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| burntgorilla Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6388 days ago 202 posts - 206 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Danish | Message 65 of 97 17 August 2007 at 9:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Argh, so I got the wrong one. It is quite dinky, but I'm hoping it will suffice for now.
Thank you both for your congratulations. I got three As, and will be off to Oxford in October to study Spanish and Russian. The Bodleian Library there is a copyright library, so if I can't find a decent dictionary there I don't know where I will. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| glossa.passion Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6265 days ago 267 posts - 349 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, EnglishC1, Danish Studies: Spanish, Dutch | Message 66 of 97 18 August 2007 at 10:29am | IP Logged | |||||
I only found Danish ebooks on gutenberg . Which Danish audiobooks did you find on LibriVox? I couldn't find one. Congratulations also from me :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| burntgorilla Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6388 days ago 202 posts - 206 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Danish | Message 67 of 97 18 August 2007 at 12:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Here's the Danish audiobooks. I can't find the text to them anywhere.
And thank you. :) The only thing is I won't have nearly as much time to study my other languages. But then I do get to go to balls, so it works out, hehe. Actually, because I'm doing ab initio Russian I'll be heading there next year. I've heard that the work isn't too bad there so I might get time to study there. The dictionary is actually quite good. I found a monolingual Danish online dictionary, and every time I find a new word I put it into that. It gives me the gender and different forms. Then I use my dictionary to get the meaning. It takes longer but it's better than what I had before (nothing). Edited by burntgorilla on 18 August 2007 at 12:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| glossa.passion Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6265 days ago 267 posts - 349 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, EnglishC1, Danish Studies: Spanish, Dutch | Message 68 of 97 18 August 2007 at 1:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I also couldn't find the corresponding texts to the audiobooks from LibriVox. But I've found something similar here
Although it's a German site, you'll have no problems. There are about 30 short stories, poems and also a song. Files are in Word and mp3. The original book is out of print and this site supports Danish language teacher in Germany. We have a Danish speaking minority close to the Danish border. I'm quite fond of the texts, because there are sometimes vocabulary explanations for Germans :-) Hope you can find it also useful. By the way, studying Spanish and Russian must be great!!! I do envy you... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| burntgorilla Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6388 days ago 202 posts - 206 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Danish | Message 69 of 97 18 August 2007 at 6:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thank you for that link, I will check it out tomorrow. I'm excited about starting uni. Oxford's course is mostly literature, and I've been going through some of the set texts. I have learnt so many new words from them. Russian will be so scary. The terms are only eight weeks long, and there are three of them. That means I will have just six months of teaching before I'm off to Russia.
Today I added some words to iFlash. It is a little slow having to use the online dictionary, but I added about seventy new words. I hope to get up to a thousand soon. I think I read that your average speaker will know about ten thousand words, so that would be me half way. Then I would just have to learn specialised vocabulary. Danish's proximity to English has given me a higher passive word count than the words I have learned, but sometimes that can be dangerous. Right now if I find a word that is very close to English, but then I don't know its gender or plural forms, and if I had to produce that word I wouldn't remember if it was one that was similar to English or not. So I will record them all. The combination of words also helps with understanding new words, such as "landsholdet", but again it isn't much use if you need to actively use those words since you wouldn't know the combination unless you learned it anyway. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 6959 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 70 of 97 18 August 2007 at 8:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
No offence but...
If this is what you think, how come you're spending time on Danish? Wouldn't it be to your advantage to start your university course with some knowledge of the language? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| burntgorilla Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6388 days ago 202 posts - 206 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Danish | Message 71 of 97 19 August 2007 at 11:25am | IP Logged | |||||
Well, they told me not to do anything, because they want me to be like a blank slate, apparently. They have tailored a course to get me reading literature by the third term, which seems fast. My insurance, UCL, just wanted me to know the alphabet. If I did stuff now, I'd only spend the first week or two bored, so I'm going to do nothing. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6647 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 72 of 97 19 August 2007 at 1:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Burntgorilla, judged from the content of this thread you have already shown such progress in Danish that it will problably be at least at the intermediate level, maybe more before you start your Russian studies. And this means that you can start learning Russian without totally loosing your foothold in Danish, even if you have to put it aside for a while. In a sense learning a comparatively easy language as Danish first will give you some training in independent studying techniques that may be useful later when you turn your attention to a more distant language like Russian. Edited by Iversen on 19 August 2007 at 1:56pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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