Want to improve your danish skills?

In the languagecafe you will meet languagetrainers and librarians who are ready to help you improve your danish conversation skills. The language café is for you who are well on your way to speaking Danish, but want to get even better.

If you would like to participate, just show up at the Main Library on Tuesdays between 2 PM and 4 PM on the second floor. It's free and does not require registration.

Feel free to join our facebookgroup. You will find it her.

At the Main Library and Vollsmose Library, you can start a language training course with your own personal language trainer. For 12 weeks, you meet once a week at the Library for up to two hours at a time. The offer is flexible, and you choose for yourself:

• What you want help with. You can e.g. get help with pronunciation, vocabulary or dialogue training.
• What day and time you want to meet with your language coach.
• Whether you want to meet at the Main Library or Vollsmose Library.

If you would like a language coach, please fill out the form at the bottom of this page. You will then be invited to a short meeting in the library to assess your Danish language skills. This is to ensure that you can carry on an easy conversation in Danish, as this is a prerequisite for getting an individual language coach. At the same time, we will tell you about the course of action at the meeting and what you can expect to get out of it.

The individual language training is aimed at citizens with Danish as a second language. The purpose is to support and motivate you linguistically, thereby making it easier for you to settle into Danish society. We primarily work with dialogue and conversation training in a 1-1 relationship with a focus on a greater understanding of Danish culture, the labor market and social conditions.

The library has many languagelearning materials at its disposal, and provides free acces to various websites that you might find helpful. Here are some examples:

• Transparent Language Online offers language courses at over 110 different languages and with the option to choose between different skill levels.
• Ordbogen.com contains spelling dictionary, thesaurus and Danish foreign dictionary.
• Seismo.dk is a Danish news medium with short, precise and easy-to-read news.
• PressReader provides free access to newspapers and magazines worldwide.
• eReolen Global contains English-language e-and audiobooks and graphic novels for children, young people and adults.

To acces the websites, you need a library login. It can be made at the library or on our website using NemId.  

If you need help or have any questions, you are welcome to contact Lars Hovgaard at the main library (larho@odense.dk) or Ida Sørud at Vollsmose Library (idaso@odense.dk).

New citizen in Odense

If you are a new citizen in Odense and need help setteling ind regarding home or work/life balance, you can reach out for International Community Odense.