Abstract
THE tourists who now crowd into Norway summer after summer are apt to find that a better acquaintance with the language of the country is required from them than is the case in the more frequented parts of Europe. They ought, therefore, to be grateful to Miss Otté for having provided them with an excellent manual for acquiring the necessary knowledge, since Danish is the language not only of Denmark but of the towns of Norway also, though more or less varying dialects are spoken by the peasants in the isolated dales. The manual is composed according to the Ollendorffian method; but a systematic grammar and rules for pronunciation are appended at the end, and the whole book is prefaced by an interesting and instructive introduction.
How to Learn Danish (Dano-Norwegian).
By E. C. Otté. (London: Trübner and Co., 1879.)
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SAYCE, A. How to Learn Danish (Dano-Norwegian). Nature 20, 93–94 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020093a0
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