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Tips for Living with a Danish Family
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8 minutes
Released:
Jan 9, 2019
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Podcast episode
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As the new academic semester starts up, some of you may be planning to live in a Danish home. It could be you’ll rent a room in a household, maybe you’ll be part of a Danish host family, or maybe you’ll just be staying with Danish friends. I thought it might be useful to have some tips on living with a Danish family. First of all, if you’re used to having your parents or domestic workers do most of the household chores – things are about to change. Danish families generally don’t have live-in domestic workers. A few wealthy families with small children have au pairs, and it’s common to have a weekly cleaning person, but on a day-to-day basis, household chores are done by all the members of the family. Male, female, young, old, everybody does their part. (In fact, statistics show that Danish men do more household chores than any other men in Europe.) So, if you’re going to live as part of a Danish family, there will probably be household chores for you, too. If you don’t know how to wash dishes, or clean a floor, or do laundry, have somebody teach you before you leave home.
Released:
Jan 9, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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