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| TheIcelander Newbie Iceland Joined 5070 days ago 7 posts - 9 votes Speaks: Icelandic* | Message 1 of 15 08 January 2011 at 1:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Greetings language loving people,
My (forum) name is TheIcelander and I'm from Iceland. So far I speak 2 languages fluently, English and Icelandic, and have a basic understanding of Danish. Although that may be overstating it, seeing as I couldn't understand a word from their spoken language to save my life. It might be more appropriate to say that I can understand most of their written language, which is more similar to my native language, although 50% of it are clearly loanwords from the English language as well. Anyhow, I never was too excited about learning Danish but recently I've been thinking about studying Norwegian. Their spoken language is more similar to my own although their writing language has been affected by Danish over the years (from what I've been told). The reason for why I want to study Norwegian is because I'd like to go over there and study one day, maybe even join their military as they allow Icelanders in there and that would also get me studying for free. Now that I've written an introduction for myself I think I'll get to the point, do you have any tips for me on how to learn a new language? Here's my plan so far: 1) Read a few books for kids in Norwegian (easier texts). 2) Watch some movies with Norwegian subtitles, or just Norwegian movies. 3) Keep reading and find some online forum for Norwegians, I happen to know one for a certain game which I used to play, I suppose I could start playing on their server. This would help me because I could start reading what they (Norwegians) write and how they write it and maybe even attempt to construct my own sentences. This is basically it for now, do you have any other tips for me? Thanks in advance, TheIcelander. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TheIcelander Newbie Iceland Joined 5070 days ago 7 posts - 9 votes Speaks: Icelandic* | Message 2 of 15 08 January 2011 at 1:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Oh and if you could suggest some books or anything like that I would appreciate it.
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| TheIcelander Newbie Iceland Joined 5070 days ago 7 posts - 9 votes Speaks: Icelandic* | Message 3 of 15 08 January 2011 at 7:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'll check back in tomorrow, would appreciate some replies, cheers. ^^
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| nuriayasmin Senior Member Germany Joined 5244 days ago 155 posts - 210 votes  | Message 4 of 15 08 January 2011 at 10:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Welcome to the forum. I'm also learning Norwegian but use a course book for German speakers, so that's not helpful for you. However, if you want to practise reading and listening, I recommend the Klar Tale Website. The articles are easy to read for beginners and there's also a weekly podcast. I attend a Norwegian course once a week and there's a girl who speaks Icelandic fluently. She only joined the course in the second semester and had no prior knowledge of Norwegian but she caught up very quickly so I guess for someone who's native language is Icelandic, Norwegian is rather easy to learn. After about 9 months of studying I can read Norwegian quite well but find it extremely difficult to understand spoken Norwegian.
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| TheIcelander Newbie Iceland Joined 5070 days ago 7 posts - 9 votes Speaks: Icelandic* | Message 5 of 15 08 January 2011 at 11:14pm | IP Logged | ||
Yep, we do have some advantage just by being from where we're from. For an example, I just read a paragraph and a half or so from one of the articles and this is what I understood: Norwegian: "Rebecca Acheson er fra Canada. Abdullah Khan bor i London. Rebecca jobber frivillig på et ungdomssenter i tre måneder, mens Abdullah bare er på ferie. De skal ha sitt første dykk i det Indiske hav. De har nettopp gjennomført sitt første dykker-kurs. De vasser ut til båten som ligger klar ved stranden. " My translation: "Rebecca Acheson is from Canada. Abdullah Khan lives in London. Rebecca works/worked *not sure* in a youth center for three months, but Abdulla is just on a ferry (?). They shall have their first (I assume dykk is dip due to the end of the sentence and the picture) into the Indian ocean. They have *not sure* *not sure* their first diving course (?). They wade out to the boat that lies ready by the shore." I'm sure that some of it is wrong but this is where my language got me without having read as much as a paragraph or two of Norwegian before. I get you on the spoken part though, I feel the same about Danish. I can read some of it but I usually can't understand a word that comes out of a Dane's mouth. From what I understand spoken Norwegian is a lot more similar to spoken Icelandic than Danish so I'll just hope for the best. Out of curiosity though, what are you studying Norwegian for? And thanks for your reply! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TheIcelander Newbie Iceland Joined 5070 days ago 7 posts - 9 votes Speaks: Icelandic* | Message 6 of 15 08 January 2011 at 11:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Having looked at the text again, ferie probably means vacation. ^^
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| tracker465 Senior Member United States Joined 5353 days ago 355 posts - 496 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 7 of 15 08 January 2011 at 11:17pm | IP Logged | ||
What book are you using to learn Norwegian? I have also wanted to learn some Norwegian, but have not found many good English sources. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| polyglossia Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5405 days ago 205 posts - 255 votes Speaks: French* | Message 8 of 15 09 January 2011 at 12:47am | IP Logged | ||
I've never studied norwegian so far, and I'm french.. But it seemed to me very obvious at first glance that "ferie" meant "vacations"... Are you sure you're from Iceland?? :D :D (just kidding) Now, you got this luck to be icelandic, so I guess you should be able to understand at least 50 to 70% of any written text in swedish, danish or norwegian... That said, speaking is a totally different matter.... I once bought "Le norvégien en 20 leçons" but since I'm focussing on romanian and portuguese, well.. I guess I'll have to postpone the study of norwegian (though I'm a big fan of Magnus carlsen!!) Anyway, you'll find sthg useful buying (or borrowing!!!) "Teach yourself norwegian"... hope it helped!! Some links: norwegian on line (without audio) download mp3 and pdf 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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