How Can I Learn Norwegian in One to Two Months?
Here’s my opinon as a native Norwegian speaker who majored in communication studies and has studied a bunch of languages: Norwegian is a medium difficulty language. It’s not as easy as Spanish or Swedish, but not as difficult as Japanese or Latin. The grammar is fairly easy (though memorizing the gender of the nouns is a pain because we use masculine, feminine and neuter), but the main difficulty is in the pronounciation and vocabulary. A lot of Norwegian words mean different things when pronounced with slightly different accents, even though the spelling is identical or only slightly different. I’ve listened to a few of the Norwegian tapes, and they were atrocious. There are two official languages of Norway, norsk and nynorsk, and many variations that fall in between. What they speak on the tapes is the equivalent of Hoch-Deutsch or (extreme) Oxford English – except that nobody outside of the royal family speaks like that. The word choices are archaic and the pronounciation can be dow
