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by berkes 890 days ago
> Danish pronunciation sounds extremely «blurred» in Norwegian (and Swedish) ears.

It does to Dutch ears too. Just a few weeks ago, I passed through some tourist-infested area in Amsterdam. "Are these Swedish tourists drunk at this hour in morning already? Oh, wait, they are sober Danes."
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PringleBoy 890 days ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk
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hurtigare 890 days ago
As a Swede I always thought you would relate to Danish more since both Danish and Dutch sounds "blurry" to us.
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zilti 890 days ago
Does it? Now I wonder what Alemannic (Swiss-German, maybe especially the heavier dialects like Bernese and Walliserdeutsch) sound to you, because to my Bernese ears, Dutch sounds a lot closer to my own language than pretty much all other germanic languages.
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