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# Norsk, nordmenn og Norge 1: Textbook for Beginning Norwegian

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This introduction to Norwegian helps students acquire the basic units of vocabulary and structure and use that knowledge to learn about Norway and Norwegian culture. Once students acquire the basic units of vocabulary and structure, they will use their knowledge of the language to learn about Norway. Students will learn about the cities of Oslo and Bergen, how to converse when eating in a Norwegian home or restaurant, and about Norwegian schools. Emphasis is also given to travel and communications, as well as the seasons of the year and Norwegian holidays. The present edition of the text features a short grammar summary, a reference for review to assist in drawing together aspects of the grammar that are presented throughout the text. To aid in developing good pronunciation and intonation habits, as well as to internalize certain items of vocabulary and structure, most chapters contain a practice dialogue for students to practice repeatedly while studying the chapter.

Review: AN OLDIE BUT A GOODIE - I recommend the textbook NORSK, NORDMENN OG NORGE 1 by Kathleen Stokker and Odd Haddal as well as the accompanying workbook by Louis Janus (both published in 1981, second edition). The two books are available on desertcart. As I will explain below, unfortunately this textbook was NOT made with beginners in mind who would like to start studying Norwegian on their own. For this reason, those who want to have just one textbook for absolute beginners, should look elsewhere. Although these two books have so much to offer, they are not “Teach Yourself” type of books. Most people will probably find them too frustrating and too inaccessible in their first steps into Norwegian. However, I highly recommend this textbook and its workbook as a WONDERFUL SUPPLEMENT AND COMPANION to another, more accessible, introductory course of Norwegian. Be sure to get the second edition of the workbook because it provides answers to the written exercises and transcripts to the oral exercises. [The oral exercises are recorded and available in MP3 audio from University of Wisconsin Press.] Do not be misled by the fact that these books are almost 40 years old. While visually the two books may not seem very attractive for modern standards (there are no color photos and other visually attractive fireworks common in modern textbooks for languages), they are unique in that they offer A LOT OF PRACTICE AND EXERCISES, with solutions. To the best of my knowledge, you will not find anything like this published in US. Moreover, a tremendous value of these books lies in the availability of many hours of audio recordings made for the textbook and the workbook. While the books may seem rather expensive to some people, consider that the textbook is a nice hardback edition with 635 pages. The workbook is a large paperback with 325 pages. And THE BEST THING: you can buy the accompanying audio recordings in MP3 from University of Wisconsin Press for just ten bucks! [Look for: AUDIO COMPANION TO NORSK, NORDMENN OG NORGE 1]. The audio recordings are of good quality (but not excellent) and you get almost 9 hours of audio: 456 minutes of recorded exercises and dialogues and 83 minutes of pronunciation drills. The tracks of the recordings are rather long. On the same track you have audio for both the textbook and the workbook for the same lesson. You will need the two books to fully profit from the audio. The textbook and the workbook are not very user-friendly for modern standards. However, they have so much to offer to someone who has enough patience to dig into their rich contents. In the textbook, there are dialogues, texts, drills, exercises and almost nothing is rendered into English, that is, every lesson is almost completely in Norwegian. There are only very few short explanations in English in the footnotes every now and then. In the table of contents, at the beginning of the book, the authors indicate what kind of grammatical topics are covers in a specific lesson. Unfortunately, the same info is not repeated at the beginning of each lesson. There is Grammar Summary (40 pages) in English at the end of the book followed by Glossary (80 pages). Regrettably, the authors do not make references to that grammar summary in the lessons. Therefore, the student has to figure it out on his/her own where to find a relevant grammatical information for each lesson. The Grammar Summary has a lot of illustrations in Norwegian and these are all accompanied by their English translations. There are lists of words to learn for each lesson, but there are no English equivalents. You must find the meanings on your own using the Glossary at the end of the book. It must be stressed that the Glossary is excellent. Nouns, adjectives and verbs are given all the important forms that a student of Norwegian must know and this is very convenient. I even use this glossary when I look for meanings of words and phrases for other books. The fact remains that this classroom-oriented organization of the material in the textbook may seem very discouraging at first. Many reviewers were very unhappy about it. And I perfectly understand their frustration. However, it must be stressed that this book was conceived as a CLASSROOM TEXTBOOK WITH A TEACHER in mind four decades ago. Ideally, the authors should have mentioned it in the title of the textbook, something like: ''NORSK, NORDMENN OG NORGE 1. Norwegian for Beginners with a Teacher''. It is a pity there is no preview of the textbook on desertcart. It would be helpful for people to have a glimpse into the nature of this textbook before deciding if they want to buy it or not. SUMMING UP: NORSK, NORDMENN OG NORGE 1 is not a textbook designed for people who would like to study Norwegian on their own, outside the classroom without a teacher. However, this textbook and its workbook, especially with their audio recordings and numerous drills, can be a great supplement and companion to a more accessible introductory textbook like MYSTERY OF NILS, also available on desertcart. NORSK, NORDMENN OG NORGE 1 is not the best choice for absolute beginners who would like to study Norwegian on their own. However, MYSTERY OF NILS - a much more attractive and accessible textbook - does not offer as many audio recordings, exercises, practice and pronunciation drills as does NORSK, NORDMENN OG NORGE 1. In my experience, MYSTERY OF NILS and NORSK, NORDMENN OG NORGE 1 can complement each other very well. To those who can read German I recommend NORWEGISCH MIT SYSTEM (2016), an excellent textbook with 4CDs included in the whole set, with great audio recordings for texts, vocabulary and some practice. The dialogues in the first 10 lessons are recorded twice, with fast and slow speech, which is great for beginners. Moreover, the glossary at the end of NORWEGISCH MIT SYSTEM is fantastic because it has phonetic transcription for all the words and phrases, which I found extremely helpful. Keep in mind that the relation between the Norwegian script and speech is highly complex, with many exceptions and and many words with silent consonants (= consonants that are written but not pronounced). Without the phonetic transcription I often had doubt about the correct pronunciation and I made many mistakes. The whole set was 43 euro on desertcart Germany. In my view, it is even better for absolute beginners than MYSTERY OF NILS.
Review: Oldie... but goodie... - After completing Hippocrene's Beginner's Norwegian and Teach Yourself Norwegian, I was in somewhat of a rut for quite a while. There really aren't any readily available intermediate Norwegian courses out there (that I could find). Listening to Norwegian internet radio, reading Norwegian newspapers, and watching Norwegian TV helps, but can be frustrating because it's a BIG jump from the elementary courses. I had a copy of this book lying around, but I assumed that since I'd completed several other Norwegian courses, I wouldn't get anything out of this text. Boy, was I wrong. I'm about half way through now, and I can say that it is absolutely excellent. There is no vocabulary overload (a problem with most other language courses I have--and I have lots of them!), concepts are introduced and then constantly reviewed as part of later exercises (most books introduce a topic and you don't see it again... and of course, forget about it), and best of all, there are TONS of exercises (most other courses are pathetically skimpy with exercises). In fact, the approach that this author takes is to give short dialogs and readings for the reader to analyze (containing new topics) and follows them with many, many helpful exercises. You sort of make connections and deductions as you go through the problems. It's a sort of "learning by discovery" approach--a very "active" learning style. It's written entirely in Norwegian (except occasional footnotes) and forces you to think. And like I said, once something is introduced, you are not allowed to forget it. It just keeps coming up. Of course, this approach burns a lot of paper up! The book is nearly 600 pages--most of it exercises. However... GUARANTEED that you'll remember this stuff with this approach! I think one reason that newer texts don't take this "active," exercise-happy, discovery approach is that they are too cheap! ...cut all the exercises out and save a lot of money in publishing cost... or cut it all out and call it an audio-based course :-) Granted, I don't think this style of teaching will appeal to everyone. But it sure appeals to me. I wish I could find texts written like this one in other languages that I study. Also, I probably wouldn't recommend this book to a complete beginner. I think it might be a bit intimidating at first. But if you've gone through TY Norwegian or Hippocrene's Beginner's Norwegian, and you learn well visually, analytically, and by example, by all means give this book a try! Also, since the book is quite old, the audio is very hard to find. You should have the sound of the language in your head before starting with this book if you can't find the audio. I don't have it, but it's no disadvantage at all since the other courses I've done have quite a lot of audio. An added benefit is that once you've completed this book, there is another more advanced text that follows (by the same author). Bottom line: for traditional/analytical style learners, this is THE book. You want this book. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Addendum (fall 2015): I am revisiting this text to brush up, since I've forgotten a lot since I made the first review above. I want to add that the U of Wisconsin now offers the audio to this book as a download in their internet book store. I wish I would have had the audio the first time around years ago. It is EXCELLENT and offers not only audio to the book dialogues but also has some extra audio exercises not found in the book--and some great dictation exercises as well for better understanding. It's definitely worth getting. At this point, after having used the audio in conjunction with the book, I'd say it's vital. It makes things so much more complete and "real" when you can hear it. My opinion that this is the best Norwegian book out there has not changed since my first review. There are a couple of good offerings that have come along since, that I'd recommend as supplemental to this text, but none have come even close to being as good of an all-purpose text that takes you well beyond the beginner stage as this one does. I still think a good combo for the beginner is, first, Beginning Norwegian (Hansen) and then this text. I'd say a good supplement from the newer stuff is "The Mystery of Nils" (I'm not as fond of the pedagogy; however, it is an interesting and fun story and a helpful resource). But I'd use this text as the primary and that one as added reading/exposure.

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| Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 52 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ AN OLDIE BUT A GOODIE
*by A***R on January 13, 2020*

I recommend the textbook NORSK, NORDMENN OG NORGE 1 by Kathleen Stokker and Odd Haddal as well as the accompanying workbook by Louis Janus (both published in 1981, second edition). The two books are available on Amazon. As I will explain below, unfortunately this textbook was NOT made with beginners in mind who would like to start studying Norwegian on their own. For this reason, those who want to have just one textbook for absolute beginners, should look elsewhere. Although these two books have so much to offer, they are not “Teach Yourself” type of books. Most people will probably find them too frustrating and too inaccessible in their first steps into Norwegian. However, I highly recommend this textbook and its workbook as a WONDERFUL SUPPLEMENT AND COMPANION to another, more accessible, introductory course of Norwegian. Be sure to get the second edition of the workbook because it provides answers to the written exercises and transcripts to the oral exercises. [The oral exercises are recorded and available in MP3 audio from University of Wisconsin Press.] Do not be misled by the fact that these books are almost 40 years old. While visually the two books may not seem very attractive for modern standards (there are no color photos and other visually attractive fireworks common in modern textbooks for languages), they are unique in that they offer A LOT OF PRACTICE AND EXERCISES, with solutions. To the best of my knowledge, you will not find anything like this published in US. Moreover, a tremendous value of these books lies in the availability of many hours of audio recordings made for the textbook and the workbook. While the books may seem rather expensive to some people, consider that the textbook is a nice hardback edition with 635 pages. The workbook is a large paperback with 325 pages. And THE BEST THING: you can buy the accompanying audio recordings in MP3 from University of Wisconsin Press for just ten bucks! [Look for: AUDIO COMPANION TO NORSK, NORDMENN OG NORGE 1]. The audio recordings are of good quality (but not excellent) and you get almost 9 hours of audio: 456 minutes of recorded exercises and dialogues and 83 minutes of pronunciation drills. The tracks of the recordings are rather long. On the same track you have audio for both the textbook and the workbook for the same lesson. You will need the two books to fully profit from the audio. The textbook and the workbook are not very user-friendly for modern standards. However, they have so much to offer to someone who has enough patience to dig into their rich contents. In the textbook, there are dialogues, texts, drills, exercises and almost nothing is rendered into English, that is, every lesson is almost completely in Norwegian. There are only very few short explanations in English in the footnotes every now and then. In the table of contents, at the beginning of the book, the authors indicate what kind of grammatical topics are covers in a specific lesson. Unfortunately, the same info is not repeated at the beginning of each lesson. There is Grammar Summary (40 pages) in English at the end of the book followed by Glossary (80 pages). Regrettably, the authors do not make references to that grammar summary in the lessons. Therefore, the student has to figure it out on his/her own where to find a relevant grammatical information for each lesson. The Grammar Summary has a lot of illustrations in Norwegian and these are all accompanied by their English translations. There are lists of words to learn for each lesson, but there are no English equivalents. You must find the meanings on your own using the Glossary at the end of the book. It must be stressed that the Glossary is excellent. Nouns, adjectives and verbs are given all the important forms that a student of Norwegian must know and this is very convenient. I even use this glossary when I look for meanings of words and phrases for other books. The fact remains that this classroom-oriented organization of the material in the textbook may seem very discouraging at first. Many reviewers were very unhappy about it. And I perfectly understand their frustration. However, it must be stressed that this book was conceived as a CLASSROOM TEXTBOOK WITH A TEACHER in mind four decades ago. Ideally, the authors should have mentioned it in the title of the textbook, something like: ''NORSK, NORDMENN OG NORGE 1. Norwegian for Beginners with a Teacher''. It is a pity there is no preview of the textbook on Amazon. It would be helpful for people to have a glimpse into the nature of this textbook before deciding if they want to buy it or not. SUMMING UP: NORSK, NORDMENN OG NORGE 1 is not a textbook designed for people who would like to study Norwegian on their own, outside the classroom without a teacher. However, this textbook and its workbook, especially with their audio recordings and numerous drills, can be a great supplement and companion to a more accessible introductory textbook like MYSTERY OF NILS, also available on Amazon. NORSK, NORDMENN OG NORGE 1 is not the best choice for absolute beginners who would like to study Norwegian on their own. However, MYSTERY OF NILS - a much more attractive and accessible textbook - does not offer as many audio recordings, exercises, practice and pronunciation drills as does NORSK, NORDMENN OG NORGE 1. In my experience, MYSTERY OF NILS and NORSK, NORDMENN OG NORGE 1 can complement each other very well. To those who can read German I recommend NORWEGISCH MIT SYSTEM (2016), an excellent textbook with 4CDs included in the whole set, with great audio recordings for texts, vocabulary and some practice. The dialogues in the first 10 lessons are recorded twice, with fast and slow speech, which is great for beginners. Moreover, the glossary at the end of NORWEGISCH MIT SYSTEM is fantastic because it has phonetic transcription for all the words and phrases, which I found extremely helpful. Keep in mind that the relation between the Norwegian script and speech is highly complex, with many exceptions and and many words with silent consonants (= consonants that are written but not pronounced). Without the phonetic transcription I often had doubt about the correct pronunciation and I made many mistakes. The whole set was 43 euro on Amazon Germany. In my view, it is even better for absolute beginners than MYSTERY OF NILS.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Oldie... but goodie...
*by C***. on August 24, 2008*

After completing Hippocrene's Beginner's Norwegian and Teach Yourself Norwegian, I was in somewhat of a rut for quite a while. There really aren't any readily available intermediate Norwegian courses out there (that I could find). Listening to Norwegian internet radio, reading Norwegian newspapers, and watching Norwegian TV helps, but can be frustrating because it's a BIG jump from the elementary courses. I had a copy of this book lying around, but I assumed that since I'd completed several other Norwegian courses, I wouldn't get anything out of this text. Boy, was I wrong. I'm about half way through now, and I can say that it is absolutely excellent. There is no vocabulary overload (a problem with most other language courses I have--and I have lots of them!), concepts are introduced and then constantly reviewed as part of later exercises (most books introduce a topic and you don't see it again... and of course, forget about it), and best of all, there are TONS of exercises (most other courses are pathetically skimpy with exercises). In fact, the approach that this author takes is to give short dialogs and readings for the reader to analyze (containing new topics) and follows them with many, many helpful exercises. You sort of make connections and deductions as you go through the problems. It's a sort of "learning by discovery" approach--a very "active" learning style. It's written entirely in Norwegian (except occasional footnotes) and forces you to think. And like I said, once something is introduced, you are not allowed to forget it. It just keeps coming up. Of course, this approach burns a lot of paper up! The book is nearly 600 pages--most of it exercises. However... GUARANTEED that you'll remember this stuff with this approach! I think one reason that newer texts don't take this "active," exercise-happy, discovery approach is that they are too cheap! ...cut all the exercises out and save a lot of money in publishing cost... or cut it all out and call it an audio-based course :-) Granted, I don't think this style of teaching will appeal to everyone. But it sure appeals to me. I wish I could find texts written like this one in other languages that I study. Also, I probably wouldn't recommend this book to a complete beginner. I think it might be a bit intimidating at first. But if you've gone through TY Norwegian or Hippocrene's Beginner's Norwegian, and you learn well visually, analytically, and by example, by all means give this book a try! Also, since the book is quite old, the audio is very hard to find. You should have the sound of the language in your head before starting with this book if you can't find the audio. I don't have it, but it's no disadvantage at all since the other courses I've done have quite a lot of audio. An added benefit is that once you've completed this book, there is another more advanced text that follows (by the same author). Bottom line: for traditional/analytical style learners, this is THE book. You want this book. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Addendum (fall 2015): I am revisiting this text to brush up, since I've forgotten a lot since I made the first review above. I want to add that the U of Wisconsin now offers the audio to this book as a download in their internet book store. I wish I would have had the audio the first time around years ago. It is EXCELLENT and offers not only audio to the book dialogues but also has some extra audio exercises not found in the book--and some great dictation exercises as well for better understanding. It's definitely worth getting. At this point, after having used the audio in conjunction with the book, I'd say it's vital. It makes things so much more complete and "real" when you can hear it. My opinion that this is the best Norwegian book out there has not changed since my first review. There are a couple of good offerings that have come along since, that I'd recommend as supplemental to this text, but none have come even close to being as good of an all-purpose text that takes you well beyond the beginner stage as this one does. I still think a good combo for the beginner is, first, Beginning Norwegian (Hansen) and then this text. I'd say a good supplement from the newer stuff is "The Mystery of Nils" (I'm not as fond of the pedagogy; however, it is an interesting and fun story and a helpful resource). But I'd use this text as the primary and that one as added reading/exposure.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Very Good Resource - But Be Aware Before You Buy
*by K***N on May 21, 2014*

Just thought I would put a note in here for other Norwegian learners. I've only gone through the first two units, but I think it's important to know before buying that if you are looking for (what I at least think of as) a traditional language textbook, as you might have encountered in high school learning French or Spanish, where there are large sections of grammar explanation in English, then you will be disappointed with this book. It is mostly, except for small footnotes, in Norwegian and mostly what I would think of as exercises. [Note: I do not have the accompanying tapes, so there may be more instruction on those.] There aren;t the sections of vocabulary and definitions that I am used to. Having said that, I think it is very useful for really immersing yourself in the language and forcing yourself to learn, and I think it is very do-able for a beginner (you won't be lost). Overall I am happy I purchased this book, even though I might not have had I really looked closely at it before buying. You may want to use it in conjunction with another book that has more instruction or check out the audio tapes.

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