

Spending even just a few minutes a day, every day, to learn some new words will rapidly accelerate your progress, and Duolingo rewards this behaviour. Your individual goal is however many lessons per day you select. This is immensely powerful, especially once you reach a big number. The app records your streak – the number of consecutive days you have reached your individual goal – and will send you a warning email if you are at risk of breaking your streak. Where Duolingo really excels is with the gamification baked in to all aspects of the experience. Spanish offers the ability to ‘speak' responses and hopefully this will be added to Norwegian in due course. These can be translation – either free-form or selecting from given words – or listening-based. Lessons are made up of a series of individual learning tasks. You can also use Duolingo on a web browser. The Duolingo experience varies slightly depending on whether you use the website or mobile app, but its core concept is the same. This is also the case with individual lessons within each module.įor those of you with a head-start such as a Norwegian relative or partner, Duolingo allows you to take a test in lieu of taking specific modules and skills.

The Norwegian course is made up of modules (the circles in the screenshot above) which are grouped to form skills.ĭuolingo fixes the order in which you need to complete the different modules, with new modules becoming active only once you’ve completed the previous one. I’ve personally used Duolingo in both Spanish and Norwegian modes for several years now, so I feel qualified to tell you all about the process and how it can support you in your language learning adventure! Screenshots from Duolingo on iPhone How to learn Norwegian with Duolingo Norwegian is one of the more recent additions to the service so it doesn't have the depth of other more established languages, but there's still lots of functionality compared to other online Norwegian tools. The free language learning website and app offers beginner to intermediate language courses in everything from French, German and Spanish right through to Korean, Swahili and Czech. If you’ve never heard of Duolingo before, prepare to have your mind blown! Learn Norwegian Now: Norwegian Class 101 / The Mystery of Nilsīut does it really work and how do use it most efficiently? Let’s find out. One of the most popular and well-known apps for learning Norwegian online is Duolingo. The service is completely free and has taken the language learning community by storm. We're going to review two of the best, Memrise and Duolingo. It seems as if every week a new app to help learn a language hits the market. Part of our series on how to learn Norwegian. This free-to-use website and smartphone app can help you take the first steps on the road to learning Norwegian.
