#1: En jente trekker en vogn (Slow Beginner Norwegian Listening Practice)

[@skoella9555]

These images look really adorable and make easier to comprehend the sentences you made. These videos are bless for such visual learnes like me. I appreciate your effort to prepare these videos. Tusen takk.

[@bildeglimt]

Thank you for the kind words and encouragement! It makes it easier to continue to make videos when I know it actually helps someone.

[@pinayhazelvlog]

@@bildeglimt du er greit! Tusen takk 😊👏👍

[@Mobynord]

I just discovered these videos - I have been searching for something just as this to aid my progress in Norsk. Bless you for these videos

[@ravitej6289]

I just discovered GOLD! Can't explain how satisfying it is to listen and watch you explain the scene. Took me back to my kindergarten days. This is exactly how I learnt my language. Certainly one of the powerful ways to pick up a language! And the art is so cute :)

[@bildeglimt]

Yay! Thank you for your kind words. This is how I learned my languages as well! Nobody explained the language, they just used it in simple ways.

[@celerya8365]

underrated channel - i wish i found this earlier, this is what i’ve been looking for for so long

[@bildeglimt]

Yay, welcome!

[@MN-ds5vc]

Hei, This channel is so underrated. Please, continue this amazing job you are doing here. It's helping me a lot. Tusen takk!

[@bildeglimt]

Thank you so much for your kind words, and thank you for watching

[@MN-ds5vc]

@@bildeglimt Vær så god! :D

[@CreatingcaliforniaBlog]

I have just found your videos today and they are exactly what I was hoping to find! Tusen takk!!

[@bildeglimt]

I'm so happy to hear that! If you ever notice anything weird or have any ideas for improvements, please let me know. Basically all of the improvements on this channel come from people letting me know about something so I can go away and ponder how to fix it.

[@CreatingcaliforniaBlog]

@@bildeglimt Sure, I'll let you know if I think of anything :)

[@iwanttolearnjapanese]

This is just so good! I discovered it a few minutes ago and it's perfect. Going slow, showing the pictures, speaking clearly and repeating it. Tusen takk. I hope your channel explodes!

[@bildeglimt]

Thanks so much! I've been slowly chipping away at the channel for a few years now. I'm not quite sure there are enough Norwegian learners for any sort of explosion, though :-)

[@kater-nka]

Thank you so very much for these, they are incredibly helpful but also fun and easy to digest!

[@sarahdawson975]

Just started learning Norwegian and my teacher recommended watching videos like this between lesson. So helpful! Tusen takk!

[@puddinken_]

this is SO useful, thank you very much for your easy and wholesome method❤️❤️

[@YourLuckyLor]

Tusen takk! With subtitles it is so much easier to learn new words :)

[@bildeglimt]

Yay. Thanks for the suggestion! I'll work on getting all of these subtitled, now that I have a workflow for it.

[@YourLuckyLor]

Wow, that would be great!

[@bildeglimt]

@@YourLuckyLor Number 2 and 3 are now subtitled. I'm planning on getting at least a couple more done every day, and hopefully by the end of the week all the beginner listening practice videos will have subtitles!

[@bildeglimt]

All the published "absolute beginner listening practice" videos have subtitles now. I'll be putting subtitles on all the beginner listening practice videos going forward.

[@nadeen1111]

This is exactly whats needed for natural acquisition, wow. You clearly understand how languages are learned, thus you can teach it so well ❤❤ i cant wait to dive into your beginner series. Your efforts here in your channel are outstanding, do you have a tip jar or patreon where we can show our gratitude? :D

[@bildeglimt]

Thank you so much for your kind words! I don't have a tip jar or patreon-maybe someday! In the meanwhile I'm simply grateful that you are watching and getting value from this!

[@cosy_teacups]

Lovely thank you for this cute and gentle video xx takk ❤

[@rastafella420]

Thank you for such simple but incredibly effective lessons. Your channel is a treasure. I will watch a video a day and this is going to be an amazing addition to my other practice. Repeating out loud after you makes it even more effective. This channel is so underrated. Most of teaching videos just list some thematic vocabulary, like for example "Norwegian colors" etc. Your way is natural and therefore much more effective and interesting. No translation, instead a comprehensive approach with visualization in a context. All needed pazzles for a successful language learning.

[@bildeglimt]

I'm so glad you're finding it useful.Thank you for your kind words!

[@professorclever6487]

This is excellent, just what I was looking for!

[@norsk736]

Tusen takk! Dette er så godt! Lærer norsk med dette😊

[@bildeglimt]

Så bra at det hjelper. Lykke til med læringen!

[@Aprender_idiomass]

Fantastik. Jeg å starte å lære Norge. Tusen takk ☺

[@bildeglimt]

Så bra! Lykke til med læringen. Jeg håper denne kanalen hjelper

[@taylanaKilinc]

Tusen takk ☺️

[@ellevehaler1758]

Tusen takk for disse videoene! 💜 I love Norwegian, it’s one of my favorite languages amongst the ones I’m learning, but I’m scared to speak. I’m not really confident when it comes to my pronunciation and I’m such a perfectionist so it gets hard sometimes. You make practicing it so fun and it motivates me to keep going so I’m going to work hard! 😌

[@bildeglimt]

I'm glad you're finding it motivating and useful

[@ellevehaler1758]

@@bildeglimt Omg, I admire you! Thai is so hard! The sounds, the tones, the letters… it’s on my list, but any other tonal language than Mandarin scares me. It’s not about hearing the difference because I have a perfect pitch so I actually hear the difference perfectly, but I cannot reproduce the sound. :( Same with Norwegian (ESPECIALLY U AND Y).

[@bildeglimt]

@@ellevehaler1758 For u, say the Norwegian i... now don't change anything inside the mouth, just pucker up your lips like you're going to kiss someone (except that you're not blocking the airflow). For y you say the u but you push your lips even further forward, like you're holding a pencil between your upper lip and your nose.

[@ellevehaler1758]

@@bildeglimt th-that’s the best explanation I’ve ever heard! It all makes sense now and it’s easy to apply!

[@bildeglimt]

@@ellevehaler1758 Winning :-D

[@1984...V]

Hello, I just discovered your lessons, great job, tusen takk! I have a question, could you explain to me please: en jente trekker en vogn - so, this "en" means that vogn is masculine, but jenta trekker vogna - in this case it's (vogna) feminine, right?

[@bildeglimt]

In the written language "vogn" is allowed to be treated as either feminine or masculine in bokmål, but if you're writing nynorsk then it has to be feminine. Spoken dialects, though, are much more varied, and in Norway a dialect is never considered wrong-you just generally don't write in dialects. There's at least one dialect that doesn't have the split between masculine and feminine nouns. They call it "common gender", but in practice it's the same conjugation as masculine nouns in bokmål. So in this dialect they'd say "en vogn / vognen". Some dialects consistently use "ei vogn / vogna". Then there's the rest of us, who will sometimes say one and sometimes say the other, sometimes even in the same sentence (as here). I sometimes say "ei vogn" and sometimes "en vogn", but I (almost?) always say "vogna".

[@1984...V]

@@bildeglimt Thank you for such a detailed answer!

[@muttlanguages3912]

Great as always! My only request is to give a little more time for a response when you ask a question. Jeg er ikke så rask!

[@bildeglimt]

Ah, that's super interesting! I'll definitely do that (I have quite a few of these recorded already, so it will take a bit of time before you see the results of that). Out of curiosity, are you trying to respond out loud, or just in your head?

[@muttlanguages3912]

@@bildeglimt out loud. Side note: everyone who sees me walking probably thinks I'm crazy

[@bildeglimt]

So, my mental model for these is that they're purely for comprehension, not for production. In other words, if you can understand them fully at the speed that I'm going, then I've achieved what I wanted for them. My mental model for "production" is that once you've acquired the necessary words and structures, then the answer will just "pop out" on its own accord. Probably not perfectly, at first, but pretty effortlessly.

[@muttlanguages3912]

@@bildeglimt fair enough. In that case, change nothing.

[@zelladellale2325]

Tusen takk

[@fandi1188]

Is it Bokmål ?

[@bildeglimt]

The answer to that is a bit complicated. Nobody in Norway speaks bokmål or nynorsk, because they are two different written standards, and they don't apply to the spoken language. Everyone in Norway speaks dialects, and there's no standard dialect. My dialect is very similar to what people in the area around Oslo speak.

[@fandi1188]

ok thank you ! @@bildeglimt

[@magdagesler7845]

Is it bokmål or nynorsk ?

[@bildeglimt]

It's a bit complicated. The simple answer is that it's neither, but the dialect is close to bokmål. The more complicated answer is that in Norwegian there are two written standards, but there is no spoken standard. Everyone speaks a dialect, and all dialects are considered equally acceptable. On television and on the radio you'll almost always hear a mix of different dialects. The dialect that I use is known as "Urban East-Norwegian" which is the collection of dialects found in the area in and around Oslo.

[@YourLuckyLor]

Well, that rain is heavy! Just realised.

[@bildeglimt]

Right? It's absolutely massive!

[@YourLuckyLor]

@@bildeglimt I hope their umbrellas are as strong as a shield

[@kateanderson5674]

Tack så mycket!)

[@bildeglimt]

Velbekomme!