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| johntothea Senior Member United States Joined 6477 days ago 193 posts - 192 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian, Norwegian, Polish, French | Message 1 of 12 11 September 2007 at 5:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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I recently started the teach yourself norwegian course.
I want to get through maybe a unit every 2 days. I know this doesn't seem like a lot, but I want to know the material very well. I know a little norwegian, picked up here and there from talking to people on line, videos on youtube, and reading newspapers. Mostly cognates, but also quite a few words from context. I'll be seriously starting tomorrow. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Linguamor Decaglot Senior Member United States Joined 6467 days ago 469 posts - 599 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish, French, Norwegian, Portuguese, Dutch | Message 2 of 12 11 September 2007 at 6:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Teach Yourself Norwegian is definitely among the best of the Teach Yourself courses. There are a few mistakes in the grammatical explanations. If you have any questions about Norwegian, feel free to ask me. (I have near-native proficiency in the language.)
Edited by Linguamor on 11 September 2007 at 6:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| johntothea Senior Member United States Joined 6477 days ago 193 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian, Norwegian, Polish, French | Message 3 of 12 11 September 2007 at 8:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you :].
I read in the course book that it won't be teaching the feminine gender, and I'm just wondering how important that is. I've heard that they don't use it in Bergen, but how widespread is the use, or lack thereof, of the feminine gender? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| audiolang Diglot Senior Member Romania Joined 6169 days ago 108 posts - 109 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Romanian*, English | Message 4 of 12 11 September 2007 at 11:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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I wonder if I spoke Danish and you would use Norwegian if we could understand one another (in writing of course)
EDIT Oh and I am sorry about the feminine gender... Edited by audiolang on 11 September 2007 at 11:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kegel Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 6288 days ago 67 posts - 70 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 5 of 12 12 September 2007 at 1:10am | IP Logged | ||
I'm in Oslo right now and it's used here. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Linguamor Decaglot Senior Member United States Joined 6467 days ago 469 posts - 599 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish, French, Norwegian, Portuguese, Dutch | Message 6 of 12 12 September 2007 at 4:03am | IP Logged | ||
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In Oslo some feminine words are mostly used in the feminine definite form, some feminine words are used in the common OR feminine definite form, and some feminine words are commonly used in the common definite form.
Examples: feminine form hytte - hytta cabin - the cabin common OR feminine form uke - uken OR uka week - the week common form undervisning - undervisningen teaching - the teaching Use of the feminine indefinite article (ei) is less common than use of the feminine definite form - en hytte rather than ei hytte, en uke rather than ei uke. This is about all there is to the distinction between common and feminine gender in Norwegian. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| SAW Newbie United States Joined 6736 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Norwegian | Message 7 of 12 12 September 2007 at 8:33am | IP Logged | ||
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Good luck with Norwegian. I'm flirting with it while I concentrate on Spanish. I love the way it sounds.
If you can, get ahold of the Norwegian Linguaphone course as a follow-up to Teach Yourself. I got mine from eBay for fairly cheap. The language is a bit outdated. They use the formal De, which isn't used very much anymore. But since there aren't many Norwegian courses out there, it's not a bad way to go. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| johntothea Senior Member United States Joined 6477 days ago 193 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian, Norwegian, Polish, French | Message 8 of 12 13 September 2007 at 3:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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So do you recommend that I use the feminine gender all the time, only use the definite feminine gender, or just not use it at all?
I want to sound like I'm from Oslo because that's where my great-grandparents came from, so any advice about that dialect would be greatly appreciated, also. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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