Danish

This site is the first ever to allow you to learn Danish using instant sound.
Turn on your sound and click on:. You might have guessed that it means It is cold.
The first lesson (out of 10) is free, so you can try it out.
The full version contains over 1600 examples of Danish phrases and words like the one above

Danish is the official language of Denmark, Greenland and the Faeroe Islands. Both Greenland and the Faeroe Islands have their own language too, which most of the people speak but Danish is used for official purposes and taught in schools.Danish is also spoken by 20,000 people just south of the German border. It goes back to the time before 1864 when the area belonged to Denmark, and the Danish minority south of the German border is very keen on preserving the Danish language. In Icelandic schools, too, the first foreign language to be taught is Danish. That serves as a way of communicating with the other Scandinavian countries.

Danish is one of the North Germanic languages, a sub-group of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages. It is spoken by around 6 million people, mainly in Denmark; the language is also used by the 50,000 Danes in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, where it holds the status of minority language. Danish also holds official status and is a mandatory subject in school in the Danish autonomous territories of Greenland and the Faroe Islands, which now enjoy limited autonomy.

Dorte Scheeler is a native Dane with a BA in translating English < > Danish from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. In 1994 she moved to USA and she is now working fulltime as a freelance Danish translator for several companies and translation agencies. She uses the translation memory tool, Trados whenever possible, and in May 2000 she attended the one-day Trados training to learn more about it.

Her attention to detail and professionalism assures a quality translation aimed for the right audience.



Native language: DANISH

Active Member of ATA and ATA Nordic Division (accreditation into Danish not available)



Oct 1997 – Present: Fulltime Freelance Translator

I am working freelance fulltime for several agencies and companies.

I have translated various software and manuals for computer equipment,

telecommunications and service- and user manuals for technical products.



Examples are printers, modems, and mobile phones, hay baler equipment;

warehouse lifting machines, ATV's, wheel alignment machines, bar-code

equipment, industrial washing machines, trench diggers, stereo equipment

and sausage making equipment.



Other frequent translations include financial/legal documents, which include

employee stock options, lawsuits, US Government papers and summons.

I also translate advertising documents, tourist guides, humanistic literature,

questionnaire surveys, etc.

I am involved in a large project translating user/installation manual for

CT-scanners – often projects that are 200,000 words big.


I have written style guides for other Danish translators. I work as a consultant

for US software companies, helping them with the software localization and

reviewing all Danish translations.




1989 – 1992: Senior Clerk

ITT Federal Services, Inc., Sondrestrom Air Base, Greenland.

I was responsible for the routine operations in the Area Manager’s office. I translated

English < > Danish daily for the Area Manager, Supply management, Supply workers,

secretaries and various Danish personnel working on the base. I translated documents

from the U.S. Air Force and ITT Corp. into Danish for the Danish union/personnel. I also

translated Danish documents pertaining to employment agreements, operational

memorandums and union notices from the Danish union/personnel into English for

the Area Manager and other American personnel.


Education: BA Modern Languages

I graduated in 1989 from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark in translating

Danish < > English. Passed Business Law, Business Economics, Social Economics,

typing and 7 other optional courses.

Trados Training



In May 200 I attended a one-day seminar at Trados HQ, where I learned to

utilize the program more efficient.

WordFighter is a single-language translation provider offering translation and localization services into Danish for customers in Denmark and other countries.

Primary source languages are English, Swedish, and Norwegian. For other source languages, please contact us, and we will find suitable resources.

We specialize in:
Software localization
Technical documentation
Multimedia localization Informational material
Marketing translation
TV & video subtitling

WordFighter cooperates with a network of highly skilled and experienced translators, all native Danish speakers. This allows us to keep administration costs low and focus on the essentials. With us, all customers and projects receive personal attention.

Read more about WordFighter on the following pages...

Welcome to the home page for Conversation Analysis.Net, which is the home base for the MOVIN group. Take a look at What's New in our web.

This website is a national resource for scholars and students of conversation and interaction analysis in Denmark. MOVIN (Microanalysis Of Verbal/non-Verbal/Visual INteraction) is the Danish network for scholars of interaction analysis.



What's New
Feb 2006
Website is working again after problems with the hosting service. We dropped off the DNS map while they changed servers.

May 2005
Added link to the new Movin Arbejdspapirer (Movin working papers)

March 2005
Added link to a conference on Training the Health Professions: Applying interaction research in health educational settings

November 2004
Added link to a conference on Conversation Analysis of Psychotherapy

October 2004
Deleted old pages, added new links and updated SDU events.

September 2004
Website back to normal!
Updated Århus data sessions link.

August 2004
Website down because ISP changed their web server without notice.

March 2004
Annual MOVIN meeting moved to Århus Business School, April 2004.

January 2004
New conference added: Conversation Analysis of Psychotherapy

December 2003
Updated calendar entries for MOVIN meetings in 2004

October 2003
Link to the first chapter of a new book (in Danish): Samtalen på arbejde – konversationsanalyse og kompetenceudvikling.

August 2003
Data session information now is linked from MOVIN to the local group's webpage
Updated members' homepages
Added workshops to local calender

July 2003
Added Discursive Psychology workshop, 6.-7. November 2003

March 2003
Data corpus is now supported directly by SDU.
SDU's data sessions link.

January 2003
After lots of problems with the domain service for this website in December and January, things are back to normal!
Updated data sessions in Århus for 2003
Added The Consequences of Mobility: Linguistic and Sociocultural Contact Zones conference at RUC.

November 2002
Updated data sessions in RUC for 2003

October 2002
Updated data sessions in Odense and Copenhagen for Autumn 2002
Added a link to Charles Antaki's An introductory tutorial in Conversation Analysis

August 2002
New data sessions in Århus and Odense for Autumn 2002
Revised members page + email addresses

May 2002
Revised members page + email addresses

February 2002
Revised corpus files (MOVIN CD2 and MOVIN CD E2)

January 2002
New data sessions for Spring 2002.
Some member email addresses have changed.

September 2001
Added new transcription files in CLAN-CA format.

August 2001
Added the data session info for Odense and Århus.
Corrected the links to the NorFA CA bibliographies database.
Deadline for panel, workshop, session proposals in the ICCA-02 conference is September 7th! The new location of the ICCA conference next year in May is Copenhagen.
Installed a quote of the day footer. Any suggestions, send them to me.
Waiting for news of conferences, publications and data sessions for the Autumn... :-)

April 2001
This web site was relaunched in April 2001.
The structure of the web site has been slightly altered. The separate Danish and international information on the old site has been integrated into an overarching structure.
Also, there are two new discussion forums to complement the MOVIN mailing list, to which many members already belong. (Cancelled because of technical problems!)

Den Danske Skole - A Danish Language school for foreigners working with structural learning. We have since 1986 offered at teaching program emphasizing speaking ability and pronunciation.

The Kalø School of Languages - Danish folk high school for students of foreign languages offering an international environment with students from all over the world.

The International Education Program (IEP) offers courses and lectures in English in Copenhagen and Hellerup/Gentofte. Whether you are relocating to the area or have lived in Copenhagen for years, the IEP provides the opportunity to attend stimulating and entertaining courses. Our curriculum includes a core of courses to familiarize foreigners with Danish society, culture and history. Participants gain essential knowledge to help them better understand and adapt to their new surroundings.

The IEP provides a place where foreign residents can pursue their interests and, at the same time, have the opportunity to network and socialize. Danes, too, participate in the IEP as they enjoy using their English and meeting people from many nations. The international nature of the group leads to immensely interesting exchanges during discussion periods.

Both Danes and non-Danes residing in Denmark teach IEP courses. We are always on the lookout for new course ideas and instructors to add to our course offerings. Instructors do not need a work permit.

TECHNIDOK s.r.o. was established in 1995 and has focused from the very outset on high quality services involving the translation of technical documentation from Western European languages into Central European languages as well as DTP at our own graphic design studio, the printing of different language versions of the same document and their distribution to clients´ dealership networks.