Well, got that out of the way. I got a B+ on the danish oral final, which I am very satisfied with. It had three parts:
- Prepared presentation (tell about yourself)
- Interview (teacher plays the character of a student, and you ask questions to find out about this person. then after you find out, you tell what you know)
- Conversation (given a starting point of what I did over Easter vacation, it is supposed to be a 5-6 minute free conversation)
I did well on the first two, and 'ok' on the last part. The conversation is definitely the hardest, and I didn't understand all of her questions. There is another person in the room who is the grader. She said I had a good command of the language, and had good use of inversion and subordinate phrases. I guess thats good.
In Danish, sometimes you flip the subject and verb in the sentence. For example, "On the weekend, I play chess". In Danish, you would literally say "On the weekend, play I chess." That is only if "On the weekend" is there. It would still be "I play chess on the weekend."
I weekenden, skal jeg skak med min far. Min far spille skak men ikke saerlig godt. :)
5 comments:
Good to hear from you again Eric. Uh, would you please put that Danish phrase before me - readable?I'd say you have done very well and we ARE proud to know you. Love. G&G
Good job, Eric. Nice talking to you last night. Enjoy your last couple of weeks. Not sure what you told us there at the end of that blog, but I'm sure you are right. Love MOM
A B+ is a very good grade, especially when I consider that a good grade in English. Glad to hear from you. Enjoy the rest of the time over there.
I have NO idea what that last sentence meant.
Mark :)
God arbejde!
God held pa fremtidig forsoge! :)
I'm certain that the above is not said accurately. Those Danes must have a different keyboard for all of those unusual vowels.
Glad to hear that you were pleased. Understand that Danish isn't easy so WAY TO GO!! I, frankly, don't care what grades you get because I know how much you have learned by reading your blog!
Hope the rest of the exams go as well.
I can't believe that you will soon be home or are you going to travel in Europe for a while? I think that you should as you have become such a European! :)
Love,
:)usanne
I am glad you are satisfied, I would be jumping up and down with that grade. I am very proud of you. Good luck on the rest.
Sounds like your aunt is learning Danish as well. The two of you can hold conversations and we won't know what's going on?
Do you plan to travel more? You seem to understand how to get around just fine.
Did you get that package of goodies yet?
Love,
Carol :)
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