Week 3: A Review

Holy cow, we've come a long way!  Great work on those pesky new vowels!

Today was all about the animals and we had a mess of 'em to figure out. 

• Mus
• Rev
• Kanin
• Sau
• Gris
• Rådyr
• Reinsdyr
• Hort
• and so many, many more!

We used our superb sentence making skills to talk about the animals we were holding:

• Jeg er en hund.  Jeg bor på gård.  Jeg spiser hundemat!
• Jeg er en geit.  Jeg bor på gård.  Jeg spiser... hva som helst!
• Jer er en elg.  Jeg bor i naturen.  Jeg spiser grønsaker!

Easy peasy, right?  And after a little more trading between predators and prey (and a hungry goat that decided he wanted to eat whale meat) we used up our time.

No class next Sunday, so anyone who wants to review needs to contact me to sort out a meeting time/place on Tuesdays or Thursdays.  This time should be used for review, drills, and getting caught up on anything if a day was missed.  Practice, practice, practice! 

Next month, the 200-level will be largely about grammar and starting to say some more complicated things like "No, I don't want to do X" and "There is a sofa in the room."

Not to mention: "The blue bird is on the tree in the forest."
That's gonna get fun!  We've got loads of stuff coming, gang, so don't get lazy about your vocabulary!

Email me anytime if you have questions!

Week 2: A review

Second week and we're already starting to remember some pretty surprising stuff! 

• God dag! Hvordan går det?  Bare bra! Takk!
• Unskyld, jeg forstår ikke!
• Vil du sende meg øl?
• Jeg går til festen!

Nothing too hard this time, just reviewing our sentence structures and hammering out some more of those tough vowels. 

We checked out some cartoons (some professional, some... less so)  in Norwegian and got used to simple conversations and some neat sound effects.  We saw a potato fall in love and a horrible, hungry green monster.

I also threw out some fun new verbs:  Si and Se
Do you remember which means what?
We counted to five and traded flashcards using our very nicest manners.

Week 1: A review

Okay, week one!  What a meetup it was!

• Vær så god + Takk
• Jeg heter ____
• Han liker å spise kjøtt!

We touched on some basic introductions, framing up sentences starting with our pronouns, and pushed hard on our pronunciation!

Norwegian is a language that feels exceptionally silly if you're not used to making those sounds.  Your mouth will resist these new contortions and movements until you've practiced your baby talk.

If you were to literally sit in your car and sing every song you can hear with the worst "India-Indian Accent" you can muster, and sit there and go "la-le-loo-loh-luh" like a little toddler would, your pronunciation will improve markedly!  We're using muscles in Norwegian that we've never had to use in our Yankee English.  Keep pushing yourself.  Practice tongue-twisters in English too, keep those muscles on their ... um... toes.

Special Characters On The Computer:

Ever wondered how I get our funny new vowels to show up on our printouts and in the website?  Easy!  Use the codes below to access the characters through the ascii-code.  (That just means that you're over-riding the letters on the keyboard and referencing the exact code that the computer sees when it makes a letter.  Too confusing?  Yeah.  Me too.)

Letter	Code
Æ	Alt + 0198
æ	Alt + 0230
Ø	Alt + 0216
ø	Alt + 0248
Å	Alt + 0197
å	Alt + 0229