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Learn Danish individually

In Denmark we would like our foreign newcomers to learn to speak Danish.

All adult foreigners, who move to Denmark, are offered free LANGUAGE COURSES in Danish. 

Online-offers in Danish lessons are also available. Click HERE or on the library. And here you can just learn your first five Danish words.

 

Practice makes Perfect

Even though you are attending a Danish course it is important also to use different options to learn and practice the Danish language on your own.

The best way of practising a new language is always to speak it as much as possible with others who master it. Don’t restrain yourself, even though of course it is difficult to speak a new language. You will learn that the Danes are positive and will gladly help you if you try to speak Danish.

 

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The fact that you attend Danish classes and try to speak Danish show that you are interested in the Danes and the Danish culture, and it will help you to become part of the social life more quickly - both in your workplace and in your leisure time in relation to neighbours and others you will meet through association activities.

You will get a good chance of using Danish in your leisure time if you do like most citizens in Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality. Like them you just need to be active in your leisure time and sign up in an association with e.g. sports activities. Generally speaking, they can be found in all towns and villages, or find an association offering the hobby or leisure activity to which you are dedicated, so you get in contact with other people with the same interest.

Click HIER and get good advice from Newcomers.

 

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The Chinnow family

 
German family:

Good working conditions leaving room for a family life close to the North Sea

In 2019 the Chinnow family moved from Löbau in Germany to Hvide Sande in Denmark. Four years later the family is not in doubt: -We’ll stay here!

The couple Dagmar and Udo are working at the local companies, Hvide Sande Røgeri and Danwest, and they both see the career opportunities as one of the really big gains of having moved to Ringkøbing-Skjern Kommune. Here they have been able to let go of their previous worries about job safety and fair pay, and last year their dream of buying their own house came true. 

The two children, Pauline and Pepe, are also happy about having moved to Hvide Sande. They like their new school and appreciate the Danish school system with less tests and more variety during the day. 

In Ringkøbing-Skjern Kommune the family has found both tranquility, a house, career opportunities, and new friends. When the holiday makers have to go back after 1-2 weeks’ holiday all four of them are pleased that they can stay and fulfil more dreams in the middle between the North Sea and Ringkøbing Fjord.

The Chinnow family - Read the full story here

Charlotte and Ian

 
Danish/English couple:

Wish of living the good life

”Above all, we just wanted to be together and live the good life. We love being together” says the Danish/English couple Charlotte and Ian Coles who have settled down in an idyllic old farm house at Kloster, halfway between the Ringkøbing Fjord and the Stadil Fjord and close to the town of Ringkøbing.

It is not surprising that the couple had a wish of the good life in peaceful surroundings with lots of nature. Ian was a Major in the British Army, which meant the couple had moved around military bases in England and Germany for years. Ian had also been deployed close to the world’s war zones, leaving Charlotte alone and suffering months of deprivation during their first year in Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality.

They bought the old farmhouse overlooking the Stadil Fjord in 2013, and Charlotte moved in full-time, while Ian could only come home as work allowed. But now the good life has really started as Ian retired this summer.

Ian is 48 years old and he has just landed a job with Vestas - the wind turbine manufacturer – as a Project Training Leader. 

Charlotte and Ian - Read the full story here