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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5170 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 305 of 338 30 September 2013 at 11:07pm | IP Logged |
So, I may have (fortunately) evaluated my level wrongly. I feel a bit more comfortable
about reading now. Today Google Translator wasn't working properly, so I couldn't get the
translation in Portuguese to Dag's subtitles. And yet I could understand the show with no
problem! I only translated some unknown words I couldn't infer from context or weren't
used in a different context. I also had much less trouble with Framtidslandet's text and
I'm paying more attention to my sentences deck. Not to mention the audioblog podcast
which i'm doing in no time. Do I foresee a change in status?! ;)
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5170 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 306 of 338 07 October 2013 at 10:32pm | IP Logged |
It got a bit easier to read from Framtidslandet (short stories mostly about Christmas).
On the other hand, I'm not a big fan of Hellfjord, I find it too gross. It's only 7
episodes so next week I'll probably be doing Lilyhammer, which has the drawback of having
too much English.
I'm about to finish the first season of the Advanced Audioblog, so 1 more season to go
and I get a free slot for Norwegian in the morning, even though i'm still going to study
it rather intensively considering 20-30 min series and a book with stories.
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| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5351 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French
| Message 307 of 338 10 October 2013 at 11:39am | IP Logged |
The other day I came across this website rather serendipitously: Bridge to Norway and I couldn’t help remembering what you wrote here on your log a few weeks ago:
Expugnator wrote:
[...] I'm still not comfortable to read a book in Norwegian without a translation. I'd have to look up too many words and I'd still be lost without figuring out the meaning of some idioms and more obscure syntax. [...] |
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I don’t know whether your situation with Norwegian has much changed in the meantime, but if it isn’t, you may want to have a look at that website where apart from a grammar, a dictionary (I haven’t checked whether these are any good: I’ll leave it to you if you’re interested) etc, you can find reading texts at different levels of difficulty. Each text has a rather extensive English glossary and may be helpful to bridge the gap between textbook materials and authentic Norwegian books.
Anyway, you seem to be going strong with Norwegian, so keep up the great job!
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5338 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 308 of 338 10 October 2013 at 12:01pm | IP Logged |
Hi! Wow, you are really doing a fantastic job with your Norwegian. If you feel like practising a little, send me a PM and we can connect on Skype.
Congratulations on finishing Appelsinpiken! I have sworn to myself never to read anything by Jostein Gårder again, but I have heard good things about this book.
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5170 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 309 of 338 10 October 2013 at 11:58pm | IP Logged |
Thanks Emme and Cristina! I'm looking forward for more practice, it's time I write and
speak a bit now.
Oddly enough, the situation did change in the past days. I've checked the texts and
they all seem easy to me =D , so I think I'm ready for contemporary resources. Nowadays
I tend to look up 1 word every other sentence from a contemporary novel, or a news
item, so I think it doesn't seem that painful anymore.
Cristina, may I ask you why no more Jostein Gårder? Feel free not to answer, too =D I
didn't like Kabalmysteriet that much, but since the books deal with subjects I want to
read about somehow, I keep going. It's like in French, I read an author that sounds
rather dry and superficial but the plots always contains something intriguing which
keeps attracting me to read other books.
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5170 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 310 of 338 17 October 2013 at 11:21pm | IP Logged |
Jeg har nettopp tatt testen på Folkeuniversitet! Her er resultatene, jeg er veldig glad
om dem!
Her er resultatene
Writing = Self Assessment B1
Vocabulary and grammar = Test Result B1
Reading = B2 in both S.A. and T. R.
Listening = B1 in both
Spoken production B2 (jeg tviler på det allikelvel)
Spoken interaction B2 (jeg tviler på det også, selvfølelig)
Det finnes andre språk òg: engelsk, tysk, fransk, italiensk, spansk og svensk!
CEFR Folkeuniversitetet
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5170 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 311 of 338 30 October 2013 at 5:10pm | IP Logged |
Det går fint med de norske studiene. Jeg skal bli ferdig med leksjonene fra podcasten
neste uke, etterpå vil jeg lese en kort grammatik. Jeg lurer på om jeg skal slutte å
bruke lærebøker deretter. Hvis jeg bestemme meg for å slutte med dem, skal jeg begynne
med å lre tysk - faktisk skal jeg starte med tysk på nytt. Jeg lærte litt tysk åtte år
siden, men i dag er norsken minn mye bedre enn tysk. Naturligvis vil jeg fortsette med å
lese romaner og se på norske serier - jeg har det veldig bra med disse daglige
aktiviteter.
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5170 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 312 of 338 30 October 2013 at 9:24pm | IP Logged |
Watch it while it's fresh!! (And still available).
Looks really great, though I'd need to translate subtitles to get the most out of it.
Dialektriker
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