learn danish

I am making good progress! Or so say my boyfriend because I feel like I am still completely butchering the language with my French-Americano accent. haha. Love the book that I found though (Beginner’s Danish by Nete Schmidt), it has two CDS and I listen to the lessons on my Ipod all the time. Very very useful and I can’t wait to be closer to speaking it well!

I cracked myself up yesterday, and put dozens of yellow stickers everywhere in the house to learn the Danish names of all those little things that surround me :) Hehe. It is making the place quite stylish oh believe me. And since Troels tries to learn some French too, I added the French equivalents. Welcome to my silly world :)

Finding tutors has proven to be quite a challenge, hence I will try and find other ways of learning, including:
- using that Rosetta Stone software daily, even though I am not at all a big fan of it
- building my own set of flash cards to better remember vocab
- listen to the Danish radio as often as I can
- try and speak it with my boyfriend even if I am incredibly intimidated because I just wish I could impress him

Hopefully I don’t get banned out of Denmark by the Danes fur butchering their language :) Here is how I think it is going to go – for at least the first few months:

Step 1. Find a teacher I like once I move to NYC
Step 2. Set up weekly time to meet for a lesson (might have to go private since it will most likely have to accomodate my work & traveling schedule)
Step 3. Practice practice pratice. Lucky I have the most wonderful boyfriend to do that with :)

Wish me luck!