Vi snakker bare norsk! Del 3

Fortsettelse!! I started learning Norwegain in October 2010 and within this last year I had two Norwegain courses - beginner and intermediate, you could say. Yesterday, the third course started with some new challenges and expectations.

If you know in advance that you're going to have a new teacher you step into the classroom with mixed feelings. In a way, you expect the worst. And you feel relieved when things seem to be good and the teacher is welcoming you in a friendly way to the course. 
This new teacher is also from Norway, from Oslo to be specific. And he started to talk Norwegian right from the beginning and introduced himself, told about the things we'll be doing in this course and so on. I can say he made a nice impression in this first lesson. 

But in a way it is strange if you're met by this kindness from a teacher or professor here in Austria. And thinking of my last Norwegian teacher, Anita, who was really a blessing, who was very helpful, encouraging, humorous, kind and honest I came to wonder if all Norwegian teachers are like that. Seriously, if only a fourth of their teachers are like that, students in Norway must love to go to school.
I know, learning smth can't always be fun and exciting but having the right teacher is probably always a good start, even for subjects you don't like, right?

Now back to my Norwegian course. This time it seems there's going to be a lot of texts like novels, articles and poetry. In addition to that presentations and written exams. It sounds challenging and maybe learning a new language should be a challenge to a certain extend but I am confident in managing all these tasks.

BTW, I was quite happy yesterday I could understand my teacher so well - well, he's also using all kinds of gestures if he is sensing there's a word we don't understand, but actually I thought I forgot everything after a long summer break where I only wrote some Norwegian to my friends. And I was surprised I could understand that spoken Norwegian. That was new to me. :)

"Til ungdommen" by Nordahl Grieg

This here is a part of the poem "Til ungdommen" ("For the youth") by Nordahl Grieg. It's what we read and learned about in yesterday's lesson in connection to what we spoke about the terror attacks in Norway this summer. A difficult topic. Also this poem is difficult to understand (although you get the meaning of it) but very beautiful. I recommend to watch this sung version by Ingebjørg Bratland.

Next lesson is tomorrow and will be still about 7/22 including one of Jens Stoltenberg's speeches. Got some homework to do now. Ha det!