Reliving my childhood (in Norwegian)

I keep on talking about how good it is to watch videos to get exposure to Norwegian, but what do you watch? Well, on the Duolingo Norwegian page on Facebook someone posted this gem.

Episode 1 of the Pokemon anime in Norwegian! I absolutely loved this show when I was about 10, as so many people my age did, and it's fantastic to have a half-decent excuse to watch it again. I am finding it quite difficult to follow though. The speech is a lot faster than what I am used to from my course materials, but I watched the first episode twice and the second time round I did get a bit more.

The best part though is definitely the fact that the theme tune was dubbed into Norwegian! Sing with me now,

Pokemon.
Fanger alle nå, fanger alle nåååhååå.
POKEMON!

Hvem skal bake- video

This is a cute little video. If you're just starting out then children's stories are often a good way of picking up vocabulary and getting used to structures because they are both simple and repetitive. See if you understand what's going on!

Vocabulary
mel (n.)- flour
sammen- together
steke- to cook in the oven

Help with the Sounds of Norwegian from Youtube

One of the hardest parts of learning a new language is the sounds it has that are different to yours. In French you have the notorious French R, in German we have the ch in "ich" and in Russian it's the entire series of palatal consonants. Norwegian is, of course, no different. Fortunately, in this modern age, there are a load of videos on youtube to help you with this. Here are two I've found by a Norwegian teacher on youtube.

Now, I wasn't actually aware there was a difference until I watched this video this morning, so this has been a great help! With such similar sounds, I think the best you can do is just to watch the video multiple times, practising each sound aloud as she says it.

The next video, by the same person, focuses on the three vowel sounds represented by those letters unique to the Norwegian (and Danish) alphabet- æ,ø and å. I had a general idea how to pronounce these thanks to Duolingo and various audio I've listened to, but I think it's really good to isolate sounds so you really get a good picture of how they sound.

It's really good to hear a native speaker focus on these sounds, and she gives some good descriptions of exactly what the noise is you're trying to make. She has a load of videos, I've so far only watched these two but if you want to check out some more, you can find her channel here.