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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4826 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 89 of 107 17 July 2012 at 12:31am | IP Logged | ||
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This is a fairly minor resource, but might be of interest to anyone who just fancies a
quick overview of Norwegian, Swedish and Danish: It's an old Scandinavian phrasebook, first published in 1959, although we have copies "modernised" in 1966 and 1971. It was published by Collins, and is charmingly old-fashioned, and of course the prices are hilariously out of date, not that that matters. The nice thing is that you can see the phrases for all three languages in parallel right across the book (across about 150 pages). My wife had a copy when we first got married, but I thought we'd lost it, so I found another one quite cheap on amazon UK marketplace; then the 1st one turned up! :) There seemed to be quite a few for sale at that time, and perhaps one can also get them on Ebay. The thing is, I haven't seen any modern phrase books that work in the same way (i.e. the 3 languages in parallel). Edit: I suppose I should make the title clear: "Collins Scandinavian Phrase Book" Edited by Laila Myking Original publisher: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1st published 1959. Known reprints: 1966, 1968, 1971... Edited by montmorency on 17 July 2012 at 12:42am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| brunilda Newbie United States Joined 5055 days ago 4 posts - 6 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 90 of 107 24 July 2012 at 3:18am | IP Logged | ||
Assimil's Le Norvégien sans peine is truly outstanding. It's their best course, as far as I am concerned. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5064 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish | Message 91 of 107 29 July 2012 at 8:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Does anyone happen to know of some sort of Danish soap opera or children's show with
Danish subtitles online perhaps? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5451 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 92 of 107 29 July 2012 at 9:12pm | IP Logged | ||
I don't, but public broadcaster Danmarks Radio's web page is probably a good place to start looking: http://www.dr.dk/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4826 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 93 of 107 20 August 2012 at 12:59am | IP Logged | ||
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The Copenhagencast.com website is quite well known I think.
There you can download for free quite a number of podcasts with Danish lessons given in a fairly informal friendly style. In addition, you can pay a modest sum to download transcripts and additional material. What I have only just found out is that Louise, the teacher, has prepared Anki decks based on the podcasts. I'm not clear if you have to subscribe to the transcripts in order to see these, or if they are stored out there somewhere in "Ankiland" for anyone to download. I don't use Anki myself, but probably regular users will know where to find them and what to do with them. Louise is a big fan of Anki, and I suspect every podcast is going to be telling us to use it, so I might be suitably brainwashed by the end of them :-) (I use word lists myself). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4826 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 94 of 107 21 August 2012 at 9:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have only just realised that dict.cc has an English-Danish dictionary. It appears to
be in "beta", but there seems to be a fair number of entries in it. http://enda.dict.cc There is also German-Danish: http://deda.dict.cc English-Swedish: http://ensv.dict.cc (Several other languages as well). Unfortunately, although the ability to click for a sound sample is built in, a lot of the Danish ones are not present. Hopefully they will come, over time. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5064 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish | Message 95 of 107 21 August 2012 at 11:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks montmorency, the Copenhagencast website is brilliant!
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4826 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 96 of 107 22 August 2012 at 11:42pm | IP Logged | ||
It is isn't it? Glad you like it! Well, I did contact Louise some days ago, and she assured me that transcripts etc. were still sent out to people who subscribed, and people are apparently regularly doing so. And having just subscribed myself (at long last), I can confirm that the process works very smoothly, and exactly as described. 260 DKK for season 1. 80 DKK for season 2. It's too early to say what it's like, but if the free stuff is anything to go by, I'm sure it will be excellent. Farvel, så længe! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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