Typing in Danish

I'm going to preface this entry with the fact that I, unlike many of my studying abroad peers, actually really like the Danish language. Will I ever be fluent? No. Will I ever even be something that could be considered passable? Again probably not. But I think it's such a neat language and I really am enjoying learning it. It's so satisfying when I can pick up tidbits of conversations or can read signs in the store. It's not like any language I've learned before, where I never really found any practical application for it. Here, I actually do get to you my Danish understanding skills fairly frequently. True, everyone here speaks English with an astounding fluency, but it still helps to understand a little Danish. (Speaking it is another story. I can't even come close to pronouncing this language properly. There are seriously sounds I've never heard before).

But anyway, the real point of this entry is that I do not like the Danish keyboard. I have a very difficult time typing on it, because instead of a semi-colon, an apostrophe, and the enter key, you have all these other random, non-English letters. So when I'm typing to friends from a Danish keyboard, like at DIS, I often end up typing them a random pile of gibberish, as I keep accidentally hitting non-english letters.


And this keyboard also insists on putting a lot more stuff on top of the numbers, so that in order to get to the "@" for example, you have to press "Control" and "Alt" at the same time. I guess it's not that big of a deal, but when you're switching between the two keyboards as often as I have found myself doing, it gets rather annoying.