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| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4640 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 9 of 14 23 May 2012 at 4:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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SJARMERENDE: Pia Tjeltas stavangerdialekt er den mest sjarmerende i hele landet, ifølge Dagbladets lesere. :) http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/02/11/nyheter/innenriks/dialekt er/stavanger/15406193/ http://p3.no/hallop3/norges-mest-sexy-dialekt/ ''Dialect which, according to Dagbladet's readers is the country's least charming comes from the West End, Oslo, and is a clear loser ''[/QUOTE] Thanks for providing that link, I hadn't seen that survey. As someone who almost speaks West End Oslo dialect, I am not surprised that it is considered the least charming. More than a dialect I would say it is a sociolect, it tends to be seen as the dialect of upper-class arrogant toffs. On the other hand, it is one of the "dialects" being closest to standard Bokmål. Returning to the original question, my wife used a book called "Ny i Norge", which seemed OK, although it is aimed at class teaching. I don't know if it is still in print though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Uniceros Bilingual Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4594 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: German, Latin, French | Message 10 of 14 23 May 2012 at 8:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've started with the Dutch grammar I linked to, I do enjoy it and wish there were an edition for Norwegian. I
shouldn't be surprised , but I'm finding NL easier to read off the bat because of my knowledge of German. Norwegian will be more of a reach at first, especially because of lack of materials... I'm working on reading about pet finches as my limited scope to start, since I'm already knowledgable in the topic and the information tends to be more factual than figurative as with music, my profession. I'm looking at these two as a structured NO course: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0781810434/ref=mp_s_a_7?qid=13 37795672&sr=8-7 http://www.booksamillion.com/p/Norsk-Nordmenn-Og-Norge/Kathl een-Stokker/9780299086909? id=5377905209835H I prefer book courses to start - I see words in my head so I like to start with reading. If there is no course with exercises, I already have two NO grammar references so I could still use a workbook only. I also have Pimsleur for pronunciation. Thanks so much for the feedback already! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5419 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 11 of 14 23 May 2012 at 8:34pm | IP Logged | ||
I can confirm that the Essential Grammar book is very good. Great coverage of grammar and fairly easy to read. If you ever see the book Verbs and Essentials of Grammar for Norwegian, avoid! It's got a heck of a lot of mistakes in there. Can't speak for the Beginner's Norwegian book, but I've found the Teach Yourself book for Norwegian to be pretty good, as well as Colloquial Norwegian which is a bit more thorough. I'd recommend you check out AbeBooks. Plenty of second hand stuff on there, a bigger selection of books than on Amazon and it's cheaper. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Uniceros Bilingual Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4594 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: German, Latin, French | Message 12 of 14 23 May 2012 at 11:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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I can confirm that the Essential Grammar book is very good. Great coverage of grammar and fairly easy to read. If you ever see the book Verbs and Essentials of Grammar for Norwegian, avoid! It's got a heck of a lot of mistakes in there. Can't speak for the Beginner's Norwegian book, but I've found the Teach Yourself book for Norwegian to be pretty good, as well as Colloquial Norwegian which is a bit more thorough. [/QUOTE] Bahh! I have the Verbs and Essentials book. Oh well. I do have An Essential Grammar, thank goodness. I saw the Dutch AND Norwegian TY Complete sets at the bookstore the other day. I guess I'll go get them now that I've heard good things about them. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5419 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 13 of 14 24 May 2012 at 12:18am | IP Logged | ||
Yeah, unfortunately I too only discovered the issues with the Verbs and Essentials book after I bought it. Went through some of it with my mother who is Norwegian and she noticed some unnatural and just plain wrong stuff. Then I saw this review from a native Norwegian who writes for a living: 2 Star Review If it weren't for the errors it would be fantastic. At least it wasn't too pricey I suppose. Baffled as to how there was evidently no qualified editor for the book and how it still hasn't been revised. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5730 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 14 of 14 24 May 2012 at 3:22am | IP Logged | ||
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How is Dutch in 3 Months? It seems to get decent reviews on Amazon.
I bought the book a few months ago and haven't used it yet. I was wondering if anyone else used it. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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