Can You Say Kvæsthusgade?

Copenhagen. The idyllic Danish city of bikes and canals and bikes and walkable streets and bikes is also the home of street names and neighborhoods that can be nearly impossible for the non-Danish to pronounce. Kvæsthusgade? Brolæggerstræde? Klaksvigsgade? You don't have to be a lazy American to get discouraged (though it certainly helps).

To try to help foreigners verbally traverse this phonically complicated streetscape, two expats have created a light and sound installation that sounds out these throat-chokers syllable by consonant-riddled syllable.