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Re:Japan Has Changed a Lot by cr1895 on Thursday January 26, 2023 @04:04AM (#34529390)
>learn Danish to B2 level, just in case e.g. an accident to be able to call a police or an ambulance.

I don’t think Denmark is the best example here. English competency is _extremely_ high and Danish is quite a difficult language to grasp (as far as I know as an A2/B1 Swedish learner).

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Re:Japan Has Changed a Lot by silvestrov on Thursday January 26, 2023 @05:25AM (#34529967)
Danish is not difficult to grasp as it is mostly a mix of English and German words.

Pronunciation is a very difficult ballgame as Danish has sounds not in any of those languages. E.g. stød: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stød

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