Louis Janus
Louis Janus' website:
Finding books and resources for independent learners:
1. Web site has a list of recommended books.
http://norwegianlanguage.info/resource/selected.html
2. The web site has NorWord lessons (archives) created by Nancy Aarsvold and LJ in 1995. The archived lessons are available on the site.
Some links may be broken or missing, but the archives will be helpful to learners. http://norwegianlanguage.info/norword/index.html
3. NORTANA ( the Norwegian Researchers and Teachers Association of North America) maintains a database of text that our members use in Norwegian teaching.
(Most of these are for class-room settings, not independent study). You can search for materials by author(s), title, level, and type of resource.
Have a look at at NORTANA's database of material. Check out resources here: http://www.nortana.net/resources.textbook.html
4. The NORTANA readers' guides are meant for books clubs / individuals who are interested in reading books translated into English.
There are currently have 5 guides available. http://nortana.net/reading/index.html
5. As a general guide to electronic resources, have a look at Shelly Daum's collection of 1,000 helpful links; shared with his permission:
http://norwegianlanguage.info/resource/daum-links.html
6. Several books are reviewed on these pages by NorskKlassen member Norris Weimer http://norskklassen.ce-service.biz/reviews/
The Colloquial book is OK if it meets your needs. It is a solid work. Probably about the same (in approach, explanations etc), as "Teach yourself".
Also the "Hugo -- Norwegian in Three Months" is fine. (these are all on my website: http://www.norwegianlanguage.info/resource/selected.html
The Strandskogen grammar is quite good, too. Both my (link below) and Standskogens' is reviewed on Norskklassen's page:
http://norskklassen.ce-service.biz/reviews/verbs.htm
As for a dictionary, I always recommend: Einar Haugen's Norwegian-English Dictionary: A Pronouncing and Translating Dictionary
of Modern Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk) with a Historical and Grammatical Introduction
It is only Norwegian to English, and I am convinced that that is what beginners should stick to, until they are experienced enough with Norwegian
to choose among the Norwegian words if you look up an English word in an English-Norwegian dictionary.
If you insist on a dictionary that goes both ways, I recommend Lingua: engelsk-norsk, norsk-engelsk skoleordbok.
http://www.norli.no/NORLI_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?item=1612759 It is not available outside of Norway, as far as I know.
There are 30,905 messages in the NorskKlassen archive. You can search by topic, content, sender etc. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/norskklassen/
Become a member. This is a valuable resource since almost everything has been discussed at least once since Apr, 1999.
My project, the Less Commonly Taught Languages Project (at the University of Minnesota) has some sound files for Norwegian We offer about 20 clips
-- a few conversations (between a male and female), but most are monologues. http://www.carla.umn.edu/lctl/VAVA/audio/norwegian/
MVH Louis
Grammar Book:
Louis Janus' Verbs and Essential Grammar;
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/084428596X/103-9451378-3941434?v=glance
Enter Louis Janus in Search and find five more books and cassette.
Louis Janus' web site, http://norwegianlanguage.info/
http://norwegianlanguage.info/grammar/index.html Norwegian language Info:
Select, grammar, resources, Norword, nouns, verbs, word order, abbreviations, etc
http://norwegianlanguage.info/
Lists of common words by parts of speech:
http://norwegianlanguage.info/words/
common words list, flash card link:
http://norwegianlanguage.info/resource/ordtak.html - Norwegian sayings,'ordtak':
Pierre's verbs of the week."
http://norwegianlanguage.info/votw/index.html
NorWord elementary Norwegian lessons
http://norwegianlanguage.info/norword/index.html
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~janus005/freq.html - Fifty high frequency words.
Noun lists (by genders):
http://norwegianlanguage.info/grammar/en-nouns.html
http://norwegianlanguage.info/grammar/ei-nouns.html
http://norwegianlanguage.info/grammar/et-nouns.html
Verbs:
http://norwegianlanguage.info/grammar/common-verbs.html
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~janus005//commonverbs.html
http://norwegianlanguage.info/grammar/abbrev.html
list of abbreviations, also has Swedish and Danish.
About suffixes, prefixes, and compounds in Norwegian:
http://norwegianlanguage.info/words/norw-compounds.html
Nancy Aarsvold's Online Norwegian Advent Calendar: Norwegian Christmas traditions and songs. See the online Norwegian Advent Calendar.
For each day in advent, there is either a new Christmas song or information in Norwegian and English about Christmas traditions.
http://norsknett.typepad.com/jul2008/
Page comparing dictionaries:
http://norwegianlanguage.info/resource/dict-compare.html
Resources: Type in a textbook title and get details:
http://nortana.net/resources/textbook.html
Database of LCTL offerings at
North American colleges / universities (as well
as k-12, distance ed, summer courses) at
http://carla.umn.edu/lctl/db
Norwegian courses: Click 'Resources', then 'LCTL Course Database'
Check individual links for accurate info..
http://www.carla.umn.edu/
Teaching Resources - Sounds and pictures free for teachers to use:
http://carla.umn.edu/LCTL/materials/language/norwegian.html
Distance courses here:
http://nortana.net/programs/distance.html
Hear 100 female names pronounced:
http://carla.umn.edu/lctl/VAVA/audio/norwegian/female-names.html
Male names:
http://carla.umn.edu/lctl/VAVA/audio/norwegian/male-names.html
http://www.ssb.no/navn -- the Statistisk sentralbyrå.
historical popularity of names, charts by fylker, articles about names.
Look up how popular a first or last name is
Naiv Super by Erlend Loe:
Click below and scroll down and click on Naiv Super to read
more about the book. Nelson's edition (below) has notes and a wordlist.
http://www.norwegianlanguage.info/resource/selected.html
http://www.nelsbok.com/publications/ Read descriptions of Naiv Super and
Jernvognen and order the books, with notes and wordlists. Also Jernvognen
in English
collection of "False Friends". a list
http://norwegianlanguage.info/words/false-friends.htm
NRK Radio Widget:
http://www.kise.com/widgets/NRKradio/
A widget, a feature of Mac OS X, to
listen to NRK, faster than going to NRK.NO
and selecting a program.
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~janus005/3languages.html - About learning 3 Scandinavian languages.
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