B1 · Intermediate
Food Culture
Explore Danish culinary traditions and dining vocabulary, from smørrebrød and frikadeller to seasonal cooking and the julefrokost.
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- Words & phrases
- 38
- Lessons
- 2
- Conversations
- 1
- Readings
- 1
A preview of what you’ll master
Words you’ll make your own.
Explore every meaning in this unit. Learn how to say it in Danish when you start.
- a specialty
- a food tradition
- seasoned with spices
- homemade
- a delicacy
- produce / a raw ingredient
- to prepare (food)
- a portion
- a plating / serving
- seasonal
- food culture
- to savor / enjoy
- filling
- a dessert
- a tartlet shell
- a communal meal
- a Christmas tradition
- fried pork belly with parsley sauce
- table manners
- a dinner party
- a sourdough starter
- a harvest
- an eating habit
- food waste
- a food market
- to carve (meat)
- to spoil / pamper
- pickled
- steeped in tradition
- mutton
- a prawn
- to gobble down
- to munch
- to guzzle down
- drinkable
- to refresh
- stale
- fragrant
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Your lessons, step by step.
- Lesson 1
Food and Culinary Traditions
- Lesson 2
Planning a Traditional Dinner
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