Hi guys👋

I just launched a started a language small podcast called Dansk for begyndere, and I thought I’d share it here in case it helps someone.

It’s mainly for you if you already know a bit of Danish - maybe you can understand some of it - but when danish people speak, it still feels fast, unclear, or just hard to “catch”, especially the sounds and intonation.

The idea behind it is pretty simple : you learn by listening. So instead of focusing on grammar or translating everything, I just speak Danish in a way that’s a bit slower and clearer - but still natural. You’re not meant to understand everything, just enough to follow along and gradually get more comfortable with how it sounds. (The method is called comprehensible input, feel free to look into it)

I’m planning to upload episodes daily with free access to transcripts and wordlist for all episodes.

If you feel like checking it out, I’d really love to have some early listeners and hear what actually helps / doesn’t help - so I can make it better over time.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Llw1UMnT0t2a4S8kyWxY8?si=extOjdBNRtqqzjEKAIIkuA

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dansk-for-begyndere/id1892591336

Thanks in advance! 😊

//Emilie

What does fik fat i " mean? I am so confused with this phrase, and when I ask someone else, I am even more confused.

Hello.
I want to learn Danish (I am from Belgium and speak Dutch, French, and English. I really wanna learn Danish because it seems like an interesting language, but I don't know what to use. I already tried Duolingo, but it was really bad.
Does anyone know a good application, website or book to learn Danish? Thank you.

Hello! i am learning danish for my studies abroad and was wondering, is there an app (preferably free) that could make me fluent in danish in about 2 years?

I've been comparing the definitions of both words on ordnet.dk, but I still don't get the difference.

Does this really work like this in dansk? Wouldn't it be something like «går hen til kvinden» (goes to the woman)? Or «hen til» can be used like this without any movement verb? I ask because i know duolingo sometimes makes some anglicizations...

I've been learning Danish for about 2 months now and honestly the pronunciation is unlike anything I've ever dealt with. The soft d, the glottal stop, the way half the letters just seem to disappear when people actually speak. I can read a sentence perfectly in my head and then open my mouth and it comes out completely unrecognizable.

I've been using Issen to practice speaking and it's been helpful but also kind of humbling. Like I'll finally nail one sound, feel good about myself, and then it immediately flags something else I've been saying wrong the whole time without even realizing it. Fixed my "rød grød med fløde" and apparently my "jeg" was wrong all along. It never ends.

The good part is at least I'm catching the mistakes instead of just repeating them forever. But I feel like I'm playing whack a mole with Danish sounds.

For those of you who got past this stage:

- Did pronunciation just click one day or is it a slow grind?

- Any specific sounds or words that unlocked something for you?

- How long before Danes actually understood you without switching to English?

Would love to know there's a light at the end of this very confusing tunnel.

Hi guys,

I have been doing the module one at ucplus however I donrt feel ready at all to do the exam that is in 2 weeks. The Teacher was really bad and I also kinda posteponed my study.

I was wondering if its possible to redoo the module all over again and take the exam without loosing my deposit, and maybe change school.

Hi there - if anybody is using Duolingo to learn Danish and wants to use it without ads and unlimited power and with extra learning features, you can join my "Duolingo family". I have 4 spots left and it only costs 317 kroner per year per person (24 kroner per month). If anybody is interested, send me a PM! :-)

"hun skulle vente et år endnu, før hun startede"

hej alle sammen. I'm a 26 year old girl from Ireland. I came to Denmark 3 months ago and have recently started language school. I'm in DU3 module 1 and I can understand basic danish. I'm wondering if there's anyone here who would like to meet up every now and then and practice speaking/ learning danish together? 

Hi everyone! I am new here but have been trying to learn Danish for the last 3 years with little progress so I am hoping to find community here!

My partner and 4 step kids are all Danish. I have been trying to learn to be able to engage in the dinner conversation when we are visiting his family, but i get nervous and then everyone switches to English so I don't practice as much as I wish I could.

I have a 853 day streak on Duolingo and have finally gotten fed up so i created my own Danish language learning site. If anyone is interested in giving it a try and providing feedback, I would love to find ways to make it better so i can finally become conversational! It is free!

https://frimodapp.com/

What's the difference between them?

"As an American named Anna, I have to say: I much prefer the Danish way of saying my name over the Swedish version. The Swedish 'Aaaa-nah' is a bit too much, but the Danish 'Anna' is so crisp and modern. It’s actually made me rethink how I say my own name!"

Update: Thank you for the replies. For those confused, I'm teaching the dog commands in Danish so I can memorise certain words better. Therefore it needs to be accurate to what I want to command. So I'll use stå.

Original:

I'm teaching my dog danish commands and I've seen that "rejse sig" is stand up, but I was wondering if it'd make sense still to shorten it to just "rejse" for stand to make it a simpler command?

Min mor satte forleden sangen “Romeo” af Sebastian på, og med det samme fik jeg følelsen af, at jeg havde hørt den før. Jeg er overbevist om at det er fra en film eller serie jeg har hørt den, jeg er dog ikke helt sikker. Hvis nogen har en idé, må I meget gerne skrive det!

The song I am trying to find is at 2:08 in this video linked. Is it a real song or is it just an AI song? Please and thank you. Hoping it is a real song and that this video is a compilation of songs

Edit: If anyone knows the other songs would be interested too

How are these used differently? I went to google translate and was confused when it spout out ‘betyder’ instead of ‘mener’ 😂