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| EagerNovice Newbie England Joined 4739 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 11 04 December 2011 at 10:09pm | IP Logged |
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Hello everybody,
I am hoping that you will be able to give me some guidance on the best way to go about learning Danish. I am a native English speaker, and my language experience is limited to studying German at GCSE level. I always enjoyed languages at school, and have decided to try and learn Danish (it seems a big commitment just saying it - but I think it will be a fun journey!) I am interested to know how I should go about teaching myself, and would be really eager to hear from anybody out there who has self-taught Danish. Can any of you recommend any books or websites(if you are allowed to recommend books and links to other sites, if not no worries :) ). I was thinking of trying to find some native speakers to have Skype conversations with, or just chat to over emails/facebook. When I studied German at school the lessons were well planned and structured, but now facing the task of learning a language on my own seems daunting , so any advice on how you structure your learning would also be appreciated. Thank you for reading this, I will be grateful for any and all advice. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6528 days ago 286 posts - 582 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Studies: Russian, Indonesian, Romanian, Polish, Icelandic | Message 2 of 11 05 December 2011 at 7:49am | IP Logged |
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Danish lessons:
Dansk her og nu (Lessons with audio) Fjern-uv (Exercises with audio) Danske udtale (Pronunciation) News: Berlingske Kanten (1 weekly subject, full with HQ audio. It's excellent) Books: Saxo Estrup (free and legal literature. Click on 'Tekstsamlinger') TV: DR Nu or DR Forsiden DR 2 Sputnik TV TV2 Others: Ny i Danmark (in case you want to live/work/study in Danemark, here you have all the information you need) Geoviden (Magazine about geology and geography) Videnskab Try to get Colloquial Danish, Teach Yourself Danish and/or Aktivt Dansk. They all come with audio (I'd recommend you Assimil Danois, but it's French based) Hope it helps! Have a nice day and enjoy learning! Guido. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |
| EagerNovice Newbie England Joined 4739 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English* | Message 3 of 11 05 December 2011 at 10:04am | IP Logged |
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Thank you very much! I look forward to exploring those links :D
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| EagerNovice Newbie England Joined 4739 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 11 08 December 2011 at 5:02pm | IP Logged |
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Hi again, just wondering are you able to access Dansk her og nu website, because it loaded for me the other day but I can't get it to load now, and wondered if the problem was my end or their end.
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| Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6528 days ago 286 posts - 582 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Studies: Russian, Indonesian, Romanian, Polish, Icelandic | Message 5 of 11 08 December 2011 at 6:53pm | IP Logged |
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I'm also getting a "runtime error". Let's hope they solve it ASAP
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| Jaynie Senior Member Denmark Joined 5910 days ago 51 posts - 62 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Danish, Latin | Message 6 of 11 08 December 2011 at 7:05pm | IP Logged |
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I would also like to thank Guido for those links, especially the one for Danske Udtale.
(Oh, and I could not open Dansk her and nu either). One of my recent discoveries is The Danish Study. You can get a free trial subscription, but I extended mine with a paid subscription. There are great verb drills and bingo for help with the numbers. I have not really made use of it yet, but Learn Oasis looks like a pretty good free course. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5696 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 7 of 11 09 December 2011 at 4:43am | IP Logged |
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I'm dabbling with Danish and I'm having a lot of trouble with the pronunciation,
specifically the vowels. I just checked out the book: Rødgrød med fløde: en lille bog om dansk fonetik from the library and it looks to be really helpful. It's done in IPA and comes with short recordings. Most of the other material I have tends to gloss over or vastly simplify the pronunciation, so I'm really glad to have this resource. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 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 8 of 11 09 December 2011 at 11:56am | IP Logged |
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I have justed checked the voice quality at Google translate, and even though there are some sound compilation problems the voice of the speaker itself (a lady from Copenhagen, I guess) isn't bad.
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