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Danish Resources (under revision)

Postby Elsa Maria » Mon Oct 22, 2018 5:09 pm

The Regulars: a mix of apps, textbooks, and subscriptions, and other resources that offer multiple languages. Some are free, some are paid. Some have both a free version and a paid version.

Assimil (French or German base only)
Bible.is (app)
BibleGateway.com (2 versions: Bibelen på hverdagsdansk and Dette er Biblen på dansk

Clozemaster (app)
Drops (app)
Duolingo (app)
Glossika
italki
Pimsleur (30 lessons - premium course through app)
Project Gutenberg
LibriVox
Mango
Radio Garden

Wikipedia in Danish


Online Courses - Free

Dansk Her & Nu Mostly monolingual but the wordlists are also in English and German.
Netdansk.dk Provided by Aarhus School of Business
Loecsen


Online Courses - Paid

Speak Danish


Vintage / Out of Print / Hard to Find


Hippocrene Beginner Series Danish (2007) ISBN 978-0-7818-1199-6
Danish: An Elementary Grammar and Reader by Elias Bredsdorff (Cambridge 1958)
Teach Yourself Danish by H.A. Koefoed (1958)
Lær At Tale Dansk by Aage Salling
The Way To Danish (audio only - open access archived by Indiana University) Textbook is out of print but copies are available through online shops

Linguaphone Danish (out of print - used only)

Online Dansk No longer supported. Requires Flash.
Learn Oasis No longer supported. Requires Flash. Twenty lessons.


Online Tutors Offering Danish - Paid
Skapago

Textbooks

Colloquial Danish
Dansk Efter Naturmetoden (Danish by the Nature Method): Reprinted book from Ayan Academy and Ayan Academy YouTube Channel.
Teach Yourself Danish
Danish Tutor: Grammar and Vocabulary Workbook (Learn Danish with Teach Yourself) by Anne Grydehøj and Jesper Hansen

Textbooks - Monolingual

På Vej Til Dansk: Trin for Trin
Videre Mod DanskÆ Trin for Trin
At skrive: Tekstammenhæng og argumentation
Grammatik i brug
Dansk er ikke så svært


Grammar

Danish: An Essential Grammar (Routledge)
Danish: A Comprehensive Grammar
Grammatik i brug (monolingual)


Vores Fællessprog Online grammar explanations and exercises. You can see the explanations as a parallel text in several languages.

Fjern-UV.dk
Most Frequently Used Danish Verbs
Anders Basby
Sproget.dk: Language rules and more (M)
Grammatik for dummies: Grammar Videos (M)
Studieportalen Grammar and much more. Requires registration. (M)



References

Testing

Media

YouTube Channels

Cinema

Podcasts

Radio

AudioBooks and Ebooks
Nextory
Saxo Premium (subscription service)
Storytel / Mofibo
lydbog.com

Pronunciation/Listening
Adgang for alle: A downloadable program that reads Danish text aloud (M)
Dansk på Arbejde A website in Danish that details about the Danish job culture. Works in conjunction with Adgang for alle.

Udtalt: En introduktion til dansk fonetik: Book (M)

Anders Basby Udtale (dansg)


Reading

News

Ligetil: Easy to read news (M)

Literature

Forums

Comics

Music
461 old Danish songs with text and melody: http://www.ugle.dk/sange.html

Lists of links



Dictionaries / Lexicons / Corpa

Den Danske Ordbog Free and extensive. (M)

Gyldendals Røde Ordboger A solid choice. Available in many versions.
I have both the Dansk-Engelsk in both a print version and as a mobile app. It appears that the mobile app is now only available with a subscription model.

Ordbogen.comA paid subscription. Mobile app available.

Dansk Sprognævn host three dictionaries (ordbøger):
Retskrivningsordbogen
Nye Ord i Dansk
ROhist - Retskrivningsordbøger Gennem Historien



Karolines Leksikon: Food Vocabulary

Easy media:
Ligetil Nyheder, der er lette at læse

Native media:
DR.dk: state broadcaster
DR Radio
DR podcasts
TV2: commercial broadcaster
Berlingske Tidende: major newspaper
Politiken: major newspaper
Jyllands-Posten: major newspaper
Ekstra Bladet: tabloid
B.T.: tabloid
Wikipedia: homepage of Danish Wikipedia
Project Runeberg: free legal books online
Illustreret videnskab: scientific magazine
Videnskab dk: scientific website
Geoviden – Geologi og Geografi: scientific magazine
Vejr: DMI: weather

TV online:
DR.dk
Bonanza Older, classic TV shows. You can find Matador here.

Vocabulary:
List of the 250 most-common verbs
Lexin Billedtema
Goethe Verlag’s vocabulary tests

Dictionary:
Den Danske Ordbog monolingual dictionary of modern Danish
Historisk Ordbog monolingual dictionary of older Danish
Forvo only for audio

Booksellers

SAXO
Pottermore (Harry Potter): Where to buy HP

These publishers offer educational material, but some of the offerings are better for self-teaching than others. Admittedly, shipping outside of Denmark is quite expensive.
Alfabeta
Synope

Film Sales:
Laserdisken
Gucca
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Re: Danish / Dansk Resources

Postby Deinonysus » Mon Oct 22, 2018 5:19 pm

I briefly studied Danish. I got about half-way through Pimsleur, which has 30 lessons. I also used Duolingo, and Danish seemed to be one of Duolingo's better courses.

Assimil does have a Danish book, but I believe it's only available in French.

There's also some good stuff on YouTube, if memory serves.
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Re: Danish / Dansk Resources

Postby Raconteur » Mon Oct 22, 2018 5:59 pm

Deinonysus wrote:Assimil does have a Danish book, but I believe it's only available in French.

Yes, too bad there isn't an English-base version!

There's also some good stuff on YouTube, if memory serves.

Do you remember some of the channel titles by any chance, or could you possibly link them?

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Re: Danish / Dansk Resources

Postby Speakeasy » Mon Oct 22, 2018 6:09 pm

Here are couple of links that you might wish to review:

Advice for Danish – LLORG – October, 2016
https://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&p=51700&sid=39dfd3aaadc92a00f90ced250c899e82#p51700

Team Nordic [study and support group] – LLORG – January, 2016
https://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=1856

Scandinavian-Nordic Language Resources – HTLAL – February, 2010
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=19352
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Re: Danish / Dansk Resources

Postby Deinonysus » Mon Oct 22, 2018 7:29 pm

Raconteur wrote:
There's also some good stuff on YouTube, if memory serves.

Do you remember some of the channel titles by any chance, or could you possibly link them?

Thanks :D

I liked the "Dansk på tre minutter" videos from Danish Class 101. I don't remember any other exact titles or channels, but if you search terms like "Danish language", "Danish pronunciation", and "Danish spelling", you will find some useful results.
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Re: Danish / Dansk Resources

Postby eido » Mon Oct 22, 2018 7:30 pm

There's some language schools in Denmark that offer lessons online for a fee.
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Re: Danish / Dansk Resources

Postby Kat » Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:01 pm

Do you happen to speak some German?

Assimil Danish is available with a German base.
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Re: Danish / Dansk Resources

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Mon Oct 22, 2018 9:58 pm

Raconteur wrote:Compared with other languages I have studied in the past, I'm finding it rather hard to find good resources for Danish. Could someone recommend a comprehensive autodidactic course (or alternatively a combination of resources) for a Danish beginner?


You might get some pointers from AlOlaf.
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Postby IronMike » Tue Apr 14, 2020 10:11 pm

Hey guys! This list is pretty old. Anyone have a recommendation for a one-book text for learning Danish? Along the lines of TY/Complete or Colloquial.
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Re: Danish / Dansk Resources

Postby Speakeasy » Wed Apr 15, 2020 3:34 am

Old List: Stands the Test of Time

Raconteur put a great deal of effort into UPDATING the list of resources, it would be difficult adding to it. Nevertheless, I would add the following (some of which are listed as “NONE” so as to save other prospective students’ time in conducting their own searches).

My Study Plan
IronMike wrote:… Anyone have a recommendation for a one-book text for learning Danish? Along the lines of TY/Complete or Colloquial.
With reference ONLY to the items that I have listed below, and taking into consideration that I am quite fond of the audio-lingual method for the initial stages of learning, were I to study Danish, I would use these resources in the following sequence: (1st) The Way to Danish*, (2nd) Assimil** Danish, (3rd) NFLC supplements, then (4th) native materials. In addition, I would read through “Danish: A Comprehensive Grammar” and I would acquire both a bilingual pocket dictionary and a large, comprehensive one.

*The Way to Danish: you can’t beat 10 hours of sentence-pattern drills and dialogues supported by concise notes on grammar. Teach Yourself and Routledge Colloquial would never give you the depth and the practice time.
**Assimil: This step would be more for acclimating myself to a more current vocabulary and register of speech. Nice, but not absolutely necessary as, with a bit of hard work, one could progress from The Way to Danish directly to the NFLC supplements. It just so happens that I enjoy the advantage of having a near-native level in French and an advanced level in German, not every does.

Legacy Courses

Linguaphone Dansk Kurus (1940s-1960s)
Out-of-print. Publishing history lists a Linguaphone Danish course. Resellers on the internet offer a course comprising: course manual, handbook, mp3 files digitized from 2 audio cassettes. The unusually small amount of recordings might be an indication that this was a reprint of Teach Yourself Danish (a few Linguaphone courses for the more remote languages were copies of TY courses). Probably CEFR A1, at best. Available from resellers or, possibly, directly from Linguaphone upon request. IMO, of historical interest only.

Spoken Danish: Books 1 and 2 (1945, reprinted 1976), circa 600 pages total, by Jeannette Dearden et al.
Out-of-print. Developed to meet the needs of U.S. Armed Forces personnel during WWII. Employed the nascent audio-lingual method. Sets of 78 rpm vinyl records accompanied the half-sized course books. Reprinted in 1976 by Spoken Language Services. Copies of the course manuals are rare; copies of the audio cassettes are even rarer. CEFR A0-A1. Of little interest in today’s context.

Way to Danish (The): A Textbook in the Danish Language Written for Americans (1959, 1964, 1979, 1983), 306 pages, by Erling Norlev et al.; Munksgaard
Way to Danish (The): AUDIO Recordings – Indiana University CeLT
Out-of-print. Introduction to spoken Danish. Probably CEFR A2. Audio-lingual method. Approx. 10 hours of AUDIO recordings freely-available via the Indiana University CeLT website. Copies still available on the internet. Positive chatter on the HTLAL and the LLORG. Despite its age, this course still represents a good place to start building your chops.

Contemporary Courses, Supplements, etc.

Assimil Danish – Current Generation
Assimil le danois (sans peine) (2014?), 708 pages, by Mette Olesen
Available in FRENCH only. Might be out-of-print (not available via Assimil's website). One hundred (100) lessons. CEFR A2-B1. Amazon customer reviews are consistently positive.

Assimil Danish – Preceding Generation
Assimil le danois sans peine (1969?), 464 pages, by by Jean-François Battail, Kark Ejby Poulsen & Claudia Mahr
Assimil Dänisch ohne Mühe (1969?), 480 pages, by Jean-François Battail, Kark Ejby Poulsen & Claudia Mahr
Available in FRENCH and GERMAN only. Out-of-print. Sixty-four (64) lessons. CEFR A2-B1. Dating this generation is problematic; the listings range from 1969 through 2004. Amazon customer reviews are consistently positive.

Old vs. New Edition of Assimil's 'Le Danois' – LLORG -- March 2016 What to do? What to do?

Beginner's Danish (2007), 352 pages, by Nete Schmidt; Hippocrene Books
Likely CEFR A1. Includes 2 AUDIO CDS. Amazon customer reviews are mostly positive; the negative ones betray inexperience in foreign language learning.

Colloquial Danish (2nd ed., 2015), 294 pages, by W. Glyn Jones et al.; Routledge
Staple CEFR A0-A1 course. Approx. 2 hours of AUDIO recordings (available via Routledge website). Amazon customer reviews for the preceding generation were quite positive. At present, only one review of the current edition: unsupportive, but betrays inexperience in foreign language learning.

Complete Danish (2010), 400 pages, by Bente Elsworth; Teach Yourself Books
Staple CEFR A1 course. Includes 2 hours of AUDIO recordings. Amazon customer reviews mostly positive; however, the dissenting comments bear reading.

DLI Danish GLOSS - NONE

DLI Danish Headstart2 - NONE

Glossika Danish

Hugo: Danish In Three Months (1999), 239 pages, by Knud Ravnkilde; DK Publishing
Out-of-print. Staple CEFR A1+. Approx. 4 hours of AUDIO. Only three Amazon reviews: all very positive.

Laerdansk: Learn Danish Your Way
Courses, classes, tutors, online, etc.

Michel Thomas Danish - NONE

NFLC (National Foreign Language Center) Danish - University of Maryland
Collection of graded exercise sets for supplemental practice (reading, aural, occasionally videos). Similar to DLI GLOSS. Access: US$ 5.00 monthly subscription.

Pimsleur Danish: Level I (30 Lessons)

SpeakDanish: Learn to Speak Danish
Free online course with AUDIO files. Presumably CEFR A0-A1. Impossible to evaluate without trying it.

Stella Online Danish

Contemporary Grammar, Verbs, Phonology, etc.

======= General =======

Danish: A Comprehensive Grammar (2nd ed., 2010), 752 pages
Danish: An Essential Grammar (2nd ed., 2011), 288 pages
By Tom Lundskaer-Nielsen et al.; Routledge

Danish: A Grammar (1988), 170 pages, by W. Glyn Jones et al.; Arthur Vanous Co

====== Workbooks =======

Aktivt Dansk: Grammar and Wordlist (2006), xxx pages, by Lise Bostrup; Alfabeta

Danish Tutor: Grammar and Vocabulary Workbook (2019), 224 pages, by Anne Grydehøj et al.; Teach Yourself Books

====== Verbs =======

Danish verbs: 100 conjugated verbs (2018), 232 pages, by Editorial Karibdis et al.; Independently published

Verbix: Online Verb Conjugator

====== Phonology =======

Danish Phonology - Wikipedia

Danish Pronunciation - The Economist

Den Danske Ordbog
Dictionary AND Pronunciation Guide

Phonology of Danish, The (2005), 624 pages, by Hans Basboll; Oxford University Press

======= Comparative, Historical, etc. =======

Languages of Scandinavia: Seven Sisters of the North, The (2017), 224 pages, by Ruth H. Sanders; University of Chicago Press

Contemporary Dictionaries, etc.
This list is not exhaustive, it is but a sample of the many dictionaries available for this language.

Berlitz Danish-English, Engelsk-Dansk Dictionary (1998), 368 pages, by Berlitz Publishing

Danish Dictionary: Danish-English, English-Danish (2015), 716 pages, by Anna Garde; Routledge

Danish-English/English-Danish Dictionary (1989), 607 pages, by Marianne Holmen; Hippocrene Books

Danish Learner's Dictionary: 1001 Danish Words in Frequency Order with Example Sentences (2017), 128 pages, by Kamila Helger et al.; Wolfedale Press

Den Danske Ordbog
Dictionary AND Pronunciation Guide

Engelsk-Dansk, Dansk-Engelsk (2nd ed., 2005), 948 pages, by unspecified; Gyldendals Books

English to Danish – Free Online Dictionary

Current and Legacy Readers, Literature, etc.
For reasons of expediency, irrespective of their dates of publication, “legacy” readers and similar materials have been listed here, in the “contemporary” section of this file.

Danish: An Elementary Grammar and Reader (1965), 390 pages, by Elias Bredsdorff; Cambridge University Press

Languages on the Web - Parallel Texts

Learn Danish with Beginner Stories: Interlinear Danish to English (2017), 117 pages, by Kees Van den End; Bermuda Word

Learn Danish - Parallel Text; Polyglot Planet Publishing
Accompanied by AUDIO CDs

Short Stories in Danish for Beginners (2019), 224 pages, by Olly Richards; Teach Yourself Books

Miscellany

Berlingske – Online News

Bible Gateway – The Bible in Danish

B.T. Nyheder – Online News

Project Gutenberg - Danish

Librivox - Danish

Multilingual Books – Danish Online Newspapers

Wikipedia in Danish

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Typos, as always.
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