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Velkommen til norskleksjon 130! One of the hard things I find when learning to speak Norwegian is that I don’t know what gender I’m using until I get to the noun and then the beginning of my sentence is usually wrong. It means that I have to think of the gender of the noun first [...]
My Little Norway – Flower Show Series
A yellow petal garden flower photographed in Tromsø.
My Little Norway – Flower Show Series
A white and black wild flower photographed in Tromsø.
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Velkommen til norskleksjon 129! In this lesson we learn about the weather and days of the week. We also revise prepositions questions and answers with ‘why’ and ‘because’, and also go over some of the clothes that we have been learning.
To get you thinking about clothes visit the Kappahl website in Norway – peruse through [...]
Being an educated stagemanager I have health and safety drummed into me. Nearly everywhere I look in Norway there is an accident waiting to happen – and yet it never does. I don’t get it – with all the wooden ladders still in use, all the city roofs without snow guards (for when the snow [...]
My Little Norway – Flower Show Series
A white and yellow wild flower known as Prestekrage (Priest Collar) in Norway. Photographed in Tromsø.
My Little Norway – Flower Show Series
A garden flower known as Tulipan in Norway. Photographed in Tromsø.
When searching through some Norwegian websites I ’stumbled’ across this ad. It struck me as a very odd thing for a Polly to do – actually, a bit tacky. A take off from the Bob Dylan video Subterranean Homesick Blues doesn’t seem as fitting when the party using it is mostly red! There he was [...]
Innledning
Velkommen til norskleksjon 128! In this lesson we learn slightly more complex sentence structures. We also learn how to answer questions with simple compound sentences. We also have an ‘Australianised’ version of last lessons diktat as an amusing lead into our podcasts.
My Little Norway – Flower Show Series
A white and pink wild flower photographed in Tromsø.
Pølse is THE fast food of Norway. When the grilled pølse was first introduced to Norway in the 50s it was eaten naked – without bread.
By our favourite jetty is the cutest little boat shed. We often have picnics there in Summer. It’s nice to just drop by our favourite places in Winter to see how very different but very beautiful everything still is.
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From the west, a wall of stone Saints and Prophets will confront you. All sides of the Cathedral are very textured and deserve a long walk around. You’ll see gargoyles and gothic arches, thick wooden doors with rusty floral art and Anglo-Norman/Romanesque bits and pieces ’stuck on’ that intensifies your ground view. However, the outside of Nidaros Cathedral is even more intriguing when you know the history.
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A popular Summer activity in Norway is kayaking. The coast of Norway is dotted with thousands of little islands making the perfect conditions for a smooth paddle.
Many Norwegians know what they are doing when they pick wild mushrooms. This knowledge is passed down the family during mushroom hunting trips. The hard-core mushroom hunters go into the mountain wilderness for days to get the best finds.
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Runes were the written language of the Vikings.