ebook img

The Colloquial Series - Readers StuffZ PDF

294 Pages·2003·2.22 MB·English
by  
Save to my drive
Quick download
Download
Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.

Preview The Colloquial Series - Readers StuffZ

1111 2 3 4 5 6 7 Colloquial 8 Danish 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 4211 The Colloquial Series Series Adviser: Gary King The following languages are available in the Colloquial series: * Afrikaans * Korean Albanian * Latvian * Amharic * Lithuanian Arabic (Levantine) Malay Arabic of Egypt * Mongolian Arabic of the Gulf and * Norwegian Saudi Arabia Panjabi Basque * Persian Bulgarian * Polish * Cambodian * Portuguese * Cantonese * Portuguese of Brazil * Chinese * Romanian * Croatian and Serbian * Russian * Czech * Scottish Gaelic * Danish * Slovak * Dutch * Slovene * Estonian Somali * Finnish * Spanish * French * Spanish of Latin America German * Swahili Greek Swedish Gujarati * Tamil * Hindi * Thai * Hungarian * Turkish * Icelandic * Ukrainian Indonesian * Urdu Italian * Vietnamese * Japanese * Welsh Accompanying cassette(s) (*and CDs) are available for the above titles. They can be ordered through your bookseller, or send payment with order to Taylor & Francis/Routledge Ltd, ITPS, Cheriton House, North Way, Andover, Hants SP10 5BE, UK, or to Routledge Inc, 29 West 35th Street, New York NY 10001, USA. COLLOQUIALCD-ROMs Multimedia Language Courses Available in: Chinese, French, Portuguese and Spanish 1111 2 3 4 5 Colloquial 6 7 Danish 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 The Complete Course 15 16 for Beginners 17 18 19 20 21 W. Glyn Jones and Kirsten Gade 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 4211 First published 1993 by Routledge Second edition published in 2003 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 1993, 2003 W. Glyn Jones and Kirsten Gade Illustrations by Russell Bryant All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-203-42640-1 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-43978-3 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0–415–30182–3 (Book) ISBN 0–415–30180–7 (CDs) ISBN 0–415–30179–3 (Cassettes) ISBN 0–415–30181–5 (Pack) 1111 Contents 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 About this book vii 12 A simple guide to pronunciation x 13 14 15 1 Familien Nielsen i Køge 1 16 The Nielsen family in Køge 17 18 2 På arbejde 13 19 At work 20 3 Hvad koster det? 24 21 22 What does it cost? 23 4 Hvad dag er det i dag? 35 24 25 What day is it today? 26 5 Telefonen ringer! 47 27 28 The phone is ringing! 29 6 Den daglige tummerum 61 30 31 The daily humdrum 32 7 Små problemer 74 33 Small problems 34 35 8 Jeg ønsker, jeg kræver og jeg 36 foreslår . . . 87 37 38 I wish, I want and I suggest ... 39 9 Skål! 101 40 Cheers! 41 4211 vi 10 Så er det weekend! 113 Weekend ahead! 11 Hvad vil du være? 125 What do you want to do? 12 Hvordan bliver vejret? 137 What is the weather going to be like? 13 Hvordan ser hun ud? 149 What does she look like? 14 Vil du med? 162 Do you want to come with me? 15 Hvordan har du det? 174 How are you? 16 Du er smuk! 186 You’re beautiful! 17 Hvad skete der? 198 What happened? 18 Lad os gå ud! 208 Let’s go out! Ready-reference grammar 220 Key to exercises 225 English–Danish glossary 246 Danish–English glossary 255 Index 275 1111 About this book 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Colloquial Danishconsists of eighteen units, each containing about 12 ninety new words. Each unit is built around a series of smaller 13 units including texts, dialogues, explanatory language points and 14 exercises. 15 On pages x–xiv there is a brief pronunciation guide, a review 16 of the main language points, a key to exercises and English–Danish 17 and Danish–English glossaries. 18 Below, we explain the aim of the various units and the best way 19 of working with them. If you want to derive maximum benefit from 20 the book, we suggest you do not skip this introduction! 21 22 Dialogues and Reading texts 23 24 25 The dialogues are a core element in this book. They are intended 26 to teach you the kind of everyday language you will encounter 27 anywhere in modern Denmark. However, as dialogues can often 28 only be broken up into phrases, it is the phrases you should basic- 29 ally try to understand and learn to use rather than the individual 30 words. 31 The Reading texts complement the dialogues and assist your 32 language learning in a different way. The structure of a written 33 language is normally simpler than that of the spoken language, and 34 so the texts can often be more or less taken word by word. Going 35 through the Reading texts with the help of the translation of new 36 words, which are always immediately available either in the text in 37 brackets or in a list below, will help you feel comfortable dealing 38 with written material such as newspapers and books. It will, in add- 39 ition, provide you with some insights into Danish life and culture. 40 We have taken care never to introduce a new word without 41 giving an immediate translation of it. However, if you encounter 4211 a word you have forgotten, look it up in the Glossary. viii Language points, useful phrases and exercises We use as few grammatical terms as possible, but of course they cannot be entirely avoided. So, to help learners who have no previous experience of these terms, we try to illustrate each one as it occurs. No language points are introduced unless they have been illustrated in the preceding text or dialogue. So when working on these points, you should always keep an eye on the text above. ‘Useful phrases’ and ‘Extend your Vocabulary’ as well as the exercises will also give you material relevant to the texts. Key to exercises There are many different types of exercise in Colloquial Danish, and it is not always possible to provide a proper key. This is partic- ularly true of those requiring your own thoughts and ideas. For others, the Key provides a natural answer, but in some cases, of course, there can be other correct answers in addition to those we provide. Ready-Reference Grammar This is in no way intended to be a complete grammar. It merely presents you with summaries of points otherwise dealt with at different stages in the book. So, for instance, we do not include numerals in this Summary – but the Index will tell you in which lesson you will find those. Glossary There are English–Danish and Danish–English glossaries at the back of the book. The English–Danish glossary is less comprehensive than the Danish–English, although it contains all the words necessary for doing the exercises. This list does not contain comprehensive infor- mation on Danish words, so if you want to discover such things as inflections, you will have to look up the Danish word in the Danish–English glossary. ix 1111 The Danish–English glossary contains all the words appearing 2 in the lessons except for a small number of Danish words that do 3 not appear outside specific texts. 4 5 The Danish alphabet 6 7 8 The letters ‘c’, ‘q’, ‘x’ and ‘z’ do not belong to the Danish alphabet 9 and are only used in foreign loan words. Nor is ‘w’ common; dic- 10 tionaries place the few words beginning with it under ‘v’, with 11 which it is identical in pronunciation. On the other hand, Danish 12 has three extra letters: ‘æ’, ‘ø’ and ‘å’, which are placed in that 13 order at the end of the alphabet. 14 15 Pronunciation 16 17 18 Danish is a relatively easy language for an English speaker to learn, 19 and the only major difficulty is the pronunciation. Following is 20 a guide to Danish pronunciation in order to provide you with a 21 simple basis on which to work. As is true of any language, however, 22 use of the diskette is essential if you are to achieve authentic 23 pronunciation. 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 4211

Description:
The Colloquial Series Series Adviser: Gary King The following languages are available in the Colloquial series: * Afrikaans Albanian * Amharic Arabic (Levantine)
See more

The list of books you might like

Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.