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pascale, 29, québec . norsk // français // english . main blog: seulensemble

[errorca-learns-norsk]

Hello! I just came across your blog and I wanted to say you seem super cool and I hope your studies are coming along well! I was wondering if you had any advice for someone hoping to learn the language well enough to move there? :)

Trying to get myself to a B2 level by 2027 and I thought I'd ask around about it

whoah I didn’t see this until now, sorry for the delay!! Idk what level you’re at currently, but I’m going to aim my advice at the B1-B2 learning curve, cause I feel like that’s where people start growing out of duolingo and the like and needing a greater variety of resources!

My first advice is to get a Norwegian tutor, on italki or otherwise, and just do lessons however frequently you can afford just to get some speaking and listening practice with a real live Norwegian! I did plentyyy of reading and writing practice before moving here, and spoke well enough to pass the B2, but on my first day of classes with Norwegian students and professors I was completely overwhelmed!

Likewise I also wish I had listened to a wider variety of podcasts or even just watched NRK news without subtitles so I could get better at understanding spoken Norwegian in different dialects. It was a rough learning curve getting used to all the dialects after moving here!

My pro listening tip is to look for Studentradioen i [city] if you have a certain dialect you want to focus on, and you can find tons of podcasts by students in that city across a wide variety of topics. These were super helpful to me because they speak like normal, casual people at a not-slowed-down pace, and you get to learn a lot of conversational things that way!

For prepping for the B2 test specifically I watched a lot of Debatten on NRK, because at the B2 level they want you to defend opinions and such. So both topics and opinion vocabulary from Debatten were very helpful!

I also saved up and paid for a month of a B2 course on Note.no where they had a ton of example Norskprøven essay questions and I could submit as many essays as I wanted and a teacher would read it and give me feedback on how to reach B2 level. Idk if they still let you do as many as you want but you should look into it!

Thanks for the ask and hope my thoughts are helpful!! :)

[fremmedsprak]

who would have thought actually studying grammar would make me understand grammar rules better

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jeg vet ikke hvorfor jeg ventet så lenge med å lytte til norskpodden?? det er en så fin podkast???

[an-american-in-norway]

ikke en/det døyt; ikke døyten

ikke det grann, ikke den minste

nothing/not at all

Musikken dundra ut av høytalerne, og jeg hørte ikke en døyt av det som ble sagt. The music thundered out of the speakers and I didn't hear a thing of what was said.

[chulip-blossoms]

a really really really underrated feeling in learning a different language is when you start to hear words. as in it's no longer a string of sounds, you can parse through where words start and stop as you're hearing them. even words that you don't know what they mean yet but you can distinctly hear it as a whole word

[fremmedsprak]

i've started actively learning norwegian again. who knows I might be back here more often...

[zybilna]

White boy CONFUSES Mexican restaurant staff by ordering in perfect Mandarin.

[fremmedsprak]

Happy new year! Bonne année! Godt nytt år!

[translatingpostsinfrench]

comment dit-on "shitpost" en francais

doesn't translate, saw a few memers call it "cacaposting" tho

[translatingpostsinfrench]

back here after an epiphany: publicacation

[translatingpostsinfrench]

[prokopetz]

I know folks who habitually swear in English even though it's not their first language because "English has all the fun swear words", and while I don't disagree that in terms of languages that are fun to swear in, English is pretty high up the list, I feel like some of these people desperately need to be introduced to Québécois French.

[fremmedsprak]

the amount of ads on the duolingo app is insane

[thydungeongal]

Also shout-out to the Swedes for just borrowing the French "adieu" into their vocabulary and just spelling it "adjö"

[legov7]

German has borrowed the italian "Ciau", spelling it "Tschau" and only using it as a goodby instead of also a greeting.

[thydungeongal]

I had completely forgotten about this, this is fantastic.

[erlann]

If you enjoyed "ciao" becoming "tschau", you'll definitely want to hear where "tschüss" (German, also meaning "goodbye") comes from!

[thydungeongal]

Borrowed from German Low German tschüß from earlier adjüs, from Dutch adjuus, back-formation from adjuusjes, from French adieu.

We can't let the French keep getting away with this

[ospreyonthemoon]

I mean the french very much aren't getting away with it. Everyone else is taking their language and running off with it cackling with glee. We're all getting away with fucking up french words on purpose

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

#English loves french so much it steals the same fucking word a few centuries apart so it gets two words that have the same meaning#But different spellings -#Like guarantee/warranty#(aside: There was a w/g shift so you can see if the word showed up with the normans or got nicked later#Which is why for e.g. the english call it wales and the french call it pays de galls)#Catch/chase#Gender/genre

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official linguistics post

[helpfulhellhounds]

The other day my French stepdad said "toute à l'heure" for goodbye/see you later, and the way it sounded like "toodle-oo!" hit me like a brick

[german-enthusiast]

In my L1-acquisition class two weeks ago, our professor talked about how only 9% of the speech a baby hears is single words. Everything else is phrases and sentences, onslaughts of words and meaning!

Thus, a baby not only has to learn words and their meanings but also learn to segment lots of sounds INTO words. Doyouwantalittlemoresoupyesyoudoyoucutie. Damn.

When she talked about HOW babies learn to segment words our professor said, and I love it, "babies are little statisticians" because when listening to all the sounds, they start understanding what sound is likely to come after another vs which is not.

After discussing lots of experiments done with babies, our professor added something that I already knew somewhere in my brain but didn't know I know: All this knowledge is helpful when learning an L2 as well:

Listen to natives speaking their language. Original speed. Whatever speaker. Whatever topic.

It is NOT about understanding meaning. It is about learning the rhythm of the language, getting a feeling for its sound, the combination of sounds, the melody and the pronunciation.

Just how babies have to learn to identify single words within waves of sounds, so do adults learning a language. It will help immensely with later (more intentional) listening because you're already used to the sound, can already get into the groove of the languge.

Be as brave as a baby.

You don't even have to pay special attention. Just bathe in the sound of your target language. You'll soak it up without even noticing.

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guys i’m going to be an OR nurse

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i started watching blank again in an attempt to start learning norwegian more consistently again and ella og simen :))))))

[corvid-language-library]

Norwegian Word of the Day 13/03/24

labb (m), pote (m) - paw

en labb | labben | labber | labbene

en pote | poten | poter | potene

Usage note: en labb refers to the whole foot, while en pote is usually used to talk about the soft squishy part. You know. The part you gently squeeze while your pet is asleep because it's just so squishable.

Fortalte jeg dere om den gangen katten min stakk labben sin i munnen min? (Have I told you guys about the time my cat stuck his paw in my mouth?)

Veisalt kan skade hundepotene, så du må være forsiktig om vinteren. (Road salt can hurt dogs' paws, so you have to be careful in winter)

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trying my best not to cry at work because i am so insanely tired