Interviews
The use of Danish at universities with parallel languages
International employees report...
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Antje Fitzner, PhD Scholar at the Niels Bohr Institute
"People tend to speak very quickly in Danish."
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Asli Silahtaroglu, Associate professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences
"I believe it is important to understand each other and to be understood, and language is the best tool to achieve this."
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Gro Bjerknes, senior adviser at the University Education Services
"My Danish has improved a great deal! ... The one-to-one course has improved my self-confidence."
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Björn Hamberger, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Life Sciences
"I do not consider the language use at the University truly "parallel."
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Lene Russell, doctor MD at Rigshospitalet
"My written Danish was gradually becoming very poor, and I began to experience that it was a problem professionally."
Researchers report...
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Merike Jürna, PhD student at CIP
"We do not yet have enough systematic knowledge about what the international employees think and feel they need to do in Danish."