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| Tigris Triglot Newbie Norway Joined 5755 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, French Studies: German, Dutch | Message 1 of 4 19 March 2013 at 10:22pm | IP Logged |
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Hello!
I am currently studying in the UK, and my university is going to have a language festival (so they call it) in a few weeks where they would like native speakers of foreign languages to have short courses on their respective languages. I thought this could be a fun experience, so I have volunteered to teach Norwegian. However, being a native speaker, my learning experience has been quite different compared to those who have learnt it as a foregin language. Thus, I'm wondering what would be good to have in an introduction to Norwegian for English speakers, i.e. anything you found easy/hard/fun/boring/etc. in the initial stages. This could be grammar, vocabulary, pronounciation, and so on, but cultural aspects are also welcome! Edited by Tigris on 19 March 2013 at 10:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| agantik Triglot Senior Member France Joined 4634 days ago 217 posts - 335 votes  Speaks: French*, English, Italian Studies: German, Norwegian | Message 2 of 4 20 March 2013 at 7:59am | IP Logged |
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I think you could emphasize the similarities between English and Norwegian, as far as both (some)
vocabulary and grammar are concerned. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Marya Diglot Groupie Poland languagewanderer.com Joined 4413 days ago 62 posts - 77 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Russian, Norwegian | Message 3 of 4 20 March 2013 at 8:27am | IP Logged |
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You could also say something about pronunciation. When I first heard Norwegian, I was really surprised by
the sound of the language:) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Susanne157 Pentaglot Newbie Norway Joined 4267 days ago 1 posts - 2 votes Speaks: German*, NorwegianC1, EnglishC1, Spanish, Danish Studies: Icelandic | Message 4 of 4 20 March 2013 at 4:09pm | IP Logged |
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HI Tigris,
When I started to learn Norwegian I liked the fact that the conjugations are so simple compared to other languages: "Jeg er, du er , han er, ...". I thought this was very motivating! I liked the phenomenon "friluftsliv", that was completely new for me. Maybe you could show examples or a short video what it is about. You could also talk about another phenomenom, "russetid". It was also very interesting to learn about "bestemt og ubestemt form". Even if Norwegian and English are of the same language family, this appears to be quite distinct: Et hus - a house; huset - the house. And maybe you know some false friends?:-) Greetings, Susanne Edited by Susanne157 on 20 March 2013 at 4:11pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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