Please post feedback and suggestions for the course here.
This is a work in progress, currently only finished up to the 1st checkpoint.
I’m attempting to add IPA and audio wherever possible. This is difficult because Forvo does not have a lot of Norwegian Bokmål pronunciations, and the ones it does have are often not of good quality. I have requested new pronunciations for all the words with no pronunciation yet or that have bad ones, but it may take quite a while for them to be produced. Until then, hang tight and cross your fingers that some great Norwegian comes along and records pronunciations for them all.
I decided not to include an article before each noun, and simply use an attribute to tell you the gender. More on this in a second.
I’ve decided to include all forms of a word as they appear in the Duolingo course (plural, definite, definite plural, etc.)
To do this, I have added an attribute for verb tense and an attribute for noun gender. I am writing down the gender of plural words as “plural”. When it comes to the tricky bit about feminine nouns that can have different forms as well as use either “ei” or “en”, this is what I’m doing:
- For singular indefinite feminine nouns, I will write the gender as “common, feminine”, indicating that it can both be common (the combined masculine/feminine gender) or feminine. The reason I decided to use the word “common” instead of “masculine” is to avoid making people misremember feminine nouns as masculine.
- For singular definite feminine nouns, I will mark the gender as whichever inflection is used (common or feminine). For example, “boka” is marked as feminine, while “boken” is marked as common.
- For all plural feminine nouns, everything will simply be marked as “plural”.
Hope this helps you figure out how to use my course, and also I’d love to see your feedback! I’m still pretty new to course-creating on Memrise.
P.S. I do know that there is already a Norwegian Duolingo course on Memrise. I’ve used it and I respect it very much. I realized that they approached the addition of inflections of words differently than I would, which is totally fine and probably suits certain learners better than my approach, so this is simply an alternative offered.