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Nicholas
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 #3 (permalink) Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:37 am Hi! I'm from Norway. Do you want to teach me some English? |
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Hi Trygve,
How are your exam preparations coming along?
The fact that English and Norwegian are closely related must be of some help, don't you think? |
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Conchita
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Tyggo
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| #5 (permalink) Wed Nov 14, 2007 18:10 pm Hi! I'm from Norway. Do you want to teach me some English? |
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| Conchita wrote: | Hi Trygve,
How are your exam preparations coming along?
The fact that English and Norwegian are closely related must be of some help, don't you think? |
Hi Conchita 
Nice hearing from you. I'm doing almost fine with my exam preparations :p Most of the days is now spend in the reading rom at school, or home beside my desk, study negotiation in English.
I'm not sure that the "English and Norwegian are closely related" principle is so much to help, because the course is not just about the relationship beween England and Norway, it is about negotiating all over the world. But because most of the negotiation in the world happens in English this is the language we use. So teoretical set, I can get a negotiation situation between Japan and Germany.
So in the exam we can choose between some tasks.
Here is a example of an exam taks:
You work at a consulting company called Contacts. Two days ago your company received a letter of enquiry from a Japanese company, Fujiwara Components asking for advice and assistance on their planned sales trip to Scandinavia. The management of the Japanese company is hoping to persuade Norwegian car dealers to import and market their high-quality spare parts. The company is well established in Asia but, as yet, has not tried to penetrate any western markets. Because of the relative strength of the Norwegian economy and because of Norway’s proximity to other interesting European markets, the Japanese company plans to use Norway as a test market.
However, Mr. Hiroshi Takahashi, the Export Sales Director, is concerned that his lack of insight into European business culture will be an obstacle in this venture. On the advice of a trusted Japanese business contact, he has written to you asking for advice about the Norwegian business culture. Write a letter to Mr. Takahashi providing him with relevant practical advice to help him plan a successful sales mission to Norway.
I have not writhen this. Just copy-paste from a earlier given task. :p
So topics we have to know about and have controll on is for example: high and low context communication (China high - Danmark low), deal- or relationship focused conutry (USA deal - Japan relationship), formal and informal behaivor, and many more diffrenses between country all over the world.
The choors is very intressting but when in all happens in English it is a bit over my skills. But practice, makes master. (Norwegian saying) 
It become mabye a little to long this message, but hope you got a little view of my challenge that is in front.
Now, tell my about your challenges...
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Tyggo
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| #6 (permalink) Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:48 am Hi! I'm from Norway. Do you want to learn me som English? |
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Hi
About me, I know nothing about myself. 
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Nicholas
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| #7 (permalink) Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:57 am Hi! I'm from Norway. Do you want to teach me some English? |
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| try finding a good weekly/monthly business journal magazine and try to read it |
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Boke
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| #8 (permalink) Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:02 am Hi! I'm from Norway. Do you want to teach me some English? |
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Nice to hear you're being conscientious and hardworking, Trygve (by the way, does your name have a special meaning in your language?).
To answer your question, one of my challenges is to pass on to my students my love of languages.
Keep up the good work! |
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Conchita
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| #9 (permalink) Wed Jul 02, 2008 13:45 pm want to learn norwgiean |
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| im 23 male from england and would like to please learn the langish for my UDI so that i can come and work in norway and also speck to my partner family our life stile is to busy for me to go to college and learn if you would like to chat to me then please e-mail me at apekatten@hotmail.co.uk |
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| #10 (permalink) Sat Jul 12, 2008 14:42 pm Hi! I'm from Pakistan |
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| hei hva skjer ... i m from pakistan and i want to improve my english skills .... |
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Softmalik186
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| Hi, I am Lyfen. I'm new at this website. | Many thanks for your mail, you can't imagine how I am happy to receive it... |
I just don't have any suggestion to give, but learn hard and work hard for it. As for your exam, I believe that you will need to master English and have a wide range of knowledge of business/transaction.