Courses in Danish language for Guest Students and Guest Faculty/Staff
The AAU language School, Kroghstræde 3, room 5.209 is a unit at Center for Linguistics, Aalborg University
We offer classes for free!*
Courses: Autumn semester 2010
Participants: Guest Students (Exchange, Master & PhD Students) and Guest Faculty/Staff at Aalborg University
*But kindly observe: To attend our language classes for free you have to be formally affiliated with AAU. If you are not affiliated with AAU the course fee is 2,500 DKK.
Objectives
The aim of the courses is to enable guest students etc to handle communication in some vital situations and to solve some of the communicative problems that occur most frequently - also at a university like AAU. This applies to formal as well as informal situations.
Therefore, the courses have been designed to achieve a combination of communicative, informative, and action-oriented goals.
Guest Faculty/Staff and Guest Students are assumed to have little or no knowledge of Danish, and, therefore, the courses will focus primarily on the spoken language. It will concentrate on skills in understanding spoken Danish and actively making oneself understood, using simple words, sentence structures and communication strategies. Emphasis will be given to information about Danish society and culture.
* Please observe: Our courses in Danish language are not compulsory for your regular studies at AAU but they will give you at least a flavour of (spoken) Danish, and if you follow the course studiously, if you attend at least 80 % of the classes, and if you pass the final test you wil receive a certificate.
Having passed the Danish Basic Danish Language course offers the option of earning 5 ECTS points by signing up for the Course Danish Language Studies. Information is offered on the ISCAN webpage:
http://www.cfl.hum.aau.dk/iscan/ects.html
Detailed Information Course Information: See below
BASIC DANISH
Beginners will attend BASIC DANISH classes (50 hours in total) .
For all beginners the semester will start off with a so-called LANGUAGE BATH organised on SATURDAY, 11 September 10:00 - 16:00, at Kroghstræde 3. It is very important that everybody shows up at this initial event. Attendence is obligatory and will count in the final results since the LANGUAGE BATH is an integral part of the course.
Normal class work will start the following week (week no. 37) Mondays and Wednesdays, or Tuesdays and Thursdays, all days from 16:30 till 18:45.
All classes will be held at Kroghstræde 3 (in lecture rooms in the neighbourhood of the cafeteria area). They will be running for 7 weeks (with a short interval for vacation in week 8). A written and oral exam will take place in thefollowing week (week no. 45) on 10 and 11 November.
As course material for the seven weeks of class you will buy a textbook, written directly for your needs in and around AAU, for 100 DKK. With texts and dialogues, exercises and drills for your homework. Every two weeks a minor written test will keep track of class progression. But spoken language proficiency is still the main objective, and it will be supported by frequent group exercises.
Application form
You can download an application form (Word-format). You can also pick up a paper version at the Language School but we prefer that you print the completed electronic form according to this two-step procedure:
Read the form carefully and
(a) fill in the information needed, especially section 5. concerning the institute/department you are studying/working at (names of Centres are not sufficient information, so, if necessary, ask your AAU contacts for the correct information) and especially section 8. concerning the preferred class days (although though we cannot promise you the preferred option), and
(b) print the application form and submit it at the Language Bath on Saturday, 11 September.
If you are not able to download the application form you may use option
(c) that is: pick up an applications form at the Language School, fill in the information needed by hand (using capital letters).
On Saturday, 11 September, you will be informed about which days you will have classes at the language school during the semester. Please, be there early for registration, i.e. before 10:00!
Kindly observe: Only in case serious business makes it impossible for you to attend the LANGUAGE BATH, you can submit the application form directly to the Language School: Kroghstræde 3, room 5.209.
ADVANCED DANISH
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Courses in Advanced Danish are not offered in Autumn 2010
PhD students and faculty/staff members (only) with some experience in Danish language may be offered ADVANCED DANISH classes. If you are interested, please inform us about this and about your assumed level of linguistic proficiency in Danish.
Please observe that there is a fee for attending ADVANCED DANISH classes and you will only be able to attend the classes if the department (institute, centre) will pay the fee.
The ADVANCED DANISH course will only be offered in case there are a sufficiently high number of students.
The aims and objectives of these are more or less the same as those of BASIC DANISH:
further consolidation of a well functioning everyday language,
a deeper knowledge of Danish Culture,
a better knowledge of grammatical structures,
a more precise training of pronunciation patterns, specially prosodic ones,
more focus on written Danish.
Advanced classes will be presented with a variety of texts, a small textbook, authentic materials (newspapers etc), short easy readers, videos and films.
Classes will be held at Kroghstræde 3, … .
Classes will run for approximately 10 weeks, Mondays and Wednesdays.
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