Comments on: Learn Fluent Norwegian in Six Months

By: Henry

Henry — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 19:36:41 +0000

In reply to lauren. Any tips with engaging in conversation with Norwegians if you are new to the country?

By: Julie Berke🇺🇸❤️💙💪🗽

Julie Berke🇺🇸❤️💙💪🗽 — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 01:30:48 +0000

In reply to Steve C. My dad spoke Stavangar dialect. I wish he would have taught me. He was raised to use English.

By: Dani

Dani — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 11:23:38 +0000

Yes, I find most of them quite helpful. However when you have a dishonorable disabilities such as blindness/visual impairment. Something like that poses a challenge. Example, subtitles. You need one of those smart Apple expensive TVs in order to have the audio hook up to use any of that. Disabled life is expensive. People claim we are on the same playing field but that is not true. The whole language not using a bunch of words and tediously learning them, if you don’t know any braille and that language, that’s one of your listening methods as a blind or visually impaired person needed. Obviously listen to the language a lot. The dialects. You need to be just as in tune with figuring this out as you would with teaching somebody the differences between certain music intervals. Simply use that example because I’m a music teacher. Also I will just randomly remind people, since this word gets used for the wrong reasons. Blind does not mean incompetent or ignorant. It just means that your eyeballs are broken. But that’s work for an ophthalmologist.

By: Paul Johnston

Paul Johnston — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 21:10:03 +0000

I use Duolingo and also read Short Stories in Norwegian for Beginners by Olly Richards. I’ve been learning on and off for four years but this year I made sure I put in at least an hour’s work on it every day. I watched a lot of the Scandi-dramas and try to read old newspapers I picked up on previous trips to Norway. I also have a Norwegian friend who runs a festival and a couple of the regular attendees of the festival are also trying to learn. We help each other by trying to communicate in Norwegian. Every little bit helps.

By: ArpiSW

ArpiSW — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 15:57:27 +0000

Jeg lærer Norsk fra Duolingo. But it’s definitely not enough. I started listening to children’s rhymes and stories. Started with Bæ bæ Lille lam as I already know the English version. Også hører jeg på norsk versjon av engelske sanger. For eksempel HOW FAR I WILL GO fra Moana.
Hope I can learn Norsk more in coming days.
Norway is beautiful.

Lenge lever Norge.

By: Valeria

Valeria — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:32:34 +0000

In reply to Maryna. Because when you are learning and trying your best to be natural and suddenly get corrected there will be a negative association. That's why the parent will "correct" when he/she replies, and you unconsciously or consciously will learn the correct pattern :)

By: Maryna

Maryna — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 22:25:41 +0000

In reply to Anja Watts. I know right? Isn't this the whole point of having someone mentor you? I ask people to correct my mistakes as much as possible, and the ones they do really stick.

By: Nick Gurrz

Nick Gurrz — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:49:59 +0000

In reply to lauren. norwegian love songs?

By: Sherie

Sherie — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 14:04:22 +0000

I appreciate these great strategies for adults learning a new language. I would like to learn some basic Norsk in the Stavanger dialect where I have some 2nd cousins before I visit next time.

By: Anja Watts

Anja Watts — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 19:43:22 +0000

I’m curious about the language parent rule of “never correcting mistakes-” why is that?