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| burntgorilla Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6293 days ago 202 posts - 206 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Danish | Message 49 of 97 10 August 2007 at 6:53am | IP Logged | |||||
Ah, lucky you! There's very little available in English. I'm going to learn French using Assimil, partly because then I will be able to use their French based courses. They only have a small selection of them in English. I guess Germany's proximity to Denmark helps in that respect. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| burntgorilla Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6293 days ago 202 posts - 206 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Danish | Message 50 of 97 10 August 2007 at 1:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
That's very interesting. I have heard that Andersen isn't really the same in English. I'm going to try and get a dictionary straight from Gyldendal. I realised that the one I have ordered is only English to Danish, so it's not that useful anyway. Stupid of me to not notice. What is the difference between this and this? I have heard that the red one is better, but it seems that the striped one is bigger, although I can't understand much of the text to really know anything about either. They don't seem to deliver outside of Denmark. Is there any Danish Amazon equivalent that I could order it from? I found a UK based site that had one of them in stock (www.bookdepository.co.uk, they seem good and have free worldwide postage). In the end I got this one. Frankly, I don't really care how good it is any more, I just want to have one. Now to see if I can get a refund for the other one I ordered a month ago... Edited by burntgorilla on 10 August 2007 at 6:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| burntgorilla Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6293 days ago 202 posts - 206 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Danish | Message 51 of 97 12 August 2007 at 11:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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Still relatively little to report. I have made good progress with my Danish words. I can often get about eight right out of ten on the first go. Soon I will reverse the cards' order so that the Danish pops up first. I think this will help me to remember them better. I am listening to Danish radio a bit, and I can pick out a few words. I haven't understood the theme of any of the conversations yet. I still know too few words. But it is reassuring that I can listen to a word and convert it into the spelling - I was worried that they would become disconnected. Today I read a little on the JP's website. I like the way Danish combines words into new ones. I was able to work out that "syghuset" is "the hospital" or something similar. I read a short report about two ships crashing off the coast of southern Spain, and was able to work out nearly all the details. Since the summer is nearing a close, I have started a little on the letter I want to write. So far I've got the English written out, but might change it round a bit. It was surprisingly hard to write. With any luck my dictionary will arrive on Wednesday, or around then, so I can get stuck into the translation then.
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| glossa.passion Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6170 days ago 267 posts - 349 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, EnglishC1, Danish Studies: Spanish, Dutch | Message 52 of 97 12 August 2007 at 12:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I think you do very fine under these circumstances. Wow, you can read an article and nearly work out nearly all the details - I am impressed. So you will be more than ready, when your dicitionary hopefully arrives around Wednesday. You surely will have a flying start - good luck!
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| burntgorilla Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6293 days ago 202 posts - 206 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Danish | Message 53 of 97 12 August 2007 at 1:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thank you, though it was a very short and simple article. I think I will have problems when I try and write in Danish. The whole form and system doesn't feel natural at all. Maybe with some more reading I will begin to get a feel for things. How do you find inversions in the word order? I still haven't got my head around that completely. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| glossa.passion Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6170 days ago 267 posts - 349 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, EnglishC1, Danish Studies: Spanish, Dutch | Message 54 of 97 12 August 2007 at 3:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You're welcome :-)
Can you please give me an example for inversions in the word order? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| burntgorilla Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6293 days ago 202 posts - 206 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Danish | Message 55 of 97 12 August 2007 at 3:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
Well, first of all there is an inversion with simple questions: Du kan se mig. Kan du se mig? I understand this ok since it's the same in English. But it also inverts in subordinate clauses and things (I think, I'm hazy on clauses). So you'd say: Hvis vejret klarer op, kan vi gå en tur. (If the weather clears up, we can go for a walk) There might be a mistake or two in that sentence, but the important part is that it changes to "kan vi" instead of "vi kan". Iversen explained it all much better a couple of pages back. In some cases it's pretty obvious that you do it, and in others it's not. I think it's the kind of thing that I'll just get a feel for after doing lots of reading. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| glossa.passion Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6170 days ago 267 posts - 349 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, EnglishC1, Danish Studies: Spanish, Dutch | Message 56 of 97 12 August 2007 at 4:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Now I understand what you mean! Forgive me, I'm not that good in terms of grammar, although I appreciate grammar books. I took this inverse word order without further thinking. Probably it's too early for me to question such things.
And I think you are absolutely right with your last sentence, that you will get a feel for after doing lots of reading. So you should't worry too much about at the moment. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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