Can I speak Danish? No.
And the prospect of learning is daunting. As my Teach Yourself: Complete Danish book mockingly tells me, "Danish is not a phonetic language, so spelling is no guide to how a word is pronounced." Granted, neither is English, but I learned that when I was young and impressionable and didn't know that languages could be phonetic.
Then I went and took Spanish in school, which has extremely simple rules for pronunciation that are pretty much always followed.
I'm starting to think that the biggest problem with trying to learn a language at 30, as opposed to when we're kids, is that we're much better at convincing ourselves of how difficult it will be.
Kan jeg Dansk? Snart. Damnit.
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