As week 3 comes to a close, I feel I'm really plunging myself into the Norwegian language. I practiced greetings, farewells, and Introductions with Anna. The words are easy enough to memorize, but saying them out loud is where I am finding the most problems. A lot of the words look like their equivalent in English, but the pronunciation is completely different! It's very frustrating at times. But Anna is patient with me and repeats the words for me multiple times. I try to practice by myself using google translator and other websites that say the words in the proper accent, repeating the words over and over until I sound like the person announcing. I'm glad I've made at least some progress in Norwegian! I need to build on this momentum as I enter the coming weeks.
Goals for Weeks 4 & 5:
-Practice written and oral skills of introductions, greetings, and farewells.
-Be able to introduce myself properly, describing who I am (name, age, etc), where I'm from, and what languages I speak. Also work on introducing other people ("This is...").
-Master the pronunciation of greetings and farewells (with Anna, and using google translator). Be able to write these as well.
-Create first artifact: A monologue of me fulfilling the tasks above.
-Critique artifact--Did I sound Norwegian? Was my speech fluid? Was what I said grammatically correct?
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