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Julie
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 Message 409 of 553
28 February 2013 at 4:55pm | IP Logged 
If you look at my profile at the left side, you'll notice a new addition: that's true, I'm really learning Icelandic. It's not a very 'serious' goal-oriented project but it does seem interesting. More info on my log.

Have you ever tried learning Old or Modern Icelandic? Or have you ever thought about learning it?

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daegga
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 Message 410 of 553
28 February 2013 at 5:24pm | IP Logged 
I've tried to learn them both. But to get good active skills in Icelandic is pretty hard, Icelandic is very irregular.
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Expugnator
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 Message 411 of 553
28 February 2013 at 6:49pm | IP Logged 
I've found this blog to be quite useful:

http://norsk.rkevin.com
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Solfrid Cristin
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 Message 412 of 553
01 March 2013 at 10:10am | IP Logged 
I just had to share this with you. We often speak about dialects in Norway being highly respected, and mostly that is the case. There is however one, where even the locals admit that they sound stupid when they use it, so when they take a higher education, they drop it, thus rendering it more a sociolect than a dialect. Some of the locals find this to be a pity, and as an experiment they will publish an entire edition of the newspaper in the dialect from Fredrikstad - Østfold. This article speaks about it - and it is written in the same dialect. I may add that it is the first time in my life that I have seen this dialect in writing.

(I am unable to add hyperlinks on my work PC - so you will have to copy and paste)

http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/03/01/kultur/fredriksstad_blad/ avis/journalistikk/dialekter/25994250/
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Brun Ugle
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 Message 413 of 553
01 March 2013 at 11:26am | IP Logged 
Except for a few odd words (different but easily understandable), it seemed pretty normal to me. I can't see why they should seem any dumber than the rest of us.

As for dialects dying out, you see that everywhere. Younger people tend to have a much lighter version of the local dialect than older people. I don't think it's so odd that that should happen. People move around a lot more now than before and there is radio, television and internet. Dialects develop when one group is isolated from another. Now that we aren't isolated, the dialects are more likely to gradually merge together, I think.

I've heard also, that it was very usual some years ago to try to change one's dialect if one moved to a classier area. That also happens in the US.
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Solfrid Cristin
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 Message 414 of 553
02 March 2013 at 5:54pm | IP Logged 
Another little gem is this article about Oslo - which is very flattering. The author is way off on the number of
inhabitants, and when she describes Oslo as sophisticated and talks about the hushed tones people use in
bars and restaurants, I think most Norwegians would just snort and think that she has hardly been out on a
Saturday evening and that she must have smoked her own socks.

Anyway, here it is. The rest of her information is more or less right :-)

Article
on Oslo

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Julie
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 Message 415 of 553
03 March 2013 at 6:21pm | IP Logged 
Vad tänker ni om ett Skype-möte på nästa söndag?

It would be nice to have a Viking Skype session again, maybe the next Sunday? What do you think about it?

And just little self-advertising: I posted the February update on my learning log - all comments will be appreciated, like always :).

@Solfrid_Cristin: all friends of mine who have been to Oslo liked it very much. I hope to go up north one day as well!


Edited by Julie on 03 March 2013 at 7:23pm

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 Message 416 of 553
04 March 2013 at 11:11pm | IP Logged 
Someone (I think it was stifa) mentioned at my log a popular forum from Norway where we could practice Norwegian while discussing a wide range of subjects. Do you guys know its URL? I can't find it now.


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