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Writing in English is tough, study shows

The subjects are hard enough already. But writing the papers in a language that is not your mother tongue is even harder. New research looks at how international students cope

Danes eat their own words

Danish is hard enough to learn, but even harder to understand. PhD student in phonetics at Copenhagen Business School, Ruben Schachtenhaufen explains why Danish sounds like gibberish

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Revealing the beauty of your own language

Listen to strange Danish dialects

Office staff learn to cope with cultural confusion

More than 200 university staff members have signed up to learn how to overcome cultural and language barriers when talking to staff and students from abroad

Listen to strange Danish dialects

Danish is not just Danish. Try the new Danish map: it tells you where the weirdest sounds are

Study to shed light on language motives

SPECIAL REPORT: WHY BOTHER LEARNING DANISH?
Research will find out if, and why, internationals need to learn the language

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Danish is worth the effort

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No point in learning Danish

Editorial: Danish, what's the point?

UK: Student jailed for language test fraud

A Chinese student who was paid GBP 400 to take a university English exam for someone else has been jailed for six months

Lecturer provoked by poor English evaluation

Students said he was hard to understand. He countered with a four-page written response: Their evaluation was flawed

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A new look at teaching in English

Bad accent is considered bad teaching

Bad accent is considered bad teaching

Students interpret the teacher’s dialect and bad grammar as lack of competence

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Lecturer provoked by poor English evaluation

A new look at teaching in English