Norwegian for Foreigners - Advanced
The students will gain a more thorough knowledge of Norwegian official language (¿bokmål¿). We work with various texts, both fiction and social sciences. Oral practice will be central, and the subject requires a high degree of participation from the students. The students participates in conversation groups, answer questions, and give individual presentations.
Important elements in teaching will be:
- Basic grammar: morphology and syntax
- Vocabulary
- Rules of pronunciation
- Reading, speaking and answering questions in class
- Own work as homework and written assignments
In order to take this course, the student must first have completed the following course: NO106L, 10 credits, or similar.
Upon successful completion of this course,
the students will have obtained basic knowledge about:
- Rules of pronunciation
- Syntax in Norwegian language
- Main rules for the central parts of speech, as verb, noun, pronoun and adjective
- Dialects, `nynorsk¿ (the other official language in Norway), and a brief summary of the external language history
- Selected parts of Norwegian literature
The students will get basic skills in Norwegian language (bokmål) and will be able to:
- Produce texts in an intermediate level
- Read a Norwegian text and demonstrate they understand the content through retelling and answering questions
- Express themselves orally, and understand spoken language to such an extent that they can easily converse on topics from everyday life
The students will get general competence in Norwegian language on a basic level and:
- Will be able to understand a Norwegian text (bokmål)
- Will be able to write a Norwegian text (bokmål)
- Will be able to understand and participate in a conversation in Norwegian (bokmål)
Composite assessment (SV) - all parts must be approved/passed to get a grade in the course.
Written school exam (SK): Individual exam, duration 4 hours. Counts 50% of the grade. Grade rule A-F, where A is the best grade and F fails. SK must be passed to take the oral exam.
Oral exam (MU): Individual, duration 20 minutes. Counts 50% of the grade. Grade rule A-F, where A is the best grade and F fails.
Overlap refers to a similarity between courses with the same content. Therefore, you will receive the following reduction in credits if you have taken the courses listed below:
NO204L-002 - Norwegian for Foreigners - advanced. Oral examination. - 5 credits
NO204L-001 - Norwegian for Foreigners - advanced. Supervised written examination. - 5 credits
NO135L - Norwegian Language and Grammar - 10 credits