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It's the finals tonight, and I just thought I'd mention that we have an ongoing discussion-post over at scandafandom. You are welcome to join in Scandinavian. Friendly teasing and big laughs are encouraged!

By chance I got hold of this book: "Færøyene" (The Faroe Islands) by Astor Furseth, Cappelen Oslo 1975. The book, in Norwegian, has 124 pages including a few indexes and a sketched map. The content is a bit dated, but if you want it, write me a PM with your postal address, and I'll send it to you. :)

( more details and the pages on Faroese language and literature under the cut (image heavy) )

Hello, I'm working my way through beginner Norwegian textbooks (thank you), and came across this:


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Post some jokes in a Nordic language! Translations optional. I got these from the Nordic house ( Read more... )

Hi. I'd like to promote scandafandom: a fandom community for Scandinavian languages.

From the forum's own description (translated from Norwegian):
"Do you speak Norwegian, Swedish or Danish? Are you active in fandom? This is the place for you then! Here you can meet other Scandinavians and talk about fandom related stuff (...)
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Here's a bunch of tongue twisters (and similar types of "rhymes") in swedish, danish, norwegian, icelandic, faroese and finnish from the collection in Ingvar Svanberg's book Sex laxar i en laxask och andra tungvrickare ("Six salmon in a salmon box (a swedish tongue twister) and other tongue twisters ( Read more... )

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I’m writing a paper for my Linguistics class, focusing on the routines and social rules conversations are expected to follow. (Like how you have to thank people for things, how it’s more polite to hint at some things than to say them outright, etc.) I need to know what the normal way of asking someone for something is in Norwegian, Icelandic, ( Read more... )