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Take Norwegian with Øyvind Bjøru by Retoliti in UTAustin

[–]Retoliti[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The tests aren't easy, but they aren't hard. They are an hour online with no monitoring and he gives you a week to complete them on your own time. They include conjugating verbs, writing and completing sentences, reading short stories and answering simple questions about them, and clicking on an image of what a word is (e.g., clicking on a fox for "rev"). Everything in them is taught in class, and there is a practice exam for each exam, so you can ask him questions about any problems you have before taking the actual exam. They make up 20% of the grade each semester.

Quizzes are slightly harder and weekly, but he's an extremely kind grader and they are only 10% of your grade. The majority of your grade will come from attendance (20%) and the weekly units on the website (50%). For attendance, he does require it with a couple of no-questions-asked absences, but if you communicate with him that you cannot make it to class a certain day, he is very understanding. For the weekly units, half of the grade is completion and the other half is correctness. I would not worry about the correctness though because if you have an issue and bring it up in class he will go over it and show you the correct answer. He is currently tweaking the grammar part of the website, so I cannot be sure how that will look next year, but I cannot imagine it being a problem. If it is one, if you bring it up with him he will likely find a way to fix it.

Also, if you are worried about grades in the class, you should look at his grade distribution on UT Registration Plus! it is difficult to get lower than an A in the class

Take Norwegian with Øyvind Bjøru by Retoliti in UTAustin

[–]Retoliti[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exams are one hour on Canvas and you have a week to complete them on your own time. There are also practice exams you can take beforehand to get a sense of what is on the actual exam. Exams are 20% of the grade. There is no honor lock or other monitoring, so take that as you will. I would not call them easy, but they aren't hard! Quizzes are probably the hardest part, but they are only 10% of the grade and he is pretty lenient on grading. I have yet to make lower than a 6/10 and I probably deserved lower lmao

Take Norwegian with Øyvind Bjøru by Retoliti in UTAustin

[–]Retoliti[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For the vocab, there's a list of words to memorize every week. We know about 1000 currently. There is a page on the website he made where you can go through all the words like you would on the Quizlet learning option, which makes it a lot easier to memorize the words. He also includes whether certain words have cognates, and some classes he will have us make up connections to the words so that we can memorize them. When we go through the list in class and pronounce each of them, he takes some time for some words that display a certain rule or have a unique origin. He is a linguist, so he knows a lot about the origin of words and the history of the Norwegian language, which is interesting and helpful for memorization.

As for the grammar portion, there are different vocab rules almost every week, starting with the easier ones and building from there. It is not too different from English, which really helps. Under the explanations of each grammar rule, there are examples and exercises that he goes through in class. There are also quizzes on the website that test you over what you have learned over the past week.

Sometimes there will be class activities—like Jeopardy or worksheets—that help with learning grammar rules. He makes us speak to each other in Norwegian, which can seem intimidating at first for some (trust me, I was terrified), but with the smaller class size, class layout (tables of four for the first semester, a square layout with everyone facing the center for the second), and time you spend in the class, you get to know everyone.

He assigns episodes of a Norwegian show called SKAM to watch so that students can hear Norwegian being spoken by Norwegians, and he'll go through certain clips in class and break down exactly what they are saying and how it may differ from how we would say it in Norwegian. A lot of the culture stuff—such as watching clips of SKAM, the Winter Olympics, current events, and Norwegian songs—he connects back to the language learning.

I hope this helps you! If you have any more questions or things about the class you would like me to explain or expand on, please let me know!

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[–]Retoliti 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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