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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5379 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 25 of 42 25 May 2012 at 4:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Someone needs to make a video!
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| Camundonguinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4747 days ago 273 posts - 500 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 26 of 42 25 May 2012 at 11:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
You can hear tonemes across various Norwegian dialects here: in some dialects the difference between the tone1 and tone2 is very subtle, in some it's very obvious: http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/ipa/no/tema_008.html In the dialect/accent from Herøy, Sunnmøre it's the most obvious. It's easier to hear the tones in long syllables/vowels, than in short syllables/vowels. In the case of short syllables/vowels the rise/lowering is delayed and shifted to the next syllable. Edited by Camundonguinho on 25 May 2012 at 11:12pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4826 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 27 of 42 01 June 2012 at 3:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
I know this is an old posting, but I love that. Reminds me of Shakespeare, to misquote which: "Context doth make cowards of us all" :-) . . . (Which is not quite from the famous "To be or not to be" speech from Hamlet). 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4666 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 28 of 42 08 December 2012 at 3:10am | IP Logged | |||||
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This reporter sounds like a Chinese, but she's Norwegian ;)
Listen to her (@16:26) http://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen/nnfa03120212/02-12-2012#t= 16m26s Edited by Medulin on 08 December 2012 at 3:10am 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 29 of 42 08 December 2012 at 10:53am | IP Logged | |||||
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As a Norwegian I had never heard of Norwegian having pitch accents. I wouldn't worry about it though. If your
Norwegian is so good that you need to pay attention to that you are practically fluent. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 30 of 42 08 December 2012 at 4:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
To my ears she sounded like any other Norwegian with that accent. I noticed the smiley, but I wouldn't be surprised if people who have only been exposed to Oslo accent don't think this "sounds like" Norwegian. Not that you said anything like it, but I've met a lot of people with all kinds of ideas about how a language (or accent) "should" sound (based on ONE character in a movie). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
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| sans-serif Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4557 days ago 298 posts - 470 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, German, Swedish Studies: Danish | Message 32 of 42 08 December 2012 at 11:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
This is how I see it. I would also add that, for me, reading a systematic description of the Swedish pitch accent was an immense help. Going by ear alone would have been a much bumpier, more arduous journey. I'm not very knowledgeable of Norwegian, but I'd assume the intonation is just as elusive as that of Swedish, so a bit of theory might not be a bad idea. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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