So which would you say? Male or female authors?

I've started teaching Danish to a Swiss couple. We've only had one session of three hours, and it's unnerving and scary and really challenging. I kind of like it. A friend of my parents' has done it for years and gave me a whole pile of educational books, from which I could make my choice of teaching methods, and I've now looked through all nine of them, only to come to the (expected, if you know me) conclusion, that none of them are good enough, so naturally I must make my own.

Yes, you understood it correctly. I, who have no education, virtually no teaching experience and nothing to base my "expertise" on, decided that these books written by experienced professionals would not be as good as what I can make. So I'm doing a Copy-and-paste job and making my own system.

Some of the books were hilarious though.

In one book we follow Antonio Olivetti, a pencil-sketched Italian 20-something male who has just moved to Denmark. He religiously hits on every woman to come his way and actually DROOLS (!) in some of the pictures as women pass him by. In every picture of Antonio eating, an espresso pot is present at his side.

Here is an actual transscribed conversation between Antonio and Clara:

ANTONIO: How are you, Carla?

CARLA: I am tired.

ANTONIO: How is your daughter?

CARLA: Kirsten? She is well. She is a big girl now. She will soon turn five years old. Next week.

ANTONIO: And how old are you now?

CARLA: I am not young anymore. I will be 30 in not too long. In two years.

ANTONIO: So soon!! Would you like the La Stampa*, old Carla?

CARLA: I only read BT** and Ekstra Bladet***. La Stampa is a serious news paper. Antonio...

ANTONIO: Yes?

CARLA: Do you like Danish girls?

ANTONIO: I like all girls. Would you like a cold beer?

*Italian news paper
**awful tabloid
***even worse tabloid

Nice little picture they paint of Danish girls there...

In another book we follow the middle-aged couple Grethe and Poul (two good old-fashioned Danish names). While Grethe is on her hands and knees in the garden planting her vegetable patch and sweating, Poul sits in his underwear and wife-beater (!) in the garden watching her while drinking beer.

A third book gives the following examples:

Picture: Middle-aged man sits drawing at a drawing table.

Blurb: "He's an architect. He draws houses. He works every day from 9 in the morning till 4 in the afternoon. He earns 21.500 kroner a month."

Next picture: Woman wearing apron and a scarf around her hair has a screaming baby on her hip and a screaming toddler at her side. There is sweat running down her cheek and she stirs a pot of unindentifiable food as she stares blankly into space.

Blurb: "She's a house wife. She cleans, buys groceries, cooks, and takes care of the children. She works from 6 in the morning till 9 in the evening. She doesn't earn money."