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A1/A2

Books

The Mystery of Nils -  “ We all hate text books that begin with “Hello, what’s your name?”, don’t we? “The Mystery of Nils” is a coherent story, which starts very simply, but develops into a fascinating novel.”

Norsk på 123 - has online exercises as well, don’t need a book to complete the exercises

Colloquial Norwegian - “provides a step-by-step course in Norwegian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Norwegian in a broad range of situations.”

På Vei - A1-A2, workbook and textbook, these are used by most courses in Norway to teach Norwegian as a foreign language to adults; online exercises 

Ordbøkene - dictionary, nynorsk og bokmål

Apps

Duolingo - usually a good place to start, great for a free resource

Babbel - subscription service, teaches grammar and vocab, has a speaking component

Drops - has a free version, only 5 minutes every 10 hours, vocab only, variety of topics, gameifies language learning

Memrise - I haven’t really used this, seems like you can choose different courses but I’m not sure about the quality of the courses, has a free version

Ordbøkene - app version of this dictionary

Sites

Klar Tale - meant for people with dyslexia or those learning Norwegian

Ordbøkene - dictionary, nynorsk og bokmål

Grammatikk.com - has PDFs with grammar explanations and some grammar drills (they need to be printed though)

Courses

Introduction to Norwegian (UiO) -  Learn to speak, write and understand basic Norwegian with this free four-week course. Can be followed with the Introduction to Norwegian 2

Norwegian for Beginners (NTNU) -  Master the basics of the Norwegian language. Gain confidence in speaking and understanding common phrases. Can be followed with Part 2 and Part 3

Podcasts

Norsklærer Karense - from a Norwegian teacher aimed at those who are learning

Klar Tale

Youtube

Norwegian Teacher Karin -  “This is absolutely free online Norwegian lessons. The language I’m teaching is not exactly Bokmål nor Nynorsk. It’s an east dialect and I don’t think you will have much problem with bokmål after this. :) And everyone will understand this“

Norsklærer Karense -  “Denne YouTube-kanalen har jeg laget for å hjelpe alle som lærer norsk til å bli flinkere i norsk. Ettersom jeg har jobbet lenge som norsklærer og undervist mange tusen elever, vet jeg hva som kan være vanskelig når man  lærer norsk.“

B1/B2

Books

Stein på Stein - B1, textbook and workbook, continuation of På Vei, online exercises here

Her på Berget - B2/C1, textbook and workbook, continuation of Stein på Stein;  online exercises

Sites

NRK- news site

Klart det! - B2, online exercises

Podcasts

Språkteigen - Her kan du høre om nye ord og gamle ord, ny forskning og rare språkfenomener.

Ekko - culture podcast on a wide range of topics; lots of interviews so dialects can be difficult; episodes are fairly short

Oppdatert - det lille du trenger for å henge med på sakene alle snakker om; fairly short episodes 

Gamle Greier - stories about historical artifacts found in the National Library; episodes are about 30 minutes

Nyhetsmorgen - a daily morning news podcast from NRK, great way to hear a variety of dialects; episodes are 90 minutes

Forklart -  De største nyhetssakene forklart på 15 minutter

*These are just a few - NRK has a ton of great podcasts on a variety of topics available here or on the NRK Radio app. Chances are they have something you are interested in!

C1

Books

I Samme Båt - workbook and textbook, this is the only C1 book I’ve found but I’m not sure it’s worth the money. It’s mostly vocab/phrases, but does have exercises too

at this level, you can pretty much read any book you want in Norwegian

Sites

Kompetanse Norge - practice for C1 test

Bergenstest.com - to prepare for the Bergenstest (B2-C1), paid

Sites to Test Yourself

Kompetanse Norge - site with information on the Norskprøve, has practice tests and exercises for A1-B2

Bergens Test examples - B2/C1

UiO 

ARealMe.com - test your vocab, compares the size of your estimated vocab to the general population

Language Trainers listening and language level

Norwegian on the Web — free course by NTNU

Barnebøker for Norge (children’s books for norway) — free norwegian children’s books for a variety of levels & they also have audio! also they have an option to go between bokmål and nynorsk which is pretty fun

Klart Det! — for more advanced lessons (B2+)

Norwegian Teacher Karin on youtube — she doesn’t upload that frequently anymore but her past videos are super helpful

NorwegianClass101 on youtube

Future Learn Introduction to Norwegian — free four week course by the university of oslo

På Vei (textbook) — this is a beginner textbook but it’s entirely in norwegian so a bit of knowledge of norwegian is needed

På Vei Digital — free exercises to go along with på vei

Exploring Norwegian Grammar — free grammar website made by kirsti macdonald who co-wrote på vei 

Loecsen Learn Norwegian — another free (very beginner) course

norwegian dictionary with both bokmål and nynorsk — not a translation dictionary but just a regular one but it has both bokmål and nynorsk

NRK Nyheter — this is a bit advanced obviously but NRK is my go-to if i want norwegian reading practice (it’s just news but also NRK has tv programs as well including skam & they also have radio)

SKAM website full episodes — you’ll need a vpn but they have norwegian subtitles also it’s great for learning how people speak every day

Lovleg episodes — same as above (you’ll need a vpn) also lovleg will be a little hard to understand if you’re learning bokmål bc it’s very dialect-y but another show to watch in norwegian that i think is good

my norwegian playlist on spotify — it’s not super long but good for discovering norwegian music if you don’t know any :-)

edit bc my friend recommended these 2 podcasts:

Norsk for Beginners — for A1-A2 learners

Lær Norsk Nå — for B1-B2 learners

‘you hate sunlight???’

‘yeah im super sensitive to it it gives me headaches’

‘but you hate garlic??’

‘mmh it gives me acid reflux, i have a bunch of gastrointestinal issues’

‘but- you only drink that weird red liquid!! which is obviously blood!!’

‘i have really bad sensory issues, that beetroot smoothie is the one of the only things that i can eat ://‘

‘YOU SLEEP. IN A COFFIN.’

So I, an actual professionally diagnosed autistic, took the bullshit Pooh test. Note how Roo has only 60%.

I have really bad anxiety as a result of my autism, and this has been noted by PROFESSIONALS.

Everyone taking this test and claiming that it's proof of "the tism" or shit like that is NOT PROFESSIONALLY DIAGNOSED. SELF DIAGNOSIS IS NOT A MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS. IT DOES NOT SHOW ON MEDICAL RECORDS.

This has been a problem on this site in particular. Autistics actually trying to find people with the same problem as them instead find shit like this.

Autism isn't a cool little aesthetic thing. I have suffered through psychological and mental trauma due to how people treated me due to my autism. I have attempted sewerslide multiple times due to the depression caused by this. It's not a thing you'd want to have.

1. Schizophrenia spectrum disorder

2. ADHD

3. Anxiety disorders

4. Personality disorders

5. Speech disorders

6. Trauma response

7. Neurological disorders like epilepsy

8. Secondary alexithymia

9. Physical illneses

Which may or may not co-occure with autism diagnosis.

The other difficulty by self-diagnosis could be:

1. Lack of insight into once own condition. People are often not objective enough about their symptoms.

2. Developmental history. If autistic symptoms occured later in life it's not autism. Most of people don't remember themselves at the age when autistic symptoms manifest. Asking primary caregivers could give some insight, but:

a) some people don't have ones alive

b) they might just forget such things after so many years and be inaccurate in their statements

And as everyone knows - autism ist a spectrum disorder. Does it make the diagnostic process easier? Not at all! Autistic people are a very heterogeneous group and the symptoms of autism are common in a general population. The person gets a diagnosis only in case if these symptoms significally affect their social and/or professional functioning. To what extent has it to be affected - I have no idea, because there are no clear information in any sources (I'd be happy to find out though). So you can see, after more than a decade of research, an ADOS-2-evaluation by a doctor which showed that I was somewhere on the spectrum, I still don't really know, if I actually have have ASD or not.