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Beginners’ Norwegian

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Learn to speak, read, write and understand Norwegian! Love, Travel, Study, Work, Friendship—whatever your reason for wanting to learn, Beginners’ Norwegian will help you to: Communicate naturally in everyday situations. Build your confidence with easy-to-follow explanations and plenty of practice activities. Understand and pronounce Norwegian easily... Read More
Format: Multiple-component retail product
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Perfect for absolute beginners, travellers and the culturally curious, Beginners' Norwegian covers the most common and practical everyday situations. With easy-to-follow, bite-sized lessons in the book and 2 hours of audio online, you'll start speaking, listening and reading in Norwegian right away!

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Learn to speak, read, write and understand Norwegian!

Love, Travel, Study, Work, Friendship—whatever your reason for wanting to learn, Beginners’ Norwegian will help you to:

  • Communicate naturally in everyday situations.
  • Build your confidence with easy-to-follow explanations and plenty of practice activities.
  • Understand and pronounce Norwegian easily with online audio.
  • Remember what you learn with our effective Discovery Method.
  • Focus your learning and track your progress with practical tools and planners.

Access the audio for this course for free by downloading it to the Teach Yourself Library app or streaming it on library.teachyourself.com.

Is this course for me?

Beginners’ Norwegian is for absolute beginners and those who've had some previous experience with the language and want to refresh their knowledge. Clear and simple explanations make the course appropriate and accessible to anyone learning Norwegian. There are extensive illustrations and tools to help you plan your studies and track your progress, all designed to support learning on your own. This course is also ideal to use with one-to-one tutoring and as a classroom course, and it's the perfect resource to pair with a language-learning app.

Where do I go next?

Continue learning with Short Stories in Norwegian for Beginners, Norwegian Tutor and Teach Yourself Complete Norwegian.

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Series: Teach Yourself Beginners’ Language Learning Series

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781399821940

Publisher: John Murray Press

Format: Multiple-component retail product

Date Published: 18 November 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd

Illustration: 20+ Photographs and illustrations

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 200g

Pages: 240

About the Author

Irene Burdese holds a Master's degree in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Turin, with a focus on English, German, and Scandinavian languages. Her thesis on the comparative translations of Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter in English, Italian, and Norwegian reflects her deep interest in Norwegian language and literature. After completing her Master's degree, she earned a specialization in literary translation and taught Norwegian to university students and privately in Italy. Together with Cathrine Rysst, she co-authored L r deg norsk!, the first Norwegian language textbook created specifically for Italian learners.

After multiple stays in Norway, including a year at the University of Oslo through the Erasmus Programme and numerous summer courses at Norwegian universities, Irene decided to pursue her teaching certification in Norway. She has been teaching English, Norwegian, and Norwegian as a Second Language in high schools in Norway since 2018.

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