Learning a new language is exhausting. Reading, writing, listening, recognizing, speaking – it will make you tired, frustrated, and overwhelmed. You don’t understand the road signs, you can’t tell if your neighbor is a gentleman or a shyster, and when you try to relax with some TV, even the children shows seem to be mocking you. Åse-Berit and Rolf Strandskogen are professors at the University of Oslo, Norway, and they teach Norwegian as a foreign language. Thankfully, from their experience has come a book for us foreigners (utlandinger).
Outline
I Parts of Speech
- Verbs
- Articles
- Nouns
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Pronouns
- Conjunctions
- Interjections
- Numerals
- Prepositions
II Sentence Elements
III Sentence Structure
IV Word Order
Why is this book important?
Test Case: Prepositions
You don’t think much about prepositions until you have to learn another language. In Norwegian, the word “om” means “about” in English. So the phrase “Boka…
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