Language Learning Motivation and Initial Strategy
📌 The speaker achieved fluency in Norwegian in three years due to strong motivation driven by the goal to move to Norway, contrasting with less successful experiences learning languages like Spanish in school.
🎯 The primary long-term goal was to make Norwegian feel like another mother tongue, inspiring the speaker to emulate how children naturally acquire language.
👂 The initial strategy focused heavily on passive listening (for the first two years, similar to infancy), consuming podcasts and other materials constantly while cleaning or playing games, even without full comprehension.

Contextual and Repetitive Learning Methods
🗣️ Instead of traditional grammar exercises, the speaker focused on repetition of content, learning expressions by repeatedly engaging with the same material (like a children's book analogy).
📝 A key technique involved taking favorite messages/scenes (e.g., from the TV series *Skam*), writing them down, analyzing words using tools like Google Translate for pronunciation, and reading them repeatedly to learn grammar, vocabulary, and conjugation simultaneously within one context.
✅ To learn vocabulary, the speaker created a list of frequently used basic words (e.g., Alone, Together) and then actively sought out and recorded full sentences containing those target words to understand them in context.

Pronunciation and Fluency Development
✍️ Pronunciation refinement involved noting down how words sounded phonetically above the actual spelling and using arrows/waves under words to remember where emphasis should be placed.
🔄 Repeatedly reading sentences aloud until they become automatic helps the brain build similar sentences naturally, bypassing getting "stuck on grammar rules" by learning structure implicitly.
📚 The speaker found that learning specific, personally relevant stories by heart (spending 1–2 weeks per story) was crucial for achieving fast speech without breaks and developing a good accent, attributing fluency breakthroughs almost 100% to this method.

Advanced Practice and Confidence Building
✍️ The speaker used Google Translate to translate personal daily descriptions written in Norwegian into English, then compared their version with the machine translation to check accuracy and structure.
📖 When reading difficult adult books, the speaker intentionally kept the book with them, opening it randomly to test comprehension, which built motivation by recognizing even small understandable snippets.
🎧 Combining reading a book with listening to the audiobook simultaneously was highly effective for developing pronunciation, as the brain must simultaneously process the visual text and the auditory rhythm.
🗣️ Talking to oneself was practiced from the beginning, often imagining being the best Norwegian speaker to boost confidence and dare to experiment with accent without fear of judgment.

Key Points & Insights
➡️ Prioritize deep contextual learning over isolated grammar drills, especially when the goal is near-native fluency.
➡️ Repetition of complete sentences and short stories is vital for achieving automaticity in speech flow, pronunciation, and accent retention.
➡️ Use active engagement methods like rewriting favorite text snippets or describing daily life to create personalized learning material that drives vocabulary and conjugation acquisition.
➡️ Self-talk with confidence visualization is necessary to practice difficult accents and overcome the awkwardness of early pronunciation attempts.

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