My Little Norway – Flower Show Series:
Arctic Botanical Garden Selection – Tromsø

In this Podcast we revise 101a – Norsk Dialog.  We talk about grammar – basic sentence structure of statement and question sentences and focus on the placement of the verb.
These podcasts are designed around the My Little Norway Norwegian Lesson Series. For us to provide a wide variety of listening and vocal exercises, it is [...]

If you walk along the north fence on Farfar’s farm you will find a corner pocket of fir trees.  The fir trees grow in rows, equal distance apart.  This little forest is certainly man made, Farfar planted it a long time ago.  Maybe it was to hide what was on the ground underneath, or maybe [...]

Malangen (front) and Senja island (behind)
Coming home from a weekend in Dublin, my plane was approaching Tromsø Langnes Airport. The evening was beautiful and I had a great view of the spectacular coastal landscape of Troms. Unable to resist the temptation, I switched on my camera phone to snap these shots. (No worries, I was [...]

My Little Norway – Flower Show Series:
Arctic Botanical Garden Selection – Tromsø

Norwegians are lovely people, but I must admit it is very true that Norwegians in certain situations can be extremely rude.
At Restaurants
At fast food places like Burger King the workers prefer to serve the pretty young boys in their army uniforms first even though you have been waiting longer.  At Dolly Dimples, the [...]

We bring you a taste of the Norwegian chocolate scene.  Move over Lindt, here comes Norway to raise the bar!
I never thought there would be so much chocolate in Norway.  But I guess it is quite fitting – Norwegians love cream, sugar, jelly and crispy rice so what better way to eat them than [...]

Stiftsgården, the Royal Manor, is the king’s official residence in Trondheim.  Right in the heart of the city, the manor was built in the 1770s as a private home for the Privy Councillor Schøller’s widow Cecilie Christine von Schøller.  This building was specifically positioned and built to show off the family’s riches but in 1800 [...]

Innledning
Velkommen til norskleksjon 138! This lesson we give you some of the most common verbs in their groupings of past tenses.  The exercises will give you good practise with tense verbs – you get to translate, establish the tense of the sentence and then find the right word in it’s right tense to fill [...]

My Little Norway – Flower Show Series:
Arctic Botanical Garden Selection – Tromsø