This course has six parts: 1. A general introduction to written and spoken Danish. 2. A chapter on Danish phonetics. 3. A grammar, arranged by sections under nouns, adjectives, adverbs, etc., with chapters on word-order and word-formation, and including exercises. 4. A section of general information - about money, weights and measures, meals, etc. 5. Twenty-five Danish texts (twenty prose, five poetry) from standard authors for translation into English. 6. Twenty English texts, graded in difficulty, for translation into Danish. No other Danish grammer and reader with this scope and degree of scholarship exists. Mr Bredsdorff has taught in England for a number of years, and most of his pupils have started with no knowledge of Danish. His course has been tried out and proved successful.
I sommeren 1937 fik Elias Bredsdorff anledning til at mødes med den amerikanske forfatter John Steinbeck, der senere modtog Nobelprisen i litteratur. Steinbeck havde endnu opnået succes i Danmark, men var allerede en populær forfatter i kommunistiske kredse internationalt. Han opfattede sig selv som socialist, hvorfor han under sit besøg i København blev interviewet til dagbladet "Arbejderen". I 1942 færdiggjorde Elias Bredsdorff, der selv var aktiv i det danske kommunistiske miljø, en bog om den mand han beskrev som "en sæk fuld af historie, gode historier, brandsjove historier, om alle slags ting og alle slags mennesker". Elias Bredsdorff (1912-2002) var en dansk forfatter, litteraturhistoriker og modstandsmand. I sine unge år gjorde han sig bemærket som studenterpolitiker udi kommunismen, som han var meget optaget af. Under krigen tog han imidlertid afstand til DKP og blev i stedet aktiv i modstandsorganisationen Frit Danmark. Som cand.mag. skrev han en lang række værker om dansk litteratur og underviste i mange år om emnet på Cambridge University.
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