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| Josh Badgley Newbie Joined 4233 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 1 of 11 16 October 2012 at 8:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have had this...burning...interest in the Scandinavian languages/cultures smoldering in
the back of my mind for a while now. Even though I resume college studies in January, I finally couldn't take any more and decided to start my Scandinavian adventure with Norwegian. So, yesterday I bought Teach Yourself Norwegian. I studied an hour yesterday and so far I've gotten in an hour today...and it's a great course. I'm really enjoying it, and I'm surprised at how much Norwegian I'm understanding. So I decided that, in order to help keep myself motivated, I'm going to keep a journal. After I finish today's study session, I'll add more details about where I'm at and what I've learned. Morna! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4639 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2 of 11 16 October 2012 at 9:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Josh,
Always good to hear of another learner of a Scandinavian language. I also have that book, and thought it was a good course. Purely because I didn't put enough effort into it, I didn't get all that far with the language, but that was my own fault. I've slipped into the Danish lane now, and am working harder than I did with Norwegian, so it's going better. One day I hope to return to Norwegian though, although I don't expect it will be for several years. It's interesting to see the similarities, and differences between the two, whenever someone writes here in Norwegian. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4941 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 3 of 11 16 October 2012 at 9:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Congrats on going for Norwegian. You'll have a lot of fun along the way.
If I can offer a couple suggestions, once you complete TY Norwegian, look for a course called "På Vei". It's a course aimed at immigrants to Norway, entirely in Norwegian. It'll take you deeper into the language. Follow that by "Stein på stein", then "Her på Berget" if you can find it (I know the first two courses are easily obtainable on the internet.) You might also want to start watching Norwegian TV. NRK keeps a lot of their programming online, so you'll have hours and hours of good material to watch. You might also want to take a look at Klar tale. They have easily digestible daily news written in simple, accessible language. R. == Edited by hrhenry on 16 October 2012 at 9:33pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4977 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 4 of 11 16 October 2012 at 9:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Congratulations on your choice! I have been interested in Norwegian for several years but only this year I could commit myself to a daily study. Colloquial Norwegian was my first book but I find it too strict on tourist info. Teach Yourself Norwegian seems a bit better and I may try it again once I'm done with Aassimil, as a reinforcement. I still can't understand much Norwegian because my native language is a Romance not a Germanic one, so I don't know this common, daily vocabulary enough even in English in a way that I could benefit from the similarity. Still, that's exactly what I want to learn the most, so that I become able to read sagas, fairy tales and all that much about the Norwegian culture.
Lyyke til! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4489 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 5 of 11 16 October 2012 at 11:24pm | IP Logged | ||
Oh yes, PLEASE do. Thanks a lot already for those suggestions. I have seen På vei and Stein på stein in my bookshop, but there are always so many textbooks that I didn't try to analyse them. Have you used Assimil by any chance? Could you compare it with those? And the news and TV links are just what I need. I had started looking for online newspapers, and it seems to be exactly what I need! Thanks again, and if you have more suggestions, please send (here, or by pm if more appropriate)! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4941 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 6 of 11 16 October 2012 at 11:36pm | IP Logged | ||
I've not tried Assimil (other than brief looks at some of their courses), but that's because the Norwegian course isn't available with an English base, only French. Assimil get pretty high marks from most people here on HTLAL, so since your native language is French, I don't see why you couldn't give it a try. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4489 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 7 of 11 16 October 2012 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I'm using it already (and have a log about it) and simply was simply wondering what book it would compare with in terms of level reached. I guess I'll have to look at it myself then!
Oh, and why do I watch : http://tv.nrk.no/serie/kosinus ? A kind of Norwegian Teletubbies? At least I can understand what's going on... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josh Badgley Newbie Joined 4233 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 8 of 11 17 October 2012 at 2:07am | IP Logged | ||
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So I got in total about an hour and a half today, not too shabby. And I'm pretty much
done with Unit 1. So far I've about 60 vocabulary words, greetings, the difference between common gender and neuter nouns, the present tense and infinitive of verbs, and how to construct basic sentences. So now I can make cliched beginner sentences like: Jeg heter Josh. Jeg bor i Amerika. Jeg er ikke norsk, men jeg lære norsk. Jeg vil gjerne reise til Norge. Jeg har bil. Jeg er student. I mean, for two days, that isn't too bad. Excited to see what Unit 2 is all about tomorrow. Mange takk to everyone for the encouraging words and great links. I'm so glad that NRK makes at least some of their material available outside of Norway. Morna! Edited by Josh Badgley on 17 October 2012 at 2:08am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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