Norsk: Learn Norwegian
Oleksandr Kostiuk Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Norsk: Learn Norwegian is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by Oleksandr Kostiuk. Requires iOS 16.4. Updated October 29, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 140 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 29
- 2026 · v1.2
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About Norsk: Learn Norwegian
Norwegian built for people who moved to Norway and have to learn the language for real — for Norskprøven, for work, for talking to a neighbor. The app teaches Bokmål. WHAT IS INSIDE • 12,368 words and phrases, ordered by the Norwegian Kelly list rather than by an author's intuition • 351 texts from A1 to C1 — tap any word to see what it means and what form it is in • 87 grammar rules, each with an explanation and drills • 12,027 form drills: en/ei/et, the definite form, the plural, the tenses • The alphabet and pronunciation from zero: kj and skj, the retroflex sounds, length, the two tones • 50 dialogues: the checkout, the clinic, the neighbor, the job interview • 30 minimal pairs for ear training: tak / takk, kjøre / skjære HOW IT WORKS Spaced repetition shows a word exactly when you are about to forget it. Gender (en / ei / et) is learned with the word, not from a separate list. Tap an inflected word in a text and the app names the form: husene is the definite plural of hus. Examples are spoken by the system voice. NORSKPRØVEN WORDS & TERMS A dedicated track of the vocabulary and structures the Norskprøven test expects: the words, the forms and the situations it covers. WALK MODE Start it and put the phone in your pocket. The word, a pause to remember it, the meaning, the word again. Works with the screen locked. NO INTERNET, NO ACCOUNT Everything lives on the device. No sign-up, no ads. Your progress is never uploaded. Anonymous usage statistics help us fix what breaks; one switch in the app turns them off. FREE 20 new words a day (50 on the first day), unlimited reviews, the first 4 texts and the first 8 grammar rules — forever, with no trial period. NORSK PRO Removes the daily limit and opens every text, every grammar drill, the placement test and your personal path. Monthly, yearly with a 7-day free trial, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Teaching order comes from the Norwegian Kelly list (Språkbanken, University of Gothenburg). Gender and every inflected form come from Norsk Ordbank (Språkrådet and the University of Bergen). Both CC BY 4.0, both credited in the app. Interface: Ukrainian, English, Finnish, Swedish — those four languages and no others.
What’s new
Version 1.2 · Updated October 29, 2026
Dialect map of Norway In Language facts: eight regions, from Oslo and Østlandet to Bergen, Trøndelag and Nord-Norge. Tap one to hear what to listen for (the thick l of the east, Bergen's two genders and "eg" for "jeg") and how close it is to the Bokmål the app teaches. Beside the map, Bokmål and Nynorsk side by side: jeg / eg, ikke / ikkje, hva / kva. A handbook: how to learn a language New on the You tab. Six stages, from your first two weeks to C1: what to do every day and every week, how to tell you are ready for the next stage, the usual mistakes, and a tap that opens the right part of the app. Plus what learning science actually shows, a page of life hacks, and a part about Norwegian itself: two written standards, pitch accent (tanken, the tank or the thought), what is easy, false friends, where to hear Norwegian, and words & terms for work certificates. Numbers at speed, and the clock A round now mixes five kinds of card: hear a number and type it, see it and pick the word, hear it and pick the digits (13 or 30? 25 or 52?), read the word and type the digits, or catch two or three numbers in a row. New: the clock. Turn the hands and hear how Norwegians say the time, every five minutes, 144 phrases checked by hand. Then race it in a 60-second round. Norwegian words in iPhone search Swipe down on the Home Screen and type a word in Norwegian, Ukrainian, English or your interface language. Its card opens straight in Norsk. You can switch it off in You › Settings. Siri and Shortcuts "Start a lesson in Norsk", "Word of the day in Norsk", "Play the next story in Norsk", "How many words do I know in Norsk". The same four actions are in the Shortcuts app. 101 new word pictures Drawn by hand: potato, butter, scarf, doctor, cow, passport and more. About 125 more Norwegian words now show a picture next to their meaning. Clearer answers on plural cards Every wrong option on a grammar card with three or more choices is explained. Plural cards now say when a plural is an exception to learn with the word, and a pick that is the dictionary form is called the singular it is. Also in this update · Role-plays: 8 → 30, A1 to B2, from the bakery and the bus to the parent-teacher meeting, a police report and your tax card · The story series now runs to 30 episodes, A1 to B2 · 56 new everyday words, so Norsk now covers every meaning in our shared core list of about 2,450, the Swadesh and Leipzig–Jakarta lists included · One spelling, two cards: tre is "three", and now also "a tree" · The story's episode list folds around the episode you are on · In the reader, the dotted underline sits under the letters again on iPhone
App privacy
The developer, Oleksandr Kostiuk, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Identifiers: User ID, Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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