Hygge pronunciation youtube

Everyone’s going on about the new Danish lifestyle trend promising to transform your winter…

Before we explain what hygge is, let us first ask you this... think of the warmest, cosiest things you could possibly imagine, what comes to mind first?

Log fires, sheepskin rugs, faux fur slippers and hot water bottles (complete with hand-knitted covers)? Melted cheese, dressing gowns, flickering candles and hot chocolate?

Hygge lifestyle

Toasted marshmallows, hot chocolate with toasted marshmallows, and that oddly pleasurable burning feeling you get on your back from leaning up against the radiator too long? Maybe it's Iceland, or Lapland, or an alpine wooden lodge on the slopes of Austria?

Or what about Denmark?

Yep, as autumn approaches (/hits us in the face with the spray of a car driving through a puddle) and we dig out our 100 derniers from the bottom of the laundry bin, the Danish reckon they’ve found a solution to our winter blues.

And it’s called ‘hygge’.

How do you pronounce hygge?

Pronounced ‘hoo-guh’ (not ‘hig’, unfo

how hygge pronounced

hygge danish pronunciation