This summer I started studying Danish with a native teacher at VikingRO.
I already had a couple of years of Norwegian behind me. The two are close enough that the second one feels less like a climb and more like a stretch. The pronunciation is the punishing part. Everything else is workable.
Why Danish, specifically:
- I like Nordic languages.
- It’s hard. The hard part is the point.
- Language is a bridge to people and culture. You don’t really get either without it.
- They say it slows down Alzheimer’s. Worth a shot.
- I like the things the Vikings got right: exploration, courage, pragmatism, flat hierarchy, everyone pulling in sync when we want the drakkar to move.
That last one is the one I keep coming back to.
Tak for nu.