Only 11.6% of Norwegian students taught in Nynorsk
Statistic Norway (Statistik sentralbyrå, SSB) has released figures from a survey that have shown a decline in the use of Nynorsk in schools. Bokmål dominates,…
Statistic Norway (Statistik sentralbyrå, SSB) has released figures from a survey that have shown a decline in the use of Nynorsk in schools. Bokmål dominates,…
Figures shared by Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) show that 25.4% of its content was broadcast in Nynorsk during 2021. This was only the second time in…
The Norwegian Public Roads Administration will issue a number of border crossings written with Samí and Kven on a mostly in Northern Norway. Sami and…
This article was written by Laurel Stvan, Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics at the University of Texas Arlington. If you haven’t heard by now,…
The authors of this article are Morten H. Christiansen, The William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Psychology, Cornell University, and Fabio Trecca, Assistant Professor of…
The government wants kindergartens and municipalities to have a duty to assess all children’s Norwegian skills before they start school. Every year, children start school…
It’s no secret that the team at Norway Today loves Norway. We want to share that love with our readers – so we’ve decided to…
Refugees with a high education can cope with a three-month introductory course, while the least educated will receive four years of training in Norwegian language…
Government demanded more Norwegian lessons for immigrants, and also to look at the language standards. “It is a requirement for immigrants that they must…
Oslo municipality has tightened the rules for the requirement for knowledge of Norwegian language for assistants in kindergartens and schools. Up to now, there…
This Friday, the Norwegian government submitted a proposal stating that people with a foreigner mother tongue that want to work at a kindergarten need to…
Minister of Knowledge, Torbjørn Røe Isaksen (Conservatives) wants to introduce requirements for knowledge of the Norwegian language for assistants in kindergartens. The language requirement is…
Most immigrants who take the Norwegian language test, fail to obtain the written level that many Norwegian employers require. ‘Kompetanse Norge’, which is the National…
A total of 39 500 participants were registered in Norwegian language and civic studies for adult immigrants in 2014, which is 800 more than the previous…