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| glossa.passion Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6264 days ago 267 posts - 349 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, EnglishC1, Danish Studies: Spanish, Dutch | Message 1 of 2 11 June 2008 at 11:18am | IP Logged |
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Last August I started with Danish, working through Assimil, Rosetta Stone and some other study-materials (German-based) until March this year. Then I had to make a break and could do nothing for Danish in April and May. That was a pity, but so what...
Now in June I had some wonderful Danish language experiences in Copenhagen. I went there last week for a few days. The Danes are really kind people! It was a pleasure to talk Danish, although they were all perfect in English and sometimes also in German. But if I spoke Danish, everyone answered me in Danish. Only when I wasn't so sure with my words, the language changed, but that was o.k. I mostly swichted myself to English, when the replies were too fast for me or when the creditcard was involved. I never asked people to repeat their words or speak slower. I wanted to function in reality, not in an artifical situation. And I had conversations completely in Danish! And they were fluent, albeit not that large ones, I wasn't searching for words or thinking in my native language. My husband was impressed - and he is an honest critic - because the talks were so easy-going. I could read next to everything and bought of course many books... only one of them is for language study - the training of Danish prosody and pronounciation ("Dansk udtale i 49 tekster") But all in all I got the feeling, that I'm now at the beginning of speaking Danish. And that is my milestone. If only I could stay a few weeks or months in Denmark! Because what I wish most now is exposure, exposure, exposure to real Danish all the time - I feel, I then would be really fluent in no time. For that's not possible, I'll work through advanced courses/real materials and look forward to my next visit to Denmark. A last remark: according to my husband I did speak Danish while I was sleeping last night (now and then I speak when I'm sleeping). I asked him, how he could know that it was Danish. He said, he recognized words like tak, hej and phrases he heard me saying in Copenhagen. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6646 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 2 of 2 07 August 2008 at 9:46am | IP Logged |
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Somehow I have overlooked this - but a belated "congratulations" from one of those Danes.
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