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  • 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.

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  • "Ord er vinduer og lufteluker, og kjellernedganger og trapper, til nye måter å tenke på, nye måter å oppleve verden på, veier og stier inn i kjente eller ukjente områder."

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14 November 2008

Misunderstandings on the telephone

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.)"