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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4519 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes  Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 49 of 312 08 November 2013 at 11:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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I recently finished the second audiobook of Jean Auel's Earth's Children - in Swedish.
It wasn't really planned out like that, but I couldn't get my hands on the Danish version fast enough, so I just went with Swedish. It was darn hard at first, I missed a lot of the first third because my mind went wandering a lot during that time. But towards the end of the book, I could understand most of it with ease, even when my focus was on something else than the book. I'm glad I went through with it even though I had my doubts at first. I've watched Forbrydelsen (the first one) in Danish - what a good TV series that is. I usually don't like crime series, but the Danish stuff is just awesome. I'm more or less back on track. Edited by daegga on 08 November 2013 at 11:10pm 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 50 of 312 10 November 2013 at 1:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi, glad to see another Danish learner, not that I've been very active lately.
We were massive fans of Forbrydelsen in this household, especially the 1st series, although we've seen them all, plus Borgen 1 & 2, plus "The Bridge", plus "Those Who Kill" ("Den Som Dræber"), plus all the Wallanders......you can see we are pretty hooked on this sort of stuff. BBC4 are showing Borgen 3 from next week, although I actually cheated and watched it (uden subtitles) on DR via the internet. I couldn't follow most of the dialogue, but it wasn't hard to follow what was going on from the context, and there was actually a lot of English, for reasons I can't go into without spoiling the plot for anyone who hasn't seen it. 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 51 of 312 10 November 2013 at 1:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Oh, just read in an earlier post that you had started Assimil Danish, back in February
or so of this year. May I ask how what you thought of it? Was it helpful? I take it this was "Dänisch ohne Mühe"? I recently got this, although I haven't really started it in earnest yet. I previously worked through TYS "Complete" Danish, which was OK, although I didn't find the audio as helpful as it might have been, and I'm hoping for better things from Assimil. Do you happen to know if that is the only Danish course in Assimil? Thanks. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4519 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 52 of 312 10 November 2013 at 9:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Danish movies and TV series are the sole reason I'm learning Danish :D They are
exceptionally good, better than the Hollywood stuff nowadays. as far as Assimil is concerned, here a quote from a previous post:
Whether this course is helpful to you depends on what skills you want to improve and what your current level of Danish is. You could certainly do worse. Yes, I used "Dänisch ohne Mühe", and as far as I know, there are no older versions of it, and certainly no advanced editions. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4519 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 53 of 312 06 December 2013 at 7:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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another small update:
- watched Forbrydelsen II & III (Danish) - watched Hjem (Norwegian) - listened to more then half of the 3rd audiobook of Jean Auel's Earth's Children (Danish) - many hours of reading extracts of social media comments and news (Danish @ work) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4519 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 54 of 312 08 December 2013 at 8:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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I watched Nattevagt (Danish) and Fritt vilt III (Norwegian) this weekend.
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4519 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 55 of 312 09 December 2013 at 10:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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watched Pusher (Danish movie) today - wasn't as hard as I expected, still the most
difficult movie I've ever watched in Danish 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4519 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 56 of 312 10 December 2013 at 8:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just did a rough calculation of my Danish stats for this TAC season:
I watched about 140 hours of TV series. I listened to about 185 hours of audio books. I watched several hours of movies (between 5 and 10 hours I think) I participated in about 25 hours of classes. I went through Assimil. I've done less than 10 hours of Anki reps. I've read blogs, board entries and news for countless hours (>100h and counting). I've done much less for Norwegian I'm afraid. Edited by daegga on 10 December 2013 at 10:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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