r/norsk

Hele tiden jeg har bodd i dette landet har jeg bare hørt lånord fra engelsk. Engelsk er morsmålet mitt, halvparten av ordene våre kommer visstnok fra fransk, en god del fra latin og mange fra gammelnorsk. Nysgjerrig på om det er noen jeg overser.

Hei! I've been learning norwegian nynorsk for around a month and overall making pretty decent progress. Learned some vocabulary, noun inflections, present and future tenses for verbs as well as the imperative forms, got some basics of working with adjectives and adverbs too. I can form my own sentences occasionally. My main resources are wikipedia, ordbøkene.no, the few online translators that do include nynorsk, and my wonderful norwegian girlfriend I can ask for some help from time to time.

I decided to take the plunge into learning the past tense and it was a little confusing but I think I mostly got it? Short verbs get -dde (å bu, bur, budde), verbs that in the present tense end with -ar now just end with -a (å kasta, kastar, kasta), and those that end with -er now end with either -te or -de (å kjøper, kjøper, kjøpte).

That last point is what I would like to ask about. Is there any way to know if it's gonna be te or de just looking at the infinitive? At first I thought it might be having a 'j' before the final vowel of the infinitive, because of the first example I saw being å byggje -> byggde, however that got pretty quickly debunked by å grypje -> grypte and a couple other examples.

Is there any trick to it, or some rule of thumb? Or is it one of those things you gotta learn for each word where is applies?

Hello all, i’m from the USA and in March i will be traveling to Norway to see lots of black metal music history and see the town of oslo. Also planning on going further north to see the northern lights. Anyway, i would love to be able to speak norwegian so i can talk to people who live there, read signs, etc. I know lots of people speak english but i am very interested in the language and also listen to lots of black metal with Norwegian lyrics and would love to be able to understand them. What might be the best way to go about studying the language and teaching myself? I tried duolingo for a few days but it wasn’t helpful at all and I wasn’t retaining any of the information. Any advice is appreciated!

M16 I moved to Norway when I was young, and I have been living here for 6 years. Today I started my first year of VGS (VGS1), and honestly, I already feel a bit overwhelmed. There is a lot of new stuff to learn.

My goal is to improve my Norwegian, especially speaking and writing.

I think my Norwegian level is around A2–B1. My writing is also really bad, so I especially want to improve that.

For those who have been in a similar situation, do you have any tips for improving Norwegian and doing better in VGS?

I would really appreciate any advice!

I learned English with a course, and it was very interesting how I learned beyond the course. I talked to some friends who spoke the language, and they recommended series, movies, books that they liked and I watched them to learn about

Could you give me some tips on how to learn Norwegian and recommend some media for me to consume?

Hallo! I want to start learning Norwegian in hopes of eventually moving to Norway, but I'm struggling to find resources to use for it. I went to MondeLibrary from the r/languagelearning megathread in search of resources, but the resources on Norwegian seem to be very scarce. I'd appreciate any help you can provide.

For example, if I'm looking for work and I speak Tromso or Trondheim Norsk, would that be enough of a negative for someone looking to hire a professional in Oslo, that they'd prefer someone who has slightly lesser experience, but speaks Oslo Norsk? (I'm not sure if there's a more specific term for the dialects.)

I'm trying to understand how significant the dialect differences are and how relevant these differences are. Say you're from the northern most part of Norway, can you easily enough understand major Norwegian television shows? Is it ever more efficient to just switch to English between two fluent native Norwegian speakers who come from different dialects?

How do professionals that rely on a high degree of fluency work, like lawyers for example. Would they be at a disadvantage looking for a job in Tromso if they grew up in Oslo (and their dialect is Oslo Norsk) for example?

I am unsure whether this is the correct subreddit to post this but I am reading my first "faglige" book and it is a book about global history, my head is translating to English as I go but I came to a section\concept that I cannot place within my knowledge of history in English. so I am looking for a translation of this phrase\concept "historiens lovmessighet" the definition according to the book is "Søken etter lovmessighet i historien hadde som hovedmål å forutse hvilken utvikling som ville og måtte komme." is it what is know as historical determinism, or a completely new concept that the book introduces?

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Hei,

Jeg bor i Oslo, men har også bodd i andre, mindre byer, blant annet i Kristiansand, hvor folk ofte byttet til engelsk når jeg snakket norsk med dem.

Ut fra tilbakemeldinger som «du snakker veldig godt norsk» skjønner jeg at de forstår at norsk ikke er morsmålet mitt. Samtidig virker det som om forventningene deres er høyere enn til en gjennomsnittlig person som har norsk som andrespråk.

Problemet oppstår når jeg begynner å snakke norsk, og de svarer på engelsk. Dette skjedde mye oftere de første årene, men nå, i mitt femte år i Norge, opplever jeg det fortsatt, selv om det ikke skjer like ofte som før. For eksempel snakker vi norsk sammen, men så begynner de plutselig å snakke engelsk igjen, eller svarer på engelsk med én gang.

Jeg synes det er litt rart, spesielt fordi det har vært mye innvandringsskepsis de siste årene, og det største partiets argument ofte er at innvandrere ikke integrerer seg. Samtidig opplever jeg at nordmenn selv noen ganger ikke prøver å beskytte sitt eget språk. På den måten kan Norge etter hvert bli mer likt USA eller Canada. Man kan også føle seg utenfor samfunnet, som om budskapet er: «Du kommer alltid til å være en innvandrer.»

Jeg skriver dette fordi jeg synes det er litt merkelig. Jeg har vært i mange land, men har aldri opplevd noe helt lignende.

Jeg skjønner selvfølgelig at personer med utenlandsk bakgrunn kanskje ikke har så gode norskkunnskaper, men det er ikke dem jeg snakker om. Jeg mener nordmenn som selv snakker norsk.

Har dere opplevd noe lignende? Hva tenker dere om dette? Hvorfor tror dere at folk fortsetter å snakke engelsk når jeg snakker norsk med dem?

Hi everyone, I'm a Spanish speaker, but I also speak Italian and English. I dream of one day moving to Norway. It's a beautiful country that truly impresses me, and I would absolutely love to experience living in those lovely houses with that unique climate and stunning landscapes. I've been trying to learn Norwegian, but I can't seem to find anything that really gets me going. I tend to lose interest after just a few days. Can anyone give me any tips? Any suggestions on what to do? I would really appreciate it.

Hi!! I was wondering whether somebody could explain the difference between the use of ‘bestemme’ and ‘bestemme seg’. Thank you so much!!!

Hi everyone. I'm wondering if anyone has book recommendations for learning Norwegian to the B2 level (ideally higher though) for Norskproven. I speak Swedish at a B2 level, and find I can understand Norwegian television shows (if there are subtitles), but articles can sometimes still give me difficulty as they sometimes don't have enough words in common with Norwegian.

I know people ask this question sometimes, but I thought I'd ask it again given some of the posts I found were from a few years ago, and wasn't sure if Norskproven has changed and so recommendations have changed, or if there are new suggested books.

(Please disregard this part, someone pointed out that I probably had auto translate on. My bad!) Also, is there a Norwegian subreddit that is actually in Norwegian? Denmark and Sweden have ones that are basically entirely in Danish and Swedish, but I haven't been able to find a Norwegian one that is almost entirely full of people speaking Norwegian. I thought it would be useful as a way to practice writing. Do you have any other suggestions on how to practice writing?

Also, does anyone have any recommendations for Norwegian language music? The only one I listen to right now is Kaja Gunnufsen.

for example i have a problem, my friend helps me solve it, and i say 'good lookin out'. 'thank you for looking out for me'

For eksempel har vi det som ofte kalles «kebabnorsk», som er en veldig kjent dialekt, særlig blant folk med bakgrunn fra arabisktalende land. Men hvordan høres norsken til folk fra andre land/regioner ut?

Hvilke landdialekter liker dere best og minst? Det er for eksempel ingen som snakker om «sushinorsk» eller «spaghettinorsk». Hva tenker dere om dette?

Det er ikke mange som korrigerer meg når jeg snakker, og jeg vet faktisk ikke om det er riktig å si "sant?" etter at man kommer med en uttalelse. Jeg sier «sant?» nesten hele tiden, altfor ofte bare av vane, men jeg vet ikke om det blir feil i noen situasjoner. Her er noen tilfeldige eksempler:

Det er koselig å bruke stormfulle dager til å sitte på sofaen og lese en bok, sant?

Når man går på jobb, må man prøve så godt man kan å legge igjen den negative stemningen hjemme, sant?

Vi skal på kino på Fredag, sant?

Er det bedre å si "ikke sant" i noen situasjoner? Er det for direkte å bare si "sant?"

I've heard a lot of praise for this app and many people say it's the best but it only has 10k downloads on appstore and no reviews? Meanwhile some ai app that uses gardenscapes art has 100k. Is Mjølnir not in appstore and I found a virus clone app or what's up with it?

Which program on NRK TV would you recommend for improving listening comprehension? I already watch the news (nyheter), but I’d like to find some other programs that are good for learning Norwegian.