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shinymooncolor · 4 years

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1-30 for the nonamerican asks

1. favourite place in your country?

My home - Northern Jutland - beautiful nature and oceans on all sides.

2. do you prefer spending your holidays in your country or travel abroad?

Well, as I live abroad, I spend a lot of holidays going back home to Denmark. But I do love to travel as well!

3. does your country have access to sea?

Hah, yeah - Denmark has oceans on both sides and we have easy access as we’re a teeny tiny country of little islands with Fjords running in between.

4. favourite dish specific for your country?

Ohhhh... I’m going to do a meal and a dessert

Main meal: Frikadeller (danish meatballs) with red cabbage and rye bread

Dessert: real Danish pastries - we do an amazing cinnamon swirl!!!

Also check out PROPER danish Rye bread. IT will change your LIFE!

5. favourite song in your native language?

ohhhh... “Han har tænkt” by Allan Olsen. Incredible lyrics describing my home and amazing music as well...

6. most hated song in your native language?

HAh I don’t even know. Some of the new stuff which is just stupid and misogynistic

7. three words from your native language that you like the most?

HAHA okay. so. I'm gonna do the three words that all non-native speakers are challenged to say heh

“Rødgrød med fløde”

8. do you get confused with other nationalities? if so, which ones and by whom?

Language wise people ask if I'm from Sweden, Norway or for some unfathomable reason Holland (The Netherlands)

Also “Is Denmark the capital of Scandinavia?” is a classic?

9. which of your neighbouring countries would you like to visit most/know best?

Germany is the only country that we neighbour physically but we’ve got Sweden and Norway just across the ocean. I love all three countries to be honest. We used to take day trips to Sweden when I was younger - the Danish Krone is a lot stronger than the Swedish so we saved a lot of money. I've been to all three a bunch of times but still have a lot to discover and explore!!!

10. most enjoyable swear word in your native language?

Well. Bae is actually danish for poo. I know it's not a swear word but it's hilarious. You're calling your s/o a poo ;)

11. favourite native writer/poet?

H. C. Andersen

12. what do you think about English translations of your favourite native prose/poem?

Ohhh. Well H. C. Andersen was Danish and I think the translations are fairly successful.

13. does your country (or family) have any specific superstitions or traditions that might seem strange to outsiders?

oh I guess we do? First of all, we do Christmas on Christmas Eve 24/12.

We also have a “Confirmation” when we're 14 which is technically a confirmation of our Christian Fatih but now it's just an excuse for friends and family to give you money and presents.

14. do you enjoy your country’s cinema and/or TV?

Honestly, I think Danish tv is sometimes a bit cringey to listen to. Hah, I love my country and we have some hilarious films and tv shows but I honestly don’t get the whole hype of danish tv shows like the killing or Borgen

15. a saying, joke, or hermetic meme that only people from your country will get?

“Rosinen i pølseenden”

translation: “the raisin at the end of the sausage” - or being the very last one in whatever situation you're in

16. which stereotype about your country you hate the most and which one you somewhat agree with?

that vikings had horns on their helmets. That's all Hollywood. Also Vikings might have been a bit barbaric but they were also ahead of their time with a lot of societal issues such as equality, cleanliness and other stuff - also we were hella good sailors and boat builders. We went to Canada and North America WAAAYYYYY before Columbus and the other guys

17. are you interested in your country’s history?

Very much. My mom and dad are both really interested in history - my mom is a part time historian and my dad, while not formally educated in history, writes historical books in his spare time.

We are very interesting in history in general and love to learn more and I've definitely inherited that curiosity.

18. do you speak with a dialect of your native language?

YES. hahahaha. I'm from the very north of Denmark and thus I’ve got a very “flat” northern accent heh.

19. do you like your country’s flag and/or emblem? what about the national anthem?

I like the red and white flag. and our lion (the royal crest I believe). It’s very pretty. And yes I do enjoy the Danish national anthem.

fun fact: in 2009, Alberto Contador won the Tour de France but they accidentally played the Danish national anthem instead of the Spanish.

20. which sport is The Sport in your country?

MENS soccer. zzzzz. even though we’re not very good. The women are much better and we’ve got so many other cool sports where we are so much better - yet football is where the money goes :(

21. if you could send two things from your country into space, what would they be?

A lego set (YES IT IS DANISH) and one of the royal sausage dogs probably.

22. what makes you proud about your country? what makes you ashamed?

we're small but we’re still doing really well

Ashamed: how we treated (treat) our former colonies (Greenland and the Faroe Islands) it's awful, exploitative and we still haven't seen a lot of apologies there.

23. which alcoholic beverage is the favoured one in your country?

SNAPS. HAHA. and of course Beer (Carlsberg)

24. what other nation is joked about most often in your country?

Sweden. Germany or even the US. heh.

Scandinavian countries love to hate on each other - but if anyone else comes for one of us - be certain that the other two will come to defend.

25. would you like to come from another place, be born in another country?

I don't think so. Honestly. I've gotten a lot of opportunities and security by being a Danish citizen and you don't find that in a lot of other countries.

26. does your nationality get portrayed in Hollywood/American media? what do you think about the portrayal?

Yes it does. I think it's mostly favourable? however, I will say: The utopia that Denmark is the proof that socialism works is wrong: we have our own issues people. Don't fall for it.

27. favourite national celebrity?

The Queen. What a lady!!!!

28. does your country have a lot of lakes, mountains, rivers? do you have favourites?

Hehe. We have some lakes. but no mountains or rivers. We have some gorgeous nature though - but we’re small, flat and green.

29. does your region/city have a beef with another place in your country?

oh yeah so I'm the furthest away from Copenhagen so there's always the Capital vs rest of the country... Copenhagen sucks anyways, it's basically a Swedish province ;)

30. do you have people of different nationalities in your family?

Well, my family is partly Faroese, we've got some English aunties and my pony is German. heh

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ermalmeta · 5 years

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I started learning a little bit of Italian because I listen to a lot of Italian music and I wanted to understand the lyrics better. Also I want to understand Instagram stories by Italian singers :D What I find interesting is that an article comes before a noun and then a possessive pronoun too, instead of just the possessive pronoun. Like, il mio cuore = the my heart. I often forget this because in my native language (German) we don‘t do that, either.

that’s a cool reason to learn a language! i also basically learned english through music (and tv shows, movies and books, but i think music was the biggest of these for me). i soooo need to listen to danish music more, it would help me so much with my danish learning. my danish friend even made me a playlist but i always forget about it lol

oh yeah that’s interesting! i have the opposite problem haha i mean, by now i’m used to the possessive + noun instead of article + possessive + noun in english and since i study danish (i also study spanish but that’s different. also i’m neglecting spanish... but anyway) with english resources mostly, i usually translate from english to danish and viceversa, so it’s pretty easy to forget about italian grammar. but if i happen to translate a danish sentence with the possessive from italian or to italian i gotta stop a minute longer to think about it.

but yeah, actually i think it’s a common “problem” with non-italians speaking italian, i noticed when i hear non-native speakers talk italian that they tend to forget about the article before the possessive, at least people from certain countries. damn, now i’m curious and i wanna know what other countries use the article + possessive + noun formula like us. gotta go do a little research!

thanks for this ask!! 💙

#anon #ask

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aflyingcontradiction · 5 years

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Song of the day

Der Rubel rollt by Versengold

Album: Zeitlos (2015)

A jaunty fiddle melody and clever lyrics with a political message - what more could you want? (Maybe a video with better sound quality ... yeah, sorry, I couldn’t find one that was actually embeddable). For the non German speakers: This is basically a song about how wealth is always in flow ... from one rich fuck to the other, that is, while the masses are shit out of luck.

Favourite lyrics:

Der Reichtum ist im steten Fluss, Stets vom Magnaten zum Magnaten. Denn brav scheißt ihm mit Hochgenuss Der Arbeitsesel Golddukaten. Und selbst wenn Esels Arsche schmerzt, Weil mancher Pfeffersack ihn tritt, Scheißt er doch weiter und beherzt, Blökt er den Takt der Ordnung mit. Glaubt er doch treu und gut getrimmt, Es könnt ihm noch viel schlechter geh’n, Wenn er sich seine Zügel nimmt. Ob‘s stimmt wird er wohl niemals seh’n!

(Translation (oh my, this is going to be challenging, these lyrics are quite clever and my skills in poetry translation are sorely lacking):

Wealth is in constant flow, from one tycoon to the other. After all, the working donkey obediently and with great pleasure shits gold coins for them. (Note: This is a reference to a popular Grimm brothers fairy tale which features a gold-shitting donkey). And even when the donkey’s ass hurts, because many a rich jerk kicks him, he will continue shitting valiantly and bleat along with the rhythm of order. After all, he is properly trained to believe that he would be much worse off, if he took his own reins. He will probably never know whether that is actually true.

#song of the day #versengold #der rubel rollt

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