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NORWORD INFORMATION PLEASE SAVE THIS MESSAGE
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SEPTEMBER!
September has arrived, so it is time for the monthly NorWord
informational message. We want to let you know about the
upcoming weekly themes and monthly projects as well as to remind
you about how to unsubscribe, subscribe, postpone mail, and
restart mail. Most of you have been good about using the listserv
address to take care of these administrative tasks on your own,
leaving us with more time to write better lessons and correct your
homework. Thanks! We appreciate it.
The NorWord list currently has 1166 subscribers, and you represent
37 different countries. September should be an active time for the
list since the high school and college students will be returning
to campus and be back on-line.
Please save this message so you have the NorWord information when
you need it.
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WEEKLY THEMES FOR SEPTEMBER:
Sept. 4-10: Fall / Autumn
Sept. 11-17: School Life
Sept. 18-24: Extended Family and Friends
Sept. 25-Oct.1: Hometown
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LESSON FORMAT:
During the week the lessons consist of a phrase of the day, its
pronunciation, its meaning, a grammar topic, short texts written
by subscribers, and two short news items from P4 Radio in Norway.
There is also a special section in each lesson with rotating
topics: Culture Corner (Monday), Internet Corner (Tuesday),
Language Corner (Wednesday), Book Corner (Thursday), and the
Homework Corner (Friday). The Saturday lessons will be very
flexible so that we can use them to send you some Norwegian news,
short texts written by Norwegians about their daily lives, or
some projects done by Norwegian classes throughout the world.
If you have feedback or suggestions for us regarding the lessons,
we would appreciate hearing from you. Send to .
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SPECIAL PROJECTS:
During September, we will be soliciting contributions to the
NorWord lessons from Norwegian classes. The classes could create
the whole lesson for a Saturday, or contribute to smaller sections
of a lesson during the week, such as the Culture Corner, Book
Corner, Internet Corner, or Language Corner. In this way, students
in Norwegian classes will have a larger audience for their writing
and be able to make some contacts with people learning Norwegian
from around the world. If you are a student in a Norwegian class,
I would appreciate it if you would pass along this information to
your teacher. If you are a teacher, please contact me via e-mail
, and I will send you more detailed information
about this project.
We have also been corresponding with a teacher and students at
a Norwegian college which has a program for preparing Norwegians
to teach Norwegian as a Second Language. Starting in September,
they will be providing some material for the NorWord lessons
and/or be functioning as on-line tutors. If any of you know
any other native Norwegians who would like to submit material for
the lessons or be an on-line tutor, please contact me via e-mail
. We are especially interested in soliciting
short texts written by Norwegians of all ages about all aspects
of their everyday lives, such as hometown, leisure activities,
work, school life, holidays, eating habits, homes, family, etc.
It would be a fun project for school classes in Norway as well as
for individuals.
In the spring, we compiled a list of people interested in
corresponding with each other via e-mail. We plan to do this
again, but will wait until mid-September or the beginning of
October so we can include the college students who join the list
when they return to school.
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NORWORD SUBSCRIBERS:
The NorWord subscribers are a diverse group, and we have tried to
design the lessons so that they have something to offer to people
at different levels and with varying amounts of time to invest in
learning Norwegian. We have a large number of beginning learners
who are doing their best to learn the basics of Norwegian language,
but we also have a relatively large group of intermediate and
advanced learners who are using the lessons to help them review
and keep their Norwegian up to date. Some of the subscribers
spend quite a bit of time on each lesson, contribute homework to
the lessons on a regular basis and correspond with other
subscribers, while others have just time enough to take a quick
look at the lessons in the morning before work.
We appreciate your participation in this list and encourage you
to use it in any way that it fits for you.
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LIST OWNERS AND INFORMATION:
This project is a cooperative effort of the Less Commonly
Taught Languages Project (LCTL) at the University of Minnesota
and the Norwegian Teachers Association in North America
(NorTANA]).
Louis Janus is currently the
Network Coordinator of the Less Commonly Taught Languages
Project at the University of Minnesota. He has taught Norwegian
for many years, at a variety of levels.
Nancy Aarsvold is a Norwegian Instructor at
St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota and a board member for
the Norwegian Teachers Association in North America (NorTANA).
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Nancy Aarsvold | 1520 St. Olaf Ave.
Norwegian Instructor | Northfield, MN 55057
St. Olaf College | nårsvol@gac.edu
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Co-Manager of NorWord. Sends daily Norwegian lessons via e-mail.
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Return to NorWord
lesson index.
NorWord was originally written during summer and
fall of 1995, by Nancy Aarsvold (currently at St. Olaf College) and Louis Janus,
(currently at CARLA, U of Minnesota). The lessons presented above have been
edited to use proper æ, ø and å characters on the web.
An updated and improved version with sounds and grammatical explanations is
now available on KlikkNorsk
published by Skandisk. 
Contact Louis Janus with comments. Aarsvold and Janus hold the copyright © 2006.