Hi all, I’m 26f. I’m wondering if there are any native Dane’s here who would be willing to help me with danish speaking even like 30 minutes a week.

I’ve been living in Denmark for 6 months, and still find it really difficult.

Thank you soo much.

Hi everyone! 👋

I’ll be moving to Denmark soon and I’m wondering what the best options are for learning Danish once I arrive.

Are there any good language schools, municipal courses, free/affordable programs, or communities for newcomers? I’d also appreciate any advice on how to get started with Danish when settling in.

Thanks in advance! 🇩🇰

Hej! I'm a small publisher (French-speaking) making a capybara coloring book for the Danish market. Two lines on the back cover have two candidate versions and I can't judge which one sounds natural to a Dane. No need to write anything for me, just tell me A or B (and if one is plain wrong or sounds translated from English).

1) Last bullet point (the idea: a gift that does you good):

A: Gaven der gør godt

B: En gave, der gør godt

2) Subtitle right under the title "40 SØDE KAPIVARER" (40 cute capybaras):

A: Hyggelige, søde og umulige at modstå

B: Hyggelige, bløde, uimodståelige

Mange tak!

Hi all,
I‘m desperately looking for a song from the series. It was sung by actress Caroline Vedel in Episode 3. There‘s a short YouTube clip here: https://youtu.be/25DYhFAfKwk
I remember that this not a song written for the series and there is another Version on YouTube, but not much more. Without a title, searching the WWW is quite frustrating…Does anyone here know more?

lær med sjov

Hej allesammen!

Today marks 5 months since I published my very first episode of Dansk for Begyndere.

Since that first episode, I’ve published 151 episodes and already thousands of people have listened - and most importantly - I’ve had people from all over the world tell me that the podcast actually helped them understand Danish a little bit better.

I just wanted to say thank you!

If you’ve listened to an episode, followed the podcast, recommended it to someone, sent me a message or simply kept coming back to listen - know that I genuinely appreciate it so much❤️

It’s easy as a creator to look at the numbers and constantly think about the next milestone but today I wanted to stop for a moment and appreciate how far the podcast has already come and all the support it has received.

I’m still very much at the beginning, and I am so incredibly excited about everything that’s ahead of Dansk for Begyndere.

If you're one of the listeners who happens to see this: what has been the most useful thing about the podcast for you so far - and is there anything you’d love to see more of in the future? 🇩🇰😊

Tak for at lytte med!!

Knus Emilie🌸

NB: For those of you who are asking for a link to the podcast: danskforbegyndere.dk 🔗

Hello, I would like to find a native Danish speaker to practice spoken Danish. Of course I am willing to pay a fee per hour. What is the best place to look at?

I've studied Danish for 2 years and spent the first few months of this year going to conferences speaking and participating in workshops with Danes in Danish (medical field). Even when spoken to in English did I answer in Danish. Far from perfect but I could make myself understood. I felt really good about the progress and thought it would continue.

Whether my brain was faced with English or Danish, it took very little time to reply in Danish. There were no long internal translation processes going on that I was aware of.

The last 6 months some major life events have meant I took a break from regular language learning and most work related human interactions because I lack concentration and am really overwhelmed.

I can still follow more complex conversations between multiple people and know what was said but always need to answer in English. When I hear Danish, I can reply in English without any apparent translation processes going on in my head.

If I want to reply in Danish that is where it gets complicated. I hear Danish. My brain analyses whether I know more words in the sentence from English or German (both mother tongue), then proceeds to formulate a translation. If the translation is in English, I proceed to formulate my answer in English (if German, then it has another step being translated into English) and then translate it to Danish before actually speaking some Danish words. Even just writing this down feels exhausting. By the time I can say something in Danish, the conversation has moved on a few minutes, I have missed stuff and just don't say anything in Danish.

It feels really frustrating as I know I was at a different stage where Danish felt more natural and came easy to me.

When I'm in situations where English is absolutely not possible, like with young kids and no adults are around, I can say a few Danish things but also feel like they give me more time to reply and it's definitely never too complex.

I feel like I'm falling off the wagon. I'm torn between giving my brain the time it needs to come around (however long that will be) or to push myself over limits (which are very low currently) and force myself into uncomfortable situations. Is there some middle ground and other options I'm not seeing?

How do you pronounce Sif?
It’s in my daughter reader and we’re stuck on the name

I'm sending a gift to Danish friends to celebrate the arrival of their baby and would like to include a note that says "When the wind won't serve, take to the oars" (from a Latin proverb). Can someone help me translate this to Danish? Thanks in advance!

I just ate

Jeg spiste lige

Eller

Jeg lige spiste

Learning a new language is always a struggle, a good teacher could make it easier. I am curious to know if you have any recommendations on good (or avoid bad) teachers in Copenhagen (esp kommune two schools). Please suggest. Thx

Hey there, I’m writing a paper on pragmatics and I have to include a little chapter about question tags that are most coercive, as it is a comparative study I’d like to analyse what languages have similar question tags that are syntactically dependent from the main clause (“You have blabla, havent you”, You didnt bla, did you?”). So I would like to know if Danish has got anything similar and Id appreciate your explanations!!

Hej everyone!

I’m currently taking DU3 Module 4 at UCPlus in Roskilde, but I’m not completely satisfied with my classes. I’m considering switching and would love to hear your experiences.

I’m thinking about:

- Studieskolen or UCPlus Copenhagen online classes

- Studieskolen evening classes

I’m working, so online or evening classes would be easier for me. At the same time, I really want to finish sprogskole as soon as possible.

Which option would you recommend? How is the teaching quality, especially for making good progress in Module 4?

I’d really appreciate any advice or personal experiences.

Mange tak!

I've been living in Denmark for the past year and taking the free Danish education. In spoken Danish I frequently hear people say "aVAfanole" (probably "af hvad for nogle") to indicate they didn't quite catch what the speaker said and would like clarification or repetition.

Am I hearing and understanding this phrase correctly? Where does it come from?

dbh

Hey fellow Danish learners,

My idea started small and simple a while back. My wife used Locket on her home screen to share photos with her sister, and the widget is quite prominent on her home screen any time she openned the phone. I realized the same concept could work for language learning: a small reminder to learn a new word every time you unlock your phone. That's how Nemlingo came to life.

It started as a simple widget that shows you new Danish word every now and then, in your Home Screen.

After multiple iterations and with about 623 users so far, we've been improving the app every day, adding vocab from different topics, everyday life, work, travel, health, and even more advanced areas like PD3 exam prep. Words are also categorized by level, from A1 up to C2.

And more features to enhance your vocab training:

• Swipe-based flashcards – quick vocab drilling. Swipe right if you remembered the word, left if you didn't. Like Tinder, but for language learning. Each card comes with pronunciation, an example sentence, and the meaning.
• Pronunciation training – short lessons where you practice vocab in context, sentence by sentence. The app listens to your pronunciation and only lets you move on once you get it right.
• Charades mode – a way to practice with a friend. Using the words you've already learned, the app builds a word bank. One person holds the phone to their forehead, the other says the Danish word or its meaning (you choose the direction), and the first person has to recall and say it out loud. Flip the phone down if correct, up if you want to skip. Great if you've ever played charades before.

The app is free to try for 3 days, after which there's a one-time lifetime purchase for 99kr, no subscriptions, and it includes all current and future features/learning resources. One you are in, you get the access forever.

I know there are plenty of Danish learning apps already, and we're a small, rather new one among them. We're actively listening to feedback and building based on it, hopefully it can gradually grow to be something useful to more and more learners. If this sounds like something that fits how you like to learn, give it a try. Would genuinely love to hear what you think.

Thanks for reading. And happy learning ;)

Link to download the app: https://nemlingo.com/get

#DanishLearning #LearnDanish #LanguageLearningApp #DanishVocabulary #A12C2

I’m doing my exams soon and would love to do 1 on 1 classes for like a week before my exam

I am living in a højskole in Denmark and I am really hoping to be conversant by time I leave. My family is all Danish but I grew up in the UK and although I spoke the language with my mother as a child, I stopped once I started school (regrettably). Any tips for improving my understanding rapidly would be much appreciated!

What are the most important things in Danish pronunciation?

Hi! I’m currently learning Danish and I’ve realized that pronunciation is probably the hardest part for me 😭

I’m Dutch, so I’ve noticed that Danish sometimes has sounds or words that feel somewhat familiar because of Dutch, but the pronunciation can still be VERY different. I’m worried that I might accidentally apply Dutch pronunciation rules to Danish without realizing it.

I’m trying to focus on pronunciation from the beginning instead of developing bad habits and having to fix them later. I already know some of the basic pronunciation rules, like the soft d, but I feel like there are probably a lot of important things that beginners tend to miss.

So, for native Danish speakers or people who have learned Danish:

What would you say are the most important things to focus on when learning Danish pronunciation, and are there any common type of mistakes that i could avoid??

Any tips, corrections, or advice would be greatly appreciated! 🇩🇰❤️

I teach Danish to adults at a language school in Silkeborg. For the past several months I've been building an app called Dansk Plus in my spare time, and it's at a point where I'd like some honest criticism.

The reason I started: when my students practise on their own, most apps just tell them an answer is wrong and move on. That teaches nothing. So this one explains every mistake — what the rule is, and which common error you just made — using actual grammatical terms.

What it does:

• Grammar quizzes across 13 topics — nouns, verbs, word order and so on.
• Practice module tests for DU2 and DU3, built like the real ones.
• An AI teacher that goes through your mistakes after a module test and can explain them in 10 languages. Only the explanation is translated — the examples stay in Danish, because Danish is what you're learning.
• Streaks, XP and friends, if that sort of thing keeps you going.

What it doesn't do:

• No DU1 module tests. I haven't written them yet.
• No listening or speaking practice. This is reading, writing and grammar.
• It's a few weeks old with fewer than 100 users, most of them my own former students. You will find rough edges.

Price: grammar quizzes, lessons, streaks and friends are free. Module tests and the AI teacher are 29 kr/month, with one free test first so you can see what it's like before deciding.

Privacy: data is stored in the EU, I don't sell it, and there's no advertising or tracking in the app. Full policy at danskplus.dk/privacy.

Links:
Google https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.danskplus.app&pli=1
Apple https://apps.apple.com/dk/app/dansk-plus-dansk-grammatik/id6788884819?l=da

I'd genuinely like criticism, especially of the grammar explanations themselves. If something is wrong or badly explained, tell me and I'll change it — I'm the one writing them.

Hej allesammen!

I’ve been learning Danish for more than 2 years, and I’ve found that learning resources are pretty limited once you move beyond beginner material. There’s plenty of great content made for native speakers, like DR podcasts — but spoken Danish isn’t exactly the easiest thing in the world to understand 😅

I’ve tried the “just listen a lot and eventually you’ll get better” approach, but for me it feels painfully slow. Sometimes I can replay the same sentence five times and still have no idea what was said. What really helps is seeing the words and then listening again — especially when it turns out to be a word I already knew but simply couldn’t recognize in natural speech.

The problem is that many DR podcasts don’t have full transcripts.

As a software Engineer myself, I built a small tool for myself called Hva’ sagde de? (“What did they say?”), and I thought it might be useful to other Danish learners too.

You paste a link to an episode from DR LYD, and the website creates an interactive transcript that you can read while listening to the original audio.

Some of the features:

• The current sentence is highlighted during playback
• Click any sentence to jump directly to that point in the audio
• Space to play/pause and arrow keys to jump ±5 seconds
• Adjustable playback speed
• Optional sentence-by-sentence translation
• Copy and download the transcript

The way I use it is pretty simple: I just listen to the Podcast with the transcription and translation on, and keep replaying tha sentence if I am cunfused like "Wait are they actually saying that?", until my brain can decode like "Oh yes it does sound like they are saying that!". It makes it much easier for me to connect the Danish I already know with what Danish actually sounds like in natural speech.

There’s also a demo, so you can try the whole interface without setting anything up or paying anything.

You can try it here:

Hva' sagde de? (DEMO)

The project is still pretty new, so the transcripts definitely aren’t perfect. Names, English expressions, background music, and people talking over each other can still confuse the transcription models. I wouldn’t treat the transcript as an authoritative source — for me, it’s mainly a learning tool for getting unstuck when listening to native Danish content.

I’d love to hear what other Danish learners think. If you try it, any feedback is welcome — suggestions, feature ideas, bug reports, things you find confusing, things you like or dislike, or completely different ways you think the tool could be useful.

I mainly built this around the way I study Danish, so I’m very curious how other learners would use it.

For anyone wondering about the API key

The demo doesn’t require an API key. You only need one if you want to transcribe your own DR LYD episodes.

The site uses your own OpenAI API key to do the transcription. If you’ve never used an API key before, you can basically think of it as a private access key that allows the website to send the audio to OpenAI on your behalf.

The tool itself is free. You pay OpenAI directly for whatever transcription or translation you use, and I don’t receive any of that payment. The website shows an estimated price before you start, and you can choose between different transcription methods depending on whether you care more about accuracy, timestamps, or cost.

Your API key is:

• Stored only in your browser
• Never stored on my server
• Used only when you request transcription or translation
• Removable from the website at any time

You should still treat an API key like a password: don’t share it publicly, and revoke it from your OpenAI account if you think someone else has seen it.

This is an independent learning project and is not affiliated with DR or OpenAI.

When I was learning with Duolingo and Anki, even though I knew the meaning of the word, I didn't understand Danes talking. I wanted to learn from YouTube videos but not all had subtitles.

So I made simple app, where I paste a YouTube link and it makes flashcards from the video, keeping the full sentence and the clip of original audio, played from the YouTube player. So you hear the real speaker, not TTS.

I can also define that I want the tool to select eg "basic vocabulary", "vocabulary related to cooking" etc

Easiest way to make something similar, would be use Anki subs2src, but it requires the video to have subtitle's.

If you have more time, use some coding ai to make app that will stich video download + timestamps + speech to text model and make basic ui.

Demo: