Skills · C2 · Mastery
Style and Register
Adapt your style and register to any audience, from a formal speech to a literary text.
Explore literary and journalistic techniques, formal phrases, rhetorical figures, subtle politeness and euphemisms to adapt your Danish to different contexts.
Start this courseabout 5 h · One account. Your progress, on the web and in the app.
- Units
- 7
- Words & phrases
- 271
- Lessons
- 18
- 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.
Literary Atmosphere & Imagery
Explore words for atmosphere, longing and sensory imagery, and consider how marked literary diction shapes a narrator's voice.
26 words · 3 lessons
Journalistic Images & Framing
Analyze metaphors and stock phrases in news writing, identifying what their framing highlights and what it leaves implicit.
37 words · 2 lessons
Choosing Formal Phrases
Compare formal phrases for requests, decisions and qualifications, choosing between conventional, distant and plain wording.
45 words · 3 lessons
Rhetorical Figures
Identify repetition, contrast, imagery and other rhetorical devices, then explain how they shape an argument or a reader's response.
31 words · 3 lessons
Subtle Politeness
The refined art of Danish courtesy, from diplomatic hedging and softened requests to formal graciousness and tactful ways of saying no.
54 words · 3 lessons
Euphemisms
The tactful detours of Danish, from softened talk of death and layoffs to gentle ways of naming drunkenness, age, money and other delicate matters.
29 words · 2 lessons
Poetic Diction & Verse Analysis
Explore poetic vocabulary and terms for verse and dramatic form, relating a formal feature to its effect in a text.
49 words · 2 lessons
Along the way
Check what sticks. Finish with proof.
- 1 × Checkpoint
A short check on the units you have just finished.
- 1 × Course test
Pass the test to complete the course.
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