Po-ru Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5274 days ago 173 posts - 235 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Spanish, Norwegian, Mandarin, French
| Message 1 of 6 22 August 2015 at 1:10am | IP Logged |
Hello everyone
I have been studying Norwegian for about a year now. I am kind of plateauing and want some
materials I can listen to at the intermediate, ideally with a transcript. The beginner material is way
too simple for me, while more advanced materials are quite difficult. This is I guess is somewhat
expected considering I have been using Lingq and NorwegianPod 101 and their materials are
heavily concentrated around beginner and advanced levels.
Might anyone have any recommendations where I can get access to some decent listening
material for Norwegian at the intermediate level?
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Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4462 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali
| Message 2 of 6 22 August 2015 at 2:39pm | IP Logged |
Audiobooks maybe.
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daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4315 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic
| Message 3 of 6 22 August 2015 at 5:50pm | IP Logged |
http://www.klartale.no
or is this too easy?
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6703 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 4 of 6 22 August 2015 at 6:44pm | IP Logged |
I'm sure I've seen complete audiobooks on NRK's site. A sample search gave me these:
https://radio.nrk.no/serie/radioteater-krim
https://radio.nrk.no/programmer/radioteater/nytt
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4960 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 5 of 6 24 August 2015 at 7:38pm | IP Logged |
Before tackling native materials, I went through some monolingual courses, such as Ny i Norge/Bor i Norge, the På Vei Series and Linguaphone, and then through the Advanced Norwegianpod101. I started watching TV series with subtitles quite early too, before I could understand the subtitles themselves, and I saw some progress. I don't see a 'gap' to be filled between those resources and native materials, going through them should gradedly put you at more ease dealing with native material but it helps to do both intermediate/advanced resources and native materials. If you still have a lot of gaps in text comprehension due to grammar issues, it helps to study in depth the great 'Learn Norwegian', by Klouman.
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stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4667 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish
| Message 6 of 6 27 August 2015 at 4:47pm | IP Logged |
While it may not be the most legal solution, but there are lots of Norwegian
audiobooks available on Youtube. I came over them by chance when looking for audibooks
in Spanish... Just search for "lydbøker" and you'll probably find something... (By
"came over by chance" I mean that the Harry Potter books popped up on my YT front
page)
I find audiobooks to be a lot easier to understand than any other type of native
material (at least in the languages that I've been learning), so that might be what
you're looking for when beginners' courses are too easy for you.
I don't know if they've got any region blocking, but lydbokforlaget.no seems to offer
a good selection of audiobooks in Norwegian.
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