Private clients        Business clients

INDIVIDUAL, FLEXIBLE LESSONS, ADAPTED TO YOUR NEEDS

I offer 1-to-1 lessons that can be tailored to your current level, goals, and whatever aspects of Danish that may give you the most trouble. You can buy lessons individually or as a package, and you can book them whenever you need, at the pace you want — it's not a subscription.

I work regularly with the following cases.

• I prepare students for official exams such as Prøve i Dansk 2/3 and Studieprøven, both beginners and students who have a foundation—sometimes with uneven skills that require focus on specific areas. The success rate among my students is 94%.

• Some of my students residing in Denmark are also attending the free group lessons provided by the state, but they still benefit from getting personalized feedback and a focus on specific issues in my private lessons, be it pronunciation, grammar, expanding general or domain-specific vocabulary, and improving the student's writing skills and style, both in academic and business contexts. 

• Others prefer using exclusively private online lessons because of the flexibility, or because they live outside Denmark — some are planning to work in Denmark and they want to have a base level by the time they arrive. Our study plan will depend on these circumstances.

• Some of my students already have a high level of Danish, they may have passed Studieprøven (C1 level), but they still need to cover certain gaps, they have specific questions, or they want to improve their communication skills. 

• I also have experience helping udlandsdanskere who haven't achieved full fluency.

• Alongside the purely linguistic aspects, in my lessons, at all levels, I also introduce topics about Danish culture, history, and customs, which are also important for communication with native Danes.

• I also have experience teaching children and teenagers, both living abroad and those who have moved to Denmark recently. I have built different approaches and materials for different age groups. With children, I often use an interactive whiteboard—it's browser-based, so you don't need to install anything. 

• In some cases, I also teach small groups.

We can discuss your current situation, goals and timeframe during our first lesson, and from there build a customized study plan.

As a person, I am very patient, and it is important for me that you feel comfortable showing me your difficulties and giving your opinion.

I combine existing books with a variety of teaching materials I have prepared, including exercises, word banks, flashcards, quizzes, and explanations of frequent grammar issues. I also write texts of varying difficulty covering Danish culture, society, and history.

I can also send short lecture notes after each class if the student requests them.

The lessons usually take place on Google Meet, Zoom or Jitsi. I use Google Docs annotations for correcting and giving feedback for exercises. 

You can check out my profile and reviews in Preply and Verbling and Italki. 

You can also download my full CV in English and Danish.

As a private client, you can book lessons through teaching platforms or directly. If you are a business client, you can check out my page for businesses.

I also offer the following additional services.

• Besides English, I can use German and Swedish as auxiliary languages in beginner’s lessons.

• I can proofread texts such as applications, CVs, etc.

• If you are an intermediate or advanced student who already works in Danish, I can provide feedback for your presentations.

• I also have experience teaching Latin at a High School level.

If you are learning Danish, independently of where and how, some of these resources can be useful for you. Most of them are free.

•  Beginner   Visual dictionary with audio, especially useful for beginner levels. 

•  Beginner   danskherognu.dk has some free lessons and exercises.

• I make my own materials, which I share during the lessons. I will be making some of them public here:

  • •  A0   Basic introductory mini-lesson This was made for a short talk at a business fair, it's not among the materials I use for teaching.

    •  B1   Tekst og opgaver: Thor og Loke gør ophold

    •  B2   Tekst og opgaver: Besøget hos Udgårdsloke

    •  B1 --C1   The many meanings of the verb at skulle

    •  All Levels   How fast can I learn Danish? This is not a lesson, but a frequent question among students, so I make this guide available here.

•  Intermediate  Dansk I ørerne is a podcast where relatively easy Danish texts are read slowly and with very clear pronunciation. It's very good for students with an intermediate level who can already understand texts that are not very complicated but are having a hard time speaking and listening.

•  Young Learners  Intermediate  Danmarks historie for børn (Danish history for children) is another podcast that's easy to listen to and has transcripts. The content is oriented toward children, but adults can enjoy it too.

•  Intermediate  Advanced   wallnot.dk aggregates newspapers articles in Danish without a paywall, so you can use it as a free newspaper because all of them combined tend to cover a bit of everything.

•  Intermediate  Advanced   At dr.dk there are a lot of videos with subtitles in Danish. TV avisen (news) is especially easy for beginners because the pronunciation is a bit slower and more normative. You may not be able to see some things if you are outside Denmark though. There's also radio at dr.dk/lyd ; it also tends to be slow and normative but you won't have subtitles.

•  Intermediate  Advanced   The Royal Library has created a freely available archive of DR's self-produced TV and radio programmes since 2006. It currently contains 30% of them and it's growing. It doesn't even require a login, and as far as I know, it's available outside Denmark. It includes news, documentaries, movies, shows, and also programs for children.  Young Learners 

•  All Levels   This is not free, but Praxis Publishing has some fiction books written in easy Danish, classified by different levels. Each level has a different colour in the cover. From easiest to hardest: red, green, yellow and blue. Some stories may not be as exciting as "real books" but they are good for the earliest levels A1 to B1 (DU3 modules 1 to 3). You can find them here alongside the textbooks.

•  Intermediate  Advanced   I recommend the Danish Wikipedia as a reading resource for students from an intermediate level, because the language is normative while the vocabulary is a bit more reduced than in fiction. And it has all kind of content so it's always possible to find stuff you find interesting. You can choose topics that interest you here.

•  Young Learners   The National Museum has created free educational materials for primary and high school students. 

• I don’t recommend websites that rely on a single type of exercise based on machine-translated sentences. The quality of automatic translations is bad, and they don’t give informative feedback.