How can I self teach Norwegian language?

[NorskMason]

To be honest, I am sorry to ask this here, but where do I start? Textbooks or online? What is a way I can self teach as much as possible in a simple way before college?

If it is textbooks that are better, which is the best, and is there a set I need? How can I get as close to fluent as possible?

[mcthulhu]

You could start with "Teach Yourself Norwegian," which I remember thinking was pretty good. It's available on Amazon.

[leosmith]

The Norsk Experiment is a good read.

[aokoye]

I second reading The Norsk Experiment. It's very interesting. There's also a online course that was created by NTNU called Norwegian on the Web which is designed to take learners to a A2 level.

[PeterMollenburg]

Try this 'Norwegian Resources' thread as well:

https://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1706

[Whodathunkitz]

I'm a beginner at language learning but I have a little experience with an unusual language which has far fewer resources than Norwegian called cebuano. I'm mostly using free resources.

I'm also not very good with self teach written courses. I tend to glaze over when doing them and rely on my learning written forms, possibly because I'm tired when I have free time.

Therefore neglecting pronounciation and listening. I primarily want to talk with people, also pretty sure reading and writing will be easy when I can confidently converse.

I am VERY good at applying myself with 2 kinds of resources.

In addition, you probably need a grammar course too to help join up the dots AFTER a lot of exposure to the language. I use a Mormon guide for cebuano and language transfer audio/YouTube for Spanish. Other people here will know better. I also do prosody, but hoping speaking audio Bible verses may replace. See Ollie Kjellin (spelling?), I make mp3 with simple phrase repeated 50 times usually featuring a difficult to pronounce aspect. I need to be more attentive to do these. Unfortunately I neglect them.

2 kinds of resources that work for me are Phone / tablet apps and listening-reading (with now speaking) an audio Bible.

Phone apps I can spend a lot of time on include
- Duolingo
- Memrise (courses by baas are simple intros)
- 10000 sentences (someone on here?)
Apps are useful while waiting, public transport, baby sitting (half concentrate, break off at any time, kids tv blaring away, kid jumping and shouting, asking me questions, wanting interaction). It's an alternative to L1 tv watching in intensity. But as kid has monopolised the tv I NEED an alternative!

NB. Religious arguments not allowed on board. I'm discussing a learning resource.

Bible. I don't know it, not my religion, but with 1200 languages in audio/text done by dedicated people it is a fantastic resource. When I do know it (I've just started using it for Spanish too), it will save me time in reading in my L1 of English using the same known story.

I use an app called bible.is on android and a hand held English Bible.

I now do 3 books. All have a similar story to aid understanding. Wide vocab. More intense than apps but still doable sometimes with baby sitting. Better done after kid in bed as an alternative to watching L1 tv. Bit more intensive than tv watching, equivalent to reading a novel?

New testament Bible books
- Mark - Spanish took me 3 evenings, 7 hours (no reading out loud). Around 11000 words (original Greek. Not sure in English). 22 pages
- Luke 36/7 pages
- Matthew 36/7 pages

I did 4 books for cebuano in 4 weeks.

3 steps

1) Read English (L1) Bible CHAPTER
2) read a VERSE in L2 out loud. Then listen to the verse, compare to your speaking, try to fix one wrong word/aspect. Do some/all of the whole CHAPTER out loud or switch to silent to save your voice.
3) read L1 English and listen L2 (Spanish) audio CHAPTER


I'm still experimenting with step 2. I managed a 11.5 minute chapter last night ok. Slow but ok. Previously I read a whole chapter silently in L2 which is quicker but I want to practice mouth muscles and so I'll speak out loud and dramatically for at least some of it.

This won't be good for everyone. I think you have to find what works for you. It may not be efficient.

BUT I get a lot done with apps, L-R.

I find the Bible app convenient.

My learning time is often when I'm tired, work done, kid off to bed etc.

I can do these activities even when knackered (tired) whereas a textbook is hard work.

Find your own way. I'm slowly finding mine.