Simple Norwegian #1 - The Alphabet & Pronunciation

This is hands down the best video on the norwegian alphabet i've found so far. Tusen takk!

*Watches Skam once*

Before learning Simple Norwegian #1 of this series, please don’t neglect that there is an episode “Simple Norwegian #0” , which contains some practical tips and suggestions for learning Norwegian! It’s a”MUST SEE”--very important!

The Michael Jackson part made me laugh a lot

I started learning Norwegian a couple days ago and I'm in love with it! I also can't believe how "easily" it's flowing! It's like I was meant to speak Norwegian all along. ❤️🇳🇴

Not just Norwegian but...you speak beautiful(?), perfect American English, too ! :)

That Y and I close prononciation was so well explained! Thanks a lot

I'm native Russian speaker from Central Asia, and I swear, this is how Russian alphabet is pronounced by people who study it as a second language here

I'm still learning Norwegian, I'm from Iceland lol Tusen takk!

I'm trying to learn basic Norwegian because I want to befriend the foreign exchange student from Norway

“æ ø å, you ain’t got the æøå…”
it lives rent free in my head.

I'm in love with this voice 😂

I’m actually just here to check that this is a good video for my non-Norwegian friend- this is really good man

Me *learning Chinese*
Also me : Watching how the Norwegian alphabet sounds

Takk!
Dear Mr “Simple Norwegian “,
Highly appreciate for making such good materials on KRplus.
The program is very helpful!
Thank you so much!

I appreciate this video. I started Norwegian on Duolingo, and have been struggling to comprehend pronunciation. This was an immense help.

I want to move to Norway when I grow up. It seems like such a nice place! Which is why I’m watching this video. The comments says this helps a lot, so thanks! :)

I am married to a Norwegian and we still communicate mostly in English... This is exactly what I need and its so helpful... Tussen takk!!! Great job, just go on with more videos... 👍👍👍

Hode made me laugh, in German Hoden means testicle. 😂

That opening beat is fire 🔥

Rewatching this video over and over until I can pronounce it seamlessly🙈
Edit: I can report after 3 days of practice and memorising this video I can now say the Norwegian alphabet easily and pronounced correctly and I’m finally ready to move on to video 2☺️

Please keep making videos, this was fantastic!

Loved it so throughly explained

Your teaching style is truely fantastic. Tusen Takk👏👏😊

So happy to have discovered your channel. Your videos are incredibly helpful!

Finally one videos of a person who actually can pronounce these letters!
I'm so fed up wth all these people al over KRplus who are talking Norwegian and are talking about Norway, but they have one idea about either the country or the Norwegian language.
But this guy sounds very Norwegian so I'm very pleased about him making this video.
Great job!

Very well explained. Helps learn the language well. Thanks!

Thank you a lot for this video ! Really clear and well made !!

It's such a great channel to learn Norwegian. I love it sm

Fantastic. The very best explanation yet. I’ve been trying to find a great video like this for over a year! Thanks you.

Very useful introduction! Thanks for uploading!

Thank you very much for these videos; they´re tremendously helpful and instructive!

takk! it's very helpful

Æ was in English long ago. It was called æsch or perhaps æsh, pronounced as ash in English.
Interesting note: gift(poison) in Norsk and I think German, related to gift (English) because they are both "given", showing how different idea are connected.

This was a fantastic video. Thank you for this!

u r literally the BEST. thank you. pls continue to this series.

I can tell that the pronunciations are going to give me trouble.

Thank you for the clear and concise video. You clearly understand second language acquisition and I respect your work ethic.

Very useful, concise and many good examples.

Perfect! Short and to the point.

I cannot thank you enough for your videos. I'm hooked! I learnt Swedish and your videos are perfect to see the difference between the two languages.

i love that you ad photos next to the word. it helps a lot specially if one is using photographic memory technique in learning things, such as language. Thank You!

Thank you so much. This was very helpful!

Tusen Takk! I love the bonus word and your humor. I will be back!

Thank you so much for your videos!! I'm a beginner in Norwegian and they help me a lot 😊

thank you so much, this video is so great. Thanks for it, I can improve my pronounciation.

This is helpful.
Tusen takk.

This is the best explained video on the norwegian alphabet for sure! Thanks!!

Great explanation, but I have a few comments:
1. It is worth mentioning that in Norwegian the letter Q is usually only found in English loanwords and some names. It is also most often followed by the letter u, as in the word quiz (mentioned in the video) or the name Quisling.
In Norwegian the two letters qu- together are usually pronounced as kv - just as in the word "kveld" (evening). Thus you get the pronunciations "kviss" (quiz) and "Kvissling" (Quisling). Some words have also been given a Norwegian form of spelling, as in the words "kvikk" (quick) and "kvote" (quota).
2. Also, I don't think I've ever heard Norwegians pronounce the Z as voiced in Norwegian, which you (the speaker in this video - sorry, I don't know your name) do in the word Zambia. I've only ever heard it pronounced as S, which is also how we (and you) pronounce the letter when we say it as part of the alphabet: "sett".
The Norwegian language doesn't actually distinguish between voiced/voiceless Z/S, which I guess is why the (English) word zebra is written "sebra" in Norwegian, and the given name of Queen Elizabeth II is pronounced "Elisabett".
3. Finally, although you pronounce the R as a trill, many Norwegians (including myself) pronounce the R as in the French/German R. In these cases, the rs-cluster is pronounced as a regular R+S sound.

I am half British and half Norwegian. My mother came from the Ostfold, and my first words were pure Norwegian, but soon my English father pout a stop to that.
Now 59, I still find I can pronounce Norwegian idiomatically though till seeing this I would struggle with reading Norwegian out loud - you have opened a door for me! On many visits to my grandparents [up till 2000] I could follow the News on radio and TV, but not actually keep up with spoken Norwegian in conversation.
I knew enough to get by in Norwegian in shops and the airport and was often taken for Norwegian at first [I look totally Norsk - not tall, completely fair, and wiry build], but as soon as I stumbled in Norwegian the smiles came out! And Norwegians love practicing their English! So though I visited Norway probably thirty times, I still have poor Norwegian in conversation. On the other hand, I do think it will be worth getting better at it, because my pronunciation is idiomatic. In fact something like Received English in this country.
Thanks for such a lovely Video. George Fredrik

Thank you for sharing, will try my best to learn~

That's very helpful. Thank you so much.

Great work! the presentation is well though out, both visually and auditory! Ill happily go through all these even though i have no use for it

jeg er Somalier🇸🇴❤ jeg lærer Norsk!!. jeg håper etter to år å snakke norsk tydelig💥

It sounds beautiful, thanks!!

I think you did a great job! This is the most helpful channel I found about learning Norwegian language

Tusen takk for alle videoene. I watched almost all of them. I also write down the words, vocabulary and so on. Your videos are realy helpful. Thank you for makíng this available for people who are interested in learning norweigan. Good Job :D :D

Wow thanks man, I've tried learning the basics for Norwegian a couple years ago but got demotivated by the lack of materials with good explanations about basic things like proper pronunciation. This video makes me want to give the language an other try!

Awesome! You make it so easy to understand!!!

Well done! Thank you for the detailed explanation. I want to learn Norwegian and this is so helpful.

Thanks!!! I will visit Norway very soon, and I am enjoying that there is a great channel to help me. It's a beautiful language! Best regards from Brasil!

Very clear and well made video! Dialects are very pronounced in Norway, so if you visit Norway be prepared to hear a lot of variations :) When learning though, the unofficial official dialect used in this video is definitely the one to learn! An example of dialect differences is the word "Øl", which can be pronounced with a long vowel in some dialects ;)

You have an amazing voice 💜. Everything you say sounds so cute🥲

Tusen takk!!! Your video helped me a lot!

Wow! Jeg visste ikke at norsk var et språk som så mange ville lære seg. Dette er veldig kult!😊

the word gift reminds me of the ancient greek word φαρμακον (pharmakon), which means both medicine and poison. anyway, thank you very much for this video. you helped me a lot

Thank you for existing.

Super informative! Thanks a lot!!

I am considering moving to Norway, because life in Australia is too hard now. This was the first introduction I had to Norwegian, I really enjoyed it. Thanks for uploading this, I plan on watching more and also learning about the culture.

the letters A B C D E I O T Y are pronounced almost the same as in Spanish, I am from Venezuela and I speak Spanish

thanks for this helpful video!

Thank you for this!! ❤️

This is so overwhelming already!! I've already turned my phone language to Norwegian. I hate pronunciation so much right now. I just spent a long time singing the Norwegian alphabet in order to pronounce every thing and OMG. I have never sung the whole alphabet that much in a day. I love how the W is pronounced.

Dude, you're the best! There are those norwegian songs I've been listening to for a few years now without understanding the pronunciation or the obvious silent letters and with 10 minutes of your video I could do 90% of the song. Thank's 🇫🇷

your videos are the best hands down ! congratulations !! and thank you very much this helps me tremendously. very grateful to your work . thanks.

Your voice is so relaxing and beautiful, you also explain very well. Subscribed.

This pronunciation is so frustrating for me! But I love that I can play it over and over again to hear the sounds.
When you said R is one of the hardest sounds to make I was not happy as I had to go to speech therapy as a kid for my Rs as an English speaker. This will be fun.. 🤣🤞
Great video though! I can't wait to get onto the others! Thank you!

Being Norwegian I am impressed! One small mistake though: The letter Z is pronounced "sett" in the alphabet, and just like the letter S in words. We don`t have the English z-sound, just an s-sound. That is why this letter is never used in original Norwegian words; there is no difference between the pronounciations of S and Z in our language, so there is no need for the Z. My guess is that the Z has made its way to our alphabet because it is common in other languages, just like the Q and the W.

Many thanks for a useful video.

Great videos as usual!

I'm planning to spend my gap year in Norway and your videos will hopefully help me to learn some basics. Everyday from now on I will watch one of your videos and take notes. I'm curious how far I'll get with it.

WOW/ THE BASIC ALPHABET SOUNDS AS THE CZECH ONE INCL THE SHORT/LONG VOWELS , In Czech we have 11 somewhat (eg ř,ů) funky letters though

this is sooo helpful, thank you so much!

Thank you so much for creating this video!!

I just find you and I wish I found you before...

really very useful for the beginner!

This was very fun to watch. Dette var veldig gøy å se på

Very Helpful, Thank you Very Much!

Haiii.. I'm Fuji from Indonesia.. So, A few days ago I stumbled to Norwegian Series SKAM.. that's really famous I think you already know.. So, bcs of SKAM.. I really really fall for it so I want to learn the language.. bcs it's sounds cool in my ear and I want to master it! Anyway, I just wanna tell you my gratitude for making this videos bcs upon many Norwegians video language I found on youtube, your video is the most clear and easy to learn to and fun too! And your voice is nice too.. :)
Thank youuuu~

I am a native Serbian speaker, and pronouncing these sounds and words doesn't seem very difficult because in my alphabet there are also some sounds that are difficult to pronounce and very different than in English. Also , the letters like A, B, E, R... sound the same as in Serbian when they are said in a word. You see, in English, they pronounce the letter A like ae , but in Serbian the letter A is pronounced the same as in Norsk. I like that 😀

Very happy to have found these video's Tusen Takk!!!!!

omg what a perfect video... u explained it so well and gave great tips/details! love it! takk :))

I think it's also worth mentioning that Z is often lazily produced simply as an S. For example in the word Zebra people often just say Sebra.

Flott, jeg er engelsk men jeg lærer norsk!

thanks, this video is so helpful!

Tusen takk! This is an excellent foundation

Estoy aprendiendo inglés para poder aprender noruego de este canal 😅💞

i am from norway and this popped up in my recommandations, is youtube trying to tell me something?lol

His voice is so calming

Once again: this is a perfect vid. Precise and 100% on the point. 👏😯💨