Learn Norwegian! Lesson #1

[@lexiwdrff]

when you wanna understand skam without subtitles...

[@pkdianne]

I found myself on youtube

[@emma-pb3sc]

alexis marie samer

[@howdoesanaeroplane]

Use duolingo (an app); it's got a really good Norwegian course/thing

[@clarissetrognot2823]

haha yes you're right

[@caja7827]

alexis marie lol

[@xxwolflxx7602]

I want to watch skam but I can't do subtitles

[@svvetlanalana]

omg lol Skam brought me here too

[@ninajovicic9015]

Xx Wolf lXx lmao same

[@emmabackus9804]

Oh my god same

[@ryanseditz7110]

Xx Wolf lXx sameee lmaoo

[@jaidaalarcon3179]

You can watch it on daily motion just search Skam with English sub titles

[@onika__3841]

seems like a lot of us are here after Skam

[@francesca9470]

lmao that's me

[@maintwitter3430]

Hallaa true

[@caragangriffindon5008]

seems like ALL of us are here after Skam

[@dre1434]

tf yeah i’m only 2 years late

[@NASAE-wt1ec]

i'm not. :)) i'm here cuz i need to learn norvegian :))

[@dagbjortlinn3872]

Anyone here just to learn Norwegian and not because you want to watch skam without subtitles (totally first world problems) cause me

[@jonneknoop5486]

s a m e

[@lestatdelioncourt5550]

I want both.

[@bakaiggy]

No idea wtf Skam is but apparently it's very popular.

[@evagrace8891]

Dagbjortlinn nah it's so I can understand Marcus and Martinus' vlogs and their music video

[@ДмитрийКончаков-п5ы]

Dagbjortlinn, I have known about SKAM BECAUSE I started to learn Norwegian. I'm just a language fan and I can relax with this language after Asian languages.

[@Currituckduckman]

I work for NATO and I'm in Stavanger...the Norge army folks have been trying to teach me at work how to speak Norwegian but you hit the nail on the head...Love how easy you make this! Helps that you are prettier than them too. lol

[@jensjensen8021]

Michelle Alexandra do you give other than language lessons on skype?

[@drmosen5557]

Michelle Alexandra I tried to sent Email that u have written here but couldn't send. How to contact you as i want to take some norwegian course.

[@4cer356]

+Michelle Alexandra i want for go norway ^_^ and you helping me i am 9-old

[@jesusrolandohernandezperez4381]

+Michelle Alexandra Hola soy de Mexico me gustas

[@facebookdownloadsfacebook5785]

+nk channel ' km

[@alexvolpe2575]

Having 3 years of German under my belt, Norwegian looks a lot easier than I expected

[@jessicasitorus4066]

It's expected

[@vinta1371]

My Minnesotan accent definitely helps pronounce certain vowels. Hopefully I sound a little less American.

[@AlexandraHietala]

Same xD

[@samiradek7547]

sven updated

[@duff0120]

norwegian-american ?

[@maximus4375]

Duff01 -pssssst- You would think the guy named Sven would be... SVENSK???

[@MarkyTeriyakiShorts]

Make Norwegian official in Minnesota.. do it for the norskies :v

[@Sol_Badguy_GG]

Everytime I hear "My name is" my brain always come up with "slim shady". DAMMIT EMINEM

[@freya5168]

OMG YES

[@reagann5019]

Sol Badguy lmai

[@maximus4375]

Just say that people will believe you for sure

[@MarkyTeriyakiShorts]

*record scratch*

[@wartortle577]

Oh how I wish I can speak Norweigen... I wish to live in Norway one day... so this video will be helpful. Thank you for making it easy.

[@sjefen9635]

Old Camper ha man du forstår ikke hva jeg sier!!

[@lealunde]

Old Camper haha you don't want to live here, no, it's fucking freezing all year round, it rains a lot to

[@wartortle577]

@Lea Lol I live in New York. It's pretty much the same here too except we get short summers.

[@bojohnson5675]

That's my dream too. Need to get out of the states. Live in Minnesota so used to the cold

[@theakanin4136]

bo johnson that's funny. I'm Norwegian and my dream is to visit the United States xD

[@art-tour]

Norwegian language it is not easy especially for latin people, but the teacher it is very clever (in this video). Thank you very much lady for your effort.

[@ricardopieper11]

I agree, I speak portuguese (i'm from Brazil) and the norsk language has a completely new set of words, but its syntax, its structure seems to be very easy to understand, and verbs are not conjugated: once you learn the verb you can start using it. That's very nice :D

[@art-tour]

Ricardo Pieper In the beginning it is easy. Wait till you have to learn how to write and pronounce hundreds of verbs... tell me after that how is going on. However I end with the conclusion that it is easier than German.

[@ricardopieper11]

ramona rorvik I'll do it if I remember, but I think this is not easy in any language (some may be easier than others, of course). But yes, i'm in the very beginning, there is a long way to go. I also plan to learn Russian (and german), and I know a German and English teacher who was born in ukraine, he also knows Russian and he said that it is even harder to learn than German... so the difficulties shall not stop one from learning a language.

[@art-tour]

Ricardo Pieper Take your time. About 3 years for Russian to be fluent..... Cross fingers for you.

[@safiabah4375]

Hei Michelle nice video is helpful nice language I like Norwegian language so much tusen takk..

[@Yagiselys]

Any skam fans

[@floatingtrash7831]

Yagiselys Rodriguez meee

[@caja7827]

floating trash yesss

[@WOMMYISM]

Yagiselys Rodriguez right here sis 😭😂

[@lestatdelioncourt5550]

Hallo

[@maonglemlaimsong1888]

Here!

[@LeporidaeanDream]

A perfect word for training Ø is Burn! In the english Ø I notice the tongue goes backwards approaching the R in burn, but in norw. you just relax it. The R sound is something we notice right away with americans speaking norw, the tongue must be in normal position and dirring up and down :]

[@DavidFelipe03]

That's true, and also bird and hurt can work

[@MeffyPiMe]

it's this phoneme 3:

[@gigers2775]

I'm ready to be a Nord and protect Skyrim.

[@cozyvoyage5142]

FUS RO DAH!

[@cozyvoyage5142]

Justin Thomas Skyrims my favorite game. :D

[@cozyvoyage5142]

Justin Thomas Thanks m8

[@williamlindroos1250]

XD

[@mustivil8765]

Yussssss

[@empetre]

Ø like the "i" in Bird, or the "u" in Burn

[@mikejjohnson5547]

I am Dutch. And i can understand what she is saying without reading the subs. Dutch and Norska 60% the same. Tot much respect for you Michelle helping people to understand and talk the Norwegian Language . Much Love

[@whalien1756]

Skam fans be like...

[@maryjanemiral23]

Uni Corn dazmmmmmm

[@kingred2741]

Uni Corn me

[@chakrika8391]

LMAOOOO 😂😂💀💀💀💀

[@Sara-bs9rz]

Im dying 😂😂😂😂

[@maximus4375]

Wow it feels like everybody is just learning Norwegian for skam.....

[@GirlDed]

Someone saying the Norwegian alphabet sounds super intense if you don't have an ear for it.

[@tigersfan3411]

my grandparents were Norwegians. it is an incredibly easy language.

[@cjdabes]

The reason for the H preceding words like "hva" probably derives from its mother tongue of Old West Norse (west for Iceland and Norway, East for Swedish and Danish) where the word is "hvað." It would be pronounced "hwath" (th like in there) in Old Norse/Old Icelandic and more like "kvath" in later Icelandic (closest linguistically to Old Norse).

[@CDEbFGAbB]

The inserted H in question words like where, when, who, what, which, why, and even others like whether, etc... might have the same explanation, I guess.

[@cjdabes]

Considering that English and Old Norse are both from the Proto-Germanic languages, that would make sense. Keep in mind that Proto-Norse speakers and Proto-English speakers would have used similar writing systems called the Futhark (after the first 6 letters of the alphabet system). Old English words would have been equivalent to Old Norse, generally. Old English hwæt is pretty similar to Old Norse hvat and both go back to Proto-Germanic hwat.

[@stekeln]

Until relatively recently the Swedish question word 'vad' ('what') was spelled like 'hvad'

[@aig1111]

thanks for the video. Difficult language though. I tried and just suffered from cramps on my tongue.

[@asa-manredbeard4710]

awesome....first I gotta say, I love you. Secondly, I definitely like the Hebrew comment. And lastly, because I am an American, born and raised, yet Norwegian descent, I am really wanting to learn my native ancestor language. My only request is if you can slow it down a bit and not fly through it like sonic. In closing, Michelle, you did a great job and are doing a great thing. I am sure our ancestors would be proud of what you are doing.

[@bighands69]

There are free online learning out there for Norwegian and then there is Babbel but that costs about $8 a month or there about but it is an amazing language resource. My suggestion is to use the free Norwegian learning out there one of them is run by the university of NTNU www.ntnu.no/ If you combine the likes of the free learning with videos like this you will fly through it. Norwegian has similarities to English to the point that you may actually see what is being state without actually knowing it fully.

[@defjules]

You had me at "no conjugating verbs" !!!

[@sxnflowers_95]

Thank you so much for making these lessons! I watched them for the first time when i started Norwegian (like 9 months ago) and they really helped soo much with pronunciation and introducing me to the language and grammar and everything. Du er kjempefint! Tusen takk!

[@CherylEnderson]

anyone here beacause of skam?

[@ashleyswart4554]

Legit, they are trying to take away English subtitles. i can't do that.

[@okayjasmin7296]

dats exactly the reason why I'm here 😂😂

[@CherylEnderson]

Ashley Swart wait how are they going to take away the subtitles?

[@roseCcullen74]

Yep

[@LUNA63042]

Cheryl Enderson ......i m also here for Skam

[@lulualghoul8304]

How do you say, "Can you give me a ride? My polar bear broke down." =3

[@MLDnyB]

nick mulcahey Kan du gi meg en tur? Min isbjørn brøt sammen.

[@lulualghoul8304]

lol idk when I'm actually going to use that but thanks.

[@minniethemoocher7730]

Johanna Mogaard lmfao

[@thisreddd2088]

Kan jeg sitte på med deg? Polar bjørnen min er ødelagt. =3

[@empetre]

Polarbjørnen, faktisk? Isbjørn, kanskje? :)

[@to-ud9yh]

Best Norwegian tutorial I've found. Well done! Fantastic structure and realistic content. Most I've seen have been random sentences. Thank you so much!

[@Seashellsbytheseashore21]

Thanks for the lesson. This seems fairly simple so far. Almost sounds a bit like German but less confusing.

[@ellagoodrich3523]

gotta watch skam without subtitles

[@nusratjahantithi9698]

youtu.be/addme/86rt-G11Qra7YLaXjvHwVa3ZeyGqRA

[@nusratjahantithi9698]

you can see skam with English subtitles in dailymotions.com this website

[@maximus4375]

Dude really since when is skam a big thing outside of Norway????

[@Patusable]

Beautiful language!

[@dontimotedelaplantxa7426]

Regarding the analogue english sound for /ø/: How about "her", "bird", "turn" etc? Would they make sense?

[@dakotademoss3523]

I'm going to Oslo in October next year. I just bought my plane ticket. Just watched the first lesson for my third time and I am looking forward to watching the others. Thank you very much for taking the time to do this. It is much appreciated.

[@facebookdownloadsfacebook5785]

+Kylie

[@markhirstwood4190]

love the casual swearing and jewish mother accent... seriously though, i still come back to this lesson from time to time to work my basics.

[@GEARSofLOWLIFE]

can't wait to understand black metal

[@Hedonite]

Lmfao

[@Fireglo]

ARRRRRRGHHHHH AHHHHHHHHH RAWRRRRRRRRR

[@Immortalthrone666]

I AM SO GLAD THAT THERE AREN’T VERB CONJUGATIONS! I’ve been learning German for a while and it’s SO complicated! EX: I write - Ich schriebe You write - Du schriebst He/She/They write - Er/Sie/Es schreibt We write - Wir schrieben Y’all/You guys write - Ihr schriebt You (formal)/they write - Sie/sie Schrieben And that’s only regular verbs in nominative case... it gets A LOT worse!

[@popo-sw8fy]

I've watched lots of "learning Norwegian" videos, but this is the best one!! So clear and intuitive.

[@anon5782]

im in love with norweigian but my acsent it sooo bad lol

[@rippinridley7876]

Accents don't matter- :)

[@bhoomikaramu9630]

EVAK.

[@existentialpotato]

bhoomika ramu EVAAAAAAAK

[@alexforman5304]

evak-uate

[@sue4977]

Evak is life ♡

[@Hanukkarachu8]

69 likes.. hm

[@atlantixmoon8798]

This is more important than my online classes..

[@MarkyTeriyakiShorts]

Do you take the classes at a Norwegian institution?

[@dn3rtinagra4w]

I decided to learn Norwegian, I try 50 languages, google translate, random webpages when I needed to learn a verb. But the issue with Norwegian is the accent. In other words, your videos are very very helpful to teach me how to pronounce, and you make things look easy when they are not. Keep the Good Job. Please don't stop the Norwegian Language videos.

[@susancourtney7717]

I heard the Norwegian language for the first time a few months ago and absolutely fell in love with it. I have watched many videos, and even bought a learning CD. However, I have to say that your videos make it easier to learn the language than anything else I have come across. Thanks so much.

[@procrastinartist2825]

This girl is gonna receive a lot of notifications bc of skam fans, like guys do we really have to take her back to 2010 lol like tarjei was only maybe like 11 lmao

[@Malak-px2le]

who the hella flippin' you fuckkk😂 you're right I didn't even noticed that 😂😂

[@jillopofte1350]

How I remembered to pronounce ø is to say the name Earl. 😄

[@surrfside]

sorta easy to remember, the words are a lot like german

[@svenlokistrack2362]

Hello Michelle, thank you for the lessons and being here :) I´m from Germany and its very cool to learn my two favorite languages at the same time by looking your videos :) Thanks.

[@jean-paulnormand7127]

oh my gosh! I love the way you teach! I am an instructor at college and I am looking forward to your next lesson!

[@jacksonshultis7974]

I found this very helpful because I wanna live in Norway

[@kevenjavdani4258]

Hard a bit but it's worth it to watch it all over again to learn it

[@gamohell]

Lol in Hungarian we have the Ö/Ő sound as well :)

[@m.thomas2810]

ahogy mondod 😎

[@666neoselen]

+Botmin most of norwegian letters are pronounced like french ones. yup. i can say it, 'cause i'm french.

[@SvargaFarm]

+666neoselen I'm offended

[@ybiqS]

Loved the morning hairdo in the beginning of the video. =) Dos aside, she has a very insipirational teaching style. Well done Michelle!

[@gregorycarson3889]

I love your videos I'm visiting your country in Sept I'm watching as many learning videos as possible yours seem the easiest to pickup on.

[@simplylessie1543]

LMAOOO SKAM HAS BROUGHT SOOO MANY PEOPLE HERE

[@thaincrediblemaier]

so ist that crossed out o like the german umlaut Ö ?

[@blackpearlEliza]

Pretty much yeah.

[@thaincrediblemaier]

that's cool

[@666neoselen]

+bad hair .day norwegian language come from danish, which have so much in common with german language. add a bit of english easyness and some french pronounciation of letters (not phonems) and you get norwegian (bokmål)

[@chlomationsowo4086]

Ø ø

[@MrTwinkie797]

Are you English or Norweigan? Both sounds great :)

[@piccolopoeta7159]

you are the best teacherof norsk from youtube. Respect.

[@donnariddle6182]

I just found your channel. This is very helpful. Are you still posting? Thank you for the lessons!

[@irmakyanmaz969]

Can you suggest any easy norwegian book for read 😊

[@banshebasmo5114]

irmabimk yanmaz

[@arcticmonkeys6567]

oo türk buldum

[@thedustysocks]

Who is Michelle too? xD

[@PriscilaAraujo124454]

So now Skam is obeing me to learn norwegian and I love it!

[@prom6767]

She's really cool and funny too. It's amazing how she can switch back and forth between English and Norwegian so smoothly. I'm trying to learn because anybody who's anybody speaks Norwegian;

[@fernandoestrada7055]

Planning a 2 week stay in Norway for March/April next year. This is definitely gonna help!

[@romeblanchard3419]

After watching 4 seasons of Skam in less than a week and you thought you could speak and understand Norwegian.

[@sattamalmutairi]

Rome Blanchard where can i found the 4 seasons?

[@saimarana5837]

What's the skam please tell me I m very new here I want to learn Norwegian badly I need this badly

[@depressedaf3603]

@@saimarana5837 It's a Norwegian teen show, you should absolutely watch it! Be careful tho, you might fall in love with the whole team of the show! 😂❤

[@saimarana5837]

Is it an online show or some tv show???

[@karizzarodriguez5806]

I’m only here because I looked up ‘Easiest Languages’ Anyone else?

[@iramejaj4611]

Me

[@klvt1291]

Me haahha

[@Zaory6734]

Yup, and because it sounds nice

[@nikolinamaracic7340]

**watches one episode of skam**

[@nusratjahantithi9698]

so sad i finish 4 season in 3 days

[@matthewbates1089]

Fantastic Michelle. Really well explained. Great lessons.

[@Wralkyrie]

Thank you for this, am planning a trip to Norway from Florida and wanted to touch up on my Norwegian language and social life. appreciate you providing this for free

[@jennymaddigan2821]

everyone is here for SKAM which i love but i’m here for marcus and martinus when they don’t speak english HAHAH

[@oliwiaflorek349]

Jenny Maddigan samee

[@mariaelisera]

Thumbs up if you are here because of Ylvis!

[@alinaschmetterling1303]

Tusen takk frøken (eller fru)! Ha en fin dag!

[@aboy2260]

God kvelt Michelle ! i just started norwegian 2 days ago and i am so happy to watch your videos ! it helps me a lot and i think it's a good way to begin ! Tussen Takk !

[@JessicaLovesFoxes]

I've been enjoying learning Norwegian and Dutch! ^^ Thank you for your Norwegian lessons, they help me! :)

[@esportsbulgaria6263]

Is this nynorsk?

[@FridaAune]

Nei :) It's bokmål.

[@esportsbulgaria6263]

frida Tusen takk :)

[@diz.420]

Omfg im lmao rn. I literally come because of Skam and half of the damn top comments are Skam fam comments.

[@cheya6970]

SKAM SKAM SKAM SKAM !¡!

[@ankur8290]

chelsea a wat is SKAM?

[@CultOvPleasure]

This is great. I can't seem to find any Norwegian classes where I live. So thank you very much for these.

[@TheRealFlenuan]

They're spelled with ⟨h⟩s in front because they used to be pronounced that way. Pretty much any time a language spells a native word in a way different from how it's pronounced, it's because the word used to be pronounced that way, but people have kept spelling it the same way despite different pronunciation.

[@dominikaadamowicz3812]

okay, it's harder than I thought. Well... skam with subtitles then

[@daariinaldjufrie2745]

i came here bcs of SKAM

[@beyza64hatice]

+QUADRI EYITAYO no dude you got it wrong SKAM is a Norwegian tv show

[@Lilbicc]

this kinda like French but hard! : / i pretty much got the alphabet down after watching it about 7 times! lol this is hard though!

[@Craftee6]

I got the alphabet after watching it once lol. But it's very similar to my native one, just 4 letters are different if we don't count 3 last not existing in english.

[@zukane256]

i got it before because im from norway #ÆØÅ

[@Lilbicc]

lol

[@ceryx6849]

I'm french and I started to learn Norwegian, and if French is as hard to learn, I'm really happy about being born with it in my brain because I wouldn't learn it on my own. (Hjernen min :p )

[@Lilbicc]

ya Papy garou i went to a french school so that helped me because wow its almost the same

[@suskuda]

Hi. I am learning Norwegian language now and your video is helping me lot to make it little bit easy for me. Thank you.

[@imagenotuploaded9862]

Thank you so much for these! I go to a camp where it's a Norwegian heritage camp and after two days we have to snukker Norsk. I can't wait until these year because it's my second time going and it's absolutely great! This was such a great way to review and learn some of the words! Tusen takk!

[@XXISecolo]

letter ø is prounced as 'ir' in english sir or girl

[@wes6363]

Only in the London dialect tho.

[@nayra3347]

tell me that im not the only person who's here because of skam

[@Tabascoblade]

"Hvordan gar det" sounds indian, kinda hate that but "jeg heter du" sounds fucking awesome as hell :D

[@theakanin4136]

IRON MAIDEN You just said "My name is you" in Norwegian xD

[@Tabascoblade]

Thea Flatnes lol still sounds fucking awesome xD

[@theakanin4136]

IRON MAIDEN Indeed😂

[@Tabascoblade]

@Gaurav Narodey no lol

[@festivenachos9147]

Thank you Michelle for being a resource. Just starting your classes now (2015).

[@ShinerTheDesigner]

I’m having trouble hearing much difference in the name of the letters O, U, and Y...

[@samthereup]

Skam brought me here

[@LearnNorwegianNaturally]

Very good video and definitely one of my inspirations for starting my own series! :) Feel free to visit my channel for more Norwegian lessons. It hasn't been new content uploaded for a few weeks now, but much more content will hopefully come soon! Hope to see you there!

[@Evld]

are you native norwegian?

[@theakanin4136]

Thirsty No. With my Norwegian ears I can definetely tell she's not Norwegian

[@harrietameliahanssen5077]

Nope, she can’t be.

[@traveldays3799]

Thank you so much for this, i couldnt find any books on the alphabet, my local book store doesn't sell any books and the only book my library has of learning norwegian is from 1908

[@icorex1]

Great vibes. Loved your first video.

[@Rayan-ok4yp]

Do it for skam!

[@jensjensen8021]

In the Capital city Oslo, the Norwegian language is soon to be an extinct language, due to immigration over the last 40 years from non western countries. In 10 years Oslo will be a city part of the middle east.

[@fredlindalen6674]

Driter vi nordmenn i, vi drar aldri. :)

[@DoubleAAmazin]

It's a damn shame, blame it on the Jews. Norway is not the only country, this is a pre-meditated attack on our people. I live in America, in Columbus OH, and when you go the grocery store you would think you were in god damn Saudia Arabia.

[@Sitomoen]

"Blame it on the Jews" why...?

[@jdemeulenaer123]

I just saw the same comment and also ask why blame it again on the Jews...blame what actually...the fact that going into a store and think it is god damn Saudi Arabia...what is the connection with the Jews.....????? A cultural ignorance here does exist....

[@DoubleAAmazin]

Fred Lindalen Lmao at ginger....I'm right there with ya

[@nisthamitra]

Yaaa I am here cuz of skam

[@sotirismaragos]

LMAO when you said about the mother from long island😂😂😂😂😂😂 I can't😂😂😂😂😂

[@evelyngantzoula6231]

Omg! You just saved my life! I love "Norsk" and Im glad that I found you for my teacher!❤

[@nehemiahwiseman3026]

I'm here bc of skam

[@cloudchildren1568]

here because of skam

[@g_ail_]

skam brought me here

[@adriankvb3083]

The numbers -pronounciation appear to be easier than in swedish. Very concise and clearly. This lecture i didn`t seen before. For everyday you most to be hard. I believe this.

[@alihasan-kf8ms]

Good job......... now a days i am learning Norwegian from your youtube vedio lesson. Thanks for your nice tutorial its really helpful