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Learn about the Norwegian Language.
To further complicate things, two of the languages are known by two different names, bokmål/riksmål and... nynorsk/landsmål. Click on the link above to hear the Norwegian artist, Odd Nordstoga, sing a song in nynorsk/landsmål. The third language is Sami and is spoken mostly in the utmost northern part of Norway. The three extra vowels in the Norwegian language.... Oh yes, Norway has three extra letters... Doesn't that look like fun? You can't speak or write much Norwegian without these three little vowels. Norway Village Street Scene. (above) Learn more about the Norwegian language and the dialects of Norway...
Norway has hundreds of dialects. The further away from your village or town you go, the bigger the difference in dialects. It is so pronounced, you can hear immediately what area people are from by the way they speak. Sometimes Norwegians have a hard time understanding each other. This sounds like a joke, but listen to this... My mother speaks riksmål Helgeland's dialect, totally different than the way I speak, in my landsmål Isfjord's dialect, but we do understand each other. He-He
Which Norwegian language is spoken in most rural areas? My children and I spent one year in Norway when they were 9 and 10 years old. They attended the same school I went to as a child. When the Norwegian pupils had English classes I taught my children Norwegian in a separate class room. Now as adults, they both speak Norwegian. Students from all over the world come to Norway to study. If you want to learn something – you can!
Foreign Students Skiing in Norway
I began learning English on my own when I was nine years old. English was not part of the curriculum the first six years of education in the public schools then. One day when I was out with my friends, English tourists, a couple from Cape Town, South Africa, spoke to me and pointed to our beautiful Romsdal mountains. Well, I made new friends, but we really didn’t understand each other. I gave them my address and they began sending letters to me. Dad helped me write letters to them in the beginning. I quickly realized that if I wasgoing to correspond with my new friends I had to learn English. Dad gave me a book on learning English and I was hooked. As a Norwegian, I had to work extra hard differentiating between v and w and making the th sound as in the word the correctly. It took awhile, but I mastered it eventually. Well, that is almost true, sometimes I have problems with v's and w's - I think it is a Norwegian thing. I discovered early, if you want to learn something, you will.
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WHAT? - Extra letters in the alphabet?
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I learned a lot of English on my own. When English became part of my curriculum in school - it was a breeze. 
