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 ...

Imagine drinking hot cider with a good book. Add in a warm blanket and a pair of cozy slippers. That warm, content, joyful feeling you feel right now? That’s hygge (pronounced hoo-ga). The term is a ...

THE tourists who now crowd into Norway summer after summer are apt to find that a better acquaintance with the language of the country is required from them than is the case in the more frequented ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. [Editors' note: A delegation led by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education recently visited Harvard ...

Morten H. Christiansen, The William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Psychology, Cornell University and Fabio Trecca, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science of Language, Aarhus University There are three ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) There are three main reasons why Danish is so complicated. First, with about 40 ...