Arabiens nat [Arabian Night] songtekst

That it is, though like with French, there often is a reason to the madness. What people often overlook when looking at Danish pronunciation is that long and short vowels are shown through whether or not the following consonants are single or double consonants (t vs tt, for example,) like with Norwegian and Swedish. Though, not all vowels are followed by consonants, so it can't always be shown, and unlike Norwegian and Swedish, Danish has a rule for when you can use double consonants: if the consonant isn't followed by a vowel (in other words, if it's followed by another consonant or is at the end of a word,) it must be a single consonant (Note this does not include compound words starting and ending with the same consonant (for eksempel hårdt + trædende = hårdttrædende.)

Sometimes, a "mute d" is used to indicate where there should be a double consonant. Kald instead of kall (call), fald instead of fall (fall), sidst instead of sisst (last), and sand instead of sann (sand / true).

Personally, I find Danish to be more aesthetically pleasing than Norwegian and Swedish for these reasons, but they indeed can make it tricky, especially since Danish has changed a lot phonetically recently, so much so that the written language hasn't always been able to keep up and there's come a disconnect between the written language and the spoken one. Some people think we ought to have a spelling reform, and I am in that camp as well.

Hopefully, this has cleared up a thing or two for you :)