200 hours of Norwegian
200 hours, after 3.5 months! I'm totally B1 level.
What have I done since the last update?
- Finished NoW2! I want to go back and redo all the written grammar exercises so I can get some practice and not immediately forget everything.
- Shows and movies
- Atlantic Crossing
- Phineas and Ferb: it's actually just so much more fun than any other movies or etc that I could watch. easily bingeable anyway
- Pocahontas, Disneynature Penguins: they're fine i guess. understandable yeah.
- Podcasts
- Urix: news is still lovely and good (in language anyway, not in content)
- Mesterdetektiven Mali: perfect and beautiful
- Etikketaten: also hard bc conversational. I can generally know what we're talking about and sometimes some opinions that different people have but the overall conversation is hard.
- Mørke foretellinger: very hard! I understand lots of sentences but I miss too many details. couldn't follow if we were like talking to someone who was telling a story or narration of smth happening in the present or if the guy was dreaming or what. It lost me halfway through the first episode. but does seem interesting for later!
- Gamle greier: it slaps. i can understand dialect-y stuff as long as it's scripted
- Katakombens hemmelighet: this is great and totally the right level. middle grade fiction *chefs kiss*
- Magazines!!!
- Illustrert Vitenskap Historie: I like that it has a wide range of fun topics from around the world. I like less that it's seemingly translated from english
- Aftenposten Historie: it's generally interesting and well written, that being said it's mainly about norway and at times very very specific, so hard to understand like, why any of this is important or relevant
- Lingohut vocab: yes it is boring but hey i done it. It's not the most useful vocab (though it's generally A2-B1 level vocab) but the audio is pretty decent. It was also useful as just some words that I probably never would have seen from watching shows and reading about history.
- Talking to norwegian friends: still lovely and i can totally keep up a conversation, yes with a lot of asking about specific vocab or clarifications on some words, but it is very much a conversation!
Goals
I don't have a pressing need to learn Norwegian anymore (no more norwegian friend to bother :/ ) so i'll probably put it on the backburner for the moment. So my goals over summer break are:
- set up anki cards to brute force memorize some german vocab
- study ~10 new cards a day. start off slow and easy to get into the swing of things
- ideally i can work up a big amount of cards now that i can then actually learn during internship
- read indo and norwegian magazines!
- ~2 h a day of language stuff
- read magazines
- watch shows in german or norwegian or french
- review grammar exercises from now2
- figure out how to learn/practice german grammar