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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4522 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes  Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 41 of 312 18 April 2013 at 10:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Kon-Tiki is a bit like a documentary with some thrilling scenes (like shark attacks). The dialogues are not really important, only the pictures are. So it's probably a good film for learners because you don't need to understand everything to understand the story. It's entertaining for about half the time, then it gets a bit repetitive. The problem is that the end is known because it is an adaption of a well-known book, so the main thrill is gone.
I usually like Norwegian horror movies for learning because the pictures are self-explaining. The Fritt Vild triology, Rovdyr and Død Snø would be examples. With all those movies, I would recommend using headphones to get rid of background noises. It makes it a lot easier to understand the dialogues, which are actually pretty easy vocabulary wise. Fatso is pretty funny and easy to understand (even without headphones), but one of the main actors is Swedish. One other easy to follow film would be "Få Meg På, For Faen", which plays mainly in rural Western Norway, so you can expect some dialect, but they talk with skarre-r, which I find a lot easier to understand than rulle-r because skarre-r doesn't induce all these assimilations. Edited by daegga on 18 April 2013 at 10:52am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4522 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 42 of 312 01 May 2013 at 7:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Huh, it's been some time. Nothing fancy to report, really.
I finished Kongernes kamp and moved on to Storm af sværd (A Song of Ice and Fire 3). This was the best among those books in English, so I'm quite excited about finally listening to it in Danish. My re-watch of Borgen is advancing slowly, I don't have a lot of time for watching TV right now. I'm now somewhere at the beginning of Season 2. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4522 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 43 of 312 31 May 2013 at 6:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've finally finished my rewatch of Borgen season 2. I've been ill these last few weeks, so my motivation has been quite low. Still not fully recovered, but it's time to get going again. I'm looking forward to watching season 3 :)
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4522 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 44 of 312 24 June 2013 at 11:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Terrible how fast time goes by these days. 24 days since my last entry, and only today I started to watch season 3 of Borgen. I'm quite glad about my progress though, I could understand most of it without subtitles and without headphones. And it's a lot more exciting to watch new episodes than old ones.
As far as the audiobook goes, I've almost finished it, I have at most 2 hours or so left (the whole audiobook has over 42 hours). More about that when I'm done. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sans-serif Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4560 days ago 298 posts - 470 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, German, Swedish Studies: Danish | Message 45 of 312 25 June 2013 at 7:05pm | IP Logged | ||
Not bad! My listening skills have also improved a lot over the past two months, and I can now watch TV and listen to the radio with about 80% comprehension. I seem to recall that I claimed to be at 80% a long time ago already, but in retrospect my earlier estimates may have been a tad optimistic. :-) I now feel like I'm in a kind of transitional phase where my Danish is gradually becoming less and less dependent on my Swedish (only in terms of passive skills, unfortunately). Do you remember going through a similar stage in your studies? I often get the feeling that written Danish and Norwegian only differ in spelling, but the spoken varieties appear to be slightly less identical. Anyway, ha det så bra och lycka till med dina danskstudier! Edited by sans-serif on 26 June 2013 at 3:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4522 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 46 of 312 29 July 2013 at 2:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Oh my, I didn't update my log for over a month. I had a lot of distress learning for my
finals, but now they are over. I've long finished Borgen and ASoIaF. Borgen was great, I'll miss it. I'll probably buy the remaining 2 books of ASoIaF when they get translated to Danish, at least book 5 was amazing in English. I'm halfway through the first audiobook of the Jordens børn series (Earth's Children) by Jean M. Auel. There are 6 books and over 170h of audio. I've watched Blinkende lygter without subtitles but with headphones and could understand it just fine. I still have a lot of troubles with "Pusher", even with headphones. @sans-serif I can't really tell. Passively, Danish seems just like another Norwegian dialect to me. A bit harder to understand than real Norwegian dialects, but still close enough. I don't internally translate into Norwegian if that's what you mean and I stopped doing that very fast. Actively, they are kind of separated in my mind anyway, I think I distinguish languages by accent. If I need to come up with a word I haven't used in Danish before but which I usually use without problems in Norwegian, it takes a long time to spit it out. So I think it's best to avoid any links there and focus on languages in isolation. Edited by daegga on 08 November 2013 at 11:09pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4522 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 47 of 312 05 August 2013 at 9:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm actually doing stuff in Danish at work now ... who would have thought it
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4522 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 48 of 312 18 October 2013 at 6:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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been busy with Danish and Swedish audio books
I guess I'm not the blogging kind of guy... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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