Furthermore, I guess those who vehemently believe that moving or visiting another country, barely learning your new home country's language, and receiving others hard earned money support you and your family that it's okay not to make an early effort to show that you are trying to blend in. Essentially, earning your keep. I guess respect and honor for others is simply archaic in some people's minds.
So someone logically tell me why is that okay?
Why the excuses?
Why is it okay for Marie (or anybody else for that matter including Europeans who move to the US) to take the lax way, yet others who move to Denmark are required to master the language in order to work? Do those who live in Denmark give a free pass when it comes to their royals and so-to-be?
Why? Please explain?
Honestly, it boggles my mind to know there are some who just don't get it. It's not like Marie is moving to the US where the three major languages are English, Spanish, and Mandarin and thus can get away with lazily blending in. We give jobs to those who can barely put a sentence together including Europeans who move to the States. It's Denmark for heaven's sake... a country with less than 7 million people and a royal family that is essentially supported by the masses.
It's not excuses, because, yes, she
should be learning Danish.
However (and this is the crucial point to me - until she has actually stood in the church in Møgeltønder, and accepted Joachim (and Denmark) she is of no obligation to me - as a tax-payer in Denmark - to know the language.
She herself has stated that she won't move to Denmark until after the wedding.
She won't become a Danish citizen until then (Ie. I won't be paying for her until then).
So
why should I know the status of her linguistic progress before it is actually an issue to me?
As long as I know that she's working on it, which by all accounts she is, I don't really care how far she is along now, as long as she can make herself understood after the wedding. (and possibly also understand the language in the ceremony, of course.
)
Until May 24, I don't really care if she speaks French, German, Spanish, English, Mandarin… or whatever. It is not really any of my business, as a tax payer in Denmark(, since tax money keeps getting dragged into everything.)
If she's still got a horrible accent after a couple of years or fail to attempt the language in public after the wedding -
yes, I'm right there with you. (Probably sneak before you in the line
)
Edited to add: There's an interview with Marie in Billedbladet this week where she talks about learning Danish:
"I don't work, anymore. I'm preparing for the move to Denmark. And I'm attempting to learn Danish. It progresses nicely; I practice and it is fun. Even if I also think it is difficult, it is always fun to learn a new language and I've begun to understand quite a lot."