Listening & Reading Sites



http://norskklassen.ce-service.biz/sounds-t.htm (sound files, pronunciation aid)

http://www-bib.hive.no/tekster/ekstern/denstorefesten/index2.html
Click on a language - Listen while you read a story, Den Store Festen.

audio clips of news; listen and fill in the blanks: http://www.norwords.com/news/

http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/norwegian/quiz/index.html Listen and try quiz

http://www.hf.uio.no/ilf/forskning/medvoice/index.html Read and listen. Click on the speaker icon next to text. Minimize the player or move the window
out of the way to view the text while you listen.

http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/nos/kilde.html Excerpt from 'Nordavinden og Sola' Listen to different dialects reading the same passage.
Print out the passage; Click on 'Liste', Select a .mp3 file; Listen and follow along with the printout.

http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/kategori/587
"Stemmer fra Litteraturen", "Voices from the Literature", a link to a NRK site with many TV interviews and sound files with voices of Norwegian authors.

Read and Hear about Living:
bo - Read various elements of living, owning, renting, etc. Click on the Norwegian flag and hear the text spoken.
Watch videos and hear discussions in norsk. Repeat everything to improve your understanding.
http://www.husbanken.no/migra/index.html

http://www.nrk.no/magasin/magi/radio/snop/barnetimeboka/805554.html Read childrens story while listening to it read aloud.
Click on kapittel 1, then click on the title to hear it. Also Hangman and other games.

http://www.hf.uio.no/ilf/forskning/medvoice/help.htm - Five lessons to read and hear; click on 12345 to read and listen.

http://www2.blikkboks.no/lydarkivet/ - Children's listening site. Hear songs, poems, folk tales
in English, Norwegian, German.

http://www.nrk.no/kanal/nrk_p2/barnetimen/499285.html Children's
songs.....Under "Lyd og Video" Click on '.......med sang' to hear the words and sing along.

http://www.martinroe.com/tune.htm - Traditional Norwegian music - Listen to midi files.

http://www.gyldendal.no/abc/ - ABC reading level - Click on 'Lesehjørnet', they read aloud slowly, and highlight the words as they read them. Simple letter-play.

"Kjerringa med Staven" - folk song, listen to a MIDI file and see the music;
http://www.musicaviva.com/piano/music.tpl?filnavn=kjerringa-g-pno2
http://www.hf.ntnu.no/anv/hjemmesiderifas/Olafstoff/DIV/Eventyr/eventyr.htm - Read and listen:
East of the Sun and West of the Moon - ¯stenfor sol og vestenfor måne - eventyr.

http://www.nrk.no/programmer/sider/spraakteigen/ Click on 'Hør' - radio

http://www.pavei.cappelen.no/2/7.html - hear vowels pronounced. click twice.

http://www.fillipmoberg.no - Listen & read Fillip Moberg's 'De Levende og de Døde'; move mouse until you see text on the computer screen;
click on the screen, next, To listen & read,
look below the chapters and click on "De Levende og de døde- lyd",
then on 'MP3' of the chapter you want to hear,
then click 'back' to previous page and click the 'kappitel' you want to read. (fast speaker)

http://www.gamlenaboar.uib.no/hovedmeny.htm (Click on gears....stone age,
middle ages, bronze age.......read and listen to sound files(scroll down to 'Spill Lyd.)


Sites with audio files:
http://www.transparent.com/languagepages/Norwegian/FsNorwegian.htm - Hear Norwegian
phrases pronounced.

http://www.nb.no/emigrasjon/film/n_film_pro2.html - Hear immigrants conversations.

http://norskklassen.ce-service.biz/sounds-t.htm - Hear pronunciation of Norwegian alphablet.

http://www.nb.no/english/digital_stories - Tiny Traces- informative tributes to kronprins Olav, Sigrid Undset, the Sami; the Promise of America-
the immigrant story; Story of Amundsen, the south pole. Photos, text, audio and video presentations.

http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/nos/?list Nordavinden og Sola spoken in Norway's dialects.

http://www.lydbokforlaget.no/ - listen to clips from audiobooks - variety from childrens, classics, crime, biographical, etc. Also purchase audio cassettes or cd's.
You can select forfatters (authors) and hear excerpts from books, like Ari Behn reading his own 'Trist som Faen"

http://downloads.mao.no/lydbok/index.html - audiobooks to buy, several of which have samples to download and listen to.

http://www.lydbokforlaget.no/katalog/alder.html#4 - audio books listed by age, from
2-12 years old. A large collection of stories. Listen to samples

http://www.nordisk-sprakrad.no/nsr_ligheter.htm (compare nordic
languages-many resources, including sound files) - text from the New
Testament.

http://www.carla.umn.edu/lctl/VAVA/audio/norwegian/ - listen to or download samples about birthdays, parties,travel, food, family, language, etc.

Listen to songs, "Hurra for deg" and birthday song:
Her kan du høre på "Hurra for deg" av Margrethe Aabel Munthe og lese teksten: http://www.carla.umn.edu/lctl/VAVA/audio/norwegian/documents/Hurra.doc http://www.carla.umn.edu/lctl/VAVA/audio/norwegian/birthsong.ram

Listen to Klartale, news presented clearly, listen now or download for later:
http://www.klartale.no/lyd.asp

Newsclips to read and listen to:
the clips at http://www.norwords.com
http://www.norwords.com/news/index.html
http://www.norwords.com/news
http://www.norwords.com/news/files/category-utenriks.html
http://www.norwords.com/news/files/category-utdanning.html
http://www.norwords.com/news/files/category-ulykker.html
You can select a wide variety of news clips, have a vocabulary list, as well as an exercise to fill in missing words as you listen.

Hear norsk pronunciation: This link shows 2 ¸ pages of words:
http://forvo.com/languages-pronunciations/no/

Type in an English word, click on the speaker icon, hear it pronounced.
http://www.dictionarist.com/

audio-book on cd of Kristin Lavransdatter in Norwegian:
http://www.bokkilden.no/SamboWeb/enkeltSok.do?rom=Lydboker&enkeltsok=kristin+lavransdatter&submit=%C2%A0
Hear sample -http://www.lydbokforlaget.no/node/1299

free audio clips at the Norwords site. Download by chapter or the whole unit.
http://www.norwords.com/guides/ Easier with the textbook as a guide, "Sett i gang",
Purchase the text at:
http://www.norwords.com/textbook/index.html

2008 was the International Year of Languages, declared by the UN and UNESCO.
Read (in nynorsk) a little about IYL from Språkrådet here:
http://www.sprakrad.no/nb-no/Toppmeny/Aktuelt/FNs-internasjonale-sprakaar-2008/

Read a simple story while listening to it spoken: Click on first link, then the second:
Text:
http://www.phrasebase.com/archive/norwegian2/stories-read-in-norwegian-.html
Audio:
http://us.share.geocities.com/natalie88_lotr/James.wav

See and hear files of spoken Norwegian: Choose a Subject: Select fast or slow:
Get the transcript, and read while you listen:
Do the exercises - questions about what you heard;
http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/laser/norwegian/nlmain.html

Watch videos and learn to cook: Select TV-film on the right:
http://www.matprat.no/matprattv.aspx http://www.matprat.no/artikkel.aspx?tema=presse&artid=14521 - Click on 'En Million Lam' on the right.

http://demo.acapela-group.com/ online demo. Scroll down to a Norwegian voice,
type or paste in words or phrases & click 'say it'. it will pronounce them for you.

http://forvo.com/languages/nb/ - click and hear some Norwegian pronounced.

Links to the Kings New Years Eve address. H.M. Kongens nyttårstale:
http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/innenriks/article1218568.ece - The text.
The video of the speech:
http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/nyheter/spill/verdi/85978 - with English subtitles

Popular Norwegian TV series, Borettslaget. See episodes on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z8Glh77nMg

READING SITES:

http://introbokmal.cappelen.no/ A thoroughly informative introduction to Norway, including: Immigration since 1940, the democratic system, health,
education, work, children and family, population, and nature, and subtopics under each.
Innvandrer i Norge, Demokrati, velferd og verdier, Helse, Skole - utdanning og kvalifisering, Arbeid, arbeidsliv og arbeidsmarked, Barn og famile,
Befolkningsstruktur og naturforhold.

http://www.barne.koordinatoren.com/ - Children's Songs. (text, no audio), games, poems

http://runeberg.org/dukkhjem/ - Read Ibsens 'Et Dukkehjem' in Norwegian; or
Read it in English, "A Doll's House" http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext01/dlshs11h.htm
For fun, right-click each link, click 'Open in New Window' and get both versions on the screen,
shrink each to half page and read the Norwegian and English side-by-side.


Dagbladet- two short novels on the website, originally, a page or two every weekday.
Read the archived installments of each novel. Select the numbered installment:
"Drømmer om Babylon" by Richard Brautigan at: http://www.dagbladet.no/tekstarkiv/index.php?string=Dr%F8mmer+om+Babylon
and "Slakteren" by Alina Reyes: http://www.dagbladet.no/tekstarkiv/index.php?string=Slakteren&page=5

Old Norse texts - http://etext.old.no/
Kongsspeilet (Konungs skuggsiá)
http://etext.old.no/konungs/konungs.html


http://www.ordtak.no/ - Norwegian quotations (sitater):

"Chaos" Poem - irregularities with English:
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vangogh/555/Spell/chaos.html

Norwegian - 143 documents Search by author; Aasen, HCAnderson,Bjørnson, Grimm, etc.
http://www.logoslibrary.eu/pls/wordtc/new_wordtheque.wcom_literature.literaturea_page?lang=NO&letter=A&source=search&page=1


http://oaks.nvg.org/pega4.html - Fables, Fairy tales, and Folklore (Eng)

http://runeberg.org/folkeven/ - Norske Folkeeventyr - many folktales.

http://www.skoletorget.no/abb/nor/Eventyr/Aesop/Far_sonn_esel.htm - Read a simple story with a philosophical discussion following it.

http://www.reisenett.no/eventyr/html/asbjornsen.htm Read 14 pages of eventyr of Asbjornsen and Moe.

http://www.lonweb.org/ - Select Norwegian; articles with Norwegian -English side by side:
Declaration of Human Rights, Hunger Facts, Our Father, Prague Manifesto (on Esperanto)
Also Daisy Stories with Danish-English, or Swedish-English, side by side.

http://www.tarm.no/striper/ - Norway's cartoon strips.


http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/register/index_e.html - Hans Christian
Andersen works, in English and Danish

http://www.kb.dk/elib/lit/dan/andersen/eventyr.dsl/ - Read tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Danish)
To see the English versions of HC Andersen go to: http://hca.gilead.org.il/


http://openlibrary.org/ book search - type in a title, or type in Norwegian and find many old books about Norway immigration,
dictionaries, articles, to read online.

Read a book online, "Veien til Punktum" by Severin Meiland:
http://books.google.com/books?id=VuCWG_JxNvUC&printsec=frontcover&sig=ACfU3U3mjOku2QeQn5B2m0NAdX8lU7jppg

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