The study examines ways of improving the learning progress made by students in dealing with the problems posed by modal semantics in translation from Danish into German. Major concerns are translation theory and didactics, classification models for modal verb systems, and neurolinguistic aspects. The analysis of two text corpora shows that better results were achieved by a test group working with a teaching scheme based on a broader range of didactic variation. The volume is of interest for scholars working in the fields of translation theory and didactics, modality, corpus linguistics, neurolinguistics, comparative linguistics, language philosophy, and - more generally - Scandinavian and German studies.