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| Polyrhythm Newbie United States Joined 5914 days ago 7 posts - 8 votes | Message 9 of 47 17 September 2008 at 2:22am | IP Logged | ||
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This is excellent! I've used MT's method for Italian and loved it. When I decided to learn Norwegian I just sort of took it in stride that I'd have to find another means of learning. This is amazing! I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to your progress. Ha det :-)
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| madass88 Diglot Groupie NorwayRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6070 days ago 83 posts - 98 votes  Speaks: English, Norwegian* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 10 of 47 17 September 2008 at 4:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you for your support! I've been lacking some inspiration to continue, but I'm planning to make 2-3 hours
now in the autumn vacation ( 2 weeks from now) I've found a simple way to explain the past tense, and we will cover many norwegian expressions, and similarities to English. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Polyrhythm Newbie United States Joined 5914 days ago 7 posts - 8 votes | Message 11 of 47 17 September 2008 at 4:59pm | IP Logged | ||
I can certainly understand the need for inspiration. All I can tell you is how excited my daughter and I were that I had found someone out there that was taking the initiative to create an MT-style course for Norwegian :-) It might seem odd that your idea struck such a chord with me, but MT was really the only course where I felt like I was truly learning a functional version of the language. My daughter was picking it up faster than I was! I showed her your audio last night and she remarked, "He's doing it just like Michel!" Haha, it was great! So needless to say, I'll be on the edge of my seat for the next series. Until then, I'll put tracks 1 through 4 on Loop and be satisfied with that! If in the future you have a PayPal account or something, let me know. I'm not a wealthy guy (lower middle class in the U.S.A, and I think our dollar is basically worthless to Norway!) but I feel like your time should be compensated somehow. Take Care! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| madass88 Diglot Groupie NorwayRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6070 days ago 83 posts - 98 votes Speaks: English, Norwegian* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 12 of 47 17 September 2008 at 5:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Wow, that is a very nice story! I have some notes lying around for about 15 minutes more, if i find them, i will
record them as soon as possible, very nice story. I realize that the pace is quite rapid, almost stressful in the tapes, but since i have no student at hand it is difficult to see (å se) where to cut some slack to make sure everyone is a happy camper. Why are you interested in learning Norwegian? =) I was planning to make a free one hour course, and find some way of charging about 10-20 dollars for the next 6-7 hours, so don't worry about compensation. also, the lower middle class... horrible state america is in now, and i hope you will stand for change and vote at the elections! I'm not going to get all into politics or tell you who to vote for, because both McCain and Obama stand for change, and are very respectable both. Oil drilling offshore is very important since the entire american, and most of the worlds, economy runs on oil, so as some people (especially europeans) think, McCain isn't all bad, but personally, I'd stick with Obama. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| autodidactic Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States tinyurl.com/cunningl Joined 6625 days ago 100 posts - 110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Japanese, Kazakh | Message 13 of 47 17 September 2008 at 6:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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This is excellent. Great job. Would you mind sharing the technique/structure you
followed to develop the course? I want to use it to produce something similar in another language. A few weeks back I tried asking how one could go about designing a course similar to michel thomas for less popular language, and some morons derailed the discussion into MT thomas vs everything else argument. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Polyrhythm Newbie United States Joined 5914 days ago 7 posts - 8 votes | Message 14 of 47 17 September 2008 at 6:55pm | IP Logged | ||
I first became interested in Norwegian through a camping trip when I was younger (13years old I think). My family and I were camping in the Sequoia National Forest during the summer when an unexpected storm hit our area. The rain was pouring so hard that one of our tents almost slid down the hill! We were trying to channel the rain around our tent when a couple of young women (they were in their early 20s at the time) came from their campsite with a shovel so that we could dig more effectively! We thanked them and had them over for dinner later that evening. The girls' names were Margo and Elisa. Elisa had this amazing accent and so of course my 13 year old heart fell in love instantly, haha! I asked her where she was from and she said Norway. She was an exchange student living with Margo. I had always been fascinated with languages and at the time I was studying Spanish. We hung out with Margo and Elisa through the week (we even went on a bear hunt!). Margo knew Norwegian, so I would hear them speaking from time to time. Seeing how interested I was, Elisa offered to teach me Norwegian! I spent the rest of the week learning some basics. We exchanged mailing information and for a few months she would write letters, both in Bokmal (sp?) and English. After a while though we wrote less and less until finally we lost touch. At the time I had no other way to continue my studies so I moved on to Italian. However, my first love was with Norwegian. Over the past few months my daughter began to really show an interest in learning languages. I immediately thought of Norwegian. How great would it be for she and I to learn it together! So that's where my interest came from :-) Your pace is just fine, no worries! I like that you fit so much into the time allotted. I simply pause it when I need to or go back, no problem! I’ll definitely be willing to pay for the courses, so when the time comes just let me know. As for politics, I was voting for Ron Paul, but since that isn't feasible, I would much rather see Obama in office than McCain. I'm taxed enough, I can't take much more, hehe. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| madass88 Diglot Groupie NorwayRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6070 days ago 83 posts - 98 votes Speaks: English, Norwegian* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 15 of 47 28 September 2008 at 10:42am | IP Logged | ||
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I found the norwegian course notes i thought i lost! So i think i will record and put out some new tracks tomorrow! Edited by madass88 on 28 September 2008 at 10:42am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Polyrhythm Newbie United States Joined 5914 days ago 7 posts - 8 votes | Message 16 of 47 28 September 2008 at 11:55am | IP Logged | ||
Excellent! I've been wearing out the tracks I have. :-) About how long, on average, would you say one track takes to structure and record? I imagine it's got to be a fairly long process. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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