- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; Har/Cas edition (16 Dec 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415079683
- ISBN-13: 978-0415079686
- Product Dimensions: 24.5 x 17 x 5.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #83 in Books > Languages > By Language > Other European Languages > Danish
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Colloquial Danish is a practical course in everyday written and spoken Danish requiring no prior knowledge of the language. It is ideal for anyone seeking to develop a sound command of contemporary Danish whether studying independently or with a teacher. The course is designed to encourage you to learn and practise essential language skills. The twenty lessons introduce you to the core functions you will need to communicate in Danish, such as buying food and discussing subjects like health and politics. The course includes: Situation-based conversations A range of texts Useful and practical vocabulary Clear, concise grammar notes A variety of exercises with answer key A pronunciation guide A grammatical summary An English-Danish and Danish-English glossary An index of grammatical terms The accompanying two cassettes have been recorded by native Danish speakers. These complement and reinforce the material covered in the book and will prove invaluable in helping you develop your pronunciation and listening comprehension skills.
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42 of 44 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For the English speaker and probably for others, this book is best accompanied with the CD as I have found the pronounciation and stress to be the hardest thing to get right - so buy the CD. This book is great, although it takes a long time to learn each chapter - a lot is left up to you to learn the vocabulary, and I found myself rereading chapters. The advice on grammar is generally clear and well explained. Overall, you can learn a lot from this book - but as with any language, try to find another source from which to learn for another angle and have patience!
I would recommend people to start with this book if you are a beginner - and if you know the basics already you will learn a lot from the later chapters.
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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful
OK except for pronunciation
26 April 2000
Format:Paperback
Though Colloquial Danish is in some respects a good introductory book, it is seriously lacking in the one area of the language most challenging for English speakers, namely, pronunciation. Unlike most other textbooks in the Colloquial series, there is no introductory section on pronunciation guiding you through sound-spelling relationships-only a very inadequate four-page section in the back. (It is quite misleading in its approximation of most of the vowels-just listen to the native speakers on the tapes-and its dismissal of the glottal stop-"a slight coughing-like stop that can turn up almost anywhere"-is inexcusable.) This deficiency would be somewhat remedied if there were lots of text material on the tapes, but unfortunately there isn't. In contrast with, say, the Swedish and Dutch volumes in the Colloquial series (which share some of the dialogue content), none of the reading passages in the book are on the tape, which disappointed me greatly. If the book is ever redone, I suggest the authors/editors include a simplified phonetic transcription of ALL the words used in the book, either with the lessons or in the vocabulary at the end, plus recordings of the reading passages. Danish spelling is difficult enough for Danish schoolchildren, and foreigners can hardly be expected to master it without more help than this book gives.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Needs some improvements
22 Dec 2003
Format:Paperback
I normally really like this series for helping to learn languages, but this one leaves a lot to be desired. The tape is good, but the book needs work. You spend about a 1/3 of your time looking words up in the dictionary because the lessons have no real vocabulary lists to help you build a vocabulary. (around chapter 4 they start listing key words you may not know). Its terribly hard to learn vocabulary when it is never introduced and you have to constantly look things up. Get vocabulearn or Berlitz to learn vocabulary and then get this later to learn the grammar.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Good companion
23 April 2001
Format:Paperback
If you have a good introductory book this will be an excellent companion. Otherwise I can't recommend it.
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