{"id":8732,"date":"2013-06-13T11:44:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T11:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=8732"},"modified":"2013-06-13T11:44:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T11:44:26","slug":"norsk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=8732","title":{"rendered":"Norsk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I&#8217;ve been converting cassette recordings for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0415110114\/omniglot-20\"><em>Colloquial Norwegian<\/em><\/a> course into mp3s. I wasn&#8217;t planing to on learning Norwegian just yet, but would like to at some point. I listened to the recordings with half an ear, and glanced at the book now and then, and found that I could make some sense of the written and spoken language, particularly the written language. There are many words that are similar to English ones, especially to words in dialects of northern England and Scotland, and these help a lot.<\/p>\n<p>This has whetted my appetite for the Northern Germanic languages &#8211; they seem almost familiar and I like the way they sound &#8211; and I might have a go at one or two of them once I&#8217;ve finished the Breton and Russian courses I&#8217;m working on at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Snakker du norsk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I&#8217;ve been converting cassette recordings for my Colloquial Norwegian course into mp3s. I wasn&#8217;t planing to on learning Norwegian just yet, but would like to at some point. I listened to the recordings with half an ear, and glanced at the book now and then, and found that I could make some sense of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-norwegian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}