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Norwegian Resources (Revision in progress)

Postby Xenops » Tue Dec 24, 2019 1:47 am

Norwegian:

Courses:
Teach Yourself Norwegian (book/CD)
Pimsleur Norwegian Level I (30 lessons)
Colloquial Norwegian
Assimil: Norwegisch Ohne Mühe
Assimil: Le norvégien sans peine
Linguaphone Norwegian (old, used only)
Free language resource: Stein på stein (with exercises). Aimed at adult immigrants.
Free language resource: På vei. Aimed at adult immigrants.
Stein paa stein + exercises online exercises
online
Paa vei + exercises online exercises online

Online Courses:
Introduction to Norwegian: FutureLearn
Norwegian for Beginners: FutureLearn

Pronunciation
CALST Pronunciation Practice


References
Einar Haugen Norwegian-English Dictionary (Nynorsk/Bokmål). Comment: The introduction is interesting reading for English speaking students of Norwegian.
https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/wiki/resources#wiki_norwegian

Media
Recordings of people from different regions of Norway speaking local dialects: http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/nos/nos_kart.html
Free legal TV programme downloads from NRK, the Norwegian state broadcaster: Link. Note: The files are uploaded and hosted by NRK itself and are completely legal. You need a torrent program, aa downloads are .torrent files and http://www.utorrent.com/ is recommended.
http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/nos/nos_kart.html which has recordings of people from different regions of Norway speaking local dialects.

Music
Gatas Parlament: Link Free legal music downloads from a Norwegian rap group
Kalandra (English/Norwegian)
Wardruna (Norwegian)
Gåte (Norwegian)



Old Norse
http://notendur.hi.is/haukurth/norse/ free online old norse course that also has some recordings
https://notendur.hi.is/haukurth/norse/
http://skaldic.arts.usyd.edu.au/db.php? ... ble=skalds &id=422
http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/spokenword/texts_on.php
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/ ... l-0-X.html
http://www.vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/


http://NorwegianLanguage.info
https://pardonmynorwegian.com/guide
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Re: Norwegian Resources (version 2.01)

Postby Speakeasy » Sat Apr 04, 2020 11:38 am

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Reserved for the eventual expansion of this list of resources.
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Re: Norwegian Resources (version 2.01)

Postby tungemål » Sat Apr 04, 2020 1:30 pm

I don't think this is completely correct:
Languages of Norway
There are many languages spoken in Norway. Of these, the Norwegian language is the most widely spoken and the main official language of the country. A short list of other languages spoken in Norway would include: Bokmål, Nynorsk, Høgnorsk, Sami languages, Kven, Romani, Rodi, as well as several foreign languages. – Source: Wikipedia

I would formulate it like this:
- Norwegian is the official language. It's got two standard forms of written language: Bokmål and Nynorsk.
- Saami enjoys a special status as an indigenous language, and is used as an official language in several municipalities alongside Norwegian
- In addition to Saami there are some minority languages that Norway is committed to preserve: Kven, Romani, Romanes.

https://snl.no/spr%C3%A5k_i_Norge
https://www.sprakradet.no/Spraka-vare/Minoritetssprak/

About Høgnorsk: This is a very conservative variant of Nynorsk, and I don't think anyone really uses this. On the other end of the spectrum there is Riksmål, a conservative variant of Bokmål.
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Re: Norwegian Resources (version 2.01)

Postby Random Review » Mon Apr 06, 2020 6:16 pm

Apologies if already mentioned above and I missed it; but I've been playing a little with Norwegian during the lockdown and came across what has to be the best free pronunciatuon resource I've ever seen (apart from access to a very patient native speaker lol). Only thing I've ever seen that even comes close is FSI German.

https://calst.hf.ntnu.no/Home/lessons

Particularly useful as (spoiler alert) pronunciation seems to be the only difficult thing about this language so far. Certainly the grammar and vocabulary seem so far to be probably the easiest of any language I've seen so far (although the possessives are cool); but the pronunciation is fiendish.
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Re: Norwegian Resources (version 2.01)

Postby DaveAgain » Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:44 am

FutureLearn.com have two Norwegian courses:
    1. Introduction to Norwegian, from the University of Oslo
    2. Norwegian for Beginners, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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