Suggestions for resources

[Nemabrincar]

Sæl.

Ég er að vinna í því að búa til vefsíðu um íslensku sem erlent tungumál. Hugmyndin er að hjálpa fólki að læra og halda áhuganum. Þetta er ekki til að selja neitt. Vona að þetta geti hjálpað einhverjum að læra.

http://isklenska.is

Kveðja, Viktor

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English:

Hi there.

I'm working on making a site for learning icelandic as a foreign language. The idea is to help people to learn and to keep up their interest. It's not for selling books or services or anything. I hope it's useful.

Regards, Viktor

 

[Vanja]

Hi
I am learning Norwegian and I am interested to buy the På vei textbook and workbook but as far as I can see it is only available in Norway. Before ordering it, as it is quite expensive, I just wanted to check is this book worth it? Would it still be useful without the CD? And does anyway know if it is possible to buy outside of Norway?
At the minute I am using Teach Yourself Norwegian.
Takk for hjelpen!

Hi!

På vei books (2004 and 2012) are used almost in all language schools in Serbia and in the region. I don't know the price of them now, but they are worth the money. You can download them (with cds - 6 cds!) for free (available on a few websites).

In my view, any language book is far less useful without cd that goes with it. Norwegian pronunciation is, at least to me, very difficult, so listening to Norwegian is a must.

I would like to ask if there is a Norwegian dictionary with ALL the pronunciation of words? I can't find it anywhere Forvo.com has only 6235 nouns till now recorded.... I have only Google translate for now....ah!

 

[vthebee]

Hi!

I would like to ask if there is a Norwegian dictionary with ALL the pronunciation of words? I can't find it anywhere Forvo.com has only 6235 nouns till now recorded.... I have only Google translate for now....ah!

Hi - thanks for your reply. I use this website sometimes http://decentius.hit.uib.no/lexin.html?ui-lang=nbo&dict=nbo-maxi
If you search for any word it usually has a sound clip of the word. You might find it useful.

 

[Vanja]

Hi - thanks for your reply. I use this website sometimes http://decentius.hit.uib.no/lexin.html?ui-lang=nbo&dict=nbo-maxi
If you search for any word it usually has a sound clip of the word. You might find it useful.

Tusen takk!
Yes, I've bumped into that dictionary just a few days ago, there is a sound clip there indeed, but there's only Nynorsk—engelsk, no Bokmål—engelsk.So I have to go to Nynorsk—engelsk to see English translation, and then to Bokmål Dictionary to hear Bokmål pronunciation.

There's also there is the "flower" button, which is great - they've added "bildeordliste"

 

[BrMo]

I have found 'Norwegian on the web' an extremely useful resource for learning Norwegian.

It is a free course by the University of Trondheim (NTNU), designed for students who study a year in Norway.

I am too much of a newb here to post a link but you'll find it using Google.

Enjoy.

 

[Vanja]

Thank you BrMo. But this course is for those who are in Norway already, as far as I understood. I'm more interested in learning Norwegian in my homeland, since many Norwegian job websites says that having a basic knowledge of Norwegian before coming to the country is highly recommended.

I've been using some websites and I hope it could be useful to others as well:

online exercise:
https://www.cappelendammundervisning.no/undervisning/norsk_som_andresprak/index.action
http://pavei-oppgaver.cappelendamm.no/

Grammar and many other things:
http://norwegianlanguage.info/grammar/index.html
http://www3.vox.no/nettnorsk/substantiv/index.html
http://www.skapago.eu/en/learn/norwegian-free.html
http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Norwegian
http://www.goethe-verlag.com/book2/NO/
http://www.cram.com/tag/norwegian

 

[BrMo]

True, the dialogues are in Norwegian and talk about students already in Norway, but the grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary sections are pretty useful if you have no knowledge of Norwegian at all.

 

[vthebee]

Thanks BrMo, I hadn't come across those learning resources before and they look really useful

 

[Sarnek]

Hi lovely people.

Any Swedish dictionaries with IPA (possibly narrow) transcription of the words? It doesn't matter whether it's bilingual or not.

And also, does any of you know a good PDF file (possibly) about Swedish phonology?

Thank you

 

[Tjahzi]

Hello and welcome to the forums Sarknek.

Unfortunately, I don't think we know of any such dictionary. However, such queries are very welcome to be asked in the forums.

 

[Havfruen]

I have found 'Norwegian on the web' an extremely useful resource for learning Norwegian.

It is a free course by the University of Trondheim (NTNU), designed for students who study a year in Norway.

Enjoy.

http://www.ntnu.edu/now

Thanks, BrMo. This is excellent!

 

[sjiraff]

Here is something I have found useful, although not necessarily intended to be a resource for learning, these speeches have exact wording and a video in the top left with the King saying what is written (Some of the links don't, but there are a lot which do). It's a good resource for formal speaking if anyone wants to get a feel for how a speech or presentation is given.

http://www.kongehuset.no/taler.html?tid=27168&sek=26947

Here is an example of one:
http://www.kongehuset.no/tale.html?tid=119318&scope=0

Nyttige læremidler :^)

Edit: forgot to mention of course, this is for anyone interested in Norwegian!

 

[skandinavien]

Does anybody know of any good resources one can use to better understand the tone system (tonem / tonelag) in Norwegian? Your help is much appreciated!

 

[kris77]

klartale dot no , onlineaviser dot no , db dot no , nrk dot no (radio and TV apps on android, too) , UiO bokmål online dictionary , ordnett dot no , snl dot no

 

[askir]

hi, in the same line of thought, does anybody know of a bokmål-bokmål dictionary (with gender of nouns, irregular forms of adjectives, irregular verb forms if possible), and preferable offline and with IPA-pronunciation? I know I ask for a lot but maybe it exists...
I know of nob-ordbok.uio.no which is very close to what I am looking for, but any other suggestion would be very welcome.

 

[merryweather]

Hi lovely people.

Any Swedish dictionaries with IPA (possibly narrow) transcription of the words? It doesn't matter whether it's bilingual or not.

And also, does any of you know a good PDF file (possibly) about Swedish phonology?

Thank you

I would love to have an answer to this, too!

 

[AutumnOwl]

Perhaps Lexin, http://lexikon.nada.kth.se/lexin/#searchinfo=both,swe_swe,;can be of use when it comes to transcription, you can also listen to how the words are pronounced.

 

[sjiraff]

Sorry if this has been posted earlier, but here is a good link on nrk of programmes which can be viewed from abroad:-

https://tv.nrk.no/programmer/utland

In fact, not all shows are even listed there so it's worth checking in the entertainment/news sections of tv.nrk.no for some shows which you might be able to watch. Many of them have subtitles, I'd particularly recommend watching a show called 20-spørsmål, it's really good for learning interesting words and a good way to test yourself, just cover your ears and shut your eyes when the word comes up so you can play with the contestants.

http://tv.nrk.no/serie/20-spoersmaal-tv/muhh31000613/21-06-2013

I like to turn off subtitles, then if someone says something I don't understand I turn them on and check!

 

[Thomas_DC]

I've made some resources for Danish that I'd like to recommend.

Mini stories in Danish: Five dialogues with audio for beginner's lower intermediate learners of Danish:
5 Danish Mini Stories With Audio (Dialogues for Danish Beginners And Intermediate Students)

"Hvem er hun" A long story in parallel Danish and English text in slow spoken Danish:
“Hvem er hun” A Danish dialogue with audio and translation

The "Stød" or "Glottal Stop" in Danish pronunciation, and how to pronounce it
How to pronounce the “stød” or Glottal Stop in Danish

I hope these might be useful!