Say It in Danish (Dover Language Guides Say It Series)

By Dover Publications Inc.

Book Overview

Contains over 1,000 useful sentences and phrases for travel or everyday living abroad: food, shopping, medical aid, courtesy, hotels, travel, and other situations. Gives the English phrase, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486208184
• ISBN13: 9780486208183
• Release Date: June 1958
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.3" x 0.5" x 3.5"

Customer Reviews

Buy the Whole Series-- They fit in your Breast Pocket

This is the best language book I've ever bought, and I speak good German and Spanish in addition to English. I picked this book up used for [cheap] at a cozy bookstore in historic Julian, CA. Frustrated to death with tapesets that have no booklets, booklets that are impossible to read, rote memorization of "vocab" lists that aren't used in conversation-- this book was a refreshing alternative. As someone who speaks English and German, Danish was an easy-to-comprehend mixture of the two. The book starts out with hundreds of common phrases "I'm from America" "I'm here on business," "Where can I find good theaters..." and then introduces more vocabulary words. They've brought out all the essentials of the language, in a clear, pocket-size manual you can carry around in your shirt pocket while bicycling Europe. If you get one Danish book, get this one-- and buy some others from the set. Say it in Japanese, Say it In Norwegian, Say It in German, Turkish, Arabic, French... the list is comprehensive. All the books follow the same excellent model. I totally disagree with the reviewer who hated the phonetic symbols. What's so hard about the shwah (backwards e), long a, short a, etc.? Any high-school grad should understand these symbols. It's the ONLY way to communicate pronunciation clearly. That's why dictionaries use it. Can you understand the dictionary? However, her recommendation of the other tapes was helpful... maybe I should check those out!