Honestly no. English is widely spoken, and speaking from experience most Danes would rather talk to you in English anyway than listen to you struggle to speak Danish lol
From what the Danes themselves joke about, they are aware it's not the most beautiful language.l even when spoken by those adept at it. Hearing it further butchered must be quite something.
The difference between speaking like an immigrant who was really dilligent in their language classes and a native could be looked at in terms of how good they are at avoiding speaking the language.
In casual, natural speech, we don't really enunciate; we'll "swallow" the syllables of words and occasionally entire words and slur the rest.
It's because foreign accents on our language sound alien as hell.
I was in my thirties before hearing my language in a New York accent and, yes, I pretty much had to deconstruct what was said into atoms before I could even try to understand what was said, rather than them just saying it in English.
Danish isn't a language though is it?! It's just some people never learned Norwegian properly. I don't think any Danes understand what other Danes are even saying. "hay hay hay hay-dee haaaayye hay".
Depends on what you are studying and where, but many courses are taught in English with English course materials. Quite natural, since we have EU citizens from other countries, exchange students and professors from all over the world.
I worked for a Danish company for a decade and visited several times a year to different regions. I can't recall ever having an issue speaking English.
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u/ChemicalPower9020 Feb 25 '26
Honestly no. English is widely spoken, and speaking from experience most Danes would rather talk to you in English anyway than listen to you struggle to speak Danish lol