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Haldor
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Message 9 of 15

09 January 2011 at 3:12am | IP Logged

TheIcelander wrote:

nuriayasmin wrote:

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.

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!

Yes, it's 'they're about to have their first dive in the Indian Ocean. They've just completed their first diving course'.

Spoken Norwegian is a lot more similar to Icelandic than Danish, but be aware of the differences in accents, from west to east and north to south
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nuriayasmin
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Message 10 of 15

10 January 2011 at 4:58pm | IP Logged

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What book are you using to learn Norwegian? I have also wanted to learn some Norwegian, but have not found many good English sources.

I'm using "Et år i Norge" which comes in a package (course book, additional exercises, grammar and key for the coursebook) and "Norwegisch Aktiv" which is a cd-rom course.
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nuriayasmin
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Message 11 of 15

10 January 2011 at 5:04pm | IP Logged

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Out of curiosity though, what are you studying Norwegian for?

I had thought of applying for a job in Norway but my children didn't like the idea at all. Well, and it's probably not such an ideal country for me, either as I really prefer summer and hot temperatures :-). However, I like Norway a lot, the beauty and wildness of its nature is unbelievable (would also love to travel to Iceland once and I'm sure I'd be as impressed) and I don't study Norwegian on my own anymore but do a classroom course. We're a very nice group of 6 students and have a wonderful teacher, so I really enjoy my Norwegian classes.
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Gosiak
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Studies: Norwegian, Welsh

Message 12 of 15

10 January 2011 at 8:27pm | IP Logged

Hi:)
Some online resources:
NRK podcast
Project Runeberg - free ebooks
Stein pa stein

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Michael K.
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Message 13 of 15

10 January 2011 at 8:33pm | IP Logged

I was looking at Norwegian material last night.

One site I found was Norskklassen, a group on Yahoo groups, that has been around since 1998 and has about a hundred or so posts a month for the past 10 years. I don't know anything about Yahoo groups, but I think you'd have to send an e-mail to join.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/norskklassen/

Another one that claims to have thousands of links to all things Norwegian:

norwegianlanguage.info
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TheIcelander
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Message 14 of 15

11 January 2011 at 7:16pm | IP Logged

I'm sorry for the late reply. Thank you all for taking the time to reply to this, I will
check some of this out as soon as possible and then maybe even pop back on and post what
really helped me get a grasp of the language (if/when I do).
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Solfrid Cristin
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Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian
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Message 15 of 15

11 January 2011 at 9:31pm | IP Logged

Hi, and welcome to the forum! I know that the one used for foreign students in Norway is "Ny i Norge". As an Icelander you'll be able to go through it like a knife in warm butter. Everyone I have ever met from Iceland learned Norwegian really quickly. The pronunciation will be very easy for you, and people from Iceland are quite poular here. If you prepare a little before you leave Iceland, you'll be practically fluent in a couple of months.Your study plan seemed quite good.

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