learn danish

I’ve been reading some Danish-language forums, and – to my delight – I can understand much of what’s being said! It’s mostly teenagers discussing things, but that’s OK for me because they tend to use non-formal language, which is what most people speak with their friends from day to day.

I look up every word I don’t understand, and add it straight-away to my SRS (Anki, in my case). On that note, I’ve started sharing my Danish flashcards online, and, in the past five days, seven people have downloaded the set. I’m very pleased! It gives me confidence that I’m going about learning the language the right way. (The reason I say this is becuase I spent a lot of time learning French in the past, but largely to no avail.)

I use Anki every day. It’s a computerised flashcard system that you can use at home, on a phone, and even onlin – and the entire system will synch itself no matter which one you use. It’s amazing, and I can’t recommend it enough. It’s intelligent in that it learns which words you know well, and spaces them out further, and shows the ones you don’t know so well more frequently. I wouldn’t have learnt a fraction of the words I know without it.

Use it if you can!