DTU Campus Village
A mix of languages is present at Campus Village. While some students with common nationalities talk to each other in their native languages, many students make an effort to learn another language. Many international students hope to learn English by studying in Denmark, as most Danes speak English since a young age. Some Campus Village residents manage to learn phrases from an additional foreign language like French or Portuguese through living with native speakers of those languages. Some students attend a class at night to learn Danish.
Anglia (peninsula)
The main language of Anglia is German. The peninsula is, however, also part of the Low German (Low Saxon) language area, a language which is more closely related to English than Standard German since it was not affected by the High German consonant shift. Danish was the main language of Anglia from the 9th to the 19th century, when a language shift towards Low German occurred. Many Anglian placenames are of Danish origin, like all placenames ending on "-by" (Flensburg-Engelsby, Flensburg-Jürgensby). There are many placenames of Danish origin in England as well (Derby, Rugby, Whitby), but in Danish, German and Swedish, "-by" is pronounced , and not , as in England. Danish is still spoken in Anglia, mainly in Flensburg/Flensborg, Schleswig/Slesvig and Glücksburg/Lyksborg. North Frisian, one of the Frisian languages, which are very closely related to English as well, is spoken in many dialectal variants in neighbouring North Frisia along the North Sea coast of Schleswig-Holstein and on the North Frisian Islands.