Attempting Norwegian with language learning techniques — and an app
On a family trip to Iceland and Norway several years ago, I decided to tackle Norwegian in the Duolingo language app. (Icelandic is way too difficult!) Norwegian, a distant cousin of English, comes from the North Germanic family of languages, while English evolved from the West Germanic family. Though the Norwegians had an important written literature during the Viking era, later unions with Sweden and Denmark suppressed the use of a written Norwegian language. After independence from Denmark in 1814, two written norms arose: Bokmal (book language), which is derived from Danish and is spoken ...
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