Student stories
Here you will find stories about our students and their experiences learning Danish.
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April 16, 2018
Danish as a fourth language
Kalyani Gupte is 39 years old. She comes from Mumbai in India. Kalyani lives in Charlottenlund with her husband. They came to Denmark in 2016, and soon after she started attending Danish classes at IA [...]
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March 16, 2018
Speaking Danish helps build relations
Meet Harsha Reddy from India. He is learning Danish at his workplace together with a group of colleagues. Although the working language at Temenos is English, Harsha really wants to learn Danish. For as he [...]
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January 16, 2018
I like being an old guy at IA Sprog
Five years ago, when Dick moved to Denmark for a new job, he didn’t know much Danish. Dick is originally from London and now works at the utility company Dong Energy. Knew his teacher from home After some [...]
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November 16, 2017
My ambition is to become a politician in Folketinget
Hari Neupane lives in Nordvest where he has passed Danish Language Exam 3 at IA Sprog. Now he is running for a seat in the City Council of Copenhagen. His key issues are integration, sustainability and [...]
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October 26, 2017
IA Sprog has taken away the laziness
Meet Ilenia Bellucci from Tuscany. She has learned Danish at her workplace along with a group of colleagues. And she thinks the convenience of not having to cross the city come snow or rain in order to [...]
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October 19, 2017
Copenhagen viewed through the tip of a pencil
Copenhagen is a city that holds many things. It has nature, water and fascinating buildings. Portuguese João Albergaria captures all these things. He captures them through his sketches. João is 48 years [...]
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August 21, 2017
Better late than never
Nearly 8 years went by before Sabina began attending a language course in Denmark. Before that she spoke no Danish at all. But then she wanted to get at it – better late than never. Sabina had been busy [...]
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July 21, 2017
Steel fitter and student at the IA Sprog metro team
Carlos is a little nervous. Why do IA Sprog want to do an article about him? We do, because Carlos has learned a lot of Danish in a short time in spite of having only brief schooling. Carlos follows Danish [...]
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June 8, 2017
I am the president of IA Sprogs student council
My name is Sandra Bulotaitė. I am 36 years old, and I was born in Lithuania in a small town by the name of Mažeikiai. My native language is Lithuanian. I came to Denmark 4 years ago, and I now live in [...]
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February 18, 2017
A master’s degree in Denmark, yes, please
Merlijn de Rijcke from Belgium has spent six months as a bachelor exchange student in Denmark and also attended IA Sprog’s Danish classes at Metropolitan University College. Now the six months have [...]
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January 21, 2017
From noisy samba to quiet snowfall
“It was like being a baby learning how to make sounds.” That is how 37 year old Brazilian Paulo Castro describes what it was like to start his Danish lessons. Paulo came to Denmark in 2009 and [...]
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October 17, 2015
One of the best things was speaking Danish at a job interview
Sunilkumar Puppala from India knew it was very important to be good at Danish, and that’s why he enrolled as a student in Danish Language Course 2 at IA Sprog in September 2012. ”It’s fun to learn Danish, [...]
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October 17, 2015
Why don’t we bake a cake and dress up like foxes?
They met during Danish lessons at CBS – now they’re partners in a successful business. Meet Brini and Theresa, who – along with their three friends Antje, Katrin and Martje – are the young executives of [...]
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October 17, 2015
My boss believes in me
She started out distributing supermarket fliers – now she dreams of working as a researcher in Denmark. Meet Farnoosh Goodarzi, a chemical engineer with a Masters degree in nanotechnology from Teheran [...]
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