Studieskolen

I agree with the review that is hidden from this page that has a negative review and one star. I normally don’t give reviews, but this was so exceptionally bad, that I had to give one. The interviewer was completely degrading and unpleasant. I usually like Danes, but she give Danish people a bad name. I will enroll in another school and show her she does not determine that I can learn. She should not be a part of a language school. We want to learn that is why we come. I have an upper level education with a Ph.D. and have written several publications in Chemistry in top journals. She told me that I was not a fast enough learner to pick up the intense class because I had a been here for some time even though I have been researching a lot in the lab and we only speak English. She said because I did not try hard enough outside the class and still cannot be fluent, I cannot take the Danish level 1 class. How is it an indication of this? Many students go in if they don’t do the placement exam and they don’t know from heads to tail what Danish is. Is motivation nothing? Also, it is level 1. She questioned my English skills in such a snarky way almost implying as if I had no English skills at all. I don’t think anybody deserves to be treated in less than a courteous way. I would never do this to others and I would expect the same from others.

Yes yes yes. I have taken 3 out of 4 Danish modules here and I am 100% satisfied. The school is organised and is quite strict, so only people who really want to learn can keep up. You are aloud to miss only a certain amount of classes meaning that if you miss too many you will need to repeat the class. If the teacher thinks you re not at the level of others they also tell you to repeat.
When you want to start they make you take a test so they will assign you to the right level. Same happens if you take a brake of more than 6 weeks from the school. They also demand that everyone has a high education and a good English. Friends of mine that changed to this school after taking modules elsewhere, had problems of keeping up as the level was too high and some were even rejected as their level was not as high as it should.
The books you get are free and you don’t need to give them back as in other schools. You also have pronunciation classes for free if you want to join. The class rooms are nice and are equipped with a computer and a projector which we use often to present something or listen and watch to a video. I also have met a lot of nice people here. So I highly recommend it to dedicated learners.
The only negative side is that I heard from other students that they had some teachers that were not nice or too strict. We also had sometimes replacement teachers that were in my opinion too soft and easy going. So I guess it depends very much on the teacher as well. Mine was Jorun and she was very good.

i was going to write this review in danish to prove the good this school has done me, but i realized that may complicate things for someone looking for a good place to learn danish. it’s good! i took evening courses twice a week, each class lasting 3.5 hours with a 15 minute break, and i got my prøve i dansk 3 certificate after a year and a half.
HOWEVER. i’ve had some strange experiences in this school.
my first teacher was very effective though very strict, and she seemed to be particularly hard on the one mexican girl in our class and later a black girl that joined in the next module. while we did conversational exercises, she walked around and listened in. during one of those she accused both of them of ‘not doing the homework,’ which is nonsense since i got together with the mexican girl previously during the week and did homework together with her. learning to pronounce danish is hard, but she was not so harsh with other (white) students who had problems with it. the black girl actually argued that she had in fact done the homework, which the teacher interpreted as backtalk and told her to leave the class. the girl refused to leave, as she had already been in the course for a few weeks and was pretty intent on learning danish, but our teacher threatened to cancel the rest of the class for that day if the girl didn’t leave. talk about immature! the girl left for our sake, but she did file a complaint with administration .
another teacher made us do an exercise which was writing a sort of job application… for a cleaning job at a school. note that this was an evening class where many of us had jobs already, most with bachelor’s or master’s degrees. couldn’t it have been for some other position? are they preparing us for reality in denmark? or maybe i am reading too far into it. this teacher also told me i would never be able to use the word «kedelig» for anything except «boring,» though the word has several meanings. when i asked why, she said it is because i am not danish and no one will understand what i mean if i use it in another context. k, thx. /​:
i am not saying this is a bad school! i have had some really good teachers here and made some great friends and of course learned the language as well. maybe this sort of thing happens at every danish language school? anyway, that was my experience, hope yours is better.

I can only recommend this school to anyone who wants to learn Danish.
They have very efficient teaching method and they select their students based on the students’ education background, so chance you will be sitting in a class with others with the same education level as you, making it easier for the whole class to learn something together.
That’s why you have to attend a placement test if you have learned some Danish, just to know where you should start. I myself started from Module 3 (halfway up) and while it was difficult to start from the middle without properly knowing the basics, I finished my Danish course (paid by the kommune) within half year only.
Of course, it all depends on which teacher you get, and I got an awesome teacher all the way (Kamma Andersen) so take her class if you know she’s teaching the semester.