This course has six parts: 1. A general introduction to written and spoken Danish. 2. A chapter on Danish phonetics. 3. A grammar, arranged by sections under nouns, adjectives, adverbs, etc., with chapters on word-order and word-formation, and including exercises. 4. A section of general information - about money, weights and measures, meals, etc. 5. Twenty-five Danish texts (twenty prose, five poetry) from standard authors for translation into English. 6. Twenty English texts, graded in difficulty, for translation into Danish. No other Danish grammer and reader with this scope and degree of scholarship exists. Mr Bredsdorff has taught in England for a number of years, and most of his pupils have started with no knowledge of Danish. His course has been tried out and proved successful.
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No other Danish grammar and reader with this scope and degree of scholarship exists. Mr Bredsdorff has taught in England for a number of years, and most of his pupils have started with no knowledge of Danish. His course has been tried out and proved successful.
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This book was revised in 1958 and is still reprinted without any revision.
Does it mean this is an excellent book? I don't think so. This not-inexpensive book might dispappoint many students of Danish, because 1. There are no conversation sections except "special idioms" with a list of 10 greetings, 14 expressions of thanks, and 10 polite expressions. 2. There are no answers to the exercises and texts for compositions. 3. There are no Danish-English vocabulary lists. 4. There are no translations to the reading passages;three of them are from folklore, and the other 17 proses and 5 poems are from writers of the 19th and early 20th century. Only classic. 5. In the composition section, you must translate approximately 100-word passages about a lady who had her small black bag snatched by an approaching thief; Xerexes, who resolved to make war against the Greeks; a tiger and a gladiator in the arena and so on. It also contains 10 examination papers (from 1947 to 1951) at University of London and Cambridge University. If you should translate them, you can't judge whether they are correct or not. There are no model answers you can refer to! This book may be good as a textbook for college students or as a reader for self-taught students who like to read literary work by consulting a dictionary.
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Excellent classical approach to language learning,
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Unusually clear explanations of grammar and usage. Many, many good exercise. Abundant practice reading texts. Highly recommended.
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altid det rigtige, following sentences supply, lille dreng, mod nord, med hende, sagde han, ikke finde, enclitic article, til ham, til mig, komme til, definite declension, ikke til, med ham, han kommer, sig til, det samme, det var, han ikke, vowel mutation, han var, han har, var der, det ikke, den anden Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Examination Paper, Kong Christian, Singular Common, Carl Nielsen, Cambridge University, Ludvig Holberg, Some Danish, Special Intermediate Examination, University of London, Neuter Both, Neuter Plural New!
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altid det rigtige, following sentences supply, lille dreng, mod nord, med hende, sagde han, ikke finde, enclitic article, til ham, til mig, komme til, definite declension, ikke til, med ham, han kommer, sig til, det samme, det var, han ikke, vowel mutation, han var, han har, var der, det ikke, den anden Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Examination Paper, Kong Christian, Singular Common, Carl Nielsen, Cambridge University, Ludvig Holberg, Some Danish, Special Intermediate Examination, University of London, Neuter Both, Neuter Plural New!
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- Growth and Structure of the English Language by Otto Jespersen in Front Matter
- English Pronouncing Dictionary by Daniel Jones in Front Matter
- The Way of All Flesh (Penguin Classics) by Samuel Butler on page 300
- Non-Projecting Words: A Case Study of Swedish Particles (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory) by I. Toivonen in Back Matter
- Non-Projecting Words: A Case Study of Swedish Particles (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory) by I. Toivonen in Back Matter
- A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) by John A. Hawkins in Back Matter
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