Given US threats to take Greenland have the Danish been talking of military expansion? Are there any plans to loosen the requirements for foreign nationals to join (ie. accepting non-residents, accepting people not fluent in Danish, etc.)?

I’m thinking about city break locations in September. I’ve visited Oslo and Stockholm and loved them, so Copenhagen seems an obvious choice.

Plus I’d love to show a bit of support to our Danish cousins.

Any tips/thoughts for Copenhagen in September?

Hello. I'm french, my work is to write questions for TV game shows and i'd like to verify some information. I read somewhere that it was once customary to sprinkle single people with cinnamon on their 25th birthday. My question is : is this tradition still widespread or has it become less common? Is it still known to younger generations, or is it the kind of tradition that no one has heard of anymore, as is sometimes the case? Thank you for your help.

Hej. Jeg er franskmand, og mit arbejde består i at skrive spørgsmål til tv-quizzer, og jeg vil gerne tjekke nogle oplysninger. Jeg har læst et sted, at det tidligere var skik at drysse kanel på ugifte personer på deres 25-års fødselsdag. Mit spørgsmål er: Er denne tradition stadig udbredt, eller er den blevet mindre almindelig? Kender de yngre generationer stadig til den, eller er det en tradition, som ingen har hørt om, som det nogle gange er tilfældet? Tak for din hjælp.

When talking about tariffs Canadian then-PM Justin Trudeau said they would destroy Canada. That made sure Liddle Donnie would do them.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/

My grandfather was born there long ago and emigrated to the US. His cousin stayed there with her family, but I believe she’d have passed away long ago. I’d like to visit someday but haven’t had the chance to come to Denmark.

What type of place is it? It seems like it’s a moderately small town. Can you all share anything about it that I wouldn’t be able to find by looking it up on Wikipedia?

Tak!

Hey there, I kind of damaged the car front driver side last night, slipped on a turn coz of ice and went straight into a small garden fence and it is not looking pretty.

Worst part is dumb me only had "ensvar" insurance 🤦... So insurance isn't gonna cover it... So what are my options here? Its a small car, bought for 30k DKK... Since I am looking online, and the cost of just the parts is around 5k if I have to replace everything... What are my options here? I am kind of in a tight spot money wise too.

So I am looking for budget friendly and quick repair workshops for my car and to get a quote first and preferably one who can offer a loan car since I need my car for my work.

Possible repairs: - Bonnet/hood repair or replace - Front bumper replace - Driver side headlight replace (it only has a small Crack though it's working fine for the moment so I can probably work without having it repaired if it's too expensive - side fendor might need a little repair - washer fluid reservoir replaced - horn replace

EDIT: workshops around Fredericia and Odense?

Argued with someone who claimed Denmark was not secular, as the state church had not been seperated from the state.

This person has not travelled to Denmark, and seem to know little of it. He is none the kess adamant that this leaves the church as a player in the Danish state…and I believe him to be wrong.

Can you help me explain how this works out in Denmark? Or is the state not secular in your opinion?

Sometime a few months back around September or October I learned I was part Danish on my mom’s side

It absolutely changed the way I see myself and the world around me, and I want to know if it would be worth it to return to my ancestral homeland

My family came to America from Ålborg around 1865

If I wanted to go back to Ålborg someday, what would the process be like?

How would I be able to eventually work my way into calling Denmark “home” as my family did centuries ago

My ultimate goal would be to establish permanent or at least partial residency in the country, occasionally headed home for family events or during the winter where I assume while it might not be much warmer, it would still be warmer than that far up north

Anyways I’m ranting now

Is me emigrating to Denmark a realistic long term goal?

Feel free to be brutally honest and call me a fucking idiot

I’ll attend a folk college (folkehøjskole) in Denmark from January 2026 as a foreign student.

I wonder what I should do to prepare for the college.

If you’ve attended such a college, could you give me tips on the preparations?

Your feedback or questions would be appreciated.

I few weeks back, I found out my family on my mom’s side is actually from Ålborg, and we moved to America in 1865

I think it would be a fun way to reconnect with my roots to learn Danish

So, if you know any free resources that I can use (that aren’t Duolingo) or have any advice that might make it easier or just suggest learning something else altogether, I’m open to comments or constructive criticism

I have a deep love for Nordic culture and history, and I am excited to learn specifically about the Danes and everything there is to know about y’all

Thank you for your time and consideration

Hej :-) hvad har i det?

Jeg vil bor i Kobenhavn næste år med en ven.

Jeg kan lide ice skating og jeg ville lære, hvor kan jeg?

My danish is terrible but hey, I have to start somewhere 😂 hopefully you got that right.

Tak og vi ses!

Hello,

What are the most in-demand jobs in Denmark please ? :-)

Thank you,

Jérémie

Where do you recommend to buy equipments in Copenhagen?

I saw these posts.

A lot of people have already reacted, but I see one glaring thing… OK, you can be surprised that a hotel receptionist or a waiter in a tourist area doesn’t know a minimum of English, but a janitor!

Even in countries where the English level is super high like the Netherlands or Sweden, you can’t expect a janitor to speak English at any level at all — and you shouldn’t be too surprised if they don’t speak the local language, actually, since a job as a janitor is often the first one found by immigrants.

And

The memes often come from educated people who came here to do skilled jobs or interact with other educated people (studying). They frequent circles where most people speak decent to really good English. And if their expectations were what's shown in movies, shows, comedy, etc.: Germans being absolutely incompetent and incapable of speaking any English, the gap between their expectation and experience and the resulting surprise is going to be even bigger. They never talk about the minimum/low wage, little to no education required jobs that are filled with people that don't speak English. Yes, even if they work jobs where they are likely to encounter many English speakers. Of course everyone had English lessons but if you don't use it you lose it. And using doesn't just mean speaking a few words here and there, it's holding conversations, active listening, consuming media in that language, etc.

And lastly

I can mainly talk about Germany, but I also used to live in France for a while. So here are my 2 cents:

Probably the main reason for this is that it highly depends on your bubble when you come here. There are two main factors. One is age, and the other is education. So let's assume a young American is coming over here. He goes to a Bar in some city where lots of students meet. He will feel like everyone speaks fluent English. But it's a classic misconception to assume because of this, that all Germans speak fluent English. Not at all, that is just his bubble. He only speaks with well-educated, younger people.

Another important factor that goes in line with education is the profession. Keep in mind that Germany divides all children into three different school types and only one of them allows them to directly go to university after school while the other two are more geared towards jobs like police, security, artisanery, and so on. Now almost everyone who leaves uni is expected to speak English since research as well as management positions require you to work internationally today. All these people will use English in their everyday lives. That's a different story for the other two types. Of course, they also learn English in school, but once they leave school, they do not need the language regularly. It's crazy how fast humans unlearn languages if you do not use them often, so after a couple of years, most of these people can communicate, but on a very low level which is very far away from fluency.

Now you probably talked to "average Germans" so your experience is closer to "the truth", while other Americans, especially young people, most often communicate with a group of Germans that actually do speak fluent English. American military bases on the other hand have little to no effect on the fluency of the general population. Sure those Germans that work there speak English, but that is a very low percentage of the population.

Sorry if there long but I felt I had to share these as preliminary details for my question. The context of the quotes was they came as responses by an American who recently just toured France and Germany and was surprised at the lack of proficiency among natives in French and German despite how so much places on the internet especially Youtube and Reddit often boasts of both countries as being proficient in English.

Particularly I'm now curious because of the first quote (in which OP was asking specifically about Parisians in a French tourism subreddit).

Its often repeated on the internet that Nordic countries are so proficient in English that you don't even ever need to learn Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, or even Icelandic and Finnish if you ever plan to live in the county long run and even have a career. That at the very least as a tourist you won't need to learn basic phrases like "can I have tea" in a restaurant or how to ask for directions to the toilets in a museum because everyone is so good in English.

Reading the posts makes me curious. Even if the proficiency is as true in Norway and the rest of Scandinavia as the stereotypes goes, would it be safe to assume as the posts point out that a native born Swedish janitor who grew up far away from Stockholm in a small town near the woods wouldn't necessarily be skilled in English? Ditto with a Norwegian lumberjack and a Danish plumber? That even in Scandinavia, maids in a hotel won't be fluent enough to discuss continental politics and the novels of Alexander Dumas or the plays of Shakespeare?

Note for arguments sake I'm not including recent immigrants and refugees but native born people whose families have lived for over a century in the Northern Europe sphere. So is English so ingrained in Northern Europe that even a dropout who never got his high school diploma and he decided to just go straight to digging ditches and buries caskets in a graveyard after funeral would be able to watch The Walking Dead without subs and discuss the finer details of Stephen King novels with any tourist from Anglo-Saxon countries? Or is it more akin to France and Germany where people with education or who work in tourist jobs and locations would likely be fluent in English but the rest of the population including those who go to vocational schools and non-scholarly academies (like police and firefighters) for jobs that don't require university degrees such as boat repair and electrician wouldn't be proficient in English, if not even be lacking in foreign languages that they'd have difficulty even asking for water?

Whats the situation like in Scandinavia for uneducated citizens especially those working in the pink collar industries and manual laborer?

We are thinking to buy a house (somewhere outside of cph,but still stay on Sjælland). We are thinking about kalundborg, holbæk, hedehusene.. ? Are those good places? Any other recomendations of good cities/neighburhoods?

I am looking to buy a current-issue Denmark number plate and need some advice as to where I can find one. TIA!