Learn how to give your email address to someone
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| Hey everyone, I'm Jonas. |
| Hej alle sammen, jeg hedder Jonas. |
| Welcome to the Danish Whiteboard Lessons. |
| In this lesson, you'll learn how to give someone your email. |
| Let's get started. |
| Okay, let's look at the vocabulary. |
| First, we have A, A, A, B, B, B, C, C, C, |
| D, D, D, E, E, E, F, F, F, |
| G, G, G, H, H, E, I, E, |
| J, J, K, K, L, L, L, |
| M, M, M, N, N, N. |
| Okay, and we go up. |
| O, O, O, P, P, P, Q, Q, |
| R, R, R, S, S, S, |
| T, T, T, U, U, V, V, V, |
| W, W, W, X, X, Y, Y, |
| and the example here is Y, Y, Z, Z, Z. |
| And now we have the three unique Danish letters. |
| Æ, æ, æ, ø, ø, ø, å, å, å. |
| Let's look at the dialogue. |
| When I read, I want you to pay attention to the letters. |
| Listen to how the email address is given and see how it's used in the dialogue. |
| All right, here we go. |
| Hvad er din emailadresse? |
| Min emailadresse er elisabeth@innolang.com. |
| Hvordan stager du det? |
| eh, el, ii, zet, ah, beh, eh, teh, hå, snabel a, innolang, punktum, com |
| So the English version would go like this. |
| What is your email address? |
| My email address is elisabeth@innolang.com |
| How do you spell that? |
| E, L, I, Z, A, B, E, T, H, at, innolang, dot, com |
| Now let's look at the sentence pattern. |
| This pattern was the structure that our dialogue followed. |
| Hvad er din emailadresse? |
| Min emailadresse er, and you insert your email address. |
| The English goes like this. |
| What is your email address? |
| My email address is, and insert your email address. |
| It's important to know certain punctuation in Danish for saying your email address. |
| The most peculiar one is this one, snabel a. |
| It means (@) at, and in Danish this is referring to an elephant trunk. |
| Next one is punktum, meaning period, also pronounced dot. |
| Next one is this one, bindestreg, meaning hyphen. |
| The last one is the same as in English, underscore, meaning underscore. |
| Next we're going to talk a little bit about nouns in Danish. |
| En and et are the gender article words used in front of nouns. |
| So neutral gender article is et, and common gender is en. |
| Roughly 70% of all the Danish nouns are common gender, meaning en in front of the noun. |
| An example from today's conversation is the word email address in Danish, emailadresse. |
| This is a common gender noun, meaning it's en emailadresse. |
| You can see the relation here in the possessive pronouns din has the en din emailadresse or min emailadresse. |
| The last thing we need to talk about is the flat Danish language. |
| So the pronunciation sounds really, really odd, right? |
| You need to know some basic mouth movements to learn how to pronounce Danish word. |
| The first one is a very wide mouth, and the other one you need to know is a very round Danish mouth. |
| A good example for this is the letter A, pronounced A. |
| So you see this? My very wide mouth for this one, A. |
| Another good example is the letter U, U. |
| You see that? A round mouth, U. |
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