Words · C2 · Mastery
Imagery in Idioms
Understand and use colorful sayings drawn from everyday Danish life.
Discover the everyday imagery behind Danish sayings: the weather, food and animals, the sea and the farm, games and sports, and body language.
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- Units
- 7
- Words & phrases
- 189
- Lessons
- 14
- Conversations
- 7
- Readings
- 7
What you’ll work through
The units in this course.
Each unit brings words, lessons, conversations, and readings together on one topic. Open one to see what’s inside.
Weather Sayings
Colorful Danish expressions for wind, rain, cold, changing skies, and the hope that sunshine follows bad weather.
27 words · 2 lessons
Food Sayings
Danish idioms served from the kitchen: going agurk, treading in the spinach and living like the yolk in an egg.
20 words · 2 lessons
Animal Sayings
A menagerie of vivid Danish animal idioms for describing luck, character, conflict, and difficult situations.
25 words · 2 lessons
Maritime Expressions
Seafaring expressions and maritime metaphors that remain useful in everyday and formal Danish.
28 words · 2 lessons
Rural Imagery in Expressions
Interpret figurative expressions involving fields, harvests and livestock, using context rather than assuming a literal rural setting.
29 words · 2 lessons
Games & Sports Idioms
Advanced Danish idioms drawn from cards, soccer, boxing and cycling that appear in everyday debate, business and banter.
28 words · 2 lessons
Body Language Expressions
The Danish verbs for what the body says without words: shrugging shoulders, rolling eyes, gritting teeth and cracking a reluctant smile.
32 words · 2 lessons
Along the way
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