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| ChristianVlcek Bilingual Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5857 days ago 131 posts - 141 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Slovak*, Ukrainian, Irish, German, Russian | Message 1 of 13 19 November 2008 at 5:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hey everyone,
I've decided I want to learn Norwegian, but I'm wondering where to start. I of course speak fluent English, and (though it is technically my native language) basic Slovak. I also have a basic knowledge of German. Does anyone have any suggestions or any good resources? I'm only a high school student so I don't really have a budget for this; I'd like to try and avoid going out and buying books (though a couple really good ones would be fine) and I've decided to do this in my spare time over the next year or so (I have 1-2 hours available for study per day). So where should I start? Also, if there anyone out there in the process of learning Norwegian that I could speak with? Cheers, Christian 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ChristianVlcek Bilingual Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5857 days ago 131 posts - 141 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Slovak*, Ukrainian, Irish, German, Russian | Message 2 of 13 20 November 2008 at 6:50am | IP Logged | ||
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nothing? does no one have any ideas?
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| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 6154 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes | Message 3 of 13 20 November 2008 at 7:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Someone posted a homemade Norwegian Michel Thomas styled course a while ago. Search for it, it's on this forum somewhere.
You might also want to try FSI Swedish, Swedish is very similar to Norwegian after all. Norwegian seems to be oddly the most difficult Scandinavian language to find materials for on P2P. I've found Danish and Swedish audiobooks but very few Norwegian ones so far. Could it be due to Norwegian being an "intermediary" language between Danish and Swedish? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Leopejo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6115 days ago 675 posts - 724 votes Speaks: Italian*, Finnish*, English Studies: French, Russian | Message 4 of 13 20 November 2008 at 7:07am | IP Logged | ||
Also, for there being at least two Norwegians? Nynorsk and Bokmål, if I recall correctly. In the meanwhile, study the Norwegian dialogues in our ongoing Assimil project, by our esteemed Tricoteuse. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6665 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 5 of 13 20 November 2008 at 10:01am | IP Logged | ||
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Most materials that teach Norwegian to foreigners use Bokmal. I've found Teach Yourself Norwegian and Norwegian in 10 Minutes a Day.
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| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7227 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 6 of 13 21 November 2008 at 3:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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I personally would recommend Pimsleur, but it is pricey. Take a look in your local library. If they don't have the Comprehensive one, then it is likely to have the compact 8 or 10 lesson version. This depends where you are located of course. Of course if you can, then find a Scandinavian community. There is a possibility they can help out. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Akatsuki Triglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6304 days ago 226 posts - 236 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, English Studies: Norwegian | Message 7 of 13 22 November 2008 at 7:08am | IP Logged | ||
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I myself used Teach Yourself Norwegian and enjoyed it. I recommend it to anyone learning the language.
Here you have some free resources posted by members of this forum. A good grammar book is Norwegian: An Essential Grammar by Åse Berit and Rolf Strandskogen. A harder course to find is Linguaphone Norwegian but it's a really good course, at least it worked out fine for me. You can find it in pdf format if you look carefully. If you have any questions feel free to ask. Lykke! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| WFU03 Groupie Norway Joined 6681 days ago 62 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian, French | Message 8 of 13 27 November 2008 at 7:11am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm using Teach Yourself Norwegian right now. It's pretty good and very inexpensive.
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