Learning Danish

On Monday we had our very first day of school, this whole week is intro week, so nothing really major. But I would say the first day of classes was probably the most memorable. The last class of the day was a 3 hour crash course on survival Danish. Now some of you may already know that I like learning languages and stuff, and I knew that only one 3 hour class would not help anybody in mastering Danish. Boy was I right! They say that Danish is one of the hardest languages to learn, but I thought the Danes were just hyping it up, because learning Cambodian from scratch would be hard, maybe even Arabic or some other non-Western language would be even tougher. But let me tell you, Danish is some wack language (no offence to the Danes), but it is a language that isn't read as it is spelled. They have 3 new vowels and and have 3 ways of pronouncing the letter D. Sometimes half the word is said while the other half of the world is totally ommitted. It didn't help us either that the professor statred off the class making us sing a Danish song, and then only speaking in Danish, with little few English explanations. I can go on for a lot more but I won't. So if you ever want to learn Danish, I advise you take a little caution before you do, because it is all over the place.