Nancy Aarsvold spent a year studying in Norway when she was 20, and things haven't been the same since. Currently, she works as a Norwegian Instructor at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. She is also a partner with Kari Lie in the business, NorWords.
16. mars slapp Noora Noor sitt nye album "Soul Deep" — det første på fem år.
(Video fra Drammens Tidende).
Noora Noor er tilbake (artikkel fra Dagsavisen)
"Hun var en av Norges mest omtalte popstjerner. Så trakk hun seg tilbake fra rampelyset. Fem år etter er Noora Noor (29) klar med et oppsiktsvekkende comeback-album."
Hurra for deg
Hurra for deg som fyller ditt år
Ja, deg vil vi gratulere
Alle i ring omkring deg vi står
og se, nå vil vi marsjere
Bukke, nikke, neie, snu oss omkring,
danse for deg med hopp og sprett og spring!
Ønske deg av hjertet alle gode ting
og si meg så hva vil du mere?
Gratulere!
Høyt våre flagg vi svinger. Hurra!
Ja, nå vil vi riktig feste!
Dagen er din, og dagen er bra,
men du er den aller beste!
Se deg om i ringen, hvem du vil ta!
Dans en liten dans med den du helst vil ha!
Vi vil alle sammen svinge oss så glad:
En av oss skal bli den neste!
Til å feste.
Tekst: Margrethe Munthe / Melodi: Norsk folketone
Aprilsnarr
"Ifølge gammel skikk har man 1. april lov til å forsøke å narre andre, f.eks. ved å innbille dem noe, narre april. Den som lar seg narre, kalles aprilsnarr. Skikken er kjent over hele Europa og er visstnok en levning av en sør-europeisk folkelig vårfest. Brukes også 1. mai, og den som da blir narret, kalles mai-gås."
(Fra Store norske leksikon)
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On April 1, 2008 the Norwegian energy company
Statkraft announced that they had developed so-called gamma capturers
that will capture the energy generated when stars explode.
From Norwegian websites:
Aftenposten: "Ble du lurt?"
DinSide: "Facebook selger bildene dine for én dollar pr. stk"
Varden: "Toalett på nett"
Gudbrandsdølen Dagningen: "Maihaugen vil ha huset ditt"
"Captain Sabertooth and the Treasure in Kjuttaviga," Part 1
(Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6)
In 1989, Terje Formoe wrote the children's musical "Captain Sabertooth and the Treasure in Kjuttaviga," the first in a series of theater productions about the pirate Captain Sabertooth and his men. The musical was performed for the first time at the Kristiansand Zoo in 1990 and since then there has been an outdoor theater production about Captain Sabertooth every year. In addition, the CDs, books, and DVDs about Captain Sabertooth have been very popular among Norwegian children. Read more about the Captain Sabertooth theater performances and exhibition on the website for the Kristiansand Zoo, or go directly to the Captain Sabertooth website.
Introduction to "Captain Sabertooth and the Treasure in Kjuttaviga"
This theater production is in Norwegian and does not have Norwegian sub-titles. However, even students in Beginning Norwegian classes will be able to understand the main events in this story.
Alexander Rybak, "Fairytale"
I Norsk 112 lærer studentene om de største byene i Norge. Her er noen lenker til bilder av disse byene i Flickr.
I just discovered that Aftenposten has created a channel on YouTube for its videos. This should make it much easier to view the videos since they often don't play smoothly on Aftenposten's website. Furthermore, if the videos are uploaded to YouTube, it is easier to search for them and to embed them in blogs and other websites. Above is a current video about digitizing the movements in a traditional Norwegian halling dance for use in a video game.
If you are interested in learning about Norwegian Christmas traditions and singing Norwegian Christmas songs, check out the online Advent Calendar for Norwegian Language Learners. This project is a cooperative venture between the St. Olaf College Norwegian Department, NorWords, and Norsknett.
"For barna i Hokus Pokus barnehage er det ikke lenger nok med byggeklosser og huskestativ. De siste to ukene har de vært på kurs i breakdance."
(For the children in Hokus Pokus day care center, it isn't enough anymore with blocks and swingsets. The last two weeks, they have been taking a course in breakdance.)
Håper at alle hadde en god takksigelsesdag (eller høsttakkefest)! Her er noen bilder fra feiringen i familien min og lenker som forteller litt mer om denne festdagen.
Familien min spiser en tradisjonell middag av kalkun med brunsaus, stuffing, potetmos, søtpoteter og mais. Til maten drikker vi hvitvin, vann eller melk.
Vi er også glad i grønnsaker så det blir alltid en tallerken med gulrøtter, olivener, selleri, paprika og kanskje brokkoli eller blomkål.
Til middagen har vi alltid tranebær, og vi liker å prøve forskjellige oppskrifter for tranebær hvert år. Til dessert har vi gresskarpai og pekanpai med vispet krem. Fordi vi er av norsk avstamning, har vi også noen norsk-amerikanske matretter, for eksempel lefse og krumkake. Dessuten er barna mine veldig glad i norske vafler, så jeg lager alltid masse vaffelrøre så vi kan spise vafler til kaffen hver dag i ferien.
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Etter ferien skal vi begynne norsktimene med en kort diskusjon om takksigelsesdag. Her er noen av spørsmålene vi skal ta opp:
Takksigelsesdag i Gaupeveien 5
"I dag er det Thanksgiving i USA. Dagen
faller på den fjerde torsdagen i november, som også vanligvis er den
siste. Dagen er fastsatt av amerikansk føderal lov, av selveste
president Franklin D. Roosevelt, og den er forbundet med høytid og
tradisjoner og feiring. Det er føderal fridag, og mange bedrifter og
offentlige institusjoner gir også fri fredagen, slik at det blir en hel
langhelg med gode tanker, ro og fred."
(Fra En helt grei blogg)
Thanksgiving / Takksigelsesdag
"I mitt andre eller var det tredje yndlingsland, USA, feires
Thanksgiving den fjerde torsdagen i november, altså i dag. Helgen varer
i 4 dager, nemlig fra torsdag til søndag. Den viktigste matretten for
Thanksgiving er kalkun... og da snakker vi svære kalkuner. Vi har i USA
en komfyr som er ca 120cm bred... og der er det god plass til en ganske
voksen kalkun."
(fra Slekt og slikt)
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"Thanksgiving Day, engelsk for «takksigelsesdag», er en årlig høytids- og festdag som
feires flere steder i verden av forskjellige grunner, men er særlig
kjent som en høsttakkefest i USA og Canada der dagen markeres med en
stor familiemiddag.
Thankgivingshelgen, Thanksgiving Holiday,
varer i fire dager, det vil si fra torsdag til søndag. Vanlig markering
er å spise thanksgiving-middag sammen med familie og slekt, der
hovedretten vanligvis er kalkun (på folkemunne kalles det "Turkey Day",
siden kalkun er den viktigste ingrediensen i måltidet). Helgen preges
derfor av stor utfart i trafikken, men foregår ellers fredelig. Helgen
innleder også den omfattende julehandelen."
(fra Månesurfing)
Today I'm giving a presentation to the language faculty at St. Olaf about the use of the online Quizlet flashcards. Above is the Google Docs presentation that I'm going to use during my talk. We found Quizlet last summer and have created approx. 80 flashcard sets for Beginning Norwegian I (Sett i gang I) and 40 sets for Intermediate Norwegian I (Stein på stein I). In general, we emphasize more global skills and learning the language in larger segments in our courses, but there is a place for focusing on the details as well. We have found that Quizlet makes the mundane parts of language learning more fun as well as more efficient.
Users do not have to register to use the Quizlet flashcards that are already online. However, if they complete the free registration, then they can create their own sets, form groups and join other groups, customize the special characters, and keep track of their studying progress.
At St. Olaf this year, we have been using Google Docs to create shared documents for planning departmental events, for documenting student attendance at homework help sessions, and for making lesson plans. Once a document is created, it can be shared with any number of people, who can then either just view it or participate in the editing. It's an effective way to work collaboratively, and it also creates a record that everyone can view in future years. I wish we had been able to create documents in such a way when we were working on our textbook project. It was inconvenient to send Word documents back and forth to one another and to keep track of the multiple versions of each document on our computers.
In addition to documents, it is also possible to create spreadsheets and presentations with Google Docs. I haven't tried to create a spreadsheet yet, but at the CILA tech poster session last week, one of the faculty members demonstrated how spreadsheets could be used for scheduling appointments with students. The faculty person makes the schedule in a Google spreadsheet, and then shares it with a group of students who can access the document and sign up for a time. If a student misses a meeting or has to reschedule, it's easy to go online and update the spreadsheet.
Today I decided to make a presentation in Google Docs so that I could easily share it with the 15-20 other teachers who are using our introductory Norwegian textbook Sett i gang. We already have a password-protected place on our website where we have made extra materials, such as presentations, tests, and grammatical exercises available for teachers to download. However, sometimes we make new materials during the course of the semester as needed. Right now, we are working on common activities in daily routines with a grammatical focus on verb tenses and varied word order. On Friday, we had used a Powerpoint with photos of a Norwegian student as she goes through a typical day. For Monday, I want to review the vocabulary and continue to work on word order and verb tenses, so I made a presentation in Powerpoint using drawings that a student had made for a presentation about 5 years ago.
Since I had already made this presentation in Powerpoint, all I had to do was to upload and import the file to Google Docs, make a few last changes to the content, and save the file. With just the click of a button, I was able to publish the document to the web and copy the code so I could paste it into this blog entry. Couldn't be easier or more convenient. I could also share the document with the other teachers so that they could view it or add to it
Who knew that teaching Norwegian could be so fun, or in this case, funny! If you haven't looked at Kari Lie's list of YouTube videos for use in Norwegian language instruction, you should do so. We just about died laughing when we previewed these two NetCom commercials about misunderstandings that can occur when people accidentally call one another and don't realize that they are doing so. These commercials are in Norwegian, but have English sub-titles. At the end of the commercial, the message says:
"Med NetCom venner koster det nesten ingenting å dumme seg ut."
(With NetCom friends, it costs almost nothing to make a fool of yourself.)"
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