Learn Danish with DR TV

Spoken Danish is famously hard to follow – many sounds are softened or swallowed. Reading the Danish line while you hear it helps a lot, and Nordic Dual Subs adds a translation in your own language right under it.

What to watch

• Ramasjang – DR's programmes for young children: slow, clear and short.
• DR Ultra – DR's programmes for older children.
• TV AVISEN – DR's main news. Short items, and the same stories come back over several days.

Written Danish is far easier to recognise than spoken Danish. That is why the subtitle line is so helpful: listen, read, then replay the line until the sound and the words match.

Set up in two minutes

1. On a computer, install Nordic Dual Subs in Chrome (button above) and pin it via the puzzle-piece icon.
2. Open a programme on DR TV and press play. The Danish line and your translation appear under the picture.
3. Click the extension icon to choose your language (29 languages) and text size.

How to practise

• S repeats the current line and Shift+S replays it slowly – the most useful keys for Danish. A and D go to the previous and next line.
• Turn on pause after every line and say the line aloud before moving on.
• Click a word to pause and see its meaning; click ⭐ to save it with its sentence, then review it in the extension or export to Anki (CSV).

Good to know

• Free, no account needed; during the launch offer (until 30 June 2027) every feature is free.
• DR decides what can be watched where, and may ask you to log in; much of DR TV is only available in Denmark.
• It needs the programme's subtitle file; live broadcasts are not supported yet.
• DR support is newer than SVT support. If a programme doesn't work, write to dualsubs@zexa.se with its link.
• The base-form dictionary is Swedish; for Danish words you get the translated meaning.