The way Danes speak makes it much harder for Danish children to learn the language. Fabio Trecca, CC BY-ND A visual depiction of the words for ‘smoked trout’ spoken out loud in Danish (top) and ...

The late Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew was always adamant that his countrymen speak proper English. It was his formal training, and somewhat idiosyncratic readings of culture and race that suggested ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Danish academics have warned of “language death” in the country after the closure of scores of ...

Poul Andersen, a Los Angeles Times printer who published the nation’s only weekly Danish-language newspaper, Bien, for more than a quarter of a century, has died. He was 84. Andersen, a Danish ...

Denmark will reduce the number of places on certain English medium of instruction programs at six of the country’s eight universities in a bid to discourage international graduates from returning home ...

How many sign languages are there in the world? How many people use them? How are they structured? How strong are they, and what are the attitudes of the users (and others) to their languages? The ...

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” Shakespeare famously wrote in his tragedy “Hamlet.” Today, the foundation underneath Denmark’s official One China policy has eroded so far that it is ...

LinkedIn has continued its efforts to roll out internationally and appeal to local markets after the professional social network introduced support for Danish, which becomes its nineteenth local ...

A strong contender in the foreign-language Oscar race, “Land of Mine,” directed by up-and-coming Danish helmer Martin Pieter Zandvliet, underscores the wealth of talent coming out of Denmark within ...