How to progress quickly (especially speaking) and prepare for an internship through self-study?
Hej alle sammen,
I am german and started learning danish last year. I visited the official danish course of my university for two semesters. Attending classes, having a danish native teacher, writing tests and exams and speaking danish with class mates really helped me to progress fast. I would say my current danish Level is between A2 and B1.
But since I started an internship and work fulltime, I couldn't visit the danish class anymore and my progression completely stopped. In about 6 weeks I start a two-month internship in a danish hospital and I've been told that I have to speak danish with the patients there. The problem is that I don't feel nearly ready to have complete conversations with native speakers.
I just don't know what I can do the next weeks to start making progress in my danish skills again. I tried out Babble, but it feels like I don't really learn something new there and already know most of the words. Since I'm a student and don't get paid for my internship, I don't have money for private lessons or courses. I already bought easy books in danish to read, but I think reading is not the problem, but speaking is, especially listening and my own pronunciation. I also feel completely overwhelmed with all the options that are out there and with having to learn without any help or guidance from others and with none who corrects me.
Do you have any tips on how to train my danish speaking skills, especially my pronunciation on my own and learn new words fast without being overwhelmed?
I'm really thankful for any tips you can give me and hope that I'm not going to embarrass myself in my internship.