Rosetta Stone offers Standard Danish.

The Danish language is spoken by more than 6 million people. Derived from Old Norse, Danish evolved in a fashion similar to the other Scandinavian languages. It offers a unique insight into the only Scandinavian country connected to mainland Europe.

Denmark is the world's oldest kingdom. Today, Denmark operates as a constitutional monarchy and its territory includes Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Shakespeare aficionados will recognise Elsinore in eastern Denmark as the setting for 'Hamlet'. It was Hans Christian Andersen who helped transform the image of this land into that of a true 'fairytale' country.

Danish permits noun compounding, like most Germanic languages. Verbally, Danish uses glottal stops in pronunciation of certain homonyms to differentiate words.

Featuring relatively simple grammar and a variation of the Latin alphabet, Danish offers written commonality with Swedish and Norwegian, although Scandinavians tend to speak to each other in English.

» Return to Danish Product Page