The misses butted in here..
Ofcourse depending on the US dialect,
Å sounds like Awe
and
gård sounds like gored.
Awe - Gored
Very similar!
And, speaking of the Danes, they have a very strange language. Even though we used to vacation there every summer when I was younger, its still difficult to understand them. Very guttural language.
Language professors, estimate that the south and north won`t not understand each other in a 100 years.