Overview
Main description
It's easy to teach yourself Danish!
Complete Danish with Two Audio CDs: A Teach Yourself Guide provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to Danish, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding, speaking, and writing Danish with confidence.
Within each of the 24 thematic chapters, important language structures are introduced through life-like dialogues. You'll learn grammar in a gradual manner so you won't be overwhelmed by this tricky subject. Exercises accompany the texts and reinforce learning in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This program also features current cultural information boxes that reflect recent changes in society. The accompanying audio CDs include audio exercises--performed by native speakers--that reinforce communicative skills.
Features:
- Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author’s many years of experience
- Tests in the book to keep track of your progress
Table of contents
Introduction / Pronunciation / 01 At the railway station / 02 It was a lovely meal! / 03 Shopping / 04 At the airport / 05 Weekend in North Zealand / 06 By train to Jutland / 07 At a business meeting / 08 At the hotel / 09 At a cottage in Mols / 10 On board the ferry / 11 Back at Hans and Lone’s house / 12 On a language course / 13 Tourists in Copenhagen / 14 At a restaurant / 15 When you visited us in England / 16 Alison is ill / 17 Shopping in Copenhagen / 18 Goodbye, till next time! / Strong and irregular verbs / Glossary of grammatical terms / Key to the exercises / Danish-English vocabulary / English-Danish vocabulary / Taking it further / Index
Author comments
Bente Elsworth was born in Randers, Demark. She has lived in England since 1968 and has a degree in Russian from the University of London. She has many years of experience in teaching Danish at the University of East Anglia and this has made her aware of the particular problems that English speakers face when learning Danish.
