Today’s danish language lesson: Arbejdsgl

Danish flagI’ve been going on about how there’s a danish word for happiness at work, the word arbejdsglæde.

John of uneasy rhetoric had the great idea to put up a pronunciation guide and here it is, today’s lesson in danish: The word arbejdsglæde and how to pronounce it. (2 Mb mp3 file, 2 minutes).

In english it would be something like: Ah – bites – gleh – the.

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5 responses to “Today’s danish language lesson: Arbejdsgl”

  1. John (Uneasy Rhetoric) Avatar

    That’s great, thanks!

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  3. […] can beat the productivity boost you get from really, really enjoying your work.

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