Learning Norwegian

Skypecasts are a great way to learn different languages. The are live conversations with people of all around the world. Anyone with Skype can join a convesation and start talking about anything they want. I didn´t think it twice and started to look for a skypecast in norwegian. Unfortunately, norwegian is not a language very popular, so there´s no skypecast open for norwegian people. But I found that you can create your own skypecast. So I started my own skypecast called "Learning Norwegian". I met only one person that is from England, lives in Spain and was married to a Norwegian girl. All our conversation was in english, of course. But I learned that is not difficult to learn Norwegian when you are in Norway. He learned in the streets talking with people and says that if you know english, you can learn that language without problems... In my case, I have to try to learn it without being in the country, so may be Skypecast will help me in the future when I can say a ...

I´m trusting in a method i learned while I was trying to learn how to play Guitar. I didn´t know anything about notes, chords or music at all, but I toke the guitar and started to repeat the intro of Nirvana´s Smells like teen spirits. I repeated it all afternon that day, 1995 was the year and I had only 15 years counting. I found that if I repeatedly played a song with the cd playing it, it didn´t matter if I knew the chord´s names or anything, because later I can play the song perfectly all by myself. So, in this case, how I am suposed to learn phrases that I don´t understand? For sure I can know that "Ja" is "Yes", but I have no idea where is the "don´t speak" in the phrase: " Beklager, jeg snakker ikke norsk" . So i´m using the method. I repeatedly play the mp3 file in my iPod and let my ear accustom to the sounds. I can say without problems " Kan du hjelpe meg? " and I know I´m saying "Can you help me?" because it sounds...

Well, it´s a basic idea. It was Sunday, I was watching movies in my house with some friends and we started to watch " The Boy With The Incredible Brain " where they show a boy called Daniel Tammet who has a extremly impressive capacity of doing complex math operations and can learn a completly new language in only 7 days. They finish the movie showing how he learned Islandic in only 7 days. "Well" - I tought - "I would like to put a test to myself". I´m willing to learn a new language from zero and test my learning time in days. I have a finish line in March 2008, when I want to go to Europe for first time in my life. There I will visit Norway and test myself in real life. Well, let´s start, time is gold... Let´s find how to say "hello" in norwegian!