Two Hours of Danish Lessons a Day

The apartment that we've subletted is fully equipped. Really. It's brilliant. C&K left us not just the wine glasses and frying pans, but the balcony plants, dvd collection, and third year Psychology lecture notes.  The only thing that we had to add was a can opener.

There does seem to be a disproportionate assortment of chick flicks among the dvd collection.  But I'm starting to get into them in a way.  After a long day at work, followed by training and cooking dinner and what-not, it's a sure daunting thought of putting in a couple more hours of Danish language learning. So, sometimes I'll just pop in a chick flick instead.

It seems to be a good approach to learning when I turn on the Danish subtitles.  Everything is translated for me out loud as I "read" the movie. I miss a line here and there that I don't quite hear, and I miss some of the stunning visual effects, but it is amazing how many new words one picks up.  I also tried this with Phantom of the Opera, rather than a chick flick, but the difference there was that the characters were engaging and the plot wasn't trite and predictable.  So I found myself wanting to actually watch the film, and quite peeved when I missed a key plot detail because I couldn't understand it in Danish.

We also tried it the other direction, watching a Danish programme with English subtitles.  The trouble was, the English subtitles are completely incomprehensible. What on Earth does "You know how we management Johnnies get ticklish about the archives" mean?

Anyway, the point of this post is that you shouldn't ask me for any movie recommendations in the next month or two.