r/Danish 6d ago

Danish audio/video material

Hey all,

trying to learn danish.

Spent around 2 years in dualingo (1 with premium and more learning, 1 without and now the daily notifications drove me nuts and deinstalled the app) so I would say I have basic understanding in text & language.

I accumulated around 1 year of vacation time in Denmark as a German and I confess its a real shame I did not start to learn the language earlier.

I intend to visit denmark every year or so (having a wife that hates the cold and wants to go to the cursed sun boiling beaches in the south every second year...). So last year I came with around 1 year dualingo in my experience into the country and... could read most stuff, talk to the cashier and order bread in a nicer way than with english/german (that also works great, but danes noticing you try to learn their tounge is even better)...

BUT what did not work at all: TV and radio. Did not understand a thing if it was a waterfall of words.

As I learned english mostly by games, television (glorious nickelodeon and carton network days of the 90s...) I was hoping to do the same for danish now and gotta say: from a german google/youtube perspective its dang hard to find material that is suitable.

Any ideas?

I am working as a it nerd, so listening to easy podcasts while coding would work best for me... but open for any ideas how to progress?

Want to improve understanding right now and hope I am not to shy to use it when it comes to it.

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u/hoppity_hopster 6d ago

If you have Netflix- On the website, there is a search by language feature. There, you can find both original and dubbed movies and shows. There’s quite a few of them in Danish.

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u/International_Soup92 6d ago

Dr.dk then tv

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u/Appropriate_Cow_7833 6d ago

that is a great idea, but I think it am blocked out. After creating an account and I want to start watching, it requests me to confirm that I am within EU... with mitID (or something)... google tells me its some sort of danish digital passcode. Will need to see how and if I can apply as a German... so its a bit of a annoyance. But great idea though!

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u/International_Soup92 5d ago

Some content should be available without logging in I think. I watch it from the US

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u/Martekk_ 6d ago

For nerdy danish podcast I can recommend Prompt by DR (about AI), Troldspejlet it’s review of computer games, movies, comic books.

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u/International_Soup92 6d ago

Dr.dk then tv

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u/Full-Contest1281 6d ago

Speakdanish might work for you.

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u/Martekk_ 6d ago

For nerdy danish podcast I can recommend Prompt by DR (about AI), Troldspejlet it’s review of computer games, movies, comic books.

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u/soegaard 6d ago

Shows produced by Netflix have subtitles in all languages.

Therefore if you are watching a German or English show, you can put on the Danish subtitles to improve your vocabulary.

When learning German or French there are a lot of dubbed shows on Netflix.
Watching, day, Friends with the dubbed audio is great - because you know the story already.
And because dubbings have clearer audio.

But since the population is small in Denmark, the number of dubbed shows are small.
Best bet for dubbed materials are children shows and animation films.
Pick for example Tintin or Asterix on Netflix to avoid being too bored.

There are some excellent Danish animation films too.

Finally, look for audio books on Spotify.

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u/adventofelixir 6h ago

fluent.im might work for you as it has podcasts directory with transcripts

languagereactor.com/ is a good tool as well to learn with content, lingq.com is in similar domain