Learning Journal #10 (105)

[Minyao Li]

Again, I need to refer to my experience of learning Danish here. As I was learning Danish, I tried to read and write with very limited words I have. I started with menus. Menus were ok because they were illustrative themselves. There were mostly words about food and drinks that I learned in class. Then I tried to read the advertisement while waiting for bus and metro. Those paper posters were easier, because I got time to think and related to the Danish class. Those videos were little harder because people talk in a pace that I could not catch up with. But videos were also very illustrative and I could try to connect the videos with the emphasized word. However, advertisements were made to be concise, easy to understood and simple. Articles were not. In my Danish class, we tried to read a Danish poem. I could not understand much of it without the help and explanations from my teacher. Writing is the most difficult part. I wrote a short paragraph during Danish exam, but it took so much time. The content was basically a copy of the text book, not any original piece from me.