Listen
One file, both episodes: A, the conversation, from the start; B, the drills, from 9:49. Separately: episode A · episode B.
Chapters
- 0:00A · Open
- 0:27A · The conversation, slowly
- 1:03A · Line by line
- 5:00A · Pronunciation
- 8:09A · One thing about the grammar
- 8:23A · The conversation at normal speed
- 9:37A · Close
- 9:49B · Open
- 10:12B · Warm-up
- 11:27B · Substitution drill
- 14:35B · Substitution drill
- 15:54B · Transformation drill
- 17:09B · Transformation drill
- 18:24B · Response drill
- 19:31B · Your turn
- 20:51B · Close
The conversation
- Mette: Velkommen i klubben! Hvad er dit telefonnummer?Welcome to the club! What's your phone number?
- Jonas: Mit nummer er toogtyve, fireogtredive, seksoghalvtreds, atten.My number is twenty-two, thirty-four, fifty-six, eighteen.
- Mette: Tak. Jeg skal også bruge dit cpr-nummer.Thanks. I also need your CPR number.
- Jonas: Det er fjorten nul tre femoghalvfems, otteogtyve sytten.It's fourteen, zero three, ninety-five, twenty-eight, seventeen.
- Mette: Så du er født i femoghalvfems?So you were born in ninety-five?
- Jonas: Ja, i nitten femoghalvfems. Hvad med dig?Yes, in nineteen ninety-five. What about you?
- Mette: Jeg er født i nitten otteogfirs.I was born in nineteen eighty-eight.
- Jonas: Super, tak. Vi ses til træning!Great, thanks. See you at training!
Pronunciation
The y sound
Listen to the next words. Some have the vowel in see. Others have that same vowel with your lips rounded, as in French tu. Listen, then copy it in the gap.
ti · tyve · ni · syv · toogtyve
The tens from fifty up
In the words for fifty, seventy and ninety, you do not hear the v, and the stress falls on the second half. Listen, then copy it in the gap.
halvtreds · tres · halvfjerds · firs · halvfems · seksoghalvtreds
One thing about the grammar
From twenty-one up, the single number comes first, joined by and, as in one-and-twenty, and phone numbers are read in pairs, like twenty-two, thirty-four.
Words in this unit
- en klubben — the club
- dit — your (with et-words)
- mit — my (with et-words)
- et telefonnummer — phone number
- et nummer — number
- et cpr-nummer — CPR number
- skal — shall/must
- også — also
- bruge — use; skal bruge = need
- så — so, then
- født — born
- med — with
- super — great
- en træning — training
- nul — zero
- en — one
- to — two
- tre — three
- fire — four
- fem — five
- seks — six
- syv — seven
- otte — eight
- ni — nine
- ti — ten
- elleve — eleven
- tolv — twelve
- tretten — thirteen
- fjorten — fourteen
- femten — fifteen
- seksten — sixteen
- sytten — seventeen
- atten — eighteen
- nitten — nineteen
- tyve — twenty
- tredive — thirty
- fyrre — forty
- halvtreds — fifty
- tres — sixty
- halvfjerds — seventy
- firs — eighty
- halvfems — ninety
- hundrede — hundred
- enogtyve — twenty-one
- toogtyve — twenty-two
- treogtyve — twenty-three
- syvogtyve — twenty-seven
- otteogtyve — twenty-eight
- fireogtredive — thirty-four
- femogtredive — thirty-five
- toogfyrre — forty-two
- treogfyrre — forty-three
- enoghalvtreds — fifty-one
- seksoghalvtreds — fifty-six
- enogtres — sixty-one
- syvogtres — sixty-seven
- syvoghalvfjerds — seventy-seven
- otteoghalvfjerds — seventy-eight
- enogfirs — eighty-one
- treogfirs — eighty-three
- otteogfirs — eighty-eight
- niogfirs — eighty-nine
- tooghalvfems — ninety-two
- fireoghalvfems — ninety-four
- femoghalvfems — ninety-five
- nioghalvfems — ninety-nine
The drills (answer key)
Episode B. Cover this while you listen; check afterwards.
Substitution drill
Substitution. You hear the phone number, then a new last pair. Say the whole number with the new pair at the end.
- nitten → Mit nummer er toogtyve, fireogtredive, seksoghalvtreds, nitten.
- enogtyve → Mit nummer er toogtyve, fireogtredive, seksoghalvtreds, enogtyve.
- tredive → Mit nummer er toogtyve, fireogtredive, seksoghalvtreds, tredive.
- treogfyrre → Mit nummer er toogtyve, fireogtredive, seksoghalvtreds, treogfyrre.
- halvtreds → Mit nummer er toogtyve, fireogtredive, seksoghalvtreds, halvtreds.
- syvogtres → Mit nummer er toogtyve, fireogtredive, seksoghalvtreds, syvogtres.
- halvfjerds → Mit nummer er toogtyve, fireogtredive, seksoghalvtreds, halvfjerds.
- niogfirs → Mit nummer er toogtyve, fireogtredive, seksoghalvtreds, niogfirs.
- halvfems → Mit nummer er toogtyve, fireogtredive, seksoghalvtreds, halvfems.
- nul syv → Mit nummer er toogtyve, fireogtredive, seksoghalvtreds, nul syv.
Substitution drill
Same again with years. You hear the last part of a year. Say: I was born in nineteen, and that part.
- femoghalvfems → Jeg er født i nitten femoghalvfems.
- halvfems → Jeg er født i nitten halvfems.
- syvoghalvfjerds → Jeg er født i nitten syvoghalvfjerds.
- enogfirs → Jeg er født i nitten enogfirs.
- tooghalvfems → Jeg er født i nitten tooghalvfems.
- halvfjerds → Jeg er født i nitten halvfjerds.
- treogfirs → Jeg er født i nitten treogfirs.
- nioghalvfems → Jeg er født i nitten nioghalvfems.
Transformation drill
Transformation. You hear a number. Say the number that comes after it.
- nul → en
- to → tre
- fire → fem
- seks → syv
- otte → ni
- ti → elleve
- tolv → tretten
- fjorten → femten
- seksten → sytten
- nitten → tyve
- nioghalvfems → hundrede
Transformation drill
Transformation. You hear a ten, then a single number. Join them into one number: the single number first, then the ten.
- tyve, tre → treogtyve
- tredive, fem → femogtredive
- fyrre, to → toogfyrre
- halvtreds, en → enoghalvtreds
- tres, en → enogtres
- halvfjerds, otte → otteoghalvfjerds
- firs, ni → niogfirs
- halvfems, fire → fireoghalvfems
- tyve, syv → syvogtyve
Response drill
Response. Mette asks you something. Answer as Jonas in the gap, then hear his answer.
- Hvad er dit telefonnummer? → Mit nummer er toogtyve, fireogtredive, seksoghalvtreds, atten.
- Hvad er dit cpr-nummer? → Det er fjorten nul tre femoghalvfems, otteogtyve sytten.
- Er du født i femoghalvfems? → Ja, i nitten femoghalvfems.
- Er du født i otteogfirs? → Nej, jeg er født i nitten femoghalvfems.
- Hvor kommer du fra? → Jeg kommer fra Canada.
- Velkommen i klubben! → Super, tak.
About this course
FSI Danish by Hej Danmark follows the audio-lingual format of the US Foreign Service Institute's language courses: you hear a short conversation, repeat it line by line, work on one or two sounds, then drill until the answers come without thinking. It is not affiliated with the FSI. Each unit is two episodes: A, the conversation, and B, the drills. Do A, then B the next day, then B again. Always answer out loud, at full volume, in the gap.
The three voices are synthetic (text-to-speech): an English-speaking teacher and a female and a male Danish voice. The Danish text was written by Hej Danmark with AI assistance and is reviewed by a person before a unit is published; if you hear something a Dane would not say, write to us. The course is a pilot at about level A1 and makes no other claim about levels.