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Are you referring to the : symbol in the pronunciation part in dictionaries? If so, then it means that the vowel sound is long. Danish vowel sounds can either be short (in this case there is no special symbol after the vowel), they can be long (symbol ":") or they can be long with the addition of stød (see my videos on stød if you don't know what it is. Here we have the symbol "?")

@@MicsLanguages The reason I was asking is that there is a Danish health exercise program created by to doctors in 2013 and the official name is GLA:D. This program is now available in many countries, including where I am in Canada. I was not sure what the ":" meant in the word GLA:D. I guess you explained it and answered my question. I gather then GLA:D is pronounced different from the common version 'glad'. Thanks for replying.

Richtig gutes Beispiel. Aber normalerweise benutzen wir bei diesem Ausdruck auch das Wort "so". Lass uns nicht mehr so tun, als ob wir zusammen wären.

That's an amazing way of doing it. Very straight forward! 🙂

Jeg husker desværre ikke hvad jeg sagde i videoen, måske kan du opfriske min hukommelse. Du har ret i at låneord fra latin (og græsk) har en større tilbøjelighed til at blive udtalt med p i stedet for b, t i stedet for d etc., men der er også tilfælde hvor vi bruger de her "blødere" konsonanter. For eksempel bronkitis, hvor de fleste ville sige t'et med en d-lyd. Det samme ved politisk.

hvad får dig til at tro at jeg ikke selv snakker det?

Ja, det er så. Men man kan vel godt se at det er en fake baggrund, ikke? 🙂

Did I say "I hardly even know you" or "I don't even know you"? I don't remember, but if I said the first one, you are totally right, your option is ideal.

Altså at der er så mange forskellige ord på dansk og kun et på engelsk? Ja det er jo normalt ikke noget man går og tænker over, man bruger jo bare de sprog man behersker. Men det er efter min mening altid sjovt at sammenligne sprog og se hvor fattige/rige nogle sprog er i forhold til andre når det drejer sig om hvordan man udtrykker noget helt bestemt.

Well, I'm alive and well 🙂 and my plan is to give new life to this channel sometime in the future. When some things fall into place in my life, I will be able to make lots of new videos

@@MicsLanguages Got it, I hope you will go on! Because your channel really helps me with learning danish! Mange tak from Russia :)

@Antonio_Pripisducci That's great to hear! If you're interested and if it's within your budget, you can always do lessons with me. My teaching is not put on pause. You can contact me through my website. Under any circumstance, I wish you success and fun learning Danish! 😉

That's great. Have fun!

Even though this type of Danish R is sort of related in a way to the French R, being one of the many variations of in the HR sound which is part of the ‘family’ of Rs that have some H sound to them or are said as if one tried to say an H and an R together, that’s also related to the HR sounds from Welsh and Brazilian Portuguese, it isn’t the same as the French R as it’s on the opposite end of the spectrum and pronounced with a different technique, by making the sound ‘coated’ and soft, whereas in French the Rs are always thrilled and pronounced in very sharp and hard ways and are not coated Rs, and, the other type of Danish R is also a soft type of R which is more like the er in the German word der which sounds more like dea with an R-controlled EA sound, so that R is also not the same as the French R which is technically a thrilled / hard R and a harder version of the R used by many speakers of German, in German words that don’t have ar / er / ir / or / ur letter combinations, because these letter combinations are pronounced with a soft R, and it seems like there are two or more types of soft R used in Danish, and one of them (the one at the beginning of the words and in the word fra) is also a bit similar to the regular German R when said more softly, because it seems to have a bit of an H sound to it, so it’s a variation of the HR sound, like, in the word fra, so I can see why it may seem similar to the French R because French Rs also have an H sound in there, but it’s still way softer in Danish, whereas in French it is usually pronounced very strongly and it’s very throaty in French, especially the Rs at the beginning of the French words are very hard in French and can even sound sharp like a yell / scream, so I would classify the French Rs as hard Rs that are very thrilled and throaty and even sharp like a yell sometimes, whereas Danish HR-type of Rs like in the word fra are soft and can be considered a tap, and they are more similar to the softer Rs in German, that some speakers of German are using, for example, the speaker of German from the interview videos in German that have a lot of views has a soft German accent that uses soft Rs, and sometimes they remind a bit of the Danish Rs in certain words, though I wouldn’t say they are exactly the same Rs, but more like different variations of those main types of Rs, including the R with some H sound before the R sound and the other type of R that is controlled by a vowel, so things like placement and intensity etc can slightly differ between those German Rs and the Danish Rs, even though they are related, being different variations of the same main types of Rs! there are many types of soft R, including the American R (the RWA / RWUH sound which is used in many English words, especially at the beginning of the word) and the Welsh RH sound (which is technically a soft HR sound, same as the HR sound used in many Brazilian Portuguese words, which is an H-controlled R) and the Americanized R used in Dutch (aka de gooise R, which is right between a normal soft R sound and an American R, which is related to the American R, but it is way less ‘exaggerated’ than the American R, so to speak, so it’s closer to a soft normal R than the American R is, so it’s like it is right between them) and the soft normal R which is used in Norse / Icelandic / Swedish / Norwegian / English / Dutch / Gothic / Latin / Italian / Brazilian Portuguese etc which is technically a tap (any type of soft and fast R can be considered a tap, while prolonged Rs are hard Rs because trying to prolong an R will automatically turn it into a rolled R which has that typical motor sound or engine sound to it, and, this type of R is related to the rolled R, and it is often referred to as a rolled R, but it is in fact just a soft normal R, not really a rolled R, as it has no motor sound to it, being very soft and fast and coated, and if one listens to a normal Icelandic vocal sample with normal conversation and to a Spanish vocal sample, one can hear that it’s not the same R sound, as Icelandic has soft normal Rs at the beginning of the word and in the middle of the word and extra soft normal Rs / extra soft taps at the end of the word, whereas Spanish has rolled Rs such as the R which is a normal rolled R with less motor sound to it and the RR which is an extra rolled R with more motor sound to it) and the Danish R which is a variation of the German ar / er / ir / or / ur sounds with the R sound slightly more pronounced than in German, and certain English words also have a variation of this soft R, but the vowel sound is usually more pronounced than the R sound, and they are usually referred to as R-controlled vowels, and in Danish there are also words where the R sound is less pronounced, though in some Danish words the R sound is more pronounced than the vowel that is controlled by the R or that controls the R sound, so Danish words have a mix of multiple variations of this type of soft R, which is attached to a vowel sound basically, and there is also the other type of soft R that is usually referred to as a tap what is used in many Germanic languages like English and Faroese and Swedish and Icelandic and Dutch and also in certain Brazilian Portuguese words, which is an even softer type of tap, and, there is a thin line between a soft R and a hard R! So, it’s more like a spectrum for each main type of R, and, a soft normal R can easily be turned into a rolled R by either trying to prolong or to emphasize it (because it automatically becomes rolled with the typical motor sound when prolonged / when not said fast or when one tries to emphasize the R sound, for example, when teaching pronunciation rules or words etc, as many tend to turn a soft normal R into a rolled R by emphasizing it) or by saying it in a hard / non-coated way, and it’s also easy to turn a HR-type of R from a soft HR sound into a thrilled / hard R, so, and even the American RWUH sound can be exaggerated more or said in less exaggerated ways, so there can be a lot of variation, depending on how the speaker says each type of R or on how intense / coated etc he makes the sound!

To make this type of HR sound, one can start by practicing the HR in Welsh which is an H sound + R sound even though it is spellt RH, for example, the Welsh words with rh letter combination like rhad or rhosyn are in fact pronounced hrad and hrosyn (as if they were Norse words) with the H sound before the R sound, and one can also use Icelandic words like hraður / hrað / hratt / hringur / hrista / hringinn / hrífa / hríð / hrifsa / hringunum etc to practice this hr sound, and, one can also practice the German HR sound by trying to say the word anderen with a pronounced H sound only, instead of the R sound, which would sound like andehen / and-uh-h-uhn / andahan (by the way, I used the uh for the schwa sound, which is the vowel that is the first vowel in the English words alone and again, which is kinda related to an A vowel, but it’s a different vowel sound tho, but it’s not used in spelling, so I don’t have a letter for this vowel, so I just use uh to spell this sound, as it’s also the vowel used when saying uh-huh in English) and then one can try saying it again and again and adding more and more R sound to it instead of more H sound (more R sound and less H sound) while using the same technique, and then making the H sound almost impossible to hear, by adding mostly R sound which would take over the H sound, this being the way the HR is usually pronounced in German, and also, I would recommend using softer HR sounds in French and German, because pronouncing the R in a thrilled way makes it not sound good as it can be more like a mini-scream and can be too sharp, and I know that there are speakers of German that thrill the R like in French, and also speakers that use a rolled R as in Spanish, as Rs are pronounced differently by different speakers in every language, but it’s better to make the HR sounds more toned-down and soft and coated like in Danish and like in the German accent used by the speaker of German with the soprano voice from the interview videos (the ones that are teaching German by interviewing ppl and asking them various questions with both English and German subtitles that have many views) as that’s one of the prettiest German accents with very soft Rs that aren’t thrilled, so I recommend learning that accent if one is learning German - by the way, I also recommend learning Danish together with the other prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / English / Dutch / Norwegian / Welsh / Breton / Cornish as they are equally gorgeous and are way too pretty not to know, and German and French can also be learnt on the side, and other languages too, including Óld English and Proto Germanic and Middle English and Latvian and Forn Svenska and Hungarian and Manx and Irish and Scottish Gaelic etc, which are all gorgeous with mostly pretty words, as learning many pretty languages at the same time is the most efficient way to learn languages that saves a lot of years (because it takes at least three or five years or more for one to get to a native speaker level, regardless of whether one is only learning one easy and pretty language or multiple easy and pretty languages at the same time, and up to 10 years to get to a writer level by learning automatically over thirty thousand base words in each target language, so it’s better to start learning words in all target languages in the first year of learning) and also the most fun way to learn languages!

Thank you very much. At the moment I am focusing on other things. But I want to post many more videos. Hope I'll be able to post with a certain frequency again!

The trick with the dog walking and number plates is perfect! Combine learning with your day to day activities. That's the way it should be done!

@@MicsLanguages I’ve gotten pretty dang good with numbers by now to the point where I can drive by cars(less time to see the plate) and read the 3 digit numbers. I wanted to ask: in Danish, do folks sometimes read a 3-digit number as a 1-digit followed by 2-digit number, or do they always use hundrede to state the hundreds? Ex: 256 as “to saksoghalvfems” rather than “to hundrede saksoghalvfems”

Watch out. You wrote you're good with the numbers now, so I suppose you made a typo. 256 is not to hundrede seksoghalvfems 🧐 Regarding your question, I'd say that we use both of these options, depending on the situation.