Subject: Re: A question for any Scandinavian Boarders
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Posted on: 2012-05-17 17:30:00 UTC

As a certified Dane I should be able to help, but like Artell I can't come up with any English words with the same sound. In fact, there's a myth saying that during World War 2 the Danes would find German spies by making them say the phrase 'rødgrød med fløde' which only native Danes could ever get right. The story is not true, but it serves to illustrate just how alien the pronunciation is to non-Scandinavians.

But I digress. On this page you can hear the pronunciation of all the letters in Danish. http://www.speakdanish.dk/en/pronunciation/alphabet.php

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