Here's what I found for Danish:

I dag er det din fødelsedag
Hurra, hurra, hurra!
Du sikkert dig en gave får,
som du ønsket dig i år,
og dejlig chokolade med/og kager til.

Translation:
Today it's your birthday
Hurra, hurra, hurra!
You're probably going to recieve a preset,
That you've wished for this year
And delicious chocolate and cakes to go with it!

Tak! *rushes off to find the melody*

How come you guys like Danish so much? Swedish & Norwegian have the awesome tonal accents.

I don't understand stød, so I speak Danish with tones. I've been told that it makes me sound like a farmer.

Anyway, I studied Norwegian in January, and I just prefer the sound of Danish. I'm slowly gaining a passive knowledge of Swedish too, because I absolutely love how it sounds (but written Danish is much better).

I love Danish because I am part Danish (and it's really probably the only part of my heritage I embrace fully ). I've also just fallen in love with the sound of the language itself.



OMG! Isn't that like Molboernes accent?! You're gonna want to drop that eventually if you want to be taken seriously I have a relative who's a ferryman and he talk like that sometimes (very difficult to understand...of course the fact he's 80 doesn't help either)

Yes, it's awful. Nice people say I sound like I have a Norwegian or Swedish accent. Rude people say I sound like a redneck farmer.

I know I should drop the tones, but then I'd have to use stoed, and that's hard.

I wonder, could I speak without tones or stoed?

Most of the foreigners I know in Norway just stick to one of the tones and use that one in all instances. I don't think this is bad, though. I know a girl from the Netherlands who has been living in Norway for five years or something. Her grammar and vocabulary are flawless - when I read something she has written there is no way I could tell she's a non-native, but when she speaks, I notice it because of the tones. It is almost impossible to get a native accent in any foreign language after you have passed a certain age, so I wouldn't focus too much on it. You're perfectly intelligible anyway.

Okay, that makes sense. That makes you a "heritage learner".

Again, you would still be understood, but that's another dialect (for a small country Denmark has alot of them ). It would mark you as a foreigner as you're too young to have grown up speaking a dialect like that. I actually use too many stød, apparently; you can borrow some of mine

Lol! I wonder, does the Jylland dialect use stød? Fordi a kan taler det. A little bit. That's just another version of farmer I guess. XD

I know there's stød on the indefinite article, do you know the rules? Are there rules?