daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4519 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic
| Message 17 of 438 18 December 2013 at 12:12am | IP Logged |
Kartof wrote:
"Gear" is Old Norse for year - as in a year of study! |
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"ár" is Old Norse, "gear" seems to be Old English ;)
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Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4232 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek
| Message 18 of 438 18 December 2013 at 1:02am | IP Logged |
I confirm my observer's interest. Not sure if I'll be writing much in my log about it though, but we'll see :)
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Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5393 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 19 of 438 18 December 2013 at 1:32am | IP Logged |
I'd like to be an observer here. :)
I am not studying any Scandinavian languages now, but I will likely pick up the Assimil course for Norwegian later in 2014 for a planned trip in early 2015. :D
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Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5064 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish
| Message 20 of 438 18 December 2013 at 3:11am | IP Logged |
daegga wrote:
Kartof wrote:
"Gear" is Old Norse for year - as in a year of study! |
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"ár" is Old Norse, "gear" seems to be Old English ;) |
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My fault for not double checking my sources!
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WoofCreature Diglot Groupie Canada Joined 4524 days ago 80 posts - 118 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: German, Portuguese, Norwegian
| Message 21 of 438 18 December 2013 at 7:35am | IP Logged |
I'll post an introduction, in Norwegian, in a few days and a link to my log once I start it sometime during the holidays. In the meantime, here's some of my favorite resources for Norwegian:
-The Klar Tale easy news site and their weekly podcast is great for beginners. The podcast is a reading of their weekly paper, which can sometimes be found in pdf form here.
-This site is useful for basic grammar
-You have to create a free account on memrise.com before you can use these links, but it doesn't take very long. This course is great for beginners as it reinforces vocabulary right away by using it in sentences. This course is useful for learning and reinforcing grammar and this course contains a lot of sentences with audio, so is good for pronunciation.
-The Ylvis' Facebookies channel on Youtube, which posts a ton of videos from the comedians Ylvis subtitled in English, is great for listening comprehension. It should be noted however that they are from Bergen, so do not speak in the Oslo dialect, or in anything close to Bokmål. But's it's always good to get used to dialects.
And for everyone, not just Norwegian learners, Forvo is great for checking the pronunciation of words.
Hope I helped!
Edited by WoofCreature on 18 December 2013 at 7:37am
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Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4637 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian
| Message 22 of 438 18 December 2013 at 9:47am | IP Logged |
Just coming by at this stage to say hello. As your Godfather (which is "gudfar" or "fadder" in Norwegian by the way) I'll try to be around as much as I can to offer advice and reply to questions about Norwegian. And I hope you will find someone to take on the role for Danish and Swedish as well.
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Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5345 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French
| Message 23 of 438 18 December 2013 at 2:29pm | IP Logged |
AlOlaf wrote:
Please confirm me, also. I'd like to use my old log, but I don't know how to change the heading.
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If you edit the very first post in your log you should see an editable field for the title. I say “should” because I’ve just read in the Russian team log that Josquin is having problems editing his previous posts. Maybe it’s a new bug, but hopefully you won’t have any such problem.
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Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5345 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French
| Message 24 of 438 18 December 2013 at 2:38pm | IP Logged |
@Via_Diva and @Kerrie and all the other observers/Wanderlusters.
It would be nice to have the link to your logs too, so we can follow your language journey even if you’re not concentrating on Swedish / Norwegian / Danish.
So please let me know where we can find your logs: you’re part of the team even if the Nordic languages are low priorities for you in 2014.
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