{"id":5170,"date":"2023-10-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=5170"},"modified":"2023-11-27T17:21:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T15:21:27","slug":"why-denmark-iceland-south-africa-masters-phd-absolutely-intercultural-287","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=5170","title":{"rendered":"Why Denmark? +++ Iceland +++ South Africa +++ Masters +++ PhD +++ Absolutely Intercultural 287 +++"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5170-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_287.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_287.mp3\">http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_287.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5169\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?attachment_id=5169\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5169\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5169\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Peter-Ulfar-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Peter-Ulfar-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Peter-Ulfar-1024x882.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Peter-Ulfar-768x661.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Peter-Ulfar-1536x1323.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Peter-Ulfar-1200x1033.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Peter-Ulfar.jpg 1785w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter &amp; \u00dalfar in Iceland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Welcome to Show 287 of Absolutely Intercultural coming to you from Denmark. My name\u2019s Anne Fox and Denmark is where I have lived for almost thirty years. It is a small country of nearly 6 million people which has 8 universities. Compared to Germany\u2019s 380, or the USA\u2019s seemingly too many to count, but let\u2019s settle for over 4000, eight Danish universities seems like a very small pool to choose from. So why would anybody come to Denmark for their university studies? This is what we\u2019re going to find out in this show. We will be talking to Peter from South Africa who has a complex family history that is reflected in the languages spoken at home and \u00dalfar from Iceland who\u2019s noticed something about Denmark.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely uncertain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In our first segment, &#8220;absolutely uncertain&#8221;, let\u2019s find out how Peter came to Denmark, to study in Danish, after being brought up in South Africa and having done his schooling in German.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely engineered<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In our next segment, &#8220;absolutely engineered&#8221;, let\u2019s hear from \u00dalfar, an Icelander who had limited options for his Masters back in Iceland and chose Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe small is beautiful after all. Family history and colonial ties seem to count greatly in addition to any global ranking that Danish universities may also have. Just for information DTU is number 165 globally or, when we\u2019re talking specifically engineering and technology, 3rd after Stanford and MIT, while Copenhagen is 107 globally. And Iceland has seven universities which is only one less than Denmark, but it\u2019s something to do with size! What about you? Did you ever consider studying in a small country like Denmark? Get in touch, feel free to share your unique story with us here on the podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Write a comment or mail us, we could do a follow-up interview with you in one of our next shows. On our web page, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/\">absolutely-intercultural.com<\/a>, you can get more information about this show and previous episodes, and you can leave comments. And if you enjoyed the show, please like us on <a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Facebook <\/a>too.\u202f \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By the way, did you know we are also on iTunes or Apple Podcasts? You can subscribe to us there for free and give us a rating and a comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our next show will be coming to you on 3 November from Laurent Borgmann in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>The host of this show is:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/annefox.eu\/\">Anne Fox<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poddownico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_287.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podfeedico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/absolutely-intercultural\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Podcast-Feed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podaboico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/podcast-absolutely-intercultural\/id137617215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Show 287 of Absolutely Intercultural coming to you from Denmark. My name\u2019s Anne Fox and Denmark is where I have lived for almost thirty years. It is a small country of nearly 6 million people which has 8 universities. 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