Well, Danish is - among a few others, like Sorbian, Frisian, Low German - a "regionally official language". They've got (by law) at least two lawmakers in the state parliament, Danish schools ...

More here in German - less here in Danish ... and of course all those infos in English. :wink:
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 06:51 am
Danish wrote:
Hehe not like we've had any wars with you Germans recently. Heheh :wink:


Correct: we play footbal in another dimension. Laughing
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Danish
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 07:03 am
Good info on the Slesvig thing. Smile

About the football thing...
Haha! You have like 82.3 million people in Germany and we have 5.4 million here in Denmark. If you guys didn't beat us in all sports I would be disappointed. Laughing

Everyone still remembers 1992 though right? Wink
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 07:08 am
1992 .... 1992 ... 1992 ...

Ah! Yes!!! You've beaten those damned Hollanders! (Thanks again!) :wink:
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Danish
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 07:14 am
Hahaha Walter... Think that's what they call denial. Laughing
I was only 12 years old back then and it was a big day in my life. Hehe the Germans sure didn't like it though. One of my friends from school went to Germany with his parents. He was wearing a "We are the champions!" t-shirt with a picture of the Danish football team on it. An old lady in Germany smacked him in the back with her cane. Haha and he was only 12. Laughing

Don't worry though... It's not likely to happen again any time soon. Embarrassed

:wink:
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dadpad
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 07:46 am
G'day. of course the Danes have one of the most beautiful princesses in the world.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 07:50 am
Yes, she's married to a local prince clos to us, and thus Swedish and Danish air-force no. 1's are quite often on our local airport.

.... arg, you mean that Australian girlie ... :wink:
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dadpad
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 07:53 am
Walter Hinteler wrote:

.... arg, you mean that Australian girlie ... :wink:


"Sheila" is the correct word walter - "Australian sheila"

We are taking over the world one royal family at a time. Laughing
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 07:57 am
Well, most of them have the same ancestry: ex-prisoners :wink:
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Danish
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 08:16 am
Haha Kronprinsesse Mary. (Crown Princess Mary) Very Happy
Wikipedia

Good luck with conquering the world dadpad. Wink
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