NORWEGIAN 4 | SPRING 2025

Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this spring at Scandinavia House! Designed for intermediate learners who have taken Norwegian 3 or equivalent, this course continues to expand and refine your speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills, enabling grammatically correct conversations, and language structure. A stronger focus will be given to pronunciation, Norwegian structure, tone, and flow.

You will get the opportunity to hone your knowledge of grammatical structures, thus engaging more confidently in conversations and discussions in class, expanding your vocabulary, and fine-tuning your listening skills. Students are actively encouraged to talk more in-depth about their own experiences in Norwegian.

There will also be weekly at-home assignments, and more, focusing on reading, writing, and grammar, as well as a strongly recommend end-of-semester presentation. Students are strongly encouraged to watch and read Norwegian news, and articles, watch Norwegian shows and movies, and listen to podcasts and audio books, as often as possible, on a weekly basis at a minimum.  These classes are conducted in Norwegian, with the occasional English word/sentence.

Please note that in order to take this course, you should be comfortable using the simple past tense and present perfect, and have knowledge of regular and irregular verbs, as well as their irregularities and rules. You should also be able to use indefinite, definite, and plural forms of masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns; conjugate adjectives; and apply intermediate Norwegian sentence structure, including “inversion.”

The required text will be provided via pdf, before the first class.

Ideal for:

• Those who feel confident conducting short conversations in Norwegian.
• Those who have a solid understanding and foundation of Norwegian grammar and vocabulary

You will develop:

• Stronger and more solid conversational skills, communicating more effectively, and with greater ease in Norwegian.
• Increased reading and writing proficiency, including an enhanced flow of the language, and listening ability.

This hybrid class will be held both in-person and via Zoom; in-person attendance for the first four classes is highly recommended. Classes take place on Tuesdays from 7:15–9:15 PM beginning March 18 and ending on May 27. Please note that there will be no class on April 22.

Prerequisite: Norwegian 3 or equivalent. For questions about language levels, please contact Marie-Therese Bjornerud. Tuition is $675 ($607.50 ASF Members); 20 hours total class time.