Norwegian Directions

[@knightsatin]

great to see you back with more of this amazing language. I think the tone of Norwegian is more difficult than the pronounciation :)

[@Altaria01669]

Hei Karin! I'm from Spain and I want to learn Norwegian. Your videos are very usefull for it! Thank you so much for your work!!

[@somethingsmatter]

great video~! I love learning sentences! I would love more videos where I get to hear whole sentences... maybe you could do some "learn norwegian" videos with a friend, so we can hear more conversations?

[@kani92]

karinnnnn omg. so happy to see you! and....i'll probably never have to speak norwegian but, i guess it's nice to learn diff languages just for the fun of it. thanks! =D

[@jtmar]

Awesome! Karin is back with another Norwegian lessons! Thank you!

[@Blackbent]

Hey! This was a nice surprise, way to long since the last Norwegian class! And this was as god as I meant to remember it was. Good to see you Karin, hugs Bent... :)

[@GermanSniperBayArea]

i could listen to you speak Norwegion all day... your so beautiful

[@NorwegianTeacher]

nice of you to still be here

[@WilliamJacobsenMusic]

@Crienexzy just a little tip: it's actually written "Resturanten" that means no a after "rest".. :) btw, are you actually norwegian?

[@123Tarnia]

nice, hi again, its M ik. from the uk. it does seem that your words do have connections to English, you can see how English evolved its fantastic. Thank you, for what you are doing.

[@creasicle]

Wahey, I'd been waiting for some more Norwegian lessons. Also can I ask when the suffix "et" is at the end of a word like "galleriet" or "biblioteket" is it always pronounced like EH with the t silent, I always wonder about that. Thaaaanks.

[@mrfazer6]

Takk, very helpful. How's the weather in Norge now? Getting cold? Here in Toronto it's just a little above 0 C.

[@MykyLovesRevAgony]

I'm a big fan of your videos! You're doing a great job :) The Norwegian accent is very difficult to learn :(

[@NorwegianTeacher]

Toronto is just a littlebit warmer than norway! We are just below 0 some days, and just above other days!

[@dualisima]

Im from Spain and love the Norwegian lenguage ! Tusen Takk

[@HojoOSanagi]

@Hibbicon Right, because Germanic languages don't steal words from Latin languages and vice versa I.e. Such as there being many Germanic words in Spanish due to the settlement of the Visigoths during the 5th century AD, and English having many French words due to the Norman Invasion in the 11th century AD. The Norse people had made contact with many Latin speaking countries (France, Spain, Sicily, Germany during Roman and Frankish times)as well and probably brought back some of their vocabulary

[@Hibbicon]

My translation: "Where can I find the concert ? I am going to the concert! Follow up the street for 200 meters. Upstairs second floor to the left! " Am i right ?

[@kosapeti]

sweet, welcome back! vilkomme tilbake (or so)

[@Nissehultan]

Yay iam glad to see you Karin i hope life is well! this video was great all though i allmost knew every word:P

[@multivan2001]

Thank you for this new lesson. In the last summer me and my sons had a road trip across Norway (look my vids). Norway is so beautiful. You are livin' in the country of my dreams. People are very friendly there. In my opinion the norway language is easier to learn than the danish language. Do you agree? Mange takk. Hilsen fra Kiel. Nils and family.

[@ratedwhat]

all the world missed you :D LOL . and thanx for the cool videos & keep it up ^^

[@HojoOSanagi]

@headhunter544 @headhunter544 They sound close enough to know that there is some sort of relation. Bibliotek sounds exactly the same in French as it does in Norwegian, just with a different accent; avis (opinion or a notice/announcement) is the same just without the pronunciation of the s; and etasje and étage (eh-tazh) are even closer than words from Italian, another Latin tongue. i.e. Simply Fr=Simplement It=Semplicemente. Toalette is even the French Toilette pronouncing the e at the end.

[@jmljasmine]

Thanks! I enjoy your video's.

[@snakelemon]

Hey. I like your videos very much. :) But I noticed some Norwegians pronounce the "og" as "o" or "uh" and you pronounced it as "ohk". Does it matter how you pronounce it?

[@RebelLeroy]

you saved my life again

[@IsThatTruth]

I love your VDO. best teacher .Tusen takk :)

[@7002ygroj]

Jeg heter Jon. Jeg laere norsk men jeg snakker litt. I can read Norwegian ok but it's good to hear pronunciation. please do more lessons. They are appreciated. Tusen takk!

[@beautyteen15]

very helpful i like your norwegian videos but i think if you would have done the words seperate like without the slash it would have been a little easier (for me) to recognize. but i like your videos takk! :D

[@tlotr1379]

Takk! I actually understood the Norwegian! Yay :)

[@neophytetroll]

@Cubanheadbanger Is it like Heavy Metal? I have to hear this

[@JockoBarbone]

Very interesting. Thanks very much.

[@NorwegianTeacher]

thanks Emma

[@NorwegianTeacher]

bacause thats how we do it. Is written like the french (?) but we say it with a "g". Just like in the word interesting. "interesant" we say it like "interesang" :/

[@4thina4ngel]

YAY du er tilbake! :D vi savnet deg!

[@NorwegianTeacher]

haha, where will you move? :D

[@HojoOSanagi]

Norwegian is somewhat like French: Etasje=Étage, bibliotek=bibliothèque, interesant, avis en Français est opinion which is what you state in a newspaper, so that kind of has a correlation as well.

[@WilliamJacobsenMusic]

You're right, and haha.. I found out a while after this I was wrong, it's actually "restauranten" :)

[@NorwegianTeacher]

Love you Lou

[@NorwegianTeacher]

haha, thanks you so much

[@neophytetroll]

@Cubanheadbanger I agree

[@metalgrinch]

very helpful, thanks!

[@Radjehuty]

so awesome/strange/funny how easy it is to translate things literally in to English and yet so difficult for us English speakers to pronounce. I can do it if I concentrate enough...but to say it so quickly in sentences I probably sound like I'm drowning in water

[@FrozenMermaid666]

It’s very easy, Norwegian being one of the easiest languages ever, just as easy as English and Dutch, and Old Norse and Icelandic and Faroese and Danish and Swedish are also super easy to learn, but one must be used to the words and one must know all the words well, to be able to pronounce them with a Norwegian accent - the right pronunciation and accent should come naturally when one gets to a native speaker level or at least to an advanced level, especially if one learns each word with its pronunciation, and if one gets to hear each word many times over a period of time, as one must develop an automatic mode in the new language(s) first, which takes a lot of éxpòsure to the new language or languages, and listening to / watching a lot of videos spoken in Norwegian while reading the sub in Norwegian also helps a lot! By the way, here’s an important pronunciation tip for all speakers whose first language is English - to pronounce languages such as Norwegian and Swedish as well as Old Norse and Icelandic and Faroese in a natural and native way, one must relax all the muscles involved in speaking, because these five languages use a normal / relaxed type of pronunciation which does not require the muscles involved in speaking to be tensed up, unlike English / Dutch / German / Danish / French / Brazilian Portuguese, which use a non-relaxed pronunciation that requires the speaker to tense up the muscles involved in speaking! So, to be able to pronounce languages such as Norwegian naturally and natively, one must ‘forget’ about English pronunciation, so to speak, and pronounce the Norwegian words without tensing up the muscles involved in speaking, in other words, just pronouncing the Norwegian words in a normal / relaxed way, while imitating the intonation and the way of speaking of ppl speaking Norwegian, and, to pronounce languages such as Dutch or German or Danish etc naturally and natively, one must keep the muscles tensed up, just like in English, while imitating the intonation and the way of speaking of ppl that speak Dutch / German / Danish etc - it’s also very important to learn all the pronunciation rules first, and to learn all the words with their pronunciation, and to revise them many times, over a period of time, until they can all be remembered and processed automatically, as developing an automatic mode in the new language(s) is also equally important, as is relaxing or tensing up the muscles involved in speaking, depending on the language!

[@galstrim]

Great Video :) Lag flere - ikke gi deg nå!

[@NorwegianTeacher]

Well, the numbers and counting is very different! And the pronoucniation is really hard i think! But a part from that i think its almost the same :)

[@eduardobaiaopimenta]

Tusen Takk Frøken Karin.

[@discountinn]

Karin, Why do you pronounce 'Restauran[t]en' at 0:22 as 'Restauran[g]en'?

[@NorwegianTeacher]

haha of course you do! :)

[@WilliamJacobsenMusic]

@discountinn Tip from a actual norwegian: the formal way to pronounce it is Rest(no A)uranten, but almost everyone pronounces it "Resturangen" think of it like "resturanten" is british, and "resturangen" is american!

[@MariaGriggs8]

great

[@Streekable]

nice ending

[@HiramAvila]

Make a video about ''Norwegian Black Metal'', the biggest cultural export from there.

[@jrkovar]

Is she teaching Bokmal or Nynorsk? I guess Bokmal, but want to be sure.

[@NorwegianTeacher]

bokmål :) But I must say, a lot of my videos are mostly Oslo-dialect, which is close to bokmål, but not completely written-correctly! But it will work ;)

[@snakelemon]

I meant they pronounce it as "ooh" not "uh" :d

[@NorwegianTeacher]

Jeg vet ikke! :O Vi må planlegge

[@NorwegianTeacher]

haha :D thats nice :D

[@SralleJD]

like vakker som alltid..

[@WilliamJacobsenMusic]

@Cubanheadbanger Fuck yeah :D Dimmu borgir is awesome!

[@Hibbicon]

@HojoOSanagi Well, no. It´s a Germanic language.

[@discountinn]

Thanks! That is weird :)

[@michelvds1128]

Hey Karin, I can't find your facebook group anymore?

[@NorwegianTeacher]

Michel VDS Hello! I have just changed the name of it. Im sorry if this confuses you. facebook.com/NorwegianTeacher :)

[@mivdschu]

Norwegian Teacher - Karin Thanks Karin! I hope to visit Norway by car this summer! Maybe we can meet. It seems the South of Norway has good scuba diving sites! (by the way I changed my youtube accounts name for privacy)

[@s10gi]

I have never said: "im going to the movies" when I want to go to the "cinema" ;)

[@WilliamJacobsenMusic]

@Cubanheadbanger yeah, it's awesome! :D though most of us listens to pop, hiphop and dubstep.. :( probarly about 20-30% of us listens to black metal :P I'm one of the 20-30%!

[@HiramAvila]

black metal's great,and other types of music are cool too.its all a matter of taste ;)

[@NorwegianTeacher]

****velkommen***

[@joseluisarmenta]

can we date or something?

[@HiramAvila]

@neophytetroll yeah its the grimmest,darkest,coldest form of heavy metal.the most uncomercial music in the world.but none of that has anything to do with this cute girl

[@creasicle]

Ha ok don't want to appear too refined, we're not learning Danish!

[@NorwegianTeacher]

Hello you

[@NorwegianTeacher]

always a silent T in all the words i could think of. But "pretty people" would pronounce the T :P But those people we joke with :P The "upper class" you know? :P

[@NorwegianTeacher]

velkomme, otherwise good norwegian ;)

[@NorwegianTeacher]

;) :D

[@joshelder7113]

Thank you so much I got a girlfriend yay

[@mutawakkeladam609]

lære Karin haggle bra

[@yurippenet]

You can tell that she is Norwegian... duh xD Anyways, I guess this is good if you want to learn specific phrases, however, maybe you should include some grammar. Stå på =)

[@mkoo33]

sweet (girl) :)

[@shakeelmastoi8110]

try to speak English