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SUMMARY:NORWEGIAN 1
DESCRIPTION:Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this spring at Scandinavia House! In this beginner’s course\, you will build your Norwegian vocabulary\, pronunciation\, and grammar skills\, while also learning about Norwegian culture and life. By the course’s end\, you should be able to conduct simple conversations in Norwegian. \nYou will get to practice conversations and reading in class\, and there will be a focus on pronunciation\, and Norwegian vowels and sounds\, which may be new to your ear. Students are welcome to bring personal experiences\, anecdotes\, and facts about Norway into class discussions. There will also be at-home assignments focusing on reading\, writing\, and grammar\, as well as an optional end-of-semester presentation. \nOutside of class\, students are encouraged to watch Norwegian shows\, and movies\, read simple text\, and have Norwegian podcasts on in the background. \nThe required text will be provided via pdf\, before the first class. \nIdeal for: \n\nAbsolute beginners\nThose seeking a solid foundation in the Norwegian language\nThose interested in traveling to Norway\n\nYou will develop: \n\nBeginner-level conversational skills in Norwegian\nProficiency in basic Norwegian grammar\n\nThis hybrid class will be held both in-person and via Zoom; in-person attendance for the first four classes is highly recommended. Classes take place on Tuesday and Wednesday from 5:45-6:45 PM beginning Tuesday\, March 19. \nNo prerequisites required; instructions for remote learning will be emailed upon registration. For questions about language levels\, please contact Marie-Therese Bjornerud. Tuition is $675 ($607.50 ASF Members); 20 hours total class time. \nRequired & Recommended Material\nRequired:\nTextbook: PA VEI TEKSTBOK\, ELLINGSEN\, 2012 – ISBN: 9788202340940\nWorkbook: PA VEI ARBEIDSBOK\, ELLINGSEN\, 2012 – ISBN: 9788202343163 \nHighly Recommended:\nWord List: PA VEI Norsk-Engelsk Ordliste\, ELLINGSEN\, 2012 – ISBN: 9788202372255\nCD-set: PA VEI ELEV-CD til tekstbok\, ELLINGSEN\, 2012 – ISBN: 9788202371869 \nAlso Recommended:\nOnline exercises (both oral and written) following the textbook\nNotebooks for vocabulary as well as notes\nDuolingo (Android\, Apple) and other language apps to expand vocabulary and support the learning process \nRegister
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/norwegian-1/2024-05-07/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:THE TOWER AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD BY WILLIAM HEINESEN
DESCRIPTION:Read and discuss literature with our Nordic Book Club Online! Each month we select a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices to read and discuss via Zoom. On May 7\, in connection with Fog Swept Islands: Faroe Islands Culture Days\, we will be reading the Faroese classic The Tower at the Edge of the World by William Heinesen. \nFaroese poet\, author\, composer and painter Heinesen has described The Tower at the Edge of the World as “a poetic\, mosaic novel about earliest childhood.” Originally published in the Danish language in 1976\, the book follows an old man’s confrontation with mortality as he looks back at his boyhood in Torshavn\, where his small-town existence at the edge of the world — or at least the Atlantic Ocean — contains a miraculous larger-than-life feeling. \nConsidered one of the greatest Faroese authors of the 20th century and a winner of awards including the Holberg Medal (1960)\, the Nordic Council Literature Prize (1965)\, among many others\, Heinesen is recognized for his books using his remote North Atlantic homeland as a setting for universal social\, psychological\, and cosmic themes. His last novel\, written when the author was 76\,  The Tower at the Edge of the World has been hailed as “a loosely autobiographical tribute to the power of the creative imagination” (Paul Binding\, The Times) and a “poetic evocation of life on an island that to the vast ocean is ‘just about the same as a grain of sand to the floor of a dance hall'” (Sjon\, The Guardian). \nRegister
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/the-tower-at-the-edge-of-the-world-by-william-heinesen/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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