Vocabulary (Review)

Learn New Words FAST with this Lesson’s Vocab Review List

Get this lesson’s key vocab, their translations and pronunciations. Sign up for your Free Lifetime Account Now and get 7 Days of Premium Access including this feature.

Or sign up using Facebook
By clicking Join Now, you agree to our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and to receive our email communications, which you may opt out at any time.
Already a Member?

Lesson Transcript

Hey everyone, I'm Jonas.
Hej alle sammen, jeg hedder Jonas.
Welcome to the Danish Whiteboard Lessons.
In this lesson, you'll learn how to give someone your email.
Let's get started.
Okay, let's look at the vocabulary.
First, we have A, A, A, B, B, B, C, C, C,
D, D, D, E, E, E, F, F, F,
G, G, G, H, H, E, I, E,
J, J, K, K, L, L, L,
M, M, M, N, N, N.
Okay, and we go up.
O, O, O, P, P, P, Q, Q,
R, R, R, S, S, S,
T, T, T, U, U, V, V, V,
W, W, W, X, X, Y, Y,
and the example here is Y, Y, Z, Z, Z.
And now we have the three unique Danish letters.
Æ, æ, æ, ø, ø, ø, å, å, å.
Let's look at the dialogue.
When I read, I want you to pay attention to the letters.
Listen to how the email address is given and see how it's used in the dialogue.
All right, here we go.
Hvad er din emailadresse?
Min emailadresse er elisabeth@innolang.com.
Hvordan stager du det?
eh, el, ii, zet, ah, beh, eh, teh, hå, snabel a, innolang, punktum, com
So the English version would go like this.
What is your email address?
My email address is elisabeth@innolang.com
How do you spell that?
E, L, I, Z, A, B, E, T, H, at, innolang, dot, com
Now let's look at the sentence pattern.
This pattern was the structure that our dialogue followed.
Hvad er din emailadresse?
Min emailadresse er, and you insert your email address.
The English goes like this.
What is your email address?
My email address is, and insert your email address.
It's important to know certain punctuation in Danish for saying your email address.
The most peculiar one is this one, snabel a.
It means (@) at, and in Danish this is referring to an elephant trunk.
Next one is punktum, meaning period, also pronounced dot.
Next one is this one, bindestreg, meaning hyphen.
The last one is the same as in English, underscore, meaning underscore.
Next we're going to talk a little bit about nouns in Danish.
En and et are the gender article words used in front of nouns.
So neutral gender article is et, and common gender is en.
Roughly 70% of all the Danish nouns are common gender, meaning en in front of the noun.
An example from today's conversation is the word email address in Danish, emailadresse.
This is a common gender noun, meaning it's en emailadresse.
You can see the relation here in the possessive pronouns din has the en din emailadresse or min emailadresse.
The last thing we need to talk about is the flat Danish language.
So the pronunciation sounds really, really odd, right?
You need to know some basic mouth movements to learn how to pronounce Danish word.
The first one is a very wide mouth, and the other one you need to know is a very round Danish mouth.
A good example for this is the letter A, pronounced A.
So you see this? My very wide mouth for this one, A.
Another good example is the letter U, U.
You see that? A round mouth, U.

Comments

Hide