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Great, fun way to learn Danish

As a beginning student in Danish, I enjoyed using this cute program. It uses colorful pictures and games to help you learn vocabulary words and basic phrases. The cute games keep you interested and are fun to do, even if they are a little childish. The methods seem to be really helpful, as my retention has been high.^M

A great BEGINNER tool

This program is a colorful and flashy way to learn some basic Danish vocabulary -- perfect for young learners, especially! I've had a bit of Danish previously, so this wasn't a great challenge. I breezed through it in under 2 days of casual play. (It's also pretty easy to "guess", so if you're naturally good at taking quizzes, you might not feel like you're really learning a lot.) I was hoping to pick up a little more Danish so that I could converse with my Danish in-laws. However, there isn't much here in terms of phrases, with the exception of a dozen or so "tourist" phrases. I do think it's a fun way for ~~absolute beginners~~ to take a first step into learning Danish. For more in-depth learning, Rosetta Stone is the way to go. This program does have a neat feature to go to online resources to learn more about Denmark and Danish, which I thought was quite enjoyable.^M

Fun software

This is a great little program to get introduced to Danish-- the graphics are colorful and appealing and it hardly feels like you are "studying" vocabulary. If you are trying to decide between this and the Rosetta Stone software, all I can say is they're different. EuroTalk's software is DEFINITELY more fun (also has better graphics and is more user-friendly). However, Rosetta Stone's program teaches you more sentence structure and phrases (EuroTalk's focuses mainly on single words), and also lets you type to practice spelling/listening skills. I also like the recording feature better in the Rosetta Stone one too, because it actually maps out your speech pattern against that of the native speaker, and "rates" on how closely you matched it (isn't always accurate though). Wish there was more vocabulary in each of these programs... you go through them pretty quickly. If I had to choose between the two programs........well I'd pick "Talk Now!" because it is simply more enjoyable, and it feels like I am learning much faster using it. But I'd actually recommend getting both if you can, to give you a broader education of the language. Get the "Talk Now!" first though, then go on to the Rosetta Stone one afterwards.