Team Nordic [study and support group]

[Bigbri5050]

Thank you. Can you advise how I get to see the sub-forum?

[emk]

Thank you. Can you advise how I get to see the sub-forum?

You can access all the sub-forums from the main page! But here's a direct link. You should be able to flip through the first few pages and find some interesting logs.

[Bigbri5050]

I have a number of Danish language books. I first began informal study back in the 70's but life got in the way. I tried 'Teach Yourself Danish' and a few other books but they lacked audio. I tried an online course, (paid), but found the although the first lessons were good the online phrases became faster and faster until they were unusable. I guess they lost patience. I'd like to do some more structured study now. I have looked at the '50 languages' phrase study which would be good for working in the car. Before I buy the book can anybody suggest something that will give me a good structured leaning material.

[Mr.Graves]

I have a number of Danish language books. I first began informal study back in the 70's but life got in the way. I tried 'Teach Yourself Danish' and a few other books but they lacked audio. I tried an online course, (paid), but found the although the first lessons were good the online phrases became faster and faster until they were unusable. I guess they lost patience. I'd like to do some more structured study now. I have looked at the '50 languages' phrase study which would be good for working in the car. Before I buy the book can anybody suggest something that will give me a good structured leaning material.

Hallo Bigbri. I can relate to what you write. I've only just joined the forum. Danish is my best foreign language, and I found grammar and vocabulary pretty easy, using the old Teach Yourself Danish by H Koefod. The sounds are a lot harder to get to grips with, I lived and worked in Denmark for about 2 and a half years, and of course being in such a situation is the best way to work the sounds into your head. Which books do you have? A good description of the sounds will be a big help and as long as you can pronounce Danish clearly you will be understood. Don't worry about sounding like a native. I could go and live in Denmark again for 50 years but would never be taken for a native. Routledge's colloquial Danish has audio files freely downloadable from the Routledge site and you could use these along with the book, but I'm not familiar with the book. It's not hard to find samples of spoken Danish online or play videos of e.g. "the Killing" with the original Danish soundtrack and English subtitles. You'll pick up the rhythm of the speech and that's at least as valuable as the individual sounds. [I also stayed for some time in Sweden and there I simply used Danish and they understood me. Scandinavians are very flexible with each others' languages] If you have any questions or difficulties with Danish feel free to post questions and I'll do my best to help. Good luck

[Ug_Caveman_Backup]

Adding myself here - Dutch has gotten a little boggy for me (intermediate burnout rather than plateau) so I'm going to spread my goal out by 12 months and maybe look at learning some basic Swedish in the same period.

I've got quite the warchest of resources to use to hit A1-2-ish in a good time frame.

[Lamben]

Hi friends!

I've started to learn Icelandic. It's both fun and challenging. I have enough of different resources (maybe tooooo much ) but without a study partner it's rather hard to practice language. And I don't live in Iceland to annoy natives So I would like to start a sstudy group (Zoom) for those BEGINNERS who wish to study , learn and practice language together. That said, I have Íslenska fyrir alla which is a good start I think. And I am very motivated. Are you? If any of you guys are as well interested to start learning it together, write to me, please. Have a good one!,
Lamben

[LadyoftheMountains]

Hello Team Nordic!

I would love to join, as a learner of Swedish. I haven't been able to learn a language nor practice one in a group setting since my schooling days so it will be nice to have the camaraderie of a team, so to speak!

[Ug_Caveman_Backup]

For those interested:

Out of nowhere, a Michel Thomas Foundation Danish course is now available (although does not appear to be available for CD purchase, only online.)

[Tumlare]

For those interested:

Out of nowhere, a Michel Thomas Foundation Danish course is now available (although does not appear to be available for CD purchase, only online.)

Oh, interesting! Thanks for letting us know. I've been toying with the idea of working on Danish listening comprehension.