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Saying what you want.

Expressions you need to produce

Danish

English

Jeg vil gerne bestille et bord til seks personer.

I would like to book a table for 6

persons.

Vi vil gerne komme i aften kl. otte.

We would like to arrive tonight at

eight o’clock.

Jeg ville høre om I har tid til at klippe mig?

I would like to ask if you have time to

cut my hair?

Har I nogen tider i den her uge?

Do you have any

”times”(=available appointments)

this week?

Det kan jeg desværre ikke.

I can’t do that, unfortunately.

Hvad med onsdag kl. 17?

How about Wednesday at five

o’clock.

Words

Jeg

Vil

shall, will

Ville

should, would

(past tense indicates politeness)

Gerne

politeness marker

Bestille

to book

one/ a

Bord

table

Til

for

Seks

six

Personer

persons

Komme

to come

I aften

tonight

Kl. = klokken

o’clock

Otte

eight

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Mad

food

Friends

venner

and

Hvornår?

when?

I dag

today

Næste

Uge

week

Idiomatic phrase

In idiomatic phrases, the words take on slightly diferent meanings, when the whole

phrase is translated to another language. So you need to learn the phrase and it’s

English equivalent as one vocabulary item. However, if you are curious to know more,

check out the break down of the phase, below. There you will find the litteral meaning

of each word. But remember to keep your focus on learning the whole phrase as one

item.

Er det noget I kan klare?

Is that possible?

Break down of the idiomatic phrase

Danish

English

Det

That

Noget

Something

You (plural)

Kan

Can

Klare

Handle

How to use it!

A friendly, informal way of asking if something is possible. This is an informal phrase, but

I can hardly imagine a situation, where it would sound too informal. Just in case you

want to be very formal and less jovial, you could use another expression, which is a

literal translation of the English equivalent word by word:

Er det muligt?

Is that possible?

Expressions you need to recognise

Ja. Hvornår skal det være?

Yes. When do you want it to be.

Ja, det kan vi godt sige.

Yes, that’s okay. /We can say that.

Hvad siger du til i dag kl. 16?

How about today at four o’clock?

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Så skal det være i næste uge.

Then it has to be next week.

Challenge number 1: The name of the restaurant

Did you manage to distinguish any sounds or words? Well the name of the restaurant

that your friend recomended, is: Mad og Venner = Food and Friends

Challenge number 2: Booking a hair cut

You didn’t get a lot of help in the podcast. I just gave you the dialogue. However, you

will find all the sentences of this dialogue above. But they are not listet in the same

order in which they occur in the dialogue. Here’s a great challenge: Listen to the

dialogue many times, and write down the whole dialogue.

Pronunciation highlights

vil

is pronounced

veh’

ville

is pronounced

veall

nogen

is pronounced

nown

bord

is pronounced

boa’

uge

is pronounced

uwe

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Learn, remember and use it forever!

First … Create flash cards! A flash card is a piece of cardboard with Danish

on one side and English on the other. Or you can download the free software

Anki, and make electronic flash cards. The program will space your repetitions

for you according to how well you have learned each card. Download Anki:

http://ichi2.net/anki/

It’s fine to make cards with single words, just make sure also to do one card for

each whole phrase. This is important.

Then …Flip through your flash cards many times a week. Preferably every

day.

And finally …Use these expressions whenever you have the chance.

Never mind if you are having a conversation in English. Just go ahead and

speak your Danish phrases! The reactions you get will probably be positive.

Some people might even want to tell you other things you could also say in

Danish. And just like that, you are having a real life language class – for free

and without sitting for hours in a class!

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