General
Danish (dansk，丹麦语) is one of the North Germanic languages (also called Scandinavian languages), a sub-group of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages. It is spoken by around 6 million people, mainly in Denmark; the language is also used by the 50,000 Danes in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, where it holds the status of minority language. Danish also holds official status and is a mandatory subject in school in the Danish territories of Greenland and the Faroe Islands, which now enjoy limited autonomy. In Iceland and Faroe Islands, Danish is, alongside English, a compulsory foreign language taught in schools (although it may be substituted by Swedish or Norwegian). In North and South America there are Danish language communities in Argentina, the USA and Canada.
External Links:
- Danish course with instant audio
- Danish News Website with Daily Video
- Collection of Danish bilingual dictionaries
- Dictionary of the Danish Language
- "STELLA Danish" free online course for beginners
- Danish grammar
- Hear and learn useful expressions in Danish
- List of online Danish-language related resources
- Danish and Swedish with sound files including Japanese translation
- Danish dialect audio samples (in Danish)
All information is from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_language
