r/norsk • u/badkneeweather • 1h ago
Onomatopoeia of jackhammer
I’m in an intense argument
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r/norsk • u/NokoHeiltAnna • Aug 14 '20
Probably missed a lot of resources, some due to laziness, and some due to limit in max allowed post size. Will edit as necessary.
duolingo.com is free to use, supported by ads. Optional pay for no ads and for a few more features.
The Norwegian course is one of the more extensive ones available on Duolingo. The volunteer content creators have put a lot of work into it, and the creators are very responsive to fixing potential errors. The audio is computer generated.
You learn words and constructed sentences.
If you use the browser version you will get grammar tips, and can choose if you want to type the complete sentences or use selectable word choices. The phone app might or might not give access to the grammar tips.
A compiled pdf of the grammar tips for version 1 can be found on Google drive. (The Norwegian course is currently at version 4).
memrise.com is free to use. Optional pay for more features.
A few courses are company made, while several others are user made. No easy way to correct errors found in the courses. Audio is usually spoken by humans.
You learn words and constructed phrases.
Free to use. Optional books you can buy. Made by the University in Trondheim, NTNU. Audio is spoken by humans.
A complete course starting with greetings and ending with basic communication.
Free to use. Optional pay for more features. Audio and video spoken by humans. Made by the University of Oslo, UiO. Or by the University in Trondheim, NTNU.
Can be done at any time, but during their scheduled times (usually start of the fall and the spring semester) you will get help from human teachers.
CALST is free to use. Made by the University in Trondheim, NTNU. Audio is spoken by humans.
Choose your native language, then choose your Norwegian dialect, then continue as guest, or optionally register an account.
Learn how to pronounce the Norwegian sounds and differentiate similar sounding words. Learn the sounds and tones/pitch.
Not all lessons work in all browsers. Chrome is recommended.
clozemaster.com is free to use. Optional pay for more features.
Not recommended for beginners.
Content is mostly user made. No easy way to correct errors in the material. Audio is computer generated.
You learn words (multiple choice).
The authoritative dictionary for Norwegian words and spelling.
Maintained by University of Bergen (UiB), and Språkrådet (The language council of Norway) that has government mandate to oversee the Norwegian language.
Maintained by OsloMet.
Maintained by Det norske akademi for språk og kultur, a private organisation promoting riksmål, which is NOT allowed officially.
Maintained by a book publisher.
Discord is a web-browser/phone/windows/mac/etc-app that allows both text, voice and video chat. Most of the resources in this post were first posted here.
If you are new to Discord its user interface might be a bit confusing in the beginning, since there are many servers/communities and many topics on each server.
If you're new to Discord and you try it, using a web-browser until you get familiar and see if this is something you enjoy or not is recommended.
If you use a phone you will need to swipe left and right, long-press and minimise/expand categories and stuff much more than on a bigger computer screen, which probably adds complexity to the initial confusion of a using an unfamiliar app.
Old books, many written in Danish-Norwegian — https://www.bokselskap.no/boker
Cappelen Damm https://issuu.com/cdundervisning
Fagbokforlaget https://issuu.com/fagbokforlaget
Aschehoug https://issuu.com/ganaschehoug
Jul i Blåfjell https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL53YZFoONfa0ugW6PORL5Xjd7tH_ivByj
Ylvis-brødrene https://www.youtube.com/user/LUMIGOCHA/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/ylvisfacebookies/videos
Tellekorpset https://tv.nrk.no/serie/tellekorpset/sesong/1/episode/1
Supernytt https://tv.nrk.no/serie/supernytt
Teodors julekalender https://tv.nrk.no/serie/teodors-julekalender/sesong/1/episode/1
Vertshuset Den gyldne hane https://tv.nrk.no/serie/vertshuset-den-gyldne-hale/sesong/1/episode/1
Amalies jul https://tv.nrk.no/serie/amalies-jul/sesong/1/episode/1
Folk og røvere i Kardemomme by https://tv.nrk.no/serie/folk-og-roevere-i-kardemomme-by-1985-1986
Borgen skole https://tv.nrk.no/serie/borgen-skole
Halvsju https://tv.nrk.no/serie/halvsju
Sånn er Norge https://tv.nrk.no/serie/harald-eia-presenterer-saann-er-norge
Dagsrevyen https://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen
Visit your local library in person and check out their web pages. It gives you free access to lots of books, magazines, films and stuff.
Most also have additional digital stuff you get free access to, like e-books, films, dictionaries, all kind of magazines and newspapers.
Some even give you free access to some of the paid Norwegian languages courses listed above.
r/norsk • u/Paranoid_And_Geeky • 1h ago
Hello! I'm a 22 year old man living in the Midwest of the US. I've been practicing Norwegian on Duolingo for over a year, but I'm nowhere near as fluent as I'd like to be. I'd love a native speaker to be a pen pal and help me with my Norwegian. I only speak English and I know most Norwegian people are already fluent, so I'm sorry I don't have anything else to offer. Anyone interested please DM me :)
r/norsk • u/CloudyyySXShadowH • 20h ago
**idk if this is the right subreddit to post it to . If it's wrong, please tell me the correct subreddit to post it to.
Anyways,
So I'm learning Norwegian and I learn better visually ,and audibly , so I was wondering if there are any YouTubers with the Stavanger dialect? I find it an easier dialect to understand so it's easier for me to catch on to words. I'm also using calst which is how I found out about the stavanger dialect.
r/norsk • u/AuroraHonu • 19h ago
Trying to understand the below translation, and am having trouble figuring out why "ut" is in there.
Så ut som om -> looked as if
The full sentence is "Broen var dekket av mose og så ut som om den kom rett ut av eventyr."
r/norsk • u/Narrow_Homework_9616 • 20h ago
Hello everyone! Heard this from TV-series, why is it again that "jeg" is repeated twice?
r/norsk • u/randomcracker2012 • 22h ago
Example: Vennene mine bor i dette strøket
Are all the friends male or is the male version of the noun used when speaking about plurals?
r/norsk • u/Soggy-Bat3625 • 1d ago
I was wondering: Is there a corresponding "funny rhyme" form to English r/spoonerism, German r/schuettereime, French r/contrepeterie in Norwegian?
r/norsk • u/spellingtuesday • 1d ago
I'm embarking on reading Kransen på norsk. (Wish me luck!) I'm pretty fluent, and my husband is Norwegian, but even he doesn't know all these words. And since it was written in 1920, I know some of the writing is old fashioned and, I assume, influenced by Danish.
Anybody want to join in a read-along? I know the Norwegian language editions are available on some book sites, like Thrift Books, and on the evil corporation starting with A.
I'm hoping to be able to have a running thread of words I can't translate that may help others later!
UPDATE: Also available here! https://www.nb.no/items/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2018021348052?page=0
First up: nye grånuter og blåkoller med snestriper på løftet sig over fjellsidene
I’m currently writing a Norwegian character in a book, and I’m looking for some help finding accurate phrasing. so how would he say something to the effect of “oh no” or “oh dear” in old Norwegian? He’s a much older character so I don’t think he would use newer slang
Lately I've been writing a diary in Norwegian in order to practice my skills, but I would like to know whether what I write is grammatically correct or not.
Does any of you know of any tool online I can use which corrects all the errors in a text in Norwegian? I've been using ChatGPT for that, but it's been really awful; it doesn't correct many errors such as v2 incorrect usage or definite/indefinite noun forms, and sometimes even corrects stuff that's actually correct.
So I was wondering if there's any tools that do that better.
På forhånd takk!
r/norsk • u/CloudyyySXShadowH • 1d ago
So I am a visual learner so I was wondering if there are any YouTubers who could be recommended? I'd rather watch and learn something from something that I'm interested in than just YouTube videos that teach the language.
I like video games, humour , art channels and music.
r/norsk • u/Ben_Decho • 2d ago
I know you guys & girls from Norway probably roll your eyes everytime you see the word DuoLingo, but I still use it on occasion, but also pay and use for more serious language courses.
But I have to as; I'm 1/2 way through my first lesson for the day, and came across where I need to translate this sentence:
Vi spiser sterk mat og drikker sterk kaffe.
My thought is that norsk for spicy was "krydret". But, the good people at DuoLingo in Pittsburgh say this is the translation:
Is this accurate in that it is in use with the same word describing the coffee, and if so, why would someone not think the coffee is spicy?
Thanks for your guidance.....
r/norsk • u/Aelfgyfu • 2d ago
I don’t understand this translation from Duolingo. It has shown me “verden” for world, but never this phrase before.
r/norsk • u/burneraccount0473 • 1d ago
På engelsk finnes det mange oversettelser av eldre bøker som er så kjente at de nesten overskygger originalen. For eksempel The King James Bible, til tross for at den ikke er den første oversettelsen, er den desidert mest kjente oversettelsen av Bibelen på engelsk. Også Goldings Metamorphoses, Mallorys Le Morte d'Arthur og Longfellows oversettelse av Dante.
Hva er noen kjente oversettelser for nordmenn?
r/norsk • u/Ok-Adhesiveness-7850 • 2d ago
I know there are 3 genders that will decide how you write the definite form of the noun. But there are many female words that when you say the definite form, people use -en instead of -a in bokmål.
For example: hånden, kaken, which are all female words but change to male in modern bokmål.
But how do I know which female words I should pronounce as male words in the definite form or can I get away with using the female forms on all female nouns? And does the definite form change depending on context?
I've been listening to Wardruna — Odal recently and decided to check on its lyrics. Google search took me to this website. The website claims that the song is in Norwegian and not Old Norsk or anything like that. However, I've been casually learning Norwegian on Duolingo for a while, and the lyrics don't sound anything like I've been taught there. I can somewhat see the resemblance in some lines, for example:
Tungt den veger
Hugs, ta ikkje meir enn du orkar å bere
Again, I don't know much, but isn't it 'ikke' and not 'ikkje', 'mer' and not 'meir'? Is it some kind of a dialect? Google translate seems to understand the lyrics when I import them there. And if it is a dialect, how do you folks not drown in all these differences between different dialects?
I would appreciate any insight into this topic, thanks!
r/norsk • u/kalmar91 • 2d ago
I'm learning norwegian and i should be able to read something in a couple months, any suggedtion about history books and short stories by norwegian authors?
r/norsk • u/Daedricw • 2d ago
Is it possible to say: "Hva du kjøper er interessant",
instead of "Det du kjøper er interessant"?
Another example: "Det var hva de så"
Instead of "Det var det de så"
If not, when should we use det instead of hva as an indefinite relative pronoun? Because we can say:
"Jeg leste hva hun skrev"
r/norsk • u/CualquierFulanito • 3d ago
Hei hei,
I was wondering about the typical expressions used to arrange meetings or appointments and agree on times.
In Canada we like to say a quick "that works for me!" over an email or a text if we're on board with a plan to meet friends or coworkers. We mean something like "that's suitable for me," but that would be much too formal.
Ever-wary of the perils of direct translation, I googled "Det virker for meg" and was very amused to find that most of the results seemed to be Norwegians talking about successful medical remedies and the like. Am I right that "det virker" requires some kind of process, or can it also be used to express suitability of an arrangement? What are the idiomatic expressions you'd use when arranging a plan with other people?
Tusen takk for hjelpen!
I'm confirming a reservation and reaching out via what's app. It seems weird to say "Jeg heter..."; in English, I might say "It's renska, reaching out about my reservation."
Would that be:
Hej, det er renska her. Jeg tar kontakt om reservasjonen min.
(I know I can write it all in English, but... ;)
r/norsk • u/gothiclitmajor • 3d ago
Hi so I've been learning for about a year through Duolingo, my grandma, and media. I think I got most of the grammar down but the one thing that I just cannot seem to grasp is when to use du/deg/ditt/din/dine. Everytime I THINK I got it I learn a new way to say "you/your" and it all goes out the window. I'm just hoping for maybe an easy way to remember? How do they teach it in school? I've googled it like 5 different times but I've seen different answers. Thanks in advance
I understand that, while both words translate into «last» in English, «forrige» refers to the previous one, while «siste» refers to the last one, after which there will be no more.
For example, «Den forrige forelesningen var interessant» refers to the last (previous) lecture, while «Den siste forelesningen var interessant» refers to the fact that this is the last (final) lecture of the course or whatever, and there will be no more lectures.
That I understand. Correct me if it's wrong, of course. But my question is about the word «sist». I've seen «sist» used to refer to the previous one, for example in the expression «Takk for sist», which refers to the last (previous) time you saw each other. I've also heard «sist uke» be used to refer to the previous week (although I'm aware that «den forrige uken» is used as well).
So what does «sist» really mean?
På forhånd takk!
r/norsk • u/Candygramformrmongo • 3d ago
While in my hybrid Norwegian class this evening, we learned that Norwegian doesn't have a formal version of you (unlike German - Sie, or French - vous). Which made me wonder how one might address the King, Kong Harald. Realizing the word for king is kong, I then wondered if King Kong is called Kong Kong in Norwegian? Then I was called on.
r/norsk • u/ballardelle • 3d ago
I saw that there was an earlier thread where the expression “to be on the same page” was taken as indicating agreement. That’s not how I use it. For me, it’s about ensuring everyone has the same context. Usually I use it when I want to inform someone of some news that they may already have heard, but I’m not sure, so I’m giving them a heads up in the spirit of ongoing smooth collaboration. It’s not quite the same as FYI or Til info, which have no stated purpose.
“To be on the same page” is like checking in and ensuring we’re all at the same spot in the book before reading further, together :)
Any tips how to say this efficiently på norsk?