C1 · Advanced
Discourse & Cohesion
The signposts, reformulations and transitions that hold a Danish text or speech together: how to resume, exemplify, summarize and steer the flow of ideas.
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- Words & phrases
- 57
- Lessons
- 3
- Conversations
- 1
- Readings
- 1
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Words you’ll make your own.
Explore every meaning in this unit. Learn how to say it in Danish when you start.
- for instance, for example
- put another way
- as previously mentioned
- speaking of, apropos
- to return to, coming back to
- that brings me to
- what is more
- added to that, on top of that
- to sum up
- let me elaborate
- to clarify, to be precise
- as I said
- that being said, having said that
- not to mention
- to refer to
- to tie in with, to link up with
- a digression, an aside
- to get to the point
- be that as it may
- in the same breath
- let us move on to
- to omit
- to reconstruct
- to redefine
- to refocus
- to reformulate
- to reinterpret
- syntactic
- terminology
- textual
- thematic
- a tract
- transitory
- a unification
- unbiased
- unrestricted
- unstructured
- utilization
- volition
- in the same vein
- suffice it to say
- far from it
- in stark contrast
- with the result that
- which explains why
- at this juncture
- as noted earlier
- in what follows
- to be more precise
- and more importantly
- not least because
- make no mistake
- on the one hand ... on the other hand
- turning to
- which brings me to
- a discourse marker
- a cohesive device
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Your lessons, step by step.
- Lesson 1
Discourse and Cohesion
- Lesson 2
Introducing New Information with der
- Lesson 3
Keeping a Talk Coherent
Where this unit fits
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