Learning Norwegian

I`m trying to hear norwegian all the time. It`s very difficult in a country where they speak only spanish. But i`m trying to take advantage of all the free time I have alone. When i`m going in the car, driving my bicycle, walking on the street or simply doing a homework or searching on internet. I try to hear the most I can, that way my mind will start to recognize for itself the words i`m listening. I`m using this page too, where you can hear online the audios for a lot of norwegian phrases. I`m using it to practice speaking the phrases and then listening to the correct way to say the words. http://www.transparent.com/languagepages/Norwegian/FSNorwegian.htm Trasparent.com has a lot of different resources, but until now i`m only using this link where i can hear the norwegian phrases.

I found another way to practice my norwegian. I can see a DVD movie in english and use the norwegian subtitles, this way i can hear and understand what they are saying and see how you write that idea on norwegian. I saw Big Fish a few days ago... A real good movie! and understood some subtitles! I will keep trying this method

I have a few days looking for some norwegian music. I like to hear music because I can learn the lyrics and repeat them, so i learn the language that way. I found some amazing music, looking for songs that had titles with words like: Jeg, er, mitt, elsker, ikke, deg, natt. I´m listening mostly to: Nik Og Jay (Hip hop music, very good) Unit Five (Soft rock) Postgirobygget (Traditional rhythms mostly) I will keep looking for more, may be I will try to contact someone from Norway so he/she can tell me what they listen there.

Start asking questions to people everywhere, but please do it in norsk :D You can use: Hva = What Hvem = Who Hvor = Where Hvordan = How Hvorfor = Why Hva heter du? (What´s your name?) Hva gjøre du? (What do you do?) Hvem er han? (Who is him?) Hvor er glasset? (Where are the glasses?) Hvordan kan jeg kjøre en bil? (How can I drive a car?) Hvorfor leser du boket? (Why do you read the book?) Those are my first selfmade questions in norsk. I hope I made them well, if you know norsk and see a mistake please tell me!!

I found a resource surfing on internet (don´t ask me how, i started in google and reach it somehow) called "Interactive Homework" or something like that. In norsk: Interaktive Oppgaver . If you are progressively learning Norwegian with the resources on this blog, you´re in capacity of doing this Oppgaver, it´s very easy at first, then it include a lot of new words so you can practice, i´m doing chapter 2 right now, but i recommend you to start with chapter one . You will find a test divided in 17 chapters with a lot of visual and audio resources. It´s absolutely free. You will need macromedia flash to play it because all the chapters are in flash.

Blogs from people from norway are a great tool to familiarize with norwegian. At first I was afraid of not understanding anything, but when you read and read you start to recongnize some phrases and words. And people puts a lot of pics in their blogs, that helps a lot because you can know about what they are talking. There are a few blogs that i´m following. Those are from people traveling around the world, studying or simply writing from their country. marianneinsandiego.blogspot.com (She is studying in san diego, good to read) andreayork.blogspot.com (Andrea in England, she recently got there) kreativkristin.blogspot.com (She write about things she do. Cards, gifts and some more things. She write in norwegian and english at the same time) It is curious that most of the blogs are written by ladies. I do not understand everything, I barely can have a notion of what they are writing in their blogs... Right now I´m like a child with attention problems or like a husband watching a ga