Using the app
How to study with it
The tool is deliberately small: four modes, one group at a time, no streaks to protect and nothing to sign up for.
The unit of work
Work one group at a time
The list is cut into groups — the first covers ranks 1–50, then roughly twenty words at a time after that. A group is meant to be finishable in a sitting or two, which matters more than it sounds: an endless list gives you no way to tell whether you are getting anywhere.
Words within a group are still in frequency order, so even a half-finished group leaves you holding the more useful half.
What's in the app
The four modes
Study
The word list itself, with the English meaning, the pronunciation, and — for verbs and nouns — a table of inflected forms. Tap a word to see example sentences. Mark words you know as learned; that is what the progress bar tracks.
Card Quiz
Flashcards, both directions: Danish to English and English to Danish. Going backwards is harder and closer to what speaking demands of you — producing a word from meaning, rather than recognising it on the page.
Sentence Quiz
A sentence with one word missing, for you to supply. This is the mode that most resembles using the language: the word has to arrive in context, in the right form.
Sentences
Just read. Every sentence in a group is built only from words at or below that group's level, so you can read them without hitting vocabulary you have not met.
The constraint
The rule that makes the sentences useful
An example sentence for a group never contains a word ranked below that group. Not "mostly doesn't" — the sentences are generated under that constraint.
This is the part that's hard to get from a textbook. Ordinary example sentences are written to show off the target word and freely use whatever else they need, so a beginner sentence about hus can quietly depend on four words you have never seen. Here the sentence pool grows as you do, which means reading practice is available from the very first group instead of being something you unlock months later.
The trade-off is real and worth stating: sentences built from a 50-word vocabulary are simple and sometimes a little odd. They get more natural as your range widens.
A routine
A workable routine
- Read the group first in Study, without trying to memorise. Notice which words you already half-know.
- Mark the ones you genuinely know. Being generous here only cheats you — the quizzes draw on everything in the group regardless.
- Card Quiz until recognition is comfortable, then switch direction. English to Danish is the one that transfers to speaking.
- Finish with Sentence Quiz. If you can supply the word in context, you know it well enough to move on.
- Come back to the previous group at the start of the next session before starting new material. Reviewing costs a few minutes; relearning costs the whole group again.
How it sounds
Pronunciation
Where a dictionary documents it, each form carries its own IPA — not just the dictionary headword. Danish spelling is a poor guide to Danish sound, and the forms of a single verb can differ more than you would expect, so it is worth reading the transcription rather than guessing from the spelling.
Where a pronunciation was worked out by rule rather than found in a dictionary, it is marked as such. Nothing is invented to fill a gap: a form with no documented pronunciation shows none.
The transcriptions are only worth having if you can read them, so there is a page for that: every symbol the list uses, explained and played out loud — stød, the soft d, the two schwas, and what the brackets mean.
Where it's kept
Your progress
Progress is stored in your browser, not on a server. There is no account and nothing to sign in to — but that also means it is per-device, and clearing your browser data clears it. If you switch between a phone and a laptop, they each keep their own count.
Open it and start on group one
Fifty words, four modes, and sentences you can already read.
Open the app