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Now learning a foreign language can be enjoyable as well as challenging, and not require a trip back to the classroom. Available in both book-only or book-and-cassette format, these Three-Month Language Courses are outstanding self-study programs designed for the individual seeking to acquire a good working knowledge of a language in a short amount of time. Devoting just over an hour daily to the course, the program provides grammar lessons, contextual conversion drills, relevant word lists, and graded exercises, giving you an immediate and practical grasp of the language. In addition, pronunciation is made easy with Hugo's unique "imitated pronunciation" system, which represents foreign sounds with English syllables. Whether you are a businessman tackling an international account, a student preparing for an adventurous holiday, or simply a lover of new languages, the Three-Month Language Course makes learning easy, satisfying, and more fun than ever before. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Best Introductory teach-yourself-Danish course on the market
I have tried just about all of the beginning Danish language courses on the market and this one is my favorite. It moves quickly and covers a lot of material, so I'm glad I tried some of the other courses first, to give me a basic introduction. This program does a good job of teaching conversational Danish while introducing the essential grammar rules a little at a time. The authors have a good sense for what is essential and what can wait.It teaches many colloquial expressions and rules of Danish sentence construction, so I am now able to create my own expressions and not just parrot back the ones I have memorized. The book has a few misspellings, as other reviewers have mentioned, such as "hi" in chapter one--it should be spelled "hej"--but I catch the occasional errors because I also work with a dictionary. (There are very few).The four cassette tapes are an absolute must. We English speakers will never get Danish pronunciation right unless we hear it spoken by a native. You will find that native speakers in Denmark slur their final t's more than the speakers on the tape (Danes make a a sound on some d's and t's that only Danes can make--it is NOT "TH," as all the books claim). But the extra careful pronunciation on the tape is useful for learning the language. This is the only tape that enunciates carefully enough so that I can tell the difference between words like "dansker" and "danskere." Another reviewer complained that the word lists are not grouped by topical subject type. That reviewer missed the fact that the words are grouped according to which spelling and conjugation patterns they follow.That is very useful for memorizing all those confounded endings on Danish nouns and adjectives. This program makes me hopeful that learning a foreign language is possible and easy with a little daily effort on my part. It is fun! I'm driving my family nuts, talking in Danish around the house.The other excellent beginning course that I am using is from Rosetta Stone--but it is a lot more money.

excellent, but not flawless
This book is an excellent introduction to learning the Danish language.However, several misspellings are present within the text.As this can be a problem, I would recommend to EVERYONE to get the accompanying cassettes which compliment the course.This would also act as a good precautionary due to the fact that at the beginning, Danish is often very difficult to understand until your ear has been finely tuned to the sounds of the language.Aside from the mistakes, the text gives a simple and easily understandable approach to grammar and also to the vocabulary.The course uses such things as humor and fairy tales to teach the language, along with several model sentences and short dialogues to hear the language spoken at a normal rate of speech.Having the cassettes comes in handy the most with these dialogues.All in all, this is an excellent intro to the language, and one can deal fairly well with Danish after completing the course, as it expresses both formal and informal usage of the language.

An imperfect enterprise
This book is a good road map to Danish...it does an excellent job of explaining grammar and sentence structure.

What makes it frustrating for a beginner like me, however, is the way it approaches vocabulary.I'velearned several other languages, and I like to learn new nouns in groups("animals" "professions" "rooms of thehouse")

This book throws huge groups of unrelated words at you asit goes about explaining sentence structure, and I found them almostimpossible to keep straight.

I ended up keeping a separate notebook toorganize them myself!

Another important point: Pronunciation is the mostdifficult part of Danish, so I'd recommend buying this book WITH thecassettes.I bought the book alone, and now to get the cassettes - whichare really necessary - I'm going to have to buy another copy of the book! ... Read more

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Learn the most common words and expressions, wherever you travel. All words are spelt in your own language with EasyPiecy's unique "spoken language"! The book gives you an alphabetic overview of the words, as well as direct links to their pronunciation.

The book is split into these categories:
Human relations
In town
Traffic
Colour, numbers & time
Hotel
Eat & drink
Nature
Family & pets
Entertainment
Sport
Illness

EasyPiecy is an easily accessed, fast and effective way to learn a language! The book only contains words and sentences you need when travelling. The book is designed for use here and now and does not require any previous language experience.

See also EasyPiecy's online language courses at www.EasyPiecy.com
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1806. Contains both Volumes I and II of this collection of Tragic, Humorous and other songs. The publication of Popular Ballads and Songs in Edinburgh was described by Sir Walter Scott as having opened a new discovery respecting the original source of the Scottish Ballads. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Not a bad value, but a bit tedious
This set is a decent value. For your money, you get a fairly broad range of phrases and vocabulary. However, the organization of information assumes that you can keep interest listening to a bunch of discrete phrases repeated one after the other with no conversations or anything remotely natural. If you can, in fact, maintain interest while listening to these tapes repeatedly, then you'll do well with this set. If, on the other hand, you need something more dynamic, you might do well to look elsewhere. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

Product Description
1806. Contains both Volumes I and II of this collection of Tragic, Humorous and other songs. The publication of Popular Ballads and Songs in Edinburgh was described by Sir Walter Scott as having opened a new discovery respecting the original source of the Scottish Ballads. ... Read more