I'm looking for materials to assist the process of learning Danish and I'm looking for something like children's books (maybe something similar to Tintin in French), or books on cd that I can order. I'd like to buy some resources and start a lending library for the lower classes at my university, since our library only lists 9 children's books in Danish and doesn't physically have them (only available through interlibrary loan).
Can you suggest any titles, places to order materials, or online resources like streaming talk radio? I'm pretty good at puzzling through context while reading, but my production sucks (I blank out on word order when trying to write) and ohmygod I have a tin ear. I can't understand a thing when it's spoken at normal speed and I'd like to try to fix that. Books on cd might be a good place to start. Even if the level is beyond me, it would help me to hear spoken danish. In English I'm fond of things like Bill Bryson's "In A Sunburned Country" (read by the author) and This American Life on NPR.
The resources I currently have are all class materials:
Jokeren, a VERY slim booklet; a teeny little
British English to Danish dictionary; and
Retskrivningsordbog which gives the genders of various words and (I think) conjugations. This simply hasn't been enough for me. The verbal part is killing me too. I've only got class two days a week and that's just not enough time to hear and speak. For reference, I'm about a month into a 100-level university course on Danish.
Any suggestions? I'd love to go to Denmark this summer to take a language class, but I have to schedule a total hip replacement in the next six months, so I'm not sure traveling is going to be possible this year, financially or timewise (I'm in school full-time).
Tak skal du have to anyone who can point me in the direction of some good resources. I'm deadly serious about learning this language. I want to move there some day.
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posted by tejolote at 9:36 PM on October 27, 2007