Most foreigners have this wtf reaction when they hear it because it sounds so out of character considering the overall language.
Danish random gutteral sounds.
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Guttural r exists as a pronunciation of the written character ğ in some especially east anatolian dialects of turkish of turkey and in neighbouring azerbaijani.
Danish and dutch are the only two languages spoken equally well by man and sea lions victor borge.
There is only one gutteral sound in dutch present only in northern dutch and it isn t even that frequent but people tend to remember the exceptions.
The pronunciation of the sound is softer than french guttural r always voiced.
Til that the danish language is so full of vowel sounds and guttural swallowed consonants that even danish children have trouble understanding it learning to speak at a much slower rate than in other countries.
The history behind why danish sounds like a throat condition.
Meaningless guttural sounds.
However the sound is not an allophone of true alveolar r sounds in any turkish language.
Dutch on the whole isn t a gutteral language.
Published june 5 2007 danish life random 4 comments props to spoiled milk for pointing me in the direction of this norwegian piss take of the danish language.
The danish language has collapsed into meaningless gutteral sounds john nixon news 0 comments many people believe that danish norwegian and swedish all being germanic languages are so similar to each other that natives of the three main scandinavians countries can converse easily with each other using their respective mother tongues.
Guttural r is the phenomenon whereby a rhotic consonant an r like sound is produced in the back of the vocal tract usually with the uvula rather than in the front portion thereof and thus as a guttural consonant.
København or koebenhavn a few things to remember danish is very gutteral with many sounds made in the back of the throat.
Vowels are sometimes not pronounced at all in some words.
Try listening to audiotapes or just listen to the danes and learn as you go.