Pimsleur Danish Basic Course - Level 1 Lessons 1-10 CD: Learn to Speak and Understand Danish with Pimsleur Language Programs

by Pimsleur Language Programs, Paul Pimsleur

The Pimsleur® Method: the easiest, fastest way to learn a new language. Completely portable, easily downloadable, and lots of fun. You’ll be speaking and understanding in no time flat!

This course includes Lessons 1-10 from the Danish Level 1 program - 5 hours of audio-only effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions. Get a chance to test drive the incredibly effective and efficient, world-famous Pimsleur Level 1 Program. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons is included in each lesson. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Danish.

The Danish Language
Danish is derived from Old Norse. Because of the large number of similarities between Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, knowledge of any one of these languages makes it possible to understand the others. This is true for both spoken and written forms.

Audio CD

First published November 1, 1999

Reviews

[Dave · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the second Pimsleur language program I've completed (having done Swedish and a little Spanish), and I'm pretty happy with them. They don't give you a very broad vocabulary or explain much grammar, but they get you talking a lot and that's a good thing.

The Pimsleur courses are a bit weird, in that they seem to always put you in the role of an American man picking up foreign women. One way that the Danish course is great is that it turns this into a 5-hour long joke on men who think that women exist just to be available to them.

In the end the man who has spent the whole course inviting the woman out for drinks or even suggesting they have dinner at her place becomes confused when she refuses to go out with him. He keeps suggesting different times, thinking it's just a scheduling problem, so she ends the lesson with the rejoinder "Du forstår ikke dansk, og du forstår ikke mig." (You don't understand Danish, and you don't understand me." Hilarious.

[Mark McGuire · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don't think is available on Audible anymore. I grabbed it a few years ago, and finally got around to listening to it. The new book is Level 1 instead of Phase 1. Level 1 is longer, and is organized more effectively. I've started Level 1 as of June 28 2016.