Learn Norwegian Podcast 101a
Velkommen to our first Learn Norwegian Podcast!
These podcasts follow the Norwegian Lesson Series, and as such the Learn Norwegian Podcasts will match the Norwegian Lesson numbers. Most times we will have two or three podcasts to each Norwegian Lesson.
Tip: Podcasts are great to listen to, but because it is so important to ‘see’ Norwegian when learning, all podcast posts will include the texts we are using in the section below. This means you will get so much more out of your ‘listening and speaking’ learning and will also greatly help your reading and writing. Then once you understand how the sounds are made you can just practise the podcast exercises without the text.
Learn Norwegian Podcast 101a
In this Podcast we introduce the first basic conversation:
How are you? My name is… I come from… etc. There are pronunciation exercises as well as question/answer exercises.
This podcast is taken from Norwegian Lesson 101. The main text used from this lesson is below. The length of this podcast is 5:44mins.
Norsk Dialog
Nina: Hei! Hvordan går det?
Hans: Fint, og du?
Nina: Jeg har det bra. Jeg heter Nina. Hva heter du?
Hans: Jeg heter Hans.
Nina: Hvor kommer du fra?
Hans: Jeg kommer fra Alta.
Nina: Jeg er fra Oslo.
Questions:
1. Hvordan går det med Nina?
2. Hvor kommer Hans fra?
3. Hvem kommer fra Oslo?
4. Hvem har det fint?
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Runes were the written language of the Vikings.
Towards the water in a beautiful pocket of leafy oak trees is the Byneset Church.
On any celebration table in Norway you can always find a Norwegian layer cake (bløtkake). What better way to celebrate Norwegian Constitution Day than with fresh cream, wild berries and a little bit of sponge in between.
21st January is soldagen (the sun day) when the sun officially returns to Tromsø.
The walking-street takes you from Central Station to the Royal Palace.
God bless you! I was trin to learn norwegian for some time allready!
Mange takk. I’m finding these lessons very helpful.
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from L-Jay:
Vær så god!
I was trying to subscribe on your podcasts using RSS link (and then have pasted it in PODorganizer). All in vain(
Other resources (BBC and so on) works properly.
Anyway, thank you. Hope you ll fix it.
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from Moose:
I just ran a test on the podcast RSS link and it seems to work fine in both iTunes and Amarok. What URL did you use? The correct URL should be http://mylittlenorway.com/feed/podcast/
Sorry, but the lady in this keeps on saying heter like hetter, which is wrong. If you are beginning to learn Norwegian it would not be a good idea at all to mimic these people. Teach yourself Norwegian is the way to go, it really is.
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from L-Jay:
Sorry, but the lady is an immigrant and it is extremely important to listen to her as she represents the beginner Norwegian-learner. She has been taught daily by Norwegians how to speak Norwegian in Norway.
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As mentioned in the initial podcasts, I’m not a native speaker and it is very important to learn to listen to ALL speakers of Norwegian. In Norway every place has a different dialect so if you only get used to Oslo dialect then you can’t understand the rest of the country. (When Moose goes to Oslo he has to change to an Oslo dialect as Oslo-folk don’t understand people from the North.) Also, when you learn Norwegian in Norway you learn with immigrants who each have their own accent on the language. It would be silly to only listen to Oslo dialect language tapes as the people know the language so well that they are too quick and usually slur the sounds. This is not good for any beginner who needs to understand the sounds they are making – something a real learner of living-Norwegian knows.
There is no such thing as the right spoken Norwegian – all Norwegian is different depending where you come from and if you have another first language. I think our podcasts are very important to any Norwegian learner as it demonstrates an English-speakers beginner ability and also a North-Norwegian native speakers accent. This is a rare treasure – to be ignorant of this value is a great loss.
possiblility of downloading would be nice, to be able to listen while I’m on the way where there’s no internet connection.