I'm a polyglot and love to learn different languages.
My quest for language learning never stops.
Recently, I started learning Norwegian through Internet and I find it very easy .
Reasons why it is easy for an English Speaker:
Norwegian is one of the Germanic languages which also consists of English.
So If you speak English and wee little bit of German ,you can easily go through Norwegian.
Traveler's Norwegian is way too easier.Well, As far as now I am not worrying about learning complex concepts through Norwegian, like I'm not going to study Harry Potter in Norwegian.
So if you are also on the quest to learning Norwegian, you can find it very easy to learn and if you know a little bit of German or beginner's German, you can master the basics in no time!
So for the start, let us learn how to greet in Norwegian,
then we'll see some common words that are similar to German and English.
English German Norwegian
Have Haber Ha
Travel Reisen Reise
meet Treffen Treffe
drink trinken drikke
So from the above , you can easily find out the similarities between them. The similarities are mostly spelling changes like
English Norwegian
December Desember
You can notice that Norwegian has an "s" instead of a "c", which makes it much easier to learn because when the sound is "k",it is always "k" and if it sounds "s" it is always "s".
But Norwegian also has other combinations.
Say, you want to write "sh" ,In Norwegian it will be "sj" or "sk" or "skj"..
So to say "Shampoo", you would say the same , but you must write "Sjampo"
Norwegian has two ways of writing "bokmål" and the other one is "Nynorsk".
Most of the peple ,say majority stick with "bokmål" , so we will stick with it for the time being. Or atleast we are familiar with Norwegian words.
The Norwegian language has 26 letter just like in English and an addition of 3 more letters,
which are
The first one is pronounces as "A" in "Andy",
the second one is pronounced as "U" in "vUlnerable"
the third one is pronounced as "O", "pOrk"
Check out this link to listen to the complete Norwegian Alphabet.
Source: Omniglot
here is the link :
