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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 33 of 553 13 December 2012 at 5:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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jeff_lindgvist, how come as a native speaker of Swedish you are going to use English resources for Norwegian? Or maybe you will deal with Linguaphone in a monolingual way.
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 34 of 553 13 December 2012 at 6:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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I happen to have access to the Linguaphone course, as simple as that. I don't know if there's any major Swedish resources for either Norwegian or Danish. Most of what I can find at the library focuses on the similarities and differences (see this thread), which by all means might be more important for me at the moment, but I don't think one can go wrong with a course that treats the language as... a language.
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 35 of 553 13 December 2012 at 8:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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Since some of you have chosen Norwegian, you have obviously not been scared away by all the confusion
around the language, with dialects and statements of diglossia floating around. I wanted to further reassure you. The Standard Norwegian (bokmål) which is the written form, and which is the language used in language courses, is understood by everyone In Norway, and the educated spoken norm for that is virtually identical. I know of no spoken words I cannot use in the written language, and I know of no written word I could not use in my speech. For an English speaker the language is very easy to learn, but I would spend a bit of time on the pronunciation. If you get that right, people will get incredibly impressed. In these times of high unemployment, it also makes very good business sense to learn Norwegian. We have no unemployment, and a very friendly working environment. People come from all over Europe to work here. So good luck with the language, and do not hesitate to ask anything :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| limey75 Senior Member United Kingdom germanic.eu/ Joined 4397 days ago 119 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Norwegian, Old English | Message 36 of 553 14 December 2012 at 4:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Hey Jeff,
Check this out: http://www.adlibris.com/se/product.aspx?isbn=9144301111 Maybe I'll join this team too. I'm fluent in reading Norwegian but A1 in speaking. I'm not sure about keeping a log though. First, I don't do a lot except work and study. Second, I'm kinda shy ;) I also have the problem of German interference from 4 years in Berlin. When I grope for a Norwegian word, a German word is usually what first springs to mind... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6227 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 37 of 553 14 December 2012 at 6:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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OK Vikings!
You may have another team member! I'm not committing for sure yet... but... I have wanted to learn a Scandinavian language for some time and TAC 2013 may just give me the nudge I need. I have been learning (poorly) all of these exotic languages with foreign scripts and I can't even pick up a book, or poem and read it! I would love to study a relatively highly cognate language in Latin script, where reading a chapter in a book doesn't take a month and a half! Plus, Scandinavia is and has always been a dream destination of mine. Perhaps by learning some Norwegian, it will give me the incentive to get there! I have been specifically drawn to Norwegian mainly because I had several Norwegian friends in Grad School. They drew me in to Norwegian culture and a smattering of the language (although it was, shall we say "r-Rated" ). I do love the sound of spoken Norwegian as well. So, Cristina and Team Viking: Kan du hjelpe meg??? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 38 of 553 14 December 2012 at 6:20pm | IP Logged | ||
Selvsagt kan vi helpe deg, liddytime! Jeg gleder meg til å være din gudmor. Bare si hva du trenger så er vi der for deg :-) @limey: Fantastisk ide! Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 14 December 2012 at 6:21pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6901 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 39 of 553 14 December 2012 at 7:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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The more, the merrier, dear Vikings :).
I'm putting "Viking" as the team name in the thread title. If anyone wants another name, we can still change it, though - it's an open issue, we have over two weeks until TAC begins :). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6227 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 40 of 553 14 December 2012 at 7:31pm | IP Logged | ||
Ha ha tusen takk! :-) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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