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Welcome to the Danish Course!
Velkommen, vores kære elever, til beta-fasen! Welcome, our dear students, to the beta phase!
After almost three months of intense and hard work, we are now able to say that our course has reached the beta phase! We are very proud of it and can’t wait for your feedback!
We have been working so hard on this course ever since we started. Remember this year’s amazing summer? Yeah, we don’t. We sat inside working on the course all summer! But now it pays of! :D We are proud to say that we have created more than 70 skills and translated more than 16500 sentences – and if we should say it ourselves, we think they are pretty good. ;)
Nothing, of course, is flawless – but that’s why we need you guys! We gladly invite you to test our course. You should be looking forward to weird Danish dishes, zombies, ninjas, drunk cats, a scissor-stealing bear, and head-banging your desk in frustration over incomprehensible grammar. Sounds fun, doesn’t it? :D
A huge thanks to Duolingo for giving us the opportunity to make this course, to the teams who have kept us company when some of the skills were killing us, to our wonderful mentor and a huge thank you to YOU! This course would not be here without your enormous enthusiasm!
We hope you will love the course as much as we do. See you in the forums!
The Danish Team
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This is exciting :D Danish seems pretty tricky right now, but hopefully I can start to get the hang of it soon, it looks hella fun! Thanks Team Dutch!
Davs derude!
Finally danish is out! That's so awesome! Huge thanks to the fantastic danish team, I'm really happy for the course so far.
I've been following the discussions and comments everywhere about the danish course, and I've been waiting the whole summer for the course, as I am a danish native. I've not been able to work the whole summer, because I broke my leg in June in a water slide, so I've had a lot of time for Duolingo instead. Duolingo really helped me through that period! I've reached level 9 today until now, and I'm doing the final skills, so I can get my first owl. :)
I'm at a danish "Højskole"/Bible college right now with a lot of foreigners, and I'm already encouraging them to use Duolingo to learn danish. I told my teacher about Duo today. He has has a PhD degree and he's really impressed by they way Duo makes language learning simple, like a game.
Tusind tak!
Hej Tobias! Jeg håber dit ben er godt igen nu. ;) Jeg er glad for, at du kan bruge vores kursus og spreder budskabet! Det betyder meget for os alle, at få lov at hjælpe så mange som muligt. :) Og jeg er nødt til at give din lærer ret: Duolingo er virkelig fantastisk. Som du kan se bruger jeg det selv til en del sprog! Nå, men held og lykke med det hele! Send endelig gerne opdateringer/feedback fra digselv og dine venner på højskolen, jeg er meget nysgerrig!
Hej Sofia! Det er blevet meget bedre siden da, og jeg kan næsten gå normalt igen nu. Det er godt nok dejligt, at det er ved at være overstået med krykkerne. Det er jeg glad for at høre! Det kan jeg godt forstå, det er præcis sådan jeg også har det, da jeg gerne ville fremme sproglære for alle der er omkring mig, ved at lære en masse selv og fortælle det videre. Jeg har fået flere til at bruge Duolingo allerede og er stadig igang med at "oplære" andre i det. Jeg skal sågar fortælle vores dansklærer om Duolingo meget snart, så de kan bruge i vores danskundervisning, som vi har til udlændinge på skolen. :) Ja det kan jeg se, det er fedt!! Der er så fantastisk mange gode ting ved at kunne tale og forstå flere sprog. Tak skal du have, og det vil jeg rigtigt gerne gøre! Skal jeg skrive til dig her på Duo, eller hvordan vil du gerne have updates? :)
Hvor er det godt at høre, at dit ben har det bedre. :) Jeg er helt enig, sprog er fantastisk og forbinder folk på tværs af kloden - det er nøgler til så mange forskellige mennesker og kulturer! Jeg prøver også at få folk omkring mig til at bruge Duolingo, haha. Jeg håber din dansklærer vil tage det i brug, jeg tror mange af eleverne vil have glæde af det (eller også vil de bare hade det, men oh well xD). Du kan bare skrive på min stream, så vil jeg læse det! Jeg kan ikke garantere, at jeg altid har tid til at svare, men jeg vil med glæde læse om dine fremskridt! :D
Fedt nok, ja man må jo starte med ens omgangskreds. :) Jeg har snakket med min dansklærer om det nu, og hun er vildt positiv! Hun vil i hvert fald opfordre eleverne til at bruge duo i fritiden, jeg ved ikke om vil integrere det i undervisningen. Ja haha, de vil både glæde og hade det, helt sikkert! Det vil jeg gøre så fremover. Det er bare i orden, det kræver også meget tid at svare på utallige indlæg hele tiden, kender det alt for godt!
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Jeg håber ikke at det er for sent at sige "god bedring!". Har lige læst dit indlæg. I hvor langt tid skulle du gå med krykker? Du er sagtens blevet stærk i armene :)
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Der er faktisk mange som vil gerne har engelskkursus for danskere. Engelsk er min modersmål. Den nuværende danskkursus for engelsktalere er lidt for nemt fordi man skal mest oversætte fra dansk til engelsk. Jeg vil helst oversætte fra engelsk til dansk og glæder mig til den omvendte kursus eventuelt udkommer!
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Amazing. Thank you for all your hard work Team Danish! We look forward to helping get it through Beta! :)
Thanks for putting this to life - bjarke, runem, sofia. I'm sure a whole lot of people here on duolingo are very grateful for the huge dedication and love you three have put into creating this course. I tried to find good ways to learn danish for a while now and I failed. I've been waiting for the release of this course ever since I heard of it a couple of months ago. I'm really impressed how sophisticated the course is, even though it's early beta stage. You really have done a great job and you deserve a honest thanks from the duolingo community who now finally is able to study some danish.
I've been living here in Copenhagen with my boyfriend for like 1 month now, though without school or nothing I felt it's hard to learn anything. I feel dreadful when people outside talk to me and all I can say is "I can't speak danish". Therefore I'm deeply grateful for this opportunity to learn some danish through your course.
Thanks :)
Hello Sofia, thank you for your kind words :) I'm on the highway with my bf right now. We visited his parents in southern Denmark. We are going back to Copenhagen now. I really improved big time in danish ever since I started learning 3 weeks ago. I'm able to read subtitles on tv with almost no problems. I can read well, though understanding spoken danish and speaking is still very hard for me. I will try my best to improve. Thank you once again. :)
YIPPEEE! Thank you so much guys! I've been waiting for this with great excitement, and it doesn't disappoint! I've just finished the first two basics skills, and the grammar notes are fantastic! Thank you! (I don't know how to say 'thank you' yet in Danish so you'll have to make do with 'Jeg er en kvinde og jeg spiser et aeble') :D
Goddag! Jeg har allerede lært dansk i 3-4 år og jeg snakker dansk til dagligt, fordi jeg arbejder med danskere. Men jeg havde alligevel nogle fejl på placeringstesten. Jeg prøvede at teste flere kompetencer og nogle opgaver, men jeg fik fejl i nogle sætninger, som man kan sige på flere måder.. Ellers tillyke, det er godt arbejde =)
Mange tak, du, hvor er det godt at høre, at du kan lide kurset! Der er en del fejl, men vi arbejder på at få dem fikset. Nu har vi fået en til med på holdet, som kan hjælpe os (sig hej til Xneb! :D). Jeg er sikker på, at det bliver rigtig godt, når vi engang er "færdige" - selvom vi nok aldrig bliver helt færdige. ;)
Tak for nyt ord :)!
Well, jeg set Jagten et par år siden, og jeg kunne godt lidt det. Jeg vidste ikke, at Danmark gjorde så store film! Jeg begyndte at se flere danske film. Da jeg skulle vælge et land at studere i (jeg har ønsket at studere i udlandet, siden jeg var barn), var Danmark det oplagte valg.
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Hi, I know no one has posted here in like 4 years but I would like to know if you guys are still improving and changing stuff in the course or if you are taking a break. Mange tak
You aren't alone. I have been doing this for 767 days straight. I worked my way through the Swedish tree. I started doing Esperanto, Latin, Navaho, and Danish all at the same time. it took me 350 days to finish Swedish, which I am keeping up by watching every Swedish movie I can. I am about half way through Spanish now. My grandfather spoke Swedish and taught me some. Toward the end of the Swedish course i discovered he spoke a dialect which is intermediate between Swedish and Danish called Scane with a little circle over the "a". I'm not an admin. I did Spanish second because I found out I picked it up during my lifetime but I didn't have a big vocabulary and didn't know how verbs form when you get beyond the present tenses. I am hoping to be fluent in four languages (including my maternal language) by January 2021. Ses snart means the same thing in Swedish and in Danish. Incidentally to me French is to Spanish as Danish is to Swedish. The French and the Danes are always looking for ways to shorten words, while the Spanish and the Swedes enunciate every syllable. Ses snart!
I am so excited for this course (as evidenced by the fact I'm on level 3 already). Tak for all the hard work; y'all have done an amazing job! This is pretty much how I felt when I saw that the Danish course was open (hope this works; EDIT...oops, don't know how to embed gifs, sorry):
http://37.media.tumblr.com/b4090e550dce0b6e7a54348e661a3e5f/tumblr_mm88wdxIfP1rb8syko4_400.gif
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wow... congratulations guys, your works are splendid, I've waited for this course :D btw why does the emblem for Danish course look like the emblem for French course? tak :)
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Thank you very much for all the hard work! Ever since I watched the popular Danish tv shows I've been wanting to learn to speak Danish. ;-)
I downloaded an app on my iPhone, but it is nothing like DuoLingo. I also downloaded a text book + audio files for self teaching, but I had to force myself to study. Now that the DuoLingo course is out, I don't have to force myself, because learning on DuoLingo is so much fun!
Tusind tak!
P.S. the 'tips & notes' are exstensive and very helpful!
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Thank you guys so much for your work! I was not planning at all to do the Danish course, but I thought I would check out the first lesson. I was surprised at how much I like the language, though, and the notes were great--enough to make the grammar make sense but not so much as to be overwhelming.
I'm obviously extremely early in the course, but I think I'm actually going to continue with it as my "fun" language. I am very impressed with the course thus far!
I'm so glad to hear so. :D I'm especially glad to hear that our grammar notes are appreciated - they weren't that fun to make to be honest, haha. But it all pays of now! Congratulations on reaching level 6 - keep going and feel free to ask as many questions as possible! :D Good luck with everything!
Hej danske Duolingo-gruppe
Stærkt arbejde med kurset! Det ser godt ud :-)
One thing I stumbled upon: In the "tips and notes" section of the number skill the word "snes" is introduced. I find that to be a bit misleading, since the word "snes" has nothing to do with the names of the numbers! For instance, "halvtreds" aka "halvtredsindstyve" cannot be explained as "halv" + "tre" + "snes", but is instead: "halvtredje" + "sinde" + "tyve", which are old Danish words meaning 2½ times twenty. (This also explains why there is a 'd' in halvtreds, but not in tres). Read more about it here: http://sproget.dk/raad-og-regler/artikler-mv/svarbase/SV00000047
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I could never remember the Danish numbers until I learned what they meant. I'm glad you can include this explanation for other learners :)
Thank you! :D So glad you like it. :) Thanks for spreading the word and please keep doing so! We'll gladly welcome all our users and their questions and reports. ;) If your friends decide to use the course you can tell them to write on my profile and I'll personally welcome them! Good luck to you, enjoy your journey down the tree! :D
I didn't know Duolingo existed until three days ago but apparently I'm already addicted to learning Danish. Absolutely loving it! Thank you so much! (If there are any recommended basic 'reading in Danish' places on here or to buy good Danish/English dictionary recs, I'd love to know where to find them please.)
Brilliant work!
Another way is to go to: https://www.duolingo.com/settings/direction choose the language and "save changes".
Thank you for the course it's wonderful! I just came across with a possible mistake with one task it was with possessive pronouns and in lesson 2 there was multi choice task with a sentence "you drink its water" and the correct answer was "du drikker dens vand" but shouldn't it be "du drikker dets vand" as the vand is et word? There wasn't even the option with dets so is it just a spelling mistake or is there an exception with rules that when the word is et it's mit, dit, dets and so on?
Hello! :) Glad you like the course and asks questions when in doubt - just remember to post questions in the discussion forum. I'll make an exception this time and answer your question here, but normally we don't. ;) It is correct that dets should be accepted, but it isn't because water is an et-word (though it is true, that water is an et-word ;)). It is because its is a pronoun. And a pronoun is a word, that replaces another word and change according to the word, they're replacing. For intance: I drink the girl's water -> I drink her water. Here "her" replaces "the girl". In this sentence You drink its water "its" replaces some unknown thing or animal. And since unknown things and animals can both be et- and en-words in Danish both dens and dets should be accepted. So as you see the pronouns change according to what they're replacing. I hope that made sense to you. :)
Hej Danish Team. Jeg underviser i dansk på et sprogcenter i København, og har opfordret mine kursister til at taste jeres Duolingo Dansk. Jeg har dog selv et par bemærkninger. Den danske udtale som man høre undervejs i 'the lessons' er meget unaturlig og 'computer-syntetisk'. Hvis folk der lærer sproget skal kunne afkode (forstå) dansk i 'den virkelige verden', er det vigtigt de lærer at afkode sproget som det tales. Jeg ved det sikkert er en udfordring, men tag et kig på denne hjemmeside, hvor 'native speakers' udtaler ord (her på dansk. Bare en ide. http://da.forvo.com/languages/da/ Men fedt I er i gang :-)
That site has been linked in the discussions elsewhere already by the amazing Danish Team. :) Unfortunately, the tts (audio) software that they use on Duolingo for the Danish course, I believe, is the best they have been able to find. We do have a Skype call every Saturday so we can practice our pronunciation and listening. We usually have at least one native Dane to help us...you are welcome to join us. :)
Hejsa! Jeg kan ikke beskrive hvor glad jeg er for at høre, at vores kursus kan hjælpe dine elever. Det var mit håb, at vi kunne bidrage til dansklæring ikke kun i udlandet, men i Danmark selv. Må jeg spørge, hvorfra du har hørt om Duolingo? Hvad synes eleverne om det? Hvilket sprogcenter er det? (hehe, mange spørgsmål, beklager) Mht. til vores tts (text to speach) program, så er vi godt klar over, at vores søde oplæser lyder lidt robot-agtig, men det er det bedste tts-program på markedet lige pt. :P Jeg kender godt forvo.com og bruger den selv - fantastisk hjemmeside! Jeg regner med at komme til at henvise vores brugere til den mere i fremtiden. :) Tak for feedbacken og held og lykke med det hele! :D
Hej med jer, Ja, jeg ved at tts for dansk' vedkommende stadig har lidt vej endnu før det kører. Dr.dk/ligetil (lette nyheder på dansk) har samme 'problem' med deres oplæsningsrobot. Men det kommer forhåbentlig. Men egentlig er jeg også bare glad, for jeg synes det er rigtig godt at så meget er undervejs. Duolingo har jeg hørt om via et feed fra The Guardian tech og efterfølgende fra en amerikansk spil-designer. Hun fortalte at 'dansk' var blevet lanceret på Duolingo. Det sprogcenter jeg arbejder på hedder Studieskolen (jf et af dine spørgsmål ;)). Desværre har jeg ikke hørt så meget feedback fra mine kursister endnu, men jeg følger løbende op. Hvis jeg får noget interessant feedback fra dem, skriver jeg det gerne til jer, hvis det kunne være noget I har brug for. Jeg har selv udviklet et e-læringssite og er i gang med et nyt, så jeg 'snuser' meget rundt for at se, hvad der er af sjove, gode og inspirerende sitets til sproglæring :) Og tak for svaret fra jer og held og lykke videre! :D
Jeg prøvede at tage den sidste dansk test der var, og jeg ved ikke om jeg er dum eller hvad jeg er (der er en seriøs mulighed) , men jeg kan virkelig ikke gennemføre kurset?! (prøvet 10 plus gange)
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Prøv at tænk hvad de andre har af besværligheder om vores sprog!?.. Pia K ville have smidt mig ud af landet for længe siden, havde jeg taget testen før.. Testen er fuld af at der kun er en måde at sige tingene på, og hvis man vil lave en anden fortolkning med samme betydning, så bliver man busted.. Og er betydningen af et sprog ikke vigtigere end at Picture bliver oversat som billed i et spørgsmål, men er fejl og skal være foto i en andet? Jeg har ikke hørt om billed når det er af ens far/foto når den bliver opbevaret i pung?
Jeg har rapporteret hvad jeg har fundet indtil nu, men jeg må da tage det 12 tal fra gym og seriøst overveje om sensor var for sød den dag... hehe Jeg skal jo til og pakke mine ting... Pia K står allerede i døren...
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Can you please add some grammatical explanations so learning would less about guessing than knowing. The have it in French course and the symbol is a lamp.