Teach Yourself Norwegian Complete Course - Softcover

Simons, Margaretha Danbolt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071420150 ISBN 13: 9780071420150

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2003

Synopsis

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• Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues
• Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and exercises
• Step-by-step guide to pronunciation
• Practical vocabulary
• Regular and irregular verb tables
• Plenty of practice exercises and answers
• Bilingual glossary

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• Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout
• Self-assessment quizzes to test progress
• Website suggestions to take language study further

About this title

About the Author

Margaretha Danbolt Simons is Norwegian, but has lived in England for many years. She has been teaching at the University of Surrey for the last ten years. Her course, Norwegian ab initio, which is part of the MA/Diploma in Translation Studies, attracts 15-20 students per year. She uses her own book 'Teach yourself Norwegian' as her textbook and main teaching aid. Other subjects she teaches at the University of Surrey are Medical and Literary translation, English into Norwegian, and an introductory course of Interpreting. She runs two Norwegian classes at the Guildford Adult Education Centre, one for beginners and one intermediate and also teaches on a one-to-one basis. Students include diplomats and businesspeople. Recent translation work includes Ibsen's "Ghosts" for BBC Radio.

Language Notes

Text: Norwegian, English

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: Norwegian
• ISBN 10: 0071420150
• ISBN 13: 9780071420150
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272