☆❀☆

NO:
Jeg skrev på norsk i dag. :D Det var på en kommentråd på duolingo. Jeg hadde ingen ordbok med meg og jeg hadde å huske alle ordene og grammatikkene. Det var vanskelig men jeg er glad for at jeg prøvde å gjøre det.


ENG:
I wrote in Norwegian today. :D It was in a comment thread on Duolingo. I did not have a dictionary with me and I had to remember all of the words and grammar. It was difficult but I am glad that I tried to do it.


/slaps a gold "I TRIED" star on everything

The thing about the Duo forums is that occasionally people will reply to you in a language that you're learning, especially if you have a high level in one of them. And usually I'm too nervous to answer in Norwegian, but today I figured, why not. It was in a conversation about using newspapers for learning, so I knew most of the words that I needed anyway (...mostly), which helped.

I suppose it also helps when you are so bored during your work lunch that you suddenly lose inhibitions and cease to be embarrassed if you make mistakes. ;) One of the things that keeps me from writing in Norwegian is "Oh no, I'll make mistakes, how embarrassing!" Though probably an even bigger thing is that a lot of the time I don't know all of the words for what I want to say, so I keep having to look stuff up, so it takes five minutes to write a single sentence... Ah, well. Practice, practice, practice. ;V

Also: I discovered that the Norsk course is one of the longest courses on that site; perhaps even the actual longest. Which explains a few things about why it has taken me forever to get to my current position, haha.