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Norwegian stories planned?

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mae_kaylah

Norwegian stories planned?

Post by mae_kaylah »

Has anyone information on whether Norwegian stories are planned any time soon?

I have written to Duolingo recently but their response was very general and unsatisfying:

„… Our team is always working on adding new language courses as we grow but we want those courses to be thorough and perfectly put together, so they sadly do take some time.

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Does anyone have better information on a norwegian stories?

Ady
Canada

Re: Norwegian stories planned?

Post by Ady »

I haven't heard anything, but let me try my hand at it with my extremely low-level Norwegian, to tide you over: ;)

Story:
Her er ei kvinne. Hun heter Astrid.
Astrid: "Jeg kjo/per vann og frukt."
Astrid: "Jeg har vann og frukt."
Her er en mann. Han heter Jens.
Jens: "Jeg likker vann og frukt."
En bjo/rn: "Jeg likker spiser menn!"
Jens: "Nei jeg, vaer sao snill."
Bjo/rnen: "Bra."
Jens: "Tusen takk."
Bjo/rnen: "Jeg likker spiser kvinner"
Astrid: "Nei jeg, vaer so snill."
Bjo/rnen: "Bra."
Astrid: "Tusen takk."
Astrid: "Jens drikker vannet og spiser frukten."
Jens: "Takk. Jeg er glad."
Astrid: "Bare hyggelig."
Astrid: "Bjo/rn, spiser du frukt?"
Bjo/rn (Bjo/rnen): "Ja."
Astrid: "Bjo/rn drikker vannet og spiser frukten."
Bjo/rn (Bjo/rnen): "Takk. Jeg er glad"
Astrid: "Bare hyggelig."
Astrid: "Og jeg drikker vannet og spiser frukten. Jeg er glad."

Questions:

  1. Hva dyr er Bjo/rn?
  2. Hvem drikker vann?
  3. Spiser bjo/rnen kvinna eller mannen?

Answers:

  1. En bjo/rn.
  2. Astrid, Jens, og Bjo/rn (og 'Astrid, Jens, og bjo/rnen')
  3. Ja,bjo/rnen kanskje spiser kvinner og spiser menn, enn nei i dag! I dag det spiser frukt.
Last edited by Ady on Mon Nov 07, 2022 1:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Ne estas facila esti verda. :mrgreen: :star:

Olav
Norway

Re: Norwegian stories planned?

Post by Olav »

Bra, men "bjørn" er hankjønn, så det heter en bjørn. Forøvrig er Bjørn et veldig vanlig guttenavn i Norge.

(Good, but 'bjørn' is masculine, so the correct is en bjørn. Btw, Bjørn is a very common boys' name in Norway.)

Ady
Canada

Re: Norwegian stories planned?

Post by Ady »

Olav wrote: Mon Nov 07, 2022 5:08 am

Bra, men "bjørn" er hankjønn, så det heter en bjørn. Forøvrig er Bjørn et veldig vanlig guttenavn i Norge.

(Good, but 'bjørn' is masculine, so the correct is en bjørn. Btw, Bjørn is a very common boys' name in Norway.)

Corrected above! Tusen takk! I wouldn't want to mislead anyone with even worse Norwegian skills than I have.
Since yours are obviously much better, I hope you at least got a laugh out of my story that could have been written by a 5-year-old. :)

By the way, 3 grammatical genders is insane (unless 'neuter' is used for everything that isn't actually male or female?
Please tell me that is the case...but knowing French and some Spanish somehow I doubt that). I appreciate the Bokmaol effort to drop that down to 2. Haha.

Ne estas facila esti verda. :mrgreen: :star:

Olav
Norway

Re: Norwegian stories planned?

Post by Olav »

Not really. There is e.g. et mannfolk (a man), et kvinnfolk (a woman), et fruentimmer (a woman).

Last edited by Olav on Tue Nov 08, 2022 4:11 am, edited 2 times in total.
Olav
Norway

Re: Norwegian stories planned?

Post by Olav »

Her er ei kvinne. Hun heter Astrid.
Astrid: "Jeg kjo/per vann og frukt."
Astrid: "Jeg har vann og frukt."
Her er en mann. Han heter Jens.
Jens: "Jeg liker vann og frukt."
En bjo/rn: "Jeg liker å spise menn!"
Jens: "Nei ikke meg, vær så snill."
Bjo/rnen: "Bra."
Jens: "Tusen takk."
Bjo/rnen: "Jeg liker å spise kvinner"
Astrid: "Nei ikke meg, vær så snill."
Bjo/rnen: "Bra."
Astrid: "Tusen takk."
Astrid: "Jens drikker vannet og spiser frukten."
Jens: "Takk. Jeg er glad."
Astrid: "Bare hyggelig."
Astrid: "Bjo/rn, spiser du frukt?"
Bjo/rn (Bjo/rnen): "Ja."
Astrid: "Bjo/rn drikker vannet og spiser frukten."
Bjo/rn (Bjo/rnen): "Takk. Jeg er glad"
Astrid: "Bare hyggelig."
Astrid: "Og jeg drikker vannet og spiser frukten. Jeg er glad."

Questions:

Hva slags dyr er Bjo/rn?
Hvem drikker vann?
Spiser bjo/rnen kvinna eller mannen?
Answers:

En bjo/rn.
Astrid, Jens, og Bjo/rn (og 'Astrid, Jens, og bjo/rnen')
Ja,bjo/rnen spiser kanskje kvinner og menn, men ikke i dag! I dag spiser den frukt.

Last edited by Olav on Thu Apr 13, 2023 10:29 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Olav
Norway

Re: Norwegian stories planned?

Post by Olav »

Noen nye korreksjoner.

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dakanga

Re: Norwegian stories planned?

Post by dakanga »

For stories, check out the community initiative :
https://www.duostories.org/no-en

I highly recommend this community and the work they do.

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gmads
Mexico

Re: Norwegian stories planned?

Post by gmads »

dakanga wrote: Tue Apr 11, 2023 7:07 pm

For stories, check out the community initiative :
https://www.duostories.org/no-en

I highly recommend this community and the work they do.

I went and tried the first Russian story: Good morning! However, I could not finish it because one cannot scroll further down at the word pairing exercise.

I know DL doesn't have it either, but maybe those in charge of Duostories could improve the stories by including the audio for each word in a sentence.

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