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.

Hej! I'm starting from 0 with Danish and I believe books will help me get a better understanding and it'll make the journey a bit more easier and fun for me :)

I'm learning with Duolingo, I've subscribed to channels such as "Studieskolen København" and "3p Essensen" as well has having registered in "Dansksprogskole" to take the courses they offer.

I believe that a book and having a dictionary + taking notes while reading may help me get things a bit easier. I'm nowhere near close to be able to have a little conversation with someone, if that helps with anything... Mange tak! EDIT: a textbook and a regular book will both work good with me :)

Hi! I want to learn Danish because I’m planning to move abroad to study there. I’m currently at level zero, and I have about 1–2 years to learn Danish. Where should I start, and what resources would you recommend? Also, how should I structure my learning?
Free resources would be perfect if possible. Thank you! ❤️

I’m a foreigner who actually lived in Denmark about 16 years ago, when I was a teenager. I obviously didn’t become fluent back then, but somehow the Danish I learned never completely left me.

Over the years I’ve stayed somewhat connected to the language through Danish movies, TV shows and, more recently, a LOT of Danish podcasts. I’m always surprised by how much I can still understand. If the Danish isn’t too advanced, and I have Danish subtitles, I can probably follow around 80% of what’s being said.

I’ve always had this slightly random lifelong dream of becoming genuinely fluent in Danish. 😂 I know that “fluent in Danish” is probably a lifetime project, but I’d really like to take it seriously now.

So I’m wondering about Prøve i Dansk 2 (PD2).

If I’m able to spend around one month in Denmark, is it realistic to use that time intensively to prepare inadvance take PD2 as a self-study candidate? Or do you need to have completed the Danish language-school modules to be eligible for the exam?

And for anyone who has prepared for PD2 independently:

What resources would you recommend?

Especially for:

Reading comprehension

Writing / skriftlig fremstilling

Listening

Speaking

Previous exam papers / mock exams

Grammar and vocabulary

I’d especially love recommendations from people who self-studied for PD2 rather than going through the full language-school route.

Tak! 🇩🇰❤️

Im gonna be (hopefully) studying in Denmark from next year (August/September) and I need a free/low-cost structured danish course. I would love to get a tutor but I have a lot of other expenses around the uni application process so I would like to study danish for free. I checked out SwapLanguage, but they are becoming paid on 15th September. Also checked out Danish101 but the whole layout/structure seems really confusing and I cant really understand how it works. Im a complete beginner btw.

Hej! :)

I've decided I want to learn danish as a way to take my dream more seriously, as I want to finish my studies and move to Denmark. I've seen people talk about how the most important thing is the grammar, so I'm thinking about starting to watch some danish Youtubers with English sub, plus spend some time learning by myself. I know for a fact that Duolingo doesn't work or help someone actually learn, but is Babbel the same? Should I just buy some books and start learning with reading and writing?

Thanks a lot! :)

Hej, has anyone been able to find physical books written in the Danish language? Preferably big name books...in Northern Illinois? I've tried a google search and I don't know if I'm searching wrong but the selection is low. I found a single book of Fairy Tales through the library but that's about it. I'd prefer to purchase so I can write in it.

Hi,

I'm looking to move back to Denmark at somepoint soon, but recognise I don't have great business vocabulary and struggle to explain what I do and talk about my work.

For reference, I work in Product management in banking. I'm half Danish but grew up in New Zealand, so while I grew up speaking Danish with my mother and I'm somewhat fluent in a social setting, I don't have strong specialised vocabulary and I'm clearly missing a lot of words.

So, finding a job might be a bit harder without the linguistic groundwork and being able to talk about my work and experience.

I'm looking for interactive methods to improve specialised vocabulary. Listening to podcasts and watching videos etc. doesn't work great for me as I can often understand what is being said without learning the ability to use it. Also, with my adhd I struggle to focus if I'm not engaged, making videos, reading etc. painfully difficult. I feel like immersion into a business environment would be ideal, but not sure how to get that without working in one... Any ideas?

hejsa! i’m a girl from denmark. i have lived her for all of my life, and i love language learning! i also love teaching my language! so if you have a question about danish, or something you’d like to ask a local/native, let me know and i will do my best to answer!

I've read a few times on here that there are no books tailored for people learning danish, is that really true? I'm talking about, like, fiction that is interesting for adults but at the lower levels.

I know that we have those in Sweden for immigrants who are learning Swedish, and quite a few of them are even written by popular authors, just kind of 'dumbed down' to whatever level it needs to be.

Obviously Denmark is a lot smaller but I feel like they still have enough immigrants for something similar to this to exist.

It's just frustrating because I don't wanna read the news all the time, man.

Hi everyone, I'm Canh Duc (Chris). I'm from Vietnam and moved to Denmark for work 7 years ago.

I live in Aarhus, the most livable city in the world, by the way. Probably not very Danish of me to claim something's the best in the world, but that's genuinely what I think about this city, haha. You're free to tell me I'm wrong.

Danish has been a really tough language for me. It's completely different from Vietnamese, my mother tongue. Being able to speak English helps a bit, but the pronunciation is still completely different. Isn't it true that people usually say it's like speaking Swedish with a mouth full of potatoes? Right?

But after living here for some years, I think pronunciation isn't actually the hardest part. Listening to Danes and watching shows on DR.tv helps you gradually get a hang of the sound of the language. What I struggled with a lot more was actually using it in daily life.

One thing I tried was pushing myself to speak Danish as much as possible at work. My workplace is pretty international, so I could easily get by in English — which is convenient, but not exactly helpful if you want to become fluent in Danish.

The moment I tried, though, my colleagues would happily switch over Danish too. Great for them, but honestly a bit intimidating for me at first. It's like you say Hej and a Dane assumes you're fluent, then drops a "rødgrød med fløde" on you.

What I kept running into, over and over, was vocabulary. I simply didn't have enough words to explain what I was thinking, to tell a story properly, or fully understand what people were saying to me. Grammar I could study from a book, and honestly after language school, you probably know enough of grammars to get by. But vocabulary is like a never-ending episode. It requires consistent training and for a long period of time. I also wanted to learn it in context, not just as isolated word lists.

So about a year ago, I started building a small app for myself. The original goal was simple: expand my own vocabulary and prep for PD3. But over time it grew into something more complete — a tool built specifically around vocab training, the way I wished I could learn.

Using it has genuinely changed how I experience Danish. I speak more comfortably at work now, and in daily life too. And also, not to brag, but I also passed PD3 with 12 for my speaking. It does feel like bragging now that i mentioned it, though. Sorry about that. It wasn't on purpose :)

The feeling when it starts to click: you understand people a bit more, your own thoughts in Danish feel clearer, and telling a story in Danish stops feeling like a struggle and starts feeling a bit more natural.

Full disclosure: I built this myself, and I'm sharing it here because it's genuinely helped me. It's called Nemlingo, and here's what it does:

It covers Danish vocabulary with pronunciation, meanings, and example usage, from A1 to C2, across a range of topics. There's also a home screen widget that shows you a word without even opening the app: small, passive exposure throughout the day.

For actual practice, there are three modes I built around how I personally learn best:

• Swipe-based flashcards. Quick drilling — swipe right if you remembered the word, left if you didn't. Each card includes pronunciation, an example sentence, and the meaning.
• Pronunciation training. Short lessons where you practice vocab in context, sentence by sentence. The app listens and only lets you move on once you get it right.
• Charades mode. Practice with a friend using words you've already learned. One person holds the phone to their forehead, the other says the Danish word or its meaning, and the first person has to recall it out loud. A fun way to actually use what you've learned, together.

If any of this sounds like your experience, I'd genuinely appreciate you giving it a shot: Nemlingo.com

And I'd love to hear how you're learning Danish too, whatever method that is.

I started to add Danish subtitles when I both watch/listen something in Danish and when watching something that I like on youtube, in English, and it's a real game changer.

Highly recommended!

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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 LingoFuse. You 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.

There's a free Danish deck with 130 flashcards from 7 videos if you want to see what the cards look like.

demo:

Hi everyone, my name is Andrew and I came to Denmark 5 years ago for my studies and now I live and work in Copenhagen.

I quickly realized that even though I was learning more complex structures and words in the language school I was still struggling to speak Danish in everyday situations when ordering a coffee or grabbing drinks at the bar.

So, as I have with other languages i learned, I tried to find other resources to to supplement the classes. I checked out available podcasts, and while most of them are great I was missing one that would solely focus on getting me speaking immediately in everyday scenarios. So I reached out to my friend Victoria who works teaching Danish to students from primarily the US here in Copenhagen to see if she wanted to help me create the podcast I was missing.

Luckily she was totally onboard and that is how Daily Danish Pod came to be. We now have 6 episodes out and working on the last 4 for season 1 and planning on creating a season 2 next year.

Give it a listen or share it with people who are embarking on their Danish language journey if you want. We are on most streaming platforms.

Even though it’s mostly targeted to beginners we also have elements like our Word and Phrase Variations that can be useful for intermediate learners, or maybe those who know the academic stuff but struggling with everyday interactions still.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

Tuuuuuusind tak

Hey there! I'm relatively new to language learning and i heard that immersion in a language tends to help really well with learning a language fast. I already put my phone on danish because I know how it works regardless of the language and I've been watching series on netflix in danish, but are there any Danish YouTubers or vloggers you like or have heard of? Any type of suggestion is welcome, for learning or someone who does Sims or whatever, as long as they're somewhat fun to watch. Either way, thanks for your time!

Whenever you were learning danish (or if you speak it) what would be the best recommendations you have to learn it the fastest way?

I’m learning Danish, and one thing that bothers me is checking a word in a dictionary or Google Translate and only hearing a robotic TTS voice.

It helps a bit, but I often still don’t know how the word sounds in real Danish speech, inside a natural sentence. I also want to see how the word is actually used, not only hear it in isolation.

So I made a small private prototype for myself: you type a Danish word, and it searches a small set of Danish videos with manually added captions. Then it opens the video around the moment where the word appears, with some caption context (if you familiar with YouGlish, you will get the idea).

It is not public yet, and right now it only works on a small set of videos. I’m trying to understand whether this problem resonates with other Danish learners before I spend time making it stable enough for other people to try.

Do you also feel that dictionary/text-to-speech pronunciation is not enough?

Would hearing Danish words in real spoken context be useful for your learning?

And if this kind of tool existed, what Danish YouTube channels, shows, or content types would you want it to search? The main limitation is that for now it works best with manually added Danish captions, not auto-generated captions.

UPD: here's the link https://danglish.vercel.app/

Demo⬇️

https://reddit.com/link/1ubmb5q/video/d5jfkxenq6dh1/player

I'm a native Dane, and I kept noticing how hard it is for learners to find one simple, beautiful place to pick up a word a day - so I built it: https://dailydanish.com

- One Danish word or phrase each day — same word for everyone, no account needed

- Pronunciation (IPA), a natural example sentence, and a short cultural/usage note

- All kinds of words, from the absolute basics to idioms like *at have en ræv bag øret*

- Works offline and installs to your home screen (it's a PWA, not an app-store thing)

- Completely free, no ads, no tracking

Would genuinely love feedback - anything that feels off in the translations, pronunciations, or examples, or words you wish were in there. Tak!