Norwegian for Foreigners 1 Campus Ålesund

Level 1 is a language course for beginners or students with very little previous knowledge of Norwegian.
The course focuses on basic grammar and use of everyday language in both oral and written production.

KNOWLEDGE:
The candidate has basic knowledge about grammatical rules of inflexion and word order:
- Verbs: the infinitive, present, preterite, present perfect, imperative
- Nouns: gender, number, indefinite and definite forms
- Adjective: agreement and comparision
- Pronouns: subject and object forms, reflexive pronouns and possessives
- Word order in main clauses and subordinate clauses

SKILLS:
The candidate’s skills is equivalent to Level A2/B1 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

The candidate
- masters a basic vocabulary of Norwegian everyday language and grammatical rules for inflection and word order
- can write assignments focusing on descriptive and narrative texts in the past, present and future tenses on topics that are known to him and of personal interest. The candidate can describe experiences and impressions.

This course spans two semesters with a final exam in the spring semester.

40 hours of teaching per semester - two hours twice a week.

This course is open only to staff and students at Campus Ålesund.

Attendance is compulsory for the first lecture.