My first talk in Norwegian - Beautiful Builds
Historical article · Originally published March 15, 2013; technical details may be outdated.
I promised myself that I would be able to do a full talk in norweign about six months after coming here. A couple of days ago at the internal Bouvet One conference, I got the chance, as I was standing in for a friend who was not able to speak. The talk was about beautiful builds, and some principles we had used in the last internal project.
I felt pretty helpless when someone finally asked a question and starting talking in english again, but I made it through the initial presentation without talking in english at all. Was scary, but I try to put myself in these situations, since I believe that is when you learn the most.
Have fun. I hope to be looking at this in a couple of years and laugh at how bad my norwegian is.
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Wow. I'm Swedish and I understood everything. Kudos!
Your Norwegian is not bad at all. How long have you been living there?
Extremely impressive, both in terms of pronouncation and vocabulary.
But you make some small mistakes with word order that are extremely common among non-native speakers, but probably easily fixed for you!
See the sections on word order inversion her, especially "Inversion after the Dependent Clause"
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/norwegian/grammar/word-order.html
Good job on the Norwegian Roy, from Denmark my self but found it easy to follow :)
Jeg er imponeret!