learn danish

i’ll be attending the 5-month Danish course at Europahøjskolen på Kalø this coming January, so i will actually be acting on this goal! but i really haven’t found any posts or blogs about real life experiences at the school, which is something i’d prefer to know before i go, just so i have some idea what to expect. right now i’m figuring out my travel plans, which may include stopping over in Iceland, Germany, or CPH before i get to the school…

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!

it’s times like this when I realise just how much it annoys me when the entire Danish clan of our family starts speaking Danish to each other in front of the rest of us. I want to know what they are saying!!

How can it learn Danish language??

After meeting a normally speaking Norwegian girl (the local guy, in her words, “sounds like he’s tired, even in Norwegian”) I fell in love with the language. It basically has all the good elements of Danish and without the potato. Also I’m leaving Denmark in a few days so… neeext!

og kan jeg bedde taler og skriver dansk nu. Jeg arbejdede meget hårdt om det siden jeg har begyndt. Vi har lært cirka 400 subjunktiver og 140 verber. Vi har en andet 3 module at lære, så vi kan sidde det Prøve i Dansk 3 eksamen, hvis man skal have et grønkort for Danmark. Eller ansøger en kandidatuddanelse når man må tale og læse i dansk.

• for free
• in the countryside
• having only a Swede to teach me pronunciation ;)

Sent an email to the Seamen’s church in my city. Can’t find a languagecourse anywhere in this city (and I don’t want to learn the language from a book, how would I ever know how to master the pronunciation by just reading a book?) so maybe they know of someone who could teach me basic conversation. And see where it goes from there. I hope they can help me!

I’ve successfully learned the basices, but still have a long way to go.

I am going to live in Denmark for 10 months on August 1st, whether I know Danish or not. Hopefully I do.
I am a high school foreign exchange student living their dreams. By July of 2010 I will have 4 moms, 4 dads, countless siblings, hundreds of American friends, hundreds of Danish friends, hundreds of international friends, be able to speak Danish, and have a wider outlook on the world. What could be better?

Hopefully I will learn Danish along the way!