r/norsk • u/dwchandler • May 06 '18

Søndagsspørsmål #226 - Sunday Question Thread

This is a weekly post to ask any question that you may not have felt deserved its own post, or have been hesitating to ask for whatever reason. No question too small or silly!

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u/AnarchistRifleman B1 (bokmål) May 06 '18

I've been wondering how people around here got their confidence into speaking norwegian with other people. I very often try to comment in Norwegian but then I start thinking that it may be wrong and end up not commenting at all. I'd say 9/10 of the stuff I type is never posted because of fear of getting stuff wrong in the language. So yeah, my question is how you guys, who are also learners, (mainly) get (or got) over your fear of getting stuff wrong, and how much you progressed in Norwegian once you got over that fear.

Tusen takk og ha en fin dag.

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u/Karuption May 06 '18

Start talking at day 1! Feel free to message me

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u/AnarchistRifleman B1 (bokmål) May 07 '18

I (kind of) already do that. Sometimes I start talking to myself out loud in English, (which is my second language) then try to switch to Norwegian. The problem is that I keep mixing Norwegian and Russian by accident, (I've studied Russian for a while last year, I put it on hold so that I could learn Norwegian, then hop straight back to Russian) and that kind of discourages me (even knowing that I'm alone and no one's listening.)

Also, I often struggle to keep track of my progress, but that's something I'll try to fix in the following weeks.

Thank you for commenting and sorry for my bad English. I may be dropping you a message if when I stumble upon a doubt or something like that.

Oh, and by the way, do you have any sources that worked for you? (assuming you're not a native speaker)

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u/Karuption May 07 '18

Grammattikk.com is a godsend for grammar. Also, feel free to just practice! I find that my spanish (I grew up with Spanglish) is now with a Norwegian accent even though Norwegian is my second language! I am seriously interested in learning Russian but it’s so daunting