<![CDATA[Isn't it ironic that those times when you are busiest with interesting things are just those times when you have the least opportunity to sit down and write.
Today I took part in a little experiment as part of the Nordic Voice conference by linking up a class in a local college with my good friend, Susanne Nyrop, on the other side of Denmark for a live interview over the Internet.
Both the topic and the manner of its doing were interesting. The topic was the closeness or not of the Nordic languages. The class was a group of adult migrants and they were trying to find out how much they could expect to understand of Norwegian and Swedish once they have mastered Danish.
My willing colleague in Kalø, Kirsten, had initially thought that she would pick out a small group to carry out the interview after the whole class had prepared questions generated by an article stating amongst other things that a Swede should be able to speak Danish after only 16 hours of lessons. When I arrived there today I discovered that the interest level was so high that they all wanted to take part.
This meant that I didn’t have a headset and spent most of my time making sure the technical stuff was OK so I don’t know what made them all laugh until I listen to the recording later. I do know though that Susanne persuaded them to sing their favourite Danish song at the end of the session.
More on the technical stuff in the next post.]]>